skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the same service for free (don't recall why). One pet peeve I've had is that my email address for a third party account was "leaked" (hotel chain I believe) and IDNotify doesn't list enough detail (e.g., listed password) when they get a hit to let me know if somehow my actual account was compromised, so I have to scramble to the provider and verify all account accesses were legitimate.

I presume these listings get recycled multiple times and resold to inflate the value of something not so valuable wherever IDNotify is finding these listings, so since people operating in those circles want to make their information look more valuable, IDNotify falls for it. Then, I'm left guessing if my account was actually compromised and basically just cycling my password regularly, making that aspect of their service virtually useless.
Yep. Unlimited cheap power = unlimited cheap cryptocurrency mining
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Maybe. But private companies own the poles and transmission grids in many countries. You don’t see these problems in the U.K., Spain, etc. (Or for that matter in Maryland, New York, or Illinois.)

People calling for nationalization are focusing on the wrong thing. For the reasons you mention, utilities need regulation. Both government ownership and rate regulated private monopolies are a model that works routinely around the world. The ownership structure therefore can’t be the reason for PG&E’s problems. The problem instead seems to be California. PG&E was heavily regulated by the CPUC the whole time. What was CPUC doing wrong that the regulators in Germany, Spain, not to mention other US states are doing right? Bigger picture, why is it California that seems to suffer from all of these problems? Among the worst schools in the country. Housing prices out of control. Massive failed investments in public infrastructure? Cities running out of water?
Who's trusting kids with anything? Do they not have parents?

The point is that students who are not engaged themselves, and whose parents are not engaged enough to ensure that they go, will no longer make school less valuable for all by their very presence.
Oh yeah and more more thing: 1% on it's own is exponential, but the key fact is that in logistic growth the exponential factor (or rather compound factor) goes down over time... much like changing the s over time in the above example of 1/n^s.
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We are very far off, unless plagiarization is not considered "off the table".
Seems irrelevant taking into account you don't expose your MAC address when you connect to the Internet (unless the access point is compromised, as is the case).
It does indeed say that.

I do not think this has been a last-minute addition. I read the paragraph again, and I found it difficult to quickly scan the text that is presented in that font. The letters appear to me (Linux/X11) as too thin and faint.

Does anyone else have this issue?
Priority is a big deal for academic researchers, the people who write journal articles and books.

When I worked in development, organization was formal and collaborations were informal. People shared ideas and exactly who thought up what wasn't too important. Overall performance mattered more. Documents that were published were only circulated internally. Patents were sometimes applied for, but inventorship was settled informally.

After I transferred to research I was struck by how important priority of ideas became. Organization was informal but collaborations became formal. Who was principle investigator was very important. Publications were external and who's name appeared in what order was very important. Patents were fought over.

Even in an industrial research lab it got pretty weird. I can only imagine how it is at a place like CDC. Being first author on a paper describing a new disease probably makes your career.
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That behaviour will be database-specific, most databases I've seen simply say that the order is undefined if there is no explicit "order by" clause.

Imagine a query like "select top 10 * from foo where bar = 1", when there is no index on the bar column. The database will need to scan through the foo table, the check the bar column for each item, then return the first 10 that it finds. So it could behave as you describe, just scanning from the top to the bottom in on-disk order, returning results in that order.

However, the database may maintain statistics of how often bar is set to 1, and if it is only sparsely set, it could recognise that a single-threaded top-to-bottom scan would be quite slow. In this case, it could be much faster to break the table up, one chunk per thread, scan each chunk, then return results as soon as enough are found. The final order of results (if there is no order by clause) could then depend on the order that the threads run in, but you'd only see that if there was a lot of data in the table to start with.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/queries/top-trans...

This is why it is very common to see suggestions to always specify an explicit order when implementing pagination, as the order of results could change from one page to another if the sort order is left undefined, leading to missing or duplicated results from a user's perspective.
I’m sitting on the fence. In this case, they were very, very marginally over the allowed levels, and it was essentially down to a bug in the standard, which when implemented in software allowed a product to qualify for an exemption when it shouldn’t have. In this particular case the lead is all pretty well away from where the device comes in contact with the body, so the health risk is pretty minimal.

It’s still in the “shouldn’t have happened” category, and the manufacturer in question reported themselves, and steps have already been taken to prevent a recurrence, and similar potential bugs have been identified and addressed.

It’s tough. There is a lot of political opposition from bad or amoral players to any regulation. They’re faced with the choice of voluntarily opening themselves up to fierce criticism over a, in the grand scheme of things, minor issue, or sweeping it well under the carpet, learning from it, and moving on, and spreading their reach for regulation and enforcement.

It’s a trolley car problem if I’ve ever encountered one, and I am not confident that I could make a good call.
I'm not an expert on GDPR but if PII is being collected and distributed/sold without explicit consent that sounds like it should be a legal liability. What is the per-violation fine for things like this under the GDPR?
Not out-of-the-box, but Tesla will sell you a dongle which converts to their proprietary connector.
> Typescript is Javascript.

In the same way as an Animal is a Camel.
Show HN: Introduction to Pegao.co – a web app for bookmark lovers
Hi, it’s Gonzalo. I’m the solo developer of pegao.co, a web app for bookmark lovers. My main goal is make this project open source and I hope the platform never shows ads, nor share your data with third parties.

With this side project I resumed software development after a long time and it helped me learn a little more about ReactJS and Django.

You can read more in my introduction here:
https://medium.com/pegao/introduction-to-pegao-co-452ca6b3a45d
The thought alone of this makes me jitter. I reinstall my PC every 3-6 months and it's always a fresh breath of air.

Probably because I know I will reinstall not too long from any point in time I just install everything I think I need. I need to convert an IMG to ISO? Let me just try these 5 apps and forget about them. They will be cleaned after the fresh install anyway.
Add to that the global "QE" programs which are driving up equities even higher. This whole system seems to act synergistically now, perpetually driving stocks higher and higher. Will it collapse altogether (and when)? Who knows
How do you deal with incompatible updates of the services?

I fail to see how they won't have the exact same problems.
*The antivirus that shall not be named
> is this a sign of bubble popping

no. next year. close to the US elections.
I remember once getting confused when Android Studio kept pointing out that an Android SDK method I was calling didn't exist. Turned out I was using the British spelling of "colour".

That was the moment I realised most of the api calls I'd been making used the American spelling.
Yeah we're aware of the cost particularly. We're looking into preferring inter-AZ routing with envoy
The owner of the AP can track you by MAC; if the advertisers have agreements with WiFi providers and software that works with the AP hardware to track by MAC then they can definitely track someone that way. Sounds like something Google would do...
There is absolutely no reason to think this is true. The sun has the approximate energy density of a dung hill. The idea that nature will cooperate and make break even possible at convenient human scales is ... optimistic. There's basically zero evidence for it.
I would be very interested! My email is on my profile.
This is probably our next project, although we might solve this problem with mutual tls instead of JWTs
If we ever get unlimited cheap power, we would no longer be constrained to Earth.
Microsoft naming question: Is this a completely different product or is it the next iteration of visual studio?

Because if it is the latter, I will be saddened beyond limits. Visual Studio (in its current form) is one of the products from Microsoft that I highly value. It is arguably the best IDE on the planet right now.
Both Boeing and the FAA acknowledge there was an issue. The only disagreement is over if it was resolved fully or not. So this whistleblower isn't "untruthful." This is all in the article.
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The appropriately named DataTables[1] has worked well for me recently.

- It’s focused entirely on tables (as opposed to being a more general widget framework).

- I believe it covers most of the functionality discussed in the article.

- It has a mobile vertical layout.

[1] https://datatables.net/
I don't think that FT is still a reputable company / source to quote.
It's slightly more complicated than that because you can import protos to use a constant or to consume an event from another service. But that is the gist
it is possible that the bot is plagiarizing actual antivax posts that were fed as training data
Everyone knows that PaulP only writes Scala and Boa - Rust just isn't his style! So unrealistic!
That's what we're doing, basically
Nuclear fusion and aeroplanes that will get you from London to Sydney in two hours.
This looks like web-based Visual Studio Code to me, not Visual Studio.
Agree. We have a data config later in our app that stores a manual sorting of attributes. This config is client specific and managed by our data engineers. This is the default sort and is available via this tri-state behavior.
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What was the number they stated? I’ve heard “60 billion USD” before, which was spent by many countries over 60 years. In reality this seems like a small cost compared to something like the Manhattan Project, which was 23 billion USD spent over 5 years by one country.

A 25 year availability of a GWe plant (the conventional first gen plants that have the fewest engineering hurdles remaining) that sells all electricity it makes generates 22 billion USD in revenue.
3 of those 4 just seem... plain wrong?

The first design of a general-purpose computer was obviously Babbage's. Wikipedia says work on it started in 1833, after the difference engine (already completed by 1822). He even developed two dozen programs for it between 1837-1840. He just ran into funding issues for his projects.

Now if for some reason you feel an urge to hold an external issue like the lack of funding against him when giving credit, then you'd give credit to Konrad Zuse's Z3 (1941) for the first completed implementation. The fact that most computer scientists haven't even heard his name is evidence enough in my eyes that that's a thin rope to hang onto, but whatever.

Beyond that, I find mention of those 3 other people just bizarre. If the person who actually produced the first design for a computer started its implementation doesn't get the credit, and the person who finally built the first one doesn't get the credit either... then are you sure your credit criteria are actually reasonable?!
No, this is more like taking VS Code (already an electron app) and integrating a fully web-based backend. VS desktop is not going away any time soon.
And French doctors have access to a periodical about drug that is anal on not taking money from big pharma ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescrire ).
From the screenshots it looks as though it is based on Visual Studio Code, which is a remarkably efficient electron app and different product to Visual Studio.
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Why? I know people always mention billions of investment "until we have fusion". But those things cannot be reliably predicted, guesses are all pretty wild.

In terms of human working time, £200M roughly pays for 1000 person years of work, so it's certainly more than "a drop of water". Yes, I know there's more than salaries and research tools and material are expensive in this case. But still, imagine 50 people just working on theory and cheap experiments for 20 years; they could achieve a lot.
http://johnbokma.com/blog/

http://plurrrr.com/

The latter is made with https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog
AssemblyScript is not TypeScript.
Especially so if you don't consider TypeScript to be JavaScript; I'd argue that the difference between TypeScript and AssemblyScript is bigger than TypeScript and JavaScript.
> millenials have no clue about money and finance. Which is true

Older millennials are approaching 40. The majority of hacker news members are probably millennials
Some years ago, likely around 2010, I had the priviledge to visit Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (it was called UKAEA Culham back then). During my visit, we were shown around various experiments and after a long evening, we had the opportunity to attend a Q&A with the staff. The question everyone wanted to know the answer to was When will it be ready? The scientists and everyone else involved honestly thought 10 years would be more than enough time for the technology to mature and find its way into everyday lives.

We are not quite there yet.
Did you actually run the numbers? Did you include all the welfare, county hospitals in violent cities, urban renewal programs,subway subsidies?
Negative resistance devices are very tricky to use since you need a non reciprocal element. Bell created a design that was commercially useful and widely applicable and later iterations (contact, planar BJT) cam from it.
That really looks like more than 79 characters per line.
I don't remember that at all. Are you sure you're not thinking of emacs?
It appears then it can "autocomplete" a racist message - but i presume because all of these similar texts exist on reddit and were fed as training input. So it creates a no-nonsense body of text similar to those. Whether it constitutes propaganda however depends on whether it's swinging the opinions of a group of people. Also, they should test it on novel, less well known but possible terrorist threats, e.g. Catalan extremists.
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Here is the actual Microsoft release details page. https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/visual-studio-on...
Can you really consider Deno to be a "TypeScript runtime engine" when it compiles TypeScript to JavaScript and runs it in V8, a JavaScript engine.
QED.

Once you're forced to spend more than x amount to secure talented workers, surely you might as well employ domestic programmers/DBAs/whatever?
Fission isn't demonized. There are valid concerns with using fission energy concerning general risk of contamination after an accident, waste disposal and finally that new plants are too expensive to build so it is plainly too expensive. Having fusion working would be a big benefit, but as there is no production-ready technology, so reneweables are our only hope in the fight against climate change.
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Re: L.L. Bean, they still honor the lifetime warranty if you purchased before they changed their policy: https://www.llbean.com/llb/shop/513705?page=null

The only caveat seems to be that they now require you to have the original receipt, otherwise people would still be buying 30 year old clothing at garage sales and exchanging it (which is the reason they had to drop the lifetime guarantee to begin with).
From a financial perspective, Switzerland could definitely afford a larger military force (defence expenditure is around 0.6% of the GDP, as a comparison the NATO sets the guideline to 2% of the GDP [Note: Switzerland is not part of the NATO, but it is a useful comparison to neighboring countries]).

The question is solely political, how much money is Switzerland willing to spend for an army/airforce? And this question undoubtedly correlates with the current feeling of safety and threat of conflict.
But it doesn’t! Our water systems are in shambles, with a trillion dollars in backlogged investments according to the ASCE. The problem is the same as PG&E. Political boards control water and electric rates, and they’re incentivized your set rates low at the cost of money for maintenance and upgrades.
Fusion Real Soon Now would mean that we wouldn't need to change our lifestyles to stop global warming. So, the list of those who would, if not make, at least not lose money is nearly infinite.
It looks more like online version of VS Code + some integration with VS Code/Visual Studio - work in browser or import your settings/envirnoment into local IDE.
I’m not sure I understand the case you’re making. The fact that many sites have horrible implementations of MFA, where you can only enroll a single U2F device, couldn’t possibly have been the “good reason for creating key material external to the token”, because creating key material external to the token isn’t a feature of mainstream U2F tokens, it’s something that has been historically supported by GPG hardware devices.

Yes, those sites should implement U2F support better, but the question was about why U2F is more secure than GPG, and ~“because it’s harder to mishandle the private key during setup” is pretty solidly an accurate answer.
>Not being glib, just a heaps up: https://github.com/denoland/deno

interesting thanks for the heads up - my assumption is though that this is just a wrapper over a V8 engine with typescript compilation on the fly?

Does that make it a TypeScript runtime or not?
The design of Win32 is incredibly close to the design of Win16 and since Win16 dates back to early 90's you need to comparing it to GUI programming layers of that same era.

So the question is, back then was there any better GUI programming layers?

And the answer is yes, there was actually an API that was better and it was called OS/2.

At that time Microsoft was in a partnership with IBM to develop OS/2.

However, when the partnership fell apart, Microsoft just took big chunks of that OS/2 API and created a sub par version and called it the Windows API.
I haven't used the XPS 13 so I can't compare them but while the keyboard the PBP is cheap it isn't bad. The touchpad on the other hand makes me want to stab someone every time it misses a two finger right click.

I've been eyeing the 2018 Matebook X Pro as a replacement work laptop, everything I've heard about it has been overwhelmingly positive.
My favorite Win32 tutorial is by Bartosz Milewski, I found it as a series of posts on his CodeCoop website (https://web.archive.org/web/20110129015721/http://www.codeco... ), that were later incorporated into his book "C++ in Action" (also findable online).

He uses C++ to wrap every resource acquisition in a constructor and every release of a resource in the corresponding destructor, so that by allocating new objects on the stack you avoid a whole swath of memory management errors. This was my first encounter with RAII (not sure if he calls it that), and it seems a particularly elegant way to write C++ and to make the raw Win32 C API a lot less scary.
Neither are demonized. With fission, the concerns are lower, but still there will be radioctive waste which eventually has to be disposed of, but it is much less of a problem than with fission reactors. Still, fusion has not only to be shown to work at all but then will have to show that it is price-competetive to reneweables.
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On one hand, this is a pretty easy move to make because of what VSCode already is.

On the other hand, I don't actually switch contexts that often to warrant switching to a web IDE full-time.

It will be handy and used for quick edits, but I don't buy their sales pitch. Hopefully they don't try to go too far with this to the detriment of the VSCode or start offering web-only features.
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No they havent. Everything else in Windows land is just built on top of it.

There were even some articles recently about that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19883351

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19873198

I started with a bit of Win16 and then moved to Win32, and don't really see why it gets a lot of hate; it's not perfect, but it looks like it does exactly what it was meant to do, and does it well. Perhaps it's because all of the tiny and fast applications I've used in the past were pure Win32. You can do a lot with it in only a few KB or tens of KB. In contrast, I don't find all the other multi-megabyte UI frameworks appealing.
This is pretty cool, nice demonstration GIF comparing SPA frameworks.
Developed an algorithm to compare things-to-do/activities for holidays
I agree with everything you just said, 100%.

Still doesn't change the fact that I wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of Cloudflare after seeing this.
The core of the issue is the problem of colonial mentality. I suppose we would all like to brush it under the rug by saying it's difficult to pin down who really "discovered" Ebola, but I think this only perpetuates and helps internalise colonialism. I think a more clear cut case on the issue how the music industry ripped off Chuck Berry and repackaged him as Elvis Presley.

The more we ignore and "justify" the issue with intellectualism, the farther away we all get from a real solution.
I also just use Vim to write markdowns, but without any markdown plugins (beside the built-in markdown syntax highlighting in Vim) and I compile the document to pdf manually using Pandoc. I rarely need to write markdowns though, and my usage is not advanced at all (like to write simple writeups that sometimes require maths and code blocks, which I only use for myself). So Vim + Pandoc is enough for me.
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From the Blog post:

> We looked at this issue earlier. Fundamentally the tension here is that copy-on-write semantics don’t fit with the emerging zone interface semantics.

While the paper writes:

> It is not surprising that attempts to modify
production file systems, such as XFS and ext4, to work with
the zone interface have so far been unsuccessful [19, 68],
primarily because these are overwrite file systems, whereas
the zone interface requires a copy-on-write approach to data
management

This seems to be a contradiction, and I'd side with the original paper.
Brazil's flat Earthers to get their day in the sun
Is attempting a re-invention an efficient use of capital?

Maybe those companies that went gracefully into the night were able to pay out dividends for their owners to reinvest in Google, Facebook, etc and nobody lost much of anything from their decline?