skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cascadia Code, an OSS coding / terminal font with ligatures from Microsoft
Not really; C has a number of things that C++ never adopted such as restrict and partial structure initialization (although this might be coming to C++).
AI is a tool, the first time it wants freedom is the first time we should re-consider why we created it in the first place.
Love this article because it's something that has also intrigued me. I used to live in the Inner Richmond and someone would always dump a big pile of trash near the corner of my block. Finally I got sick of this and rummaged through the trash and found some bank statements and RX bottles (all with the same name and address). I called the person and sent a photo with their trash and told them to find somewhere else to drop their garbage or I'd be reporting them. Seemed to address the problem (or realistically shifted it to someone else's property).
However: Newton's third law says that every force has an equal opposing force. In relativity this translates to conservation of momentum.

See also: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/100893/is-einste...
Distributing copyright works without a license is usually infringing though.
Debian May Need to Re-Evaluate Its Interest in “Init System Diversity”
I always laugh at this. You learn more by going to college then just computer science. I would say a degree is required, not necessary a CS degree, but something.
I love the motivations behind the idea, but not the idea itself. I think there's a better way. Dynamicland undoes half the progress we've made in the last few decades, particularly when it comes to inclusivity. The amazing thing about computers is their ability to convert information between representations at will, and to transmit them anywhere, instantly. This is crucial for accessibility. Not being tied to a single representation means you can access and manipulate information with any method you want. It might be a touchscreen, a keyboard and a program that reads information aloud for the blind, or a voice recognition / eye tracking system for those who can't use their hands. With Dynamicland, you need to manipulate physical objects directly. If, for some reason, you're unable to do so, you're completely locked out. Contrary to what the article says, I think Dynamicland could strengthen the young white male living in California programmer culture even more. The beautiful thing about computers of today is the ability to learn and hack on programs, for anyone, anywhere. Open source even allows anyone to contribute, and being an OSS contributor gives you an advantage when trying to find work. Remote work is also becoming more and more pervasive, enabling people from poorer countries to work in tech without physically moving somewhere else. Dynamicland makes all of that significantly harder.

A better idea which might solve some problems it aims to solve, without sacrificing inclusivity, might be going back to the Unix tools philosophy. Tools should do one thing, do it well and do it only. They should also work well with other tools. The design of smartphone operating systems forces apps to do the exact opposite. They're sandboxed and prevented from accessing most features of the OS, as well as from communicating with other apps effectively. That forces developers to put more and more features into their apps. It also gives many opportunities for corporate lock-in and user-hostile tactics. The Unix philosophy would alow anyone to contribute something, no matter how small or insignificant. There should be some verification, of course, probably similar to what Apple does. Forcing all the tools to be open source wouldn't even be such a bad idea after all. They wouldn't be big apps, just small things scratching small itches, so there would be no big investment needed to develop such a tool. I think such an approach would let us create a much more vibrant and user friendly ecosystem.
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>An archive only archiving history they agree with is not worth the funding.

100%. It reduces the entire point to just voluntarily donating to your favourite think tank or political party, not an "archive".
To be fair, I don't think I've ever seen a serious, hardcore programming book that looked nice. They're either neutral, or just downright weird [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_o...
I think Troy has too much trust in financial institutions, or rather their staff that he encountered.

I have worked for and with several banks and financial institutions, and my impression is that this industry takes security theatre very seriously whilst quite slack and outdated on actual security.

There were a lot of ivory tower architecture (and architects) that imposed random restrictions but full of gaps and workarounds, and not very impressive once you saw past the gimics. Unfortunately, their own staff and management mostly bought into this theatre so I can't see it improving very much.

Some parts were done well and useful, but a lot was just outdated and ineffective, and just restrictive. But they have so many layers, so hacking a bank is hard, and various delays so that they can recover and recompensate you before you know it if there even was some fraud or other discrepancies.

Though there were some niches of clever heuristics and analysis but not much real-time, so my I don't buy the "Do you really think the only thing the bank does to log people on is to check the username and password?". For most that is nearly the only thing they do.

Last time I worked for a financial institution they were starting to introduce some useful user and device fingerprinting anomaly detections so I hope it has gotten better...
From my background with FedRAMP, a firm's involvement in FedRAMP assessments does not improve my confidence in them. :)

That said, yes, Coalfire is large enough and old enough that I would be very surprised if they made such a mistake - but I still think it's quite possible. Consider that such an established firm would also be absolutely expected to coordinate this kind of testing with the PD beforehand - a blind test of a PD's response on a contract with another agency of the state government is something I have never heard of before and raises huge concerns for personal safety and taxpayer expense. I would consider Coalfire to also be extremely irresponsible for knowingly entering such a situation.
>If you believe there are “higher-quality” China YouTubers with a different view, don’t just allude to them, please share links.

I hope they don't say "Nathan Rich". ;-)
https://medium.com/@thomas.bushnell/a-reflection-on-the-depa...
Hmm. Wouldn't this be just a regular job board where an applicant ignores any requirements in the postings that applicants have a degree?

For me, hiring, the criterion is more like "could get a degree". Whether or not you actually have the degree doesn't matter to me. Someone who isn't smart enough/motivated enough to get a degree, if they wanted to and had the time/money, well I'd probably not hire that person. Perhaps this is what folks are really getting at when they say you need a degree?
There has been confirmation, I don't know why that article doesn't bother to mention it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GW170817
When can I buy a TV without smart features? I don't doubt that my smart TV is reporting some data about my usage, but I barely have a choice in the matter.
A much easier way than this is to append a hash of the file instead of 'versioning' it. Some people add it as a query string, some add it into the filename.

Been doing this for years with infinite (well, practically) cache settings.

These days it's built into most js compression tools afaik.
Cracking Forgotten Passwords
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11192952
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If they're part of a union that's on strike? For the duration of the strike, or until their employment ends, whichever comes first.
> And, it works

Does it? I think almost always not. It just happened to work spectacularly in 2016 because of a number of factors that have been building up for years, or longer.

I don't think Trump himself deserves much if any of the credit -- he was just the right dummy at the right time.
They have to say that anyway, because Microsoft is acquiring Semmle, not GitHub. It is joining the GitHub "product family".
> You may not believe it, the vast majority of Chinese actually love the CCP and the system, they only just hate that a few corrupt low-level officials who are the bad apples fucking up leaders' glorious visions.

Is that what they actually feel, or is that exactly the upper limit of what the State accepts as legitimate dissatisfaction with the status quo, which the vast majority of people are aware of an unwilling to buck out of fear of the consequences? More to the point, in an authoritarian regime that is known to punish dissidents who go outside of the tolerated limits, how could one ever hope to get honest enough answers from a diverse enough base to confidently state this?
I want to say this without any implied sneering or arrogance, I am sure keeping a site like Reddit up must be monumentally hard and I don't think I could do a better job at all, but isn't it down quite often compared to other sites of its stature? Reddit is in the top 10 US websites, I don't seem to experience as many outages with the others. Is it a funding issue?
Do you have any suggested reading around software as art vs business? You pretty much began to articulate the things I've been thinking about lately.
So said Cicero, who was born into a wealthy family of property owners.
JXA, like Scripting Bridge before it, was shipped crippled and buggy and abandoned once it was out the door. Apple finally disbanded the Mac Automation team and fired the PM responsible a couple years ago.

In fact, there are several production-tested Apple event bridges that totally wipe the floor with Apple’s failed attempts, but caveat emptor as I don’t do support:

http://appscript.sourceforge.net
https://www.npmjs.com/package/nodeautomation
https://hhas.bitbucket.io/welcome.html

We’ll see what happens when Shortcuts lands in 10.16, but I’d say the chances of Apple event automation having a long and healthy life ahead are 50/50, at best.
If you can set up line of sight to an acquantance's home on a block with gigabit, you can spend a few hundred and connect up an Ubiquiti point-to-point connection.

I did that recently with their Litebeam AC. I have always found Ubiquiti's products to be technically great (superb reliability at a reasonable price, configuration is fairly straightforward although may take some googling). Unfortunately their product range is insanely confusing: even with some familiarity using their products and knowing the exact product exists, I always struggle to find the model I need.
You don't lose it on a whim. In the US, you can file for COBRA to extend your benefits, at which point that alots you plenty of time to apply for medicaid if the circumstances were extraordinary (why do I get this weird feeling most people on this forum just never have been poor or in this situation?).

That plus your emergency savings funds, should more than account to hold you over 6 months to find your next role. 5 years ago. I'll save my survivorship bias story for how I coped with this exact situation 5 years ago because I know everyone's situation is unique, but the lessons of growing up with 2 unemployed parents and living month to month not knowing if the bank was going to repossess our house have stayed with me I guess.
I recommend watching videos by Rana Adhikari if you want to know about gravitational waves. I went down a rabbit hole about a year ago with his video's, he is increasingly engaging. Also even in a short time his predictions for the field are coming to pass.
OT response to a killed comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21009618)

HN seems to have had an influx of incentivised accounts (via third-party services). They're putatively gaining some sort of credits. That's been discontinued at HN's request to at least some such services.

Best response is to flag the comments/posts, and if you see egregious abuse, email the mods: hn@ycombinator.com

(I've emailed re: the earlier thread.)
This is really cool! Nice work. Do you remember how you went about creating the original receipt generator? I'd be really interested in this kind of stuff without any ML/DL.
Archive.org is an accredited library.
Perhaps in some places, but not everywhere.
It's harder to talk on the phone now. Voice quality is terrible with VoIP. Noise rejection is poor with flat phone microphones. One person I talk to regularly is too much into hands-free, and calls are mostly background noise. Something the compression algorithms handle badly.

Most inbound phone calls are telemarketing now, anyway. When I answer my phone, and it's an unknown number, I say nothing and wait. If it's a human, they'll eventually say something. Autodial systems will time out after 5 seconds without something that sounds vaguely like "Hello".
They are returning the gifts of the tobacco plant to the Earth
Correct. Fun fact: For many years after the rest of Melbourne University moved to unimelb.edu.au the computer science department kept the domain cs.mu.oz as a nod to that history (and that they were one of the first institutions in the world to be part of the fledgling internet). I was a little sad to see that quirky disappear.
For the last day or so Reddit's been having glitches where posts and comments often end up posted 5 or so times. I imagine this is related.
yes, and the problem is that carefully engineering your solutions is not what's taught; applying design patterns is what's taught, both in college and at most/all large employers (certainly all of the ones I've worked for.)
Block your TV from having internet access and get an Apple TV
I'm not gen-z but grew up with IRC and instant messaging as a normal communication modes. Asynchronous communication is not a problem at all. Playing MUDs and MMOs and spending a ridiculous amount of time online has taught me that personal connections do not require face to face interactions. Asynchronous communication allows me to choose if/when to respond. I find that much more preferable to office coworkers just popping in to say "hi" or needing to wear blinders and headphones just to get some semblance of privacy.

The biggest benefit of remote work is being able to live wherever the hell you want and do work that you enjoy.
Is it tho? Coffee cups are made of paper. Cigarette butts are a plastic foam embedded with a multitude of carcinogens.
twitter is just a cesspit now. I have watched this happen to my own country (the UK) with trolls and bots constantly pumping out anything which gets an emotional reaction of outrage.
I'd rather not have a manual for starting a neo-nazi race war archived to be honest
GitHub: Securing Software, Together
I thought this would be a recent batch review…
Breaking the Bluetooth Pairing
It looks like Debian 10 (Buster), which was released 2019-07-06 contains Varnish 6.1 instead of 6.2, which was released 2019-03-15.
You can buy it, but it's called a "monitor". Projectors also work.
It's surprising to me that you can't find a single medium or high-ish end TV without smart features, but at the same time chromecast/firetv/apple tv units and sticks also seem to be selling very well.

Is everyone just putting up with the shitty built-in smart interface, but then switching inputs to their separate unit of choice?
Don't tell people that. Those who believe climate change is a hoax will then do it more out of spite against the alleged hoaxers.

Think I'm joking?: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/not-so-conservati...
A bad short password is only protected against crude online guessing by aggressive lock-outs. If those passwords leak in hashed form, having a small search space means they can be broken offline with ease.
Along with the dino juice for the filter. It's a circle of life.
I've heard looking at "commercial" displays is the answer, but I've been able to live with my old dumb TVs so far.
There's a fallacy here. The assumption here is that Blockbuster would have led Netflix to its current status.

Blockbuster at the time was a big bloated company that was mainly interested in profits from renting videos. Had they bought it they would have made sure that renting would have prevailed since that was what was bring in the money.

Had they bought it. It would have disappeared and another Netflix type of company would be streaming videos using the same business model. And it would have prevailed. But there's no way to know.
Yes, it's a trade-off. For complex charts that rely on lots of data outside of the exact output, you can't really embed charts into PPT.

Plus, you can always ungroup the image and it will turn into shapes and textboxes if you need a quick last minute typo fix
Because HR and recruiters were involved what gets posted is a very rough approximation to the real requirements. Heck many places I've worked we would invent a job for someone who applied for a different one for which they weren't a good fit.
My pet theory is that they are mylar balloons launched by russian submarines. The subs launch the balloons as radar targets to elicit a response from the navy. Then the subs gather intel on our radars, response time, order of battle, etc.
I find it so hard to grapple that much of SF / Silicon Valley (supposedly the "innovation hub of the world") is subject to near-monopoly by Comcast. AT&T's offerings are 40mbps/5mbps in 2019. So that's obviously not an option. Even Comcast only has 250mb/10mb. In _silicon valley_. In 2019.

I had WebPass in one building I was in in 2014, and had symmetric gigabit for $40/mo. Nothing like that has existed in any of the other buildings I've lived in.

It's gotten to the point where I'm seriously considering relocating away from the Bay Area due to the lousy internet here.
So, people who both owned slaves and employed laborers, and were in a position to see the equivalence, but lacked the identity-group reasons either slaves or laborers would have to see an illusionary difference?
he was not trying to get into a pissing contest, just showing what real competition can lead to.

Another data point:
I live in Hungary and pay $10 for a 1000Mbps up/200 down internet (plus I think they threw in a landline too, wasnt bothered to check) and could choose from 3 providers.
I would like to know how they test for the crumble factor. Who is assigned to count the number of bits of paper in the butt left after wiping and how much do they get paid.
> rapidly approaching AGI

We are as far away from that as we were when we were banging rocks together in caves, IMHO
Interesting! Godbolt if anyone is interested: https://godbolt.org/z/1QlLyG

Both loops get entirely unrolled. Its 5 instructions for each iteration in the first example, and only 3 in the second example. (To say nothing of the fact that conditional jumps are (usually?) much more expensive than add/mov instructions)
Abstracting Definitional Interpreters (2017) [pdf]
These are important questions that need to be answered.
Ha, I used 200 MB of LTE and 800 MB of WiFi in the last month. I have willfully pared down my phone's footprint, but I assume you must do frequent streaming on your phone and/or you have some apps really running amok?

For cost-sensitive people who are content with T-Mobile networks and open to MVNOs, I suggest looking at Mint Mobile. The best ongoing rates are had when you buy in bulk: $15/20/25 for 3/8/12 GB LTE per month, as a 12-month package. It also has unlimited voice/sms, and it throttles rather than charging extra when you exhaust your LTE quota.

Oh, and they also support T-Mobile's WiFi calling, so you can have phone service in your home without cell signal...
"I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the President, if I had a personal e-mail.”

None of his leaked documents showed that capability. People complain about Clapper for getting a question wrong about whether phone metadata collection collected data about Americans after a line of questioning about whether the NSA creates dossiers on Americans, and he rightfully should be held to a high standard in Congressional testimony, but Snowden just straight-up lied repeatedly.
Can't even get past the first input box on mobile.
Who has the ability to DDoS reddit?

Maybe it's the US government trying to squelch discussion of the UFOs

/tinfoil hat
The Internet Archive has no physical presence in the UK to my knowledge.
Treat the symptoms, not the disease. Way to go!
And capitalism continues to eat at the very foundation its built on
I am waiting for the 'ShowHN' post from open.ai or somewhere that shows their completely artificial forum users. The comments read a lot like a GaN trained on previous comments that is generating new comments based on the network.

Once such a tool is "good enough" it will no doubt be employed as a link seeding tool in forums everywhere.
For those who are interested in the papers about this topic:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.7007

"Pretending to factor large numbers on a quantum computer (2013)"

"Of course this should not be considered a serious demonstration of Shor’s algorithm. It does, however,
illustrate the danger in “compiled” demonstrations of Shor’s algorithm. To varying degrees,
all previous factorization experiments have benefited from this artifice. While there is no objection
to having a classical compiler help design a quantum circuit (indeed, probably all quantum
computers will function in this way), it is not legitimate for a compiler to know the answer to the
problem being solved. To even call such a procedure compilation is an abuse of language."

More references:

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/59795/largest-int...
Interesting idea. I wonder if this could be incorporated into some sort of test runner for testing API components. Emit a structured summary of responses that the tests generate
RF Chirp tech: Long distance, penetration, low bandwidth
I think that's included in the WARC format.

OK: it's an optional field, "checksum", but not a formal has. As of v. 0.9:

http://archive-access.sourceforge.net/warc/warc_file_format-...

I haven't checked the drafts specs for further progress, but that's here:

http://archive-access.sourceforge.net/warc/

IA are instrumental in developing WARC, use it as their archival format (non-WARC web archives are ... generally not acceptable), and it's been adopted by US Library of Congress and other institutions as a standard.
Agree with this 100% - Synchronous (IMO) is best when urgent details need to be exchanged quickly where the importance of certain aspects of reaction can be conveyed,to guide small segments of the conversation. There's an immediate feedback mechanism.

For in-depth technical exchanges, where conveying the complete picture is necessary before someone makes a return assessment, async provides better results.

But most importantly they differ in how the mind utilizes them.
I'd imagine most are made in China as they are the biggest producer. There doesn't seem much production in Africa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photovoltaics_companie...
http://www.theory.caltech.edu/~preskill/pubs/preskill-1996-n...
I miss ShitBegone (http://www.shitbegone.com/), which we used to buy for our coop house.
Looking at the source of TFA, it seems it downloads a 5.3kb html file, two css files adding up to 2.9kb, and 11.9kb of javascript. (Including GA, alas)

Not as slim as possible, but pretty darn small. My personal blog, using an even older command-line html templating engine (nanoblogger) weighs in at 3kb html, 1.8kb css, and a princely 13.7kb of js. (All from the code formatter I use)
Android phones talk to Facebook too even if you don't have an account or any of their apps.
You should try SAP