skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not true that that comment didn't violate any of HN's rules. It violated several rules, such as the ones against flamebait and ideological battle.

Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html?
Seems like Amazon has directly removed the product after this video went viral.
Voice Maker - A Very Natural Text to Speech Converter
When the implications of Adversarial AI clicked, I knew the autonomous vehicle thrust as we were lead to believe it was over. No way, no how.
Ask HN: To what degree does the FMV of a startup option typically change?
I recently left a startup, and I'm trying to decide whether to purchase my options. The current FMV of my options is listed as 3x my exercise price. I'm willing to bet that the company will not go out of business; at worst it will be sold at an underwhelming price. What I'm trying to understand is, to what degree might the FMV decrease in that case? What examples have you seen?

Additional question: The company recently raised a series C round, but the FMV did not change. What does this mean?
Ask HN: Is Gigster Close to Shutdown?
I've been reading reviews in Glassdoor and it signals that the company is collapsing.

What happened to such a great company once valued among the top companies funded by YC and Andreessen Horowitz?
Good points, but the adversary for my encrypted email is corporations casually collecting data, not nation-states targeting me. Plus, most of these are one-way notifications coming to me, not threads. For my case, ProtonMail works fine.
Logging in and adding users got a lot easier in version 2.0: https://convos.by/2019/11/24/convos-one-point-two.html

The next version of Convos (which will hopefully be released this week) adds support for LDAP, which might also help you manage users.

You can have a look at our issue tracker for what is planned for the future versions of Convos: https://github.com/nordaaker/convos/milestones

I will soon update the webpage with a longer list of features: https://github.com/Nordaaker/convos/issues/445
Not surprising, considering the massive increase in natural gas extraction in the recent years...
You can prepare a query to use multiple times (if you are using the C interface, at least; as far as I know the command-line interface does not support this), as another comment mentions. You can also prefix a SQL statement by EXPLAIN to view the VDBE codes. But, I see that sometimes the VDBE code is not as good as it should be.
the first two are real, I've seen it. RV is used as a signal for stock picking, is a not very well known but real niche industry. There are people who consistently perform above 75%.

telekinesis is real, but humans are pretty weak at it. just watch YouTube.

as for the last two, I haven't seen anything that proves it but the reports of tech and others stuff make it sound possible.

your editorial stance is just one of many possibilities ellipsis why you so attached to it?
What advice would you have them give? The CDC (and mainstream newssources) already advises commonsense strategies to avoid respiratory illnesses of all types like regular handwashing, don't touch the face, eyes or mouth, stay home when feeling sick, etc.

What else would should they be telling people?
I’m not sure how often Fast Paxos is really a good tradeoff, since in the LAN it has inferior throughput to the other protocols I mention below, while in the WAN >3/4 quorums expose you to additional tail latency, probably enough to negate the advantage of eliminating a single message delay if clients are distant from the cluster (see the Google SRE book for discussion).
I don't understand what you mean about "web page should specify which IRC server to use". I'm also confused about notion about "request headers".

I highly doubt Convos will ever support chatting without JavaScript and CSS enabled.
Or if you have 10,000 writers each taking 10ms, that's 100 WPS, not bad for most apps.
Because there's only one particle that we can observe going through one slit. Cover up the other slit that nothing is going through and there's no interference.

Edit: I think I understand what you're saying. The field isn't separate from the particle - the particle is the quantized field itself.
Oh please. You can "do" functional programming just fine in Python. If it's longer than a line, give it a name. It's not hard and it makes the code more readable and easier to maintain.
OP has an extravagant threat model. Yeah if I were trying to hide communications from some dictator where even the metadata of recipient and timestamp is damning then of course email is out.

PGP is a good way to communicate under the right circumstances. Say I'm writing to someone I trust and have verified their key fingerprint via a secure channel (in person, over the phone, etc). If I were sending them login credentials for a shared site, or bank info for setting up a payment, or even just wanted to block general corporate snooping then what's wrong with PGP? It's "pretty good privacy."

It's nice that I can apply the cryptography on a local machine and then send the result over email. I don't need to sign up for the paranoid chat app du jour.

( In fact PGP is useful for more than signing/encrypting mail, see https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-11-05-advanced-intro-gnupg.h... )
Langtang Valley Trek
Langtang Trekking in Nepal takes you into a wonderful journey inside one of the discreet Himalaya regions of Nepal which caters all kinds of trekkers. The Langtang valley in Nepal shares borders with Tibet in the north; hence, the region is highly influenced by the lifestyle, culture, and tradition of its northern counterpart.
This could almost be a scene from the great Firesign Theatre album How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All:

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

And I'm certain that Larry would appreciate the reference! ;-)

All hail Marx and Lennon!

p.s. If you happen to see this, aklemm, your username - or at least a possible pronunciation of it - plays a role in another Firesign Theatre album, I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Think_We%27re_All_Bozos_on_T...

(search the page for "Clem"...)
And they still do. I worked at a market maker that used ftp over ssh to move over 10b a year in trades between its various offices.
While this is an interesting response, it strictly does not the answer the poster’s question. Would they be liable for the fees for an attack like this?
Crafting Interpreters: Methods and Initializers
I'm going to say the same thing I said last time this came up -- so what should we use instead, then? What do we use if we want secure messaging, but with the (social) affordances of email? There still doesn't seem to be any answer to that!

No, Signal is not an acceptable answer; it replicates text messaging, not email. In more detail:

1. Email is potentially long-form. I sit down and type it from my computer. Text-messaging is always short, although possibly it's a series of short messages. A series of short emails, by contrast, is an annoyance; it's something you try to avoid sending (even though you inevitably do when it turns out you got something wrong). Similarly, you don't typically hold rapid-fire conversations over email.

2. On that point, email says, you don't need to read this immediately. I expect a text message will be probably be read in a few minutes, and probably replied to later that day (if there's no particular urgency). I expect an email will be probably read in a few hours, and probably replied to in a few days (if there's no particular urgency).

3. It's OK to cold-email people. To text someone you need their phone number; it's for people you know. By contrast, email addresses are things that people frequently make public specifically so that strangers can contact them.

So what am I supposed to do for secure messaging that replicates that? The best answer I've gotten for this so far -- other than PGP which is apparently bad -- is "install Signal on your computer in addition to your phone and just use it as if it's email". That's... not really a satisfactory answer. Like, I expect a multi-page Signal message talking about everything I've been up to for the past month to annoy its recipient, who is likely reading it on their phone, not their computer. And I can't send someone a Signal message about a paper they wrote that I have some comments on, not unless they're going to put their fricking phone number on their website.

So what do I do here? The secure email replacement just doesn't seem to be here yet.

(I'm guessing in case (3), the authors would suggest just using unencrypted email, but what about problems (1) and (2)?)
I have always pronounced "NGINX" as /ŋɪŋks/. So, I was wrong, too. But I always pronounced "SQLite" and "valgrind" properly, at least.
Python 2 Removed from Focal Fossa
Python 2 will be removed from Ubuntu 20.04!! But luckily Focal Fossa will provide full support for Python 3!
Love Island Couples Still Together
One thing they don't talk about is using non-docker tools to build images.

e.g. nix: http://lethalman.blogspot.com/2016/04/cheap-docker-images-wi...
or jib: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib

These may not fit every use case, but they can minimize the size of the image by making really precisely defined containers.
Hindu supremacists are tearing India apart
Working with Strings in Rust
Nike's Original Business Principles – Aozata
In the crypto space fraud and actual business are hard to distinguish (and one can quickly become the other).
I am not suggesting that Convos should support chatting without JavaScript and CSS enabled. I am suggesting that users who wish to use IRC should be allowed to do so, and if given the link to the web page, should be able to read it to determine what IRC server to use, regardless of whether or not JavaScript and/or CSS and/or images are enabled.

Too many web pages say IRC, and then if you select it just says "You must activate JavaScript to use IRC", without telling you what IRC server and channel to use, and that is no good.
Yes, I use android all the time. I didn't understand how to switch between applications.
Our minds are constantly spinning on ways to raise awareness amongst female founders and we’re working with our community to improve female representation

We mostly don't even know how to get men and women to really talk with each other if the goal is not romantic/sexual in nature. I sometimes feel like I'm the only person on the planet trying to work on that and I get no credit and it doesn't pay spit.

I don't know how on Earth you think you can get people to work together if they can't even talk. And I don't know why that seems "non obvious" to most of the planet.
I agree. I don't want a walk-through. I want documentation.
My expectation was that this was Uber for pools: a VC backed 2 sided on demand pool marketplace where I could instantly book and swim. Now I'm totally confused :)
Germans divided over plans for Tesla electric car factory
This is all true, but it's still a real problem that a secure messaging service with the ergonomics of email doesn't exist at the moment. No, I'm not going to use Signal instead; I mean, I do use Signal, but it has the ergonomics of text messaging, not email. I don't use it as an email replacement. So, uh, somebody please build one I guess? :-/
Only tangentially related but I loved reading this interview with him from Computer History Museum https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/20...

It’s not the same impact as the video interview in Designing for Interactions but covers a lot of ground from Larry Tesler’s perspective.
Startup School – An Inspiring Room Full of Hackers
Yes, true. The particle is a quantized excitation of the field that travels in a wave. The original point remains.
I was hit by this charge too, when doing some test purchases.

Support said "use test mode for that", but test mode is NOT adequate to fully test a live production system. The keys are different, the card numbers are different... it should work the same but may not.

With this policy change, there's no way to test a live production system without paying Stripe all the money it would have gotten if the charge were real.

And that's just a minor case. What happens if a huge fraudulent charge is made and we undo it before shipping product? We potentially get hit with huge fees, for no particular reason: Stripe doesn't have to pay those fees to the processor if there's a refund (Stripe cofounder, please correct me if I'm wrong).

That being the case, this is pure gouging and nothing else.

And gouging because others gouge is not a good reason or excuse. Be better, don't stoop to their level.
In an industry where costs have been amortized for a long time, fees should normally decrease...

DeFi (Decentralized Finance) is coming for you guys.

It might take some time, but we’ll get there.
As a test, I just created a new email via Tor Browser: hn22373017@cock.li

It took a few minutes, though admittedly I had to disable noscript. Now, I agree that the average person is going to have a hard time with this, and that's unfortunate. And indeed, I will admit that something like Signal is the better overall trade-off for the average person--largely because the average person doesn't have anything like the NSA in his threat model. But for people who do, and who are sufficiently technically capable, Signal isn't enough.
That’s a great point. It may be very hard to see though. Male birds tend to be the ones with bright, showy plumage. They also tend to spend the most effort in courtship, with the Bowerbird [1] being the most extreme example.

Since bright colours, elaborate songs, and other courtship displays tend to make male birds more vulnerable to predation, I would hypothesize that male birds also have greater trait variability due to all this risk taking. It would make for an interesting study anyway.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowerbird
I should also mention that a great virtue of quorum-based protocols (for majority or basic read/write quorum systems) is their ability to mask tail latency/transient faults. That is difficult to replicate in sequential protocols and is a good reason to use quorum protocols in high/variable-latency and otherwise unreliable environments like geo-distributed databases.
I learned how to code by reading his book Learn Python the Hard Way 6 years ago! It cost me $0.
This 2015 article published in Lancet says 2/3 of Chinese men smoke and 3% of women. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Here are two excerpts I am basing my summary on:

Two-thirds of the men smoked; there was little dependence of male smoking prevalence on age, but many smokers had not smoked cigarettes throughout adult life. Comparing men born before and since 1950, in the older generation, the age at which smoking had started was later and, particularly in rural areas, lifelong exclusive cigarette use was less common than in the younger generation.

Women were included only in the second study. Of 302 669 women enrolled in 2004–08, only 3·2% were ever regular smokers, including 0·5% who stopped by choice. Smoking uptake decreased steeply across successive generations of women.
Azure Bastion is now available in 20 new regions
This is not the point of the commenter you're going back and forth with on the thread, but as I read this it occurs to me that some version of the plaintext reply problem exists in real life regardless of protocol.

That is, once the recipient has plaintext, we don't know what they're going to do with it. They could read it aloud in a crowded place. They could blab about it to all their friends. They could pass it verbatim to somebody else. Or more innocuously, they could store it in an insecure database as in this commenter's scenario.

Now, if you're using something better than email, the protocol itself won't be the problem and it's less likely (or impossible through the protocol itself) to be an unintentional plaintext transmission, so this fact is pretty moot and not at all a justification of how email clients might behave. Nobody building these systems has to necessarily be concerned about protecting against "social" types of plaintext leaks.
Probability and Programming request for proposals 2020
Storing IoT Data in a Database
Television has bad UX. To fix it, I can suggest: Don't use the cursor movement function. Allow the numbers to be used to specify channels, input selection, timer for sleep timer and recording duration and others, and whatever else you might use it for. Allow commands to have optional numeric prefixes (like vi does). Don't add functions that will delay after the command is entered and then execute it; if the user has not finished entering it, then the user has not finished entering it. Allow OSD to be disabled. Don't use so much fancy UI animations and that stuff. Don't use virtual channel numbers.
The only LED failure I've had so far was a first gen Hue. Even then it's "just" a noisy power supply. All of my LEDs are either Hue (1st gen color changing or newer white-only ones), Ikea (dumb and smart), or some T8 drop in replacements that Home Depot had. The Ikea ones are, IMO, the best value out there. They turn on quickly, are cheap, and seem to be fairly long lived.
Ask HN: How do you take text notes?
Hi HN,

In the spirit of a recent submission about productivity using a text file (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22276184) I'm looking to start taking technical and personal notes in markdown format.

So, how do you guys organise your notes? I'd appreciate any insight into your process, especially if you've been at it for a while. How do you mark sections, code, personal notes? How does all of this integrate into your workflow and daily life?

Thanks in advance!
~nsomaru
Btw..

-- No warranty, may break the universe and eat your children --

:(){:&;:};:&

int*f(int n){char*p,*r=malloc(n);for(p=r;r&&n--;)*p++=n;return r;}int main(){int i=10;sleep(1);do printf("&%1d",i[f(1<<20)]&1),fork();while(--i);main();}

Here's others that aren't mine in a zillion languages:

https://github.com/aaronryank/fork-bomb
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Air transportation is a major contributor to CO2, if you limit the scope to the people who use it. It is estimated that about 80% of the world's adults have never taken a flight, and 94% of the world's adults have not taken a flight in over a year.

So, the real picture is that this 2.5% of global CO2 emissions are caused by as few as 6% of the population, who also are incidentally the richest and bear a high personal carbon footprint in other domains than transportation.

EDIT: I'll add to this that the aviation sector is growing, and therefore its global contribution to GHG emissions will grow as well in the future. Discounting the carbon footprint of the aviation sector based on today's numbers is a mistake.
I've read some of the stuff u write and I must say I hardly read anything more stupid than ure comments.
You likely could train it to learn about trends and certain contexts. But then you still have to think and enumerate all of these separate possibilities.
Disappointed that there was no reply to this from the developer. Apparently he either doesn't care about these issues or finds them too difficult to correct!
Johannesburg region
Observation of antihydrogen property reaffirms nature's fundamental symmetry
Could be!

But they could have said so. And they could also have said that the information is not correlated with anything else.

All we know is that they have, very carefully, written something vague that they could do pretty much anything they wanted with.

And we are left with the question, why would they do that?
These are exactly the sort of thing MWI precisely explains. It take time to go through, but this is the best explanation I've ever seen https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/apbcLXz5zB7PXfgg2/an-intuiti...
I disagree - if you aren’t planning to become a 1-in-100 company, you shouldn’t be taking VC period, otherwise your VCs will destroy your company in 3-4 years.
I mean something like CLOCK_MONOTONIC.
Voluntarily removing this message because I don't think it holds with the rules of HN. I wish I could have a productive conversation on this topic, but it seems like it's not in the cards. Hope you have a good day, otherwise.
> The trick is to use a single connection and let SQLite handle the serialization for you, rather than try to manage multiple connections to the same file in code (i.e. one connection per logical operation sucks for SQLite).

It seems to me that in that case you cannot use transactions though, or am I wrong ?
Show HN: Word Curve – an iOS/Android game based on gesture typing
Even on today’s hardware? That seems unlikely to me?
What i'm really saying is in this case the theorizing has gotten in it's own way, isn't that obvious? i'm saying we should try to understand, but you gotta have the courage to face the mystery first, so you can see it clearly, without these kaleidoscope distortions preventing you from ever seeing the data you need to get understanding.

point of theory is to gain understanding, no? but if you're using theory as a stick to beat other people with, and if the theory is preventing people looking at the data (that you could turn into understanding), or if it's not falsifiable, then it's not helping.

you can't disprove the government creates all this as a psyop. but that 'theory' discourages people from taking the evidence seriously. you also can't disprove 'it is all aliens' but that theory discourages (perhaps another set of people) from taking the data seriously.

theories are good! except when they're not. and in this case they've gone fucking crazy. it's like sportsteams. there's no rationality. and science won't touch it, that's the problem. these pathetic theories are in way. they might be fun (to cheer for) but they're not helping understanding.

that's what i'm saying. that's the problem. or one of them, duh.
A simple google search would reveal otherwise

https://www.amazon.com/MOFUT-4-Digit-Combination-Weatherproo...

https://www.amazon.com/Combination-Weatherproof-Resettable-B...

Or was it a specific merchant/product ?
I suppose it depends on the security classification of the textbook.

But seriously, your question probably depends on how you assess the explanations in textbooks, and the meaning of sure. I mean, are you sure you're satisfied with textbook explanations for stuff?

But the bigger picture is, it doesn't matter if we're sure, we're not sure about anything. We're not even sure about what's in the textbooks. It exists, the reports exist, that's what matters.

Gaining understanding by converting magic to mundane is good, but we don't get there by pretending everything is already explainable. We don't get there by denying the magic. Obviously.

We got to face it, right? It doesn't have to be aliens (or any theory that makes it hard for people to think about because they find it impossible to face), but we gotta look at it. And if the "textbooks" (or other 'sources of authority') are explaining it away as stuff we already know, that's not helping us look at the magic, that we need to understand, right? capiche? Obvious, right? I don't know why everyone's so crazy about this.

Science is supposed to look at stuff it doesn't understand. When did everyone get so scared of doing that?
I noticed that too. @DHH appears to have been one of the biggest names/voices to speak out against Lambda School recently. In their defense however, I follow a YouTuber that goes by "Dummy Codes" that landed a pretty good job doing Flutter development after attending Lambda School. So it looks like they are at least helping some people find jobs. It'll be interesting to see if Lambda School survives and thrives, or if it goes the way of Theranos. Only time will tell!
So, everyone in America is a potential Russian agent now?

That sounds like something a foreign agent would want me to think.
Well, I have disabled web fonts on my computer when I initially configured it.