skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being easy to use does not mean uncomplicated. Your TV set probably is easy to use and was easy to get but it still is an extremely complex machine. Using as simple things as possible (but not simpler ©) is a value in its own.
uBlock Origin speeds up most pages because it actually prevents things from loading that would slow down the page. Whereas a during benchmark it's really just sitting there idling.
It's not an analogy. It's just psychology. Your brain is wired to activate areas that are attached to each other. A smell from your childhood evokes a physical response in the brain that makes you happy (or sad, depending on the childhood).

It's the same with a celebrity. You physically feel good when you see that celebrity because in the past you felt good when you saw that celebrity.
this is a lot like Wiio’s Laws “Communication usually fails, except by accident.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiio%27s_laws

also, I can’t remember the source but someone wrote that if a person says “I understand” then they probably don’t, but if they say “I don’t understand you but I just thought of something myself” then you probably had a successful transmission
The Open Goldberg Variations
Lastpass does this, but works with apps as well. Third party password managers are absolutely underrated, because most of them are truly cross-platform.

If you create a Netflix account on your desktop in Chrome, it can generate a password for you, or auto-grab whatever password you typed in, and will autofill that password when you open the Netflix app on your phone. (Based on a built-in association between "netflix.com" and the Netflix android app.)

Super handy feature when you get a new mobile device and need to get logged in to all your apps for the first time.
Why are you comparing them to the Czech Republic when the commenter was comparing them to the US and saying the US should model them? They're not saying the Czech Republic should model them.
How much of a conversation about the Google-fu required to produce his name do you want to have here? I agree, though: the screenshot didn't help; if it was me, I'd edit it out.
I vote by mail and don't punch anything... not sure if they count my vote though, mr. thibodo
It's not, but it's very easy to try your own incognito search - for me, at least, it was the same results in a different order.
This whole industry needs a rebrand. Excess carbon pollute my neighborhood parks and community. The majority of the world’s ecosystems are getting less diverse as a result of excess carbon. We’re literally watching a great extinction event in real time.
Dynaglue: Make single-table designs in DynamoDB easier to query and update
That's only for single message info-dumps or single query-response. If I need to tell you something, it will save your time if I distill it. But note that it may be more efficient overall to do it by voice, or maybe my time actually is more valuable than your time. (or vice versa).

If we're doing it interactively, I can verify your comprehension and limit my need to elaborate, saving us both time.

And if we need back-and-forth collaboration, interactive is likely to be much better than multiple interruptions and context switches.

My general rule is, if it's going to be more than 2 back-and-forth exchanges, do a voice call.

And waiting while someone types a response is pure waste.
The Sin of Sloth – an external module system for C
Careful there, athesyn. No need to offend our computer overlords.
Sorry for the rant but this is just so poorly designed that I don't see any relevant content when I open the link without scrolling right away:

With adblocker: https://imgur.com/a/fWuoJEi

Without adblocker: https://imgur.com/a/cvmu3dm

Plus ublock origin says it blocked 30% of requests. I'm all up for paying for good journalism but part of me wonders their paid customers aren't getting a great experience either.
But "any website" here seems to be "any non-https website", so this is more likely: a) router or baseband-processor hack plus b) malicious JS injection into unencrypted HTML plus c) browser vulnerability via JS.

No need to bypass encryption.
>At least in the current state of browsers, they all try https:// first.

That's trivially disproven by typing "example.com" in the address bar and hitting enter. Both chrome and firefox goes to the http version not the https version, even though the https version is available.

Even if that were true though, an attacker in a position to perform an MITM attack can also block the https connection from going through, forcing the browser to make a http connection.
Gravity batteries only need mass, it needn’t be water: https://youtu.be/gn5AM75AGvw
To block move to the dns level. Apple has no control there.
Valgrind leaves most instructions as they were doesn't it? If you're not touching the dynamic memory it should be as fast. You wouldn't be able to do that with complex MMX or SSE2 instructions with Arm translation.
While I'm not certain about the terminology and whether this would still be a watering hole attack, but any of the "Show HN" posts here, could trivially be hosted by an actor with malicious intentions.
U.S. Army Awards Pocket-Sized Drones $20.6M Contract
Bikes don’t stop faster than cars. Plenty of cars approach 1G of deceleration. At .3Gs I’m going over the handlebars of a bike.

Furthermore, in NYC, half of serious pedestrian injuries are caused by bikes, meaning a cyclist is about 200 times more likely to seriously injure a pedestrian than a driver.

I am all for bikes, but let’s not be delusional about the safety issues or basic physics of how poorly they brake.
Yep, in the industry and if your code or servers triggered mixed content warnings, publishers dropped you fast.

That said,we still have to scan every creative for https compliance because a lot of them say they are but aren't.
> Furthermore, Person 2 is a hidden node from Person 4, as Person 2 is not within Person 4’s set of immediate notification contacts.

This is the system working as designed. What purpose would be served that Person 4 needs to know Person 2 was also a contact of Person 1? It's not a perfect system, but this is a strawman argument.

The Google/Apple system isn't perfect, and relies on people behaving like responsible adults. The real world isn't like that, as the Corrupted Blood bug shows.
Yes. Apple rejected an app I was working on as spam since there are already apps which does the same thing. It was a simple app but I thought its appeal would be its simplicity anyways.

With this logic, they would reject new games as there are already many games in the app store :)
Does anyone know of a comparison that looks at the encoding and decoding times / cpu requirements?
Reflect on what I said about selection bias.
My browser window is 1059x751 (inner dimensions; to get yours, open your web inspector and type window.innerWidth). For context, this is a desktop machine, but those dimensions fall into Bootstrap's "tablet" size. The only thing I immediately noticed is that README's on the project root have lots of wasted space to their right. Interestingly, historical versions of Github seem to go back and forth on this (the presence of a sidebar) every major redesign.

> Migrating to gitlab...

Wow, some serious "looks like JIRA" PTSD there. Did Gitlab promise they wouldn't redesign?
Adding value like harassing blacks that "seem suspicious" for being in a rich neighborhood? It's not that simple.
I don't see how that would work any better than it has previously. For example, the American South has generally been the more laissez-faire region in the U.S. but the North has remained the industrial powerhouse, despite itself according to mainstream intuition. I think people misunderstand and chaff under many of the very same policies that make them wealthy. We want contradictory things.

Anyhow, mobility is lower today than in recent American history, both in terms of costs but also in terms of desire. Decades ago moving around for a job was normal; it was a common motif in film and television. These days politicians literally run on platforms supposedly preserving your ability to never have to move. We expect jobs (and governance) to come to us, rather than the other way around.
The article is about Scott, as a person who runs a popular blog. The source is named "Scott Alexander". There is no need to publish his personal information. If the NYT wants to verify that he is actually a practicing psychiatrist etc, then they can gather that information, do the legwork, publish the information ("NYT can confirm that SA is who he says he is"), without jeopardizing that practice.
It'll likely require user interaction every time you want to run the extension.
> "if anything can ever be qualified as "dorky", this is"

Segway made it into Weird Al's "White and Nerdy" parody song https://youtu.be/N9qYF9DZPdw?t=74
Apple can and does prevent VPN apps from being on the store that do things like this. (If you're relying on DNS resolution, then yes, there's not much they could do…unless they at some point hardcode some DNS servers.)
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Introduction to Privacy and Compliance for Consumers
True story: my dad is confused by basically all technology and all modern user interfaces. The one site he finds usable without assistance? Craigslist.
Seems to be politicised. You have a significant portion of the country treating not wearing masks or social distancing as a political statement.

I'm not saying it's not achievable. Just that you need to evaluate if it is achievable before you focus on it and it certainly doesn't seem like its "obvious" that it is to me.
Ask HN: Share things you built since Covid-19
Bastions on demand in an AWS VPC
You can also put a Readme in any folder and it will show up the same way. You usually wouldn't want those up top while browsing the files though. So it's also about consistency.
That’s a pretty tough sell versus pumped hydro which is generally 70%+
I know this will go down like a lead balloon on HN but I've never seen anything as cringeworthy and pseudo-intellectual as this entire rationalist subculture, where weird obsessions with Bayesianism or other highly technical lingo is applied to all sorts of topics in ways that just make anyone else roll their eyes.

I think this also ties into this latest drama because apparently Scott seems himself like some medieval scholar being persecuted by the authorities if his name ever comes up, which is dramatic given that his pseudonym is his actual first and middle name which together with "psychiatrist ann arbor" gives you his actual name on a google search and a picture. Any of his patients who has ever googled his name knows who he is.
It requires an Electron app to run in the background to provide much of its functionality.
Apple devices do hold their value fairly well (certainly much better than non-Apple hardware), so the cost is offset somewhat.

I whinge about the non-upgradability of our devices as much as the next guy, but it's not like people are throwing their 3 year old macbooks in the trash can.
Filled the form, looking forward to it
Oh this is awesome.
In ancient times I set up email over uhf in a remote village in bougainville (the only link I can find is a paywalled pdf https://shop.ata.org.au/shop/renew-issue-84)
We had to pretend to be a ship the mv sunrise to access a system that ran out of san diego that was only licensed to provide service to ships in international waters.
There was an internet provider in the solomon islands that did something similar, but for political reasons they were not allowed to help.
Web Extensions api is only for macOS.
This is right. Given the same source and the same testimony, the journalist should prefer the source be public. It's when a source agrees to speak on condition of anonymity that a journalist should protect that anonymity. If you ever speak to a journalist, remember that they are not offering you anonymity unless it's stated explicitly.

None of which is terribly germane here, where Scott Alexander's involvement in this story is principally as subject, not source. Protecting the privacy of subjects isn't really a thing, outside of minors and such. Whether particular choice of subject is reasonable is certainly up for discussion. We also may need a new category of "public figure but not". But this is not "doxxing their source".
But it doesn't prove any such thing. He's writing about "Scott Alexander". All discussion of SSC that you will encounter will refer to "Scott Alexander". Claiming that "Scott Alexander" is really "Scott Somebodyorother" does not enhance the credibility of the article in the least. Rather the reverse, since it would make one wonder about the objectivity of the reporter if they for no reason cause massive damage to their subject, and his patients.
What a great write up. The high level survey of the landscape was insightful, and directly comparing the challenges of ML/AI with their "solved" counterparts was great.

Excellent read. Bookmarked.
"...You may stop me, but you can't stop us all."
You get other issues, such as NIMBYs not allowing new development in their towns as a form of defecting in a prisoners dilemma, which you often need a larger regional body to make it happen.

Or other issues of too many small governments, such as road networks, or regional transit.
I guess because they are marketing that their product will have much lesser vulnerabilities (than c/c++) while maintaining performance.
I remember some Christmas special that (contrary to my country's version) had all these different characters, black and Asian kids, Big Bird and the story took place in this extremely urban setting of NY. This was in the late 80s or early 90s and I still remember how big of a difference this was for me.
GKE now supports 15000 node Kubernetes clusters
>This is some serious black magic

If there were ever a time and a place for black magic, it would be this use case: swapping out an enormous layer (the hardware) at the bottom of the stack, while keeping everything at the top of the stack working seamlessly.
EchoVR is nice, yes. The throwing never really worked for me, but moving around like in a space station is really cool. You can basically grapple around and don't need your legs at all.
I have a light sensitivity condition; large patches of white really hurt to look at for any real amount of time. Please consider implementing an optional dark variant in the vein of https://github.com/StylishThemes/GitHub-Dark as an option.
That's because the core Paxos protocol is relatively simple. However, no production service could ever survive with just that. Once you start considering all the features and optimizations you will really need, things get very hairy.
That's not enough, because these social movements are already more powerful than national governments in many ways and cross national boundaries freely. We already see people getting fired in one country because of outrage in another.
I think everyone would agree that it's easy to link the two names if you have foreknowledge that they're linked, and that furthermore you need at most middling Google-fu to find his real name from his pseudonym if you're motivated.

It was mostly just annoying that they were presenting theirself as being a civil, good-faith rule abider, while also being clearly thrilled at "cleverly" outing Scott Alexander.
I still don't see Instagram used as a replacement for text messaging like Snapchat is for many people (again, just my experience in the college-age demographic). Snapchat themselves don't seem to want to be a messaging app though, probably because the path to ad revenue and real profitability is in an algorithmic feed.
It's a bit outdated now, but back in May 2017 Gruber reported [0] that 69% of visitors to his site used Safari. This was about 6 months before the release of Firefox Quantum, so I'd be curious to see more recent numbers if the Firefox usage has changed at all.

> Looking at my web stats, over the last 30 days, 69 percent of Mac users visiting DF used Safari, but a sizable 28 percent used Chrome. (Firefox came in at 3 percent, and everything else was under 1 percent.)

[0] https://daringfireball.net/2017/05/safari_vs_chrome_on_the_m... - second to last paragraph
I think there’s a difference between trying to prevent untrusted code from escaping a sandbox, and trying to prevent it from locking up the CPU.

Lua is commonly used for scripting games. If I load an untrusted script into the game I’m playing and it can access all of my files, it’s potentially catastrophic. OTOH if the worst an untrusted script can do is use 100% CPU (and cause the game I’m playing to lock up so I need to restart), it’s a minor annoyance.

AFAIK in the absence of bugs (and regular Lua is pretty close to that [0]), Lua’s sandboxing features are sufficient to protect against the former but not the latter. Am I right to think that’s often good enough? It seems a huge improvement over embedding, say, Python - I wonder how it compares to a embedding a JavaScript engine like V8?

[0] https://www.lua.org/bugs.html
Eradication is unrealistic for the US _now_.
Facebook Ad Boycott Gains Steam, but Small Business Can't Quit So Easily
I read this as "occasional dalliances with race realism are acceptable because he talks about other topics."
There might be! These are community members, not Amazon employees.
The AWK Programming Language book is great not just for learning AWK but also has chapters on data processing, generating tables and graphs, relational databases and even a VM! I've implemented the assembler and VM from the book and extended the instruction set.[0]

[0] https://github.com/siraben/awk-vm
Can you elaborate beyond a single word? It is certainly not immediately obvious to me how this benefits performance, or I wouldn't have asked.
I saw a comment on Twitter that what you're really seeing here is dueling philosophies, and I agree.

Ever heard the expression, Sunshine is the best disinfectant? I think you're seeing it's logical endpoint with the SSC story. And while it seems to have fallen out of fashion, for the most part, I agree.

It seems to me that no matter where you turn, when it comes to 'the truth and nothing but the truth' about someone or something, you face bad choices.

The problem with allowing some people to be pseudonymous sometimes is that immediately all kinds of bad actors will rush in and try to claim that in their defense. Polluters claiming anonymity because they don't want to be targeted by eco-terrorists, for example. Rather than parsing ever-smaller hair-thin rules about - legitimate - illegitimate - legitimate - and getting docked on every one on charges of political bias - there's an easier solution. Give no one pseudonymity. Problem solved.

The only exception - national security - doesn't require your agreement to accept; it just takes a willingness to not go to jail. It's an appeal to power, really. So you don't have to debate it on moral grounds, it's the law.

Incidentally, for all those stories where the NYT allowed pseudonyms, I agree there was an inconsistency, but my conclusion was: resolve it by publishing them all. Publish Bansky's name, publish Ferrante's name, publish the name of whoever wrote that tell-all book. Make that the norm, instead of half-applied psuedonyms.

Now if you arranged an interview with them about something other than their identity, and they agreed to talk to you on condition of you not revealing it - that's different. That news outlet can't break the story. But another one can. No exceptions. Sunshine is the best disinfectant.

I do believe this in principle, believed it long before this story broke, and could be brought around to disallowing most anyone's pseudonymity, before this news became news. It doesn't matter to me at all what the content or leaning of the blog is. Whether they're left or right or 'good' or 'bad' - I believe in the secular version of 'you shall know the truth & the truth shall set you free.'

There is a cost, a real human one. But, rather like capitalism and democracy, it happens to be less than every other alternative. It's not great that people can't be pseudonymous - but it prevents worse problems.
Elsewhere in the documentation[0] Apple explicitly calls out that code that relies on x86 memory ordering will need to be modified to contain explicit barriers. All sensible code will do this already.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple_silicon/addr...
My central thesis is that I don't respect his pseudonymity, because he does not have it. I'm within the letter of the site rules, even if it pisses me off a bit.
Thinner devices are great for the consumer.
The junior developer sees a pattern and thinks why not make this a bit more generic so it handles similar cases. Oh but these cases fit a larger pattern.. and eventually you'll have written yourself an entire framework. This is very valuable, for the experience. Not for the framework, which will never be used. But you should go through it.

The mid-career developer knows this from experience and sticks to the minimum necessary to meet the requirements. Fast and efficient in the short term.

The senior developer mostly agrees with that but also knows that there is nothing new under the sun and all software ideas repeat. So from experience they can selectively pick the additional implementation work to be done ahead of time because it'll save a lot later even if it's not needed yet.

As an aside, this is one of the many reasons why I interview based on discussing past projects and don't care for algorithm puzzles. Unless I specifically need an entry-level developer, I'd prefer to have the person who has written a few silly (in hindsight) complex frameworks and has painted themselves into a corner a few times with overly simplistic initial implementations. That's the person I know I can leave alone and they'll make sane decisions without any supervision. The algorithm puzzle jockey, not so much.
it seems they also migrated from server rendered pages, which were a beauty, when you were inspected the network tab. to polymer, which itself, is good and lightweight. Github was one of last big companies not doing heavy spa stuff.
Is there an actual requirement that you must own one of those devices to maintain an account?
I don't know about the other one but 1Blocker is now a subscription.
The sadder part is that this is very close to a great many lawsuits go. This did not read to me to be much different than all civil lawsuits I have seen. Baseless claims followed by threats that it will cost more to defend than just settle.

The biggest issue with American civil law is cost to resolve disputes. It's obscene.
Stupid now that you’ve only seen wealthy dorks on them or stupid like people don’t want rechargeable urban mobility devices? Because in Denver, before COVID, there were maybe four escooter outfits and people flying all over on them. Seems like they almost didn’t have enough.

I think they had a brilliant idea, they were too early to the market, over marketed and then simply priced themselves out of contention. I’ll never understand why they didn’t have a cost reduced model
I'm not outing him. He outed himself.

I even felt a bit of sympathy for him before I realized his fan reddit has invoked his name many times. I even suggested in public I'm a fan of some of his writing. But this is just ridiculous.
What was the average life expectancy last year, and what is it now?
Or, because that is a new finding, using (by the authors' own description) a "novel" method of deducing it, they just aren't convinced yet. It is a tricky business to do, and especially without any human-but-0%-Neanderthal sample to compare against. Maybe the authors of the Cell paper have done it, but it wouldn't totally shock me if the rest of their field is not convinced.