skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well then those aren't exactly illegal crops are they?

>People robbed of illegal property usually do not report such losses to the authorities.
why would you want to reduce CO2 emissions? it is required by all plant life to thrive.
The article ends with a link to https://www.reddit.com/r/ABraThatFits/, a subreddit for people looking for well-fitting bras. Just a cool little thing to know about if that's your (or your partner) situation.
as an aside I honestly doubt Amazon acted on a single word being flagged, because that level of scrutiny would be hurting its bottom line, but we only have one side of the story so we have to act upon that alone, still.

anyway, that's the difference between authorship and artistry, the fact that he caved show which side he's on. Amazon only obligation is with their customers and he's free to pursue less mainstream options if he wants uncompromised freedom
In fact this already already happens, currently it's used the ads industry for luxury car segment where they render individual ad reels for any car configuration you order.
I think it would depend on the stats used. Yamanote is still JR. The Joban line goes all the way to Sendai, if you really want it to.

So if you got lateness stats on trains, it would likely take all the JR stuff and mix stuff up

I agree with your sentiment, my comment is more about my theory that stats would not make the distinction (though it would likely exclude things like Tokyo Metro or the monorails).
The Dirty Secrets of European Farm Subsidies
Happy holidays everybody. Take some time to relax and recharge your batteries. Spend time with loved ones and let them know how much you appreciate them. Then, in the next year be ready to go full steam ahead and complete that awesome project or launch that great company of yours. Cheers! Catch you on the flip side!
Vrolijk kerstfeest! :)
Merry Christmas HN community
I'm sorry, I can't seem to find any references to driveby exploits in that report. I see many mentions of malicious office documents with downloader macros and similar attacks that certainly happen regularly today.

I do not see any mentions of attacks fitting the driveby pattern you described earlier. I am aware such targetted attacks do exists, but they're extremely rare these days compared to a few years back.

Almost all attacks today rely on social engineering to trick the victim into handing out their credentials or opening a malicious file, not a link.
Thats where I thought it was from lol
> justified by dimwitted refrains of "read the rules"

Ah, the humble ad hominem. To which the only real answer is "I know you are, but what am I?".

Don't be the dimwit who accidentally takes an expensive set of sharp things in carry-on. How much stress is it _really_ to empty the bag and repack to make sure everything is where it should be?

Don't be the entitled prick who throws insults because the world won't change the rules that they find inconvenient.
When was the last time you saw email spam linking to a browser driveby exploit?
Merry Christmas and a Happy Hanukkah!
HN is teaching me so much and has become such a productive addiction <3.
What are all these new digital signature algorithms?
If you are reading this ; I wish you the best of 2020 full of love, success and happiness.
Interactive 3D map from 1978
They're less rare because they've almost completely replaced the attacks I described as "very unlikely".

In 2019 it's extremely rare that anyone gets owned just by clicking a link, we've moved very far from that.
There is also the 2D to 3D problem, if you’ve ever tried modeling clothing on a mannequin to make patterns, you’ll notice how much skill it takes on a doll with perfect measurements. I think the problem here is there is way to much variance in shapes to come to a custom 1:1 for everyone. People are asymmetrical, and proportions vary wildly. I mean you could cut corners, but you probably end up generalize to the extend that it isn’t really custom fitting anymore if you want to scale this up.
A bank fails at risk management. Hmm.

Commonly-held factoid statistic says they have a 50% chance of going out-of-business within 6 months since they lost so much vital customer data. I hope they made backups and didn’t just rely on snapshots, database transactions or journaling.

IT professional prime directive #0: don’t lose vital data.
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> services such as https://restdb.io/ or https://fauna.com/

These are a no-go. Why should I use a proprietary solution when there are superior free open source offerings? Sure it's more effort to spin up an aws ec2 instance but that's very well worth it. I then have full control over my database and I don't have to deal with proprietary sh*t.

> RPC-named express routes is more than sufficient

Yes RPC is exactly what I was looking for. It's super simple. I don't need all that REST and GraphQL stuff.

> REST solves

Honestly, I don't understand what REST solves.

> over-engineering a simple app can lead to greater confusion.

Yes simplicity is key.

> RPC-named express routes is more than sufficient

Actually for Node.js there is Wildcard API[1] which I discovered yesterday. It's even simpler than express routes.

[1]: https://github.com/reframejs/wildcard-api
Feliz Navidad y próspero año nuevo.
Why? You are not always can decrease technology dependency but your intent is the key.
Happy holidays everyone! And good luck to those who end up starting something in January as a result of it being a new year :)
Web developers reveal what they hate about their jobs
Not gonna bother with yet another unedited podcast. But I get the banana. The title of the piece is "Comedian", and I'm an amateur comedian. Part of it is that when you make a joke, you have to throw it at the wall to see what sticks. And as for art, sometimes the joke's on you.
For other reasons, afaik.
6502 PRIMER: Building your own 6502 computer (2013)
WebDev or DevOps – what am I better off learning as a non-eu fresh grad?
I have an interest in both. But what interests me more is finding an EU employer willing to sponsor me (the sooner the better). Which job do you think is more common for sponsorship? Which job is more future-proof (next 10 years)?
The conflict in Ukraine is overblown in your free media. It's nothing compared to what is happening in the Middle East.

"subjugate half a continent for 50 years"

After losing 26 million people to the invasion that had come from that continent, that was a prudent measure.
Also every other story on the frontpage has a different color on the position number.
Tim Sweeney has been extremely kind and generous with his time in all my interactions with him dating back about 10 years ago. I wish him all the success in the world.

Him and Epic are getting a lot of hate on Reddit because of the exclusivity deals, but as a developer, I appreciate Epic trying to get the dev/store revenue split more generous for developers. Valve does the standard 70/30, and Epic is doing 88/12 I believe.
“Protections” is a more concrete word indicating benefit rather than derisive “regulations,” which implies costs, burdens and barriers without a clear benefit. Paraphrasing an idiom from potentially-dangerous industries: Safety protection rules and laws are almost always written in blood.
We should have plenty of tests of that theory in the upcoming years, since the EU decided that this weird seperation is such a good idea they're going to mandate all members do it. If I remember rightly, currently track and train have to be run by totally independent management structures (though as a sop to Germany and co, both can be part of nominally the same umbrella organisation), other companies have to have the right to run passenger services, and in a few years public passenger services will have to be put up for competitive tender UK-style. I'm not sure off-hand what they're doing with station ownership.

This was something of an issue in the recent UK election. Obviously, EU membership was a major issue, and one of the main parties also wanted to renationize the railways... which is technically allowed by EU rules, it's just that there's very little point since we wouldn't be able to undo the weird structuring created by privatization.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21877949
I don't remember where I heard that, but in the context of that specific trailer and film, some VFX guy was saying that typically, at the point a trailer is released, the CGI in the trailer is about as far as production has gone with CGI.
http://web.archive.org/web/20190519200157/http://www4.di.umi...
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Will he need to work another day in his life?
I mean, same reason why you can't shoot down an airliner flying 30,000 feet above your house with a homemade Stinger missile or whatever--the airspace is not your property
This will probably not work because the joules maths does not add up:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

It's a cool student project though, and could possibly work on a large scale if we actually had a solution for the fundamental energy problem.
It happens when the page pops up the "please disable your adblocker" popover if it detects you're blocking ads.
Motives for spying are varied: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motives_for_spying

> MICE: Money, Ideology, Compromise, and Ego or Extortion (depending on source)

> RASCLS: Reciprocation, Authority, Scarcity, Commitment and Consistency, Liking, and Social Proof.
Much joy for the next year, and many thanks to everyone for the wonderful links I've read the past months at three am in the morning while feeding or comforting my kids :)

Big up to dang and the crew too, for being the mirrors into our souls we need when our comments are too cranky and mean ... Thanks for keeping the community interesting
Basic maths on joules (or TWh):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption
Regulating buses and trucks to be electric in short timespan would be much harder politically.

Having the conversion option available would be a great addition to synthetic carbon neutral diesel compatible fuels.
Even people with large IQs can be 'temporarily' stupid. Hence the term "lapse in judgement." Somebody who's intelligent but lets their ego run wild might believe they're too smart to get caught.
What benefit do those ideas have to journalism, and what more makes them required?

I don't see what positive impact they would have on me as a reader.
>implicit

You'll have to elucidate, I don't follow.

>uncomposable

Demonstrably false, see monad transformers.

>better left alone.

"Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion."
Neither LR nor Capture one lock in your photos though. The edits will be locked in I suppose but I don't see a way to not lock them in. Are you saying that Dark Table somehow doesn't lock in your edits?
>inherently more secure

What now?
Learn React Portals in Practical Way
> the only two rich societies in the world with falling life expectancies, incomes, savings, happiness, trust — every single social indicator you can imagine — are America and Britain

Real median income is rising and has recovered since the '08 financial crisis [0]. The savings rate, a proxy for savings, is also increasing [1]. Happiness a bit more amorphous to measure; trust, I won't contest.

An article like this is difficult to read without thinking of one's personal situation. And even so, it's hard to generalize the "average" American family's situation, since there is a wide variety of situations.

> We’re not even capable of noticing — much less understanding — our twin collapse.

It is abundantly clear to the "have nots" -- anyone not in the top 10 percent -- of what their financial situation looks like.

> The average person is living right at the edge. Not at the edge of the middle class dream and an even better one.

I'm in the top 10% by household income, and this rings true to me. There is no way I could balance housing costs, retirement, and childcare costs (no children currently, so the last expense is moot). Part of me wonders why I don't move to flyover country, have one-tenth the housing costs I currently do, and live an ignorant life. I could take my tech job with me, but I wouldn't need the salary. Working hard doesn't seem to get me to an even reasonable semblance of typical middle class life. Why subject myself to toiling for no marginal benefit?

[0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT
> Rest is (simplified) just a way of expressing your routes as resource

What is the benefit of doing that? RPC seems much "better" than REST.
> The FPGA fabric means that games and apps can bring their own unique hardware to load into the fabric.

Curious, can you both execute code on the FPGA and simultaneously write other parts of it? Or do you have to write it in one go, than "start it"? And in the latter case, can you write it incrementally or do you have to erase it first?
True it's still much less cumbersome.
Another valid option is to fix bugs. Now the page renders nicely with JavaScript disabled.
What do you think of FastAPI?
You sit back down to start with the coding, then reality strikes!

There is a lot to do. There's market validation, finding customers, talking with people, creating landing page and coding.

You feel so overwhelmed about all the things to do that you decide you'll start the side project later, and it bites the dust.

So my advice is : Just start.
Glædelig jul og godt nytår!
Can we have a Christmas hat? Just kidding, Merry Christmas everyone, and happy holidays, best wishes for everyone's 2020.
Windows 95 UI Design
Since you sound like you're from the category theory community you may already know this, but my database library Opaleye is directly based on David Spivak's ideas.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/opaleye
Rising balkanization, tariff wars, sanctions, isolationism and nationalism sets the table for future ”dark ages”-like declines and world wars. Sanctions, isolation and tariffs, each like eye-for-an-eye, makes the whole world “blind.” Overall, it’s another nail in the coffin of the mythology of perpetual progress, showcasing eras of decay, retreat, chaos, division and regression. Some points of the existing order need to be adjusted before corruption, greed, hate and narcissism scatter us like dust into the wind.
The Chinese state perhaps including backdoors to spy on users?
Nextdns.io network wide blocking at dns level... Works like a charm
Merry Christmas to everyone!
Boeing Can’t Fly Its 737 Max, but It’s Ready to Sell Its Safety
Agree and that's exactly what I want to do. I want to define and call functions as if they were local. I control both client and server.

For Node.js there is https://github.com/reframejs/wildcard-api
Merry christmas + I hate Mariah Carrey song
Actual solution: don't allow any donations by corporations (or anyone) to political offices.
That was a poor choice of words from my side.
Also, I have been writing this from my startup experience.
Thanks that made a lot of sense.
I hope that is the version that Google indexes, so that this page will not rank for the target keywords.
> vue, (p)react and angular all have a better frontend development experience than you'd have with Django/rails.

I don’t know much about RoR, but I think Django has a pretty great front-end experience. In general I think the classic MVC approaches are highly underrated. Well maybe not so much now that React, Vue and Angular are all doing components that you can incorporate in your standard MVC, but I’ve always found the SPAs and it’s MvvM architecture needlessly complicated unless you desperately needed offline functionality.

It’s gotten quite popular of course, and great things can be build with it, but it’s so complicated that it makes a one-person project into something you often need at least two specialists to do well.
>Just seems to me that any company with a remotely competent IT staff could handle this with a few Dns records and a very simple lookup system.

Sure, but that's just an in-house URL shortener :)

> I'm not really seeing how this AD by golinks conveys

It shows that there's enough demand for URL shorteners in the corp world that a company is making a business out of it (even though it's almost trivial to make one yourself).
I guess we should do the same about any open source project. I don't know a state who has proven to be reliable.
> It doesn't make sense to me that people in china, russia, europe, india, etc are writing code in english. Why not translate computer languages to their native language?

It doesn't make sense to them to cut themselves off from the English-based open-source ecosystem just so they can use their native language when they already know enough English to get by.

Many programming languages already support Unicode identifiers and nativist movements exist (e.g. [0]), some people produce interesting mixed-language programs (e.g. stdlib in English, other identifiers in Chinese with Latin prefixes to indicate type: [1]) but it's overall a very small niche, because most people can see the value of being able to share code globally, which means using English.

[0] https://github.com/program-in-chinese/overview/

[1] https://github.com/cflw/cflw_py/blob/master/%E7%A8%8B%E5%BA%...
God jul och gott nytt år!
Happy Christmas. Thanks for all the wonderful stories and discussion. I hope you and yours are safe and satisfied.
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Wasn’t just Wolves either. There is at least one lyrical change on Famous and he also added the Saint Pablo track.

Kept both copies of the album and version numbered them.
That's why you lay your bets. 5 x turnover is really high as well. Most I encounter here in Australia just require one turnover.
Or go 100% renewables power and EVs (keep it in the ground), no carbon capture + sequestration needed for emissions. For net negative GHG emissions, sequestration using bio-remediation such as ferrous oceanic seeding and kelp bloom capture/sequestration makes infinitely more sense (cheaper/easier) than direct emissions or atmospheric capture. Phasing-out ICEs and FF extraction must be global goals if we are to survive.
Alas the article is behind a hard paywall and not available on Sci-Hub...
If trains are so much better, why is it cheaper to fly?
Oh wow I'm in the same boat only I used to do embedded development.
> Monads are still programmable semi-colons, though

No, they’re not. That’s just an analogy that’s sometimes useful when describing them to imperative programmers to aid intuition.
It isn't about test coverage, it's about feature completeness.

For eg. One feature require backend & frontend work, after a week of work engineer says that this is done. So you ask him to demo, and it turns out he is doing a backend demo with some dev tools.

From a product perspective nothing has changed. Top engineers understand, that no one cares that only one part is working, they know the end user and will not bother managers/product owners with partial solutions.
Merry Christmas to all on-call folks too!
Yes. Seasons greetings all! This community brightens every day. Wind down, spin up, and roll with next year. It’s going to be fun.
From the pictures it looks like there’s more than enough space for that in the walls, they are mostly empty.
I don't really agree with your point. Anyone who does photography even in passing will probably have heard of Lightroom, and the mere word tells them exactly what to expect. I'd take "like Lightroom, but FOSS and on Linux" over two paragraphs any day.
Never been a fan of localisations, this idea that audiences can’t understand things outside their culture seems a pretty low view to have of your audience and the changes that the localisers add just tend to add confusion rather than clarity.

Like how in 90s videogames localisers thought they were being smart renaming items from Rice Ball to Hamburger. Usually without changing the sprites.

I’d prefer it if the initial ideas and setting of the story were kept in tact and just translated rather than someone trying to be smart about it and failing.
There are countries that allow you to buy SIM cards without identification, even in bulk. (e.g. Ukraine) They are also sold on various platforms including reddit. You can even enumerate known ports for certain web interfaces (cough ACE *cough) and access them with default passwords.
You can file a lawsuit without merit about anything, you don't need merit.
Yes that's what I want to do. Although I don't need caching (yet?)
The result about semi-transparent solar cells look interesting, but the press release is annoying.

It is not a formula, it's a theoretical model for multiple junction solar cells that has as a result a formula.

It's not 'the dark side'. IIUC they never use the temperature difference or something like that from the dark side. They just have semi transparent solar cells, so the can put another cell in tandem.
I'm somehow not at all surprised. Bollywood movies are hilarious. :)
The second part may read as a non-sequitur. The connection is that in organizations that have separate architect roles, architects are shielded from their mistakes because they don't work on implementation, and their work usually isn't questioned.

The worst thing I remember is a web API where some call could fail but didn't tell you, it just gave you some kind of plausible looking inert data. The call to query system status was separate, so there was always a time of check / time of use problem. Also there was a transition period when the original call did return an error but the system status API didn't yet. Nobody (I hope) comes up with such a disaster while implementing and testing it.
I know a few people who smoke and haven't got lung cancer. Does that disprove the mountain of scientific evidence for the causal link between the two?

Or does it prove that outliers exist?

> Our bodies are just vessels that our souls drive around for a while. They wear out eventually no matter what.

He was 54 when he died. That's no age by anyone's standards.

Look after your health.
Planetary science is already a discipline that is separate from astronomy and astrophysics. Additionally, there are already MANY subfields of astronomy.
Mr Huston in the last link is complaining that there were too many subjects in the test and that the test was pretty expensive for Apple. How am I to take this seriously? It’s just another Apple hater.
> A/B testing different versions of films with live audiences and tweaking.

Test screenings are a thing and they can very much influence the final product: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_screening

I guess they didn't test Cats.
The same blog on hyperscan's current website: https://www.hyperscan.io/2017/06/20/regex-set-scanning-hyper... (without the offending bar)
Ask HN: VC spread risk why not employees
Looking at how VCs spread their investments across many different startups, we should try to foster a model where employees can join multiple startups (with commiserate equity). Kind of like Freelancers Union where they pool for insurance coverage, and then work %time at a variety of startups which can offer relative salary. Would this make startups more attractive than FAANG b/c you hopefully have a better chance of some upside? Y would be a great place to help start this land build a marketplace for work.
Monad transformers are really not the great counterexample you seem to think they are.
Hi, grats and question. On side-projects.net, on your profile page, how do you edit the name?

Name being: @XXX
I was thinking MC Hammer in parachute pants doing his signature dance but JG works too.

Evolution and life is a constant “spy vs. spy” cat & mouse game to capture and defend energy. For example, industrial-scale meat agriculture is suicidal and omnicidal because it is a perfect “Petri dish” bioreactor accelerating the evolution of pandemic diseases and antibiotic resistance... it should be illegal because it’s an anthropogenic risk we created unnecessarily. It’s interesting how viruses could be considered life if you count that they do replicate, albeit parasitically, and they do defend energy by making more of themselves (whereas lions eat deer or humans eat potato chips and get fat and/or reproduce).