skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love the comments. Lennart (likely Lennart Poettering) explains why it was done, to be anonymously snarked by someone who clearly doesn't like it or him. at all. Lovely and so helpful.

I don't know if I'm a systemd fan (yeah, I'm not), but there's nothing wrong with having more than 32K PIDs. At all. If your software breaks, it's stupid and broken and needs to be fixed.
Hypermodern Python Chapter 3: Linting with Nox, Flake8, and Pre-Commit
AGPL is super-banned at all companies because lawyers deem it a huge risk. In particular it's banned at Amazon. IIRC you aren't even allowed to have AGPL software on your laptop at all.
So Afghanistan was a victory and not a loss.
Audio is not enough; you also need visual--back then when the books originally came out instructors used black boards and slide projectors.
I would say that this also depends a lot on how draining and intense your day job is. Some jobs require too much of you to be able to do anything once you are done - or do so in periods.

You will probably have to decide what is most important to you. You cannot chase and strive for promotions, extra responsibility etc. on your day job while still wanting to do your own thing in your spare time. Perhaps you need to look for a job that has less pressure and perhaps less pay, but which does not drain you.

I have just had to go through the same realization myself that I cannot chase on both fronts. And my priority is my own projects, so I will have to course correct.
I wouldn't call them real games, they're more like addiction+monetization traps. Once you finish one, if you do, you never go back to the app store looking for another one. I think that will eventually kill the market.
Did all the people at Hipmunk immediately quit? If not how come SAP Concur (TM) 's web interface still looks, works, and feels like something out of the IE6 era?
I recommend you take a look at the way kids hold their phones when doing "serious" fast-paced gaming. The 4 finger claw grip[0] is not very comfortable in the long term. I'm guessing it'll be fine for teenagers, but beyond that I could see it causing issues.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKrU4yYTGXI&t=4m51s
Minor point but the e-commerce site will not be able to read the cookie from Facebook - it will have a special code snippet on the "thank for your purchase" page. When your browser loads this page it also loads the snippet from Facebook (could be a 1x1 pixel or iframe etc etc) and your browser dutifully passes on the cookie as usual to facebook.com when it loads that snippet (i.e. facebook.com is the third party host) then Facebook's servers log the http request with the cookie ID so they mark that as a successful "conversion" (aka sale).

The browser will not make cookies from other sites available to the e-commerce site. There is no chance for the e-commerce site to take a look at what is in the Facebook cookie
> IMO its worth a serious look from biochemistry point of view.

I'm not a scientist, and certainly not a quantum physicist. But from what I understand, the main argument against this idea (that is, quantum effects within neurons - or some other biological quantum effect system) is the fact that as far as we know, such quantum effects cannot occur at any temperature near "average human body temperature".

If such could be demonstrated, it would upend a massive amount of knowledge in and around QM/QP.

But then again, dual-slit experiment? Maybe something is there? Again - far outside my understanding and knowledge, and likely is completely wrong, etc.

It might make a good science-fiction plot for a novel or something, though...
Apply principal component analysis to human DNA, and not only does race pop out, it even coincides with the 'socially constructed' categories [1,2,3]. A 2009 survey of physical anthropologists in Europe by Katarzyna Kaszycka found that 51% (N=123) recognize biological race - 33% in Western Europe, and 70% in Eastern Europe [4]. In a review of China's only biological anthropological journal Acta Anthropologica Sinica, 324 article from the 1982-2001 period that dealt with human variation. The researchers found that "all of the articles used the race concept and none of them questioned its value" [5].

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Principal_compon...

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Individual-level_hum...

[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:3D_PCA_plot_of_Xavan...

[4] http://sci-hub.tw/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2009.01076.x

[5] https://lesacreduprintemps19.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/on-...
And nowadays we have web novels with chapters every day/every few days.
The Dream of a Common Charger Is Alive–Despite Apple's Complaining
I’d be very surprised if that were even close to the average cost of a cloud datacenter server. Wouldn’t they be optimized for physical density and power efficiency (which is to say, maxed out CPU/RAM)?
I mean, how could that possibly not be true?

The easiest way to obtain an apple is to have one materialize in your hand.
Maybe Netflix? The others are just on a level with IBM or HP or MS or whoever now. Big tech companies staffed with average engineers. They are coasting on reputations earned when they were just a few hundred of the best engineers.
Jupytext can convert markdown to jupyter and back
I wonder what telegraph era memes and shitposting looked like.
What happens when the com lines are down during a storm? Will this single message still work?
The problem is that the bandwidth costs become too high. Internet streamed video can be encoded with get efficient algorithms, it can be cached at your ISP, and it doesn't care much about latency. None of these are true for game streaming. People will want a higher quality image with low latency and it's not something that can ever be cached.
And all of this incidental complexity wouldn't exist if we had a sane document-based web that doesn't allow webmasters to run scripts in the browser.
It would seem to worth looking into positive pay --- the idea is you send a daily file with the checks written, and BofA will automatically clear anything in the file, and exceptions would be sent to you for review (or maybe just rejected). It's a common feature for corporate accounts, because it eliminates check modification fraud.
> I don’t know of any famous streamers seriously playing on mobile.

The second largest streamer in Germany (I think top 20 world wide or something) regularly streams the mobile game "Clash of Clans". I've seen streams with 20k viewers and more streaming things like "Black Desert Mobile" and "Call of Duty Mobile", too.
my wife and i are in our mid-50's. Here in NM, we have $1095/month with a $6600 deductible each. I'm happy paying 10 of our income for health insurance, but only if we actually get health coverage without that kind of deductible.
Ask HN: Unix-like tools for reverse engineering
Hi, HN! Do you know of any toolkit for reverse engineering based on the Unix philosophy (i.e., specific tools for specific tasks, instead of a large application)?

While Ghidra and IDA Pro are great, a set of CLI tools for analyzing the shape of the call graph, finding program patterns (e.g., a sequence of instructions that could be a hash function), etc. might be useful, in case there isn't a toolkit yet.

If such a toolkit doesn't exist, is it an actual need in the professional reverse engineering community, or just a nice-to-have?
One problem is that tenure and standing for established scientists no longer afford any of the expected protections. James Watson was not discredited but promptly fired and "disgraced" for stating a well-supported scientific finding in abrupt layman's terms for an interview. The minds of cancel culture would probably say they gave this dinosaur enough chances to fade away, but he wouldn't. If they do want scientists to be free to investigate the genetic and other bases of IQ further in order to find better answers, then it seems like they want scientists to first find a way to talk about it publicly without specifying the categories or where members of a category tend to fall on the scale.

There is a chilling effect on various lines of inquiry. For now, you can claim the information is out there, but any further writings could become more esoteric or limited. In the case of IQ, I don't think certain people want scientific answers as to why. They would rather assume IQ is highly malleable while they run social and economic experiments to find ways to equalize it and other factors that predict success.
Thanks for sharing your experience! One of the things that keep drawing me to HN is the fresh news and the friendly community.
> Fortnite and Minecraft have cross-play with consoles and PC.

Who plays the Bedrock Edition on PC, though?
" can get you crucified in some circles."

That's....not exactly the same as being globally suppressed. Stephen Pinker seems to have not only survived but done quite well.
I would assume not; most people have this safety net. Having one or two parents with a couch you could sleep on is standard.
Final Images from Cassini Spacecraft (Planet Saturn)
I quoted from the code comment.
Tips for Writing Better C# Code
This depend a lot on the app. If you're selling an oil and gas company on something that will better forecast their well production over the next decade, no one cares.

The big things to consider about your product are

Will you get another chance to pitch these people? If your potential customer are accountants you can pitch with a more minimum mvp. And if they don't like it just make it nicer. If you are leveraging your connections to sell to a fortune 500 company than you need make sure it's more polished.

Are the people who are going to be buying your product also going to be using it?
For instance if VP's will be buying it for their operators they will care less about look for screens they won't use.

Are your selling to organizations/business or consumers?
Organizations will care less about look and feel.

How many competitors do you have?
If you have a bunch of competitors than you need to distinguish yourself more with a great look and feel. If you don't have any it's not as big of a deal.

How much value are you adding to your end users
If you're adding a lot of value then look and feel is less important.

How are you distinguishing yourself from the competition based on look&feel, capabilities, or price?
If it's capabilities or price it's not as important.(They do x, and we do x but for $50/month versus

In the end it's all about what's your sales pitch and branding to the end user.

Why are they using your product versus using a competitor or not using your product at all? How much will look and feel influence are part of this decision?
How to Create a Chatbot with Python
Probably depends a lot on your location and size/value of the company you apply at.

In Europe, at the top big companies that pay good, GitHub profiles don't matter much. They get so many applications and hiring managers are so busy that they barely get enough time to read your resume thoroughly before the interview let alone have any time to look at your GitHub.

HR that makes the initial screening has no idea about code so candidate selection is mostly based on
graduating from a prestigious University or work experience at other prestigious company so having a stellar GitHub profile won't do anything to get your foot in the door but it might sway the final decision in your favor later on in the process when managers have more time to decide.
Create a Modern Desktop Application with Electron, Bootstrap and Express.js
Crypto is hard. Choose your libraries carefully, stay updated and for Zimmermann's sake: don't roll your own.
Congrats,

Even I dont work directly in programming, its still benefit a lot for me, HN is my second search engine.
This would be true if there weren’t several examples of countries that know how to do it. EU and ANZ come to mind. There’s a thread above describing the details so I won’t repeat them again.
> West Africans and East African are of the same race, but differ in the case of marathon outcomes. Why can’t this be true for intellect?

It can be. Among Africans Igbo show much higher levels of educational attainment than others. I’m sure there are other groups this is true of.

> Discrimination is not some leftist fantasy. Black Americans have been systematically deprived of quality environments for over 400 years. I am talking about truly horrific intellectual deprivation from making it illegal to read during slavery to living in highly polluted sections of segregated cities today.
When we talk about intellectual disparities history needs to be part of the conversation.

I agree. For example Irish IQ scores were historically lower than English and this is no longer true.
Public housing doesn't need to be brutalist or massive projects. In fact, projects and tenements come with much larger maintenance costs.

Read up on Red Vienna, social housing in Paris/Belgium, and some of the successful scattered site and suburban public housing efforts in the US.
Lifetimes of interstellar dust from cosmic ray exposure ages of presolar silicon
> On public, unprotected Wi-Fi, a VPN adds a layer of security by masking your IP address.

Haha, WTF did I just read?
In 30 minutes I can pick up where I left off and write most of a blog post so i can definitely see it working for writing or the like but I'm gonna get much less programming done than if I worked continuously for a while.
Looks great. I've gone through the comments but might missed it - Could you share a bit on what you used to develop this? language? frameworks? thanks!
Depends on how much you argue with the authors.
My parents at a few years older than you get bronze HSA PPO at ~$2k per month for both with a $13k oop max and a $5k or something deductible.

The thing about health coverage is that you either pay via your premium or via deductible/oop max, but there is no escape. The health insurance is there to protect you from losing your assets from costs over the out of pocket maximum.

Since you’re in mid 50s, even the astronomical amount you pay is actually being subsidized by younger people, since your premium is capped as a multiple of someone in their young 20s.

Otherwise, you’re real health insurance premium would be even higher. That’s just how expensive healthcare is in the US, and how guaranteed you are to needing it as you get older.
He wasn't commenting on which factors cause difference in test scores. He was simply saying that the test scores are different.

But it's become an unfortunate pattern that when people bring up the difference in scores, other people (like you) presume that mentioning the correlation data itself is akin to arguing that they are caused by genetic factors, and then attack them for not mentioning the environmental factors.
One thing to remember is the fear that surrounded the export of cryptographic technology from the US and ITAR and all the rest of it at the time. And then there was the whole key escrow fiasco with Lotus Notes.

So just be careful viewing the incident from 2020 with the purported benefit of decades of hindsight.

Disclaimer: I’m the guy who first found it and announced it at the rump session of the Crypto conference in Santa Barbara that year...
Herbert Marcuse's essay "Repressive Tolerance" is required reading when discussing these issues, it's where it all started:

https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/publications/1960s/1965-repr...
How many hours is part time?
I'd suggest maybe contacting very small consulting firms, 1-3 man shops that share a tech stack with you. These firms will have occasionally need more work than can handle but won't have the pipeline to hire a full time individual.

Just send them a link to your github profile on linkedin.
Oh I don't doubt that top-tier universities can still be a tough call when the alternative is a free ride, especially from 20+ years ago. In retrospect my comment left out the fact that a substantial portion of students admitted to Ivy league schools (or MIT, all part of the Overlap Group that got prosecuted by the Justice Department back in the early 90s for student aid price-fixing) do in fact get full scholarships for other schools, which can make the calculus for these schools less rosy (e.g. 8k per year, while cheaper than a 20k state school, still is a lot more than 0).

It's just usually not the case that you'll graduate with hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt, at least these days. It's quite rare IIRC among students receiving financial aid to graduate with more than several thousand dollars of debt from an Ivy over four years, and if you go back several decades I'm fairly certain those numbers go up, but I'd be rather shocked if they went up by more than an order of magnitude.

The OP got really screwed by the Singaporean situation, where if you don't fulfill the post-graduation government work posting obligations, the Singaporean government will claw back all the money it gave you for college plus interest.
None of his racist, sexist and homophobic comments are conclusions drawn from his work. He is just a foul and bitter man whose terrible personal views are sadly and foolishly taken seriously, due to his prestige and authority.

YOU tell me how any of these bold and outlandish claims are actually based on sound research and logic.
Very interesting take. Good description of Pornins thoughts.

By the way, when you say closed src allowed... do other libs in the opensrc space check the curve Params?
Iran's Railway Revolution (2015)
Larger companies have great programs, but also have large company problems which in many ways often aren't IT problems.
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Whoa crap, I googled hypatia and realized I've been seeing her profile on OKCupid for like 15 years now. Glad I'm the only nerd who can't keep a relationship together!
Mail is not hard, but it’s horrible (or “securitywashing”)
Oh, you nailed it with “symptoms of continuous churn and restructuring”.

Just yesterday I was chatting with my manager about the “legacies that never die” which dramatically multiply complexity and spread the teams even more thinly...
> But the jets? Sigh. You can't make a jet engine in a machine shop.

Is this really because of the digitization of things, or because modern jet engines are just that complex on all accounts?

I mean, the act of making the turbine blades only uses some of the most advanced metallurgy techniques known to man. It's not just putting things together the same way you can install a transmission to a chassis or a hard drive to a computer.

As a counterpoint, though - I bet you could make a jet engine in a machine shop. It would be terribly inefficient, loud, unreliable, but there is really nothing stopping you from making something that can produce the thrust necessary for flight (up to an extent). After all, the people in the '40s were blessed with even less resources and information than we have now, and they got it to work.
Ok, you can have the simulation of cells and neurotramsmitters, but what is the model of how they work? You are justmaking stuff up. It is not the same at all. It's cargo-cult level hubris.
Berlin needs to rethink waste management. We live in one of the described buildings and our bins are full 1 day after collection but only get collected every 2 weeks. We have to walk by them to get to our apartment. Needless to say it becomes very gross very quickly. Additionally the collectors do the bare minimum meaning that there is loads of trash including broken glass etc left over after every collection. As a parent of a toddler this is particularly nerve wracking.
Europe and Australia/NZ solved this decade(s) ago.
An interactive Xkcd comic: How far can __ throw __?
> The Soviets were kicked out by the Taliban

No, they weren't. The Taliban didn't exist until much later, the group that the Soviets were forced out by became the government and then later fragmented into a number of different factions. The Taliban was one of them, but so were many of the factions fighting against the Taliban.
Awesome, congratulations and thanks for sharing your story :)
+1 to waterloo. So many successful and productive individuals come out of there.
No, you should tell us how they are not based on sound research and logic.

Of course, some of what he says may just be his personal opinions. You say that he is a foul and bitter man with terrible personal views, but that is your own opinion and not objectively true.
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That's interesting; points towards "emergent from low level structure".

I wonder if it's possible to quantify concousness and how much of it you loose it. It seems like it's not half/half split, ie. 1+1 != 2; can you split them again and how far you can do it.

I also wonder what would happen if you left them to be for a while and then connect them back, would they merge or stay diverged.

Maybe you could run it on ordinary neural net, it would be easier to quantify. Maybe some numbers would reveal something interesting, ie. maybe neural nets are exponentially better when connected and that's the whole trick. It won't answer questions about counciousness directly though.
It is not just the elderly who can be victimized. These callers use sophisticated scripts to scare people, engaging the fight-or-flight reflex. Once you feel profoundly threatened, parts of your brain physically shut down, quickly making you far dumber and more easily manipulated by somebody promising to save you.

Plenty of smart, young engineers have fallen for phishing scams with similar structures. The elderly and ignorant are especially vulnerable, but every single one of us, without exception, is vulnerable to being conned.

We'll usually agree afterwards that it could have been easy to see from the right perspective. Hindsight blinds us to the reasons people are vulnerable in the first place.
My dad sometimes works as a parking lot manager for a popular field trip location. He says the skill level for school bus drivers is hugely variable. Some smoothly traverse the parking lot, others with the same bus model have a really hard time. Some are appropriately cautious, some do not pay enough attention and are dangerous. Etc.
A lot, actually. It is probably easiest way how the couple can do something together, rest and cuddle while doing it and have something to talk about afterwards. You can do it together with kids while browsing on the phone - you are there and available while not forced to participate too much too.
You're making a lot of assumptions about touch controls. They work much better than you think for people who has grown up with mobile only.
Yes, if people have other better opportunities then they’re likely to pursue those. I highly doubt they dissipate entirely, if only because biomechanics don’t change. Being tall and skinny with long legs compared to most people will place those of East African ancestry at an advantage for long distance running regardless of culture. As the East African diaspora increases you’ll see more nationalities represented among successful long distance runners but I doubt there’ll be much dispersion in the ancestry of successful long distance runners. The West African diaspora are dominant in sprinting worldwide to a ridiculous extent. I think there are two men ever who don’t fit that profile among those who have run 100m in under ten seconds.