skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also recommend Dragnet Nation.

https://www.amazon.com/Dragnet-Nation-Security-Relentless-Su...

I read Chaos Monkeys around the same time. It's not a deep dive on privacy but it gives you a great sense of FB's priorities, culture, and so on.

https://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Monkeys-Obscene-Fortune-Failure...
for the default tap event, this sounds right.

for "longtap" we probably have to stick to touchstart & end though. not sure about doubletap yet.
The "very considerable difficulty" part is key, as I'm sure you realize. So often as roads get worse, we feel lucky we made it past that obstacle "that one time" and can only imagine it gets better if you press on, because you're not sure you can make it back the way you came.

Related, the Death Valley Camry story

https://davidsworlddotorg.wordpress.com/2013/06/27/stranded-...
Okay, so far you've been parroting the same bullshit argument that some people don't mind. But that was never in question. There will always be some demand for suburbs. But there is obviously a shit ton of demand to live in cities, or we wouldn't have an affordability crisis. And for those people who live in cities, they do mind that zoning forces them to live more expensively. So quit with this "everybody thinks like I do" bullshit. That's just your own false consensus bias talking.
Why does it have to be only one thing.

If it is a bodily autonomy issue shouldn't those choices be responsible for the economical realities of those choices?

It's a clear case of taxation without representation.
https://www.sitepoint.com/optimizing-css-id-selectors-and-ot...

The slowest and most convoluted selector took 21ms when tested against 50,000 elements using a 2014 MacBook Pro.
If you use Create React App[1] then you don't have to think about the toolchain.

I do sometimes wonder what the people complaining about npm packages and the React ecosystem/build process are developing? It would be interesting to hear. I've shipped complex web applications built using Create React App without needing to "eject", and without installing dozens of packages from npm.

[1] https://create-react-app.dev
Yes. Think of zoominfo’s new ipo. They are big and can work around the regulations (ex: CAN SPAM) of selling user information. Also according to CCPA, if you process 50,000 user records in a year (just 150 accounts per day) you will come under the purview. But big companies like facebook (https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-protection/facebook-refuses...) will work around them.
I am trying to change our business location on google maps for the last 6 months.
I really doubt they are, I'm an average programmer

My laptop is a working tool for professionals, if I use it as a dumb typewriter I don't really need modern generation CPUs, a Pentium 2 would be enough

Ram is a more pressing issue these days, given the amount of bloated software one has to run just to page a colleague about something (yes slack, I'm talking about you, but not only you...)

When I am at my computer working I want it to do things for me while I do something else effortlessly, without noticing something else is going on

If I have to watch it while it finishes the job, it would be just a glorified washing machine

And it means it is underpowered for my workload

That's why people usually need more power than the baseline, because the baseline is the human using it, the computer's job is not to just display pixels at command, it's much more than that

Imagine you are an administrative employee, you are typing a report on your laptop, you're doing real work BUT you're not doing real work on your laptop or to better put it your laptop is sitting idle most of the time which is not real work for it

Work is a physics concept, real work means there is force involved and energy consumed

If the energy is minimal or the force applied almost zero, there is almost zero work done

Simple as that
IMO, the movies and shows aren’t conditioning people to expect it. The writers are writing way outside their experience and producing a mass genre of wish fulfillment. There is a lot of stalker-like behavior in love shows and instead of calling the cops the victim falls in love. Traditionally attractive personality and appearance traits are often turned on their head so that the writer’s avatar can get laid. Many female characters are written by men and it shows. Plus, if the script just imitated life, it wouldn’t be interesting.

The result is that a lot of people probably feel like they’ve been had. They’ve been telling themselves that they can or should do things that scare away their love interests and end up with a relationship. They want to believe in a special soul mate for everyone. The reality is that sex and relationships are both easier and less fulfilling than they’ve come to believe.
Yea less demand lower prices.
The DOM draft [1] seems to include it. Legacy content is better slow than unusable, however, so it’s better off being discouraged – by linters, dev docs and a warning in the console. FWIW, this is currently linted in TSlint but not JSlint.

It would be nice to have this (via regular or template strings) compile to DOM objects, wrapped with a couple of pointers indicating where strings or elements are placed. I guess for now the best course would be to budge that into transpilation, raising an error if it does anything kooky like work at the boundaries of elements.

(.innerHTML setting is sugar for a HTML parser being initialised on the element, so such a transpiler wouldn’t be removing functionality per se)

[1] https://w3c.github.io/DOM-Parsing/#dom-innerhtml-innerhtml
It's not so hard, but EU is so far removed from practice that it can't set up the incentives right. There's a parallel with EU's policy on biomass energy that ended up (partially) driving deforestation here in Slovakia.
Boosting the smart asset lightning network, OmniBOLT testnet is online
Blockchain industry requires a much more flexible, extensible and cheaper smart assets circulation solution to solve the main chain scalability problem. Lightning network is a solid technology to this problem, but currently only BTC(and some of its forks) is supported. Lack of the support of smart assets limits the creativity of upper layer applications.

We propose OmniBOLT, the smart asset lightning network, to widen the perspective of the original BTC-only lightning theory and technology. OBD is the golang implementation, an open source, off-chain decentralized platform, build upon BTC/OmniLayer network, implements basic HTLC payment, atomic swap of multi-currencies, and more off-chain contracts on the network of smart assets enabled lightning channels.
Data Lake vs. Data Warehouse
Your response to point 2 made me gasp. Just watch a few episodes of any of the many true crime false conviction series on Netflix. Unscrupulous prosecutors are not rare, and it does not matter who you are—if you get caught in the crosshairs you could go to prison for a crime you didn’t commit, or be coerced to provide false witness against a friend or loved one for a crime they didn’t commit.
Using autopens worked out well for Laszlo in the Frito Lay giveaway (Real Genius). Enter as many times as you like,no purchase necessary.
The spec repo for further understanding is: https://github.com/omnilaboratory/OmniBOLT-spec
One side of my family was literally freed when Sherman’s army arrived in town (Covington, GA). I long imagined what a conversation between the two “sides” of the family would be. A great grandfather’s father was his enslaver. If the South gets through these conversations...
An extension of spectral decomposition on a square matrix is called the singular value decomposition where any matrix can be decomposed. The trick is to diagonalize the matrix A A^T and A^T A, in this manner we can find the left and right singular values and have an equation which is very similar to the spectral decomposition. It has a very wide range of applicibility--most of which is also highly valuable.

There's also the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse which also has plenty of applicaitons and works on non-square matrices.
I don't know how to put it less bluntly here it goes, in my experience at non-faang orgs the software developers who stay over 5 years are not competent and likely won't pass the interview.
I think this very article disproves your hypothesis.

Life like us is probably so far away and so short-lived that we will never be able to communicate. An intelligence that is near enough to reply & able to survive millions of years (so its lifespan crosses ours) might provide some results.

If we start sending out signals and ask how long will it take for a reply? 17,000 years from something like us. Thats no use.

Might be better to phone every star in the neighbourhood starting with the nearest, and see if anyone picks up.
I drove a box truck (most often Penske/Ryder rentals just like the ones you see in this video) around most of the nation for a job when I was younger. The only two cities I had real trouble with clearances were Boston and Chicago. New York City was also a pain but for different and obvious reasons.

I suspect if it hasn’t happened yet a decent commercial software solution would be to produce an app that took OSM and overlay all of the bridges with clearances in major cities into it so that you could route around them after entering your height. I specifically remember doing a lot of reversing back up streets in Chicago because nothing like that existed at the time (this was in the early 2010s).
This reminds me of the beautiful "substrate" screen saver:
http://www.complexification.net/gallery/machines/substrate/
My first contact with substitution cyphers and frequency analysis was at 11, reading the Gold Bug from Edgar Allan Poe.

I have fond memories of that time, writing and decoding messages with school friends.

I have always assume that a lot of people first contact with criptography was that short story.
Thank you for this.
Really. Thank you.

I wish we had more postings like this.

No complaining, no whining, no "my framework is better than your framework". Just what problems you had and how you solved them.

This actually gives me something to take away.
The issue is that on regular projects/products, you are trying to hone on perfection by adding and removing a bunch of things and trying different stuff. This repeats for a longer period of time, say 6 months to a year.

The codebase has got to be able to survive that churn in a sensible way, and certain tools like (ES6) modules, types and declarative UI descriptions that automatically update to reflect the changes really help with this process.

Why does this declarative approach help? Because the more features you add, the more places can generate events that cause updates to the same DOM, and the number of possible transitions between those DOM states grows a lot larger. If the number of possible states that the DOM can end up in is N, the number of possible transitions is N^2.

To a first approximation, declarative frameworks scale linearly with the number of interacting features, while imperative (the vanilla DOM API) scale quadratically.
>a lot of modern day Southerners of a certain type (the poor white trash type..

It's amazing to me that someone can type something like this and no one bats an eye. Imagine stereotyping any other class of a people as "trash" and it being wholly acceptable.
A highly skilled person can only thrive in the right environment.
As an extreme example, take the best programmer in the world, and send him back 500 years in the past, he's probably not going to be very productive.

(The counterpoint to this, which the GP didn't talk about, is that this person is still likely to be able to retrain and be productive in that society in other ways.)
Definitely agree. In my case it was use of antidepressants. I thought the whole country is basically doing them so surely that’s not a problem when I went to an FAA AME for the PPL 3rd class medical. Well now I’m fucked for life apparently. There only 3 antidepressants they accept for a special issuance with costly on-going tests each year. Even if I’m off them entirely it’s still a problem.

I did witness an AME re-approve a commercial guy with a DUI though while in the waiting room. Good on you, FAA.
You can get most of what you need in a large town or a small city. I live in a large university town; we have malls, movies, some of the best fashion in the country, every kind of food but no Michelin restaurants, excellent education and schools.

Compare to the big city (Kuala Lumpur) where there's... zoos, opera, symphonies, IKEA, nicer restaurants, libraries.

The offices are there because they're near to rich people homes. The rich people homes are there because they're next to offices.

The city has few parks. Parks are kept clean by shooing away anyone 'loitering', so there's no real leisure spots in the city except malls. It takes half an hour to get to a supermarket because of the traffic, weird highways, and another half hour to find parking. Delivery startups took off, but only in the big city.

This might not be the case with say, NYC, but it's probably similar in many large cities like Jakarta or Bangkok.

It's no coincidence that the highest paying jobs are also in the heart of traffic jams - you'd need to pay me a lot more to commute there and even more to live in such a noisy, polluted area.
I think this is an extremely common experience. At least it maps really well to what I've gone through. Small surges of "motivation" wherein I embark on projects and then they taper off, constant battles with procrastination, etc.

However, at least in my experience, it's possible to develop tools and systems to stay disciplined enough to finish what I committed to. Not every tool works for every type of project so it's a constant battle. The good news, though, is that you can fail at this as many times as you'd like (I certainly have) but you only have to succeed once!
Even saying the 'Photo Printing Service's is ending is misleading because you will still be able to have your photos professionally printed from Google Photos. They are just ending a limited trial automatic photo selection and printing function.
I really agree with this. I didn't take the distributed systems course when I was at university, but later I still managed to work at a few FAANGs. Flicking through the material in the MIT 6.824 course, I really wish I learnt this before I needed it, rather than scrambling to learn it piecemeal as things came up. I would've been promoted faster, and things would've been less stressful.

It is possible to learn this on the job. But with hindsight, my advice would be to just take the easy way out and learn it beforehand.
I have the same problem I have a lot of good ideas and no one to work with. Maybe we should go solo like Jeff Bezos.
> If we burned this planet down and waited 700,000,000 years, would remnants of our civilisation remain?

I've seen this discussed a bunch over the years, and the informed answer to me seems to be that various isotopes and such would remain in trace amounts as clear evidence of technology.
Rotating the group was never the point or the problem. The problem was that typically Linux distributions shipped a 1024-bit hard coded DH parameters file and most people didn't bother to change it.

Groups with low security remain the default for things like IPsec configurations in firewalls and so on, even now.

It's perfectly fine to keep a fixed DH parameter choice. In some senses that's exactly what using ed25519 is. The point is that the strength of the group that results is sufficient to mean that even the NSA with their budget can't break it, even targeting that one curve. It's just that elliptic curves are much more efficient than picking a single 2048-bit or 4096-bit DH group, so why bother with that when we can pick a 256-bit EC group instead?

The nothing up my sleeve part isn't particularly relevant to this. The choice of elliptic curve is quite involved so it doesn't make sense to simply spit out a random field and random curve coefficients. Moreover given the server communicates a prime and a generator for the DH group, the client is quite free to do some primality testing and reject the DH group if it wanted to.

Also, there's a nice body of work showing NUMS can be manipulated. You might be interested in https://bada55.cr.yp.to/

I think you're muddling the concepts a bit here. Nothing up my sleeve isn't the main and only argument that justifies the move to ed25519; the original group wasn't backdoored in the first place. Just potentially within range of the NSA.
>I think the issue for most people in the US is that they still fundamentally believe that the justice system is generally "just", at least with respect to themselves, though that is obviously changing.

I think you highlighted a bigger core issue: people think that the past was somehow better and what they're seeing in their time is unique. The justice system isn't changing, it's been like this for at least a century, probably longer. America hasn't just elected its first rabble rousing demagogue for a president and now the country is going to shit, this has happened before. Multiple times.

This is worrisome to me because it causes emotional overreactions to situations that aren't really that unprecedented. We elected Donald Trump, and obviously we are special so we have to make sure this doesn't happen again. The punchline is that we are ignorant of the past and are unaware that the republic has carried on just fine after previously awful presidents, and without that knowledge, we may make a number of bad decisions that negatively affect the future of this country.
My predecessor has employed smile in all our m2m communication. As far as I have understood it, it aims to be a binary representation of json. I cannot speak for its speed but I trust him to a certain extent.
With music there are many different ways of generating.

Some of them are: hearing the song in your head, muscle memory (singing and with different instruments), remembering the chords, being able to play in one key versus any key.

To remember a song robustly, it helps to use these different kinds of memory to reinforce each other.
There Is No (Real World) Use Case for Face Super Resolution
Works for me on Debian Unstable...

sudo zpool --version
zfs-0.8.4-1
zfs-kmod-0.8.4-1

uname -a
Linux xxx 5.6.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.6.14-1 (2020-05-23) x86_64 GNU/Linux
I think this is wrong. I think if it shows anything, it’s that in the real world, you have to address exceptional cases rather than ignore them.
Noise Pollution at a Human Level
Do you ever see a cat or a bird move in the corner of your eye, but when you look closer it was just a leaf or a shadow or something? I think you see that cat just as much as you see anything at all. The visual processing just got a little too carried away in a way that was easily noticed, just like the seconds hand on the clock.
Netflix is definitely a reliable and objective source for crime data.
I asked my parents once about the eye floaters but they didn't seem to get what it is, so I just assumed it's only me.

Granted, as a kid I had this egotistical sense of self, to which I attributed a number of misconceptions about lots of things.
Depends where you live. Here in Canada almost all new builds have cat6 run to each room to a central closet.

Problem now is that most electricians think that because "it is just low voltage wiring" you do not need to worry about interference and can just run it anywhere.
Thanks for this great reply, and sorry for lack of response!

I should have been more precise - I was actually referring to the Octane plug-in for Daz Studio, where I don't think script nodes are available.
I started reading and immediately thought of Blindsight. The tweet thread mentions it later, make sure to check it out if you like hard sci-fi, it's one of the best.
I think I'm pretty good at self-teaching w/ textbooks. I will admit that there were 1 or 2 classes at college where I completely skipped the class and just read the textbook because I could absorb info faster than attending lecture.

I got a copy of Benjamin Pierce's `Types and Programming Languages` and I've read basically the full thing and have completed 80% of the exercises.

Currently working through a couple other textbooks slowly. I find that taking notes and doing the exercises is essential, otherwise I lose interest. (Same with online video courses)
It is a standard. RFC 7748. It is also a part of TLS 1.3.
Hackathon Soon Ready
And by the same director, an excellent film on Romanian social life, Graduation, which is definitely a more modern film about a girl's parents trying to find her a better future outside of Romania. I think I enjoyed it more than 4 Months.
We (German family) went to Death Valley as tourists in the 80s and we're puzzled by the obsession everyone had with carrying enough water but of course, being German, we complied. It wasn't terribly warm, it was December, and later that day a record breaking thunderstorm dumped on us. We stayed at Furnace Creek, which was amazing, but the road flooded and we had to backtrack the next day instead of passing through.

Now, after decades of living in the western US I understand how easily you can die in the wilderness but at the time it seemed exaggerated.
My Weekly Review Habit
Haven't looked in any detail, but as I clicked around the thing that jumped out at me was how many in the "lower comp, higher returns" category were from healthcare/biotech. Wonder if there is a way to slice and dice by industry/segement?
> I honestly don’t understand how or why anybody is defending Apple’s 30% cut

Stockholm syndrome by Apple developers and users.
Emoji code converter for deno developers – emojideno
Consider going in the winter. At least, don't go in the summer. Although we did get snowed on in March one year.

I took a motorcycle trip with a friend once, and daytime temps were in the low 70s around sea level in January. Of course, it got very very cold at night, so if you get stuck/lost, that's a whole other set of problems to deal with. We didn't take any risks on our trip, but after seeing how badly my skidplate and oil filter got damaged on some 4wd trails, I'm glad I didn't have to get it hauled out by a specialty towing business to the tune of.. thousands? of dollars.

I suppose it depends on what you're looking to do, but from a "general tourist" standpoint, the few major roads are paved and in excellent condition (or, at least, before the flooding). Across the valley from the Mono Lake area where you enter the area from the west, through Panamint, into the park proper, and all the way out to Nevada.. And from Ubehebe Crater in the north, way down to Zabriske point and out to Las Vegas to the south.

The large tourist attractions are on these paved roads, and even a lot of the hiking is just a short 2 mile drive down a well-graded gravel road. Though I understand the road to Scotty's Castle, if it's open yet, is somewhat rougher.

On the flip side, the remote areas are truly remote. Racetrack Playa is 20 miles down a horrible washboard road from Ubehebe Crater (which itself is about as remote as you can get on a paved road in the park) and I only recommend you drive it in a vehicle owned by someone you truly hate, as it won't be the same again. You won't get stuck or lost, though. Unless you try the "shortcut" across Lippincott pass that looks so much easier on a map than driving back the way you came.
A hiring metaphor for engineers hiring their first UX people – adrianhoward.com
Not sure of the specifics of their acceleration (described here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3296957.3173193) but a 15,000x speedup seems like... well... a lot. Does anyone have experience in this area to the point where they can describe whether the software being compared to is state of the art?

I've lost count of the number of hardware accelerators in the regular expression world that were way faster than some outrageous strawman (e.g. "running libpcre one by one over a thousand patterns") as opposed to doing a little research to find what the state of the art is. Not sure if that's what's happening here, but 15,000x rings some alarm bells.