skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Setting aside time to do nothing. Man, I haven't "done nothing" in far too long.

I have a dedicated day toward reading, which is kinda close. But just relaxing for a bit sounds so nice.
I did that, but it's still a bit complex for me…
This is one of the primary reasons most people hate PHP. Let me ask a simple question: What does the documentation for your homegrown framework look like? Having worked for several organizations that decided to roll their own framework in PHP, it is an absolute nightmare. No one else knows how it works or how to use it and it usually comes with no documentation. Furthermore, you don't get any updates or bug fixes unless you write them, taking time away from working on the project that is being held up by your homegrown solution. There are plenty of fast, low bloat, PHP frameworks to choose from: Phalcon, Slim, Luman and Silex just to name a few. I guarantee they all have better documentation and support. If you need some custom functionality, extend one of these existing solutions to suit your needs. Please, please stop reinventing the wheel for production code.
West lost its way, but China may not be heir apparent
Why is this news? Anyone who thought podcasts weren't going to be commercialized probably also thinks netscape navigator is a good browser in 2020.
Does your file server speak HTTP? If so you might have a problem. If not, it sounds like it's inaccessible to this attack, except to discover that it exists.
You don't need much money to grab a backpack and go someplace, or do volunteer work abroad. You could even get paid for some of it.
good article, minus the 'soviet embarrassment' part. It might have gotten a few politicians sacked, but it was absolutely the right thing to do and nothing to be ashamed of. There was no loss of life. After determining this was a slow moving commuter aircraft, Mathias Rust had a combat number assigned to him, and SAM tracking for the majority of his 3 hour flight into red square. Compared to Cuba, which routinely used to blow cessnas out of the air with callous precision, the Soviet Union is pretty disciplined.

Had this been the United States anytime after 9/11, this Cessna would have been strewn over a cornfield somewhere and the pilot condemned as a terrorist. Our police officers routinely execute entire cars full of people for no other reason besides jewelery theft or speeding.
A company I worked at embraced nix. Beforehand I was a big docker fan and had few issues with it (yes there were occasionally caching issues and damn it docker figure out the issue with hyperkit on mac os, but largely its a productive tool). From an outside perspective nix just felt like alot more work, and nearly no one (except the people that set it up) could ever get it to work. So basically the entire build process for the core of the system was something that literally no one in the company wanted to touch. I'm sure if I was an insider on the tool I would appreciate the added stability you get on the backend, but at face value it seemed like it just made builds unapproachable on the front end. I'm happily back to using docker and haven't looked back.
We have never been able to make Hive LLAP run reliably on our HDP cluster, queries sometimes just hang for no apparent reason.

On the other hand, our Presto cluster runs pretty much anything we throw at it, and when it fails, the failures are easier to anticipate and mitigate. It's also quite simple to deploy and operate.
Thank you! (PPL student here, still lots to learn).
I rarely see Grasshopper [1] mentioned in these threads. This is a very successful visual programming tool used by designers and engineers, primarily for generating geometry.

Where I work (structural engineering firm) some of the engineers do use it for general purpose programming. I see the appeal of it, but keeping the layout tidy and all the clicking is just too much effort. However for generating geometry it's quite a useful tool.

[1] https://www.rhino3d.com/6/new/grasshopper
>Platform Support

>Windows In-Box PIV Driver (Read Only) and PIVkey Windows Minidriver (Read/Write): Windows Vista, 7, 8, Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2012.

>Mac OSX, Linux and Android (Read Only - Middleware Required)

The only open source middleware I know of for OSX is OpenSC, and it doesn't list C910 as a supported card.

https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/wiki/Supported-hardware-(sm...
What I like about OpenRA is that they not only extended the game, but also rebalanced it. A lot of units have behavioral changes on purpose. Artillery, GPS, helicopters, mammoth tanks, tesla infantry... they all allow quick changes of strategy and don’t allow the old style gameplay of just spamming mammoth tanks.

The only thing that is unbalanced at the moment is sea vs land. Allied cruisers with GPS are just overpowered and almost unconquerable.
This and generally speaking the faster the plane the more inputs and outputs you have which makes navigating a decision tree harder.

Cessna with fixed gear, one engine, no autopilot: if suddenly you find yourself in a dangerous or scary situation there’s not much you have to check to get a troubleshooting picture of the situation.

Turbo twin with all the bells and whistles: not only are you traveling much faster (possibly in to a dangerous situation) but there a ton more inputs and variables to take in and a lot more things you can change to right the situation. It can be overwhelming.
I'm a bit surprised to hear this, is this a common thing to do in the DSP world in 2020?
Turbojet aircraft require an annual proficiency training event that’s quite similar in scope to a check ride.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/61.58

So, while it’s technically true that the type rating does not expire, you still need annual training and certification.
One of the recent dark pattern is what current US administration has employed. Taking the issues, however minor, from the fringe, bring those issues to mainstream, turning the fringe believers into supporters.
I'm very curious about collaboration in the equation. In the US we have things like github. You have open source via linux and organizations like Apache, etc. What about the role of standards bodies like the IETF or W3C and industry specific standards bodies. China has none of these.

If one reads Anna Lee Saxenians "Cultural Advantage" and the "New Argonauts", you see a lot more missing pieces that are hard to replicate and cultural.

Even in the US, Route 128 was usurped by the culture from the SF Bay Area, which has spread to Seattle, Austin and NYC, but at the end of the day these markets are all extensions of the SF Bay Area not challengers presenting a new model detached from SF Bay Area culture, money and networks. Even strong international markets like Taiwan and Israel are extensions of the SF Bay Area.

I also would not discount the fact that all tech that matters globally ultimately is written by engineers communicating in English regardless of what country the engineer is from or resides in. That goes a LONG way to establishing tech dominance in the US. China would have to de facto move all its tech even within its borders to English first if they want to usurp that. Not that English guarantees success (see England and other English speaking countries), but it's absolutely a barrier for non-english speaking countries. Every programming language that matters has keywords in English and all the best learning materials are in English. Same for all other tech and science that matters outside of programming as well. All English.
Paramotors seem to combine safety with affordability for fun flying
>One party just opposes the other party's positions irrespective of whether they are good or not.

This was the proper place to stop. Both parties are full of politicians.
Were it something pointing out the trade-offs that he found when rolling his own frameworks and I wouldn't be so put-off by it. But when an article wants to argue for something and its justifications could be used to conclude the exact same opposite? I fail to find those good points, to be honest.
Saw this while scrolling Reddit, and thought it is relevant here as well.

https://medium.com/@probonopd/microsoft-loves-linux-a-little...
Damn. Yet another example of "This is why we can't have nice things."
Is That a Rooster on My Customer-Support Call? Yes, Blame Coronavirus
Design for Narrowband IoT
Rust competes with both, though some golang programs are quite reliant on general GC and rust would not be appropriate for those as of yet.
The fastest way to get me to click 'Ignore' in my game queue is to see EA as the publisher. This gesture is a day late and a dollar short.
I listen to a lot of podcasts, and have never heard of Joe Rogan, or any of the other people in the article (except Howard Stern).

Hopefully the podcast market dynamics are sufficiently different from syndicated FM radio to make this consolidation play fail.
Ah, apparently now (RFC8484) it's standardized to use DNS wireformat, but originally Google DNS implemented "DNS-over-HTTPS" to be JSON[1] on 4/2/16 and added DNS wire format on 6/27/19[2].

Cloudflare also has the JSON format available[3]

[1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/public-dn...

[2]: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/public-dn...

[3]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/dns-over-https/jso...
If you believe in the power of targeted marketing, believe in TikTok. I didn't log in, I gave this app no information about me at all and it managed to turn 1 or 2 likes into a stream of endless content that hit a certain spot for me. I had to delete it.
Advantages of Hiring an SEO Consultant
How’d they miss the mark with BasicMed? I think it could be expanded somewhat (gross weight over 6000), but overall it seems like a quite good program.

(I hold a 2nd class and BasicMed.)
> meritocratic points based immigration

this is one of the main ideas that Ted Cruz has promoted.
Yeah... no dig intended against Caltech or MIT. They definitely push their student a lot harder and more consistently than I was pushed in many of my classes in undergrad. I wanted to go to Caltech or Harvey Mudd College out of HS but didn't have the means.

I had the privilege to work at JPL for about 3 years and worked with a lot of folks from Caltech and MIT in that time... all brilliant and wonderful people.
But that's a builtin, rather than something that's part of the core language :)
You wouldn’t believe the amount of times I had to explain stuff like this to guys who thought the Sport Pilot Certificate would be a breeze.

It’s like 90% of the flight training content of the Private. For some reason, the FAA thought it would also be good to drop the minimum time from 40 hours to 20 hours when they made Sport Pilot. This especially makes no sense because almost no one finishes the Private in 40.

So AOPA, EAA and the LSA manufacturers get old guys hyped on getting a pilot’s license with only 20 hours in the cockpit plus 0 time in the doctor’s office, and they walk into my flight school. Then we have to a conversation about realistic training expectations and how if there’s “no way in hell” you’d get a medical, maybe we should consider if being pilot-in-command of an airplane is really for you.
I would actually go so far as to say it is an unethical strategy. It's just a popular one. And a very successful one.
> The findings suggest that they “do develop natural immunity that protects against re-exposure,”

Is there any conclusive evidence about humans developing immunity?
Rust being Rust, the equivalent causes a safe teardown.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/macro.unreachable.html

The UB causing equivalent is of course unsafe.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/hint/fn.unreachable_unchecked....
The Trouble with Comparisons
Everything is heritable, including political beliefs.

You've made the next generation care slightly less on average about global warming. Maybe your kids would have been more intelligent than the global average of ~90 IQ and helped work on or pay for solutions.
Ce206 is great airplane, but don’t the flaps foul the door? For a backcountry airplane, that seems like a bad decision.
You know that movie, Moon, with Sam Rockwell?
I started feeling like the first version of the clone right after finishing university. I just keep falling apart!
> China has none of these.

This seems like FUD. Like it or not, China has made key contributions to industry standards including 5G.
What does the hourglass mean now
The hourglass used to take observation time, but now it has become a taste. Putting an hourglass on the desk seems very tasteful. In fact, many people only look at it when they buy it. Too. The rhythm of life becomes faster, prompting people to feel calm and careless.

When watching the sand slide down, it will remind people how much time has passed, and how much thought was wasted in the past people and things, and will be changed to be able to withstand the rest ...

It usually takes about 15 minutes to go to bed. Many people like to spend this time on their smartphones. However, there is a healthier way to fall asleep faster.

This 15-minute hourglass differs from its analogues in that it has a colorful backlight, which can convert the simple process of sand flowing from the flask into the flask into bright light. It can also make you fall asleep deeply and healthily.

To produce a lighting effect, a 4-color element is used, which is powered by an 800 mAh battery. Using the touch panel located on the base, you can turn on the backlight and change its color. The lighting is automatically turned off after 15 minutes.
OpenAI Model Generates Python Code
I am confused... this attack doesn't seem to be doing anything with latency?
It's a hoax. Twitter reply: https://twitter.com/TwitterComms/status/1263256788238909441
I have so many Google Sheets.

I track my weight, running performance, workout progress, my spendings, savings, investment performance, car expenses, all trips out of the country (for visa purpose) and more.

Everything with fancy charts showing progress and how well I'm achieving my goals.
Wireless charging is a nicer option for on-street charging in the longer term. Install charging pads in the parking spaces, cars park over them and charge up. No extra space taken, no cables to trip over.

Wireless charging standards are being developed now, mostly based on WiTricity's technology:

https://witricity.com/
Owl attacks are actually pretty common.

https://www.knkx.org/post/owls-attack-people-being-swooped-s...
Most western countries increase immigration (turning them into developed country level polluters) to make up for falling birthrates.
While Cessnas have a great history and have trained the majority of pilots out there today, badass is hardly the word I'd use to describe them.

I was lucky enough to have over a thousand hours before I flew a Cessna for the first time and I remember being shocked at how terrible it flew. They are overpriced for what they are, handle like crap, have terrible visibility, and are slow and inefficient.

It's sad that overregulation and the cost prohibitive certification process has essentially locked innovation in GA back at 60's technology.

The EAA world is where the good stuff is happening today.
Corolla will get you there and back for years, decades even. You might want to park and walk the last 100 metres sometimes though.
stairwell level coming soon
Covid-19 outbreak exposes generations-old racial and economic divide in NYC
While the second and third problems sound specific to Go's `database/sql` API, the first problem (server-closed connections) is an issue any MySQL client library (that implements connection pooling) has to deal with.

My .NET MySQL connector (https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector) "solves" it at the MySQL level by sending a PING packet, but as the post points out, this adds extra latency.

The TCP-based approach of performing a non-blocking read sounds like a much better approach; I'm glad the author shared this, and I want to see if that technique can also be implemented in MySqlConnector: https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector/issues/821.
SAST vs. DAST vs. IAST
Reminds me of early 2000s. What city is it?
I've tried various times to get around a cert pinning thing for work, curious as to what you'd recommend as the best method to go about doing this on android. RE the APK or some kind of rooted phone based debugery?
If the average adult spend 34 years staring at screens, what would us tech workers average?!
How to Run an Effective Application Security Program Remotely
Thing is, I have very limited usage. I don't really use or want the budgeting facilities. I just want a simple app to keep track of expenses. I even considered building my own little apk (I use android) which will just sync from mobile via dropbox (just like YNAB classic used to do).
As for American values, I think the best way for me to illustrate it would be with a thought experiment. Suppose that due to an act of god America ceases to exist tomorrow. However, it can transfer all its wealth and knowledge to one other country in the world which would propel it to take America's place instead. I'm sure that as the soon to vanish Americans debate among themselves about who should be their successor, China would come very low on the list of proposed countries. Frankly, Americans do not want to see a world where China is the world leader and how China would then influence the world. That's the values gap I'm referring to. That nebulous set of characteristics that groups some countries in the world with America as "us" and pushes other countries outside as "them," and how "we" do not want to live in a world that "they" create.
Show HN: Coding Challenges and Secure Coding Assessments
inspired by those old image maps. ny
1. Generate test cases from function/class/method definitions.

2. Generate test cases from fuzz results.

3. Run tests and walk outward from symbols around relevant stacktrace frames (line numbers,).

4. Mutate and run the test again.

...

Model-based Testing (MBT)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-based_testing

> Models can also be constructed from completed systems
Logarithmic scales are such a common and useful tool, it's a hard pill to swallow that the general populace doesn't have the knowledge or interest to understand them. I'm not talking from an elite academic point of view; if you make it through sophomore year of high school, you have at least been exposed to them, and if you graduate highschool you've been tested on their use.

I use them regularly (nearly every time I plot data to figure out trends or whatever), and have a hard time imagining not having them for problem solving.
Warning: articles on this blogspam site capture the browser back button.

This is a verbatim copy and paste of this HKBU-written article, not by "Nuadox Crew":

https://cpro.hkbu.edu.hk/en/press_release/detail/HKBU-scient...
And maybe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742902 ?
“Daly and Wilson found stepparenthood is the strongest risk factor for child abuse ever identified..a stepparent is 40-100 times more likely to kill a young child, even when confounding factors— poverty, mother’s age, traits of people who tend to remarry—are taken into account"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816602.Homicide
By this do you mean developers doing local builds still run their builds at the command-line via nix-shell and don’t ever build from Xcode directly? That sounds very awkward.
Journey into Web Monetization – day 1 of 4
https://www.scribd.com/document/462319362/A-Doctor-a-Day-Let...
Ha. You hit the nail on the head. There is no rigorous way to measure AI-generated anything. (to my knowledge) So every demo is "ooh look at this" and actual performance is not scientifically evaluated, because we don't know how. This includes images, text, etc.
I trained mostly in a (piper) warrior. Loved that pokey little bird.

Much cooler getting around in a super cub.

One day I’ll get a Bellanca.... one day!
I wonder what the amount spent by users on advertised products per quarter is... presumably more but that seems like a lot especially if that is worldwide.
When transaction costs are too high for transactions to be made that would improve society, the losses don't somehow get made up. You have a lot of produce or something, and you can't get it transported to the people who could use it, and it gets trashed, that's permanently lost.

It seems wrong to me to dismiss this as "taking longer to reach equilibrium", as though you get to the same destination either way. Perhaps you are interpreting "function" in a loose manner, but of course I didn't mean "function" = merely "do something".
I hope my comment wasn't too insensitive to this issue.
I’m sure there are a lot of reasons to hate it but I like how Go does the different database types and the base type
I think the main problems is that it doesn't simplify things. Programming is not easy, no matter which representation you use. Visual programming systems might be easier for some categories of people, for example, electrical engineers, thought, due to the fact they got used to working with diagrams.
Which of those contributions are in Chinese and are controlled by China?

I didn't say China wouldn't contribute. Chinese people have and they will. Just like people from many nations. And like people from many nations, they will contribute to things that extend the dominance of western institutions. After all the ITU is based in Geneva.

I'm not even from the US or Europe yet all my engineering contributions are here in the US. None of my contributions do anything for the country I'm from.
New Low for a Bad Patent: Patent Troll Sues Ventilator Company
Yes a coffee every day is worth tracking, my emphasis was more on 'here or there'. I would say any ongoing payment is probably worth tracking unless it's truly trivial
As far as I can tell, they had stale dns records pointing at IPs that were eventually used to run scammy web servers.

I couldn't find any connection to a breach.

The author does correctly point out that the CSP headers were overly permissive. If the new owners of the IPs knew what they had, they could definitely have used that to find other flaws and exploit them.

I think this situation would need to be combined with XSS on an active Houseparty domain to be effective. The weak CSP would make XSS or CSRF possible.

Edit: if authentication tokens were stored in cookies that span subdomains, it's also possible sessions could be leaked that way.
Visual Studio : visual programming :: VI (VIsual editor) : Blender
I use Google Sheets to share ad-hoc queries with other people too. Fun tip for those who use Postgres: psql has a command `\copy` that allows you to write the results of a query out into a local (clientside) CSV file. From there, it's pretty straightforward to import that into a Google Sheet.
Certainly a medium post would be good - I'm impressed by your pivots trying to find a fit with the visual programming paradigm.

What is your opinion on visual programming and diagramming libraries? Would you recommend particular libraries/services for visual programming if looking to build this type of UX/UI into a new product?

I'm interested in building a service that utilises a basic visual programming interface but I have no interest in building out a complex visual programming / diagramming UI toolset myself.

Do you consider the visual programming aspect a commodity or a selling feature? Or is that dependent on the market you are selling into?
>I think Reddit's decision to move from Common Lisp

That original Reddit system was very simple, yet the Lisp source code was of poor quality (it is currently available on the web). When it was released, the lispers at comp.lang.lisp said they could write a clone in a few days. One of them did it in about 2 or 3 hours (true story).

So it wasn't good code. Moreover they, for some strange reason, chose to develop using a different implementation than the one in the server, and things like that.

Then Reddit got a famous name recommended by PG, who was a Python expert. So he rewrote the thing in Python and obviously, being a Python expert, did a good job.