skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand the point in using ~/.local/bin and then putting it in your PATH. The point of treating /usr/local/bin and the other root-owned binary directories specially is that they are in your path, which means that if you type "ls" you want to run "ls" and not something untrusted. For that reason, anything you put in your PATH needs to be treated exactly with as much care as anything you install in /bin. The only difference might be that you don't affect other users on the same system, in a multi-user environment (which is increasingly rare). It might be convenient if you wanted to be able to clean up an entire installation by deleting one directory, but it's not a security feature.

Don't install binaries anywhere in your path if you don't trust them or know where they came from. (Also, sibling is correct that first location found wins when searching PATH for a command name.)

Also, it's not unreasonable to trust npm packages just like OS packages if you know who released it. NPM names are first-come, first-served, and once allocated, they are permanent. If you know and trust the person who released the package, there's nothing wrong with trusting the package. This was, in fact, the norm when npm was new and the community was small and most people knew each other. The only problem is with treating npm like a vetted distro like Debian, and assuming that anything on npm is safe to install without any connection to the author (or 1001 dependencies). That's where everything started to go sideways.
>if it was so clear cut and widespread, these vaccines would be pulled from the market yesterday

bipson, Ever read of Vioxx or Thalidomide? Yes it was pulled, a tad late though. What is the point that you are trying to make that somebody doesn't already know?
I can recommend "Practical Vim" which is a great book.

Regarding vim-adventures, I just gave it a try for the first time and while it does seem quite fun it puts a massive amount of emphasis on h and l to move left and right (that's all you start with, and even though you unlock w, e and b soon enough you can't use them outside of text tiles).

I hardly ever use h and l. There's almost always a better and faster way to move around, be it w, e, b (and their uppercase variants) or f/t/F/T. I think the only time I ever use h and l is when I need to move inside a word (fairly rare), or when I want to do something like "remove the next 4 letters and insert something instead" in which case I'd do something like c4l. Also commands that operate on words or look for specific anchor characters compose much better for . or macros.
It was very well laid out and understandable. I found myself wishing for a parenthesis-matching capability in my zsh though! I also liked the informal/joking conversational style of the tutorial/walkthrough. It helped to put me at ease while learning something new. And having it written in Go, and with Go's simple installation method, makes me way more likely to use it in the future :) Nice job!
Perhaps it should be moved to wikibooks or have another project for opinion pieces.
But why is Rust a problem there? Surely it is not fundamentally incompatible with 32-bit architectures?
You are generally correct that contracts do not have to have a paper record, however in the United States, it's usually a state law that real estate contracts have to be in writing. It's a legal concept called the statute of frauds.
I should have thought about things more. I think this is a case of confirmation bias on my part.

I thought "what about dynamically resizing" and quickly googled complexity of rehashing a hash which confirmed my thought that it was n.

I guess I didn't think that since we must have inserted n values in at this point, we could just say "insertion is O(1)" and the constant factor would be "performing two hashes" if we are going to a point where it's resizing, i.e. pay the cost of hashing once and rehashing once.

that feels like it makes sense. I'm being a bit hand-wavy as I don't want to sit down with pen and paper.

I retract my incorrect statement above. (I can no longer edit it to add postscript retraction.)
that's why I use chrome
Is there something close to it in the modern sense then?
Fatal Currents – Low Head Dam Presentation
International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation&recovery
You should really compare it directly to your other options. I recently moved to London from the north of England and was also somewhat reluctant at first exactly because of the higher cost and possibly lower quality of life.
The reason the article is annoying is that there could be some very interesting criticisms based on what was written. "P-hacking" and related statistical fudging is a valid concern, but you need technical details. The skepticism towards black holes because of skepticism towards singularities is an interesting idea. As such, it just seems like naysayer fluff.
That is an awfully specific bug. I can see how it went undetected. But what could trigger this?
Might be silly question but is there a technique to rapidly program FPGA's without interrupting other processes. Say I have multiple soft-CPU's and only want to use my gates to enable ethernet once its needed or the user plugs in?
Chrome fixed that a few months ago.

There's no tab scrolling, but the many tabs that are visible don't break any more.
The US government also has their own set of security requirements for AWS regions in the USA that serve the US government.
I for one prefer tab overflow (ans thus scrolling) over the Chrome nightmare that becomes /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ where I have to mouseover to try and find the tab I want rather than being able to visually identify it with a glance.

My other bugbear with Chrome tabs is the inability to make all new tabs get added to the end of the list rather than after the active tab, in FF it's just a simple `about:config` option: `browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent=false`
App-Delivered Mindfulness Makes It Easier to Forget Your Fears
> And if you zoom in somehow, you cannot pan over the page because Firefox act like you are seeing full screen and trying to go back or forward in browser history.

Need to first pan at least a bit vertically, then it allows horizontal panning. But yeah, clearly not a finished feature yet. Still nice to see there's progress, and it's already mostly usable with the mentioned caveats.
Could you stop mingling "flu like symptoms" with "serious ongoing consequences"?

Every single Flu-vaccine has a high probability of showing flu-like symptoms. These are from a medicinal standpoint nothing compared to the seriousness of the real flu.

Even MMR-Vaccines are expected to cause a harmless form of "vaccine-measles", which can show up as mild rash, low fever, etc. Again, no these are not to be concerned about.

These vaccination-associated symptoms are widely harmless and there is no reason to mingle them with ongoing side-effects caused by vaccinations.
So this is much like UEFI secure-boot then?
Second-guessing yourself leads to worse decisions, study finds
also handily nosed past Intel's most recent full-on gaming CPU, the i7-9700K, on both content creation and physics engine benchmarks, despite being a mobile form factor with under half the TDP.

...wow
no-one will take her seriously unless she publishes an actual detailed rebuttal of the black hole algorithm, rather than just sniping with her opinion from a blog.

It's nothing to do with what she feels like doing, or gatekeepeers, etc.

If she disputes the methods, she should make a substantiated argument - of course any format would be fine.
Came here to mention this! Recently I spent some time evaluating snips, doing some research and looking at documentation without actually starting anything.

Decided to dive in, only to realize they blocked new console sign-ups, having been acquired by Sonos. Waste of time, I blame Sonos.
Can someone here please explain to me what the issue is?
Firefox downloads non-free binaries in order to read some codecs by default, and this issue states that firefox should not download the codec by default because it is non-free, which is against debian's philosophy, is that correct?
It may take forever for a vendor to make a Mini PC like NUC which is comparable with AMD CPUs. I assume the chicken and egg problem here because the market is small and Intel NUC is already well established.
You stop because what you are doing is typing a lot of words without saying anything useful. You’re being a bully.

Observations are useful. Even mistaken ones.

Saying "It looks like..." is stating a fact. What else is someone supposed to say if that’s what it looks like to them?

It doesn't crowd out "fact-driven discussion".

It's not disrespectful or potentially harmful.

Anything could be mistaken, even empirical evidence. Even what you think is a fact...can be wrong.

> And to top it off, it's useless. Totally useless. Nobody walks away with a deeper understanding. No new perspectives. Just screaming into a void.

That's you. You're being ridiculous. You're over-reacting. You haven't produced any evidence to backup your opinion that speculation is harmful or crowds out your so-called "fact-driven" discussion, or that what is said here on HN has any effect whatsoever on anything going on with this story. Just stop it.
I don't fully understand why the anecdote at the beginning of the story happened. Colorado is one of the states that expanded Medicaid. Why did the person in question not get on Medicaid during the window after she lost her job at Walmart? Did she not know about it? Do I not have a correct understanding of how the ACA and Medicaid work?
>Thinking back to it, I wonder how I was able to use ssh and tools like grep, ps and kill but did not know how to operate basic vi ...

This has become a recurring thing for me to the point where I sometimes feel like I'm not as intelligent as I used to be. I'll need to look at requirements around older existing code, so I use git blame to see the commit history. It occasionally leads to me to some older code that I had written, and sometimes I marvel at how I was able to figure out or troubleshoot the issue.

One of the earliest examples in my professional career is using Threads. I had an academic understanding of threads. My practical knowledge around them was dubious at best. With the help of Stack Overflow and lots of web searching, I cobbled together a thread manager that can spawn separate threads for asynchronous web requests and kill a web request after X amount of time. I even made sure that error handling redirected gracefully should one of those threads get killed. That code (with no changes to the core functionality) still exists to this day.
:h
or failing that, the tried and trusted
:!man vim

Though I'm wondering how many have discovered the first one with some frantic help me after typing the : and got there by accident.

Oh you can apparently just hit F1 in vim, wow.
“the fact remains ... one is existentially founded on dogma, and the other isn’t.”

You’ve responded to a rhetorical challenge against your position by essentially stating your position, which is circular thinking. It’s not a “fact” or even a forgone conclusion that religion is, by necessity, more dogmatic than any other human activity. Humans engage in political dogmatism every day, for example, perhaps even rivaling religion in certain regions and at certain points. Non-religious dogma has also fueled many recent wars.
I guess the automated test suite just got larger. Testing all approaches on all runways on all airports worldwide...
Mark Shuttleworth’s Predictions for 2020
There will always be an abstract layer over which the user cannot/will not observe.

Until we mere mortals are capable of growing our own chips in carefully maintained vats, we are always going to be at the mercy of the wizards in their high tower, which represents the computing world today.

Computers are simply not something we can safely trust, for as long as they are built from a wide and diverse variety of components, and even then there is not a clear or responsible class of society capable of providing safe audits of silicon designs, without being immediately corruptible.

The only ways computing can contribute to trust is when society evolves, hopefully using a bit of computing power along the way, to trust itself inherently.

Even these third-party, open-source, audited systems are too untrustworthy. We need complete and open design and manufacture, the entire chain audited along the way, to come even close to having trustworthy systems.

With this in mind, I resist efforts of third parties to claim safe/security in their system integration efforts. Please, by all means maintain enthusiasm for the subject, but wake me up when the vat is warming up and the chips are growable, locally ..
E-books have some advantages over live humans for children's learning
* Wake up

* Make coffee

* Consume coffee

edit: I'm only being half-flippant here. The routine of making a pour-over coffee for the wife, then an espresso for myself is a great way to clear the fog and get my mind prepared for the day ahead. I tend to start my work day immediately after these steps, coffee in hand I can knock out the low-hanging fruit from the previous night's emails. After an hour or so I can walk the dog, take a shower, and then get back to work to dig into the day's problems that take a little more energy and focus.
1. Yes, I heard about them. And the point remains, as soon as their effects were discovered, they were pulled.

2. These are not vaccines, but medications. So this has virtually nothing to do with "known vaccine-induced ongoing illnesses"
As a FF linux user both at home and at work I can't say I've ever noticed FF being consistently slower. Having said that I have used nothing but FF for the last 20odd years so maybe I'm just used to it...
> I'll be glad if npm/yarn notifies me in the future.

Will they actually warn the user if this happens? The npm blog post was unclear on this point:

https://blog.npmjs.org/post/189618601100/binary-planting-wit...
Agreed, that's why I said it was "probably well underestimated"; but even then if 20% of Americans don't have $500 in savings[0], it feels like "everyone" is at best something between 50-80%.

[0] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/half-of-americans-are-just...
Paul Graham wants to combine different Y chromosomes to create genius companies, because he believes everything that makes humanity great can be found on the Y chromosome.
Newton’s theory of gravitation wasn’t tossed out; general relativity produces Newtonian gravity within certain parameters. Lots of theories are perfectly valid in a limited domain, while not being “fundamental”.
Since the audience here is developer-centric, I would like to share that I contributed a small amount of code to jellyfin and the interaction with the developers was very positive.
The account of the German researcher pricking her finger with a needle containing the Ebola virus... Oh man, that's terrifying. It's very reassuring to hear the vaccine worked out for her.
Ahem, "Mini PC" please.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-mini-pc-intel-nuc-ecos...
I’m getting happier and happier that my usual airline (Swiss) has a mostly-Airbus fleet.
Desal may be too little too late. Here in Sydney the desal plant is operating at full capacity and supplying 15% (250Ml/day) of needs. There is talk of expanding it to 30%, but how many years off will it be when the surface water supply is already down to 40% storage capacity? Oh and of course the desal plant doesn’t actually serve the entire city, mush less the metro.

http://www.sydneywater.com.au/SW/water-the-environment/how-w...
I used Anki for my ML grad (wish I did for undergrad). Formed a card for each subproblem of a problem in a pset, theorem, lemma, general concept, and definition---and for each of these things, using the 20 rules of learning from supermemo (? i think). I also used it for easily grokked things that I wanted to make a habit. Made a deck for each class, and also made a deck for talks and seminars I visited, grouped by semester.

Super useful. I feel like I don't really forget the majority of the vibes like I did for my astro undergrad. I remember GR a lot less than convex opt even though I spent many more hours of rigorous study and even though I revisited my GR material more. Revisiting my astro notes is still effective for those little details, but getting all the context into my working memory is much more exhausting.
Revealing the Cognitive Sorcery of Human Intelligence
Google Speech API see other comment for link has speaker diarization in beta i.e automatic predictions about which of the speakers in a conversation spoke.

On top of this you can add 5000 names for company specific entity recognition for product, people, brand names etc.

120 different languages are supported.
It could take as long as -1 years.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-mini-pc-intel-nuc-ecos...
I think it depends on what you mean by "dark matter" and "dark energy". If you think they're theorized substances or energy sources (which seems to be the preferred interpretation in the press), then, yeah, there seems to be a decent chance that that will be the case.

If you think, as more cautiously-minded folks seem to, that they're just clever catchwords to describe troubling lacunae in our understanding of how the universe works, not so much. There really are observations that we have trouble explaining.
I see where you're coming from, but to me that's a bit different.

1. iOS heavily deemphasizes the concept of a filesystem. So when I download something, what I'm really doing is "sharing" that media with another app.

2. I associate iOS's box-and-arrow icon with more than just "sharing". This player doesn't have an icon, you literally have to click text that reads "share".

It's perfectly possible the people who designed this player thought they were referencing iOS, but IMO they very much missed the mark. (Not to imply that iOS's method is particularly good UX either!)
Not really, no. The only parallel is that you're putting things into buckets, but other than that they're very different algorithms.
You are not able to predict who is going to die of an overdose -- let alone because of your gift (ie suggeseting they wouldn't have otherwise, it is your gift that led to that).

So you can decide to treat everyone with dignity as an adult, or nobody with dignity as an adult. You are advocating for nobody (or at least nobody who is on the streets), out of an abundance of 'caution'.

You are mistaken if you think you are helping people by being an asshole to them. But it is certainly your right to do so.
Perhaps it was (relatively) easy. What made it easy was precisely that it was Apple: full & willing integration with the iOS ecosystem. A couple UI clicks/taps, if not outright automatic, and your AirPods are happily talking to the device you want to hear from.

All competitors have to cope with interface limitations and API inadequacies. Even one extra obligatory UI step can practically ruin the experience (as compared to AirPods).

Getting to the point where deep integration is easy ... is hard.
Dark matter is NOT the same thing as dark energy.
the same argument could be made for elderly care. how many people in {insert poor country} could have been saved for the cost of one day your grandma spent in a hospital?

most people have to work to accumulate money. once they've done so, they are a lot more likely to spend it on people and animals they know and love than some people on the other side of the world they've never met. I don't think this is inherently wrong.
> In a sign of the potential difficulties facing crash investigators, the head of Iran's civil aviation organisation was quoted as saying the Ukrainian plane's black box would not be handed over, either to Boeing or the Americans.

Would they hand it over to Ukraine who could then hand it over to Boeing? If not, how likely is it the investigation will be reliable?
Warren Buffet recommended investing in the companies who make products you can't not use.
Well, MACHOs are one hypothesis for explaining dark matter, and they're typically considered to include (but not be limited to) black holes.
I interacted with an Aibo in a Sony showroom in Tokyo, it wowed me at first but it didn't react to things I tried (like shaking my hand), so I realized all I was doing was wondering how to interact with it (i.e. feed it the proper input to generate the output I wanted). So I saw it as just a program, and I thought after a day I'd probably get bored with it. I'm glad I didn't get attached to this simulacrum.
This is actually amazing! Completely changes the feel of the browser. It makes much more of a difference than I imagined it would. It feels so so much better on Mac.
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/ideasdrop

Producthunt link instead of a direct one so you can check “related” as well.
According to the article they were contacted via email and DMs first, many days before it went public. They were given enough time to verify this and respond accordingly. Also due to GDPR they are obliged to inform the users (at least those from EU) about the data breach - it is not their right to decide whether to inform or not anymore. They do not have to make a public announcement and could just send emails directly to affected users, but considering the total number of affected users I really doubt it would not become a public issue anyways.

But one thing holds: it is still not their legal right to remain silent, they are required to inform the affected users (at minimum those from EU)
One does not get a work visa for the US so easily.
It took me a while, but I finally learned Vim by forcing myself to use it at work.

A year and a half later, it has taken over my life.
That reminds me of the C-130 avionics failure when flying at negative altitude.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a26598/c-...
Indie films still get made, big actors work at scale, or certain content shifts to new platforms (e.g. streaming). The decline of independence in Hollywood has little to do with unions and more to do with unregulated, entertainment industry monopolies.
They seem to be coming https://www.asrockind.com/overview.asp?Model=4X4%20BOX-R1000...
No, I meant that when you take a job you are given a contract with clear rules about your job and for fixed durations. I was suggesting this instead of unions but this does require legislation.
Kowloon Walled City (1988)
- wake up to one or more toddlers invading my bed and wriggling around.

- avoid being kicked in the head by above

- make sure to head off preemptive tantrums before calories can be put into hungry child-faces who are unwilling to admit that they're hungry but totally are.

- make coffee and breakfast for 3-5 people

- pick up random scattered items across apartment

- have a poo

- see family off for the day's adventures

- check email

- start feeling annoyed that i'm not at work already

- resign myself to a lyft or dig out bicycle from awkward but child-proof storage location and bike to work.

I'm not sure where i'm supposed to get in 30 minutes of quiet meditation and jounaling, but i think i have the exercise covered...
I bet you can't back up a single one of your claims. Are you actually qualified to make them?
That's why they keep it over there.
"Ideas are worthless, execution is everything" means that with high probability everyone who can execute already knows your ideas.

If your idea isn't good enough for you to work on it, why would it inspire anyone else?