skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In what language is it any different? It tried to help edit the rust docs. It downloaded > 100 packages and thousands of files. I tried to use some command via brew, it downloaded 15+ dependencies each derived from 100s or 1000s of files.

I agree I don't like the risk but is npm more risky?
The interesting thing about level 5 is that by the definition it is impossible, as "all situations" is undefined. You cannot certify the universe.

If it said "no worse than human controls in a test defined in (standard number)" then it would be workable.

Unless it is an assumption of level 5 which makes it a totally different thing: marketing.
If anyone from AWS is reading this, is there a plan to support GitLab? We have a self-hosted GitLab enterprise on AWS, and wondering if we can try this out
> What do you call a billionaire who gives away their billions?

A generous billionaire.

Those that don't are just greedy billionaires.
Ask HN: Which product has the best onboarding you’ve seen?
Ddin't know this person, now i know, the twitter account has lots of great info, thanks DOJ for bringing this into my attention.
While we're on the subject of gin:

A martini is comprised of gin, vermouth and between 0 and 3 olives.

If there is no vermouth it isn't a "bone dry martini". It's just "a glass of cold gin".

The modifiers "perfect" and "dirty" are also permissible when applied to to a martini.

If it's made with vodka, not gin, it's a vodka martini.

Other concoctions served in a cocktail glass are just cocktails. Which are fine, but please don't co-opt the name "martini" because it sounds cosmopolitan.

Wait.

Shit.
>As a 501(c)(3), it would be illegal for the Wikimedia Foundation to be purchased by any of the tech-giants

Query google "can a non profit go for profit"

Result 1: How to Convert Nonprofit to Profit

>Notify the IRS by writing a "statement of nonprofit conversion"

Query google "statement of nonprofit conversion"

Result 1: PDF titled "Voluntarily Relinquishing of Tax Exempt Status" - PDF WARNING https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/eotopick85.pdf

So I'm doubting it is illegal, worst case they convert to a for-profit and sell in this scenario.
Reality Winner, Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning
Peloton exercise bike ad mocked as being 'sexist' and 'dystopian'
That’s why you hide even when you have nothing to hide, so that hiding doesn’t itself become a signal.
Suppose we had an index of snippets, meaning you've parsed them and are able to search isomorphically. So, e.g. variable names are not significant. Some techniques discussed[1].

Then we run that against source repos, we could get update notifications for copypasta'd code.

"In file F at line L, it looks like you used some code from SO at revision R. In revision R', it's been corrected."

[1]: https://wiki.haskell.org/Hoogle#Theoretical_Foundations
> Can anyone think of a downside to me changing it to pageviews?

No, it makes sense.
Mistakes to avoid when applying for a remote job
>Large US ISPs can’t be trusted.

But why trust Cloudflare?
Show HN: Get your own managed OpenFaaS for your team
> I have looked for such a treatment and found... nothing compelling. This is especially worrisome given that nebulous ideas of what caused previous ice ages and numerous interglacial periods within them.

I'll add to this the known fact that plants and other organisms require CO2 to live and if we were to become "carbon-negative", it would be guaranteed to have an adverse effect on life on earth.
I think it would be quite a bit safer and you are already trusting your distribution but those libraries tend be very old/stale versions, and limited selections.
The article claims that there is some push towards centralized DNS. I do not see the evidence to support this - the only reason Cloudflare is the default in Firefox is that DoH implementations are still rare. PowerDNS is free to implement DoH themselves if they want their customers to be competitive, and so is every ISP.
>Dropping a bomb is not an act of war because of the target itself. It is because to do it you have to violate the country's whole security system and cause damage to the country's real state, which is an act of war, whereas to invade a company's cluster of computers you don't have to compromise the country's whole cybernetwork.

I would counter that you don't need to violate all of the US's defense to bomb Hawaii and we all know how that was received. So yes, a state sending assets to go destroy some other state's property within the borders of said state is generally considered an act of war. That said, details matter a lot and these situations are basically handled on a case by case basis.
Yes. This is a terrible idea and would result in the bankruptcy of Mozilla from the inevitable lawsuits. The registry owner would sue them and they’d also doubtless face a class action from the registrants themselves.
What are you saying? Don't bother?
Stripe should fund companies with a structure similar to IndieVC
I have watched a barman prepare an oyster martini - which was about as odd to watch as it presumably was to drink.
This shows how advanced Doug Engelbart was that he imagined interactive editing and real-time use back in 1950s.

Also shows how far-sighted ARPA was back then.
yubikeys can store GPG keys and emulate SSH keys via gpg-agent. More exciting: OpenSSL recently added full U2F/Fido support, but it might take a bit until that lands in all distros https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=201911150648...
Off Topic:

I thought the forum was running on Discourse, but turns out to be something called NodeBB, first time I heard of it, it is similar in design, and I think it felt slightly faster / snapier than Discourse.
Scoped Storage Stories: Problems with SAF
You shouldn't just encrypt the keys. If malicious code is running on a machine, they could as well eavesdrop on keystrokes. This is even made simpler by the fact that a large part of the demography uses X11, which is inherently insecure since all applications can read key strokes, mouse events, and do screen grabs.

Get a hardware token. If you have a hardware token with a pin, they could extract your PIN by reading keystrokes and use the token on your machine. But once you yank the token out of the USB port, that's the end of it. Even better is a hardware token that requires physical confirmation for operations.
I would suspect this would get lost in the noise on a software developer's machine. The developer's machine could be targeted by the red team because of this (and because of a developer's normally elevated privileges and varying network activity)
Craigslist has the same warnings - meet to exchange product and payment in person, anyone trying to do it through mail/online is probably a scammer.
>quoting Stallman

Yikes! I thought we cancelled that pedophile
Windows 10 has pretty good anti-virus built in.
How else to you answer stuff like "how to compare strings in bash" if not with a code example?
>If Russia deliberately dropped a bomb on Merck’s factory, it would unquestionably be an act of war.

The US does this all the time and it is not labeled an act of war. The most famous incident is the Al-Shifa medical facility, but this is common practice in the "war on terror."
And it's not just the developer machine that's at risk. Even if you protect your own system, you will still be shipping malware to your users, who may be vulnerable. And you'll be lending your credibility to the malicious libraries you distribute.
The project was started (and still being partly coded by) one of the most successful Czech internet entrepreneurs, currently ~16th wealthiest Czech out there, his fortune estimated at ~$.7bn, so this venture seems to be self funded.

I can dig up an interview I read with him (in Czech), but I can't recall him talking about the financial side of things. He rarely talks to the press, so it's hard to come by this sort of information.
nuTonomy is testing in Boston too.
Package management and curation are the Achilles heel of open source. Abandoned packages, typo and letter substitutions, maliciously crafted pull requests and so on are all going to go up in frequency until the environment is hardened enough that the bulk of these attempts fail. That's a long way to go, and the number of capable maintainers and curators is relatively small.

Some environments (Python, Node) are more susceptible to this sort of trickery than others.
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I design board games and play a ton of them, and this threw me also. I don't see how the author thinks there is manual dexterity to Snakes and Ladders.

A Dexterity game is a category of board games, and they all involve your ability to physically manipulate components in a way where you could potentially screw it up by misjudging the action you take, is my understanding.

There's no way to throw dice in a way where it doesn't give you some sort of result, even if it's not the result you want. If that's all it took to be a Dexterity game, than tens or hundreds of thousands of games with dice in them are now Dexterity games (and currently on sites like BoardGameGeek, they're not).
Windows Defender is a performant alternative to all the junk antivirus companies put out. At this point it's fairly well documented that having a third-party antivirus product running on your Windows device often exposes you to security issues, even if the antivirus doesn't spy on you.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ex-top-mozilla-dev-to-windows-...
How does the Internet quality impact a corporate environment in rural areas?
This is a reasonable place to start reading, they provide both summaries and detailed explanations of the science: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/syr/
How to Analyze the Health of Your App’s Product-Market Fit via Growth Accounting
From the article... The libraries were "jeIlyfish" (with an upper case I) and "python3-dateutil" (not "dateutil"). Both libraries were close spellings of the real libraries.

The lesson for developers is double check your imports! Spelling does count and there are lots of similarly named libraries (most are not malicious thankfully)
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Reflexes are indeed trained, but they're not what is defined as general intelligence.

They trigger in specific cases, both low reflexes and high ones.

Now if you required the car to gain new reflexes on its own then it's an entirely different thing and yes, that is probably a big chunk of AGI.

Essentially that means the car would have to write its own control logic in an essentially unlimited way, yet do so safely. That is not exactly necessary for safe travel.
why gdpr law does not apply to them ?
But this was in the hypothetical of Wikipedia being sold or taken over. If people don't agree with the practices of the new owners and rally behind a fork trusted by the community, I expect most moderators and contributors to follow.
It's so simple and intuitive to run two steps in parallel. Thank you, Netflix!
The author is also the founder and owner of a local Google-like company (search, email, maps, media, etc.), that's where he gets the funding for Windy.
Credit Karma trains new engineering managers
The neighborhood rules are described in the help section.
> If you used the returned Country to construct an API request including the name of the country, this will now produce strange countries named as “Optional[“Norway”]”

I am not too familiar with java, but should’t you call get() from optional to get Country from Optional<Country> and toString of Country will behave as expected.
It's even nearer dead than that small number implies. Much of that is from keeping the few coal plants idling on standby or tiny load for fast spin up, if the grid asks, with coal as source of last resort.

Two of the six plants we have left announced last month they wouldn't be bothering going to the 2025 coal elimination date, and will close in 2020. Leaves 4 I think.

Same month the lovely government approved a new deep coal mine in Cumbria. huh?
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In the case of the latter the shade and quality of the paper might've been even more important than what's printed on it. ;o)
> How do we know with certainty that human-produced CO2 is responsible for most (or all) of the temperature increases the earth has experienced in the last 100 years?

Measurements. See:

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

https://climate.nasa.gov/causes/

If you want to know facts, the science (inc. raw data) is out there in open access journals. If you don't want to believe the science ("nothing compelling"), then nothing I can link will change your mind.
I'd expect polynomial to follow definition of polynome:

x^n + c where n, c are fixed and x goes 0,1,2,... with the progression

instead of

n^x + c

..the latter I'd call exponential progression
Oh, nice, I will definitely try that. Nifs in C are an eyesore and a risk, having more language options there is good and a clean integration like this is even better.
Yes, that's a good point.

But maybe some attorney might do it pro bono.
En-ROADS – online simulation model for global energy and climate
>Personally I've noticed with Snowden is that nobody really attacks what he said, they attack his perceived motivations

Character assassination. They pull a, "He's a rapist, child molester" and everything the whistle blower says flies out the window.
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Do you have a preferred recipe for a Negroni? My partner and I have been having a hard time getting over the flavor of Campari.

We usually have Tanqueray in the house for G&Ts and Carpano in the house for Manhattans, but we've had no luck getting a drinkable Negroni.

To the uninitiated, I would describe Campari as having the flavor of burning tires. I don't mean that perjoratively, I just don't have a better description.

Or please feel free to inform me that our palates lack sufficient refinement :-D
Sometimes I like heading on over to GoFundMe and Kiva and donating to people directly there, particularly those who need money for health care in the US and elsewhere. I also sometimes donate to emerging initiatives on Kickstarter that I think will benefit society in some way. It gives me satisfaction to give directly to people and help small initiatives/businesses.
> regardless of the order.

That seems like a completely arbitrary requirement. Do accounting laws prohibit sort? Does 1 + 1 have to equal green on Tuesdays?
Most 8-bit micros had very poor data interchange capabilities, though. That was one thing the IBM PC and 'clone' ecosystem got right. Still, you could use a minicomputer for the job. Minis were often used for similar tasks.
I should have linked the English title as well, now I read my comment and see it is not sufficiently unambiguous.

Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Mandalorian_logo.jpg
you can see that the A letters are rendered the same as Cyrillic Л.

To further the confusion, in Buenos Aires there are many street signs that use Л as the letter A, and they use П as the letter N.
It does, but people rarely take the time to report illegal behavior that they encounter online.
My fb marketplace has the opposite problem. Everyone seems to list their stuff at retail price (or higher!)

I sent one lady an amazon link to show her she was overcharging. Didn’t help.
Should have added: Kiva's more about offering a loan, so that's not so much a donation, but I spend more time on GoFundMe
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Make that a self driving bicycle or self flying drone then. Similar related problems, in fact probably harder.
I don't understand kernel modules, dynamic-loaded or
otherwise, to be any more or less monolithic (in the
sense of monolithic versus micro kernels). Do they
have their own address space or something?
Russia blocks shutterstock domain because a photo insulted “state symbols”
I was Associate Director of Development and I quit. I wanted hands on keyboard again. I was tired of the endless meetings, politics and dealing with the client. I wanted to be a developer again. So I stepped down and went back to development. Best idea ever.
Don't many QuickCheck-inspired libraries have special cases to ensure they generate common numbers like those? I could be misremembering, but I would have sworn I read that in the documentation of the last library I looked at (whose name escapes me).
I'd rather like to know, what gives shadowserver the authority to initiate such domain takedowns/sinkholing in an act that's pretty much vigilantism?
On freeBSD there is jails since year 2000.
Incredibly, the OP argues in favor of "wishing people smart makes them smart" by citing a famous example of a fraud! It conflates expectations of behavior influencing people who want to confirm, with expectation of success creating success.

As with most psych studies, there's probably a grain of truth -- of course investing in people tends to make them more successful, but it's not simple magic tricks.
> I think the point is that a forest reaches an equilibrium at some point. The forest has new trees growning and consuming co2, it has old trees still growing and consuming co2, it has dead trees/branches that releases co2. It's mostly at a steady state when it has matured.

A forest can be in any unbalanced state at any age, it obviously depends on the ratio of dead to living trees and their size, as well as the climate. It's not a closed system that would need to reach equilibrium at some point. Forests will keep growing and trees will keep growing as fast as the environment allows and unsurprisingly, additional CO2 will help.
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I mean, archaeology and linguistics have been figuring out ancient languages as an entire field, while determined individual hobbyists are able to reverse engineer unknown file formats.

By which I mean, many file formats are syntactically much simpler and more obviously structured than natural languages. It might take an entire field to reverse engineer weird formats like .DOC once all knowledge gets lost, but I doubt this will be the case for bitmaps or UTF-8 ...
Here's a fun world, N=8, M=4 and
'next': function(x, s){
if (x===1 && (s===2 || s===3)) return 1;
if (x===0 && (s===3)) return 1;
return 0

https://dmishin.github.io/hyperbolic-ca-simulator/index.html...
Firejail: Sandboxing Untrusted Linux Applications
I'm not a CPU expert... But I guess the main advantage of this change is related with power consuption. Am I right?
> They aren't though, algae is more than carbon and pure water. They still need various minerals which you have to input into the system somehow

Yes, that's why iron fertilization is so effective.

> To do this at any scale it means mining massive amounts and feeding the system

Actually not. In conditions where iron is the limiting nutrient, each kg of iron fixes 83 tonnes of carbon, 304 tonnes of CO2. So sequestering a billion tonnes a year would require 3 million tonnes of iron per year. That probably sounds like a “massive amount” to somebody like you, but it's about 16 tankships full. The humans currently mine some 2.3 billion tonnes of iron ore per year, so we're talking about increasing iron mining by about 0.2%.

The Sahara idea might be better, I don't know. Certainly there are a lot more minerals in the Sahara than in the middle of the ocean surface. The mass of water you'd have to transport (and desalinate!) is clearly much larger than the amount of iron, and they call that out as the major cost. It wouldn't be limited by the iron-poor regions of the ocean, though, but ironically, it might create more of them. The US$50b cost estimate seems higher than other sequestration approaches.
Millennial wealth deficit, in one chart
#2 now they piggyback on any open network they find
Why would the radioactivity make fluorine gas?
Thank you for that, very interesting and educational. I love how you led up to the punchline. It made me see that books as a technology and artifact are part of the "history of information", and how books are becoming subsumed in a shared trajectory with media/data in general.

> half of all the recorded information of humankind was created in the past two years

That is shocking to imagine, and it's exponentially growing.

It reminds me of Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think", pointing out the emerging information overload in society. It certainly puts things in perspective, how we (humanity) have been making a conscious, collaborative effort to develop globally networked computers, one of whose important functions is to help us organize all the information, including books.

The conundrum it seems is that technology is also a massive multiplier/amplifier of the amount of data, that its capacity to help us organize would never catch up to what it's helping to produce.

> total storage for the 38 million volumes of the Library of Congress would be slightly under 200 TB

I guess it's redundant to say, but I'm sure in the near future that would fit on a thumb drive!
Yes, it is called Windows Defender, as above.
What does this article really ‘reality check’? The editor’s understanding of quantum computing?
I wish more people would blog about Prolog; hope this helps. Prolog was my second real love (after z80 asm) but I have never quite found a reason to use it for paid work.
a recent discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19908197
Apparently you get a discount on the execution time for provisioned lambdas, not sure how much this would offset (the more actual utilization you get the better I guess)

> @ben11kehoe @kondro @mwarkentin You pay for the configured Provisioned Concurrency with a flat hourly charge. Lambda usage gets billed the same, but with a discount on unit pricing ($0.035/GB-hour vs $0.06 on "on demand").

http://twitter.com/ajaynairthinks/status/1202125357144391680
What if you use Google's DNS servers? (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4)

Would Google log and hand over all DNS lookups too?
Then (in my opinion) the library shouldn't advertise itself as compatible with Null terminated C strings, as users will assume that means they can use strlen (or more likely, other functions which use strlen themselves).

In a similar system I work on, we have a list of functions (like strlen, Strcat), where we carefully vet every occurrence in the code base. It's annoying but the only way to stop subtle bugs we've found.
I don't like the author's attitude but I find the article at least tangential to something worth considering. Flawed communications as a social issue are larger in scope than technology alone. False equivalence is dangerous. If I was going to make an argument to support anything positive that I find in the article, I would frame it like this..

Popular presentations:
coding=hacking=glamour
hacking=crime=glamour

Less popular presentations:
work=money=glamour
creativity+work=glamour+money

Never mind the assumption that glamour is desirable.
I'll just pretend that glamour represents any positive outcome, but be very strict about that being a local declaration on its' way to the garbage collector real fast.
The scariest part is that it looks like this got resolved quickly only because your tweet got noticed and retweeted. I wonder how long it would have taken otherwise.
We use this website in oceanography to understand what kind of weather conditions our buoys are in. Off the coast of greenland this is helpful to shunt the wind turbines in extreme wind - not because they can't handle the wind, but because the waves crash on the spinning blades and shatter them.
Apple Can't Escape Class Action Lawsuit over Faulty MacBook Butterfly Keyboards