skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the explanation. It's not so much that I don't understand why I'm being downvoted, or even complain about it per se; it's just that it's not terribly informative, either for me, or to anyone reading.

Strictly speaking, everything I wrote was about my own personal opinions and experience. I did try writing an app; I did find trying to figure out was was going on impossible (and switching to web development much more fruitful). So it's natural for me to think that lots of people will have similar experiences, and that if they do, it will limit the growth of the platform.

I knew that what I wrote might be controversial, and I'm willing to take my downvotes like a man. But I'd rather be shown other perspectives.
So Microsoft's strategy was to sacrifice usability for 90%+ of users in order to build this strange hybrid OS just for Lenovo Helixes, that is worse than its predecessors on desktop, and unable to compete on mobile?
You used to be able to double tap to zoom very easily but somehow that does not work as well anymore in iOS 13. Now when you do it, it selects the text as well as zooming.
I can't comment much on the Model 3 as I have never sat in one much less driven one. However, as far as I know the steering column controls are pretty much the same as on the Model S so as far as controls are concerned it's pretty much the same. The big difference is that there is no speedometer, etc., directly in front of the driver.

Most of the buttons on a modern car, in fact all cars I have owned, have little to do with transportation and much more to do with media selection and control and control of ancillary functions that are not directly to do with driving the car. I'm quite happy that those buttons have been collected in a set of screens instead of being littered all over the centre console.

This is my considered opinion after more than 20 thousand miles in the Model S and after more than forty years of driving a variety of British, Scandinavian, European, American, and Japanese cars.
Developer Survey 2019 – Open-Source Runtime Pains
I am skeptical with what people is calling 'AI' this days.
I was expecting to see the generated code before subscription, there is a lot of sass that clain they have AI, but is only a bunch of if's and people 'helping the code'
Microservices are good for large complex systems, with many developers making many changes. It sounds like your system is rather simple, I don’t think you need to pursue this architecture, especially just starting out - you’ll need to write too much infrastructure and you probably don’t need the scalability.
Genetic conflict outweighs heterogametic incompatibility in mouse hybrid zone?
If everyone agrees that Jeff Bezos has too much money and that we should make an exception to normal property laws and strip him of his assets, that's exactly what would happen!

But most people don't think that. They wish they had as much money as him, maybe they think society is unfair to allow someone to have so much money. But you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who supports arbitrarily stripping someone of their (current) property.
Yea GitHub has had this option for at least a couple months now.
> Hybrids are also an option. Supercomputers often use OpenMP (shared memory) and MPI (message passing) in a two level way.

Not some, almost all supercomputer nowadays use an hybrid model.

For three main reasons:

- Memory is a precious resource and separated process space + messaging is more memory hungry than a shared hybrid process space

- Hybrid machines with CPU + GPU on every node are everywhere and they requires a shared memory model.

- Debugging a pure MPI model at scale is a huge pain in the ass that take some of the most complex debugger in the planet.
Right, I didn’t get that at all from your original post.
For an average, absolutely. I can hire an engineer where I live for like $85k as an FTE who will develop into an above average one in a couple of years.

The difference is that certain talents and deep specialists only exist in the hubs. It’s similar to medicine where you want to go to NYC or Boston for certain diagnoses.
Not if you use a box like Roku, etc.
Planners, of course, proceed on the assumption that the future is not 'already here', that they are not dealing with a predetermined – and therefore predictable – system, that they can determine things by their own free will, and that their plans will make the future different from what it would have been had there been no plan. And yet it is the planners, more than perhaps anyone else, who would like nothing better than to have a machine to foretell the future. Do they ever wonder whether the machine might incidentally also foretell their own plans before they have been conceived?

– EF Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered (1973)
At some point I wonder if we might not just start whitelisting domains instead. I think that it could be possible to design a UX that wouldn't be much of a hindrance to using your computer and phone on the same network. Eg any websites you deliberately visit get added to the whitelist, same with the other services you choose to use.

The amount of mostly unintentional (by the user) data transfers is out of hand.
The initial version of the site gave a good overview of Firefox Replay: https://web.archive.org/web/20191128111509/https://firefox-r...
The Raspberry Pi 4 info is out of date AFAICT. The initial release had non-working USB on my 4 GiB RPi4, but fixes came a few(?) weeks ago that apt update (over ssh) picked up. As best I can tell, it works flawlessly now. Mindbogglingly, I can comfortably do serious development work on $55 computer (albeit overclocking recommended).

At the other end of the spectrum, it's also running on my 5K iMac and that it just worked.

On the Dell XPS 15, the audio didn't work out of the box, but there's a common workaround for that.
If my calculations are correct, that GPU is making 1,000,000,000,000 guesses per second.

The takeaway here is that cracking a 64bit password only cost $1700 and is totally doable in 3 weeks.

If you need things to be really safe I guess you need to start lengthening those passwords.
nobodys telling the president to do anything, they tell the press to not film it.

not sure why that kind of misunderstanding is worth making a throwaway account and getting upset over
As an example from my own life, Job hunting has often been the other way round - when I have had no job, I would take anything - shelf stacking at a supermarket comes to mind. But I remember going through a period of fast turn around when I worked full time but spent most lunchtimes calling and emailing for my next job and literally tripled my salary in 12 months.

So sometimes having the backup plan let's you make better choices.
Having clear API allows to have a clear boundary between trusted and untrusted environment in backend. If you don't check your arguments in REST endpoint, it's obvious bug and easy to spot. If it's just another method, well, you're not treating input in every function as a hostile.
Google Pi Hole, it's mostly for ads and trackers, but someone probably has a list of "call home" domains, or you can add your own domains/hostnames that you want blocked
It's a little more nuanced than that. If you didn't happen to be an expert on both robots and restaurants (as you can imagine, this is an extremely niche group) you would actually think it is an innovative solution. In fact, before the Vision Fund even existed, I was surprised how many investors were looking into this exact space (food trucks for pizza that cook the food during delivery). However, once you dig into the details, it quickly unravels into another valuation-inflating scheme for Softbank.
>we don't get much Shadertoy content here

That makes me curious: where would I go for more? /r/shadertoy is invite-only, and I'm not sure it's what I want?

EDIT: there's a Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/shadertoy
> The takeaway here is that cracking a 64bit password only cost $1700 and is totally doable in 3 weeks.

Not quite - you need to run the hash function that the password is stored with, and that might be a factor of 1,000,000+ slowdown relative to "are these numbers the same".
Up until recently I had considered even a 32-bit brute force to be infeasible (fun story: I learned this during a CTF, when I complained to a team member that I was stuck trying to find a way to not have to do that and they just came back to me with the brute-forced answer about an hour later…). This’ll teach me to not underestimate computers in the future :)
>the legal teams at these respective companies would never allow them to be demonstrably false

Why? It's not like there are any real consequences for these companies when they screw up and either the data gets leaked or they're found to be lying.
Thank you! Yeah private guides or custom domains is something I'm exploring right now.
So I have a samsung tv, and I like the apps - I use the youtube one every day, and several others several times a week. How do I leverage the gdpr to find out who knows what about me?
Run a Pi-Hole, use it as the DNS server for your "Smart" TV.

Too lazy? Shameless self promotion: https://windscribe.com/features/robert
Ask HN: What technologies are you thankful for?
A year of “good” news for Bitcoin – HODLers try to talk up a fresh crypto bubble
Might be useful if it was stated at the start of the post exactly what the ^ operator is supposed to do - it does different things in different programming languages.
Disney's Plan to Fly X-Wings over Park Speaks to Perception Manipulation Tactics
The whole home move and admin experience needs a substantial upgrade! All the best guys.
> the Russians had burned the food stores of Moscow, starving both the Invaders and the citizens.

From my school lessons, it wasn't deliberate.
Courses for Creative Professionals
Don’t know enough about NEON to help, but do you even have hardware to run it on if someone did contribute an ARM version?
A Poisoned Democracy
Tensions between Google and its employees are reaching a breaking point
Read a lot of code. Pick one of the most popular libraries in a language you like and commit to reading it, understanding how it was architected, and tweaking it.

Talk to other people who build “big systems”, whatever you decide that definition means. Ask them lots of questions. (Not the “Emacs or Vim?” kind. Instead: “When you wrote x, where did you start? How did you arrive at the solution you found? What would you change if you started again today?”)

Build systems, big and small, on your own and with others.

If you're not sure what to build, I like “Exercises for Programmers” by Brian Hogan:

https://pragprog.com/book/bhwb/exercises-for-programmers

The problems are still pretty trivial but a little larger in scope than most from https://exercism.io.

Beyond that, I try to find videos or tutorials of people solving real-world problems. For example:

Go: https://gophercises.com/, https://gowebexamples.com/, https://www.usegolang.com/, https://lets-go.alexedwards.net/, https://testwithgo.com/

C/C++: https://handmadehero.org/

Haskell: https://typeclasses.com/

Mixed: https://howistart.org/

Pair programming and live coding videos on YouTube can be worthwhile too.

“Hacking with Andrew and Brad” is an example for Go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG-UaBJXZ80

“Pair Programming with Jon Skeet” is another example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvz2omT9fzk

You get to hear people talking through their thought process and learn how other people solve problems and structure solutions.

The Twitch Science and Technology section is another place to find similar stuff:

https://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Programming

I like Tsoding for functional programming:

https://www.twitch.tv/tsoding

And SerpentAI for Python/AI:

https://www.twitch.tv/serpent_ai

Watching people code can be dull or exciting depending on your mindset. I try to dip into these channels occasionally and soak up ideas from them, then go away and make things. I don't generally learn much without writing code too, and look for technical books and courses with exercises and problems.

We need more of this, though. I wish there was a programming puzzle site full of problem statements of the type, “build an application that does x”, where solutions are ranked by the community and sorted by language. It would be such a helpful resource.
There was furor over Trump wanting two scoops of ice cream instead of one[1]. I believe that in a post-Trump world, the American President will just never eat as far as the public knows. All meal-related meetings will be held behind closed doors, with not even a peep as to what was on the menu. All President-related meals will henceforth be national secrets revealed only to those with top security clearances. The White House kitchen will be treated with a similar secrecy as Area 51.

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixEahmx0Btw
How do you figure? Don’t a lot of businesses basically use Facebook/Instagram as their main (or only) front page?
You're supposed to issue the warning even if you don't use tracking cookies, aren't you? My understanding is that any persistent storage at all is enough to trigger the requirement.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3198837/There-reall...
Co-founder of Bird Eats Bug here. It's so great to hear!
> the ruling will be enforced if there is a consensus that it is a just ruling

The Supreme Court regularly makes rulings that are contrary to popular opinion. I see no evidence that the rulings are not being enforced despite the lack of consensus that they were just. They also regularly make rulings that align with the slight popular majority but the popular opinion is still about evenly split with no clear consensus one way or the other, and those rulings are enforced as well.
This is awesome, Steven! Well done.
> The idea that mindfulness creates better killers or justified immoral behavior also seems spurious to me

Read Brian Daizen Victoria's Zen At War. OK, Zen, but the principle's the same. Effective mind training techniques sans ethical critique can create cooler killers & greed mongers. Mindfulness' popularity amongst the ethical hellscape of contemporary SV culture is surely also at least a tad suggestive?
If they used H2 (vs He) for buoyancy they could make (liquefied) H2 fuel very cost efficient: When you want to come down you are high up and it is cold! Perfect time to liquefy!

Making H2 gas is also subsidized on the production end, as Airship travel is cheaper than any other method, so making H2 has that cost advantage.

Safety is not an issue for transport. Human travel has that tradeoff though over He.
This. If you can just trust the clients, lots of things get easier. Though even then distributed systems are not trivial -- just look at Lustre (where clients in a cluster are all trusted, and if you don't trust some client, then it must use a proxy such as an NFS server running on a cluster member client).
Shit. I got this all the time with my ex. Combine that with gaslighting[1] and you have a recipe for corn-fed, all-American propaganda.

If people repeat stuff back to you, make sure you repeat stuff back to them! Force feedback! Conglomerate!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting
> You can't reliably deduced anything about what your current problem is, if the things it depends on are flaky.

Interesting, as a junior dev I always start thinking about the fun architecture stuff first and end up being slow to complete a project. I figure that deploying one place vs another is so different you want to deploy early and often for testing. Maybe I should just start getting the basic functionality and tests down before packing it up into docker containers and running it on kubernetes and all that?
It’s always nice when people independently reinvent good ideas! This poster’s more or less come up with up-arrow notation and a shot at its inverse.

edit: actually meant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%27s_up-arrow_notation
I don't personally think that capitalism does a good job of rewarding work. But, IME, people who are in favor or capitalism are under the impression that it's a system that allows anyone to succeed and do well, all they have to do is work hard, get money, invest, start their own business, etc.

They feel communism is unfair as it rewards people for doing nothing, while capitalism allows rags-to-riches based on work and risk AIUI
Concern grows over Beijing’s use of Chinese diaspora for espionage
SaveDotOrg.org is a great place to start following this issue. Lots of nonprofits organizing to defend .org.
Very amusing:

"Given the small probability of successin attacking the sociological, cultural, and psychological causes of the quality controlproblem, it is natural to look for a high-tech fix. After all, computers have so often cometo rescue us from the consequences of warped incentives and human laziness, carelessness,and incompetence. We’ve seen how computers have reversed the decline of K-12 educationin America, online instruction has turned undergraduates into hard-working and creativelearners, the information superhighway has reduced inequality between the rich and poorand between the Global North and Global South, smart appliances will solve the energyproblem and bring global warming to a halt, and social media and the internet havestrengthened American democracy and prevented the election of demagogues, liars, andbigots. By the same token it stands to reason that computer-generated proofs will removehuman error from provable security papers. At least that’s how it looked twelve yearsago when the first author wrote the first of two papers [221, 222] critiquing automatedtheorem-proving."
Some people wonder why we should go to Mars. There's not much to profit by going there. In terms of mining, not much is useful there, plus asteroids are easier to mine.

The benefit is that a colony on Mars would be an engine of innovation. People keep pointing out that NASA has produced hundreds of useful innovations (like space blankets). Imagine how many innovations would a colony of 500 people come up with when stranded there for months and years. It's not that we send them there with only sticks and stone tools, they'll have the most advanced technology we can fit them with, but they'll still find themselves in thousands of situations where their tools will be puny compared to their problems.

Some in this thread mention boring machines. Well, just after a boring machine cuts a few meters of tunnel, someone lines that tunnel with some concrete elements. Where's the concrete coming from on Mars? Oh, I guess they can make it locally. Great, where are the components coming from? I guess you can mine them locally, but you'd need to bore some tunnels for that. A bit of a chicken and egg. What if the concrete does not set exactly like on Earth, because, you know, there's not enough humidity in their air (and there's not enough air either).

These guys will face millions of problems. And they'll have no choice but solve them.

It's going to be awesome.
There have been a few OpenCL versus CUDA posts lately and I wanted to add my take on it after writing the GPU portion of sixtyfour, which was my first GPGPU application.

OpenCL needs more examples, tutorials, and documentation. I really wanted to use it because it is cross platform, but quickly gave up. The tutorials and documentation wasn’t there, and what I did find was confusing. For CUDA there is an immense body of examples, support, and documentation that makes creating your first CUDA program dead simple.

I went with CUDA.
Since you’re looking for feedback- on mobile I wasn’t able to tap on individual screens and without zoom they were too tiny to read.
I heard the same story when I was a kid but the general that did it was "Tariq ibn ziyad" in Gibraltar (the mountain is named after him). But I can't for the life of me find a enlgish source that confirms it.

It's the origin of the famous phrase "the sea is behind and the enemy is in front of you".
> Where do you get that?

An easy analogy to explain why curved surfaces are stronger: imagine an egg that is a cube instead of a spheroid.

You see how an eggshell cube would be vastly more brittle than an egg, right?

> chose these flat surfaces in steel precisely for their lower cost, solidity and ease of manufacturing

To make an equivalently robust structure out of straight edges you need the steel to be much, much thicker. So yes on 'solidity', but no to the other two claims.
Advent of Code[1] often has problems that might seem just a bit too much to bruteforce, or not, depending on your background and language at hand. Many of them are bruteforceable enough that I ended up setting races: run a bruteforce in the background while I try to write a less naive solution. Kinda fun, but I also found out that many of the problems are a bit too easy to bruteforce (with C on a modern CPU), taking something like 10-15 minutes.

[1] https://adventofcode.com/
On the flip side, we spent almost $100,000 in developer time one summer in order to keep a handful of customers from having to upgrade hardware.

We could have gifted them all $5000 machines and spent less. Plus, when you remember that the point of spending on developers is to earn back many times that cost in sales, the opportunity cost of that 3 months of very senior development effort was massive.
Not really. One of the characteristics of American car culture is that the land that your car occupies as it travels, or makes short deliveries, is not charged “rent.” So unlike a food truck or restaurant, where you need to pay rent for setting up the thing, if you cook and deliver food from a moving vehicle your land costs, which are some of the biggest costs of a restaurant, can be just misappropriated from the public.
I wish these guys' app gets back into the Store (although given it's the Mac App Store why not just distribute it directly?) but I don't like how they want to patent & litigate over the simple concept of a proxy server for e-mails that substitutes real addresses for aliases.
If you need things to be really safe, you should enable 2FA.

Those $1700 of computational costs are likely to be run on hacked infrastructure, so definitely doable.
Ask HN: What are you thankful for?
I think this gets asked most years, and I always enjoy the threads that come out of it. I am thankful for a family that I enjoy spending the holidays with. I am thankful that I had a safe childhood and got a good education throughout my life.

I am also thankful for the HN community. People dump on this site sometimes, but over most of the past decade HN has been an overwhelmingly positive part of my life. Thank you to everyone for what you bring to the community here.
Yeah this makes zero sense. If Ethos are going to keep the prices reasonable (yeah right), they'll make the same amount of money as PIR did, so they won't have paid more for it than PIR would earn anyway.
In context, I think it’s pretty clear that it’s exponentiation. Mostly because the context is math where the meaning is a lot more unambiguous.
Also a positive note, the carbon fiber wings bent 3x expected max

>bent the jet’s giant carbon composite wings upward more than 28 feet from their resting position. That’s far beyond the expected maximum deflection in normal flight of about 9 feet
>All this simulated the loads in a flight maneuver where a pilot would experience a force of 3.75 G, compared to the maximum of 1.3 G in normal flight

>All this simulated the loads in a flight maneuver where a pilot would experience a force of 3.75 G, compared to the maximum of 1.3 G in normal flight
Yes. AWS has support for ARM instances, and I have an RPI3 :).
I also wrote this letter to the Attorneys General of VA and CA:

https://yukari.sr.ht/ag-letter.pdf
Yeah dude I’ll get right on that research paper you’d obviously like to see and skip spending time with my family on thanksgiving.

(That’s what you’re essentially suggesting isn’t it?)
Are you implying fuck is unwholesome? Why would you think that? I’m intrigued.