skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah but it also talks about "oversized moons" and then cites Titan and Triton as examples of oversized moons of Saturn and Neptune. Why is that worong?

Titan is not oversized, in comparisson to Saturn. It's a normal, larger-than-Selene (Earths moon, but not that much larger really). Compared to Mercury, it is larger in radius, but less massive (about 1/3rd the mass). Now let's look a bit at Selene. It's an "oversized moon" at a bit more than 1% our planets mass. If that was the criteria for oversized moons, then Saturn would require an Earth-like planet orbiting around it to be considered to have an "oversized moon".

Another thing to consider: if we're thinking 1% mass as the parameter, it would've required a far larger moon to crash (from a retrograde orbit) to change Venus's rotation from prograde to retrograde.

Now on to Triton... it didn't form with Neptune. It's suspected of being a Kuiper Belt Object captured by Neptune that will eventually disintegrate from tidal forces once its retrograde orbit gets it close enough to the planet. If it had been formed 4 billion years ago with the planet, that would've already happened.

All in all, I'm not a astronomer nor planetary scientist, just a software engineer who really likes astronomy and got a few math and physics class at uni. But this "twin planets with oversized moons" theory has very little substance.
> So me buying a non-Tesla electric car will have much the same effect as buying a Tesla with regard to the future of personal transportation? Regardless of how many cars the other manufacturer is currently producing?

I honestly don't know either way
youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format=best <url>
Where do I find a language free of bugs, vulnerabilities, and anything else that may impact security, while being able to develop things at a sane pace?
Epic books you may finally have time to read now
Why not just add the keys from each device to your machines? Doing secure key transfer between hardware tokens is way more complicated.
The article contains at least one inaccuracy - no one has been using Terraform since 2012. The first commit was in May of 2014.
> It's not allowed to keep state of the user without asking (under GDPR).

False. You're not allowed to store data about the user for any amount of time longer than is required to provide the session/service.

Session cookies are explicitly allowed without consent. Even though many cookie consent popups imply that they are not ("cookies are required for this site to function"), that is a lie by the adtech industry (and ignorant webdevelopers).

Remember: They are NOT asking for permission to store session cookies--they don't need it. Every cookie consent popup is literally asking for permission to share tracking data with third parties. Even if they word it obscurely.
The SMBX – A marketplace for issuing and buying small business bonds
I can't drive, so Uber was a lifesaver in the Bay Area.
This will have very bad effects when playing video games and might(?) potentially increase battery usage when watching full screen videos.

Compositing should only provide the fancy effects like Wobbly Windows and window previews in the alt-tab switcher etc. Not sure why this is causing KWin to crash... You can use Alt-Shift-F12 by default to toggle compositing.

But if you're not doing anything more graphically intense than playing turn-based or slow-paced video games then I guess you can use that option to permanently leave on compositing.
I wouldn't call it good, but I'm using Pandoc to generate LaTeX. The whole thing is wrapped in Hakyll, which already uses Pandoc to generate the HTML from the source (org/markdown).

Feel free to dig through the source if you want to see how it works: https://github.com/sulami/sulami.github.io
“Fuⅽk” works (copy and paste in)
seems like bitch is acceptable language
Many many years ago I wrote a sign up form (an app now I suppose) for a UK ISP, and we, I cannot remember who wanted the feature, write a simple blacklist of words that users should not be allowed to put in their addresses, and of course we whitelisted Scunthorpe (as well as several other rude placenames in the UK post office address file)

Just weird how the same things come round and round.
Okay, but then Microsoft needn't act surprised when people use batch. And security-wise, I have to question whether that's really a useful outcome versus letting Powershell scripts run by default.
Surprisingly, setting JetBrains Mono to 13px in the editor is still way more readable than any other font. Especially on Windows.
Thank you for the alternative. Sadly it doesn't support SSH or GPG keys, does it? That was one of the selling points of the OnlyKey for me (and it being open source of course).
Ideally each key will be generated on the device and be unexportable. That's a major part of the value of a Yubikey/smartcard/HSM, because it provides Non-Repudiation, and it enables you to be reasonably certain that it is impossible for the key to exist outside of the physical device.

You can use multiple devices to generate multiple keys to give you persistent access in case a device fails or is lost. Software generally accommodates multiple (public) keys per client for this reason.

With an SSH CA, the server ultimately trusts the CA key, and client keys are used for authentication via the client certificates. I think you can use Yubikeys and relatively inexpensive HSMs (eg. Nitrokeys) for this.

https://framkant.org/2016/10/use-a-smart-card-or-hsm-to-secu...
You should probably check out stripes atlas program
I think you’re taking this a little bit too seriously
You can never be sure that the code you see is the same as the code that powers that website. If you trust the code the best you can do is run your own server.
> If I really wanted to start a fight I'll argue that diverting all welfare spending to scientific research would probably result in a greater net good over two generations.

Why welfare spending? Why not corporate subsidies? Or just forcefully seize the entire assets of some number of non-scientists, chosen at random? Cutting out welfare as a whole seems to be the single spending cut most likely to kill the largest number of people.
A senior scientist told me they grow mushrooms now in that tunnel ;-)
I wonder what server one would need to actually self-host web search engine. And how long it would take for initial indexing?
error/typo
The article is about debunking a few myths about Rust, and why C++ is NOT faster or safer than Rust.

The title alludes to the opposite, and as such, is clickbait.
As a casino, why not forget tracking card counting or other trickery, and simply track the total spendings and winnings of each customer?

Any customer that wins more than they spend over >50 games is probably doing something not great for business, ban them.
True. Note that I did not perform those multiplications because I agree that the interpretation of the results is highly speculative in nature, and can lead to possibly very incorrect conclusions. The point is like I stated: the end result is not a simple resolution between complete success or death.
In the sense I'm using them, readability is the ability to scan as quickly as possible, precision is the ability for someone unfamiliar with the font to be able to reproduce what they see.

I find ligatures more readable because for example I read the => ligature faster than the two-character equivalent. I find it less precise because someone who sees the ligature may not be clear what it's supposed to be (when I first saw a ligature font, I thought it was a unicode character).
> With the Lambda server-less paradigm, you end up with 1 lambda function per route.

Only if you use a framework that splits it up that way (which I agree is horrible). But nothing about Lambda _requires_ this architecture. In fact, API Gateway has a proxy mode that allows you to serve all requests from a single Lambda.
Lego Planet is made up of how many 2x4 bricks? (assuming they dont compress)
> But the incentive structure isn't as simple as "ALL FOR ADS."

It is when adding "... whenever a service gets really big and used a lot".

If Ngram search was super popular, you bet they'd put book ads there, or something.
I absolutely love Lem. He is a giant in my eyes. Very nice to know that MIT has decided to reprint some of his work.
With commits named "nothing"[0] the repo is surely trustworthy

0: https://github.com/11lein/LTSC-Add-MicrosoftStore/commit/b5b...
OVH?

I often wonder why Hetzner dont expand internationally.
Some of us believe that "helping" doesn't really help. Most countries that are screwed up are screwed up because of who rules there. Given a reasonable government things would be totally different. Helping usually just feeds the leaders of those governments.
That is only 1/300 the cost of the covid stimulus. it is only extensive because it has been deemed by the media and pundits as so.
Coronavirus: Germany infection rate rises as lockdown eases
I have the feeling many audio companies are quite nerdy and it's hard to compete with die-hard audio-nerds.

If you are not looking for the core audio development there are however surely more normal dev jobs in these companies too. Bandcamp are all remote btw. but I guess hard to get in to too :).

Generally just pick the job that brings you the closest to where you want to be and move on every 1-2 years to something closer to your dream.
It's being worked on. I am rather excited for the upcoming work that makes the parser replaceable and allows us to actually give good syntax errors! There is some discussion about making error printing more configurable so that one can skip stack-frames that are unlikely to be the cause (albeit that's a double-edged sword).
In this high altitude video sequence of 'Lego Earth' I see no evidence of familiar coastal outlines. Case closed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvlXACoVVIo
Call of Duty has censored all input with a regex like this for as long as I can remember. I can't even name one of my classes "Assault" which isn't even viewable publicly. You would think it would be easy to add a whitelist for such a common word.
Anything about aliens you can share?
lets stop the time it takes until the first guy comes along screaming: RUUUUST...
Posted mainly to say, FFS: Stephenson, Baroque Cycle

Plowed through the whole thing on a 4” iPhone, which got a chuckle from Neal himself at Kepler’s a while back. The trick is to shut off the progress display and just let it roll like a river. 3000 easy pages plus another 1000 for Cryptonomicon.

eta: Right, probably more like 30,000 on that postage stamp.
Lem was a great author of real imaginative fiction. His novels shaped my world view more than any other SF author.
I hope more of his stuff gets republished.
Because programming is 99% plumbing and 1% thinking.
> The Internet basically runs on InnoDB.

Can you explain what you mean by this statement?
Right to work from home could be enshrined in law after coronavirus lockdown
and even if it were, it'd be a consciousness copy, not a consciousness transfer. you'd get a software simulation of yourself but you, the real you, would still be dead
Nice find. Thanks.
Don't fret! You still have to look forward to all the weird service limits you'll hit both directly and indirectly using CFN to maintain and extend a prod infrastructure YoY
And how much energy it'd take if everyone did that...

Addendum: Maybe something like what package managers are doing would be feasible? Download an index that's as compact as possible and search locally. Does that exist already?
It is quite possible that people agree with you that source code should be first and foremost useful, but disagree on compactness vs airiness.
I understand the article is trying to convey that (some) researchers are rethinking the old approach of thinking of distinct definitions of disease.

My point is that they're still largely making the same mistakes; yes they're blurring the distinctions between "disorders", but they're not going back to first principles, nor giving due consideration to the coherent and compelling work of other eminent figures in their field.

> > So, trying to categorise "disorders" into discrete definitions with distinct "causes" in order to restore the mind to some "normal" state cannot possibly work.

> Yeah, nobody's trying to do that. Researchers are clearly aware of that.

They are still focused on identifying biological causes for disorders, rather than seeing variations in behaviour – even extreme ones – as adaptations that have been selected for by evolution.

It's articulated here:

> They have a few theories. Perhaps there are several dimensions of mental illness — so, depending on how a person scores on each dimension, they might be more prone to some disorders than to others. An alternative, more radical idea is that there is a single factor that makes people prone to mental illness in general: which disorder they develop is then determined by other factors. Both ideas are being taken seriously, although the concept of multiple dimensions is more widely accepted by researchers.

I sigh at that statement, when several prominent figures in the field, all with advanced qualifications in mainstream medicine or psychology, have been offering coherent explanations and effective treatment approaches for years or decades.
Ah, WiFi trucks make more sense in that case. I was assuming that wired connections were available, just not affordable.
How Much Is a Human Life Worth?
Use the gear to open settings, then under "Window >" turn off "Window Controls"
Obsession with dark, unreadable text colors are much more destructive to my eyes than cursives. Whoever came up with the idea that blue on black was a good color for displaying code on a screen, or dark green on black was a good idea for comments should just stop using computers together with everyone who installs and uses those themes.
You have to run the old browsers through a local proxy you configure yourself a lot of times these days if you're really interested in surfing the web with it.

I'm about to go to sleep but there's ones that forward https as http, convert webp and png to gif, strip JavaScript to prevent the browser from locking up, etc.

There's a real world use for this in crazy companies where people are forced on some old browser. This makes them not go down in glorious flames at every site.
"I think this is [flowerbed]ing awesome," said a Babylon Bee podcast aficionado.

They use an excellent voice-over actor, Dave DeAndrea to bleep out the errant F-bomb.
Many of the distilleries which were making hand sanitizer have stopped and this list doesn't appear to reflect this. I know that at least 2 of the distilleries listed in my state stopped producing hand sanitizer a couple of weeks ago and no longer have any in stock.

Distilleries in general are not setup to produce the purity of alcohol needed for hand sanitizer. What distilleries do have is licenses to purchase large quantities of alcohol. Most distilleries were purchasing the required alcohol from other sources, producing hand sanitizer in their facility and bottling it.

The supply of the required alcohol has either dried up or prices have gotten to levels making uneconomical for them to continue producing hand sanitizer.
Show HN: Qtorial – Product tutorial builder that integrates with Firebase
As a long time interviewer, I’ve heard most of these, but never all together. I’d love to get all these questions, and my opinion of the candidate would go up if these were asked. The worst is when the candidate has no questions for me.
You only see the hidden text because your browser renders it with a different font first.

Its the font itself doing the censoring, not some script, which IMO removes a good chunk of the 'neatness' of this solution.
Well, that's fair enough.
Open source and consoles won't mix unless they remove the licensing (they won't). Which is why the Unreal model keeps platforms modular and has a bot to sync code back to GH.

The reality of open source in games is we need more engine sponsors from the studios running those engines in order to keep development alive.

Console driven development should also come from the studios, and they should partner with GoDot to enable packs/modules/tools.

Blender successfully navigated this with the open movies project. The game engines need a similar model.
What does this do? Around halfway through the article:

> One of the more interesting side effects of getting inputs over chat for a game like Mario 64...
Also don't forget that in 10 million years, one of Mars' moons will crash into the planet, or at least parts of it.

Don't want humans to be around on Mars when that happens.
Ask HN: How can I improve my writing
Hello Hacker news,

I have trouble writing. It is hard to get ideas out of my head onto paper. For example this paragraph I have re-written multiple times from scratch. Many of the times I do not know where to start, or how to express a simple idea effectively on paper.

I have been working on my side project NearBeach (https://github.com/robotichead/NearBeach) for a few years now, and I still do not know how to write it's blog posts or documentation. A good example of my skill would be the following links;

- Documentation https://nearbeach.readthedocs.io
- https://nearbeach.org/index.php/2020/03/10/nearbeach-beta/

My first opinion of my writing skill is that it does not flow and seems very UN-professional.

Thank you for your advice
topgun.mid actually exists.
Maybe so search engines don't blacklist the site for being adult content?
Cypherock – Making Paper Backups of Cryptographic Keys Obsolete
Hello HN!
I am Rohan from Cypherock (https://cypherock.com)

Cypherock is the World’s first offline data storage device that secures your digital assets without a single point of failure. We are currently focusing on securing Crypto, but it can be used to secure any other digital assets like DevOps keys etc.

At the top of the 2017 bull market, I found that one of my friends couldn't recover his seed phrase written on a piece of paper due to an unfortunate house fire. Around the same time, my college friend had kept his seed phrase as a screenshot which got lost when the phone was corrupted. That's when we realized the need for a solution that caters to both data loss & theft problems simultaneously.

It's said that your security is only as good as your weakest link. After talking to hundreds of wallet users, we realized securing wallet backup on a piece of paper is the weakest link of Crypto security. It exposes your keys in plain sight, becomes a single point of failure, is prone to environmental damages & faces from inheritance issues.

This gave birth to Cypherock. Using Shamir’s Secret Sharing, we split the seed phrase into 4 shards which are stored in the 4 EAL 6+ Smart Cards (cyCards) protected by a PIN. The 4 cyCards can be kept in different remote locations. In case you need to recover your digital assets, you need to fetch any 2 out of the 4 cyCards & enter the PIN that you had set earlier.

Currently, we are open for pre-orders. We will also have a digital assets inheritance app that works with the product to allow the transfer of assets like your passwords etc. without compromising on privacy & control. Unlike cloud-based solutions which almost never work because you have to trust them with your digital assets, this will be a decentralized service. More on this soon!

We aim to bring the same peace of mind in securing digital assets that the World currently feels with physical assets. Looking to get feedback from HN about the product.
As a way to show off the capability of ligatures, more power to them. As an effort to censor, why in the ever loving fuck nuggets would you ever actually do that?

I have young kids and a large family. We all curse periodically. Instead of telling the kids that these are bad words, we told them they are adult words. As in, when you are old enough you can curse all you want, but as a kid you can’t. We felt that this was a more correct way to put it, and instead of making a huge deal out of them we instead taught them what is and what isn’t appropriate. You’d think this would result in them using those potty words all the time. Nope. I mean mostly no. Currently one of them asked one of the family members to stop using the word fuck because it makes her uncomfortable. The other one and I were playing Minecraft and I tried to explain the Nether to her as hell and she was like “wait is that a word I can say?” which led to us discussing when it’s ok and not ok to use that word. My girlfriend explained what “boss bitch” means to the kids recently in terms of dog mushing.

Some amusing stories: my oldest when she was in daycare made a pact with her classmates to go into the bathroom and say curse words because the teachers wouldn’t hear them in there. They even had someone on lookout when they did this. Words used were “poop” and “doodoo”.

That same kid when she was 4-5 came up to mom and asked “I really want to say a curse word”. Mom sent her to her room to say it no more than five times and come back. She did and that was that.

The other kid accidentally busted out with a periodic “what is this bullshit?” when she was much younger. She does not curse currently.

Words are words and censoring “bad” words is silly. You can’t censor meaning. “Fk you” is just as powerful a statement as “fuck you”. Especially if it censors words like “associating” or “Cummings” or “arsenal”. This is just fodder for the unnecessary censorship memes.
which is fantastic. =)
With some configuration it is possible to _work_ with these styles while editing in Org mode, including the use of variable-width fonts, inline images and formulas, etc. The configuration[1] describes an exemplary process.

It is also possible to tweak the Org mode export mechanism to modify its structural markup to fit projects such as Tufte CSS[2][3].

What the article doesn't explicitly mention is that #+HTML_HEAD: is an instance of In-buffer setting[4]. These can be either added to individual files, or more conveniently, to a reusable _Setup file_ many files could point to (specified by the #+SETUPFILE: in-buffer setting).

1. https://lepisma.xyz/2017/10/28/ricing-org-mode/

2. https://github.com/dakrone/ox-tufte

3. https://jnboehm.gitlab.io/blog/tufte-css/

4. https://orgmode.org/manual/In_002dbuffer-Settings.html
> He's paradoxically so brilliant yet so misinformed.

He's not very brilliant though. He may be good at his niche (although I'm not sure what that is judging by the quality of Tesla vehicles), but if you are a subject matter expert in a field that he pretends to know, it becomes very obvious that his knowledge is extremely surface-level and the equivalent of "I read Wikipedia on the plane".

Actually I think his brilliance is in convincing the eager Silicon Valley masses that he's brilliant and that they should invest in his companies - regardless of how poorly they continue to do.
Didn’t look at your link, but the above is fine. Concise, organized. It’s OK.

Advice: Practice. Edit.

Suggestion: Take an intro to journalism class. Got to be a million of those online right now. Write, write, write. Edit, edit, edit, edit, edit.
Should’ve clarified: Professional interests.

> Interviews SHOULD be boring in the repetitive sense

Repetitive isn’t boring. I believe it’s very possible (essential) for a good interviewer to see the difference.
The Lego planet does not necessarily need to be smaller than earth. Remember, it's made of Lego bricks which are not 100% solid, they have pockets of air inside them when connected to other bricks.

You need to take into account the mass ratio of a Lego brick to be able to correctly correspond the mass to a radius.
"It irks me how admins always ban my buddy, presumably because they think 88 in his nick is code for 'heil Hitler'. It's really unfair. Take care viagrapenis88!"
You already know Greg Egan, so I would very much recommend Diaspora. Really amazing book. I wrote about it here: http://uzpg.me/literature/2019/04/29/diaspora.html

> (e.g. about facing a totally different culture).

I would also recommend The Player games by Iain Banks. Not hardsf per-say but really nice and complex story.