skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My pet theory on the flat Earth is that it's been pushed in order to compile lists of extremely gullible people by scraping social media so that these lists can be used later. For what? Who knows. Targets of scams, marketing, propaganda...
Which, if you want to get pedantic—and yes! let's get pedantic!—probably correlates with a lower probability that the assassination isn't successful. Because if they're irrational, they're going to end up meeting an undercover cop in the parking lot of the local K-Mart or something.

See also: Tiger King. Which is probably the best citation and the best thing I'll type all day.
Hooray for capitalism
In qemu.
Do you know why? It might seem obvious, but corporate users for example who want to support development often can buy a product that they couldn't donate to -- so greater income doesn't necessarily show that people more likely to pay prefer Windows Store, that might just be the easiest way to pay.

Tax for independent purchasers can change the way one will pay -- like if you're a UK charity I can donate and get you Gift Aid (if you use the scheme; a government increase in the money you get), or purchase and show it as a deduction in my taxes.

Obviously you know your users better than I, but I wonder if you've surveyed/canvassed to understand their motivations?
Yes and the consoles have control of their market and Amazon has control over the Kindle.
How can a regular user validate this? A malicious or compromised site could have same explanations and API page but would actually collect passwords.
It certainly makes sense for Apple to aim there. But I'm not sure that I want to go there. Perhaps I will have to in order to keep up.
They don't have full autonomy yet, there appears to be a human operator who takes key decision remotely.

But, even if that was so, is there no way to have some defense against such attacks, having that they're electric and rather slow? Tesla ray guns come to mind but I am not very knowledgeable in this field.
Some breaches are marked as "sensitive". HIBP won't tell you if an email is in one of the sensitive breaches unless you prove ownership of the email address by clicking on a verification link.
Which literally nobody serious promotes.

“It can't work if you do it that way" is a pretty bad argument if nobody actually does it that way. Maybe you are accidentally misrepresenting reality in order to support your world view here, but if not please go somewhere else, where facts don't matter.

As others mentioned: every nation that does renewables is looking into robust energy mixes and this (at least in industrial nations) includes catastrophic scenarios as well).
This is ridiculously false. Discoverability on the App Store could be much better, but anyone involved in App Store marketing will tell you that you get a huge boost by being featured. For example, this article claims 800%: https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/20/ios-11s-new-app-store-boos...
Admins, is this a troll account? Made 10h ago, no submissions etc.
If your use of a piece of software is contingent on something like that, it sounds like you didn’t really have a need for it in the first place
It's anti personnel, so it fires before it hits the target to spread to a larger area.
In theory. In practice, how many remotes do you fetch-from/push-to? Pushing to one that's not connected to CI/CD may as well be email.
Ask HN: Are MOOCs advantageous for job seeking?
A few examples: Coursera and Udacity are offering career paths for Data Analysts. These are more than a simple course on Udemy and you get an optional certificate.

Are they a waste of time? Will a company hire a software developer turned AI specialist or Data Analyst just because of this? What are your experiences?
25 years ago or so I was introduced to a Smalltalk and VisualAge. I would not be able to put up more than two lines of Smalltalk right now but back then I created some UI interfaces and non trivial software in the amount of time that floored me. Smalltalk and VisualAge were way more advanced than anything I was working with back then (think Turbo C++ or AIX). Not sure what happened to all of this, but it looks like there are efforts from few remaining enthusiasts on that front.

My best guess as to what happened is that IBM likely lost interest in Smalltalk and VisualAge as a strategic direction. Also, even now all the efforts I see on that front cling to the design aesthetic of the OS/2 of the early 90s which does not help the cause either.
DragonFlyBSD vs. FreeBSD vs. Ubuntu 20.04 on Intel's Core I9 10900K Comet Lake
UWB that is in the iPhone 11's.
To be fair, Percocet isn't exactly "safe" and it's never prescribed to "help people relax". Overdoses on non-counterfeit prescription opioids happen all the time -- Often in this exact scenario, where a (presumably) opioid-naive person takes a "normal dose" of an opioid-tolerant person like a hospice patient or an addict.

Also, taking the drugs left by someone who died of an of an overdose is best done with extreme caution, or not at all.

In assigning blame, it's also worth remembering that tablet presses are also used for compounding legal vitamins, making packaging cleaners and reagents ("dissolve one tablet of cleaner in a liter of water") and so forth.
I would say a legal poison pill, something that builds a framework that the company is dissolved if the core tenants are violated, or that all digital assets are forfeited to a no-profit privacy group.
I interviewed with this little company back in 2014 trying to land my first dev gig. Didn’t get the job but I would’ve taken it for less money if they’d offered.

Impressed they’re still going! I’ve worked for two failed startups since.
> You really think lack of money for hiring thugs with guns to shoot helpless citizens is the limiting factor for insidious nation-state?

Yes, there is a money problem for employing enough cops.

Reference - India.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_depend...
What's the reason to regulate them? As weapons go, they're extremely clean. A step up from almost anything else, in terms of side-effects and collateral damage. Scary - as hell. But they're meant to kill people so yeah.
1. If those 6-10 websites is all he uses, may be switch to some tablet and create shortcuts for those. If you are up to it, jailbreak the tablet and change the UI completely which has customized fonts, icons/shortcuts.

2. For email, use Gmail as it seems to be the current best w.r.t. filtering. You should keep access to this account as well and check yourself from time to time. May be increase spam setting to max, to lean on false positive side.

I feel that this whole technical revolution of last 2 decades has really left out all elderly, not just people with medical conditions. What is needed, may be, is a generic interfacing layer which can map any app's UI to simpler interface and yet maintain core functionality of the app. I dont know if there is any, or if it's even feasible.
There is no prohibition to allowing subscriptions outside of the App Store - even at a lower price. Apple is saying you must also allow subscriptions in the store. Whether you agree or not is different.
Never had tearing issues on dual display Linux setup (currently using one, no tearing).
I've always felt nervous entering my info, to do a look up. It's yet another data trail to elevate certain set of stolen data above the noise of unused/throw away/dead accounts.
iMovie. I hate it but it's already on the computer.
I don't think that don't matters that much atm. Most will google for paint programm or directly for krita after they heard about from somewhere (youtube tuts for example) and land on the project homepage. After which they mostly will remember to look for the homepage next time they install it again.
Fraud like this isn't common, is it. I think there's a question of scale. There are tens of thousands of banks in the world, and hundreds of thousands of financial firms in general. Perhaps more. Money goes missing on this scale once in a blue moon compared to how much is processed.
I think it's a part of modern web developer culture. Where I work I started on a project which was already 3-4 months down the road and they were fully dedicated to react frontend and Koa on the backend. The whole stack was based on a react boilerplate the company built, as far as I can tell the idea of doing something other than JS on the server was never tabled. Likewise, the idea of rendering HTML on the server was never brought up. Everything is pure client side JS SPA even in places where it might make sense to just render things on the server or load a separate page.
How many people are standing up and saying it's a scientific truth? How many actually-qualified scientists are backing it up?

No one outside of the people shilling those oils, and the fools buying them, think they're real.

The fact that you can point to it as an example implies that most people know it's hokum.
But they once bundled an Internet browser with Windows! /s
Perhaps relatedly, you can often see the sclerae of dog eyes, which you can't with wolf eyes. I think there was selection pressure there too: it was evolutionarily advantageous for a humans to be able to signal to each other where they were looking without speech or a gesture, and the same is probably true of, say, canine hunting companions.

I can't really back this up, but it's something I've noticed.
ft's reporting on this story has been great throughout. I would recommend anyone looking to get more background to read the solid investigative pieces Olaf Storbeck and Dan McCrum have done over the past few years1[1]. they deserve a lot of credit for pursuing this likely enron level accounting malfeasance story to the top.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/d080c3fc-c561-11e8-8670-c5353379f...
Imagine you have a crowd and there is one violent person inside it, how would you mobilize such a person without harming the others?

Hmm...a gun?
Do something that actually matters. Making a real difference is motivating.
The Windows 3.1-era Band-in-a-box had a feature (and probably still has, if that software is still around) that allowed playing along a pre-programmed chord progression in different styles, which always produced a harmony that matched the current chord with a a single key press. You could play in the style of eg. Erroll Garner, even if you only knew how the "bare" melody of the song goes.
Wow that's interesting. This makes total sense as to why you can't change URLs then (which I just posted my use case needs), I suppose to maintain provenance on the original documentation. I hadn't considered that.
On the config options side can I recommend a decent Dependency Injection framework will make your life a lot easier, as you can have everything configured at startup without having lots of 'if's in the code checking the flag state. Combined with good abstraction this can make the whole thing much easier to manage and the whole config for a given client can be checked in one place.
Layperson here, but isn't the ocean covered with several kilometers of ice? It seems daunting to get a vessel all the way to Europa, drill through that much ice, get the vessel into the water, and subsequently send signals back to Earth. I'm not saying we shouldn't do that--in fact--the thought of what might be in those oceans makes me giddy with excitement, but it seems like an extremely challenging exercise to make a mission like that happen given our current technology.
Even if tools looking like the lathe existed as early as the Bronze Age, I think the knowledge to smelt steel wasn't available until much later. And even then if you smelt steel and build a lathe, the industrial revolution was possible because steam power was also known.
A neighbor of mine worked on the refuelling mission described here. Basically he uses a library of CAD designs to assemble standardized components for satellites. The more I learn about satellite operations the more impressed I get. My favorite was a zombie satellite that woke up after 25+ years and started transmitting again. Apparently, the solar panels had broken in such a way that they transmitted power through the battery (even though the battery could no longer hold a charge), so periodically the satellite would be in illumination and transmit (but it had a very weird pattern because the satellite was spinning out of control).

It still blows me away that most satellites, if they have a glitch like losing contact with the ground, will go into "Safe" mode- solar panels fully deployed, directly facing the sun, so it's likely there's enough power to recontact. I have enough trouble implementing a PID-driven motor on my arduino that it impressed me what people can do in space.
Dropbox have a good real-world comparison [1] between BBRv1 and BBRv2. They found the retransmission rate to be 4x lower for v2. It's on their edge network, so would be interesting to see how v2 performs on connections with a high bandwidth delay product.

[1] https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/evaluating-bbrv2-on-the-...
This comes across as very patronizing. I've been using go for a couple years now. I'm very familiar with the detailed history of generics proposals in go. I disagree with your characterization and perspective, and continue to see it as simple FUD.
Humans choose measures. They don’t just exist out in the world. Inches vs Centimeters doesn’t exist in nature.
Apple's demand for 30% of all in-app purchases, with no other way to get an app onto their platform, and its increasing censorship efforts to block an app from informing a user of alternative payment methods, isn't going to last, because antitrust regulators are going to kill it.
It's interesting RTF is discontinued when it is still the default format on the included word processor in Windows. I checked WordPad on Windows 10 and it still saves to RTF by default, though it supports docx and odt as well.
I wonder who hired them. Sure, it could be the CEO of Wirecard, but it could also be another large shareholder. Given how ridiculous this story is and how Germany's regulator BaFIN has done such a horrendous job looking over Wirecard, I would believe it if they were somehow complicit. I guess only time will tell, though.
Bases only need to be linearly independent and spanning; non-orthogonality is already permitted. Not all bases are orthogonal.
I'd say arguing about this is a huge distraction. Some would say classification is a special case of regression: the predicted continuous values are interpreted as class probabilities.

You're right that regression is a type of task, not a type of solution. The conceptual difference is important to understand if someone does not yet know it. But it's not an all or nothing set-in-stone thing. It implies there is a waterfall design to these ideas, as if some oracle posed these tasks to us and then we started finding solutions to each of them separately. But actually in many cases one and the same algorithm with small tweaks can tackle multiple tasks. Sometimes we have the hammer (algorithm) first and then the nails (task).

How you build your taxonomy and how you categorize one approach or another is not the same as learning and understanding. I always had an issue with this at university, where some lecturers would confuse learning lists like "what are the 3 areas of field X" or what are "the 4 principles of approach Y" etc.

The world is not structured according to subjects, fields, subfields etc. It's not a single hierarchy, but a big mess of similarities, like a graph or a multidimensional space. The map is not the territory and so on.

Terminology is necessary of course for communication and structuring books etc, but I like to see it merely as a utilitarian thing. The categories provide a scaffolding so that learning can happen. Studying the vocabulary and various outlines and nested hierarchies is a useful part of the journey but should not be confused with actually learning the thing itself. You could in principle learn all about regression without ever learning the word "regression".

The name actually originates from statistics, named after the "regression towards the mean" phenomenon, where they observed how the adult height of people is closer to the average compared to the height of their parents. So a tall person will have tall children but less extremely tall (in tendency, some will of course be even taller). So confusingly, regression literally means "going back".
I personally like systemd, and I wish FreeBSD will eventually have it.
That was the original argument by Steve...But imagine a world where you couldn't just give software to someone you know without going to the big box store, giving it to them first and agreeing that if the other person wanted to pay for it the store would take 30%? Even worse, the big box stores back then also bought shipments ahead of sale and managed inventory, sales, and the like. The publisher would pay production and take B2B orders at a 30% cut or so.
The issue is that they both are asking for 30% while doing basically little to nothing to deserve it (with the app store netting very few devs any sort of promotion value), applying the rules to only some companies, while also outright banning the sale of software elsewhere.

Maybe this is fair in a small company but in a large company that controls 70% of the US market? Thats borderline like setting up a tax on an entire industry as if your company was a state in the US.
Data driven policy decisions: Numbers don't contain the whole truth
Just gifted it for my mom. Hoping it kick-starts some better habits for her.
I'm glad to see people building for this audience. I have to say I'd be a little reluctant to gift this to someone for fear of offending them. That said, it seems like it would be a great addition to a doctor's available interventions or a workplace wellness program.
I was just thinking about how great it would be to have something like this for my mom! Especially the low-impact exercises. Do you have coaches in any other languages outside of English?
> So, in other words, the war was lost because management did not properly align incentives for soldiers with desired outcomes?

The article doesn't posit any reasons why that war was lost, only that the goals pursued by the mutinous soldiers, due to the actually rewarded behavior, were not aligned with the administration's goal of winning.

It could be that the war was intractable regardless, but
widespread mutiny hardly contributes to victory.
This feels like crab mentality to me. Basecamp makes peanuts compared to a behemoth like Apple.
Data Structure – Circular Singly Linked List
This is supposed to be a webpage that you can edit live, in place, in Smalltalk programming environment.

No surprise that you are confused given the design of from quarter of century ago, and ideas behind it and the programming language were relegated to a very small community of enthusiasts.
I Will Promote Your Product in 4 Ways
> I'm not sure what the answer is [...]

Should have left it there, mate.

Many people who are members of a minority group feel pressure to do everything "perfectly" because people will naturally use them as a reference for the whole minority group. That's just how human brains are wired - we use patterns that we observe to predict the future. If we don't have much data, we form crude stereotypes.

It takes active effort and learning from people like you and I to help overcome those biases so that members of minority groups aren't exposed to this pressure and can feel safe in making mistakes (or at least, as safe as members of the majority feel).

In general, if you don't know what you're talking about (at least you were honest about it), it's best to do some more learning rather than to add noise to the thread. I'm not claiming that I know much here, but I know enough to know that a solution like "just be you" is not going to be helpful here.
"Data Science" and closely related "AI/ML" were hype cycles, and companies are realizing that now. You can throw 10 "Data Scientists" at "Big Data" and arrive at no interesting conclusion. The reality is that data is noisy, over-fitting is hard to avoid, and analysis takes too long to be truly useful. Traditional regressions seem to offer as much benefit as complex black-box ML models.

For that reason, people I know who jumped on the bandwagon and got certifications/degrees in Data Science are now having trouble finding work. "Analyst" is an entry-level job at most companies because it usually involves massaging spreadsheets more than anything else.

If you were to go to the MOOC route, you would be at the bottom of the hierarchy. There are tons of quantitative PhD graduates abandoning academia to do statistics in the corporate world; there are people with Masters degrees from big-name institutions, like Georgia Tech; and there are people who went to in-person boot camps.

Someone with a MOOC certification would be behind all of those people in line for jobs that are vanishing anyway.
I agree, which is why I don't think this hypothetical future threat is really any different.
i'm getting a ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR in chrome?
> they won't capitalize the word "windows" even if it was preceded by the word "Microsoft"

Typing Microsoft Windows from my iPhone. It does capitalize it properly...
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It’s certainly possible to write untyped code and have it function, but you’re sacrificing development velocity by requiring both you and future maintainers to manually do all the things that a type checker can do automatically.
Appreciate the support. For Father's Day, we've added the ability to gift a membership, in case there's anyone that comes to mind that could benefit!
without harming the others.

Humans aren't good in stressful situations and their aim isn't great. A ground view isn't necessarily helpful in situation where the criminal might be inside the group ring.
It lets you search based on the first 5 characters of a SHA-1 password hash. So you use a trusted tool on your own computer to hash the password you want to search, and pass in just part of it. You get multiple results, and you can then compare against the hashes yourself to see if yours is in there. There's no way for them to collect your password that way.
No, it doesn't. The 40,000 number is from this government website: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

Total number of COVID-19 associated UK deaths
42,461

Deaths of people who have had a positive test result

The 40,000 number only includes those who had a test, and were tested positive.
Many things just don't work well in the Web. Notably games or productivity tools that are expected to be fast and always available. The hey app in question also has a (REALLY FAST, seriously its like a 99% lighthouse score!) website but the App is much faster than it and 'feels right'
No, it is not. Most apps on my phone are either compatible with microG (open source), or have their own notification system (such as Telegram).
Io is the daughter of the greek river god Inachos. :P
I agree Apple is abusive here.

There is also a very valid counterargument. Apple maintain the quality of apps on their app story by being a censor.

There are a lot of ways to scam people or bug their devices, and by and large Apple also create a sufficiently safe environment for iOS users.

There do seem to be two aspects in conflict, but good for DHH for kicking this off. 30% is obcene.
Deepest all-sky x-ray survey
Ask HN: Why does Google fail to judge whether X is prime
If you type "is 1000000007 prime" into google, you'll find that google suggests that 1000000007 is not a prime.
See https://i.imgur.com/ZWyoxLx.png

However, 1000000007 is a well-known prime used in many programming competitions or online judges.

The same thing will happen if you type "is 15485863 prime" into google. (which is the 1000000th prime)
See https://i.imgur.com/vrCKqL7.png

Perhaps, starting with 1299709 (the 100000th prime), the answers might be all wrong.

It seems that determining whether an input number is prime should not go wrong easily.
So, why does google fail to do that?
But did they disrupt things so badly that massive numbers of livestock had to be just destroyed?