skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Atheists are exactly the same as knitters that they succumbed to purity spiral. There was even one lady complaining about selling "fake" jewelry, being sold at convention which I think was any jewelry that's similar to the one she sold.

Atheists just got hit harder because people can just withdraw from atheist community. Knitters have harder time doing that because it's (part of?) their income. They have to play the game the way it is played.

If atheist community was to defend itself from purity spiral it would have to look something like that:

When news of sexual misconduct started popping up they should issue just one statement. "This society is about atheism. We are not in the business of promoting moral behavior. We will do everything that is required by law but nothing more. You can get molested in any large gathering of people. Atheists are not significantly more moral than average people. We can't and we won't attempt to provide you with complete safety or any illusion of it."

Unfortunately people took the bait, got uplifted and thought it's the right thing to do and that it helps them. That was the spiral. Then audience moved away because society stopped being about what they were interested in.

This article has really good observation. Parallels to pre-internet purity spirals are very interesting. Seems it could work with printing press (+direct contact in densely populated cities). It worked way better when radio was discovered. But internet makes it possible to consume any community.
No, Mozilla needs to keep focusing on Mozilla and trying to make it better than Chromium. Competition is essential. They're the only ones left other than Apple now that Microsoft has given up.
Rust has its share of random-feeling nonsense, like requiring PhantomData to "work around" unused type params, or that you can't compare arrays longer than 32 elements.
Or you could use regular tab stop characters to align parts of adjacent lines. That's the idea behind elastic tabstops: http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/

Not all editors, however, support this style of alignment, even if they support plugins (looks at vim and its forks).
Sure, if you don't care about the false positive rate of your prediction function.
The way I author my Electron apps to avoid this is to have a HTTP/Websocket server spin up at a random port, and then use that process to open an Electron window, with Node integration disabled.

This then becomes exactly the same as writing a web app, with anything that cannot be done by the renderer (Ex: file access) being done by the 'server'. Always wondered why this was not an officially strictly recommended way of doing this.
What hard work? How many devs do you have to pay off to write a handful of lines of code manipulating a secret ballot, especially when they may be willing because of personal bias? We know electronic voting in its current implementation is severely vulnerable to tampering, both external and internal.
Brexit: What trade deals has the UK done so far?
You should be able to make the webserver reverse proxy from https://eliot-jones.com/hntrends to http://localhost:5690, e.g. with nginx [0] and httpd [1]

[0]: https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/web-server/reverse-...
[1]: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/reverse_proxy.html
They should have worked with the USDA (D for digital)
Thinc (Python): Functional take on deep learning, compatible with your libraries
This is the one downside of Let's Encrypt. They made running https scam sites cheap and easy. I still think having https everywhere is worth the trade off, but the downside should be acknowledged.

I wish there were an EV certificate like alternative for sites where actual money is involved (banking, hotels, etc) which cost a decent amount of money, so that at least the cost of running these scams would go up. For example, airbnb paying $1000 for one of these certificates would be a rounding error to them, but it would stop a lot of scam sites.

EDIT:

Right now the issue is the phishing protection is reactive in that we try to flag bad sites after the fact. I wish there was someway to make it proactive so that good sites could be attested to.
They are bright enough to be visible.
> (I am interpreting your comment as being fatigued of/damaged by very specific frequencies in a way that it would not be fatigued/damaged for the same amount of energy spread out over a wider range still within the given cone's sensitivity range.)

Yep, that's my concern. I don't know if anyone's done long-term studies about low-level light of identical wavelength.

I mean, on the one hand, people used to be afraid of fast-moving vehicles, convinced that it was impossible for a human body to survive going faster than 40 miles per hour.

But on the other hand, people used to strap radium to their faces because they thought it was a cure-all, too.
Trivial backdoor found in HiSilicon's firmware for net-connected cams, recorders
Why is downloading a native app easier for Average Joe than clicking a link to a web app that's served with appropriate Cache-Control headers and uses localStorage?
The myth of the Great British Brexit trade policy (2019)
Some people use LineageOS and others, and don't install platform libraries that are proprietary, so this information is more relevant to them and not so much to you.
> 1.12 seems to specifically address their performance concern

Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. Maybe 1.14 has a performance regression with their specific load and they get screwed.

We'll never know. You know why? They permanently solved their GC problems by eliminating GC.

That's the smart play.
Hey, at least then your banking information will be known by the 'intended' scammer, not others that may be listening in the wire :)
The article is pretty much junk because it completely misses the fact that the very existence of aerodynamic lift relies on Coandă effect (i.e. airflow "sticking" to a smooth surface) which in turn is the consequence of viscosity (very close to surface air molecules aren't moving relative to the surface, and far they're moving fast, so viscosity creates a transition layer with different speeds, which creates the force pushing the molecules towards the surface, which results in vertical motion of air downwards, which creates the opposite force (i.e. the lift) on the surface by Newton's 3rd law). The very same effect can be seen as air being pulled down above the wing, resulting in smaller pressure which "sucks" the wing up. Oh, and because air molecules need to fill the space they need to accelerate horizontally - thus resulting in behavior seen as Bernoulli's law.

The two basic explanations of lift are not alternatives; they're simply the different aspects of the same process. It's just that Bernoulli's law is not fundamental, it's a consequence of viscosity and Newton's laws of motion.

A propos: there are fluids which have zero viscosity. Wings do not generate lift in them.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Alembert%27s_paradox
You are. But gently spread the word so you become less of an outlier. :-)
Real estate is a very fragile system with all sorts of crazy scams. Deed fraud is a thing — people buy houses and incompetent banks write loans on houses that aren’t for sale.

There were a bunch of cases in Brooklyn a few years ago, some were related to corrupt officials in the Surrogate/Probate court and deceased persons property. Others were grifts affecting unoccupied properties. The system isn't really designed to stop these sorts of frauds.
That might be true, but if I get to choose between someone with no industry experience, and another person with no industry experience whose mind has been poisoned by a certificate mill, I’m taking the former. Those boot camps are, literally, worse than useless.
Interesting. Are you from Canada?
Hire you based on that? ... there might be a tad more to the process than that!
I believe that's the point of the episode - people go far out of their way to elaborately avoid getting help or working on their problems - or to even acknowledge they have problems in the first place. Rick is willing to turn himself into a pickle and fight to the death in the sewers before he talks to his daughter about his mental health.
You are right, in the deepest recesses there is crossover. Stripe, media companies/FB for ad buys, Microsoft Azure, AWS. It is very rare anywhere else.
Attacking Ruby on Rails applications (2016)
3M sells face masks. Purnell sells hand sanitizers. Would be interesting to see how their stock does during a pandemic.

Note: I’m not saying buy 3M and Purell stock. I’m just saying, if there’s an impending pandemic, there are probably businesses who will see a rise in demand due to the pandemic. What’s going on in the parts of China right now where there are quarantines? How has that shifted demand for goods and services?
True. I remember the scheduling debacle of 2016, the leaked debate material, etc. That was 2016.

This year they have just recently changed the debate rules to allow Bloomberg to get in. If I were one of the other candidates, I would be ticked.

I think the DNC is anything but neutral. They seem to strongly put their thumb on the scale.
Squashing isn't rebasing, period.

The connection between the two is that git has a script called git rebase, which has an interactive mode, and that can squash commits.

git merge has squash functionality also (git merge --squash).
The cherry picked review is consistent with the numerous horror stories from the industry.
Ask Jamie about speaking up to Sid and the board.
>There are not a lot of companies that make software for Democrats because it’s an awful job. You make very little money. Everyone hates you when things go wrong, which they will, because the product testing cycle and margins are nonexistent. Then everyone will assume things went wrong because...

In other words it's exactly the kind of business that attracts activist types who have non-monetary motivations and it could therefore present an opportunity for tampering, particularly since any discrepancies can be dismissed as bugs from underfunding and rushed development.

Whatever is actually going on, the system is clearly insanely broken.
Eh, disabling the camera is also risky. First carrying a paintball gun is a great way to get shot in many places in the US on its own, especially when committing another crime. Second, by the time you've disabled the camera it is very likely you're already on the film somewhere.

And it also depends on how serious of crime one is committing. When working for defense attorneys years ago, it was not uncommon to be on a case involving data recovery by the FBI because a person lit the building on fire because there was a camera in their somewhere.
What I'm left wondering is: what is the payoff for these scams? These aren't easy to scale, as you need to be manually writing plausible looking, personalized emails, waiting for someone to take the bait, "nurture" them over days or weeks, etc. Also you need specific, valuable skills: between the social engineering, the actual engineering, the perfect grammar, the creativity, someone who can pull this off can definitely get a high-paying, honest job pretty much anywhere. Add to that the hassle of having to constantly change web hosts, stories, payment processors, etc. as you're constantly going to be chased by your previously scammed "customers", and the very real risk of prosecution. The payoff must be ENORMOUS for it to be worth all this trouble. What am I missing?
Democrat money went to Drupal? Can you please describe further? (Just curious, it sounds like a good story.)
Top Affiliate Network Publishers Should Join in 2020
I, Robot – first commercial game with filled polygons
To be fair my last apartment I rented off Craigslist:

- He paid me $1000 to move in

- Gave me all of his furniture for free

- Paid my application fee

I actually got the apartment via a sublease and opted to continue his lease. A few months ago I sold the furniture for a profit and moved with no issue.
What are the downsides to missing a legit listing on Craigslist versus falling for one of these scams? I think in this case, having a prediction function with high low false negative rate, but high false positive rate for scams is better than the inverse.
I've always assumed that everything I install tracks me through some unique ID. That's arguably wrong for typical Linux packages, but being right just once is enough to justify the assumption.

And for Google, it's arguably foolish to think that they don't.
I switched to Rider a few months ago but I still feel like I struggle with some things.

For some reason I can’t change the position of the debugger when running and aspnetcore app and make it go back so I always have to re-run whatever request I happen to be debugging. Does that happen to you?

It also seems like ReSharper had more tips and tricks going on when compared to Rider, but I can’t imagine that would be true.
HTML is not enough. It’s why templating languages / libraries were invented, and it’s why SPA’s are so popular. There’s a difference between “sites” and applications. The web has been trending toward supporting applications more and more for a very long time.

The only thing that will make people who want to preserve the content-web happy is if we split the protocols somehow, and that will never happen. This is not likely to change ever.
Show HN: Running Commentary – A Chrome extension to listen the text commentary
What do you think is better in Rider? I’m using it myself for a few months now but feel like going back to VS all the time.
You know what? You’re right.

I think the stat was for the island of Montreal, not the wider city.

That said, I have visited a few times and not speaking French didn’t seem a huge barrier, but I was a tourist.
Cool. The response time leaves a lot to be desired though.
I would like a thing separate from an adblocker, that doesn't block ads per se, but instead disables most of the APIs that the tab can use to interact with the browser, e.g. opening new windows, modifying history, disabling right-click, navigating to a different domain from a whole-page click handler, etc. Javascript could still run, but it'd pretty much be limited to just modifying the loaded document's DOM.

Better yet, make it so that, when I "turn off" my adblocker, it's turning on this restricted-browser-API sandbox instead. Then, if the page still doesn't work, I could turn on a "compatibility mode" that would load the page with full API permissions.
Chinese tech companies battle to contain economic impact of coronavirus
I have thought about this a lot while cooking, and I also think it comes down to the fact that cooking is both very creative but also very destructive (fire, oil, cutting, smashing, boiling, melting! such fun).

It satisfies those two core urges we all have to some degree.
> You’d never take a team wide metric like cycle time (which is a function of the whole company) and use it to evaluate a single person

In theory, yes. But in practice, I bet there are a lot of people here who have stories of a metric that was supposed to only be used team wide, but was used for evaluating an individual.
I have to agree with this.

The last decade or so has really reinforced to me that we all ignore or are ignorant of fundamental structural problems with most of the systems we rely on - with us wanting them to "just work."

We're all guilty of this, we just see it up close for the things that we're building and chide others who don't care. Meanwhile we ignore other fundamental structures of modern society.
That sucks. What lift did you in? Was it gradual or a sudden injury?

I hope the recovery is going smoothly now at least :/
Wow thanks! It's pretty cool you noticed some of this stuff. :D

It's partially that the big CDNs caught up, and partially that we have the luxury of not having to worry about a big legacy CDN. This iteration in particular has felt really right, but would have been infinitely hard to pull off if we were Fastly/Cloudflare.

We are focusing a ton on how to make app servers fast, basically bringing some infrastructure tooling to "boring" server apps (which are my favorite).

We definitely have plans for other PaaS providers. If you have requests I'd love to talk to you about it: kurt@fly.io
First month + last month + deposit (1-2 months) to move in. It's also very common for landlords to ask for cashier's checks or even cash to avoid possibility of checks bouncing. The rent was $4300/month so this could easily be $15k. Per person they can sucker up until the final deadline for renting it. That scumbag might be making more than we do.

I'm guessing there is little risk of prosecution wherever they are.
I had this exact use case in my job, trying to connect an app hosted on an ec2 in one account to a redshift instance on another, vpc peering to the rescue. will checkout your project when i find time.
> Rick turning himself into a pickle [1] (because ??? he could)

I feel like most people miss the thrust of that episode. Pickle Rick is an allegory about Rick’s drinking problem taken to an absurd literalist extreme.
I agree that these folks are probably acting with good intentions. And that can actually make the situation worse. This CS Lewis quote comes to mind: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
That's correct! On the other hand, I remember Scott Ritter predicting that 2003 would bring an invasion of Iran as well, so the extended remix of the plan was supposed to handle Tehran, too.
My fear is that the models have been too conservative.
I think we at HN have a particular responsibility to keep the web free and open. This really is an arms race and only those of us building the tech have the power curtail FAANG's overreach. It might me time to choose a side and firmly push your work toward open web friendly tech.
Study claims iPhone 11 Pro radiation level is twice the federal safety limit
Chomp Food and Nutrition Database API
You can commit code that doesn't compile onto a feature branch so people can see what you're up to, I guess, but I don't see that helping with bisecting later, and I wouldn't expect the commit messages to be useful.

To be clear, my typical approach is certainly to commit every time I return to a working state. But in more experimental modes, I often reach that the long-way-around and have ended up with multiple semantic changes I wish to break apart for study.

Unless I'm missing something and Fossil has gained the ability to cherry-pick selective lines from a commit.
I had to wait in line at a bank a few months ago (how quaint). It made me realise how little 'off' time we have compared to my parents' generation. It was peaceful.

Sure, websites and phones save us so much time but there's always another thing to do. If we're not doing something we are wasting time aren't we? The opportunity cost gets higher every time technology becomes more efficient. Some of us aren't even safe from the constant feed in the toilet.
> But this is very intel: get psyched about a technology, dump billions into it for a few years, flake out.

I worked on OpenStack for a few years. Take this with a grain of salt, but I heard that Intel funded a great deal of it... quietly.

Basically they wanted to promote OpenStack, but at the same time they didn't want to piss off companies competing with it.
"Stock clears price threshold" stories are common and not intellectually interesting in their own right, so the threads always turn into generic discussion of the company and that's it. Typically, this doesn't make for a substantive discussion. Worse, it's the hottest/famous companies that generate these stories, so the threads get super repetitive.

For these reasons, stock price stories don't make good HN submissions.
If the disease doesn't have any symptoms, why care at all?
>> Most Democrats and Republicans will vote for their party in the election, no matter who the nominee is.

>> So I would think the best person to win the election would be a candidate that is able to get the most support from across the aisle, from Independents and Republicans.

Well that means picking a candidate specifically for the swing votes, which may be very different than what party members want. In other words someone that almost nobody likes. But hey, they can win. Because people will vote their party regardless.
You get to decide. Wake up early enough to get done what needs doing. Do the important things first. Make the most of the morning hours.

You might like this newsletter/podcast: dailystoic.com
> make sure the person actually own the place/has the right to rent the apartment.

What's the right way to do this?
They amend it and hence the click bait title might be too click bait

“ [Editors' Note: We tweaked this review on Feb. 4, 2020, to clarify compatibility details around the Pro Display XDR with Windows, Blackmagic hardware, and Linux, as well as regarding details on the LED lighting technology used.]”

Or a bit more detail in the article

“ It bears mentioning that because the XDR works only with Apple devices except in some limited scenarios (according to Apple, you can work with the XDR outside macOS in an SDI workflow via the Blackmagic SDI to DP Teranex box, as well as in some Linux scenarios), we had to run a workaround to get CalMAN working correctly,”
That all their current hardware is supported on Windows 10, and has been since the release of Windows 10? That's not malice, that's following your plan.
Good points.

> It wants lots of little processes, not a small number of processes holding tons of data

Elixir/Erlang is good for handling a lot of little processes with a small amount of data. And not for a small number of processes, handling a large amount of data.

The little processes holds smaller data, and it just gets dropped, after the function is done, instead of getting reclaimed by a garbage collector.

This is probably what makes Elixir/Erlang good for telecom equipment, like packet switching hardware, but not good for more complex software applications that may need to fetch and manipulate a lot of structured data in multiple stages.

In this case, does anyone know of Elixir’s maximum throughput?
Hello All,

Developer here,

I'm a cricket sport fan, used watch most of the competitive matches live, unless I'm in office, which restricts streaming sites also the fear of being easily caught because of bandwidth consumption from the system. So, I follow text commentary sites like cricbuzz, cricinfo in the office hours, but the browser tab switch is inevitable when you want to follow a live feed or a sports text commentary. This browser extension will read the latest update (feed) for you so that you continue the work.
Yeah. I only started using an ad blocker about 3 years ago, despite knowing blockers existed for much longer. Before then I was able to tolerate ads. But the situation with them have gotten worse over time.
A fresh bootcamp graduate can be a good developer, but I would argue that someone fresh off of bootcamp is way less prepared than a CS grad to directly start working in a small team with mostly non technical people. A CS grad is usually way more knowledgeable when it comes to software architecture, handling data, optimization etc.
Bootcamps usually focus on specific stacks and tools, which can be great. But that means almost no skill/knowledge outside of that specific stack
How is this posting to complain?

It's a question about a potential existential threat in the form of recent regulatory scrutiny.
It would be illustrative to show the rate (%) as an alternate to the absolute number of posts.