skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's such an useless approach to any discussion. People live under a power structure (democratic government) and expect some things from it. We can all blame each other for the choices we make but choices have a glass ceiling and casting stones will break yours too.

You don't accept bad air quality, traffic, crime, consumerism pressure, ads on every street corner, weak and shallow local communities, and proclame "well don't be surprised because you chose civilization". You expect and demand improvements like any other decent human being.
Why using proprietary Apple News when there are so many news aggregators and even RSS readers? Isn't it just laziness?
Convicted German murderer won right to have crime scrubbed from search results
Can people please not link wholly paywalled stuff? Nytimes is such a tease with how frequently they're linked to how tight they are on monetizing access to every single link(not even a free limit per ip). Worse than scientificAmerican
What type of developer are you: A technician or an artist?
Legend! Exactly what I’ve been looking for. I had been using Maps.me, but it only tracks for 24 hours, which leads to a lot of manual labour to permanently record the data.
IPC microbenchmarks do not properly reflect the complex workloads running on post Zen2 microarchitecture. Zen2 upends microarchitecture schematics enough to warrant a different metric.

IPC MB’s, in my experience, tend to benchmark best case scenarios and that is probably the exception rather than the rule for application workloads in modern MA’s. Case in point, microbenchmarks showed significant improvements in IPC for Zen2 in lieu of Skylake yet for the application workload (CPU data bound), Skylake held up neck and neck.

The more appropriate benchmarking metric for post-Zen2 processors is CPI [0].

[0] https://john.e-wilkes.com/papers/2013-EuroSys-CPI2.pdf
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If you are human, you are conscious. Consciousness is to humans in the same way breathing is to humans.

There are many other arguments that I'm sure you are aware of. If all of these aren't enough for you, well then, I would direct you towards exploring solipsism.
Agreed, it's terribly cynical
I think there's an unacknowledged premise here that is fundamentally misguided: that the point of teaching math is to minimize the complexity of the formulas and recipes the students have to memorize, or that skill in finding the roots of a quadratic is so important that we must optimize the experience of learning it. I work with mathematics teachers and engineers and I know of no one who has willingly factored a quadratic by hand since we put our slide rules away.

The goal, fundamentally, is not the skill of factoring a quadratic. The goal is understanding of the relationships of numbers, operations, and domains that allow algebra to be a powerful set of tools for solving huge classes of problems. I _never_ teach the quadratic equation. I teach completing the square, because it's an illustration of a useful way of algebraically manipulating a relationship into a form (square of a linear binomial) that they recognize and can easily factor. I usually do a quick proof of the quadratic equation using completing the square, but generally as an illustration that if you properly understand the associated algebra, you don't need to memorize formulas and algorithms. The use of the field axioms to manipulate polynomials, and the goal of manipulating them to a tractable form, is what they need---not the quadratic equation. This 'new' technique (which appears to be a simple riff on the standard technique of looking for a pair of numbers whose sum is B and whose product is C that is taught as a matter of course in every middle school on the planet) is missing the actual goal of the lesson.

In particular, the reason I even teach completing the square is because it's a precursor of me bringing up the roots of $x^2 + 1$, which takes us in to an introduction to complex numbers, the fundamental theorem of algebra, and the discovery that the same old algebra over the Reals they learned in high school can now be used to do things like solve differential equations. Later, we introduce matrices and I can return to our old friends the algebraic field axioms to solve whole systems of equations. If they're lucky, they also get modular arithmetic and can be shown Galois fields and start using their understanding of algebra for problems in logic and set theory. All of that is easily within the reach of students in their first or second year of college, and I think if we bothered to try, we'd discover it's easily in the reach of secondary school students---or would be if we'd stop pretending that teaching them that "mathematics" is making change and pushing numbers from a word problem into the blanks of some generic formula they've memorized.

The task isn't teaching them to factor quadratics. The task is teaching them algebra.
Except for the great electronic war of 1315
Ask HN: Suggest some places on the Internet to not get distracted?
Internet is highly distracting, and I feel so drained just going over the same content over and over again. Is there any place on the Internet where I can find solace, and peace.

I understand that this is not how the Internet is run currently, but just hoping I find something worth the BS that I'm surrounded with.
I found this in the source code of the homepage:

<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex, nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet">

<meta name="Googlebot-Image" content="noindex, nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet">

<meta name="Googlebot-News" content="noindex, nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet">

<meta name="Mediapartners-Google" content="noindex, nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet">

<meta name="Feedfetcher-Google" content="noindex, nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet">

<meta name="AdsBot-Google" content="noindex, nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet">

<meta name="gsa-crawler" content="noindex, nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet">

<meta name="Googlebot-Video" content="noindex, nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet">

<meta name="AdsBot-Google-Mobile" content="noindex, nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet">

<meta name="APIs-Google" content="noindex, nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet">

<meta name="AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps" content="noindex, nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet">

<meta name="Google-Read-Aloud" content="noindex, nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet">
Is there any reason to think that a materialistic approach is somehow not also sufficient to explain consciousness?
What DDoS protection are they using? AT&T didn't say other than it was present.
Interview with German Based Band “Buzzing Sound Candy”
I feel like Clojure's deviation from S expression still somewhat follows the spirit of Lisp at least; the first-class hashes and vectors still correspond to native data structures and as a result, the syntax reflects that. In some ways, I feel like Clojure's embrace of this almost follows the Lisp formula better than something like, for example, Chicken Scheme, which by default does scheme-style hashes that don't correspond directly to syntax.
If you can’t distinguish between the Vietnamese War and the Axis Concentration Camps on a scale of atrocity, I’m doubtful there’s any intellectual exercise that’s going to clarify that for you.
Just because the industry is good at generating revenue doesn't necessarily mean that the quality of service is any better. Do you have some data to back up your claim that medical services in the United States are world leading? Are they better than what one would receive in Europe or Japan or South Korea?

Personally, I think it's unethical to keep a process inefficient even if the inefficiencies are profitable. And healthcare in the states is anything but cost-efficient.
So it does work. It doesn't really matter where you break the chain as long as it gets broken.
I know that this website is very USA-centric but I really fail to see what US courts have to do with the subject at hand. The question is more "as far as the international community is concerned, is there any reasonable technical doubt that the Chinese authorities are behind this?"

This is important for public discourse at least, because if it's technically undeniable that Chinese authorities are behind this attack then you can immediately assume than anybody saying that China has nothing to do with it is either acting in bad faith or is largely uninformed.

As we've seen multiple times in the past the existence or non-existence of conclusive proof is largely irrelevant when it comes to international policy anyway so the opinion of US courts is frankly besides the point.
IDEA does the same thing. It's amazingly useful, even if you don't use reflection -- variable names end up in comments and documentation as well, all of which it will offer to change.
It is a legitimate part of the game!
The author has written some of the most interesting and thoughtful essays about analyzing her digital life, such as her texts and PDFs of her bank statements after her divorce:

https://medium.com/@lamthuyvo/you-and-me-as-data-points-958e...

https://quantifiedbreakup.tumblr.com/post/71758742836/with-a...

Her work in data journalism (full disclosure: I haven't worked with her but invited her to speak to my class once) is also great: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lamvo/gentrification-co...
Yeah I laugh when people think that free healthcare in US will unleash a wave on entrepreneurs. More like people will retire early and take time off. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but it isn't a money spinner.
$15 minimum wage hike is hitting, hurting NYC restaurants
Wrong. If you want more space, you need to build more densely. All this does is drive up housing prices farther away, encouraging people to move even farther away. The whole thing is completely unsustainable.
A couple points:

1. The government must be funded, taxes are inescapable

2. Financial/material inheritance is inherently cosmically unfair (Paris Hilton and orphan street dweller have equal merit claim to the Hilton fortune)

3. Your children's "inheritance" is their genetic endowment, the benefits of being raised by you, and whatever material help you can provide during your lifetime

4. The details (and loopholes) of the implementation are an exercise for the student (I'm not super concerned whether a "family farm" must be liquidated, or how every last penny of Warren Buffett's fortune is confiscated)

> Which means it's basically an incentive for people to rent everything and own nothing.

This may be true toward the end of one's life, and I'm not sure this is a bad thing. Your children's inheritance is a distant concern for most your time on earth; your savings is almost entirely a prudent hedge against a lean harvest.

FWIW, I am strongly against (national) Government expansion, and would be fine with just setting all the confiscated funds on fire.
At what latency and upload speeds? Satellite internet has historically been high latency and ultra-low upload speeds; not an ideal condition for internet. Sure, if you have no other option, satellite will work, but fiber will blow it out of the water.
The average American works more today then a medieval peasant.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/medieval-peasants-vacation-m...

We live in a time of immense wealth, but not leisure.
Https is not hackable “yet” so you can’t intercept the traffic in the middle. They intercepted http traffic and swapped the malicious js file in http traffic.
I guess he's saying that an unminifier tool is effectively no different than a decompiler, and both are basically unreadable without it.

That said, I don't know of any webassembly decompilers, although I guess they must exist by this point. But also historically decompilers have been imperfect as some of the structure of the code is lost in the compilation process and has to be inferred, sometimes incorrectly, by the decompiler. Compare to a minifier where all you lose is the variable names, comments, and possibly helpful whitespace. All of the structure of the code is still there and there are no heuristics necessary to recreate something that resembles the original source.
That sounds like the use case would be to insert some WASM component (that is a big heavy application / operation) into traditional web application framework as needed.

Less so an entire overhaul of web applications as it is a powerful tool to be deployed for things we don't do in the browser now because there is no way to / it would be a bear to do in JavaScript due to ... JavaScript being JavaScript ;)

Of course the amount of WASM to traditional JS or anything else could vary from application to application.

Granted we're predicting the future here so obviously it could be off.
They were all doing the same and worse, it turns out. They could hardly complain.

Americans must regain the courage and dignity of differing from the hundred lame, neoliberal, tacit fascist-enabling bugman regimes that litter the world.

It's often good not to be like them.
Facebook Alleges Company Infiltrated Thousands for Ad Fraud
The answers for that have been around for more than a decade. But rare are the people making the decisions that are willing to dump the current system...
So, how’s that retirement thing going, anyway?
Algorithmically Bundling Shipments
Webalizer was clumsy and cluttered. I used it like 20 years ago. Koko is way cleaner.
Mozilla patches 11 vulnerabilities in Firefox 71 and ESR 68.3
My wife and I made the same decision - I sold most of my equity in my business, stuck the apartment in the city on Airbnb, and moved to an ancient water mill in the countryside near a backwater of a backwater. We spent three years wandering the earth, before settling down here - it’s only been a few months, but walking out straight into nature is glorious, rain or shine.

I do a bit of consulting, maybe 20 days a year, and the Airbnb pays the mortgage and overheads at the apartment - a residential let wouldn’t, unfortunately.

It’s a simple and quiet life, but we’re both less stressed and happier than we ever were in mechanistic life.

I think we are at a tipping point - we have the technology and the means to make this kind of lifestyle possible. Only a few years ago having power and internet access here would have been impossible. Now, solar is cheap and easy, as is hydro (next project!), and sticking an LTE relay mast up a hill was a trivial job.

We are still following an old way of thinking, in general, while we could instead be reaping the benefits of the technical uplift our society has realised, and living a life we left so long ago we barely remember it - but with modern comforts.

This is a small home - a bedroom, a bathroom, a living room, a shed - 90sqm total. It’s everything we need. If we have a family, we build a cabin, or a yurt, and we expand our infrastructure as needed. We have hot and cold running water, more power than we can use, fast internet, underfloor heating (next week - working on it), and we’ve only been working and living here for two months.

I can see myself living here indefinitely, and as a result of our vastly reduced overheads, even our reduced income gives us a sizeable budget for travel.

I think it’s crazy to live any other way. So do an awful lot of others who have done or are doing the same as us - we’re far from alone in our direction.
>If you are willing to allow dense development (which most zones in the US prohibit) everything changes.

Yep, this is the answer to it all: we need to build much more densely, and people need to get used to not having a big McMansion with a gigantic lawn.
What Not to Do on Your Work Computer
The whole point is that the pages being modified are served over HTTP, there's no certificate there, good or bad.
I only keep a Chrome browser around to access Google properties like Google Maps or Gmail which are painfully slow in Firefox. It feels like old IE days where there are sites that only really work in 1 browser.
It only works if you somehow remove entire China from the Internet.
So, it's the usual "(try to) soak the rich" plan, with the inevitable extension down to more and more people when it generates less revenue than expected? No thanks. I mean, the stated goals are something that we should want, for the most part, but the funding schemes range from fantasyland to nonexistent.
And how do you expect your local paper to survive when the classifieds (the largest source of income for many local papers IIRC) have moved online and physical subscription numbers and ad buys are declining?
New ransomware attacks target your NAS devices, backup storage
I use a Garmin inreach - the mini one is a little hard to use on its own because of the small monochrome display, but it pairs to your phone with bluetooth and has a nice companion app.

Also, the EarthMate app has a nice mapping interface which shows things like topographic maps and major trails, and it lets you download maps ahead of time in varying levels of detail for offline use.
> Distributing opaque binaries with websites instead of Javascript is a step past even the obfuscated minified javascript files meant to be confusing. At least those can still be debugged, stepped through, and explored freely by the end user if they want to learn or reverse engineer.

If you really think this is true, look into Google's recaptcha blob.
Dissassembled webassembly is probably way more readable than minified/packed js
needs citation
Try "Oh, he woundn't want that".
Wow really? Any source for this ? That is like everyone can lock their house but gov has the master key.
The rate of attempted suicide is largely equal, it's just that men are more successful at it. I don't believe it's the smoking gun you think it is.

Proof: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5492308/

"For suicide attempts, for which the rate is estimated to be 20 times higher than that of suicides , the gender gap is less pronounced, with females demonstrating a disproportionately higher rate of suicide attempts compared to males ."
I tried Koko on two of my blogs. I really like it. You just need a current PHP version.
AWS-Gate – Better AWS SSM Session Manager CLI Client
> I've not tried this with wrecked heads,

Heads are entirely ruined very easily, to the point where I'm not convinced you could insert the platters into a new drive of the same model without wrecking those too.

> Assuming the person doing the destruction cared enough to pay attention.

And we're back to trust. No method works if you have no trust in it being carried out. Including destruction (see the post we're replying to.

Honestly I think, as with most data safety discussions, we're not talking about realistic threat vectors nor about common avenues of attack.

And when we're talking about compromised drive firmware that is smart enough to use one method of exfiltration that neatly suits your argument but not another that doesn't, I think we're not really arguing about anything useful any more.
Food in the US is regularly subsidized, especially meat. It's how we compete unfairly with the rest of the world. ISPs already receive massive subsidies to have laid fiber they decided not to lay. They kept the money though. The US pays more for healthcare and receives poorer results on average than anywhere else in the world. Pretty sure you're unfamiliar with the differences between socialism and communism. The US is a heavily socialist state with massive corporate welfare plans. Instead of spending our money on taking care of our people we take care of the wealthy.
I don't know if it's what the OP meant, but on macOS you can hold a letter key, and it will pop up a little dialog with a bunch of similar characters (hold 'n' and chose from 'n' with various diacritical marks), and you can just press the corresponding number key to choose it. I'ts not as fast as a dedicated key shortcut if you're constantly using the same character, but it's far easier if you're only occasionally using various characters and don't want to remember different shortcuts.
If a foreign nation disrupted any kind of local service it might be considered an act of war.
I completely disagree: lots of other news outlets have not ruined their reputation by printing outright falsehoods intentionally. There's a huge difference between some bias (which is completely unavoidable, everything is "biased" because someone has to choose what to print and what not to), and fabricating total lies.
So are you saying that reverse engineering javascript is easy? Or that it's easier than reverse engineering wasm?

I don't know much about web assembly, but x86, which is much more complicated with thousands of instructions, has been successfully reverse engineered basically since forever. There are decompilers that can automatically reconstruct source code in C or C++ from a binary blob.

Compared to javascript, the best you can hope for is to just format the code so its in a more readable structure, but that isn't going to untangle purposefully obfuscated logic. Add to that the fact that even a regular javascript program is an untyped mess, and it becomes clear that anyone specifically trying to confuse readers will have a very easy time of doing so. There are a lot of messy things you can do in javascript, almost COBOL levels of messy.

Also, I'm curious about this

> but as someone who ran a small business in high school that usually involved reverse engineering obfuscated Javascript,

What type of clients paid you to reverse engineer obfuscated javascript? Malware research? Something else?
Social dancing too. Most major cities have at least some scene for each of swing, salsa, ballroom, and tango. And typically you can actually hear people over the music, so it is actually possible to go and socialize, and it's perfectly acceptable to show up alone, without a big posse.

That said, if you do this, please do not be creepy— at least in the swing dance scenes I was involved in in (Toronto, Seattle, New York), the overwhelming majority of people were there to have fun dancing, not to hook up or be hit on.
It took me 2 years, from order to delivery, to get fiber from a private offering. Plus two contractors, a torn-up lawn and broken sprinkler line.

I don’t think that unions are the cause of massive inefficiencies.
Seattle itself has a reputation for this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Freeze
> Firefox may become `my` dominant browser.

I think you misread that
In what way viable alternative? JS performance is pretty good if you think of an admin interface or any business dashboard UI full of charts and stuff.

React for example shifting towards functional programming makes FE apps simpler and predictable.

If you dislike the HTML/CSS UI layer then WA is indeed an alternative. However you need to reimplement everything, like text selection, right click, focus, accessibility, dropdowns, etc, because all you have is a <canvas> to draw on.

But! WA will eventually have DOM access, that will definitely open up the landscape to create new frontend frameworks.
No, it's not enough and had poor coverage outside of USA. We have also answered this question (it appears to be popular) in today's post about technical details of our search https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-06/building-a-search-engine-fr...
I have a single blog post about a handful of Masonic books that is good for 5-10$ a month, one time someone bought one of the books which was nice for a couple of bucks but also bought an expensive snow blower that I got a 40$ and change taste of.

There's definitely money to be made there with even relatively low conversion rates, after that snow blower bounty I started keeping a mental list of any podcasts or other content creators I like have amazon affiliate links on their sites and I always drive my larger Amazon purchases through by clicking one of their links first.
Let me turn that question on its head and ask you why should it be sufficient? Just because it interacts with matter doesn't mean we default to assuming a materialistic approach is sufficient.

I can't get bogged down with arguing why it seems obvious to me that it isn't sufficient. As I wrote earlier, it still boggles my mind that people think otherwise.
They've done it before, with GitHub:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5124784