skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is always the minority of cars that kill you. If it only has to 95% work, that’s always been easy.
In the news:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/smartphones-laptops-iot-device...

‘TL;DR: The Bluetooth standard provides authentication mechanisms based on a long term pairing key, which are designed to protect against impersonation attacks. The BIAS attacks from our new paper demonstrate that those mechanisms are broken, and that an attacker can exploit them to impersonate any Bluetooth master or slave device. Our attacks are standard-compliant, and can be combined with other attacks, including the KNOB attack. In the paper, we also describe a low cost implementation of the attacks and our evaluation results on 30 unique Bluetooth devices using 28 unique Bluetooth chips.‘
Having to still support IE 11 for most projects, I really like the following:

div {
position: absolute;
right: 50%;
bottom: 50%
transform: translate(50%, 50%);
}
I wish so too. But honestly, space could likely be found. The problem is - and would be with your hypothetical nature reseve - that somebody has to pay for a) feeding these animals beyond their expected lifetimes, and b) fuel necessary to ship them to their reserve en-masse.
> This is news to me, and I’ll keep it in mind.

Granted, I only have two immediate examples:

* Season 2 of The Onion's hilarious true crime parody (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_Fatal_Murder) is exclusively on a platform called Luminary. I can't even figure out exactly what Luminary is, because they serve me with a special can of "Luminary is not yet available in your location" crap. Not that I care anyway. The first season is on regular old RSS and is fantastic (if you like the true crime genre and The Onion-style silliness).

* Wind of Change (https://crooked.com/podcast-series/wind-of-change/) investigates the (serious!) conspiracy theory that the CIA created the hit "Wind of Change" by The Scorpions. Now, this is borderline, but the podcast is available over RSS – however they're clearly trying to push people onto Spotify by releasing all episodes there at once and only dripping out an episode a week over RSS. I'll allow it.
Flexbox did fix it, and it's been available in Chrome since 2013, Firefox since 2014, and everything else since 2015. IE 11 supported enough of the 2012 syntax to be usable. Even IE 10 supports some of it, albeit poorly.
https://francozappa.github.io/about-bias/
Ask HN: What is the altruistic mission of your startup or project?
I'm curious to hear how people are deploying technology for good. I'd like to hear only about core missions rather than how you also give to charity or provide volunteer hours. While doing good on the side is valid and laudable, I'm specifically interested in core missions.
True, but unless you have hundreds of them, I'm not sure if it's useful for MAD (i.e. replacement for nukes).

I suppose if you made the tungsten rods heavy enough and made made them travel fast enough you could get kinetic energy on par with small nukes, but the problem is it's highly directional (i.e. most of the energy is released underground and absorbed by the earth), unlike a nuke which can release all of its energy at once in an airburst 100 feet above a city.

It would be useful as a PGM in the arsenal, but probably not enough for MAD in an arms race. I could be wrong, though.
Building your own ad network might be a lot of work, but it means you don't have to fight with ad blockers anymore. And newspapers only have 2 avenues for revenue - subscriptions and ad revenue. You have to give some content away as promotion, but if you have an ad blocker you as a consumer of news are nothing more than a leach. It costs money to write, edit, and deliver content. Otherwise you start serving up clickbait.

I used to work for the Chicago Tribune. We put in a lot of time to make our website deliver quickly. The 3rd party advert networks were the biggest drag on the site. They vary greatly in their reputation. I hope it works. Maybe they'll open source it and share it with other newspapers that deliver quality content.
But even more powerful when working together....
A guy like that, you wonder how he can even poop, not having a gram of asshole in his whole body.

Clearly, you don't need to be an asshole to be successful. But do you have to be near one?

When Jobs was right there next to him, his body 8% anus by mass, being asshole enough for ten ordinary men, how do we know whether Woz's success was due in part to Jobs' abrasive personality, or in spite of it? Didn't Jobs pull some dirty business tricks to cheat Woz out of some of his ownership?
There are powerful people out there who feel the same about you.
Well it's not true if you decide to ignore the fact that this does address the situations in which centering is a pain in the ass. If you exclude all the factors this takes into account, it obviously becomes trivial.
This podcast episode with the founder of ScaleFT goes into the history of enterprise networking so you can understand the reasons for why they are like they are: https://www.enterpriseready.io/podcast/paul-querna-scaleft/
This implies to me that if they "gave away" the extra animals to family farms, there would not be enough takers. Is that true?
Basically all crypto exchanges.
Python performance: it’s not just the interpreter
> Dr. Johnston, seeing the north face fall from Coldwater II, jumped on the radio. “Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!” he cried. Moments later, the blast engulfed the 30-year-old scientist. On another ridge two miles behind him, Gerry Martin, an amateur radio operator who was observing the volcano for the Washington Department of Emergency Services, saw the annihilation of Coldwater II. His last words were: “It’s going to get me, too.”

Haunting stuff.
> For small animals, CO2 is humane

Do you have a citation for this? Everything I've seen would suggest to me it's categorically less humane than using an inert gas like nitrogen or helium in the absence of oxygen.
It’s simply a toggle on the we page to hide all of them.
S3, Blob Storage?
You don't need the style="text-align:center" on your wrapper element
Edit-[optionally compile]-Run-[optionally step in Debugger] is addictive because the feedback loop is so tight, and it always feels like work. The way to break the addiction is to start working in a domain where there's significant friction to that process.

Work on a heavy-ass C++ GUI application that takes forever to load, with a big-ass code base that takes forever to compile, and you'll be thinking deeply about code in no time, because you can't program that sucker by poking when poking takes 40 minutes.
"In this case, we’ve reinstated the app and have communicated with the developer to ensure the app remains compliant with our policies."

Treating the developer with suspicion, after they clumsily and callously trampled over him. Insult to injury.

That spokesman needs to be fired, and we need to stay angry until Google gives us developers a real pathway of appeal/communication concerning our apps being taken down, so we're not talking to a cold machine when our livelihood is suddenly yanked out from under us. We shouldn't have to make a public fuss to get our apps reinstated.
An interesting parallel to today from the Mount St. Helens eruption is what happened in the city of Ritzville, Washington that was directly in the path of much of the ash. Many motorists coming back from Eastern Washington got stranded there because of poor visibility and up to six inches of ash on almost everything. They overwhelmed the city's facilities and were effectively quarantined within a school cafeteria. After two days a group of motorists tried to break the quarantine:

"So two days after the eruption, a large group of "rebel motorists" chose to ignore official warnings and try to make an escape from Ritzville. Most turned around within a few miles as they encountered nasty, gritty ground blizzards of ash. Some had to pull over when their clogged cars died. Police said didn't know how many cars made it out, but they said it wasn't more than 100."

Source: https://www.historylink.org/File/9398 (From History Link, a great free encyclopedia of Washington State history. Several states have projects like this online which are fun ways to learn about the history of small towns, how a particular region reacted to a large historical event, etc.)
Very few animals besides apex predators in the wild live long enough to die of old age. Rather they die from starvation or disease or are eaten by something else.

Life on industrial farms sounds terrible, for sure, but death in nature is also terrible, to the point that I'm not sure it's a mercy to "set them free".
Municipal internet is something we should all get behind because the internet is no longer a luxury, or a tool, it's an essential service. Imagine not having the internet in the next pandemic.
So when Google segments users and allows the NYT to target them, that's third party data, but when the NYT segments users and allows e.g. Walmart to target them, it's not?
That's only misleading if you don't have to support IE. I'm guessing that's the case for you but many of us still have to.

Also, this site seems to have gone up in 2015 and hasn't changed (substantially) since.

I also don't think you're correct in calling this a straw man. This is not a debate and there was no other party whose assertion this site seems to refute, so calling it a straw man doesn't seem to fit.
What else would you like to see? We launched a few GDPR resources a year or two ago: https://www.enterpriseready.io/gdpr/
The major advantage of Lisp macros over macros in other languages aren't their power but the fact that using Lisp's macro system is virtually the same as using the rest of Lisp.

Lisp macros look like Lisp and in manipulating code via macros you can leverage the rest of Lisp and Lisp's ecosystem.

So writing Lisp macros is entirely natural for someone who already knows Lisp. You don't have to learn or use what is effectively a separate language, as you do with every other language that's not homoiconic.

As Alan Perlis once said, "Beware the Turing tarpit, where everything is possible and nothing is easy."
Keep in mind that sometimes killing the animal might be the humane option. I certainly wouldn't want a cow left to starve in what's essentially some guy's backyard box. I've seen enough dogs kept in such conditions.
If you remove buzzwords though it makes more sense:

1) It is impossible to have specs for a complete project at the beginning. So let's ship piece by piece and accommodate spec changes as they are discovered.

2) We need at least some visibility on what to do so let's bundle a few short tasks for the (literally) foreseeable future.

3) Since we can't estimate task duration precisely because nobody ever managed to do it, let's find some measure on how much work we can get done.

4) How do we estimate this: empirically by progressive approximation.

5) This is not actually necessary.

Also I think that one of the more interesting parts of the planning poker is discussing the why a task may or may not take a long time. It can give insight into system complexity to people less familiar with a specific part of the project.

I must say though that the goal completion was more of a unicorn where I worked. We always had sprints overspill to the next one but that was not necessarily an issue.

If there is one thing I dislike about the scrum it is the rigidity which is often introduced. I think a laid back approach to it makes it more useful.
In my experience, "logic wants to be code, and not data". Ie it's a dangerous (although sometimes necessary) step to move this into the data domain. Did you encounter any difficulties with missing source control, being able to use debugging tools, etc?
Err.. but they are rolling their own tracking service + ad exchange. They say they will create user segments that advertisers can use to target ads - that is basically an ad exchange. Instead of advertisers using AdWords (or whatever they currently use to advertise on NYT), they will use a custom built NYTWords to run their ads.

What I meant by subscription only is that their revenues won't be purely through subscription - ad revenue is still going to be a very significant part of their total revenues - they're not simply ditching it.
As someone without a bone in the fight, I find your language quite inflammatory, it's a bit excessive to use "backstab" and "gaslighting" IMO.
Democracy improves things when it is exercised. In the USA and others countries there is a system in place to avoid public dissent. For example, the USA is practically free to do anything they want in terms of foreign policy without opposition from the national media. Except for some faint opinion pieces here and there, the media is very supportive of whatever crazy schemes the government is trying to impose on "enemy" countries, and practically never debates why a country is an "enemy" or not.
What's interesting to me is that in Noam Chomsky's Propaganda Model, one of the factors that make corporate media like the NYT the voice of the state and large corporations is their need for advertising dollars. If they even slightly flinch in their editorial line, the ad dollars go elsewhere, which Chomsky documented.

I was about to say that the reason there's no ad free option is that advertising so dominates subscriber fees, the correct way to look at this is that they are selling audiences to other large corporations rather than in some sense serving their readers. However, their 2020 financial report shows that subscriber revenues have recently eclipsed their advertising revenue starting in 2015.

https://www.nytimes.com/projects/2020-report/index.html

The subscriber revenue was about a third larger than the ad revenue then. This is kind of an interesting difference. If the advertising revenue keeps dwindling, the editorial line will become more responsive to their subscribers rather than their advertisers. Of course, the subscriber base is going to be mainly middle to upper class and college educated, and those people believe many of the same things the corporations believe. However, I would hope that this would make the NYT marginally more populist and pro-worker and less oriented towards invading other countries which they currently nearly always support uncritically. I don't think there's any hope for them going further than that, but prying the cold dead fingers of the business community off the editorial line of the nation's paper of record would open a crack in the door.
r/Technical/Product
> It's certainly not something you can simplify down to just the component sinusoids.

Anything a human can perceive as sound can be simplified down to just the component sine waves.

> You can say we perceive things as if they were a linear combination of sinusoidal waves because we have a series of hair cells in the cochlea.

No. We say this because any waveform can be reproduced by a sufficient number of sine waves at different frequencies and amplitudes. It's not perception, or the physics of the human ear. It's math.[1]

[1] http://astro.pas.rochester.edu/~aquillen/phy103/Lectures/D_F...
Especially since BND (or the predecessor "Operation Gehlen") was established to large parts due to American interest in German spying experience regarding the Soviet Union.
I'm moving to Southwest Vermont on the 29th of May. So far the best internet provider we can get is consolidated communications at 25Mbps with a two year contract.

I think we will be going with AT&T enterprise unlimited cellular internet, which the sim card can be had on ebay.
It doesn't solve vertical centering, but I am secretly still a fan of the center-tag. Just does what it's name implies in most situations. I still don't get why its avoided like the plague.
IE11 supports most of flexbox. You don't need hacks.
My guess is post-industrial economies require next-level abstraction which is more mentally demanding and hence requires better rest and nutrition. Back when "produce more stuff more efficiently!" was the mantra it was easier to focus on incremental gains. Now the answers aren't so easy.
The future of remote work is flexible work
Ocadao and Morrisons have delivered to us throughout the lockdown though in the case of Ocado they did at one point have a rule about delivering only to existing customers from before the lockdown but that has been relaxed as well.

Given the sheer scale of the lockdown and following disruption the existing supermarkets have handled it really well except for the toilet paper situation which was beyond silly on the consumers part and there really wasn't much that the supermarkets could have done at that point.
Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 now available
I prefer <center style="text-align: center;"> for maximum centeredness
Microsoft is bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10
It's time to learn flexbox
I guess if you can’t figure out how to install uBO, then Brave makes sense. I suspect that the pool of people who care about blocking ads, can’t figure out uBO, but are willing to install an extra browser is pretty small, but I have no skin in this game.

I’ve never seen anyone angry about Brave blocking ads; what I’ve seen are people angry at Brave blocking ads and adding their own, which is a drastically different complaint.
I mean, I don't know that the essentialness of internet is a strong enough argument, there are so many things that are essential that we don't municipally provide — food, clothing, shelter, etc.

The strongest argument for municipal internet is more that, like roads, it lends itself to natural monopolies.
Not sure how the Apple Card system works, but Visa has a program that I was affected by. I had a card that needed to be replaced before its expiration date. I intentionally did not go online to update it anywhere. I wanted to start receiving emails from all of the sites that the previous card was registered as I was specifically looking for sites the card might have been registered without my knowledge. However, Netflix pays into the Visa program so that they can find out that new card number and automatically start using it without me doing anything.
Since 8 hours now...

Does anyone run their own image cache/proxy and is now happy that they are not affected by this issue? If so: what solution are you using?
Why is CO2 different for "small" animals than "large" animals? If CO2 is humane for chickens, say, then why do they sometimes use Nitrogen or Argon, which are more hazardous for humans and probably more expensive?
Sure, tungsten rods also work. What I meant was something far less sophisticated - "we don't care what specifically is hit, as long as it impacts in the general area." See e.g. the Qassam missiles, or similarly, the North Korean space program (or "space program"?) and Japan.
That's what this is. If you don't want to be asked to stop gaslighting people, you shouldn't gaslight people.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ce...

The <center> element is obsolete and is not in the HTML5 spec...
Declarative would be more like:

circle is at position 10,10 at time 1.5

circle is of size 50 at time 5

circle is at position 20,50 at time 3

And so forth. And because of this statements, an animation is computed that respects the declarations.
They are still going to collect data about you and sell it to third parties.
> There's currently a gaping chasm between the 35 sponsors who have supported the project on GitHub so far (thank you!!!) and the 309 poll respondents who indicated they would donate to this cause.
https://kamerontanseli.ghost.io/first-it-was-craiglist-next-...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23126455
Thats was a good read, I wonder where did you get all the information. content and stories from?
>uBlock Origin still works fine in Chromium today.

They intended to gimp the API. Not sure if the changes are in effect already though.

>Even if Google were to disallow it and other powerful adblockers, the alternative (similar to content blockers on MobileSafari) is not a serious problem, at least for me. I have Ka-Block! on my iPhone, which blocks ads just fine, despite having a much less powerful interface than uBO.

Good for you. It's not enough for me. I even write my own rules for the sites I visit often.
I did a flight safety training course and the video clips of people right before they pass out from anoxia are entertaining and educational.

Here's one from the FAA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSrGfElyfVE
Iosevka's great! I've been using the quasi-proportional version, Iosevka Aile, as a coding font. Never thought I'd end up using a proportional coding font!

Screenshot: http://chris.printf.net/iosevka-aile.png
That's a bit no-true-scotsman isn't it?

People are bitching about 'clickbait headlines' on the Easyjet hack post right now - and that's an article from the BBC.
"The ruling said that non-Germans were also protected by Germany's constitutional rights"

That's a pretty big task if it's not heavily caveated. I'm curious how they manage conflicts around citizenship and constitutional reach then. I'd love to hear a German Constitutional scholar weigh in.

If their constitution protects non-citizens does that mean that German police/military are required constitutionally to protect non-Germans from acts by non-German states or individuals? Are there any positive rights in the German constitution (like a right to be provided legal counsel) that a non-German citizen could "charge" the government for so to speak?

It seems based on this interpretation that someone from - say Nicaragua - could claim that the Nicaraguan government is in violation of German constitution and the German government would be obliged to provide counsel to the Nicaraguan citizen.
> Did they ever think to just ask me? I might not care much about ads if it was as simple as declaring the categories I might be interested in

The most profitable ad categories are in things like insurance and legal. Who would opt in to those?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5605172/ has a lot of reading.

it's so far the least-worst option: we know there are issues, but the alternatives to date so far have been worse, including inert gases.
Let me be more clear, using an example. Appears Brave only attempts to contact the Whois email after the funds in escrow exceed $100 USD.

Let’s say the have million in escrow, they invest it, don’t lose any of the funds, and 5 years later end up paying out all funds due.

Does the “all funds due” just the million, is it the million plus the returns they made on million, is it adjusted for inflation because they sat on it 5-years, etc.?

Comparable example might be the funds held in escrow by gift cards; my guess is unless Brave is being super careful what they are doing is or will be defined as illegal.
SpaceX capsule arrives at site for May 27th launch
Most people aren't 'anti-immigrant'. They are anti illegal immigrant. This distinction has been intentionally conflated by the press and political opponents.
The Insider Story of Houseparty
This sounds very much like another instance of unintended consequences triggered by good intentions.

We're seeing this more and more on many topics linked to human rights where things stemmed from a good intention but resulted in sweeping and far-ranging consequences.

Here for example I don't see how anything good in practice can result from this decision. I'm sure that the BND already has procedures to decide who to spy on, both because of operational and political concerns. Adding more restrictions based on "human rights" really only impede operations when they should be nimble and might push them more underground, i.e. with less oversight. My guess is that they'll find a way to have a procedure and paperwork in order to follow the letter of this decision but that in practice nothing will change at all because that would harm national interests.
I thought that limiting the GPS from the top was to complicate making cheap missiles, something that might be used by rogue states or terrorists; for MAD, you probably wouldn't choose COTS equipment.