skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is a solution: To buy a disposable phone number and use it to complete the verification. But this was the breaking point. At this point, I no longer bother.

This may not be enough. A case in point: two months ago my grandma decided to make herself a Facebook account to chat with her IRL friends. She had one made in 2014, but she only logged in to it few times. It was made using a fresh email, and never breached. So she logged in to that account on her phone, using the newest Facebook app on a brand new phone, provided real name, birth date and photo, and linked a real phone number, never used before. She got permanently banned within a week, by just chatting on Messenger and sending friend requests on Facebook. I suspect some of her IRL friends reported the friend request they received. Or maybe some AI decided she types too fast for an elderly woman, or uses too few emoji. We will never know.

The ban appeal form requires you to send photos of government-issued ID, and she decided it's not worth the risk.
NASA does a lot more science these days.
I use the owntracks app with a selfwritten http server that dumps it into a postgres. Then I use grafana and leaflet for visualization.
Regarding your activity tracking: I already also track pulse and smart watch movement, but plan on adding more inputs like the travel mode detection on Android (walking, cycling, driving)
That together with my calendar data should give sufficient data for time reports :)
No, $2/month is the introductory rate for 3 months, then it goes back up to $34 or $39 a month, so if you're subscribing long-term, it still makes sense to go for the yearly package after your introductory price.
A thread from 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3728313
Ok but then if one country doesn’t do this then another will.

It’s like nuclear weapons.

You cannot reverse or stop technology from progressing and you can’t stop governments from using that technology to build weapons.

How many wars did it take for humans to adopt a different “steady state”? And even now it’s not a real steady state.

Maybe we have more lessons (I.e mistakes) to learn from in space where billions die. Hopefully not. Hopefully we let the 20th century continue to instruct us.
Yes, it does, but most of the years lost are when people are drawing social security or similar public pensions, not economically productive; there have been numerous studies on this, and while many have raised moral arguments against acting the way tobacco companies propose (as they have actively lobbied based on them in many places in the world) based on them, there has been no serious disputes of the facts of net financial savings.
I totally disagree if you get a membership which is affordable at $99 per year you get access to lots of good learning material. That includes computer books from O'reilly and courses from Skillsoft.

Portal
https://learning.acm.org/
Yeah, now if only people actually did that.
I know the “safe” decision in a boardroom is to suggest whatever makes the numbers go up, but this post is right. People push it too far and damage their products in the process.

Examples: I no longer click on Quora in search results. I’ve stopped using Reddit on mobile. I used to love Imgur, but now I hesitate because they force you to run 1MB+ of React and download 553 resources for a subpar experience of viewing a single image [0].

I understand that these are businesses and the lights must be kept on, but certainly there are better ways to do this. Maybe a more humane strategy wouldn’t be as profitable in the short term, but it would certainly be better for building a sustainable business that actually lasts.

[0]: https://twitter.com/csswizardry/status/1185604806901207045
Parse attempt: there are too significant systemic, social differences to meaningfully compare process&results between countries.
How many of the 90m people who died in the world wars would have gone on to have amazing scientific careers? I can name a few. The idea that war is the best way to fund science is reprehensible.
The development of Git May have started in the back of his brain earlier than that. Code being written is kind of the very final stage of software dev.
Thanks what a good link to SDR, the link feels like a Christmas present. SDRPlay is a good SDR receiver a step up from RTL-SDR for exploring the radio spectrum. Plus to exploring software defined radios there is a good community built around ham that one can join.
Is this really still true? I have not been in the US for a few years, but at least in many of the European and Asian countries I've been in, this just is not a thing. I have noticed that in places like Korea and Japan, local aggregator sites are still popular/crawled by Google as the results for search/maps, but even my colleagues, Tokyo natives, use the same aggregator sites when I'm visiting and we're looking for a place to eat.

Facebook feels pervasive, sure, but from my POV it's still contained to North America, and the influence elsewhere is waning.
Genentech (dave Goeddel, herb heyneker, Dennis Kleid, herb boyer) cloned human insulin in a year (1977-8 I think) and got it approved by FDA ~4 years later
On the one hand millions vastly underestimates the possible death toll.

On the other hand kinetic bombardment is much better than than nuclear exchanges for the people left alive and makes nuclear weapons pretty close to obsolete.
Specifically, the original idea was split to two businesses - e-commerce order management and health/weight loss recipes/community. Both were killed.
I keep hoping the world leaders will "become adults" and find a way to stop fighting/killing each other.

Meanwhile world leaders spend well over $1 trillion a year on their militaries. What else could we do with that much money?
Some may say that it was never fixed ;)
Cool.

But to tweet, you need a Twitter account. And as I recall, Twitter pretty much demands verification through a mobile account. Do virtual mobile accounts typically work for it?
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You seem to have a very different definition of easy than I do.

That Twitter does an equivalent job of policing bulk account creation as their peers just means that it is also just as easy to create accounts at Twitter's peers.
Sounds a lot like the Dalton highway , we had to rent a special vehicle which had a radio to do 2 way communication with the traffic and the highway wasn't paved.
Ok, we've changed the headline to use your phrasing. Let's focus on what's interesting in the article now!
arXiv is a formidable resource. Yet, many scholars don't trust it as a source and won't publish there :(

The argument from authority (e.g., publishing mafias) fallacy is ripe in academia.

Same situation with textbooks. Besides profit and trying to become famous, there's no reason why a professor should publish through a traditional imprint or publisher (Pearson, Cengage, McGraw Hill, Wiley, Taylor and Francis, Elsevier, etc.). LaTeX, a Creative Commons license, and a homepage at the university department (and perhaps a GitHub/GitLab repo) is all a professor needs to make textbooks available worldwide.

Writing and editing a textbook is indeed a hard task. Yet, having the end result behind paywalls and arbitrary pricing isn't worth it.
The HTML/CSS suggestion is key. "KISS"
I'd rather take 100 years for tech to develop slowly than have it next year for the price of war.
The Xerox Alto was done in three months: https://www.quora.com/How-was-the-Xerox-Alto-done-in-only-3-....
There are cooking 'bibles' which go into extreme depth of flavours and textures combinations. Someone could try to codify them
That doesn't give you access to the Digital Library, which is the part of this that's relevant to the article, and it doesn't change the other arguments given.
> The US will be able to enforce space trade law, customs law, private property in space will be made possible. This will enable companies like SpaceX to have a proper legal framework within which to operate.

Even if you don’t believe current President is incompetent, don’t rule out a future one you might hate. If such a force existed, you can be sure it will be used for evil and for extracting favors for private entities eventually. These things are never done for the good of the regular people. SpaceX doesn’t have a lawful society to operate in already?
If apple is working on this id have guessed the viability is arguably roadmaped? If not it feels like throwing money around to see what sticks. .
Nice article but http://www.thesecretweapon.org/ isnt reachable anymore. The Page didnt Last...
Foodbits. It's down now but I doubt it'll help. We released it in one language, Malay, and it was mostly substitutions to SE Asian food.
Indeed!

I plan on moving off of medium. Hacking with the folks at OneGraph to create a blog in a pretty novel way. Stay tuned!
I agree that's the point, but for all we know there could be years of education, planning, failed trials, preparation, and/or red tape omitted from these timelines.
I wish there was one for Access too. I find MS Access less intuitive than Excel.
If anything, armed conflict in space will likely play out with autonomous and remotely controlled weaponry and might as well be death-less.

There’s absolutely no reason to launch humans to space for the purpose of operating space-based machinery.
As long as it provides useful information and doesn't have a 100MB homepage, I don't see any problems with the site.
At first glance, I thought this was some humor post about an object with a name made by randomly mashing keys...
> In every example given people died, more were maimed and even more had mental breakdowns. Seems like most people aren't willing to be a part of something like that today and there doesn't seem to be any popular cause that would motivate such projects.

People are still totally willing to be part of something like that; people are as haphazard and risky as they ever were. The government won't let them because it doesn't trust people to assess the risks properly (there is evidence that the government is right; people are very bad at assessing risk).

However improving safety probably isn't going to cause the speed reductions, safety and speed don't usually conflict. The fastest way is often also a very safe way because it involves less unnecessary exposure of people to hazards. The issue is the government deciding that work flat-out can't be done (eg, can't open a mine, can't build a highway, can't build a building, can't hire/fire someone, etc, etc). There is usually a good reason but at the end of the day building infrastructure is a break-eggs-make-omelette situation. We don't know how to build infrastructure at scale without collateral damage, as it were. If we first gain consensus that something is a good idea, infrastructure will not be built.
Personally, I run 2 clusters of 5 nodes each, in geographically disparate zones.

There are some shared infrastructure dependencies that aren't redundant, but generally speaking the system can survive loss of multiple nodes and/or an entire site.
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Yes, this is an example of https://xkcd.com/386/ so I'm creating an account on HN for the first time.

> The attack against Liberia began in October 2016. More than a half-million security cameras around the world tried to connect to a handful of servers used by Lonestar Cell MTN, a local mobile phone operator, and Lonestar’s network was overwhelmed. Internet access for its 1.5 million customers slowed to a crawl, then stopped.

On a more serious note,this is seriously exaggerated. Internet penetration(mostly mobile broadband) was 21% during this period and was split between LoneStarCell, Cellcom, the govt carrier - Libtelco and smaller ISPs. For a population of 4.5m people, 21% meant each mobile operator had less than 500k Internet subscribers.

The post-apocalyptic description of the impact of the DDoS doesn't fit the feeling in that period ( Nov '16). Friends from outside Liberia reached out (ironically over WhatsApp) to ask whether Liberia's Internet was cut off. I checked and saw international media reporting an Internet shutdown which was even more confusing. After emailing a couple of friends at various ISPs and the regulator, I finally got confirmation that LoneStar was under attack. Apparently, they were keeping it a secret. It did not make national news for another 2 months until the formal complaint and lawsuits were filed. Mobile broadband was very patchy back then so perhaps people just assumed it was the usual state of affairs. Now, we have LTE on both operators and an upcoming pre-5G operator.

Source: I'm from and have been based in Liberia (2015-present) and used to manage services at the national Internet exchange during that period.

National Regulator: http://www.emansion.gov.lr/doc/CONSULTATION-DOCUMENT.pdf
Export.Gov: https://www.export.gov/article?id=Liberia-Telecommunications...
Twitter Thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/tksiakor/status/79486360223055872...
Fixed the issue, by sanitizing the scrapped html.

Here is the commit https://github.com/mudulo/hncard/commit/6f5d2c9dae1aee5cf6fa...

Thank you Again. I learnt something.
I don't know, if you're putting money into the MIC that's mostly going into research I'd say that's better than the alternative
I do similar things and it kinda works for people like us. But, firstly, what about the rest of the world that's less knowledgable or technically inclined; and secondly, the fact that we (figuratively) have to put on armor and carry an arsenal of weapons before we can think of using the web still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Static commenting without third-party services
All these claims are publicly testable using web archives to build stats about review approval speed. Did you verify these claims?
I would love to see the numbers on that.

What i often seen is the number of teens who have vaped in the last year compared to habitual smokers
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The pentagon was built during racial segregation, so they had to have separate toilets for whites and blacks.

Having twice as many toilets as necessary because of ancient Jim Crow laws is better symbolism.
No. Both countries have basically added a "0" on the end of the M2 since 1975.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2
Well, I guess 2019 is going to be the last year of my paid membership. I've been a member for the past 15 years. I'll send my membership dues to Sci-Hub instead.
I've always found the obsession some people have with "hard" SF utterly ridiculous. The article alludes to this when discussing various fallacies regarding SF. The strength of SF has always been exploring the relationship of people and technology, and how technology will affect people and society. The stories that continue to resonate and engage over time are the ones that do this best. The details of the tech/science not only don't matter they're often actively detrimental to the story's staying power (e.g., "The computer had a blistering 100MB of RAM.").
Heh, I went to grad school with him. Haven't heard what he's been up to in over a decade.

I was solidly in the "C++" column back then, but have since become a data scientist who now uses numpy/Python for all machine learning. That talk was a very interesting, helped me to understand what they're doing in my old field these days. Thanks for sharing.
Also interesting are the art projects that were created as part of the dam's modernization project. Icoon Afsluitdijk: Lighting at zero consumption

https://urbannext.net/afsluitdijk/
saw it, read it and thought it was interesting. But, Yahoo licenses it, so ethically it's better for Yahoo to get the clicks given that I saw it there.
I've also submitted the updated extension, should be live in about 30 minutes for chrome, The update is live for Firefox.
The tale of the Chinese emperor and the picture of the rooster

Once upon a time, there was an emperor who was extremely fond of roosters, and so one day he commissioned the most famous painter in all his realm to paint him a picture of a rooster. The painter replied that it would take him three years to accomplish this. The emperor was secretly rather annoyed, but in the end he agreed.

When the three years came to an end, the emperor summoned the painter, but on seeing that he was empty-handed impatiently demanded: "What about my painting of a rooster?" The painter remained perfectly calm, took up a piece of paper right where he stood, and started to paint. The brush flew across the page, the ink danced. With apparent ease, he produced the lifelike image of a rooster, capturing its very essence. It took him less than three minutes to complete. On seeing this, the emperor was furious and could stand it no longer: "Have you been deliberately deceiving your king? Is this some act of rebellion? It took you just three minutes to paint that picture; why did you make me wait three whole years?" To which the painter replied: "Sire, first please calm your fury; and when you have done so, follow me and see for yourself."

The painter led the emperor to a large house and opened the door, and on looking inside, the emperor realised that the house was filled to the roof with sketches of roosters. Then the painter spoke: "These are my efforts of the last three whole years. Without those three years of labour how could I possibly have produced that perfect rooster for you in less than three minutes?"
I opted out, hoping that another case would be pursued.
I've had good experiences using a simple combination of lit-html and the sam pattern. I'm not an evangelist yet, I want to try and throw some more complex edge cases at it first but so far, I've had no complaints.

1. https://lit-html.polymer-project.org

2. https://sam.js.org
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No - this is still infinite scrolling
I peer reviewed lots of articles when I was a researcher, including for IEEE and ACM publications. Peer reviews, editorial work, authoring articles, etc. are all part of academic life, much of which is publicly funded and benefits society.

I've never heard of anyone getting payed or compensated for peer reviews. This is not a thing. Journal editors probably get payed in some cases but mostly this is a thing that is part of their professional responsibilities as e.g. a university professor and also something that looks good on their CVs and gives them influence and power. Actual labor related to proof reading, typesetting, etc. is uncommon except for some high profile publications. Mostly this work is done by authors themselves. I've dealt with professional proof readers only on two occasions.

Cost related to distribution of scientific work is almost exclusively related to the printing process, which for the past 25 years has technically been completely redundant. As soon as the WWW emerged in the early nineties, scientist started distributing articles in digital form. I know, because this is when I started doing research. I think that over the course of my research career, I've only visited the library twice. Once to get a copy of some journal article by a publisher that just was just super anal about online articles and once to drop off a box of thesis copies (a requirement of the university at the time). Even before Google became a thing, finding articles online was easy.

Considering the ACM is an organization that claims to act in the interest of it's members (i.e. researchers), open access should be a foregone conclusion and completely and utterly uncontroversial. The fact that this is not the case, tells me it is prioritizing other interests and not acting in good faith on behalf of its own members who would be do well to make continued membership conditional on this getting resolved ASAP. Money talks and members walking away would fix this in no time. Online publication is cheap (not free obviously) and should be easily funded from membership fees.
It does seem like the sort of math that mostly gets consigned to writing simulations of real-world phenomena, doesn't it?

I wonder if it has anything to do with how discrete software is. A program executes in lurches, not as a continuous process. You sort of end up dealing with Riemann rectangles instead of curves, when you look at the time domain.

That resemblance is probably just a coincidence, though; maybe it has more to do with the fact that most programs react to input after the fact instead of trying to model the immediate future and act based on predictions.
Magical fairy dust from the trees we should not have chopped down? :)
I think your point is to emphasize there is no additional cost to method syntax. I wasn't trying to imply there was, only that when you want dynamic dispatch, you can only get it from method syntax.

Another interesting asymmetry, which I think shows a weird favoritism for method syntax is that Rust allows both of these:

object_of_type_A.foo()
object_of_type_B.foo()

But not both of these:

foo(object_of_type_A)
foo(object_of_type_B)

Ignoring dynamic/static dispatch for the moment, you can overload if you use method syntax, but not if you use function syntax. For me, I would prefer the latter, but I think I'm clearly in the minority.
something similar was done a number of years ago but cracked later. I think it was Nikon who had it and the proof of the crack was someone signed the Beatles crossing the road with a Nikon camera key.

Meanwhile secure enclaves are now possibly a lot safer, but as Kalium mentioned it might not be very attractive for everyone.

For forensics experts however it could become very useful I believe.
>JavaScript. Brendan Eich implemented the first prototype for JavaScript in 10 days, in May 1995.

>Unix. Ken Thompson wrote the first version in three weeks.

11 extra days completely worth investing.
Florida is not a close minded Commonwealth unlike my home state...
Do I need to tell you what the fuck you can do with an aluminum tube!?!
Aka Grassroot democracy
Interestingly some people see novels and plays as vital tools for creating better decision makers. By entering into another persons imagination we can experience events and lessons that we would never have access to in real life or by observing real events in our communities. So - yes, Artificial Intelligence on the page.
A Cryptographically Secure Random Number Generator relies on cryptography being correct and not breakable in a useful amount of time.

If that doesn’t hold what in the world are you using the random numbers for??

If it does hold then the whole idea of an “entropy pool” is useless cruft.

Think of it this way: AES has to look like random noise. If there is any correlation to the input detectable by someone without the key it would be useless for crypto. A CSRNG isn’t quite the same thing but you can think of it the same way: it only needs some initial entropy, just like AES needs a key. Thereafter it must be able to generate random bytes faster than they could possibly be consumed (TB/s or more) without disclosing any information about its internal state or it is a useless CSRNG whether the entropy pool exists or not.
It’s interesting that “The Epoch Media Group” is funded by Falun Gong.
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Show HN: An opinionated template for building browser extensions with scala-JS
After working a bit with extensions, I noticed some tricky details, this opinionated template can help you to get started easily to build browser extensions without thinking much about the architecture.

It is far from perfect but it's a good starting point for people getting into browser extensions, I hope it helps, feedback welcome.
“Information wants to be free.”

The iconic phrase is attributed to Stewart Brand,[1] who, in the late 1960s, founded the Whole Earth Catalog and argued that technology could be liberating rather than oppressing.[2] The earliest recorded occurrence of the expression was at the first Hackers Conference in 1984. Brand told Steve Wozniak:[3]

From Wikipedia.
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I have ADHD and discovering that setting was a godsend. It's definitely reduced the number of ublock origin rules I've had to create.