skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks very good! congratulations.

Curious to know - does the Western market adopt solutions like this very easily ? Because atleast in India (or Asia), i see my parents and lot of older folk being highly resistant to adopting management solutions.

And we are a market that's almost entirely mobile-based. I would have guessed this is something one would need to push via doctors ... rather than directly.
I used to be a control systems engineer in a previous life, working with ultra high precision position control systems, where PID just does not cut it.

Best approach I found was high-sample-rate LQE / LQR control - the LQE part is a Kalman filter, which is a piece of cake now, but was very hard to achieve with available hardware 25 years ago.

The biggest enemy of simplicity was nonlinearities, and much of the 'art' of precision digital control system designs was in knowing how to linearize them through software tricks and/or adapt the algorithm to provide piecewise linear control.
The threat model is always important. What does your home look like? Who are you protecting from? If your current home is a shared student accommodation, post-its are probably a bad idea. If you live with potentially abusive family members, it may be a bad idea.

But in many cases when you don't live your life online and login everywhere with your Google account federation - sure write it on a post-it. It's not good enough though if you have 20+ accounts and would make you share a password between them.
There is plenty space in the ocean. We could put all human trash ever created and put it in a box and sink it somewhere in the ocean. there is more than enough space. The problem is we cant make that box and without the box it affects the life. Earth orbit however doesn't have anything that could be affected by trash beside what we put there and deem to not yet be trash.

Also keep in mind that humans may have put several hundred tons into orbit by now in total which is basically nothing if you compare that to the millions of tons of plastic that goes to the ocean every year. And ofc there are many many other things than plastic that ends up in the ocean as well.
also most of the stuff we put in orbit came or crashed back to earth especially the large and heavy stuff like MIR and the space shuttles.
Hygiene.

(A/K/A unintended consequences.)
Thermonuclear fusion using powerful magnets to contain the burning plasma
Funny anecdote, from an article about the novel Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson:

> One of the noteworthy features of the novel CRYPTONOMICON is that it contains a
new cryptosystem invented by Bruce Schneier, called Solitaire. [...] Since Solitaire
is strong enough to be subject to U.S. laws governing export of crypto
technology, this means that when the text of the novel is rendered in electronic
form it becomes an export-controlled good.

They relaxed that restriction shortly afterward, so Neal got to have his cake (having his ebook classified as weapons-grade), and eat it too (sell it anyway).
I don't know what you're talking about. https://db.nomics.world/IMF/WEOAGG?dimensions=%7B%22unit%22%...
This is freaking awesome!!
They used to give you a Core Hound Pup pet (Core Hounds were huge dogs seemingly made of molten rock in what was once an end-game raid fight, but these days you can probably go pet one with a relatively low-level character)

Bag slots do seem like a more concrete reward for using authenticators.

I'm actually toying with what sort of trivial reward would be appropriate for using WebAuthn to sign into an archaic PHP-based web site we built last century, I wrote a PHP WebAuthn implementation for it and it'd be fun to give people some silly reward for turning it on.
because the speed is not the only concern. also, sha2 is already hardware accelerated, and may still be faster than the rest of the hashes.
They give you backup codes to write down, champ.
Does performance matter in this context? Git isn't exactly hashing terabytes of data.
Proving my point.

You said it wasn't a story worth telling. History says it was told by published article, book, and then a movie. And it's obviously of note enough that people from around the world make a pilgrimage there, that they've removed the bus, that the bus removal is international news and that people will still visit the site where the bus was!

It obviously resonates with some people and not with others. Some get it, they understand the motivation, it means something to them. It's OK to not be one of those people.
> Imagine if a Chinese company spent 5 years, and millions of dollars, to build an application on top of the Microsoft Windows framework. Then one day, the American government says: Hey, we will no longer allow you to use Windows.

> Now, your expensive program, is wasted, and is now worth less than a paperweight. Even a paperweight is more useful than your program.

Didn't this essentially happen with Android? I'm not as familiar with that market but it seems there's no need for imaginary scenarios.

And private firms do this kind of thing to each other all the time. Google is notorious for suddenly dumping things people depend on. And in hardware it is a big headache as you can unexpectedly lose the source to components of your product.
Amazed at the amount of people in here that don't seem to keep their backup codes. Your own damn fault if you lose access.
Several of those weren't really great times.

The Renaissance, particularly, was particularly troubled, according to a source ... I cannot locate presently. (Podcast, history hasn't turned it up).
You're wrong that two-factor authentication is a band-aid or that it's trying to solve an easily solvable problem. Not reusing password doesn't provide any protection against phishing, which is as big of a threat as the server-side leaks, and for high-value targets, it's even a bigger threat.

That said, 2nd factor that's not U2F are not worth it at this point with lots of issues, so indeed U2F is about the only no-compromise (security wise) 2nd factor. All other 2nd factor have serious security or availability downsides.
9/11, at least depending on your definition of "false flag".

The Bush administration had foreknowledge of the attacks and actively suppressed attempts to stop them. George W. Bush was close personal friends with one of the key architects of 9/11 and afterwards great measures were taken to cover up this person's involvement (the so-called "28 pages").

A lot of other people would cite the Gulf of Tonkin as an example too, but that's something I know less about so I'll leave it to someone else.
SHA-256 is faster when hardware accelerated, and was judged to be a more conservative choice. You can find their evaluation here: https://public-inbox.org/git/20180609224913.GC38834@genre.cr...
I sense a glitch in the matrix.
Some anecdata on this point; I've tried two times to find a decent solitaire app on the app store. I don't play solitaire that often, it helps to pass the time occasionally, so I don't need something particularly complex or featureful.

Every app I could find had some dark pattern or an overflow of ads or both. Some kind of streak system where you were encouraged / nagged to play every day or else lose your "coins" (aka preying on loss aversion to try and addict players), fullscreen interstitial ad pages that try to trick you into clicking them when you're moving cards? Animated banners that distract you from the game?

I ended up giving up and just using a web version. It's not perfect, it's made for desktop and the cards are really small on my iphone 6 and the UI is hard to use, but it's clearly someone's labor of love and a lot pf care has been put into it. I'd happily pay a few dollars for it, if it wasn't free.

There's not many apps like that on the App Store nowadays. And with Apple's predatory rent-seeking practices, requirements of owning a $2000 computer to develop for their platform, and high developer fees, they aren't helping the situation.
Add to that: software has built in global competition, whereas most other trades are inherently local.

While Developer demand has thus far outstripped supply, that gravy train will eventually slow down.

It’s been one heck of a ride, and it’s gone on for decades, but how many more? Enough to recommend it to your kids?
We have real time text chat for decades but most people, after remote work become the norm thanks to the COVID-19, still prefer video chat rather than the efficient text chat. It's because most people are lacking the literacy. Even though they look like understanding the text, the reality is, they simply recognize a few seemingly important keywords and pretend they understand the text as a whole.
I think they're held to higher standards than software companies, or at least were, since in the latter, "try restarting it" has been a commonly repeated mantra for decades.

Or if a comparison more closer to same industry is desired, imagine if the issue was with Netflix instead.

That's slightly different since it's a service with ongoing payment, and customers who will stop payment if the service fails to serve, whereas Samsung has already been paid by those who bought their hardware.
What/who does an airbag in a drone protect?
> We used to have a simple rule where you always had two firmwares in storage, a primary image and secondary image

If you've got a 64MB image, that could be 50 cents per unit. That works out to a non-trivial drop in margins, and Blu-ray players have gotten commoditized enough that you might not be able to afford that. And I guarantee you it's not just this corner. Lots of corners were cut. I assume, anyway. I don't actually know for this model.

The funny thing is I'd happily pay $10-20 more for a Blu-ray player that had less cost-centric engineering, the problem is consumers have no way to easily see this.
Have you got any evidence for it? There's next to no monetary gain from any online account and even breaking into someone's bank online means you need to find a way to transfer money without leaving a trace and without extra transfer validation. Who would trade an extra minute when they can get caught for a random password?
The web is unfortunately too ubiquitous for this approach. If I get hired by someone, I have to use the website they chose for pay stubs, or health insurance descriptions, or direct deposit configuration, or stock option distribution, or many other life-essential services that an individual has absolutely no control of. Sure I can complain to HR, but it will fall on deaf ears that were sold by a shitty SaaS pitch that made some loser’s life mildly easier in return for a subscription payment.

And that’s not even touching all of the government websites that behave in this way.
As far as "intelligence ops gone awry," you can almost take any random "FBI busts up terror plot" story and on closer inspection it turns out they were goading the suspects into it and providing material support.

An example where that may have gotten out of hand is the Boston Marathon bombing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21690520
I'll leave this here. With half a century I've come around to the idea that there are a lot of people that tend to not make very good decisions. And it's not because they are somehow 'dumb' or even foolhardy. With that I have a hard time moralizing about them.
I wonder if there are enough IoT devices with sloppy firmware that network operators see periodic new connection bursts.
When I was a teen, K&R The C Programming Language changed my life. Years later I shared an elevator with him at Usenix. I always regretted not saying something to him, but I didn't have the words.

Kids: If you meet your heroes, say something. "Thank you" is good if you don't have the words.
Which would be the same as no one would have those random parts.
Easier than crimping or just preference? I know some fields require friction fit, some require soldering. In automotive we use friction fittings (screws, crimps) due to vibrations cracking solder.
Ask HN: What excites you money or interesting problems?
Its important for us to have a purpose like why are we choosing a job. Some people do it for money and some do it for interesting problems
I would love to hear community input on this
Bitwarden is a good open solution (with usual extensions and mobile apps). You can host the server part yourself too.
You can purchase upgrades for your car via the tesla app.
Your claim is false. It is not highly variable even between identical twins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ

"The mean correlation of IQ scores between monozygotic twins was 0.86, between siblings 0.47, between half-siblings 0.31, and between cousins 0.15."
I believe you can upgrade your tesla capabilities from the tesla app, say enable autopilot for $7000 or the model 3 performance upgrade for I believe $2000 (?).
It is possible to convey much more nuance through speech.

I like to think of myself as an effective writer. Nonetheless, it is incredibly difficult to express nuanced emotions through writing. This is particularly true in “professional” contexts, where an informal message may be perceived as rude. In many situations, I suspect that the same message, delivered verbally, would not even warrant a second thought.

The reality is that few people are taught to write in a manner that allows them to actually express their feelings. The fact that we even need to learn this indicates to me that speech is a far more effective way of getting our thoughts across
Thanks, didn't notice the popouts in the page. That's right.. IE6 was the menace.
In the legal department, maybe. From one of the replies:

"I also got assistance from chat with Samsung Pro Care reps. I am trying to troubleshoot one of the players. Samsung kindly gave me the reset proceedure for my model which is to hold down eject button for 15 seconds. did not work for me.
I requested if I could try firmware flash by USB. They kindly gave me a firmware zipped file which I unzipped and wrote to a USB stick. However since the players won't stay on the firmware flash proceedure instructions provided could not be initiated."

Oopth. This is going to be expensive. It looks like well over a dozen models were affected.
the rules aren't so much vague as inconsistently applied: for example, the Fastmail app works exactly the same as Hey, and hasn't been removed (yet, at least). More: https://youdownloadtheappanditdoesntwork.com/
“This resentment runs deep and is stunningly widespread”

I am going to offer an alternative here.

The reason why the resentment runs deep and is widespread is that we are beyond "peak App Store". While Apple's revenue on services and the App Store is probably still growing it is because there are still more and more developers piling on.

For the average developer, the golden days of the App Store are long gone. The revenue has been declining for a long time and competition is still getting stiffer. That creates resentment.

Being able to receive a micro-payment of just one dollar and being listing in a potentially powerful marketing channel - the App Store - is a huge bon and something the web cannot offer. Paying 30% for that is reasonable, even cheap.

Should Apple offer discounts for big businesses such as Facebook, Google, Basecamp? Let them have a fee of less than 30%? Maybe. But that will not make Apple more popular amongst average developers.

Mr. dhh is a smart guy and a master nerd manipulator. He knows that the app offering of his new product is not that important and things are ripe for a smackdown of Apple. Also a little conflict helps getting attention on his new product. So he brings this up now even though Basecamp has had stuff in the App Store for years.
Sure, I was interested in addressing the "people have limited tolerance of free speech, when that speech is flagrantly intolerant." specifically rather than your main argument. I do not think that I repeated any argument nor replied to something that was never said nor do I think that this debunks your main argument.
There needs to a shift in the way Xcode deploys apps or iOS accepts over WiFi app installs, only then can Xcode as an App rather than a VM help with development on the device you are actually using even if it cannibalises Mac sales.
> How can they not know this is happening minutes after the update is pushed?

- Maybe it only happens from a cold start, or maybe only when waking from sleep more.

- The push likely takes hours

- It might be hard to capture the right metric for if the push was good in time to stop the push. I wouldn't be shocked if support realized the issue first, but didn't have a way to quickly escalate to the firmware team.

- When the push fails, by the time that team figured it out, at a big company, it could take at least a day to make it into the customer service script.
apt-get install xclip xdotool, then put this in ~/bin/paste

#!/bin/bash
sleep 2.0
xdotool type "$(xclip -o -selection clipboard)"

If a website prevents you from pasting stuff just type "paste" and then click the field and wait 2 seconds.
My 2 cents: https://www.slowernews.com

I (try to) extract relevant trends, micro-trends and some edge cases from daily news.
It does; I've encountered some cases (ingesting large amounts of data into git) where the limiting factor on performance is a combination of SHA-1 and DEFLATE.
> are electronics simpler or more complex than software

Eh, yes?
It's only 2000 lines because it's in C++. I wrote a simple Fuse system to mount zip and rar files (read-only like this) in <300 lines of Python. Fuse is pretty easy to make useful things with.
BLACK LIKE WHO? Notes on African American Identity (The Village Voice 9/1991)
If? Is Mercurial not like Git?
I would be way more interested in this project if it downloaded normally in the background immediately after the torrent is added, and then downloaded specific bits as programs requested them. I haven't looked into the code base for this exactly but it says nothing about it in the Readme.

Otherwise, like you're describing, you could add a file and then go to read it a week later and be met with no seeders and thus no file when it could have been grabbed somewhere in between.

But maybe that extends beyond the capabilities of a file system?
I loveee the concept of drawing rooms with a mouse to enable spontaneous conversations. the site is incredibly wordy and doesn't drive a CTA, but that is really nice. when can I use it?
TL:DR If you want to do any good to a newspaper, buy a subscription.

Advertising hasn’t been enough since the late 2000s. More monetization options arised and were rapidly adopted because news venues were hungry for them, when they figured that reservation (buying ads on a specific website with no control on delivery and performance) was declining. The creepiness of all this, and the sense of entitlement of a large part of the audience, fueled the rise of Adblock, which required even more creepiness and gave birth to the present cat&mouse game.
The officers followed protocol in my estimation.

There was a clear attempt at peaceful arrest and detainment after the initial encounter and sobriety test. That was answered with violent resistance. Goto threat neutralization.

Unarmed suspect: No lethal force, attempt to physically subdue or disengage safely. Possession of Tazer lost. Goto suspect armed.

Non-lethal takedown: partner attempts. Tazer shot fails to connect, other Tazer in possession of suspect. Officer involved in struggle draws firearm. Fires.

I can't fault that. They were out of options.

And even if you accept, for sake of argument, that protocol should be changed. Suppose instead of a Tazer being stolen it was the officer's firearm with rubber bullets, and the officer left with a rifle at hand. The rubber bullets are still "non-lethal" right? Should they just let the suspect run off? God no. Taking the Tazer was what escalated things into deadly force territory, and even then only after the other officer made a best effort attempt at non-lethal takedown.

They did everything we, the Public, have demanded they do, in the order we demand it be done. This is undeniably a case where this officer is being targeted because of the unrest provoked by that cretin in Minneapolis, and Riot police elsewhere. Those are not his actions. He's just a cop, doing his job, in the midst of a stop gone bad. Just as the suspect was a human being who let himself get into a state in which he made some exceedingly poor decisions; one of which escalated things to the point of elevating the threat level of a situation to the point an officer felt lethal force was the last option he had.

I'm not comfortable setting a precedent for all cops, when faced with an armed assailant not to take care of business in such a manner as to bring confrontation to an end as quickly and bloodlessly as possible. Nor am I going to lock up or discipline one that tried to do things right. That we have video evidence of that trying having been done.

I don't like how it ended. If he didn't call in a meat wagon and provide first aid soon enough... Well that I can see being a problem, but that's not a crime. That's a tragedy. If he ended up exclaiming "Got him!", I don't see it as him intending to kill someone that night, I see it asadrenaline come down.

If we expect police to do their jobs, to even work for our protection, and the safety of our communities, we have to extend them the benefit of being able to accept the outcome of their discretion when it falls within the bounds we demand. This one did. It was reasonable. No question. Minneapolis wasn't. Seattle wasn't, the protests in other cities weren't but this one was a clean shoot.
Another notable example was ATF piping guns to the cartels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
Other than using a stronger hashing algorithm that produces longer hashes, would there be any advantage in storing two or more separate hashes of an object? The extra hashes could be from a different hash function, or a hash of the reversed bits/bytes.

I wonder about the difficulty of producing collisions for a single 256-bit hash function versus two 128-bit hash functions, four 64-bit hash functions and so on.
Recently had some experience with nopCommerce and it's been neat to work with.
Hey everyone, this is an app now, partially thanks to this post. I'd like to make a baby mode for kids. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/no-paint/id1107427275
Is there any way to get it to immediately start downloading the files, then prioritize the bits requested by applications reading the file?

Also, very curious, how have you been using btfs? What have you been using it for?
OT: why have you omitted the last two letters from each of the company names?
Once upon a time the idea of a computer was that it is a universal machine that can do any computation for you. As soon as the people producing the computer are the same people controlling what software can run on it this idea is out of the window. An app store is an evil idea right from the start. Unless you actually don't want to own a computer but just want to buy a toy, of course. Which is the bigger part of the market. It is the task of us software developers who should be able to understand this to push hard against the whole idea of an app store.
So what is preventing some other company to build and manage an app store for Apple software?

If Apple is preventing competing app stores, isn't that anti-competitive?
the problem is consumers have no way to easily see this.

I remember seeing several motherboards advertising "dual BIOS" quite prominently, although the customer base there would understand the advantages of the feature far more than if something similar was advertised for a Blu-ray player.