skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole situation makes me feel weird and is giving me trust issues and confusion towards VPN providers. Still, being able to compile the client from source is better than not being able to do so.
By the way this is how the Communist party operates too
SSH does support CAs, there's just no PKI in place. But you can totally set up an internal SSH CA and sign the host keys of every server in your company.
And in the end it's not Windows that governments and companies need, it's Office. Windows is fairly easy to replace for a lot of jobs nowadays. But working without MS Office is extremely difficult. It's basically impossible and certainly not worth it ensuring that all spreadsheets used will still work with alternatives, it also makes communication with other governments or companies much harder. That's where Microsoft makes the money and has its monopoly.
Exactly: you wouldn't be able to ssh git@github.com/repo/proj but rather have to use user@github.com/proj/repo and this would be better.
> Tokyo is the umbrella crime theft capital of the world.

I'd watch that anime.
Autohotkey is also a tool I sorely miss since I moved to linux so many years ago. Sadly, there is no linux-equivalent and no one seems keen on porting AHK to linux.
Well they will say they can, if they are forced to. The question is: do I really think that the end result of that it is safer than something tested for 200M hours?

There is only one good “proof” of safety and that’s testing.
Sunset in Saugatuck features 'ice volcanoes,' weather service finds
I'll be honest, I was a Facebook naysayer back in 2008 too. I thought that the public was too fickle, and would jump to the next big thing within a few years, and the platform would quietly die off.

Completely wrong, obviously. Coming from a position of tech savvy early adopter, I totally underestimated:

- the impact that mobile had on the landscape. For most of those over 30, the internet was for work, not for "group socializing". I think mobile normalized the practice of spending hours a day on social media for average users.

- how "sticky" older users are. Once they're on Facebook, they stay on Facebook.

- Zuck's adaptability, and the difference between "Facebook the platform" and "Facebook the company". I mean, I was partially right about the exodus to the Next Big Thing (TM). That's exactly why Zuck just went out and just bought it (Instagram and WhatsApp in particular).

That being said, I still think there's a coming reckoning on digital advertising. I hear so many complaints about poor ROI, click inflation/fraud and general dissatisfaction (e.g. Basecamp competitors bidding on the search term "Basecamp"). I can't help but think there'll be a shift in spend towards advertising on more "conventional" media (Spotify, Netflix, YouTube).
Indy video games developers: what should they do to stand out?
Yep, my experience exactly too.
Are you comfortable sharing your personal expenses with so many public sources?
I wonder if the open source world could saddle on - what is obviously just a price lowering attempt. Grow something like the mozilla foundation, just from the attempts to reign license costs in- which then implements a directx compatible gfx api layer and a comon driver pool - that really always works.
Ask HN: Recovering Yahoo Email Account Offline
My friend isn't very tech savvy, and his wife used to set him up (phone, emails, etc). They're unfortunately going through a long breakup, and she's shut him out of his digital life.

He's asked me to help him recover the email account, but he obviously has no access to the recovery email and phone.

Does anyone know of any process that he could follow to regain access to his Yahoo mail account? He's based in Australia, and I believe court processes have been on his side so far, so if there's a place to submit some affidavit or the like, he could try that.

Thanks
> Personally I believe Christianity is an oppressive religion that needs to go away.

Every religion is oppressive if you don't agree with the tenents of the religion.

The fact that you aren't against all religions reveals your true motives.
Don't ask for feedback. Just send the invoice. Try to avoid being done very early. Maybe they'd have less trouble staying interested if they paid in advance.
Show HN: WhoIsComingTo.Party
We've had some truly weird weather in Michigan this winter. Earlier in the week at a state park near the Indiana line they had ice balls on the beach. I've personally seen that before but it's a once in twenty year thing. But I've never heard of an ice volcano and I've lived my entire life in Michigan. Wonder if they occur elsewhere in the world?

Apparently it's solely a great lakes thing though this might be the first time to happen on Lake Michigan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_volcano
And do what with it ????.

Folks just want's the basics ... a job to feed their family and decent education for their kids to escape the cycle of poverty.

I don't see how free Wifi is going to help with this one.
Europe, all in market-liberal spirits, has not done this. And it shows.
Sorry, did you say 50%? I haven’t read anything like that. I saw a quote for 50M in one article
Well... going back further, SK was forced to do something when the US banned all crypto export above 48bit or something stupid. SK wanted 128bit and the only way they could do that was via ActiveX. A few weeks later and every bank and eStore was using the Korean rolled crypto instead of the weaksauce crypto that the browser / OS was rolled out with.

You can trace all of this directly back to the combination of Microsoft and the US Government. Microsoft should have pushed back on the government's stupid demand or educated them on why it was stupid, and the government shouldn't have made that demand in the first place.
> Would it create inflation? No, why would it?

This depends if people are forward looking or not. Bonds have terms, an account in the Treasury does not, which means it has no real meaning at all (It has no effect on anything so who cares if it ever gets paid back?). So, this is just obfuscation of money printing.

When a government starts money printing, their money doesn't look so good anymore.
Solo: Open security key supporting FIDO2 and U2F over USB and NFC
I agree with you, and therefore I made that post. Because in my opinion, most of that disadvantage is in the employees head.
I found it, but clicking it caused my computer to run out of available memory.

Edit: on a more serious note, a site[0] that tracks these records says:

> Downloading of digits is no longer available due to the massive bandwidth requirements. Your best bet is to directly contact one of the record holders and see if they still have a copy of the digits.

[0] http://www.numberworld.org/digits/Pi
It appears they have, the y-cruncher program he used does verification. Alexander Yee, who wrote the y-cruncher program (which has been used for the previous 4 world record calculations of digits of Pi), has accepted it and posted it on their site, along with screenshots of the output of the program.

http://www.numberworld.org/y-cruncher/
From the README:

"Trax code is structured in a way that allows you to understand deep learning from scratch. We start with basic maths and go through layers, models, supervised and reinforcement learning."
Tides Can Trigger Earthquakes
Imagine a forum of artists talking about how a WYSIWYG builder rivals anything a dev can build.
Met Office forecasters set for 'billion pound' supercomputer
TransactionId Error When Moving Android App Between Accounts
Man, it fucking sucks.

I remember a time back freshman year of collage... It was an extra credit assignment. Who could factor the largest number (or something like this) in the least time before the due date. My friend and I devised an algorithm, and launched it on my computer. I honestly don't remember anything other than the fact the god damn power transformer downtown blew and fucked up our tests because of a large scale power outage. I assume we'd have not even come in top #5 for that assignment (who knows), but it's just so frustrating.

Basically, OSs should have better fail recovery mechanics than are the default.
Laravel 6.15.0 Released: Updated, Fix and Change
Article source:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10605-2
You don't see a connection between Internet access and a decent education?
I've had surprisingly good luck with generic hardware based on well-known chipsets.

Samsung, though. They see themselves more like Apple and want to control more of the ecosystem, but they're not very good at it, and no one wants it. They make decent hardware, but they let their software ambitions get in the way.
Am I misreading his notation, or did he get FizzBuzz wrong?
No, you tell Apple and Google that the microphone needs to be off except when the user activates it (eg. answering or making a phone call). This might be acceptable to society depending on how many people want non-handheld voice activated devices in public.
Aside from IdentitiesOnly setting. I assume storing keys outside of ~/.ssh and calling each key via config file or ssh -i would render this useless. Perhaps even a simple bash function to rotate the needed key in/out of .ssh.
Can you unpack this a little? What exactly is the monad?
Indie Hackers: Let's Be Privacy-First
The only part that I thought was any fun was the initial ocean stage, swimming around collecting food and upgrading your animal. Reminded me a lot of some of the old 2D space shooters I played as a kid. It would have made a really nice browser game.
No Man's Sky had an epic redemption story after its disastrous launch.
I agree. But in that case you still have the option to re-educate and move into a more lucrative job market. As long as you are either smart or handy, there are very good jobs out there.

For example plumbers here in Belgium make a lot of money because of the high demand.
Show HN: Join image together to create a collage
Homeless people would be more likely to have a negative view of cops because cops arrest them for loitering/sleeping in public/being a nuisance?

And polls might not include incarcerated people, yea. That will make a bigger difference in the US stats (0.65% of the population incarcerated, vs Japans 0.05%).
Reminds me of academic papers. When I first started in academia I thought it was all about merit, results, and following a proper scientific process.

Turns out if you want to be successful, as measured by paper acceptances or citations, which is the standard metric used by universities and companies, it's all about being able to tell a good story to convince reviewers.

A well-told and convincing story can hide all kind of faults in your experiments or results. It's pretty much all you need.
Hi thanks for mentioning your project. Are there any plans to use it for automated UI testing for desktop apps? Selenium supports it (more or less) with WinAppDriver, which is another project from Microsoft.

https://github.com/microsoft/WinAppDriver
You don't see how access to WiFi would improve education? Seriously?
If you are a guest, sentences like:
"Wo ist der Verpackungsmüll?" And "Trennt ihr Biomüll?" Can definitely land you plus points

Everyone below 50 speaks B1 or better English anyhow.
I'm under the impression that the "kaizen" philosophy is often about the product of one's work rather than the process.

Off the top of my head, there are two examples: the Fujifilm digital cameras (where you may have a totally different camera than the one you bought, thanks to firmware updates bringing in new features) and the Shimano bicycle parts (where improvements continuously come to top-shelf product lines, then trickle down to cheaper lines).
UK digital bank Monzo plans to hire 500 and relaunch paid accounts
Tableau Public is the one that makes me uncomfortable. If this dashboard continues to work well and be useful I'll look into self-hosted alternatives.
Agile of the Avengers – The myth of flat hierarchies and T-shaped engineers
Same thing happened to me in college. I actually saw the transformer blow, it's kinda freaky (and that ozone smell is horrid, you only get to smell it when you weld or really screw the pooch).

Except I wasn't working on anything academically meaningful, more spiritual. I was the only one that could fit a keg in my trunk. Thankfully it was a day party in the spring.
Tmax is basically a refugee camp for Ph.D dropouts. I won't criticize much if they were doing their job right. But they are not. They hire engineers from non CS majors from top engineering colleges to impress government officials to invest tax money to their firm.
That page deserves its own hn submission.
Grant applications are generally a waste of time, akin to writing a mini-thesis just so you have the opportunity to buy a lottery ticket. Grant awarding is also incredibly opaque, and generally very biased to the reviewers (ie, corrupt), with random variables playing a part in decision making that have no bearing on the actual capabilities of the grant-writers.

Worse, reviewers and grant-makers themselves are generally unqualified to make such grants, and as such, have no ability nor incentive to track the success of grants issued.

All in all, if you need money in academia, your best bet is to either be independently wealthy to fund your ideas, or find a few direct personal benefactors who believe in you and your general goals.

*Edit -- if you are here in HN, then your ability to do the latter suggestion (find a few personal benefactors) is actually much more within reach than getting funded through a grant -- it is certainly worth your time to explore that option, and in the long-run will provide you more security and freedom to really explore your field and interests.
Trying to explain password choices to non-security people
I'm 40 and have 4 kids, so no problem here.

Maybe in other parts of the world. But at that point you need to convince them you're a "senior architect with loads of experience"
Probably the same thing that would have happened to SimCity (2013) had EA not also ruined that.

On that note, I happened upon some concept renderings yesterday, and it broke my heart:

https://www.eywong.com/projects/0WRr5

https://www.eywong.com/projects/dD5Ae (scroll down)

I don't know how someone wakes up and goes "Oh boy, we better close Maxis." It boggles the mind.

Were it not for their interference, Maxis would've probably been incredibly profitable for EA, even today.
On the one hand I agree, on the other why should Google have a monopoly on adding bloatware to my phone. Might as well go the whole nine yards and pre patch the unremovable chrome with an ask toolbar.
The first part of what you're saying sort of aligns with one of the rules in "12 Rules for Life".
Don't let your kids do something that'll make you hate them. Which essentially boils down to take care of yourself so that you can be the best parent to your child when it matters most.
For starters, not give you money again, and make it a point nobody else does either.

Once this kind of a situation arises, a lot of trust is gone from the system. Eventually the spill over spreads to the larger parts of your economy.
Gotcha, guessing you are in Singapore then :)

In the USA a model 3 costs around $42k to 58k plus taxes.
Anti-fragile indeed, still sucks when your 7month rolls off the bed unexpectedly...
For powered ones, vs purely manual? I guess it doesn't need a lot of power.
> "Hey, fix your shit or I'll have a new job next week that pays more from day 1, and you will search the next 6 months for my replacement and train that person another 6 months before (s)he's somewhat productive."

Yes, and with that attitude you are absolutely welcome to.

Difficulty of replacing developers depends very much on where you are (I suspect, and amongst a welter of other factors), and where I live it doesn't take 6 months nor anything like it.

It also doesn't take 6 months for people to become "somewhat productive". I've been nigh-on shocked to see all of our devs making useful contributions to our systems and services (many of which are not straightforward to work with) within a couple of weeks, and finding their way around pretty handily after 2 - 3 months.

I agree that you shouldn't go into every 1:1 begging and scraping for your job - that sounds awful - but, at the other end of the spectrum, neither do I think it's wise to go in with a massively inflated sense of entitlement.

Both you and your manager would be best served by acting like reasonable human beings with well-developed social skills.
A friend of mine once told his manager: "you are not my boss, you are my employer. My boss is at home" (referring to his wife). I guess he has the same mentality as me :)
Because data is not too vast to be mined
There's a lot of misunderstandings in the comments here.

When you're dealing with complex wiring harnesses and wiring runs, there are always problems. For example, the A380 and one of Boeing's new airliners were delayed because stuffing the wiring harness in the nose didn't work.

In the case of airplanes, things flex and bend, causing wire chafing.

So there's no black and white answer to, "Is the wiring perfect?"

The only good solutions are:

1) When new airplanes are made, improve the wire layout

2) When old airplanes get a heavy maintenance check (D-check), possibly inspect and redo the wiring then.

3) Consider using conduit for safety-critical runs. Makes it harder to inspect, though. :)

Anyway, the Swissair 111 fire/crash was because of new gambling screens igniting flammable materials. Sure that was an electrical fire, but from adding entertainment equipment.

Swissair 111: "flammable material used in the aircraft's structure"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111

Source: commercially-rated pilot
I think you're right, the "Fizz" and "Buzz" conditions need an = 0 if we're to assume the expression on the right executes when the condition is true.
Mathematical Coincidences from the Physical World
You're not alone. Even as an ML researcher at ex-FAANG I have no idea what this is. Is it a collection of well-documented models built on top of jax?

I could probably figure out what exactly this is if I spend an hour looking through the code, but it should be made clear in the README.

It's kind of funny, I think it's completely opaque what this actually is to 99% of HN users, but for some reason it's being upvoted because it has Google and Deep Learning in the name.
> Phillip Morris International

You mean Altria. They changed their name, for some strange reason.
Regarding 7., do you feel discounts helped in the early days?

Does it make sense to be really flexible about pricing early on to get as many users as possible then transition to a more stable pricing?
I feel the transition could be difficult if not done right.
Interesting, thanks. You can probably tell that I'm new to this.
Loved Apollo. Great app. Lately, it's gotten stuck re-loading the app on every re-launch for me, after upgrading to premium, making it near unusable (or at least incredibly frustrating) on the iPhone.
Can you clarify what you mean by "successful full-time professional grantwriter"?

Are you getting a higher-than average hit-rate of successful grants awarded? If so, what is that percentage (ie, what percentage of grant applications you write are awarded successfully?)

Or, by successful do you mean that you just do this full-time because you have many clients you work for?
> That only makes sense if the total bribe outweighs the investment in building the credible alternative.

It only makes sense to take the bribe in that case. It always makes sense to prepare for the switch, because if they won't bribe you enough to stop then you can always actually do the switch, which is still better than the status quo.
I get your point, I really do. But if what you call his "real methodology" worked well, why would he use more advanced/safecracker-y techniques?

I'd say the real mistake he made was that he lifted the veil off of how he did things, leading people to say "oh even I could have done that".
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

Quick Facts: Computer Programmers
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You broke the site guidelines repeatedly in this thread. Please don't perpetuate flamewars or be a jerk in comments here, regardless of how wrong or irritating another user is, or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So much this. I don't have kids. We are struggling with fertility issues. In my 1:1 my ex-manager would bring up that topic EVERY SINGLE WEEK. He also tried to develop a family relationship, where his wife would 'advise' my wife about what type of treatment we should seek. At one baby shower for a common friend, his wife asked me if we are sad seeing other people having babies. Being on H1 visa, I could only push back so much. From his perspective, he was providing 'emotional support'.

I sucked up. And quit the job when the right opportunity came.

Since then, I made sure to not bring any personal stuff in conversation with any colleague, including my manager for whatever reason.
Or, the ozone from a Tesla coil. :) In eighth grade I built one, and I actually still like the smell to this day.
I've used Zapier to prototype a few APIs (Webhook -> Service), and IFTTT for presence detection (Using Wyze cameras as presence sensors).
Would anything stop you just loading let's encrypt onto it?

Will regular HTTPS certificates work?
If you continue to stoke flamewars on HN, we're going to have to ban you.
Do you mean law and order?
Researchers Develop New Way to Reverse Engineer Recipes from Photos
Real Talk tho: Whats the range?
Im ~low 90 percentile and I wonder if I bang my head against the LeetCode wall for a few months, then I too, can get $200K+ and free lunch 4 lyfe.
Can you provide an example range of uniformly distributed integers that obeys Benford's law?
What's Wrong with Tech Folks Who Attack the Tech Media
Metabase may be of interest as an alternative
The peripheral processors were integral to the CDC 6600 and it's successors (6400,6200,6700,7600, and Cyber 70 series) built inside the same mainframe cabinet. In the 6000 and Cyber 70 series There were '10 of them' that shared the same ALU with a barrel shifter that would shift 12 bits after each instruction. That shift would load the registers for the 'next PP' in a round robing fashion. They were pretty primitive. There were no index registers so self modifying code was a regular thing and polling was the only method of IO supported at least at first. I think the later models did support some sort of DMS. The PPs did have access to the 60 bit main memory and there was an instruction exchange jump or XJ which would load the register block and switch between user and supervisor modes.
The Westerdam appeared to have someone that was infected when they were allowed to disembark (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/16/world/asia/coronavirus-cr...).

I'm hoping this doesn't happen on the Crystal Symphony.
Flying Is Binary
You probably know but, there is a simplified version of this: https://agar.io/
For those that are interested in reciting digits of Pi (I would guess you can either memorise the digits or calculate as you go) the current record is held by a South African: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mGjJMVKWcU
>>My 1:1s became much more fruitful with directed, goal-seeking questions, or even a retro format.

This is why every role in a company is an individual contributor role to some extent.

You must be direct in asking what should you do to go from X to Y, than just merely talking in abstract terms like 'Performance' or 'Hard Work'.

The biggest lie ever told in all this is that management must recognize work and talent. If the world of marketing and advertisements has taught us anything at all. No one appreciates, or recognizes anything. A case must be built actively to ensure your case is high up the stack for the bosses to consider.