skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are mixing multiple different scenarios with a combination of statements that apply only to some of them and a bunch of trivial assertions that despite true do not support your point. You failed to understand I never said "proof-of-inability-to-decrypt" is generally useless. On the contrary in facts, it does indeed solve the last scenario you mentioned, which is however not the one you originally described.

To clarify, being held captive "by a sane adversary" until you supposedly decrypt allegedly encrypted data is different from falling into the hands of someone willing and enabled to torture you. Unless you consider torure a "sane" practice. If you cannot understand the difference maybe you should follow your own recommendation and learn a little more.
Imagine how many people would want to play an MMO where the loot tables are determined by what return they give to a bunch of boomers who have probably never even heard of the game.

Currently the incentive structure is to make a gaming offering compelling (addicting?) enough to justify a monthly subscription. If you create a two way value transfer for money/virtual items with legitimate institutions you're going to completely fuck the incentive structure. Imagine what happened with the Diablo real money auction house except now the scalpers are pension and hedge fund managers.
I mean... I'm was looking up stuff and it seems the arsons have been up since March at least in Vancouver.

https://www.straight.com/news/vancouver-police-warn-of-sharp...
CSS in itself is not getting out of hand. Supporting LESS, SASS and Stylus and vanilla CSS in one project is getting out of hand. Same for everything else.
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Ask HN: Areas with poor accessibility that can be improved by technology?
My university is hosting a hackathon with the theme of "accessibility"--which we are allowed to interpret broadly. My team is currently brainstorming ideas. So HN, broadly speaking, what areas/industries/niches have you encountered with poor accessibility that can be greatly improved by an application?
Reminds me of [The User]'s Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers: https://vimeo.com/6868193
This 2009 reminiscence discusses the term’s use in the UO context in 1996, so 2003-2005 mentions don’t affect the author’s conjecture at all.

(I’d guess there are uses of ‘sharding’/‘shards’ in this sense from much earlier, perhaps decades earlier, database/caching work, but I could be wrong.)
It seems like three or four channels must have prompted at least some people to experiment with TV DXing. I wonder if that was very much a thing at the time.
Notwithstanding the political debate that you're enticing, I believe "abolish the police" is shorthand for "abolish the current police system/qualified immunity and replace it with something more humane".

I strongly believe that no one is saying "let's have no judicial system".
I like stumpwm, it's great. But Gnome currently has better scaling support for 4K displays.
I've played a bunch of them a bit, and nothing comes close. Some of it probably has to do with timing - a true sandbox game when there was a cultural match with the desire for that environment.

Nowadays if you had a game with glitches that allowed people to steal your items outside of intended game mechanics, there would be an uproar on Twitter and punishing 1-star steam reviews. Back then it was infuriating, but part of the atmosphere. The night was dark and full of terrors, so to speak. Also the actual concept of real-estate, with a real house and your own vendors, was really next-level stuff for immersion. Exploits like duping that ruined the economy weren't beneficial to the atmosphere though, and actually broke immersion.

Nostalgia holds up a lot of it though I'm sure. Just like anything else, playing it again now probably wouldn't bring back the same experience.
What's the pear count for number of police arrests/interactions a year?
They said product management, IMHO an important distinction. Project management is managing the work, product management is shaping the product - again, IMHO.
"They found strong indications of a 157-day activity cycle; 121102 seems to flare up for 90 days and then go silent for 67, the team reported in a new study."

Maybe there's nothing to it, but both 157 and 67 are primes.
They still use Bing, and others.

https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/

"These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from multiple partners, though most commonly from Bing (and none from Google)."
We're a small team, not a huge company. We've made this product open-source and free to use in our spare time.

The concept of the knob made of concrete is fully inspired by DIY Perks.

I'm not sure, but Griffin does not offer you all the perks I've described below:

- Open-source Arduino-compatible firmware so you can add your functionalities and light effects;

- The audio is controlled with the HID library instead of potentiometer;
spare time
- There are one audio input and two outputs that can be switched with the hardware switch;

- Bonus option is you can use it as a scrolling knob;

- The audio lines are connected to the microcontroller and you can add light effects relative to the sound;

- It is 3d printed and we also added a 3d printable model of the mold for the concrete part;

Have a nice day ;)
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How would you implement something like _Unwind_Resume, which requires returning to a different return address that's based on but not identical to the one on the stack?
There are tools in the list that will help you pick decent font pairings, color palettes and much more...
> I went by the next morning and the whole camp had packed up and left.

That's happened to me at Burning Man too. Entire buildings gone when I wanted to go and ask about what happened last night, like the camp never existed.

I like the anonymity and definitely be aware that no closure or responsibility is possible too!
Cultural Revolution
Certainly, but the way forward is to come up with convincing arguments and better solutions to the problems at hand. Blaming boomers is not effective. My point is that if you or I were born 30+ years earlier, we would be behaving (statistically) exactly the same way. So the blame game is pointless, in the end people are people.
Assuming facts not in evidence? With all those career changes and job skills, why assume the OP author will never teach nor publish? Opportunities to do so will only increase with a PhD.
Designer's Table: the second iteration of the standing mat
The effect of large-scale anti-contagion policies on the Covid-19 pandemic [pdf]
Developer who missed CVE. Not anyone has fulltime job on his project. It could result on even more shaming of open source developers (if they freeze dependencies).
FWIW, and since it's a design-oriented site (but maybe it's a pun on the site's name?), the masonry/grid flashes badly on first load on a desktop. I guess it's because of frequent CSS re-layouting as the individual grid cell's content graphics get loaded.

Edit: what winkeltripel said
You're wrong on every single point. Yes, opportunists took advantage, but the right-wing media echoed by top Republicans is the protest were terroristic at their core and there was zero acknowledgement of the legitimate concerns of the vast majority of demonstrators. Looting got tons of coverage. It was plastered all over cable news and got a heavy response from local governments. The misuse of public resources I refer is the attacks on protestors who were not looting. Most egregiously in Washington DC acting on orders from the White House.
Probably some UO players at Google then - UO was old by 2003.
This is great but I think the point of this is to use the least amount of tools as possible...
This brings back so many memories, in the late nineties my dad brought a PCI TV Tuner card for the family computer and ditched our real TV in order to avoid paying the French TV Tax ("redevance").

It also allowed us to pirate Canal+, decrypting the video stream with a program called Moo TV (if I remember correctly). The audio stream required another program.

It was all a bit janky, frames were frequently dropped, and sometimes you had to tweak a few parameters to get a proper audio stream but the fact that it was (mostly) working was simply amazing to my brother and I.

Good times :)
To avoid any confusion:

The concept of the knob made of concrete is fully inspired by DIY Perks. But we are added a lot of perks, like:

- Open-source Arduino-compatible firmware so you can add your functionalities and light effects;

- The audio is controlled with the HID library instead of potentiometer;
spare time
- There are one audio input and two outputs that can be switched with the hardware switch;

- Bonus option is you can use it as a scrolling knob;

- The audio lines are connected to the microcontroller and you can add light effects relative to the sound;

- It is 3d printed and we also added a 3d printable model of the mold for the concrete part;

Have a nice day ;)
Right, which probably means the problem was quite subtle and was not detected by unit tests.
> 1. Hiring: Haskell is a very in-demand language by very good engineers. For a startup, it's absolutely amazing for recruiting and I can't overstate how important recruiting good people is for a startup.

Although for engineers, supply-and-demand favoring employers typically means it disfavors employees: you may effectively be taking a pay cut to use Haskell compared to more popular languages.
Quick question: When I dabbled in learning Russian some time ago, my materials stressed that handwriting in Russia is primarily cursive. Schools in America have deemphasized/removed cursive writing from their curriculum. Has Russia seen similar trends in education/usage of cursive writing?
Ideally you should build defenses against a broad range of virus families that could become dangerous. Including hantaviruses and coronaviruses. Also, there are synergies as demonstrated by remdesivir: antivirals developed for one virus family might help with other families as well.

Many emergent viruses are under close surveillance and animal vaccines are under development. Sometimes that alone makes economic sense already, e.g. when you want to protect expensive race horses from dying.

The danger of new viruses will only increase in coming years as we 1. travel far more than we used to, taking viruses with us and 2. go into the environments previously inhabited by wild animals like bats (which are a host for a large number of viurses).
> But, boy, is getting to that stage in the first place a complete pain in the ballsack!

> .... Both machines have >>> Nvidia graphics cards<<< ....

Yeah. That's painful. Don't do that.
I would be interested to hear these as well
Except for the uberblocks (which will definitely have a problem with SMR), shouldn't SMR be fine for ZFS because it's copy-on-wirte?
wut?! there's no use case for bitcoin

gotta keep an eye on this soon-to-be epic fail...
weird. isn't self discovery a worthwhile goal?
I worked at Google 2001-2006 and we definitely talked about "database shards", particularly for the AdWords MySQL database. (this architecture has long, long since changed). At least from 2002, and the database was partitioned far before that. I remember at the time thinking the term "shard" was odd but perhaps Ultima Online inspired.

I'm curious now about the history of database partitioning. So much of the early work was about trying to hide the partitions, to pretend it was all one big reliable system. It took awhile for folks to realize that was foolish.
Don't despair. PhD life looks good from the outside because all parties involved (students, professors, administrators) have incentives to make it look good. The reality can be much different.

Besides, you've got to think how would you use this degree after you finish. Inside academia, you will be locked in a job with a mid-low salary with scarce options to advance. Outside of academia, PhD is less valued than most people think. I know quite a few people who do great research in the industry with only a BSc degree.
As a counterpoint, if the black swans are big enough, then it is possible that a 1 / 200 track record is still useful.
The lockdowns though and their scale were totally black swans with no precedent
Oh thanks, I will fix it....
You're right, people are people.
The blame game makes perfect sense.
:P
Perhaps it would work better in estuaries, with clean(er) river/fresh water. The ecological impact may be prohibitive, but as an engineering task it seems easier.
Fauci doesn't set policy. The CDC doesn't set policy. Even the White House has limited authority. Policy was a mishmash set by governors and mayors with or without support from DC and based on recommendations from multiple health, public safety and economic advisors.
Encrypted messaging app Signal adds facial recognition protection for protesters
Identify an animal reservoir? The chinese to be open and say come see the lab and here's the research we were doing rather than treatening to arrest people?
I had zero issues with the Wifi, not tried Bluetooth so can’t comment there.

I’m not sure if the lack of WiFi issues is because Fedora tends to stay pretty up to date kernel wise.

EDIT: to clarify - I had zero issues with having to to anything special to get Wifi working - there are still intermittent issues with the driver that happens maybe once or twice a week
Author here:

To add to what couchand said, there are already comparisons of io_uring with SPDK and they are pretty close. So I would expect near about the same result for DPDK too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjudg0lCEhQ
Intelligence isn't a single-dimensional thing, but it seems pretty absurd to claim that there's no general factor at all. Could it really be meaningless to say that someone's smart?
No, that's not what I mean at all.

What I'm saying is that beauty in design doesn't come from slapping a facade onto something. It comes from a harmonious relationship between all the elements, adding up to something that solves the particular 'problem' of that site.

UI is a specialization within UX, the way databases are a specialization within Computer Science. CS deals more broadly in the constraints of memory, time, resources, etc. Databases deal with the same things, but through a specific lens.

UX deals with a set of constraints as well. The business needs, the user needs, etc. UI deals with a narrower subset of those constraints.

The fonts you choose, the colors you choose, the information density – if these are intentional choices based on your particular set of constraints, you'll end up with something elegant. That elegance is what makes something feel right.
The Algorithmic Origins of Life
People have been making great arguments for decades, but that hasn't worked. There hasn't been any substantial change. In fact, Trump has been gutting environmental laws, rolling back emissions rules, and castrating agencies like the EPA.

The time has passed to sit idle. Seriously, people need to get mad and start taking real action, because congress is not doing anything about it.
... that's better than a lot of postmortems I've had on the job. Like the junior employee who insisted we not write one at all when we lost the ability to deploy to a test server, because "that wasn't our fault" and "it probably won't happen again".
> the higher you are within it, the more people you screw over when you say "it's 5pm goodbye" and don't have things setup to handle it

disagree. in fact you should be doing this, especially if you're in a higher position in whatever hierarchy. because you then have more power to dictate culture, and properly set boundaries.

all these arguments have been mentioned before. it can be seen as a mini-drill/game day to see how the business copes when you're gone (for whatever reason). if you've set up/helped set up a robust business, nothing bad will happen. if not, you've already failed the business. i guess that requires trusting your employees though.

being liable to burn out is also a risk to the business, not an asset. if you are a knowledge worker, not unplugging and coming back refreshed is also a risk to the business, not an asset.
I sympathize with a lot of these problems, but I wonder if the police issue getting all the attention is going to prevent these other issues from getting serious attention. :|
For me it was remembering what my bindings were for every little thing. I’m a guy who built his own keyboard for extra macro keys. I have 12 extra off the left side. It worked out very nicely, and it was a pretty smooth experience. Until I was using my computer to laze about at 11pm with a slightly foggy mind.

I just don’t want to think about how to move incredibly quickly around the computer. Easy point and click is all the effort I want to muster, sometimes.
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I want to invest money into games, but I can't. Other people want to get paid to play games, but they can't. How exactly is that not a real problem?
A Japanese tweet/blog aiming to stir up outrage among the “concerned” Japanese public, being taken up by an English-language website for their latest “weird Japan” article.

Being Japanese myself I can share countless horror stories about how English is taught here, but crap article is crap.
Pretty fascinating. CAS and broadcast tech is a pretty big interest of mine and I've been lucky enough to work for 2 of the biggest players in this space in the past (although not directly on the CAS side of things and sadly I'm not in the video space these days).

Some very cool engineering was done without much in the way of technology being available!
Repetitive negative thinking is associated with cognitive decline
>if that makes any sense.

Makes perfect sense. I was an Elder in UO (a player character with special powers that advanced the storyline) Or basically; as I realize today, an unpaid intern at Origin. And afterwards QA lead on WOW and I can definitively say UO wasn’t a game. It was an alternate universe. It was transcendent unlike any game and blizzard games included.

It wasn’t the first as there was “Meridian59” which came out before and people were basically divided into 2 camps. After “City of Heroes” and “Dark Age of Camelot” came out, then it (mmo) became a genre.
> the optimal thing to do in 2010 was to invest in coronavirus research

Or stop eating bats and other bushmeat.
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Hey Everyone! I lead the development of Neuropod. Happy to answer any questions

There's also a blog post that has more detail: https://eng.uber.com/introducing-neuropod/

Super excited to open-source it!
> Retrospectively you can justify anything. But the coronavirus outbreak happening now is not proof of the idea that the optimal thing to do in 2010 was to invest in coronavirus research- that could have still been the correct decision based off the probabilities of an outbreak.

Right. Yes, a paper on coronaviruses described this as a "ticking time bomb". The interesting question is how many other papers around the same time used similar language for other diseases. Without that, you don't have any evidence that people made the wrong decision then based on what they knew at the time.
The Al Jaffee / Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS
People are unbanked for various reasons. Banks are not well optimized for those of lower socioeconomic conditions (and in fact don’t really want them as customers). Here are a few examples where banks fail them:

1. Speedy access to money
When you deposit a check into a bank account, you have to wait a few days before the cash is accessible. Many people live paycheck to paycheck and they cannot wait. Hence check-cashing services.

2. Overdraft fees
These are incredibly regressive - punishing those who have low funds. Some banks were caught with predatory behavior - rearranging transactions in a day so the largest hit first and they could trigger multiple overdraft fees (since it is per-transaction) until laws were passed to prevent this behavior.

3. Other hidden fees (low-balance, etc) that aren’t very transparent and really painful when every dollar counts.

Not to mention cultural issues etc. Long-story short, there is a reason people use check-cashing services even though at face value they seem a worse deal than traditional banks.

(Source: was VP of ENG at Credit Karma)
You walk down the wrong nature path until it reaches a cliff. Do you jump off, or start walking through the brush?

Ofc we should just turn back, but humankind is far too head-strong for that.
What's interesting is that GHC absolutely supports this already. If you manually link your projects you can use multiple versions of the same library in your project. Cabal doesn't support multiple versions of the same library.
I didn't realize people had such low expectations for "just works". Getting a reliable signal for such a short range and low bandwidth is obviously possible, as is using proper encryption. Batteries can be light, with the weight compensated for, and charge wirelessly.

The reason I said "just works" was to avoid an exhaustive list of issues that have already been solved in other products, or could be solved with some effort.
Stroke order makes sense for 漢字, and to some extent for 仮名, but rigid calligraphy of this sort is not a necessity with English, it is a pure luxury, especially in this case, when it's just printing. That print lowercase a is not self-evidently “correct” in any sense, there is no history or reason behind printing an a that way, and you can make an argument that it causes unnecessary confusion with d to do so.

Also, precise stroke order isn't really that important for 漢字 either. Which of these has correct stroke order? https://qui.suis.je/drop/20200608_0001.webp
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> Disease also tends to hurt the poor the most.

You're right for U.S, but not in Sweden or other social democracies where healthcare does not correlate with how much you have. Disease hurts the already sick and the elderly the most, but it does not care about your wallet.

> And especially for poor people, being forced to work will mean a much higher chance of catching and spreading the disease, since poor people tend to work directly with other people, and companies rarely invest in protecting "interchangeable" workers.

That's true, I do not advocate for forcing anybody to work.

> ...not good enough IF you care about human life.

I care, but with some reasonable proportionality. Saving everyone is not possible. Saving almost everyone by hard isolation rules is very expensive and unsustainable. Helping the vulnerable via smart specific restrictions is enough.

> And comparing the number of people who died in Sweden in 2 months to the number who die in the world every year is not very useful. More useful would be to see how many more people died in Sweden compared to normal - just from Covid19

You're right it wasn't a good comparison. I just meant "let's get some perspective".

> More useful would be to see how many more people died in Sweden compared to normal - just from Covid19, they have ~2000 more deaths/month, compared to a baseline of ~7500 deaths/month in recent years. That is not an insignificant number however you think about it.

We are not doing that comparison, because even with tighter restrictions deaths would be increased. We do not know how many people would have been saved if hard U.S. like restrictions were used. I think not many, because most of the deaths happenned in nursing homes where restrictions on public places would have not have much of an effect.

Another substantial fact is that Sweden has greater birth rate than death rate and was projected to increase its population in next years. Their COVID policy will be responsible for curbing that population growth, but no disaster is happenning.