skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even after reading that, I'm not sure what an email hobbit is. Someone who just wants to live in a cozy hole in the ground with a few nice email amenities?
It isn't really that hard to learn to read a different script, unless it's logographic. A solid week of study at the outside and then it is just a matter of practice to get faster.
> How much of this stuff was validated through public competitions like for AES, etc.?

Curve25519, Ed25519, ChaCha20, Poly1305 have all been entered into competitions like AES and usually get to the final round which is usually more about politics than security.

The algorithms have also been validated by independents like google who where one of the first to review, use and promote the algorithms.

> it looks to me like there is also some fanboyism from programmers with no particular crypto background.

Absolutely but we fan boy for him because he has been so widely reviewed with stellar results.
Yes, so charge agriculture and industry more.
1) It would be better if this article recognised that Australia is a naturally dry country and that the Murray Darling basis is prone to seasonal dry conditions.

2) It would be even better if Australian farmers also recognised that and didn't grow water intensive crops there.

3) The "climate change issue" is not polarised.
It's been a huge value for me, and I get a ton more done with it. No joke, I would pay $100/month. (See my other comment about this article for how its been so valuable to me.)
Kazakhstan's turnaround after string of cyberattacks
I have this issue with OSSEC messages (automated messages from an Open Source IDS). Same thing, too, have been marking them as “not spam” for years. I think it’s because I don’t always review them...:/ But just because you don’t always open a message class doesn’t mean it’s spam, Google!
> No EU or US jurisdiction.

As far as I can tell, they're based in Switzerland. The political pressure if either of them EU cough a bit will probably cause Swiss authorities to fall over immediately. I wouldn't consider myself safe in your position.
The standardized 3 finger swipe thing is great on iPad
That's such a crowded market though, with CryEngine, Godot, Lumberyard, and yet more competing for attention.
The top bar for me shows 2 contacts and the rest are empty spaces.

Both contacts are people I haven’t spoken to in months/years. One is my MIL who I never text and just occasionally receive a call from.

Meanwhile the people I message near daily don’t show up anywhere.

The top bar is completely and utterly useless, and causes common tasks to be cut off below a fold I didn’t even know existed until OPs post.

Apple. It just works.
I know, throwing that in was my lame attempt at humor. :-)
The article really does a poor job at showing the actual mismanagement of the river ecosystem. Other sources cover active steps that humans have taken which have caused major damage to the flow rates and resiliency systems that nature had in place.
Most importantly, anyone that only speaks english will be unlikely to ever hear about a non-english language.
The community has taken it over as far as I know. Looking at the github there appears to be some active development still.
https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb
It's that fact that led to FB and Google.

IBM didn't see MS coming, MS didn't see Google coming, Google didn't see FB coming, etc.

The beauty of this is that things look done and then someone see a new niche and it turns out it wasn't a niche, but something millions of people wanted.
not science until it can be reproduced. and since this is a psychological study...
Even technical people are people. This tip can help defuse the frustration, making the recipient more willing to listen to the technical solution.

People forget sometimes that the person on the other end of the screen isn’t a computer that is completely unmoved by silly things like emotion and frustration.
My favourite Apple UI 'enhancement' was to remove pinch-to-close from 'Books'. You now have to fiddle around with a perfect touch in the right part of the top of the screen to get the top menu to appear, to then press a tiny 'back' button. Before, pinch anywhere on the screen.

Thanks Apple.
This reminds me of Yid++[0], a tongue-in-cheek C++ compiler with a bunch of keywords translated into Yeshivish[1]. (I apologize in advance if the humor is wasted on those unfamiliar with the Yeshivish / Talmudic world.) It's still in ASCII though :)

If nothing else, these things remind me how lucky I was to not have had to learn English while I simultaneously learned to program.

[0] https://schorrm.github.io/ypp/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeshivish
I got to use it in university in a course about parallel functional programming. I think it is still mostly a research language, but if you need to do computation on the GPU and like func prog then it probably would be an interesting alternative to try out. It really does a great job of optimizing and parallizing you program.
> The enemy could have landed several of our aircraft on one of their runways.

This is something that actually does happen. Less than 10 or 20 years ago, China did it to an US Air Force reconnaissance aircraft.
Keep in mind that this "scroll bar" would only have to indicate that there is more content, or at most, which part of the content you are looking at. It doesn't have to be interactive (tap/drag to scroll) because you can still scroll by swiping. So a few pixels would be enough if the color stands out enough.
Man’s stomach brews its own beer,a rare condition known as auto-brewery syndrome
Something about non-English comments in source code is really off-putting. That, and if you generally do want people to understand, then you should use English. If that does not matter to you, or someone else, then do not.
I don't doubt that Apple has big teams of people who do nothing but try to perfect the UX. Maybe this shows how difficult it is to get it right more than any inherent problem at the company.

Aside from that, I don't really care much for iOS any more than anyone else. Mostly because Safari is now buggy and once every day or so I have to kill & reload it to get a page to display. And the new gesture implementation has me going forward & back when I am just trying to get a page to scroll left & right. And the touch-and-hold popup activates too easily. And ...

Well, I hope they are still tuning it. I admit to holding iOS to a much higher standard than I do Android, but I can't help that.
i'd say an ayahuasca trip is also deeply personal and personal issues will come to the surface like any unresolved issues from the past.
there are commonalities experienced too though, like experiencing death (ego death), meeting with/becoming god if you're lucky and a deep feeling of love. it can also be terrifying at times but overall my first ayahuasca experience was the most profound experience of my life and an amazing exploration of consciousness.
Your comment is an even better example of why the climate change issue is so polarized, because the article made no mention of climate change, yet you were triggered by it anyhow.
You don't understand the scale of this problem. It's such a fad to "fire" someone because you think "it's an easy problem".
What sort of men? Cisgender men? Heterosexual men? Arabic men?

There's no such thing as a man -- "man" an abstract concept that needs definition before any useful statement can be made about people in that category.
If you're top 10-20% of men, use it. If not, don't use it.
Which university? :)
> If there are any unresolvable ambiquieties then ask me.

what if there is no ambiguity, only a single wrong answer, and now it "works" but you include the wrong thing ?

> - As a developer if I use for example std::thread why do I need to add manually -pthread to my build / linker flags. Why can't the build system do this for me?

because adding -pthread and -lpthread have different semantics (-pthread defines _REENTRANT which may change things - grep your /usr/include for that ;p) and you may want one or the other regardless of whether you use std::thread.

> - As a developer if I use let's say Win32 API in my code why do I have to manually add the linker libs and flags. Why can't the build system do this for me?

which linker libs ? on my computer I must have 5 version of those right now, not counting UWP and various MinGW versions. Also sometimes I want the debug standard library and sometimes not.

> - As a developer if I use c++14 features in my code, why do I need to manually add the -std=c++14 whatever flag in my build files? Why can't the build system do this for me?

determining if you are using C++14 features sounds like a corollary of the halting problem
Brilliant. Every single image that I saw is of an Apple product. The so-called masters of UI.
Can't help but wonder if maybe this is because violence towards women in relationships is higher than it is towards men.

Edit: Before you dismiss my comment, feel free to look at the details. There have been countless studies that confirm this. https://www.thehotline.org/resources/statistics/
Ah, another fan of the arrays-start-at-whatever you decide!
Linked Paper instead of article:-https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/19485506198766...
The average time spent in front of artwork at a museum is 8 seconds.

Maybe this is the attention span of people in leisure?
SoftBank’s Vision Fund Tries to Lower Risk
So you vote against action on climate change because you're worried people believe the wrong thing? Even if what they believe is wrong, isn't climate change mitigation still a win? Cleaner air, less reliance on non-renewable energy, etc, seem like fine goals regardless of whether or not it turns out the straights are as dire as we think (though, your issues with this particular article aside, there's plenty of evidence to merit concern)?
Ask HN: Do You Keep a Changelog?
Be it for your business or open-source projects.
My toughts exactly. People seam pretty efficient kind of flowing like water, creating line that advance towards some direction, adapting to moving obstacles almost never slowing down.
https://youtu.be/Od6EeCWytZo?t=51
>biological genders

The word you're looking for is "sex." There's no such thing as a "biological gender."
Even if what you say is true, one sensationalized article does not mean that the entire climate change issue is hyperbole. The fact is that climate change is a real problem with potentially catastrophic outcome for the human specie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipping_points_in_the_climate_...

When the stakes are so high, where we are literally risking the future of the human race, I'd definitely lean towards the side of action and change even if they sensationalize some facts sometimes in order to motivate change in others.
> If IP addresses were considered PII, then no routers database or Whois registries could legally exist, which would mean to a larger extent Internet routing could not exist as we know it.

I think this statement is misinformed. There are countries that have rules around protecting PII. WHOIS implementations have changed as a result, but I think these laws have carve outs that allow routers to function. The laws are more nuanced than this.

Examples:

ICANN adopted tiered access for gTLD registration information: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/gtld-registration-data...

EU courts believe that IP addresses, even dynamic IP addresses, can indirectly identify a person: http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&doc...

GDPR, however has a carve out that I think permits use by internet routers. One legal justification is:

> Processing is necessary to satisfy a contract to which the data subject is a party.

If my ISP doesn't announce my IP address, then they can't connect me to the internet, which I pay them to do.
I think this really misses the point about where "english" comes from in a programming language:

When we look at modern languages like C, C++, Java, C#, ect, the amount of English keywords are very minimal: "if", "for", "while", "do"... Most of a program is user-defined variables, classes, methods, ect. All of these can be in whatever language the programmer wants.

The bigger complication comes from major APIs: Mac, Windows, Linux, ect, have APIs written in English. Even if you were to write a program in a C-like language where "if" was replaced with a non-english keyword, and you defined your variables, methods, ect, with non-English names, you'd still need English APIs as soon as you interoperate with anything.

Furthermore: Names in APIs tend to be so cryptic, and require so much domain expertise, that I wonder how much value comes in translating them? Will training a non-English beginning programmer in a language with keywords from their natural language be helpful?

Seems like a good experiment, IMO!
What percentage of relationships include violence? I doubt this is a strong explanation for the difference stated in the article.
I've noticed this too. I've stopped telling people that their emails are getting spammed because I've determined it's not their fault, that google just randomly spams emails coming from lists. It's the main reason I'm working on moving away from google back to my own mail server.
Maybe the USA is different but here in Japan the odds of seeing an iPhone without either a case or a ring are probably 1 in 1000. Problem solved. Further, there rows and rows and rows and rows of cases for sale.

I'm not saying the phone shouldn't sit flat (though I personally don't care). But just in looking around most people seem to want to customize their phone by adding a case so at least in Japan it's a non-issue.
We need a committee to form standards for sarcasm indicator use in various contexts.
And many of these people openly spite Google for failing their interviews.
I'm not sure I follow the argument at the end. The author has given a good explanation for why our current metaphors describing the lambda calculus might not be applicable to aliens (requiring the concepts of direction and containment), but I don't see why, for example, the gas-planet aliens might not have their own metaphors relating to wind patterns or aerial acrobatics or something we wouldn't understand at all. There can be multiple metaphors for the same math.
> I personally am concerned about my impact on the environment, but I consistently vote against collective action because articles like this make me really afraid of how crazy people are and what nonsense they'll believe.

On what basis do you think your vote will change other peoples beliefs?

Vote differently please.
Show HN: New mind mapping tool for learners
That would work the other way, as more men are physically abused by their partners than the other way around.
Sexes, not genders.

Sexes are biological: chromosomes, hormones, body morphology.

Genders are social: baby boys and girls have definite sexes, but their gender identifies are not the same as of grown-up straight men and women, to say nothing of genderqueer people, etc

My hope is that the biological aspects are still in the realm of science.
> Having client state just be a replica of server state solves so many problems I don't understand why the concept never caught on.

As soon as your server state is larger than whatever your client can handle, the whole metaphor breaks down.
Hell hath no fury as a woman scorned?
Why Do We Think Cats Are Unfriendly?
In Pirsig's second book, Lila, he returns to examine what the romantic-classical synthesis looks like from another perspective: the moral perspective. He imagines the moral qualities of the world. What are the moral qualities of a motorcycle? How ought a motorcycle to behave?

Pirsig proposes a thought experiement, the "chemistry teacher" experiment, where a chemistry teacher is left on a beach to rot. Through this experiment, he concludes that the morality of chemical objects, of atoms and molecules, is precisely the rules of chemistry. Indeed, Pirsig supposes that most of the natural world is like this, where things do as they ought already.

(I would close the door by suggesting that, in the Discordian tradition, the morality of people, and indeed any sapient creature, is to do as we like. This not only neatly lines up with Pirsig's philosophy, but also gives that the Free Will Theorem still holds and is useful!)

So, what is the morality of software and computers? The morality of physical computers is quantum electronics, and the morality of software is information theory and mathematics itself. I'm humbled.
> besides visual indicators for scroll

These don't have to be scrollbars. A pattern I've seen lately is a semi-opaque white gradient to indicate "you can scroll more."
I think you mean “shake them up”
Chalmers University of Technology, in Gothenburg. Though Futhark is developed in Copenhagen I think. We had a guest lecture with one of the developers of the language. Was a really interesting lecture together with some exercise for us to play with the Lang. Though it has gotten even better since then from what I've seen in their blog.
The research is about social psychological differences, not biological. More nurture than nature.
Docker is just like lasagna
It's not even a sensationalized article.

It doesn't blame anything on climate change. It just says this:

> ... residents blame the government for exacerbating the drought by drawing down river water in 2017 for irrigation and other uses downstream.

That's it - the only mention of human fault in the entire thing.
Charts Implying Economic Weakness – October 2019
I hate to be dismissive, but literally google your own question. Start here https://www.thehotline.org/resources/statistics/
I'm starting to sound like a broken record on this, but if you're going to compare to your system wc without trying to figure out if it was compiled with -O3 [EDIT: and what source code it was compiled from], you haven't shown anything in the sequential case.

What this article does show is that Futhark really does allow one to express this in a much simpler way than Haskell.
Slack App Toolkit: What Slack Just Announced
I don't think GP is saying that climate change itself is hyperbole.

The problem is that reporting on both sides is garbage laden with misunderstandings and outright lies. This fuels the anti-climate movement, especially when it's coming from the 'pro' side like in this case.

I've been ringing bells about catastrophic climate change since the early 00s after being involved in a relevant research project, I'm the polar opposite of a denier, but the way that even 'pro climate change' media covers the topic is harmful to actually conveying it to the public because the media wants to put hyperbole on everything.

When the media over-stimulates the public by exaggerating every little thing to a BIG DEAL, the public becomes non-responsive to actual BIG DEAL issues.

This actively hinders action to manage catastrophic climate change. This is the same as the CIA handbook tactic to redirect activist movements to ineffective causes so that they're too activism-fatigued to act on an effective cause when one is presented.
Ask HN: DevOps/SRE engineers, when do you feel productive?
Considering there's a lot of yak shaving to be done even for simple tasks, is there a situation/task/project where you feel most productive? That the stars are aligned and you don't have to debug weird issues?
There are not even genders on humans, just sex.
No, because violence towards women in relationships is not higher than it is towards men. In fact, it's almost 50:50.
The Saharan silver ant [1]. It’s actually only about 0.86 m/s but still quite fast for an ant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saharan_silver_ant
>In order to build a MOSFET, you need to know how do electrons react in the presence of thin barriers, and how thick should the gate oxide be to prevent breakdown while still keeping the field strong.

And yet I somehow managed to produce a pretty complex quantum computer before I was even born: my brain. Or maybe my mom did, but she is nearly as ignorant of quantum physics and biology as I was as a fetus, so the point stands.

The person above was wrong about your implicit assumption about QM and dependency chains. Your real assumption is that interstellar societies will develop technologies intentionally using explicit knowledge that charts such a dependency chain, rather than evolving capabilities via or alongside implicit knowledge, such as the implicit knowledge we all share in which allows us to produce human brains with no intellectual effort whatsoever. We don't and can't know what chunks of those dependency chains are innate for other species, which in turn means we don't know how they will traverse such a chain, even assuming ad arguendo your hypothesis that the dependency graph is essentially linear.
I've seen "what's my IP address" websites that ask to get your location from your browser, that's a good trick to get fine grained IP geolocation (until the IP address is reassigned).
Look how easy was the whole procedure. You just sent an email and boom next day your application's port was registered by IANA. Nowdays you must have a team of academics backed up by Google to apply for that.
I've recently came across some articles by a guy that built and sold some io games. You can read some of what he wrote on his website:

https://victorzhou.com/blog/creating-and-selling-io-games/
Put another way, both men and women seem to agree that breakups are more likely the man's fault than the woman's. What I found curious is that at the same time, apparently the majority of "laypeople" when asked about it in an online survey, expected no gender difference at all.

It's a strange disparity in the data, I wonder if it's due to sampling or if people genuinely think their own experiences are atypical.

Edit: I'd be interested in finding out what's so offensive about this observation. I'll gladly take 100 more downvotes and flags, but please tell me what caused so much consternation.
Some ants living in sahara. I think I saw that somewhere on hn recently.
It's sociology and psychology research, not biology. Biological explanation in this article is speculation not backed by the study.
This is an unsurprising position to hold when you don’t know (or refuse to acknowledge) the difference between gender and sex. Do you think people who transition to a different gender think there’s no difference between the two?
Get a lawyer. Get a lawyer. Get a lawyer. And there's one other thing...Get a lawyer.

These are legal issues. Do not try to solve these yourself with logic or via advice from the interwebz.
This is a good point I hadn't thought of. Honestly, I'm really not surprised anymore that the humans only scored 89%.
See also Verizon Math [1] for a different failure mode of utility company surcharge billing!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShv_74FNWU
What are your thoughts on KDE in regards to an accessible Linux distro?
General question about reacting to database events: It seems like when responding to DB events it would be easy to accidentally create an infinite loop. Is that an issue with this pattern, or is it easy to avoid? Do any of these data subscription tools have safeguards in place to prevent this?
Rendora: Dynamic SSR via headless Chrome to solve SEO for JavaScript websites
> overall the company seems still to be in good shape

One, that article [1] precedes the WeWork debacle.

Two, it refers to SoftBank Corp., a conglomerate that also holds a large stake in Alibaba. Nobody doubts SoftBank Corp’s solvency. Its Vision Fund is the dubious foray, to which the Corp is insufficiently exposed to be tanked by.

[1] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/08/07/business/corpor...
It's social psychology and not biology.