skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Chinese people today have lived through an economic miracle. If I lived there I doubt I'd criticize their system, especially considering people still can remember worse times. For young Hong Kongers however, they didn't live during British rule. They were born into wealth, and now their own career prospects (like many millenials around the world) aren't great. So they protest.

... And their kids will probably look at their own situation being worse than their parents and protests in response.
Once you buy into the ideas of your "doc" and the "scientific" research behind, it is easier to control you and make you customer (aka subscriber). You pay , they receive, great commerce.
You married a morning person, and you need to buy blackout curtains for your kid and let them stay up as late as they like.
Any advantages over velero? https://heptio.github.io/velero/master/restic.html
You Won't See Quantum Internet Coming
It’s a fairly bad, but memorable name. It won’t make or break your startup. But spending 3 years in development before launching will.
I find after a fresh `npm install` (as opposed to `npm ci` which pays attention to package-lock.json) an `npm dedupe` almost always seems necessary. `npm install` by default still doesn't seem to work hard enough to avoid duplication, especially with @types/ packages where is often critical.
Semi-jokingly: he should just dig up the Exile I tileset he included a screenshot of in the article and go to town. IMO that's the best his games have ever looked, aside from maybe Nethergate (and some of the more artfully done Blades of Exile scenarios, of course, but that wasn't him).

Vogel should peek over the fence at the adjacent roguelike community and do what they've done: custom tileset support. He's clearly not that invested in his games as aesthetic experiences, and that's his prerogative, but in the year 2019 it's actually not that uncommon for game communities to scratch their own itch in that regard when allowed.
The initial statement was low on details because it was just an statement of intention. Specific steps they're taking to combat fingerprinting are visible in their public bug tracker[1]. Also, let's not forget the privacy budget[2] system they just announced in the OP. That seems rather promising.

[1]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component...

[2]: https://github.com/bslassey/privacy-budget
Can't wait for the ability to trigger plugins on events instead of having to select them from a menu [1]. That would open the door to many more useful plugins running automatically for ex every time a file is saved.

1: https://www.figma.com/plugin-docs/whats-supported/#trigger-p...
I used to run barefoot. On asphalt. In the city.

Yes it takes forever to slowly build up your feet to be able to take it. It’s a brutal process but you won’t get injured if you go slow.

Yes it takes forever and a lot of mindfulness to get the technique right so you don’t destroy your knees. I got professional coaching to learn how to properly land my feet under my hips etc.

Asphalt is okay, so is grass. What always got me was pebbles on asphalt. Impossible to run on,

I stopped running barefoot for 2 reasons:

1. As my distance went beyond 10km my skin just couldn’t take it anymore. Ripped to shreds.

2. Putting shoes on slashed my running time by a lot. Simply because I could run more aggressively since the skin of my feet was protected.

PS: most proper long distance running shoes are surprisingly minimal. Gotta keep the weight down and yes it makes a difference
> To keep hydrated, the Tarahumara runners eat pinole, a corn paste, which is also part of their daily diet.

Expect ethically sourced organic pinole products to hit the shelves anytime now.
> logarithmic increase in complexity - but I am now convinced that the change is exponential.

Good god. Is everything a math problem for you people?

It's called 'figuring life out'. Sometimes there's not a 'logarithmic increase in complexity'. You just wing it. And you figure it out.
SF Board of Supervisors sanitizes language of criminal justice system
Related from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20745301
It's not just ICE but the entire government that is a problem. I personally stopped accepting any work from any government a few years ago. Once you realize what government is, there's no going back.

"The State […] is an anti-social institution, administered in the only way an anti-social institution can be administered, and by the kind of person who, in the nature of things, is best adapted to such service [a psychopath]. Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class. As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime." -
Albert J. Nock in “Our Enemy, The State”
Quantum physicists have teleported ‘qutrits’ for the first time
At least in programming you can easily see who do put in extra effort be it studying/playing with new tech or writing new software and thous who for it is only a 9 to 5 job.

The former people seem to produce way better quality code and ideas compared to latter, but that is to be expected since they are in one way or another immersed in the "world of programming" more than others.
I'll bring the chips :)
The World Has a Germany Problem
Anyone downvoting this must not know how big the Brazilian government is and how invasive it is in the lives of Brazilian citizens.
To be clear: I also think that what Palantir is doing is deplorable. I just think that if you apply there, it's pretty obvious what you're signing up for.
> Two US officers were bludgeoned to death with axes and clubs.

It’s really amazing to me what North Korea “gets away with”. It reminds of that kid we all knew in school who gets into trouble so much that they simply stop punishing him in any material way.
You have to keep in mind ipfs is content-addressed. Instead of resolving names you can resolve certificates by their content addressed thumbprint.

1) boostrap
2) find the cert thumbprint for site.com
3) find the cert by the thumbprint and connect to one if IP SAN records
You might find this article interesting:

http://blog.johnnovak.net/2016/05/29/cross-platform-gui-trai...
If it’ll help others who are still there, and you care about them enough to help, then give some notice. Otherwise fuck em. Employers who treat employees like shit deserve the same.
The number of times this topic has come up on HN recently is really surprising. It seems 1 or 2 posts on this topic hit the front page just about every day. I run a newsletter and job board called 30 Hour Jobs [1] – I started the project about 6 months ago and it seems like my timing couldn't have been any better.

Usually, I try not to shamelessly plug my own projects too often but I can't help but share it in the comments when the topic is so relevant!

[1] https://30hourjobs.com
> Because this enables every player in the system to issue valid certificates for bankofamerica.com and rob their bank accounts?

No it doesn't. The CA has to be installed for the certificate to be valid. It only enables one "player", the CA you choose, to do that.

Internal CAs are still important. It's not always possible to have outbound access to Letsencrypt or register every single machine in external DNS.
> Or is their goal actually something more like: "I don't want advertisers tracking me", and not seeing relevant ads is just a side-effect of that?

I think this is a distinction without a difference. If you're seeing relevant ads consistently, the only way that's possible is if something is tracking your behaviour and/or interests.
We have implemented and using this in MarkLogic:

https://docs.marklogic.com/spell.levenshteinDistance
>If you remember Fate/FateX, Sublime, Paladin, Magenta

Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time
I like the idea; if someone wants to make some money off of customers who are more willing to pay than to make efforts to avoid paying, it's nice to have an easy way to do that.

But whereas "auto-magic" is a good characteristic in software, it's kind of off-putting in financial matters.

As far as the software goes, if it "just works", that's great. When it comes to the money, I don't want to know if it "just works". Within 2 minutes of arriving at the Scarf site, I want to know how much goes in one end, how much comes out the other end, how to set and change the prices, and how much (if any) leaks to the Scarf service. I'd like to know this by the second paragraph of the first page. Having skimmed the site, I still have no idea.
> Libertarians are not Anarchists.

Unless with "libertarians" you are referring to ancaps, this is just false. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#Rise_of_anarchi...
Marathons are also generally on flatter ground aren't they? This is trail running, so off-road with much more variable ground to deal with, and often much more climbing and descending (although I don't know this race in particular).
Increased productivity doesn't lead to increased wages and increased automation doesn't lead to less work/lower number of days/hours at work. Management plays dominance game, that only works when employees are made feel frustrated and stressed; any move towards happiness like reduced hours and work from home/remotely diminishes any gains from dominance game; relaxed employees with many options would require any monetary gains from productivity to be reflected on their paychecks.
You can't cast from a HashMap to an Animal class in Java, so in that sense Java is sounder. But you can still do `Animal a = null; a.walk();`, so in that sense, Java isn't sound.
Two cryptos Weiss claims are better than Bitcoin
Siraj's music videos are the best.
Can you give a couple of concrete examples when you claim machine learning is 'eating conventional software development from the inside out'?
Wow, burned so many hours on AdoM. Was a very unique rogeulike. Agreed, when the update came out, I just stopped playing it (mainly because I was running Adom-Sage which improved UX considerably).
A super-secure quantum internet just took another step closer to reality
I think Exile I's graphics look pretty good, yeah. For me, it's the Exile III version of the Realmz graphics, followed by the original Exile I graphics. (The backported Exile III graphics to Exile I and II look weird to me.) His newer background/tile graphics look just fine to me too, though.

I built a couple full-tileset mods for Blades of Exile back in the day. You can do it with the new Avernum engine too. Of course, he could definitely make it easier.
You would need somewhere to generate the ATP. ATP doesn't flow around in our blood, but is generated inside cells for their own use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_transport_chain
Seems the Maasai may also be genetically protected against high cholesterol: https://www.wired.com/2012/09/milk-meat-and-blood-how-diet-d...
Over 55500 public domain books available online
>but what exactly did they think they were signing up for?

As long as there is sufficient plausible deniability, people will sign up for anything. In the tech domain, this goes back to at least WW2 with IBM selling punch card machines to Germany.
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/topics-web-content.html why not directly use Qt5 and its js/css functionalities, is this basically wrapping Qt5 c++ API via nodejs N-API so we can develop in typescript instead of c++?

I wish there is a light-weight html-css-engine written in C/c++ that we can all use cross-platform for desktop GUIs, chromium is really for browsers, which is too heavy for many GUIs on desktop
Upvoted. Bolsonaro's government is a criminal regime in the same way that every Brazilian government has been criminal. You basically need to commit crimes to get elected in Brazil and commit more once you're elected to stay in power.
> was Ken Iverson happy with J?

Hard to say. What does a person who devoted decades at IBM and around the world promoting and speaking about the idea of a symbolic language as a tool for thought think about abandoning that idea entirely? I actually heard him give this presentation in person way back when at an international ACM APL conference (I attended to a few of them).

> What does "effortless expression of ideas at an entirely different level of thought" mean in concrete terms? What level? What ideas? I'm enticed, but unseeing.

I understand. It's hard to communicate something like this. I sometimes equate it to a bird trying to explain to a human being what it feels like to fly. One can get to an approximation, but at some point the only way to see it is to become a bird.

The best explanation I have found requires the reader to have formal musical training. Far more people have this than the opportunity to use APL on a daily basis for a couple of years. Rather than repeat it here, I just offered the explanation to Volt. Here it is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20770420

> Dyalog APL can make executable files. The main catch is that you need a license to run them, as well as a license to develop them.

Right. Because APL ended-up being used in the financial industry we have a situation where you have various versions of it offered as paid licenses rather than FOSS. This, right there, pretty much killed the language. There are interesting experiments out there, NARS2000 perhaps being the most accessible. However, this isn't going to bring the language to forefront in any imaginable way.

Put simply:

If you can't develop useful software solutions with APL better and faster than with other languages, well, it is useless.

For example, I can't build a website with APL. I can't build and deploy ML applications. I can't program an embedded system. I can't build a CAD program or a game. Etc.

What is it good for then?

Today? Not much. As much as I love what the language represents it is my opinion that the only reason it still exists is because there might be codebases in corners of financial institutions that rely on it. With time this too will evaporate. At that stage APL becomes a language of academic interest, and that's about it.

> Even APL implementations don't agree on the exact behaviour of the core APL functions.

Well, yeah, that's today. I'll call it "30 years after the start of the end". Back in the 80's, for the most part, you had the IBM APL/APL2 flavor and, at a popular level, STSC's PC implementation. There were others, but, for the most part, the APL core followed Iverson's original APL. IBM added such things as nested arrays and a few other nice improvements. In many ways IBM dropped the ball. I can't blame STSC, they did not have the staying power IBM has. IBM could have evolved, open sourced and popularized APL. They did not.
Insurance companies have zero incentive for real procedure prices to ever be listed; they provide 'value' both in terms of their negotiation services and in terms of pointing to how expensive getting anything done is.

However the true result is presented to wall street: If the insurance company is making more than a very meager profit we're getting screwed out of what should be universal affordable care.
Mass exploitation of CVE-2019-11510 (Pulse Secure VPN exploit) has begun
The goal is to not have every of the 130+ adchoices companies[0] and the countless other adtech companies from knowing every website you've visited.

The issue is that [at least in theory] seeing less relevant ads means you're less likely to click ads, meaning the average CPM for a website goes down leading to less revenue and a higher chance that the company runs out of money for the things they do or even for the cost of operating the servers.

0: https://youradchoices.com/participating
https://blogs.apache.org/logging/entry/apache_log4net_needs_...
Indeed! Here are some much better images: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Trinitite&iax=images&ia=images
cloud providers are starting to expose the virtualisation cpu feature these days

I've seen it on gcp and ovh (not tested aws)
I disagree about Apple. Their laptops are junk hardware, agreed.

But the iMac is competitive for a machine with its specs, especially if you add in the advantage of OSX (IMO, better than Linux or Windows for a large-screen desktop).

And the iPhone/iPad line are the only mobile devices with decent specs, decent apps, and not built on Adware and privacy leakage. Worth money if you can afford it.
Going off on a tangent, I'd really love to see a game that pushed production values within the artificial constraint of zero texture, just flat shaded geometry, while maxing out modern hardware. That would be the computer graphics style I dreamt of while growing up between X-Wing on the PC and Money for Nothing on MTV.
Everything terrible about the front-end is a consequence of scale and demand for warm bodies pumping out code that targets the world's largest networked application runtime: upper- and middle-management everywhere exerting downward pressure to ship for the cheapest rates facilitating code bootcamps, etc to pump out more non-traditional CS educated labor, meaning less shared generational communal knowledge that normally standardizes names for things like patterns, etc. Devs are thus even more interchangeable and we see less opportunity for mentoring, yet another means of transferring generational knowledge (and software engineering is _not_ a science), and people regularly leaving companies after 1 - 5 years. None of this really has anything to do with the question of whether JS tooling is too complicated save for the implication that professional _discretion_ has less and less reason to be cultivated - grab a framework/library and glue it together to meet the deadline that isn't a deadline but it's actually a deadline
Very cool. Simple idea, well-executed, with great results. It was a little "wtf how come nobody has thought of this before?" moment for me.

Also very cool that they are releasing their full Slic3r implementation for anyone to use, rather than just publishing a paper.
The problem to me isn't when someone says "we want cheap work and we understand it will not be particularly high-quality," but when they say "we want top-quality work but we're not willing to pay for it."

And to me, I read it as he expects more towards the latter than the former. "Talented, reliable" implies an expectation of a specific level of quality beyond "cheap work, not particularly high-quality".
> What I find somewhat ironic is this: the author mentions working with Stephen Hawking, an amazing man who produced incredible intellectual work and enriched our understanding of reality while being almost incapable of any physicality.

From my point of view, what matters is not physical interaction but rather physical perception.
May it be visual, auditive, tactile etc. it all contributes to build the "model of the world" you carry in your whole body.

I suppose Hawking could still largely perceive his environment.
Siraj Raval's channel is is among the worst resources for someone serious about ML.

His channel gives lip service to ML, and gives incorrect intuitions, that make concepts seem easy, but sets you up for making major mistakes down the line.

His channel is indeed disliked among most ML grad students, as it seems to be very much quantity over quality.

It is like watching science channel and thinking you are ready to be an engineer.
Specifically its more of an art direction problem.

If you have an artist with decent technical skills, enough time, and an excellent art director, you can still achieve great results. Eventually that Artist will learn and become better in what they independently produce.

Plus, the art is visible through a camera, and with post-processing and FX - which are easily controlled or influenced by that same art director. Just tweaking colour, camera angle, and FOV can produce incredibly unique results.

I had a very small budget, and no team, and was able to produce something regarded as reasonably good-looking in 3D for Frontline Zed:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/915490/Frontline_Zed/
We should not allow the observation that some states collapse into lawlessness to turn into a blind "government is bad" attitude that ends with people being held hostage by government-sized private companies. The state can be lawless, but escaping lawlessness is impossible without the efforts of a state.
I've never had the support of my colleagues or unions for any action I've ever taken at work. Well, I mean silently they may approve I suppose, who knows.

If it's right do it.

You owe it to yourself and your fellow workers to put yourself in a position that makes this possible. If you can live on 10K a year then when you earn 20K you must save the surplus.

It doesn't make sense to be afraid of your manager unless you're on some sort of abusive visa or something. You know this is your one life, there's no replay button, you can do the things right now that you'll wish you did in ten years time?
ZoomX – Android Tool to log all network calls in a suitable format
Hmm. I'd say the biggest argument I could see is that it would result in less stupid bills, e.g. fewer "bridges to nowhere". Maybe less federal bureaucracy. You probably shouldn't really be able to pass something if you can't convince at least 15,001 Americans. On the other hand, logistics would be an insane challenge, and you'd have a huge issue with the inability to have an actual in-person debate. Also, who wants to pay 30,000 people six figures a year? We'd have to stop paying them for it to be practical.

For reference, the current wage is $174,000/yr (a stupidly-high amount). $174,000 * 30,000 = $5,220,000,000. I'm severely disinclined to pay over five billion dollars per year (plus additional logistics costs) for pencil-pushers to sit around deliberating what bureaucratic idiocy they will next hand down from on high.
It makes me sad that so many people are unwilling to engage with this position. Anarchism is unreasonably vilified imo.
The left has gone so authoritarian they may not have to. Left and right are illusion. Freedom and despotism are what you experince as a citizen.