skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if there could be a mechanism for reporting such cases.

" So and So issue detected. If you believe this is not a bug, send this Snippet or A ST as a bug report (If you want, we can do this automatically for you!)"

And also "We've detected so and so issue. Please see our wiki <link to specific issue> for an explanation on what may have triggered this, and for ideas on how to rewrite such code"
I’m not convinced solving the data replication technique once, as briefly alluded to, is not a good idea vs. this model of addressing multiple “presences” and having different messaging topologies.

In particular, doing synchronization for realtime gameplay (not an adventure-style game like Habitat) requires a lot of tricks (like prediction, rollback, etc) and I think it makes a lot of sense to extend that synchronization over all gameplay, not just the physics state of object. Although I suppose you could have a hybrid system.

Further, there’s not really a reason you can’t have your data replication mechanism replicate inputs (with states as a fallback) rather than just states (which would indeed take more bandwidth).

It’s interesting to read about the “division of responsibilities” (paraphrasing). I think in a “modern” game, this would simply be done by specifying that components in an entity-component-system have a policy that say whether they are local-only or if not, who they should be replicated to (everyone, just the player who owns the object, etc). This would give you the “data-hiding” (the player shouldn’t know what’s in the treasure chest, the player shouldn’t know exactly* what the monster is going to do next, etc, player shouldn’t be able to read each other’s chat log, etc).

All in all, I think I’d definitely take a more data-driven approach than an “objects sending messages to each other ala Smalltalk”, at least in a game I’d like to write. The describe system likely works great for what it was meant for, though.

I do think it is enormously useful, re: unums, to pick the right vocabulary or even pick “new” words, within reason. Even if you’re just thinking in your own head, it can make things more clear.

* This is actually an interesting one. Having a “dummy” AI for clients that doesn’t know/do everything the server version does seems like an option
No comment beyond that's a terrible title that tells me nothing about what you're asking
With so many satellites up there, I'd be surprised if you could find any moment, anywhere on Earth, long enough that you could do something remotely important without several satellites being able to see you at the same time. They might be focusing on something else, or you might be hiding under a roof, but other than that if they want to see you, they'll see you.
Pushing it straight to stable seems like a reasonable response
Fixing this would be like eight steps forward: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137247

The annoying part is that hardware acceleration works on chrome OS, so we know the support is buried in there somewhere.
If Trump's account got hacked it could quite literally result in the death of millions.
Wouldn’t a hash of the lib achieve the same end result, especially now that they already have a large sample of actual?
I don't see the danger here though; how is this scarier than what a couple guys in Nigeria could concoct to fool your mom? Any English speaker can still put together a much more coherent an official sounding institutional request.
Won’t charge in that orientation, it’s very finicky about placement. See Apple abandoning their charging mat whose main selling point was greater flexibility in placement by having many overlapping coils.
If you do command-based replication, an insert or update that uses RANDOM() would have to be handled differently, lest you have differing values due to each member of the cluster evaluating and producing different values. (Anything that is an impure function basically will have that problem)
That's badass but how do they stop from being banned?

Like if I scrape Craigslist enough and get that IP banned the resident can't visit Craigslist?

I don't know enough about this to understand.

Or would it cycle through the proxy IPs real fast?
Inequality driving 'deaths of despair'
I agree with Richard, in almost every point he makes about Amazon.

Still, I find myself using Amazon a lot for reasons of convenience. I do try to buy locally when possible, buy books directly from their source, and for digital content purchasing, at least split my business to Amazon, Google, and Apple.

It is wanting to do the right thing vs. sometimes saving money and also more convenience.
Life itself exists entirely contrary to the thermodynamic arrow of time. That law essentially states that over time, entropy tends to increase.

Life itself, by definition, is a temporary trend away from increasing entropy. Cells organize and do things within and to their environment to lower entropy. They cannot grow or multiply or evolve except when they are acting in opposition to the thermodynamic arrow of time.

But the Law of Thermodynamics won't fail in this process, and eventually the cell's ability to counteract (yet never actually negate) it absolutely does cause every cell to fail eventually.

Therefore, aging and dying will be with us forever. At least until we find a way to deny and counteract the effects inherent to thermodynamics. And that would be a whole lot of work since nature is entirely against us on that one.

Also, we don't even know what causes life. We can mix all the chemicals and zap it just so, and we have only ever failed to spark new life into existence. Referring to aging as an inefficiency completely ignores the amazing feat that life is in the first place. Aging is the buildup of failures within the anti-thermodynamic efficiency we have evolved so far.

Let me know if you're interested in the Wolfram Alpha friendly math behind it. Or the chemical processes that are relevant to it.
This is one information theory war against the FBI I can almost promise you would lose.
Can you survive on foraged food?
Hayden-Preskill Thought Experiment
plugging in my startup aihello.com ;)

I help fulfill orders from your own website via our 3pl warehouse network. You get to depend less on amazon for ecommerce business and more on your own website and fulfillment network.

Mostly self funded but we got accepted into Next Canada few months back which helped us out a lot.
Yeah the real issue is the choice. If there were 5 or 10 reasonable alternatives, this kind of thing wouldn't bother me at all. But if the options are "obey Google or fail", suddenly it's a big problem.
The Mask I Wear on the Weekends
Much like root, the president has the power of making split second decissions in extreme situations... and that's all right. But even dictators need to somehow explain their decisions or they risk getting kicked out.
I find it unsettling in general that some app has the ability to do this. What are our other apps up to?

How good is the sand boxing on iOS?
Rest of world laughs in old gigabit.

Always found it amazing how the US is so far ahead on tech yet is so terrible at actual internet penetration.

My building hit that price/speed level maybe 3-4? Places with actual fast internet like S Korea probably much sooner.
Fulltext: https://www.gwern.net/docs/genetics/editing/2019-wang.pdf
To be clear, the title's misspelling is "Karerina".
I received the physical Apple Card a few weeks ago, and used it for the first time today (I have used Apple Pay dozens of times).

Something I noticed immediately when I started carrying it is that it seems to block the signal from my office door key, and I must separate them to open the door.

Two scuff marks have appeared on the magnetic strip, but otherwise there are no cosmetic issues like others have mentioned. Overall, I like it.
Nah. I means Extended Support Release. After Firefox moved to the quicker release train, larger organizations were annoyed because they like stability in order to test stuff prior to release and make sure extensions and everything remains the same. So like Ubuntu (iirc) and some others, they created a Firefox ESR that gets security updates and only major updates ~once a year. I think Thunderbird actually just tracks with Firefox ESR.
How does one find out about academic papers? Is there some source that lists: here are the academic papers this week?
This seems apropos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
Even if you are correct, the problem often becomes an inability to identify such talented developers, and many companies don’t even bother.

Also, the best developers rarely come on the market, they go straight from job to job thru good relationships with previous managers and co-workers. Managers who abuse workers are not usually able to retain the best talent, they end up adversely selecting for the least productive talent.
> tried many times to learn new things but I always get bored with the courses and start another topic leaving the previous incomplete.

There are a lot of tricks people might recommend, but learning to stick with something that is boring is important. Track your progress visually in some personally meaningful way
Don't see why a tool can't actively manage both - introducing new concepts and re-inforcing them on the right schedule.

Yes you don't want a rigid spaced rep schedule...but I'd like to see some of that integrated in a soft fashion anyway
Yes and no, so far as I'm aware.

The project has lost a good deal of its funding, from what I've heard, and now has a lot less backing from the technical community (I think Collabora are the only backers now), placing the project's overall management mainly into the hands of educators, who don't tend to be the best at that side of things.

So you end up with things where various parts of their various websites are broken, and there isn't as much well-handled PR going out.

However, they are still somewhat active [0], but at a much smaller scale. Focusing on individual classrooms as goals, rather than the massively ambitious target of One Laptop Per Child in entire nations.

[0] http://planet.sugarlabs.org/
Mumps sickens hundreds of detained migrants in 19 states
We should just be researching visodilators. Minoxidil and sildenafil are sideeffects that appeal to male vanity and both came from research on visodilators.

More products that cater to the male vanity is a very good way to fix some of the gender judgment issues (i.e. women are judged based on their aesthetics - now we can enforce the same judgmental standards on men!).
It would be cool if the routes highlighted too, so you can visualize the path better. Really neat to see it operate slowly, nice work
You've been downvoted, but your words deserve a reply. Profit motive does not go away in a "non-profit" (Mozilla Corp is the for-profit subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation; top salary last seen [2017] was $2.3M+). It takes innumeracy or worse to miss that Mozilla depends for its profits (to pay such salaries and bonuses) mainly on the Google search deal.

In my opinion, this conflict of interest between users and Mozilla's search revenue share held back tracking protection in Firefox over the years.

Meanwhile Brave has a transparent rate card, where we pay the user 70% of the gross revenue for user-private ads, and 15% for publisher ads (not yet deployed; the publisher makes 70% and we take same as the user). So we get <= what users get, and will fail if our users don't like the private/anonymous ad model enough to opt in at sufficient scale that we can cover our costs.

Good luck pressuring Mozilla to cut its top exec's pay from seven figures. Your words are empty.
"doubly linked list detected, this language does not support such constructs without 'unsafe' keyword being used to wrap it"
More likely is that some Russian or Chinese hackers would make statements that tank the stock market. While setting up some short positions immediately prior.
Not OP, but generally, breakthroughs in cost, processing, treatment, and/or properties of materials can have a tremendous impact on use.

If you think about it, up until about 1800, virtually everything humans made was made of stone, earth/brick, small cermic items, wood, plant fibres, animal fibres, glass, or a few easily-worked metals.

Since 1800, vast amounts of iron, steel, aluminium, concrete, titanium, plastics, composites (usually fibre + resin), processed woods, paper, glass, and ceramics have entered into use. We build things that simply couldn't exist or perform 200, 100, or even 50 years ago.

A common problem with metals is that they're either hard to process, or rare. Ceramics are based on very available silicates (though specific properties may rely on very high purities or rare forms), and are fairly easily processed. They do tend to be brittle and handle poorly under tension, or under vibration.

Your question's likely usefully answered in terms of past revolutions in manufacturing and construction: the stone arch, Roman concrete, Egyptian pyramids, Gothic cathedrals, large warships (wood, iron, steel, aluminium), pipelines, motors, iron-framed presses and machinery, steel-framed buildings, copper-based electric motors and transmission wires, aluminium and aircraft, titanium and supersonic / hypersonic aircraft and missiles, glass and optics, plastic and mass consumer goods, silicon and electronics, artificial fibres and modern clothing.
> the CAP theorem for distributed computing

The (highly cost-ineffective) Right Thing is to invest enough in network infrastructure that there are no network partitions.

I don't know about the other examples off the top of my head, but they're probably similar (and similarly impractical).

Anyone can design a bridge that won't fall down; engineering is the process of figuring out which corners you can cut and still have the bridge just barely not fall down.
Not sure if this falls into the advanced protection for Google, but about a year or two ago, got a notification of a suspicious login from Moscow (I'm from the US and have never travelled out of North America). Promptly changed my password.
Just got this on a newsletter https://github.com/oslabs-beta/reactime
Yes, but genes in and of themselves explain very little in terms of the overall functioning of a cell. The process that determines if and when a gene gets expressed is probably as important as the gene itself.
No, nothing in my post is false. I knew how your ad model works when I wrote that post. You're in bed with advertisers because you're taking money from them and providing them a service.

Look, I don't have anything against you personally. I'm sure you're a good, kind person with pure intentions. But tracking or not, advertising is not the way to fund a browser that serves users. You'll always be beholden to advertisers for your cash flow, and you're always going to be making choices between prioritizing users or prioritizing your income. Sometimes the choices will seem minor and it won't be clear which direction to go, and you'll compromise and the focus on users will be eroded. And at some point the choice might be between screwing over users and shutting the doors of your company due to lack of funding or something else. Historically, some people have chosen users[1] but most have chosen to stay open.

I hope you prove me wrong, I really do. But you'll excuse my skepticism at this point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit
It was JailbreakMe : http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/02/easy-iphone-jailbreak/

And apparently this one works until iOS10 : https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/TotallyNotSpyware
Religion has been exposed as a long lasting and persistent fraud - a complex way to control people and live free with power over people. They are tax free spaces, so they sell the only asset they have to stay alive. By counting people who go to church - only 2-3% attend in the UK/Canada. If you ask people, they say a higher rate. There are hundreds of shuttered churches in Canada and the UK. All tax free, might as well get a little cash to maintain and feed the aging priesthood.
> This [using xlogo as an alarm] is better than an audible alert because it's less antisocial in an open-plan office

And here I am with a loud clicky keyboard and my notifications very much not on mute in protest of my open office.
I just started reading Thomas Sowell's newest book Discrimination and Disparities and on the first page I encounter this passage:

"When there is some endeavor with five prerequisites for success, then by definition the chances of success in that endeavor depend on the chances of having all five of those prerequisites simultaneously. Even if none of these prerequisites is rare—for example, if these prerequisites are all so common that chances are two out of three that any given person has any one of those five prerequisites—nevertheless the odds are against having all five of the prerequisites for success in that endeavor."

Sounds like... the Anna Karenina Principle. He goes on to point out that this simple and reasonable model produces extremely skewed distributions for success in any particular endeavor.
I rather love this idea. It is a rather elegant solution to the problem of "how do we provide office like presence". I work for a not-heavily distributed company but we have some permanent remote and some WFH days. We never turn on the video for our zoom meetings. However most of these people we see regularly, so not a huge deal.

On the flip side my wife works for a heavily distributed company and their solution is "you must always have video on for zoom". It's not a bad idea, but sometimes you can't or don't want to have video on - especially when you're call is at 7am (or earlier) to support people in timezones farther ahead.

It would be awesome to have a little dashboard of my teammates with decent integrations (like shown) to know when they are actually around and have some feeling of teamdom... without having my video or audio on all the time. Having video on for long duration is certainly a lot creepier than working in an office.
Practice. You're telling a story, it can be prepared, you don't have to relive it every time.

Understand why they're asking. It's easy to talk about your success, and to idealize how we got to an outcome, but in reality it's more like: 1) search for something on StackOverflow, 2) figure out you should be searching for different terms, 3) try some off-the-shelf software recommended in a buried comment, 4) fail to compile it from source, 5) try a buried answer in a related question; etc. Those are all "failures" in that you weren't born knowing the correct answer, and being able to describe how you got to an outcome fully is valuable.

Ask them the value they're getting so you can characterize the experience appropriately. We were hiring a senior designer to work with a particularly internally contentious product and development team. We were concerned they hadn't discussed any grit during the interview process, only happy paths. We call them up and say, tell us about a time you fought with someone and lost. They respond, "uh, am I going to have to actually fight people in this job?" No, your PM might be a real pain in the ass and we can't seem to get them replaced so you're going to have to stick up for yourself, and we'd like to hear about a time you did that and it still didn't work out for you, and what happened next. And, they did, and we hired them, and they worked out well.
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's account hacked
Telegram moves to protect identity of Hong Kong protesters
The biometrics of the face.

Linked article states:
"The General Data Protection Regulation, which came into force last year, classes facial images and other biometric information as being a special category of data, with added restrictions on its use."
Or it's like Mask ROM, but you can edit it... sometimes. Oh and it can self-replicate, like software. But the replicates can form 3D structures, so not exactly like software. And they can be physically moved.

The software/hardware paradigms don't fit exactly. They are useful is certain situations. The most useful of these is that DNA can be described as a linear sequence of a discrete set of symbols (to a first approximation).
When a service kicks off, a small XLogo appears to let me know it is active, it goes away when it ends.
Conflating genes and DNA is your first mistake. Also, DNA is not the hardware, that would be the proteins responsible for executing on the software that is DNA.
leather sales have plummeted, there is a glut of leather on world markets. The lower grades are being buried in landfills.
https://fortune.com/2019/08/09/cowhide-glut-americans-devour...
Not just solid, Oxygen is carcinogenic.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6646012
Ask HN: How to Make Money with Satelites?
Since Space X sunk the of launching a satelite to one million $. What business could you do with a satelite?

https://spacenews.com/spacex-revamps-smallsat-rideshare-program/
Zuck is also middle aged. :P
The humans are too distracted by non-work activities maybe? This article paints a bizarre picture: https://thefederalist.com/2018/01/10/19-insane-tidbits-james...
For example, a deontological ethic might say "you must not drive drunk" under a theory of negligence, and "you must not negotiate with terrorists", but a consequentialist ethic might say "you may drive drunk but not kill someone while driving" and "you should acquiesce to terroristic threats to prevent a murder". And a utilitarian ethic would measure how many lives would be lost under each choice, and perhaps assign variable value to those lives (by age or health or potential future productive output)
Minecraft Is Getting an AI Assistant from Facebook and MIT
It cannot make you rich quick.

It can still provide a comfortable living to those who offer a superior implementation with a paid service, like Proton Mail, or whatever IP telephony provider you respect.
This raises an interesting question. Such an attacker would need to craft a tweet with the following constraints:

* Plausible so that people do not believe it is a compromise

* Offensive enough to cause action

* Not in the category that people just roll their eyes and think Trump is being outrageous on the internet again.

This is probably harder than it seems at first glance.
When I worked in a research lab with some finicky bespoke equipment, I remember the boss making a related point. If our experimental device is made up of N components that are each 95% reliable, that sounds pretty good... until you start thinking about how big N is, and how the overall reliability is only 0.95^N. It doesn’t take long before you’re only getting data one day a week or whatever.
> Fruit is absolutely healthy for humans - physiologically we are frugivorous apes

I agree, and it's incredible how much vitrol I've seen in response to this biological and physiological fact.

Here is an example source

> The dietary status of the human species is that of an unspecialized frugivore [1]

[1] https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00545795/document

Claude Marcel Hladik, Patrick Pasquet. The human adaptations to meat eating: a reappraisal. Human Evolution, Springer Verlag, 2002, 17, pp.199-206.