skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm sorry but I really think you're letting yourself be taken in by some extraordinarily shoddy science and by the pseudo-scientific claims of people who are either engaging in magickal thinking and really believe they can "tell when you're lying" or just charlatans trying to take advantage of the naivete of others.

Did you win the Putnam?
JPEG also has lossless compression
Maybe you should try submitting some content then, instead of just shooting down others.
Why does Joe Biden say the word 'period' so often after ending sentences?
To be precise it's 120 km/h in most, 130 km/h in some. At least in western/northern Europe (except Germany of course, with it's Authoban)
It still doesn't. No loop control. Yeah you have HTML tags and whatnot, but the loop info must be inside the video itself, not as external metadata.
I used to work as a SWE at Google, and we sometimes "joked" that the process ("here's a list of computer science topics, we expect you to know all of them, take as long as you want to prepare") was designed to identify insecure overachievers.
Number partition, if you present it to someone who isn't familiar with it, is probably the easiest sounding NP-complete problem. In practice, it's definitely one of the easiest ones for practical applications. There' a paper entitled "The Easiest Hard Problem: Number Partitioning"(https://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0310317.pdf). But it reduces to subset sum, so it's not easy.
I don’t know, is it? I used to be a “code monkey”. To be honest I think the main reason I ended up in that position was that I saw myself as socially inept and thought that there was some kind of “big picture” that the mgmt/power focused people saw and I couldn’t see. I don’t any more, and my latest title is C-level (for a 100 person startup though - so nothing fancy).

People love to set social norms that limit how much use others can make of their talents and abilities. But that’s usually not in the company’s best interest, and those norms seldom have the backing of senior management.

With that said, of course you should be tactful and show your coworkers respect. People deserve respect not because they are smart, but because they are people.
Founder of block chain company tries to convince you that blockchain is digital gold . That block chain scarcity better than the gold standard
Likely knowing full well that the value of promises backed by gold would still have you know value. Promises backed by hashing have no value in the event that the currency fails
This is very good news. It's going to lead to a great many new solar installations that otherwise would not have happened, including in new home construction. And if we are lucky there will be other companies that will develop similar products that are good enough to compete with Tesla.
It's working way better than a couple of years ago. Even Google seems to load. Congrats!
I understand that it probably was a better technology at the time.
But are there any concepts/technologies in XUL that would be useful to add in the HTML standard?
Wouldn't this sort of software be better written in a safe language like C# as opposed to C++?
Fluid dynamics of cilia on a comb jelly
In practice one should typically prefer a suffix array to a suffix tree. A suffix array is conceptually so easy!

1. Given a set of strings, put all the suffixes into a set. For example "derp" -> "derp", "erp", "rp", "p".

2. Sort it

It's cheap! The number of suffixes equals the string length, and suffixes can be mere references into the string input. So in practice you use maybe ~2x memory compared to the input - and in big cache friendly chunks (not tries).

Now you're flying. If you want to perform a substring search:

1. Binary search on the first character. You get a range of suffixes which begin with that character.

2. Within that range, perform a binary search on the second character. Now you have a range of suffixes which begin with the first two characters.

3. etc.

Powerful and easy.

By the way this technique of going character by character can and should be extended to the sort itself; look up "three-way radix quicksort" for what you never learned in school.
Ad hominem, no. Disparaging the interest, yes.

It’s possible to explore a topic without the disparagement but you keep reverting to the “waste of time” theme, which doesn’t indicate an interest in learning or persuasion.
I haven't checked the podcast, but the YouTube channel has uploaded some videos featuring him pretty recently, which I found to be very amusing.
This sounds a lot more efficient than smelting it down into ammunition and shooting it at brown people, like the Bush administration tried.
That response is insane. How on earth could he substantiate it further than the significant evidence he presented? Would it require an admission of guilt from the responsible party?
I have to say that at first read, my first though has been : do African sorcerers can now publish ads on HN to sell their magical powers ?

Not to be rude or mean to Coach Darek that I can only guess genuinely wants to help people. But, to me, it does tell a lot about hiring practices at FAANG.

Those interviews does not actually tell you that much, sometimes deter competent persons, don't really weed out bad seed, and yet are the alpha and the omega of the industry.

Edit: downvote accepted as long as I have actual counter argunment. Doing an exercice in the vacuum does not tell if you can grasp existing code nor if you'll work well in a team.
Actually it's still receiving commits, the maintainer just doesn't have a lot of time for it. https://github.com/keepassx/keepassx/commits/master
Shout out for tiggywinkles animal hospital which I visited the same day as a drive to Bletchley from Heathrow: great visitor centre, doing sterling work rescuing injured hedgehogs. My partner who lived in the uk for two years never saw one, was delightfully entertained by this visit.

https://www.sttiggywinkles.org.uk/
Facebook spies on everything you do. Stop using it. This is the only way this will end. It's not even a useful product. Stop being sheep.
Considering the author of this font pretty much made it for their own use, the answer to your question becomes: because that's their personal preference. No one needs to justify what font they prefer.

Then they decided to be nice and share it with the world for free.
Pretty big oversight to not handle -1 or 2³².
It’s something similar to syntax highlighting. We (or at least myself) doesn’t ‘read’ keywords to read code, it’s mostly syntax highlighting and the ‘shape’ of the code around the keyword, and the length of keyword. You really don’t need the exact characters to parse code in your head. The cursive characters give another visual distinction of the keywords.
If nuclear material is irradiated by tunable lasers, are there particular wavelengths that increase or decrease alpha/beta/gamma emission?

Short of neutron guns, are there environmental conditions that affect nuclear half-life?
But not all American whiskys are spelt "whiskey", e.g., Maker's Mark: https://www.makersmark.com/
Most security scanners allow you to create exclusion folders, where it doesn't scan files in those folders. Something somebody researching malware on a company computer with a malware detector should probably be aware of.
I’ve had two African hedgehogs as pets. One extremely social (for a hedgehog, anyway) and one very much not. The latter was mostly neglected by her previous owner.

Fascinating animals, wish I could read the full piece.
If someone posts CP as spam on a random onion site, it's reasonably going to get removed there too because it's disgusting and nobody wants to see that.

Moreover, knowing the passport numbers of the moderators is not a prerequisite to a site being well-moderated. It's possible to build and care enough to maintain a reputation under a pseudonym.

Meanwhile you have no actual guarantee that people won't post whatever they want on the open web. Anyone can host anything they want from any computer on the internet, including a compromised one when they don't want anyone to know who put it there. In other words, if you're willing to break the law then you can already be anonymous, so the thing Tor is enabling is for people who don't want to break the law to have anonymous communications.
Imaging Karel the Robot for Apple II
You should be safe to assume anyone sitting in a lead role should be very comfortable with negative feedback, I'd not stress.
Never Use White Text on Black: Astygmatism and Conference Slides (2017)
What is this music genre?
> If someone who is long gone (and no longer has voting rights) imposed limitations on a democratic system then how is it even a democracy?

You are always asking for "how" X can still be a democracy, which is a weird question I don't even know how to answer, since I really don't even know what you understand under a democracy.

What do you mean how? Can you throw me a rope and explain this to me then:

> Nor should not being able to vote away natural rights (like the right not to be murdered) have any bearing

If I can't vote to legalize murder, how is it still a democracy?
https://reproducible-builds.org is a good resource on this.

There are many, many reasons why a build process may not produce reproducible output. Timestamps and unordered maps are two of the more trivial examples.
Some government -- anywhere in the world -- should offer a responsible disclosure service. You disclose to them a vulnerability, anonymously (e.g. via Tor) if you prefer, then they notify the target and impose a reasonable remediation deadline before publication.

And then they would all do it because everyone would prefer that they rather than a foreign government are the ones holding 0-days during the remediation period.
"Perhaps expressing a view that something is a waste of time is naturally a waste of time itself."

That might be, but that's not at all what I said. I noted that for all your talk of all the time spent picking fonts, you're spending more time on this than most coders actually spend looking at and picking between coding fonts. (Thst is, see a font mentioned, look at a sample of it, and make a quick decision whether it looks any better than what they're using - and that decision usually being that it isn't.)

To call your efforts a "waste of time" is pointedly your choice of phrase, not mine.
Nobel Laureate Wants to Blast Nuclear Waste with Lasers Until It’s Safe
Pyongyang's Retro-SciFi Architecture
Privacy vs. Convenience, Google vs. FOSS – What the Fuck Do We Do?
Maybe this is a stupid question but how does the Star Wars initiative relate to the movies if at all?
In production it is pretty good without Kubernetes (i.e. using it on elastic beanstalk).

One of the biggest reasons for me is that the base instance's only dependency is docker. Without docker you have to install binaries on the main system and hope that virtual environments or something similar exists for the binaries. With Docker I can test the exact code that will run on production and guarantee that with an image hash.

when I put an image on elasticbeanstalk, all I have to do is specify the image and the commit hash (built with travis) I want to deploy. If I want to roll back to a previous release by changing the hash. All the instance has to do is pull in docker layers and go. I dont have to worry if package managers are going to fail or a plethora of other things that can go wrong.

I think kubernetes is overkill TBH but docker is worth it just to standardize environments between local and prod.
I'm actually trying to convince people that, if we accept the premise that blockchain technology can create digital gold (as the market has, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars) then we should harness that digital gold to protect the value of the money that everyone already owns, rather than setting the world on fire by launching new currencies that function like pyramid schemes.
Thank you for that. My chromebook is fast approaching the end of its life and will stop getting updates, so I found that quite useful!
“Today would be a good day to finally become an abused child”
Next, OpenStep and the Return of Steve Jobs to Apple (1997)
I tried using proportional fonts instead of mono spaced and it actually worked great. If you really want to save real estate I think that is a better way to do it.
only if it is also "for humans".
no how else would we get your passwords?
For anyone with a modicum of C spending any amount of time in the sudo codebase, this isn't much surprise. It's the scariest piece of organically grown security-sensitive code I'm aware of still in popular use. It's jam-packed with features you've never even heard of, and has quite surprising functional changes across versions that never make the changelog and require diffing to discover.

It's hard to quantify that "this code is obviously wrong" feeling, for example liberal intermixing of concerns within a single procedure in many places of the code. Options with little to no security value (requiretty) documented as if they do, the ability to pass control to user-supplied policy plug-ins from a setuid binary, etc. There is just far too much going on to expect it not to regularly break

Ignoring the implementation, I think it's fair to say sudo is broken in concept, simply by trying to have this kind of expressive policy language in the first place. The set of skills required to safely expose some subset of functionality to an untrustworthy user is perfectly distinct from those involved in typical sysadmin.
>Me having two children are not destined to be "burdens to society in need (sic?) for a longer period than people you can bring from outside". That is certainly not guaranteed.

On balance, it pretty much is. Adult immigrants will generally be productive in a fraction of the time that children will take to even become legally eligible to be productive.

>And my personal beliefs about life and what it means to be human in my very finite time here goes far beyond "well the economics work out better if I'm barren forever and the government imports immigrants with higher birth rates due to being from a third world country". I strive to have a complete, well rounded life with a loving family. At the end of the day, my life goal is not to live an " economically logical" life void of emotions. I have 90 years here, if I'm lucky. I AM going to live a full life.

That's fine. Please explain why we should build policy around your sentimentality, especially since people like you are unmoved (at least, to the point of actual action) by appeals to the human rights of would-be immigrants.
> Some limitations on democracy are natural, others are imposed by those who established it. That doesn't mean it's not a democracy.

The second clearly does; government by the dead is incompatible with government by the governed, a point Thomas Jefferson is noted for addressing at some length: https://jeffersonpapers.princeton.edu/selected-documents/tho...
Many!

This seems like a good English translation: http://www.ems.kcl.ac.uk/content/etext/e022.html

Wikipedia links to more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus%27s_letter_on_the_fir...
The mpg of reactors (or rather the burnup) is measured by the energy extracted from the primary fuel. In practice that is not limited by neutron flux, but by accumulation of gaseous fission products inside the fuel or the cladding. They do not get any better when you supply external neutron flux. Other, secondary concerns such as the fact that you need to leave the fuel in the ractor for a long time inside the reactor, which leaves a lot of time for corrosion to take place might be reduced. But in the end it is rather costly to produce neutrons with non-nuclear means on the outside.
It’s the New York Times. I’m pretty sure they don’t allow a piece to be published unless it does that.
Cursive unfortunately looks very distracting. Having to context-switch when reading the code between two character sets is going to be exhausting - I felt it even when looking at the example screenshots, I can imagine how taxing it would be to go through hundreds of pages of code in this mode. The non-cursive letters look pretty clean but I'm afraid cursive kills it as programmer's font for me.
The Bible’s First Critic
I was contacted by a Google recruiter once when I was a "programmer/analyst" but not for a software engineer position. I got as far as talking on the phone with the hiring manager, but was not called for an interview. Apparently I was obviously "not their type", but it wasn't a technical screen, so I don't think I was disqualified for lack of knowledge of say, data structures.

So, I still kind of wonder what it takes to be hired for a job that isn't the stereotypical Google SWE, because even though I didn't (and still don't) think of myself as a super genius, it's a fact that I was doing data processing for them which they were paying a handsome amount for (which didn't trickle down to me) so I felt I was qualified by definition.
I've been writing a SciFi book about a computer for 2 years, asking for feedback
Back in the early 00s I was actually shocked that no one attempted to make a desktop environment, or at least applications, using XUL and Gecko. Sure there was Chatzilla but I never saw like a file browser, or an mp3 player.

Now we have Electron and all my wildest dreams came true.
The "disown" bit is interesting. I do wonder about their ability to discern "oops" versus "someone is targeting me". And the idea that negative SEO is even happening in the first place.
Seems like the submission title was changed in the meantime?

When I made the comment it was "The sophisticated programming font".
WPF is open source[1], but there isn't any effort to port it as far as I know. WPF also had a few warts compared to Silverlight.

[1]: https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/
We have two of these operating in Baltimore. Not from this company, unless I’m missing something. They’re called Mr. and Mrs. Trash Wheel. I don’t know if this is related to that effort, or if it’s a reinvention.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Trash_Wheel
Ask HN: How do B2B startups sell to corporations?
Hi,
I am founder of a chatbot startup... it's a b2b..
I am interested to know how to sell to corporate America? how does it work?
A good article on this,

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2011/07/13/robin-hanson/who-car...
I have a hard time understanding this explanation:

> For example, it can be used by a local user who wants to run commands as root — the windows equivalent of admin user.

"root" is the "windows equivalent" of "admin user"?

But then he talks about rules where you give someone the "sudo" permission to run a command as anyone _other_ than root

> jacob myhost = (ALL, !root) /usr/bin/chmod

> This entry means that user jacob is allowed to run “chmod” as any user except the root user, meaning a security policy is in place in order to limit access — sounds good, right?

So that means "sudo" is a way to run a command as a different user, which may or may not be root depending on policy.
That'd be some plot twist.

One of the most unexpected things I ever came across in Europe was a group of Seminoles selling artwork at a weekend flea market in Milan.
How can bugs like this be prevented? Is Linix/Unix "sudo" security model simply flawed?
>Fitting more on the screen horizontally.

But screens for the most part have only been getting wider. I could see this in the days of square CRT's but most screens are fairly wide these days.
It's a minor problem, but CSS, unlike XUL, doesn't provide a way to crop text in the middle[1][2].

[1] - https://www.w3.org/wiki/Text-overflow_middle_cropping

[2] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Mozilla/XUL...
There is no such thing as a gifv file. Imgur just names the file that way when serving standard mp4 videos. Any device capable of playing mp4 files can view them. The whole thing is a marketing ploy.
MIT is pretty much ‘everything is explicitly allowed’.
So, they didn't identify it as their market. But it clearly was, with hindsight.
If you include the copyright info. So if I use your font in a PDF document, does that document need to have your copyright notice on it? Visibly, or only in metadata? Always, or only if the font (the "software") is explicitly embedded into the PDF? How about using it as webfont for the code samples on my blog?
The attacker's goal isn't to have the spam sites outrank his. The goal is to have his lower ranked, I assume so that when people search about polygraphs, they see top-ranked sites that are pro-polygraph instead of anti-polygraph.

The attackers seem to have achieved that goal.
I find that you need to study a lot of words rather than focusing on a few and get the meaning/spelling exactly right. If you have a loose grasp on the meaning of 200 words vs a perfect understanding of 50 words you are much more likely to be able to read a piece if text.
I feel like bitcoin is a threat to ones savings instead..
We have an ever changing group of about 60 engineers who need the ability to do rooty style things on about 500 different machines (very few of which are the same, so things like ansible don't work too well). While only a handful actually do, the rest need to be able to, and they're trusted to make the call.

However we still want to know what's going on, and sudo fires back a message to syslog with who did it and what they did. Far more useful than "joebloggs went to root at 03:14 and logged out at 09:15"
Go on LinkedIn, find contacts, email/call them to explain why your product would help them and their business, set up a demo over video chat. Pitch them your product, why it would benefit them and try to secure a deal.

After you've got some sales under your belt, sponsor a booth at a tradeshow relevant to your market. Demo your product in-person, collect leads and follow up for more sales. Rinse and repeat.
Rethinking Exposure Bias in Language Modeling
Music genres are hard. I guess you can say is electronic music in general, or maybe ambient. One of the authors, Sinjin Hawke , is also known for producing "Wolves" for Kanye West

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinjin_Hawke
It runs locally, and if the attacker has that much access, in most scenarios there isn't anything stopping your adversary from just logging your keystrokes and curling the keystore to a remote server.
A Combination of Wood Fibres and Spider Silk Could Rival Plastic
i just checked (latest firefox and safari) block trackers but not Tor 9

and all pf them have the same "your browser has a nearly-unique fingerprint"
I remember a book by Jim Cramer in which he told a story about how he was offered a job "if you go in that office and fire that guy, right now". He did, and was.
and why is it not default? whats the use case here assuming there actually is a rationale
Especially high school students. We had to get up at 5:55 am everyday in the early 2000s, with class starting promptly at 7:35 am. It definitely affected our attention span for the first few classes each day. I count my blessings that nowadays, my first real meeting at work doesn't start until 10:30 am.
It would be nice to imagine the world as it should be, but I don't think this is actually super common.
The ones I wrote and upstreamed to fix bugs in the Linux kernel.
Best way to interact with GraphQL that I've found.
While noble, your digital gold is worse than usd not being fully backed by gold though. There is no intrinsic value in a database of hashes in the event that a currentcy fails. This solution is as much a fiat solution, if not more so than usd. The gold standard was as much if not more about securing the value of money as it was about controlling inflation as a result of over printing.
That is precisely the problem we're trying to solve: allowing the public to take advantage of blockchain-based digital scarcity without anyone being forced to invest in speculative assets.
I use a proportional coding font and love it. (I will re-recommend Input Sans: https://djr.com/input/)

I find it much more readable--and part of me feels coding should be for the humans, not the robots.