skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a network engineer it is terrifying that they would try this. Also, even if you have no MAC learning its trivial to sniff the MAC on an endpoint and then spoof it. You would really need pubkey based encryption where the key is stored in secure chips on every endpoint to know for sure what each device is connected to.
This is really great to see that at least some people have found my tutorial useful!

It's also interesting to see how much traffic being on the front of HN sends. So far it hasn't broken 200 requests in a minute (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ECJVktXUEAE9kVN?format=jpg&name=...)

This is about 1/100th the traffic I load tested it to handle on a $5 Digital Ocean droplet (which I later upgraded to $10 due to TypeScript compilation using too much memory a different project).

Also, I completely forgot to set up any caching or any rate limiting on "articles" which are a new kind of thing on my site. Of course, it could easily be taken down with a DDOS.

But in the big scheme of things, this validates my belief that most people (including me) spend way too much time worrying about scalability in early stage projects!
We were lending at 5% to people with no income right before the 2008 financial crisis too.
> Now, the barrier to entry is a lot lower, but there aren't many of the very young learning their way around command lines, etc.

I'm a fairly young person. What I've seen over the past few years is technology is finally useful and accessible to everyone. Forcing people to use the command line isn't a useful skill for 99.5% of people anymore, it's just senseless gatekeeping to make it a computer requirement. I got into computers by ripping into Windows XP internals and learning how it worked when I was a kid, no command line needed.

There will always be people who are more curious about how things work. Have faith that kids are smart enough to use the internet to learn for themselves.

Just because technology is easier does not mean it's harder to learn how to be "technically competent". Remember that the definition of technically competent moves with the times, too.
A carbon tax would fix that.
> Take solace in the fact that Japanese Complete has arranged the kanji and the verbs based on a frequency analysis of the Japanese corpus.

Jim Breen's KANJIDIC has frequency information.

http://www.edrdg.org/wiki/index.php/KANJIDIC_Project

> The 2,501 most-used characters have a ranking which expresses the relative frequency of occurrence of a character in modern Japanese. The data is based on an analysis of word frequencies in the Mainichi Shimbun over 4 years by Alexandre Girardi. Note: (a) these frequencies are biased towards words and kanji used in newspaper articles, and (b) the relative frequencies for the last few hundred kanji so graded is quite imprecise.
The entire point of the United States is protecting the dollar as the defacto currency for the world's trade. As long as that holds true the amount of created money is largely integers on a screen that get added and subtracted with little consequence.

So far.
Odd. But NOAA's own data also confirms this July was the 65th coldest on record? [1]

Hard to make sense of what's coming out of NOAA these days...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMldKLR0Vwc
That's if you know 90% of the words.

If you recognize 90% of the kanji and know what they mean, that's not the same as knowing words.
Can you point out the end results of the rapid developmentby the Palemoon team.

Specifically what if anything it offers over firefox 38?
You have to be careful about that sentence. The only other options is to sell $ for another currency.

Anything that they buy things that are denominated in $ are usually US imports hence goes back to the net export calculation.

Of course they can also use to buy global commodities like Gold, Oil which are denominated in $$, but that is just a proxy for selling $ in foreign exchange and using that currency.

So, logically only 2 options. Sell US $ in FX or buy US assets (Bonds, Stocks, Real Estate)
Of course you're welcome to use any meaning of "intrusive" you like. I don't see any problem with having both Apple and Google, and many others, on that list.
Wish that article finished with why this is good or bad for America, what real effects it has..
And is the full self driving promise attached to the vehicle or the purchaser? In other words, if full self driving actually happens in 10 years, will the only people able to collect be original purchasers that still have that original car?

Seems like a great bet for Tesla either way. If they get to self driving soon, they'll make a mint and upgrading or even fully replacing those cars will be a drop in the bucket. If it takes them a decade, there probably won't be that many still around to make a claim.
Considering that Google (search) still lists plenty of FTP results, many of which have been extremely useful to me, this seems like another move to bully the Internet into what Google wants it to be. Will it start removing those results, effectively censoring another huge chunk of the Internet? It's already hard enough to find older/more obscure information, and FTP sites are more likely to be in that category.

Also, I can't be the only one who's absolutely sick of hearing that bloody "security" argument again. Yes, everyone knows FTP is plaintext, and so is HTTP. But drivers, which I'd say are a significant part of FTP use, are almost always themselves signed anyway, and I don't think malware is widely distributed via FTP either (I'm curious why FTPS/SFTP doesn't see to be indexed, or why they didn't decide to add that to the browser instead --- or at least I've never come across a search result that links to one.)
Likely the same or better than the other predictions?
I wrote this to help with that exact same problem: https://github.com/A1kmm/enable-unsigned-firefox-addons
Anybody who's worked in an office knows that people that ask for things don't give sufficient, consistent, or logical instructions, because otherwise they would be programmers. Also, they just don't know what they want, at least at first. In some places, things are regimented so requests are made formally and kicked back if they are inadequate. But ordinarily people who work in the same office engage in dialogue, and knowing what questions to ask is orders of magnitude harder than processing the surface meaning of the original instructions. Even for a bright person with a lifetime of experience, I don't think it's unreasonable to take a few months to grasp how a business works, and think of how much data that would represent for an AI.
what is a systemic problem that is not a logistic or corruption problem
Only somewhat related, but I was horrified to learn that the average plane ride generates 90 kg of CO2 per person per hour. Thats a lot.
Ditto on the "130 papers in 7 months." I am not familiar with the field, but I assume the process would look like this:

* Read and understand paper

* Find and download appropriate input data

* Code paper model and validate (he said he wrote his own code)

I can see myself being able to do this for ONE paper in maybe a week. He claims he was doing 1-2 of these per day. Wow. So either there is some exaggeration on his part, or he is a total wizard in his field.
This is just a confirmation of Zipf's Law[0], which applies to all languages.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
It would be a good reason to put effort into a "breath test for sleep" before other "breath test for X" methods / devices.
Ftp is fast
Yep, however ton bought the rights by crowd funding it. part of the agreement was to open source it.
Transferring files over HTTP or more modern protocols is the future

My direct and blunt rebuttal is "I don't care". The future is worthless without the present, and more importantly, the past. The continued effective destruction of history that these big tech companies are doing with their actions is a disturbing trend.
> It's effectively a subsidy, but the subsidy is provided by the actual consumers of the goods (via government price fixing) rather than out of the general revenue pot.

This is effectively a regressive tax. A tax that disproportionately impacts those with young children. Largely a tax on parents.

I don't think their lobby is that powerful. There aren't that many dairy farmers, but millions that would love cheaper dairy. I wish croissants made with butter weren't so hard to find.
> 90% coverage is not that great ... when an uncommon word appears

TFA muddles this somewhat, but the research referred to has to do with coverage of kanji characters in a corpus text, not words. Someone who can read 90% of the kanji in a Japanese text might understand significantly more or less than 90% of the words, depending on the text.

Also notable: the research behind this was based on newspaper text corpora, which one could expect to have a lot of kanji and kanji compounds that are uncommon in casual usage.
Order doesn't matter to Nix, but images have ordered layers.

After digging into the blog post, it sounds like the layers are sorted in a particular order, which suggests that the order in which you specify the packages doesn't matter.

That said, I went ahead and pulled nixery.dev/shell/git/htop, and then pulled nixery.dev/shell/htop/git, and I actually got different results. I ran `docker info` on both images and diffed the results, and the layer lists were slightly different. I filed this as https://github.com/google/nixery/issues/38.
Abs After Forty
In order to turn fat into muscle, a person must be disciplined enough and must have his reasons for losing all the unnecessary fat. Without a goal and without enough conviction, it is easy for a person to go back to his usual unhealthy routine and gaining more weight.

The first thing you have to understand is that muscle building is not easy. It takes time, effort, dedication, and discipline. It's about eating right and getting the correct nutrition so that you stay healthy. But more than that, it's also about getting the right muscle building exercises that will suit your needs to get the body build that you want.

https://amts-news.com/bodybuilding-for-beginners-a-good-way-to-start/
Windows Accessibility Tools, for Hackers Too? (2018)
For more on this and what lead up to it I highly recommend: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/722412.The_Dream_Machine
Amazing article. As a teenager, I'd always looked back at emulations of this game with a wonder of how the graphics and visuals came to be.

Surely it set the stage for a decade of fixed-set-pre-rendered games such as final fantasy and resident evil. Very cool.
DHH Publicly Attacks Linux and the Free Software Community
The nine to five grind sounds pretty normal and healthy to me!
If we can make enough O'Neill cylinders to handle a trillion (10^15) people, that would buy 440 years at the current grown rate (doubling every 63 years) starting from the current population (7.7 billion).

If we can build enough to handle 1000 times that population, one quadrillion people, that can handle 1000 years of growth.

An upper limit on the number of people we can have without leaving the solar system is about 28 octillion (2.8 x 10^28), obtained by dividing the mass of the sum (1.9891 x 10^30 kg) by the mass of an average human (70 kg).

At the current growth rate, that's 3900 years away.

Indefinite exponential growth can overwhelm pretty much anything.
> And so it opens in IE or Filezilla or whatever.

Aren't you forgetting that IE is a web browser, so are you suggesting it should just offload ftp:// links to another browser?

Also, IE is deprecated and replaced by Edge which is now essentially Chrome, so eventually won't work there as well.
Japanese learn 2000 or so kanji at school so I’d say that’s a good ballpark

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jōyō_kanji
I know around 10,000 Japanese words. As far as kanji goes, I've studied some 1200 of them intensively; through vocab I know many more as parts of words. I quite often have to reach for a dictionary when reading.

If you know 777 kanji in some way (like associating them with meanings, through your native language) and you haven't crammed on any vocabulary, you absolutely will not be able to read a thing.

In fact, even if you continue that way and memorize over 2000 kanji, and recognize every single one in a given document, you still won't be able to read anything without vocab.

The broadened knowledge will help support vocabulary building, though.
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Feeding the licence plate databases junk is a neat, but rather expensive idea.

Here is link to the recent Defcon presentation: https://adversarialfashion.com/pages/defcon-27-crypto-privac...
That's because it shares code base with IE, a web browser.

Here we are talking about removing FTP from a browser.
Seems like someone just pulled entries from their study list and turned it into an article. Loads of incredibly basic words aren’t there, but some random uncommon things are. And absolute loads of duplicates and variations of the same thing.
Thanks for the link!

It looks like the article author used the kanji from the research as a starting point, but then randomly added in words endings or compound characters, perhaps as their own study aid.
There is an irony in a lawyer flagrantly breaking the law to attract customers.
Though I have no complaints about the way they went about implementing it (open standards hooray!), as a mail client author and someone with lots of experience with mail in general - I'm NACK to JMAP. I think that it comes with some questionable design decisions (HTTP? JSON?) which on their face I imagine look fine to the typical HNer, but in many ways is a regression from IMAP. I would prefer to see the limitations of IMAP addressed with a few carefully written extensions to the spec - which is already extensible and has a thriving set of useful extensions in the wild.

By no means is IMAP a particularly good protocol, but it is extremely broadly supported and designed more with email in mind than JMAP appears to be, which seems to focus more on bringing shiny web tech to email regardless of its utility in such a context. It's also one of many closely interlinked mail-related specifications, and JMAP fails to integrate well with many related specs imo.
FTP support is still a big attack surface for the client that has to be managed, regardless of wire security.

But my gut reaction to reading this concern is actually: why do you think this is “bullying” and not “opening the door for a niche competitor”?
If Japanese people just used kana (like Korean people use hangul today), kids in Japan don't have to spend countless hours learning this complex (and often irrational) writing system.

http://kanamozi.org/hikari959-04.html

> If you really want to be native-level Japanese, kanji are essential

There are visually impaired people who have difficulty learning kanji but speak Japanese fluently. Language is not just for people who can read and write, let alone reading and writing complex characters, or spell things "correctly".

Richard Feynman:

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell "friend," I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend
Huh, so it can. I never knew that.
Why do you assume this is driven by some desire for "pliant consumers", vs a desire to build a simpler and more secure browser?
> because they condition people not to take an alarm seriously.

That'd be a stronger argument if the EAS and its predecessor the EBS were not broadcast with sufficient regularity that people approach such messages with some degree of skepticism already.

I was looking over the Wikipedia article for the EAS and I found one illegal broadcast interesting:

> In February 2011, the morning show of WIZM-FM in La Crosse, Wisconsin played a recording of the aforementioned "dead bodies" EAS hack. It inadvertently triggered the EAS on WKBT-DT, relaying both the message, as well as the hosts' laughter

Not even being able to discuss and listen to related primary material of a recent newsworthy event definitely gets into first amendment violation territory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Alert_System#Tone_us...
How well is your therapy going? I thought about going because I see the same patterns in myself. The main drawback is that I strongly autoregulate and eventually something triggers me and I get coldly furious. I cut some long-lasting friendships due to this and I'm keeping everyone at a distance.

I would agree that it's connected to masculine cultural tropes. The toxic behavior stemming from it is IMO is a derivate of the mental mess it fuels.
>I'm of the mindset that code written 20 years ago should run today.

Given that chrome didn't exist 20 years ago, this seems like a fairly absurd position to apply to this situation. No code from 20 years ago relies on chrome having ftp support.
Has the PlayStation 5 Announcement Date Just Leaked?
The issue is that mental health providers are grouped separately from other doctors and health care professionals on the insurance side. Different insurers, accordingly, have dramatically different networks of mental health professionals which vary in size and quality mostly depending on the reimbursement rate. Low-paying insurers have worse networks. Some don't even manage their own mental health benefits. In the bay area, for example, Blue Shield's benefits are managed by another insurer named Magellan with famously shitty rates and a correspondingly shitty network of available professionals.
To further that thought, they can just wire up sensors to these people's brains, and flash the images for then to see. If the sensors notice arousal: mark photo as explicit.

In the dystopian future, they're going to not have enough psychopaths for this kind of work, so they're going to wire up prisoners in lawless parts of the world and modify the software to detect distress... 20 hours a day, 7 days a week.
There is[1], but yeah it doesn't apply in this context.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_eXchange_Protocol
Yes, but it is hard to install a fume hood in a tent...
_nothing_ prevents you from doing that though. It's already implemented, even. Write-only might be hard, and could require eBPF hooking of open(2) with a filter to check if the permissions are correct.

Read only isn't a problem, as denying writes and allowing reads is a trivial part of unix filesystems.
I think you missed my point.

Before, a huge portion of the population was using computers and had to peek under the hood. This means you got a lot more people who got curious about how the machine worked very early on.

I am teaching STEM stuff to kids these days-- programming in Scratch and python, etc. My friends and I, back in the day, were all poking around memory, rekeying Basic programs from magazines and moving on to writing Turbo Pascal programs, etc, at a pretty early age. I don't see this with the kids I teach. There's not as good of a path/funnel there, and I'm not sure whether the stuff we do to e.g. teach programming in elementary school, etc, are analogous exercises in computational thinking.
You're probably using dedicated FTP clients, right? FTP browsing on a web browser is a hack. Uploading files, downloading multiple files at a time, doing _anything_ is just pure pain.
I agree with your general point, but I do want to point out (as I'm sure you're aware) there's plenty of asyncronous logic in graphics code.

Some (but not all) of which might even benifit from async... although graphics code has it's own solutions to many of these problems, and it certainly wouldn't be the bread and butter of your core render loop.

1) For performance reasons, your GPU consumes command buffers after a decent delay from when your CPU requests it. This means async logic crops up for screenshot/recording readbacks, visibility queries, etc. assuming you don't want to simply stall everything and tank your framerate.

2) New lower level graphics APIs expose the asyncronous logic of command submission more than ever before, limiting safe CPU access to memory based on what the GPU is still accessing. This sometimes spills into higher level APIs - e.g. bgfx buffer uploads can either take a reference to memory (fast) - which you must keep valid and unmodified for a frame or two (asyncronous, and currently difficult to expose a sound+safe API for to Rust) - or it can make an extra deep copy (perf hit) to pretend it's behaving in a more syncronous fashion.

3) Resource loading is heavily asyncronous. You don't want to stall a game out on blocking disk I/O for a missing minimap icon if you can just fade it in a few seconds later. I might not have 10,000 GPUs to drive, but I've certainly had 10,000 assets to load, semi-independently, often with minimal warning.
Describe one. I know if there are any current ones no one will talk about them. But have there been any consistent ones in the last 100 years? I'm sure someone would have at least written about them in their memoirs.
Demystifying Server-Side HTTP Requests for WordPress Developers
express.co.uk is behind one of those sleazy consent forms: one-click accept or "manage" a whole list of data collectors. Just say no.

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Here's more info about this star Methusela, from a reputable source:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/hd140283.h... (2013)

> The star could be as old as 14.5 billion years (plus or minus 0.8 billion years), which at first glance would make it older than the universe's calculated age of about 13.8 billion years, an obvious dilemma.

> But earlier estimates from observations dating back to 2000 placed the star as old as 16 billion years.
Hundreds of millions of adult Americans use psychoactive substances on a daily basis (SSRI, MAOI, SNRI, Caffeine, Nicotine or worse, opiates / benzodiazepines) and are under no driving restrictions or legal ramifications for doing so.

They are subject to a warning in the commercial.
Estimated Ownership of U.S. Treasury Securities (From Fed Bulletin)

$22T - Total Federal securities outstanding

$9T - Federal Reserve and Government accounts + State and local governments including pension funds

$2T - Mutual funds

$2T - Depository institutions, private pension funds, insurance companies.

$3T - Other domestic investors. Includes individuals, Government-sponsored enterprises, brokers and dealers, bank personal trusts and estates, corporate and non-corporate businesses, and other investors

$6T - Foreign and international
From personal experience. Many things. Watching your teammates get laid off one-by-one over several months because the stock price crashed 70%, while the CEO gets a 30 mil dollar bonus. All those team members got a one-day notice they were being laid off so you're constantly on edge that any little thing you say or do could get you downsized. Watching the product you've been working on for a year slowly get shuttered and you're powerless to do anything. It's at the whim of the 'leaders'. Watching more and more of the work go to outsourcing and low cost centers that are so low cost it's not even competitive in India. The boss that hired you getting pushed out and the new boss hiring his best friend whose not even a developer and excluding you from meaningful work. No one caring about your ideas or values you.
You're just tolerated. Etcc.. I could go on. Capitalism can suck.
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That's hardly what I said.

It's good that computers are more accessible. But by making it easy, we're providing less opportunity for people who are curious about innards at an early age.

Of course, now we're teaching computational thinking in schools, but IMO it's a really big open question whether our attempts to teach that work, especially in elementary school.
This sounds horrific, but realistic.

We already have prisoners making license plates as slave labor. All it takes is a couple congressmen in the pockets of a big social network to make it mandatory for “rehabilitation” to moderate social networks.