skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If stereotypes were a major factor wouldn’t progressive countries like Sweden have more female physicists and programmers than a traditionalist gender role stronghold like Russia? In reality it’s the opposite.
Quantum cryptography keys distributed over 1120 kilometers
I mean, the whole point of implementing this would be to see what insights can be gained.

From the study:

> The basic operations of the Assembly Calculus as presented here—projection, association, reciprocal projection, and merge—correspond to neural population events which 1) are plausible, in the sense that they can be reproduced in simulations
and predicted by mathematical analysis, and 2) provide parsimonious explanations of experimental results (for the merge and reciprocal project operations, see the discussion of language below)

This was an initial study, and I'm sure they're going to continue putting out papers exploring the model and how it compares with experimental data. It's not like everybody's going to see this one study and say "He's right! We should all use this model!" It's more that as more evidence is provided, the model becomes more relevant and it might be considered by others to be useful.
> why anyone should use the AppStore as a distribution channel to a huge market and completely circumvent Apple's cut

If noone would develop great apps for the iPhone, Apple could not sell the iPhone. It's a symbiotic relationship.

Even if you disregard that: It's a duopoly situation, and Apple is exploiting that.
NYT v Sullivan renders it impossible to legislate this (short of a Constitutional amendment)
A major regression in Github is in Notifications, which have a new interface.

I follow several hundred repos. Only the 25 most active are listed in the sidebar. There is no way to browse the hundereds not listed there for notification tallies.

THERFORE Github now hides notifications from small and nascent repos from me, and that's definitely not fun.
>As long as you're white, the richer you are, the less likely you are to go to jail for it. Rehab is for rich people. //

Any sources to support this, that equally wealthy people go to jail in higher proportions - for the same [drug] crime - if they're non-white?
This is a really good explanation. You understand what's going on with pointers.
You are correct, I did a poor job of summarizing the linked article and should have mentioned the Bloc's role in negotiations as well. Unfortunately I can no longer update my original comment now but am glad you highlighted this, I agree the only point I was trying to make is there is more than one moving part here.
He wrote unit test
+1000
TBF, I don't think the author is saying that Github needs to be fun, but rather that it used to be and now isn't. It's lost a nice quality that it had.
> For example, I know someone who insists on having the exact same chair, screen, keyboard, mouse, and IDE at every job. I believe he's been called arrogant for that. But his explanation was that all of that is necessary to make past muscle memory translate. Like this, he can type fully blind at an impressive speed and navigate every project purely with shortcuts.
>
> If thinking is not your bottleneck, then it makes a lot of sense to optimize for typing speed.

...and that's not a 10x developer, because if your limiting factor is how fast you can type and how often you can navigate shortcuts, you're a keyboard monkey, not a software developer.

Just think of the ongoing operational headache from all the code someone would generate if they were typing non-stop, as fast as they could, all day. Even if it is really good code, if you need that much code, you're already screwed.

The 10x doesn't come from typing more and generating more code. It comes from all the typing you don't do.

If typing is your bottleneck, then it makes sense you aren't putting a lot of thought in to what you are doing.
maybe it doesn't matter. Replacing male A with female B makes no difference in running the company, so diversity can be achieved without really affecting how well the company is. The main reason to enforce diversity at this level is because that top level diversity will drive diversity from top, it is a good start point.
“Anonymous” journalism is a great way to feed disinformation into the West, right and left fringes.
Up until about now, actors have been more like "athletes without doping". (Of course with make-up and great attention to lighting, though still you had to look good for an entire scene.) But now with technology which can de-age and deepfake like features, that boundary is pushed even further.
I couldn't agree more with you. This site actually made me cry and I don't know why!! LoL! It's brilliant.

BIG ups to the developer. And I would GLADLY pay to not have ads and popups in this experience so do consider a paid or subscription model.

Thanks!
I haven’t figured out how to run ublock on my phone.
The appearance of progress is still progress. To take your analogy, masturbation isn't sex but you still bust a nut, yes?
Well tax your rich and corporations more - education is singularly able to propel people out of poverty. For your tax increase you get a way out of poverty.

Tanstafl.

Frankly though- the American education problem is just people talking about the loss of manufacturing jobs at two degrees removed.
I’m genuinely curious about the factors that made it OK to have an unencrypted protocol into 2018. Is the AWS infrastructure already encrypting at another layer? Nobody worries about attacks on data that’s only transiting AWS?
When passion drives your work rather than money.
I have a lot of problems with this post.

* Photos of boarded up storefronts are used to imply that these stores are out of business. They're not, the reason they're boarded up is because of BLM rioters.

* Photos are not good evidence of real estate availability. No data is used or sought.

* I don't accept the handwavy notion that people leaving the city will automatically tank pension funds. The closure of the Chinese restaurant in the city is the opening of the Chinese restaurant in the suburbs. People still want to be near stores and restaurants and they can get that without being in the city.

* Even less do I accept the notion that everything we as a society undertake should ultimately benefit pension funds. This is a euphemism to get people to believe that corporate interests are your interests. The average American is not invested in the market and the people that are invested should have been made aware that market returns are not guaranteed.

I do agree that we are seeing an emergency in the Fed's debt spending. Future historians will probably look at the Coronavirus meltdown as the Gavrilo Princip moment that exposed the house of cards.
Just to clarify here. It's only been owned by Microsoft for about a year now.

Before that they were their own company. And as far as I know, the source was never OSS to begin with. Microsoft didn't swoop in and lock it down. It was already like that.

In case anybody wondered if Github was closed-source because of Microsoft.
Civil Rights Groups Push for Facebook Ad Boycott
It speaks of privilege to think having a debate on this is dumb. It's literally how human beings reconcile issues. You want to outright refuse the possibility that this is an issue to begin with.

If you want to keep using your colonialism-inspired language, go ahead and ignore the critics (surely you can't believe github is going to ban you over it) but do not complain about this criticism existing because it makes you uncomfortable that someone does not like the language you use. That's not very liberal.
NYT v Sullivan was a landmark Supreme Court case which held that the Constitution protects the publishing of political advertisements that contain factual inaccuracies.
And yours is like “I don’t like Pepsi but this restaurant I like only serves Pepsi, so I want the government to force them to serve Coca-Cola, instead of just going to another restaurant.”
Why Facebook is the west's closest approximation of WeChat's ubiquity
"Credibility" as in "military credibility", I hope you mean. It's really not about "we're cool, really", it's about "we can annihilate any target on earth within the hour".
What is the logic behind this odd version number? I had to check whether this was a 16 year old announcement.
Echo chambers are a bit of a myth. If anything, social media has given more awareness of what the other side is up to than was previously the case.
It's different because they put that code editor in the lambda console, and some people actually use it.

I've built a lot of lambda apps and never used it, pretty much everything I do requires dependencies.
The nails are used with wood glue to keep the pieces together while the glue sets and then left in because it would damage the piece to try to remove them.
Kubernetes operator driven API security testing based on OpenAPI definition
Go 2 Playground
Ah! Yes, that is a case that I would consider could have an overlap between Go/Rust and C. Thanks for sharing it, had no idea it was implemented in bare metal Go, will check it out :)
Linux Support – Customer Feedback for Microsoft Office 365
> LLVM is also slow in general.

Agreed. But so is GCC. And I guess many of the 'zero cost' abstractions require some advanced optimizing compiler like LLVM to be zero cost (or move that complexity to compiler end).

They specifically mentioned the technical debt and poor LLVM IR Generation issue though. I wonder if it has yet gotten attention or fixed. Maybe @pcwalton knows.
Looks great! I also built my pedalboard(s) from scratch like this and they've held up really well.
If Oracle relicensed it, it would open the door to litigation, since GPL, differently from CDDL, doesn't include a patent grant.
A little. But I don’t think watching ads helps break down echo chambers. I don’t think ads aren’t genuine messaging so I can live without seeing a post from Coke or Joe Biden 5 times in my feed.
That's wrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq0WFigax_c&t=9m37s
I’ve recently switched from GitLab to Github enterprise due to a job switch. I am shocked at how bad Github enterprise is to navigate. It seems like I regularly have to depend on the search function to find the repo I want.
The point where I actually understood everything about pointers was when i realized that they just hold memory address. After that everything like pointer arithmetic and dereferencing pointers become clear as day.
It's still much more accepted for a man to be "ugly". It's even its own trope. [0]

0: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UglyGuyHotWife
There is one more alternative explanation. There are so many different people with many different delusions without any substantiation that it's statistically inevitable that in few extremely rare cases the delusion turns out to be true.
If we are listing companies like ASML might as well also name drop companies like KLA-tencore, Tokyo Electron Limited, lambda research. List goes on and on. These companies are actually of strategic importance as semiconductors are of strategic importance to many countries.

What is more surprising to me that some of the more commonly known brands are also semi equipment manufacturers. For example, although ASML has a virtual monopoly (a real monopoly on anything beyond n10 I think) their main competition are Nikon and cannon. Especially on the mature nodes.
Ideally, the voters can vote these people out. Politicians are not hatching from eggs, they come from people and reflect them. Same people who watch blatantly biased news, later are influenced by false ads. Improve education.
You are saying this as if those ads state facts and stick to the issues. Politics in the US is a mess. Party politics makes absolutely no sense to me. My trust in what they have to say, particularly on social media, is nil. Those ads will be turned off.

I have never have, nor never will, vote along party lines. I am, proudly, unaffiliated.
That's just one scenario. The more broader one is tech companies refusing to adhere to preventing federal crimes from being committed on their platforms.

At the end of the day, it's expensive to police your platform so they went with the immunity route.
Oh sure, usually I want to build/run it way more often than debug it though. And if I do need to debug it, I could just turn it back on and rebuild.
Show HN: Promnesia – make your Internet history useful
I have, I was describing the CIA's recent history. Thinking CIA incompetence is some classic subterfuge is more of a Hollywood plot.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cias-communications-suffered-...
Talking about search: Our company uses GitHub enterprise. We have 1000+ repositories, each repo for a serverless function. Github's search is pathetically broken, I had to download all 1000 repositories in my Mac and search for a dependencies via Vscode. Surprisingly Vscode is blazing fast.
As long as this is an opt-out setting, and not a community standard, this is a cop-out.

The problem is not "our poor users are bombarded with untrue political ads!" The problem is that Facebook has become a cesspool that breeds conspiracy theories and communities of disinformation and denial the same way that stagnant swampwater breeds mosquitoes and other harmful pests. Its tight-knit havens of the willfully disinformed will not opt out of "the real truth" (read: the coordinated distribution of lies).

If Facebook was actually interested in addressing the problem of its festering pits of QAnon and antivaxxers and the like, it would start by deplatforming advertisers who intentionally spread lies. No, it's clear that Facebook's intent here is to put up the paltriest, lowest-actual-impact defense against any sort of consequences that legal systems might bring against it.
Other account already got shadowbanned for trying to have a conversation. I think we both know that I keep getting banned for calling out racist behavior.
> Those techniques have been twisted into the range of untruthfulness that we couldn't have seen before in the old media because moderation was much more strict (and papers depended on some kind of respectability).

That's not even remotely true. The Atlantic put together snippets of political ads over decades [1]. It's pretty crazy stuff. The local stuff, just from personal memory, was even crazier, frequently asserting the equivalent of the opposition being murderers.

>Very few campaigns ran on extreme blatant lies and warped reality as we have seen the past few years...

The problem is that even that perspective is your personal bias which you're using to justify censorship. The other side is bad and lying and therefore they wrong so they shouldn't be allowed to speak.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcjEe9guEIA
BLM has organizations directly tied to US democrats. People giving money might not have realized this.

BLM has no monopoly on fighting racism. EAs claims to be interested in fighting racism is an insult to many people. I think a lot of members of BLM are racists.
In Twitter, I can block or mute the account that promoted the ad, but that turns off all messaging. Maybe I’m doing it wrong, but if I block an advertiser on Facebook, I can still see non-ads.
First I've heard of this library. The github page is pretty informative. I looks quite worthwhile, thanks for informing me.
I ran a exit relay outbound over a VPN Tunnel for its internet access, I was mostly just interested in what kind of traffic people are doing. (Its one of the downfalls of Tor, the Exit Nodes are prone to sniffing) and the sheer amount of porn was amazing.
Ask HN: How do you negotiate a job offer from big tech?
Any resources, heuristic or advice is helpful. Thanks!
I'm about to ship my first Rust project for a client that actually cares about licensing stuff. It's trivial to add a new line to Cargo.toml, but can you legally redistribute it? What MIT-style copyright lines do I need to ship in our License file? Well, let's list the project dependencies and find out how many packages I need to go examine:

$ ~/.cargo/bin/cargo-tree tree --no-indent | cut -f1 -d' ' | sort | uniq | wc -l
61

Oi. I'm not sure this language dependency management thing is such a good idea.
>BLM isn't only relevant to the US. It's not as if Poland doesn't have any issues with racism.

As somebody not from the USA I differentiate BLM and fighting with racism, those are not the same and that's why I'd rather not see those BLMs ads.
That’s not ignoring errors, it’s explicitly choosing what to do in case of one (crash).
There is a trending page? I use GitHub only to access specific projects.
I've not come across any companies that pay for open-source work if thats not your primary role.

The reason that many recruiters ask if you contribute to open-source projects is because it shows you have a passion for software development, because you work on it in your spare time even if you are not being paid to do it. Therefore an employer is more likely to choose you rather than someone who just does it for a job.
LLVM in packages is 8.0 because something (Mesa, I think) doesn't work with anything newer.
That would also kill schools that are in places with few resources.

Ivies don’t need fed funds - they play a different game since the underlying markets tend to be asymptotic - the upper end of students, the upper end of professors, the upper end of athletes, the upper end of wealthy legacies.
The ruling elite don't obey the laws either, USA have let the President flout the law on the international stage; if "so long as you can subvert the 'courts' it's fine" goes for the President then how are you ever going to have a strong Rule of Law?
Most hashes can be cracked with onlinehashcrack.com -- They are free if its under 8 characters and something like 5$ if its not. You can submit as many as you want and if they don't crack it. its free
This is mine :) https://imgur.com/8LIy74K
>You are just being pedantic now. It was pretty clear what he/she meant. Smartphones are a necessity now.

It's not pedantic in this case because the raison d'etre of this thread is Apple's restrictions (including sideloading).

With that specific context, an "Apple iPhone" is not equivalent to "smartphone" and pentae's comment that mixes up the 2 is muddying up the discussion. The ability for 3rd party devs to sideload apps on my Apple iPhone is not essential to life.
Good lord, no.

Express yourself, yes, be free from the consequences of expressing yourself- no, unless you are a child. Be entitled to compensation, no, or to compel others to enter into business arrangements with you- no.

There is no restriction on expression, in principle or in law.

Certain private entities no longer wish to work with Mr Durden in a particular business context. He is free to find others, in fact, he may contract with his advertisers directly, which many prefer to do rather than go through an intermediary platform, like Google, that can take 70% or more when all is said and done. Or contract with his audience, which by the tone of HN comments would be delighted to pay Mr Durden directly for the value his publication provides them.

Advertising has always led to the sorts of conflations of which you mistakenly speak, where the loss of an advertiser, or an advertising platform, is a restriction on freedom. No- precisely the opposite. Freedom means you are free to fuck things up for yourself, free to bear the consequences, free to make your way.

Cheers.
I wish there was a broader filter in Facebook that would allow me to filter by specific terms. So then any post, story, like, etc that would be surfaced into the newsfeed would have to pass through this filter first. If any of the flagged words are found, just block it from my view.

There is still a great deal of positive discovery that happens via Facebook, and they should be letting people customise their noise filters as much as possible so that they can get to the good stuff.
What's the benefit of Metal in this use case? Are there any noticeable speedups in other brute forcing tools that switched to Apple's proprietary API?

Given that OpenCL works on every decent modern platform and GPU brand I doubt much effort will be put into Metal unless someone familiar with the API and willing to put in the extra work joins the team of maintainers or creates a fork.
Why isn't the market holding Facebook accountable for the numerous transgressions we've seen coming out of that company over the last several years? Because people don't understand or care how the money is made, which fundamentally undermines the argument that the market is always right.

From broad, repeated invasions of online privacy to numerous scandals involving state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, Facebook shows time and again that they are not responsible corporate stewards of the internet.

Zuckerberg has got to be one of the least popular Fortune 500 CEOs and yet he's completely invincible, investors don't want to touch him.

So how do you propose to hold such a company accountable if not through regulation and oversight?
Love the downvotes. Children on this platform. Actual children.
Why every data enthusiast “Storytelling with Data”?
You're sorely mistaken.
No its more like, “I don’t like Pepsi but all the restaurants in town only serves Pepsi, so I want the government to force them to serve Coca-Cola, because I can't just go to another restaurant.”
Source? I’ve been an iOS dev since 2010 and I haven’t seen this happen. I’m not saying it hasn’t, especially in isolated incidents, but I’d like to see some examples.
This is a tool I built over the last few days to support the idea of having encrypted data in an 'untraceable' medium. In other words, the idea is that no-one should know that any secret data exists in the first place!

If you have any questions or comments, I'm here to answer.
I do this too. It's a great way to find projects I'm interested in
> If you want to keep using your colonialism-inspired language

It's not colonialism inspired language though.

Edit: I also love the irony of invoking liberalism as a justification for silencing dissent.
Not that the Gervais Principle is wrong, but you gotta think bigger.

If you're at a conference where no one knows of a functional company with good teams that are hiring... maybe you're at the conference that attracts all the people stuck in a world of terrible teams and dysfunctional companies? I mean, doesn't it make sense that if you can't identify good teams or good companies, you'd also suck at identifying good conferences? ;-)
GitHub seems somewhat intentionally not built for discovery. Which is fine, but I'll give some examples anyway:

Here's the organization I manage:
https://github.com/firebase

There is so little customization allowed on that page. It's very hard for me to tell a curious developer what's new or exciting unless I want to constantly adjust pinned repos.

Now visit this page on a laptop monitor:
https://github.com/firebase/firebase-android-sdk

Notice that you're immediately presented with the folder structure and the README is "below the fold". So the developer's own words about the project are hidden unless you scroll for them. A lot of newbies get really thrown by this, they start clicking blindly into the code without knowing there are instructions below.

All that said: I love GitHub. I spent 50%+ of my day on GitHub and manage 100+ repos. But it's not all things.
Hashcat has long been a user of OpenCL. I wondered whether that was because CUDA really wasn't much better for this application, but this release puts that to rest:

> One of the biggest advantages of CUDA compared to OpenCL is the full use of shared memory ... This and other optimizations are the reason we improved the performance of bcrypt by 46.90%.

Also interesting that they specifically call out CUDA on ARM devices like the Jetson Nano and Xavier. I suspect that the GPU in the Nano is better than the MX150 in my laptop.
https://newrepublic.com/article/156788/zero-hedge-russian-tr...