skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in the day we had curated libraries. E.g. Roguewave, Boost, etc. You chose your libraries relevant to domain needs and stuck with them. Adding a new library to the project was a big deal.

This may still be true in C & C++ land, and to small extent in the Java world with the Spring libraries. But Node, Python, et al. seem to have zero curation and an explosion of transitive dependencies. By making it easy to reference arbitrary dependencies, projects haul in random unscrutinised dependencies.
That is a brilliant synthesis of the crux of the issue. Our community is powerful and full of their own virtue while simultaneously largely disconnected from issues they so protest about. No actual skin in the game, so much power, so much certainty. Its a recipe for disaster.
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Using a display name like "Steve Jobs" makes it look like a troll account, misleading at the least, getting blocked isn't that much surprising.

You have to restart without trying to get a boost using popular figure's name or photo.
I used to circuit-bend Speak & Spell / Speak & Math and my kids still play with one or two I have kicking around. On the one hand it sounds cool, and for most things it isn't unintelligible. On the other, the speech synthesis does have its limitations and foibles. I've been playing with then since I was a kid and I still can't make it out some of the time. If my kids can't understand it they don't seem bothered by it. I'd say that even with those limitations it's still moderately educational insofar as alphabet and basic vocabulary practice are concerned, but the word list is fairly limited.

On the physical side I still enjoy the simplicity of the device. It's tactile in ways that touchscreens aren't, even if you have the one with the membrane keyboard. My kids can pick it up, turn it on, and start typing letters and get letter & words read aloud, no tutorial or parent permission required. I love that it's an appliance, I don't have to worry about in-app purchases, ads, and all the other modern consumerist trappings.

It's not perfect and not deep, but then not everything needs to be. Sometimes good enough can be great.
There is a new Asterix book too - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/24/meet-adrenalin...
Why would a book have a number like 17.0.0 anyway?
commenting for breadcrumbs, I'm working on a relevant project and am encouraged by how many people are expressing this sentiment!
There Are Accounts of PTSD in Warfare from Homer to the Middle Ages (2018)
By nations, I'm guessing you mean "nation-state".

Some elites ( globalists ) want to destroy nations today for the same reason elites in the past destroyed tribes to form nations. They create a bigger "slave and land base" on which to enrich themselves.

Think about what nations limit. It sections off resources (human,mineral,energy,etc) from the elites who want access to them. Under globalism, nation-states would exist in name only as they are superceded by a globalist political structure. Then these elites would have access to and control over all the world's human and natural resources.

Under a global political structure, an "american" CEO doesn't need to negotiate with Chinese government to gain access to and exploit its resources. And a "chinese" CEO wouldn't need to negotiate with an american government to gain access to and exploit its resources. Under globalism, the entire world and its people are freely available to the elites to exploit.

In a perverse way, globalism is communism for the elites. Whilest communists wanted to destroy nations to unite the workers, globalists want to destroy the nations to unite the elites. To a communist, a factory worker in china or germany or brazil has more commonality with each other than a chinese factory worker does to a chinese factory owner. To a globalist, an elite in china or germany or brazil has more commonality with each other than they do to their national commoners.

Of course some of the elites stand lose a lot while others will gain under globalism. That's why we are having a nationalist vs globalist struggle right now.
Chrome also did this at a massive scale. It's one of the many reasons why I will always prefer firefox.
Never-invent-here syndrome is just as bad as not-invented-here syndrome, though.
A lot of people are having a difficult time. I don't pretend to know anything about psychology or depression, but I do know that between the elbow of exponential growth in all things good and bad, and our increasing awareness of it, that it's good to reach out to friends and read between lines, and ask if we're all ok. Sometimes flipping a stone over to check in can really make a huge impact in someone's life, even just a random coffee that wasn't normally meant to be.
I'm talking about variance. We roughly know what to expect of other people, we have a good idea of the shapes of distributions of human behaviour. We know the range of expected behaviours in a given situation with high confidence. We know how stupidity looks like.

None of this applies to ML. ML models can fail in ways we can't easily predict, for reasons we don't expect. Viewed as minds, they run on a different architecture and on different firmware than human minds. They're alien to us. Alien like a kitten who suddenly freaks out for no reason, like ants that can get stuck walking in a loop - except more so, because we've know cats and ants for as long as humanity exists, and they're more similar to us than ML models hardware- and firmware-wise.
>The sooner it will be commonly framed as a question of freedom (i.e. absence of arbitrary power of other people above you [1]), and as a question in the interest of society as a whole, the better

I agree but I don't think I'd use the word "soon"

There's a reason this is an opinion piece by a person who specifically cares about these issues and not an article.

Things are going to have to get worse before they get better. Right now the slices of society closest to these issues (tech and academics) don't seem to care at all as long as it's not overtly being used to oppress the poors or some specific minority. Said slices of society are also mostly wealthy enough that they can comply with most laws most of the time, they're not gonna get robo-tickets for not having their car inspected. Nobody's gonna care until it hits them personally or has the potential to do so imminently.
They way people carelessly added dependancies to their python projects kept me away from the language for way longer than it should have.

It’s another thing you have to be aware of when you’re programming just like good naming and problem decomposition.
Probably personal. (unless crossed fingers is the cause)
The most insidious part of this is that it’s so boring. That means people can rules lawyer to precipitate bans and unless there’s some high profile person, I find it hard to maintain interest through all the details.
As per the article text, the event in the clickbait title was in fact an isolated incident. So in reality there's not much to write about, except that a pizzeria staffed by disabled workers doesn't immediately become profitable.

I don't know why I even clicked on this. Somehow I think I lower my clickbait defenses while on HN.
The Curious Case of a Kibana Compromise
Yes, it works on my monitor.
Yes, I'd argue "safest" is usually the best default for the general public. My reasoning is that a bit more fine-grained control, performance, choice, etc. doesn't have much upside for most people whereas getting compromised can be a very big downside.

Perhaps Firefox hasn't been very clear on its tradeoffs but Apple, for example, seems to have been IMO. (Yes, it tends to be wrapped in marketing rather than tech speak but I think they've been pretty consistent about their priorities.)
There's a substantial difference between a normal suspension that is "routine" and can get lifted automatically and quickly, vs. being told you're suspended permanently, can't appeal, and isn't allowed to try to register new accounts.
Traditional Unix implementation of ps and similar tools work by directly reading the appropriate data structures from kernel (through /dev/kmem or something to that effect). Modern BSD implementations have libkvm.a, that abstracts that somehow, but still directly reads stuff from kernel space.

I don't know, but I don't see doing random reads from kernel memory as particularly sane API to get list of processes and procfs is several orders of magnitude cleaner solution.
Russia has a GDP smaller than Italy's. It's a threat only in the minds of a very particular segment of society that seeks to blame it anytime they lose an argument. "Kremlin propaganda" isn't responsible for Trump or Brexit and may well not exist at all, as every attempt to reveal it keeps disappearing into puffs of smoke. What exists are arguments Euro-federalists keep losing for reasons they can't understand, so they seek to blame shadowy conspiracies that are always just out of reach of proof.

This is visible in your own post! My view of the EU is neither bleak nor non-bleak. It's a simple factual statement of what the EU is and what it's becoming, as stated very clearly and repeatedly by the people who run it. The goal of the EU is to merge countries together.

Do you believe the EU is not a federalist project? That its goal is not to become a new country? How do you explain the ever growing power of the Commission, the new Army, the flag, the laws that make disrespecting the flag illegal, the continual push for ever more integration, the explicit talking points you repeat here that the EU must "unite" to "face US, Russia and China"?

The end state is not to lose a "degree" of independence, as you put it. It's to lose all independence completely. That is the end result of ever closer union, as the treaties word it, and that goal can be seen in the actions of the EU every day. It's not standing still. It's unifying armies, tax rules, trying to create new immigration law and so on, often without adjusting the treaties because they know that would trigger automatic referendums in some countries that they are guaranteed to lose.

Finally, the EU is not an alliance. Alliances are agreements between separate entities to support each other within some precisely defined scope, like military defence in case of invasion. The EU is something more: a movement to merge the separate entities together completely in all conceivable areas, until there's nothing left to be allied anymore because they're the same thing. Rejection of the EU is not a rejection of alliances, it's the opposite - it's a preference for alliances.
Yeah, now it reads like this person is a piece of garbage, but maybe that is not what happened. I mean, what would be the goal? Did he get the slice, took a selfie and then send it back (in which case 'cancelling' seems the wrong term)? Did he order one because he wanted not to feel awkward just walking in for a selfie? Or, if the order of the sentence is correct, he took a selfie, then ordered a slice, changed his mind (maybe a colleague texted him for donuts 3 doors along)?
Don’t be so generous.

I worked at a place where Pokémon Go led some people to scale a jump a fence to get to some poke-thing in an area that was both sensitive and incredibly dangerous.

The site police people put up signs warning Pokémon players that they would be arrested for trespassing, and I believe that at least 2-3 were!
It's the tourist effect. Tourists tend to be cheap, and have zero emotional investment in what they're touring or the people there.

You only spend money on things you identify with emotionally, which is mostly limited to yourself, your family, and your tribe (and people also spend money for signaling). This is also part of the reason why OSS and public service projects don't get many donations, except for short bursts when it's fashionable, and why you can't have nice things as a society without taxation.
Anther thing is that by planting trees you increase the oxygen level and will cause fires that way, but also oxygen will cause a temperature drop.

As far as I know all green does this, probably planting grass on baren land will cause as much progres as trees would.

I think the most important job for us humans is to create alternatives for growing crops so that we can stop depleting our top soils and stop injecting fertilizers and poisons and give these top soils back to the green stuff that will cool down the planet a bit.
I don't know anything about the article, but I know Twitter suspended my account immediately after confirming my email and following 1 person. I appealed and they restored it, I logged in and they immediately suspended my account again with no explanation. I don't think it's a conspiracy, just that their automated bots can be trolls
Sometimes government is worse than corporation.
And maybe it is not bad idea but there should be some exit plan for people that don't want be part of that city.
> decision to use a drone to assassinate someone and accidentally killing a civillian.

So who's held responsible in this case? "Nobody" will not be an acceptable answer forever.
I think in this case it's obviously a joke, because, you know... Steve Jobs is Dead.
When I was 12 or 13 I wrote a program that transmitted data over speaker and microphone. It would generate a 90ms tone for each byte and a 10ms silence.

It wasn't elegant, and most of the code was stolen from Planet Source Code, but it worked mostly.
One issue is that the hacker culture got contaminated by the cultural wars. And is hard because is a reflection of something that permeates society as a whole.
Tech amplified it in many ways.
> There is no inherent morality.

Not inherent; we have to make it so.

Capitalism dominates, what, 80% of our waking lives? The idea that morality should only be relegated to the other 20% is madness.
"I started the @tesla_truth Twitter handle on November 27, 2018 to refute the disinformation campaign orchestrated by a group of Tesla short sellers who called themselves “$TSLAQ”, noting their intent to bankrupt the company in order to make money betting against the stock."

1. This is a truly bizarre take on what shorting is, but Musk describes shorting in a similar way, so I guess it's not surprising that a fanboy ate it up.

2. You don't need a disinformation campaign to short Tesla. You can be a long Tesla shareholder and that is A-OK. You can also look at Tesla's valuation & current financials and think holy moly, what are these people smoking. Welcome to the free market, where we collectively price things based on the interplay between these 2 groups.

3. I can guarantee you that only some statistically insignificant number of shorters care if Tesla goes bankrupt or not. They, in their judgement, see a market opportunity where Tesla is overpriced, and they're calling it. Some of these people might be Tesla owners or fans, who cares.

Then the rest of the article is just a general screed / immature clickbait stuff (like, I don't know, putting "Steve Jobs is Dead" for clicks or whatever). People need to grow up.
1. Buy 2 yubikeys (with U2F)

2. Add both for each site you use it for

3. If using gpg keys you masterkey lives on a USB key, use subkeys which get transferred onto both yubikeys

4. Lock one the USB key and 2nd yubikey in a safe* with the password you never use

5. If you lose your day to day keys, unlock safe

*safe can be an actual safe, a "secure enough" place in your house, a bank safety deposit box, etc... You can also have multiple safes, one on site, one offsite.
Lengthy but worthwhile article about a similar situation:

I Found the Best Burger Place in America. And Then I Killed It.
https://www.thrillist.com/eat/portland/stanichs-closed-will-...
Maybe they should make their products as noteworthy as their hiring practices.
No tracking on this: https://beta.trimread.com/articles/356
No, I doubt they will. And thank you for voicing these concerns.
Yep, would recommend mods rename it to something like "My Twitter account was banned due to Short selling trolls" or something that actually described what the article is about.
Understanding OpenAI’s Robot Hand That Solves the Rubik’s Cube
Getting a list of numbers from the kernel by serialising them as text in a pretend filesystem is a several orders of magnitude cleaner solution?
Anecdotal, but we have a family friend who has just been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's.

She was a brilliant colorectal surgeon and highly regarded and referred in the area but she also lived for her work, spending nights sleeping on the floor under her desk for two hours before pulling another full day of work.

I am sure this lifestyle for the better part of 30 years took a toll on the body and more and more I've been hearing about the lack of sleep being related to Alzheimers
I think this is the correct solution. The author's recommendation - a cocktail of browser extensions and other technologies - is only a temporary fix. This needs to be fixed at an institutional level, but there are entire industries (facebook, other ad-service companies) that depend on bulk data collection so a bill like what Germany has will be fought against tooth and nail.
Blade Runner is set in November 2019: What predictions did the movie get right?
Reminds me of when I met my partner’s step uncle. He was a doctor who used to work ER in Victoria, BC before getting tired of the city and moved north to Smithers. From there he owned a small plane and flew in to work relief for doctors in small northern regions for several months at a time. After crashing his plane he retired from that and spends most of his time hunting moose, fending off bears, and he’s setting up a gold mining operation on a small claim with a friend of his.

It’s just a touch humbling talking to him. That said, he’s not an egotistical person. Friendly as hell, easy going unless you’re rude to people, and while short of stature I’m pretty sure he’s made entirely out of granite, iron, and leather.
I’m shocked! I would have never expected this! Having a single organization so specialized in the particular domain handling nearly everyone’s data getting hacked? How ridiculous!

Apple have single handedly done the internet a gross disservice by not making it easy for users to set up webhooks for push notifications. If it weren’t for that chat would have a chance at being sane.
A PWA that picks up and beacons that emit local area "off-internet" websites wherever you go?
When I lowered my mba volume to just two bars it still worked but I could no longer hear anything
How do you ensure the Rule of Law if there are multiple States.

Neo-feudalism is coming.
The handwavium chelates the toxins and they precipitate when the CSF drains into the bloodstream at the choroid plexus.

Unfortunately, the precipitate then becomes a constituent of the arterial plaque that will lead to all kinds of hypertension and heart disease. You can't win with handwavium. that's why they never tell you about it.
Some views, yes.

We're talking about concentration camps for children, not monetary policy.
Wow, forgot about the \asterisk being a reserved character.
So if its $2k app people will pay?
Actual arXiv link:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.10154
We have all the ingredients for Minority Report.

Recording devices in people's homes (alexa, siri, google).

AI inference that can be trained to predict violent crimes based on data from these always on devices.

Nation wide person tracking system, just using faces instead of eyeballs.

Yes yes, the always on devices are only on when you activate them with a keyword. So what. Once MicroGoogleZon proves that they can "prevent crimes" every non-tech person will want this in their home. We even see techies eschew privacy and champion fall detection systems that can report someone falling over in their home to the authorities.

Is it worth it?
Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder
amazing , great work
> crisis in physics

Me: Hmm... interesting. Personally I think they should spend time consolidating the different mathematical techniques.

> Maybe all these string theorists have been wasting tax-money for decades, alright, but in the large scheme of things it’s not all that much money. I grant you that much. Theorists are not expensive.

> String theory, supersymmetry, multiverses. There’s math for it, alright. Pretty math, even. But that doesn’t mean this math describes reality.

I don't really understand this part. I am not convinced that her post says much [1], because consider this: she is encouraging observation at the expense of speculation and then arguing that observational techniques are more expensive and hence prohibitive in the long run?

Is the real "unhappiness" in academia not just as simple as information overflow and the fact that only a few can be famous, whether there are a few or whether there are many? I don't know if that is what people get at with these kinds of blog posts. In any case, what I have found in mathematics is that the names of people whose work are worth reading are not necessarily the ones that you'll encounter first. OP does actually hint at this as well, but again, is it not just information overflow (and shouldn't be made more complicated than that)?

[1] The one good takeaway that I see is "focus on inconsistencies".
I've tried to transfer ~2GB file over SSH tunnel and VPN (on the same host), it was 3-4 times faster over VPN.
All is fine, but:

> If you self-distribute your extension via sideloading, please update your install flows and direct your users to download your extension through a web property that you own, or through addons.mozilla.org (AMO).

And what if I don't want to use a "web property" to distribute an extension? What if I want to give my users a honest-to-God file, whether via e-mail or IM message or USB drive?

> Please note that all extensions must meet the requirements outlined in our Add-on Policies and Developer Agreement.

Or what? I can't make an extension and give it to friends unless it meets your policy? That's pushing it a bit.
As someone who's launched a few apps myself, that wasn't the strangest part. People will throw down a fiver without hesitation or thought for mediocre coffee but spend hours agonizing over a $1.99 app. And still be angry about it a month later if it didn't perfectly meet their expectations.

Humans are just odd.
I can see how this is a story about stupidity, but not so much about cheapness. Not sure it's the same thing...
True. I don't know many videogames in which playing against the computer really helps you against human opponents.

I don't know whether a more capable non-cheating AI would help though. Not unless it specifically imitated how a (good) human opponent would play, which I guess is an additional and difficult to implement constraint.
I really wish my experience were that cut and dry. This strategy seems to me to depend super strongly on the quality of the developers/engineers, and their commitment to getting work done (c.f. your examples: Skunk Works, Bell Labs, PARC, etc -- I really wish I worked in such an environment!).

There are people who are good at seeming busy, but who wildly overestimate, take every opportunity to get bogged down on some trivial obstacle, chronically misunderstand objectives/values, can't consistently put three words in a row correctly, and just seem in general to be the weak link; those people need to be managed.
On Request of Embedded Developers: Detecting Errors in Amazon FreeRTOS
The start was likely quiet enough to not be audible through the airplane walls.
The short answer is that higher speeds come at a steep price. The relationship between velocity and the power required to overcome drag at that velocity is cubic, so that large business jet requires on the order of 50x more power to fly at 450 kts than it would flying at 120 kts, like the little Cessna might.