skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Illustrator has an export SVG function (as opposed to just saving as an SVG, which I was doing and then using a minifer for a long time) that will minify it for you.

That said, it currently appears unable to reopen those minified SVGs (go figure).
True. The classic tuning fork test: hit the fork, hold it up in front of your ear. Can you hear it? Then gently press the end of the (still vibrating) fork against your skull. Can you hear it now? If no/yes, the loss is conductive. If no/no, it's sensorineural.
I can assure you, you are very wrong about the uses of other varieties of Apples and Potatoes. You're also wrong about russet potatoes for stew -- other varieties work out a lot better when you want your potatoes to hold their shape.

(I would assume likewise with bananas as well, but I don't have the experience to know myself.)

It's OK -- maybe you don't have the most acute tastebuds or just lack a culinary interest. It's even pretty much dead wrong to think about these things in terms of uses. Food can be a delight and an art, and proscribed "use" doesn't allow for that.

Anyway: if you haven't tried it in a while, branch out. You might really enjoy and appreciate what you've been missing out on.
I can't think of a use case where this happens here?

- If you want to pay bills you just do a bank transfer (they are free and fast within the EU), transferring the money to a published bank account with my invoice id or similar in the subject. If somebody else wants to pay my invoice neither I nor the company will have any objections, so no need for authentication.

- If I want to check a bank account or a credit account or something similar I have a password that was set up when the account was created

- If I want to set up an account I can authenticate either via webcam (showing off the security features of my ID card) or via PostIdent (where I have to go to a post office)

- When talking on the phone you have an authentication problem (unless a "phone passphrase" is prearranged, but for anything with lasting consequences you usually have to send them a written version per email or snail mail for papertrail reasons anyways, or alternatively they send you a confirmation per snail mail that you can object to in a reasonable time frame.

The new ID card has online features that in theory solve the problem completely for online systems, but few places implement that so far.
I don't think "misery" isn't the right word here.
'[except for] the exponential increase in computing power.'

Yeah, just take out thé major industry where all change has taken place the last few decades and then sure, changes are coming more slowly.
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The scale of this is baffling! And from what I've seen in the industrial side of things I doubt that everything will be patched anytime soon sadly.
I agree, but I think mandatory minimums and other forced sentencing requirements have much worse consequences. Having humans in the justice system with the freedom to make judgement calls is just a fact of life we have to live with.
You could easily use the host computer's internet connection to upload data or to execute commands downloaded from a control server.
You don't know shit.
They're not replying to that comment, they're replying to the comment about the brain fog.
I do not buy electronics on amazon for this very reason.

Ditto. Further, I do not buy lightning cables or iPhone chargers from anywhere but an Apple Store.

This has been a good idea for years, even before this, when HN was all aflutter about fake chargers frying phones, or with embedded computers that tried to hack your phone.
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true evil is...

This is a straw man argument. The critique made of Google is not that has come to embody "true evil". But that it has (by degrees) slouched towards moral ambivalence, and acquiescence of (yes) evil.

Serving banner ads across sites does not even remotely compare.

I think you are perfectly aware that Google is engaged in a lot more than simply the business of serving banner ads.
Ask HN: What would your ideal search engine look like?
User experience of modern search engines has not significantly changed in the last twenty years.

If you had a magic wand how would you change your current search engine and why?
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Wow, I was going to comment "IoT, the 'S' stands for 'security'", but this is about VxWorks, a battle proven (literally) RTOS.

This illustrates a point that now, in 2019, there is literally no OS designed for security. I mean, security was never a real goal. Even software specifically written to address security requirements could easily have gaping holes (re Heartbleed)...
Since they fail to filter these out, perhaps some enterprising person could route the entire internet through someone's closet ISP. Maybe, just maybe, they will then care.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20657796 "Great Ideas Are Growing Scarce. That's Not So Great".
Did anyone else run into the nightmare subscribe pop up on wired?
> a former engineer might naturally be a bit biased about the public perception of a former project dying?

Personally I'm not too concerned about that. I have other things on my resume.

I'm more concerned that people keep blindly parroting that Tumblr is/was primarily a "porn site", when the internal data absolutely did not bear that out at any point.

> So if tumblr isnt dying

I haven't said anything about whether or not it is "dying". Afraid you've misunderstood. My point is that HN tends to vastly overstate the amount of adult-related Tumblr usage. Far more users slowly left over time long before the adult content ban.

You want public numbers, OK, I'll link directly to the wayback machine info that I previously mentioned downthread:

Jan 21 2014 (random day around "peak Tumblr"): 110m posts [1]

Dec 16 2018 (before adult content ban): 28m posts [2]

Feb 3 2019 (a bit after adult content ban): 23m posts [3]

While daily posting volume doesn't perfectly equate to MAUs, in my experience with UGC / social networking products, posting volume is closely correlated with overall usage.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140121015438/https://www.tumbl...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20181216220821/https://www.tumbl...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20190203200751/https://www.tumbl...
I was taught think "longitude = long hair."
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> If it takes too long

Or that the feature branch is too big (break it into smaller changes).

Or it wasn't well designed before coding started and now you're doing CR & design review.

Or you're arguing about style/best practices and your team needs to establish coding standards.

Or ...
You know who else was an Eagle Scout?
Note the computer revolution has come of out of successive improvements to a very particular technology (FET transistors on silicon.)

Back in the 1960s there was wild speculation of what kind of elements people would make computers of, but the last alternative material that people took seriously was Gallium Arsenide back in the 1980s. (Rumours that there is an Indium Phosphide based microprocessor for military use notwithstanding.)

The revolution that came from the 1960s was embedded in the System/360 mainframe and it was that architecture was independent from hardware so you could wait a few years and expect to get a computer that was better than your old one and could still run the same software.

x86, ARM, Power all attained the same thing, but DEC failed to accomplish this with the PDP-* and VAX machines. The 8-bit machines of the 1980s turned out to be dead ends for the same reason.
From my days working in software for the retail market about 20 years ago, we had to build functionality to allow the exclusion of bananas and milk from our predictive analytics application because EVERYBODY bought them. Probably over 99% of retail grocer transactions contained them.
There's an interview with MG talking about these cables on the Amp Hour podcast this week https://theamphour.com/the-amp-hour-454-mike-grover/
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Had this same thought. It'd be hard to argue a punishment was "cruel or unusual" if you picked it over a punishment that is already legally accepted and the standard (fine or jail).
Did not know about the technical manual, just ordered a copy.
That's based on a guy that just puts it out there on GitHub, doesn't have a side service based on his OSS stuff, doesn't offer support/commercial licenses, and so on...
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Okay, but given that the army hasn't attacked anyone as of right now, what term would you consider appropriate to describe the "drills"?
Google earth uses older publicly available NASA data as a base and then improves it with better, often commercial, data in some interesting points. One problem with this approach is that the quality and accuracy differs wildly from place to place.

For any place in at least the western world there almost certainly exists better (and sometimes open) data than this project will provide. The big win for this project isn't that the data will always be the best available, but that it will be a single source of open data of consistent quality and format for the entire earth.
Well, okay, maybe you haven't published anything yet. That's okay, we all have to start somewhere. But, when you do, here's a tip: your paper is overwhelmingly likely to get rejected if you title it something like “The top 19 myths of 2019 about efficient rank-order filtering.” :)
But why aren't there enough renewables? That's the underlying question.

Building renewable energy sources doesn't pay off at the moment, so nobody is interested in doing so. If that gets fixed, the amount of renewable energy sources will rise.

I'm looking at the same problem with my parents' house at the moment. Just putting some panels on the roof won't help with anything. You need a concept for the whole house and making that is just lots of work. If people could just spend X Euro and be sure to have the money back in 5 years because they can sell the electricity or whatever, lots of people would be in, I'm sure.
Maybe programmers need to listen to Marie Kondo more.
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The ERA is not the only way or attempt in the Constitution at enshrining equal rights. The ERA is about sex specifically, which is arguably already covered by the text of the 14th Amendment (some may disagree about the 14th Amendment in practice, but it's hard to argue that the text doesn't cover sex).
Sure but it needs a password to the network. I don’t have any random public hotspots available near my computer.
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I think debt is also useful for the interest metaphor. An unfinished kludge by itself may not be very expensive to fix up and change, but if that kludge doesn't change and becomes a dependency in a complex environment it is likely to become much more painful to fix later.
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Well, Poland and Alabama both have Putin's malicious attention when it comes to political interference.
In the US, yes. Games have not increased in price alongside inflation. I recall paying $80 for certain Nintendo (NES) games. Most new games were $60.
Are you a Python developer? How do you deal with the Ubuntu versions being different than the PyPI versions?
If this would true, it would cast away The Technical Singularity hypothesis' premise that technological changes accelerates.
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I still don't get why iPhones don't use USB-C. OOTB, there's issues between a brand new iPhone and a brand new MacBook Pro.
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Every component is automatically deployed and configured using Salt formulas on a Openstack environment.

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The demo was a modified cable, but the article said Hak5 was interested in manufacturing them.
Where do you find these "cool doctors"? I once tried to bribe six different doctors in my area with $3000 in exchange for agreeing to allow me to get an exploratory MRI and they all said no.
Perhaps technological development is a sigmoid? At least until you escape the solar system.
>Being consistent with terminology is sadly underrated.

These are extremely complicated topics, and I doubt if there are two people in the world that understand them exactly in the same way.

I understand the desire to have a dependable way to talk about them, but it just doesn't exist. The only way to make progress with other people when talking about these issues is to listen and ask questions - not to depend on the fact that you know some dictionary definition of a word.

And really, that's not limited to these topics, but is basically true of all communication.

I know that there good explanations for saying that there is a difference between 'misandry' and 'toxic masculinity', and focusing on trying to force a certain terminology would completely miss the actual point of the discussion.
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I told you _my_ dentist was cool. This is a 3rd party Amazon cable.

https://i.imgur.com/RdxDYF4.png

Just acquired.
It would look like the initial release of Google, but without all the user tracking.
In the books those only sabotaged experiments regarding subatomic fundamental physics. There was still tremendous progress in engineering above the quantum scale.
To be fair, and when it comes to health and biology, Twitter >> HN. The comments on most bio-related posts here make me cringe.
A couple and zero.
AFAICT, that’s ironically that’s the main reason why the CCP can paint the protesters in a bad light.

Look at what happened in Libya, Syria, Egypt, etc. Do you want your country to become like that? Do you want to welcome an American intervention, and the joy and prosperity it brought to Iraq? Do you want to invite Western management of capitalism and the success it wrought in Russia in the 90’s?

You can disagree with the CCP’s premise, but US actions in the Middle East, and perceived US meddling in the world has done more to reinforce the CCP’s rule than any other country. And if there’s one thing East Asian cultures really dislike in society, it’s uncleanliness and disharmony. In particular, China’s history is one civil war and famine after another, with a period of peace in between, and the West seems to fundamentally misunderstand how they think over there.

I’d wager that the CCP can open fire with machine guns on the protesters and they might even be cheered on in the mainland. But they probably won’t, perhaps even fearing in the back of their mind what an example that will set in some later time. How would they justify that? That it’s okay to light into American-supported protesters? Who have had it so good for so long in the gilded city of theirs? And make no mistake, there is a tone of anti-mainland on the HK’ers part that can be easily construed as snobbery as well. That would all be a sort of nationalism you can’t walk back on easily.

To that end, you should not suppose that when a revolution in China — as it inevitably will — will be produce a government friendly to your values. It did not happen in Russia, it hasn’t been happening anywhere in the Middle East, even in Iraq where the US poured a trillion into the effort, and Europe is arguably weaker for what has been happening there as well.
Waze helps a lot here, time of day and realtime user data is pretty critical.
If the model worked well, any source reputable enough to be cited enough in Wikipedia would fact check it and drop it. But I'm not sure that would work today, apart from the most reputable newspapers
> 3

I think it's almost part of most companies' lifecycles that they start with a monolith, and anticipate rebuilding it as microservices if they get traction.
Interesting read.

Reminded me of the nearby Humboldt County, California. Similarly remote, rugged, quite lawless and attracting people who want to stay hidden. It also the focus of California's secretive marijuana industry. There is a good documentary series about it: https://www.netflix.com/ee/title/80217475
It was in a school district that had two high schools, and my high school had 2,000 students. There were something like 15 elementary schools at the time. Yes, it is a public school district. Is that not normal?
I used this tool just the other day; very comprehensive, and very fantastic.
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You're right, I shouldn't have said many. But there are RNGs which are faster, smaller, and simpler and fail fewer tests, so I don't know why MT would ever be used. It could win in period I guess, if anyone could ever use that large a period.

It is a heated debate, but it should be easier to agree that some RNG is not the best one than to agree it is.
Combined with an LOD filter, this could be useful. Otherwise, not so much.
I found a much better source regarding this in the form of a November 2018 white paper[1]. Interesting is that they say it will take 3.2-3.5 years of Blue Waters computing time.

[1]: https://www.exascale.org/bdec/sites/www.exascale.org.bdec/fi...
You gotta be one!
that’s not what wired is about. don’t be disappointed at the author.
This is super sketchy! I wonder whom it's targeting, and for whose benefit.
My opinion is that someone is going to be providing that service, so it might as well be me (better the devil you know than the devil you don't).
If you were mailing the cables to random people, you wouldn't use wifi, it's true. You'd just want the fake keyboard to just use a terminal to download and install a trojan.

If you can fire off a successful "curl | bash" on an internet-connected machine, wireless isn't needed.

Of course, without wifi you've only got a USB Rubber Ducky clone [1] whereas with wifi, you've got an NSA COTTONMOUTH clone [2] which I imagine is much more likely to get your talk accepted at DEFCON :)

[1] https://shop.hak5.org/collections/physical-access/products/u... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_ANT_catalog
Ah that charge - not liking that their bubble isn't universal and declaring "No it is the children that are wrong and declaring Google is rigged against them.

Blaming them for the state of society is sheer scapegoating as frankly society can and has fucked itself up far more without any outside involvement. It is like accusing rock music of making teenagers rebellous when it is really the result of development of agency,nand finding the framework they are under constraining, and discontent with choices made for them.

They get shit no matter what they do directionality. If they let algorithms guide it pure they are "promoting radicalization" by trying to serve the user with engagement. If they hide disturbing suggested searched they are "censorsing". The true purpose isn't to be satisfied but to try to bully for control.

The whole damn point of a search engine is to prioritize.
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If they enforced it, then it must not be that hard to get. It looks like you just need to take a test to get one.
I think your situation is more unusual than you think.

Small startups vary a lot in what they pay, and in what they can afford to pay. Mostly it's lower than FAANG pay.
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He literally said they do not even compare.
I'm not in an English-speaking place, so I can't say how often it is spoken and for how long it has been, but I see it everywhere on HN and in other parts of the web.

It seems that it is more accepted in GB than in the US [1] : “Garner's Modern American Usage (2nd ed., 2003) recommends cautious use of singular they, and avoidance where possible because its use is stigmatized. [...] Garner suggests that use of singular they is more acceptable in British English [...] and apparently regrets the resistance by the American language community: "That it sets many literate Americans' teeth on edge is an unfortunate obstacle to what promises to be the ultimate solution to the problem.”

Singular they seems prescribed in the US too, by The Chicago Manual of Style at least since 1993 for instance [1], and proscribed by others.

There are many possible reasons people would use singular they, I'm not sure we can put them in an homogeneous political group.

It seems generic he is losing acceptance, to the point I wouldn't comfortably use it [2]. It probably depends on the place though.

I would kindly invite you to reconsider using singular they instead of generic he, but this sure is controversial and I'm no one to tell anybody how to speak, and I would not want to neither. And when something about the language feels weird… well, it just feels weird. Languages are very personal and intimate.

I personally tend to rephrase sentences to avoid they, but use it when doing so is too inconvenient.

Thanks for the interesting discussion :-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Acceptability_an... (already cited in another comment of mine)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Prescription_of_... (I know, always the same link ;-))
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Yeah, I was diagnosed with very early stages of high frequency hearing loss after noticing tinnitus-like symptoms earlier this year. The setup was much more elaborate than the standard hearing tests I have done in the past.