skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ones and zeros affect human lives.

Maybe a prohibition on paying off ransomware is needed, but it's not sufficient and I don't think it's the low hanging fruit. John Dillinger once made headlines because he was better armed than the locals. Then he ran across state boundaries because law enforcement didn't coordinate well. It took a federal response specialized to that type of crime to bring it under control.
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Your provided link doesn’t mention the ability to run x86 windows apps on arm windows. Is this actually a thing?
> In my opinion this is much worse than reinventing the wheel.

You say it as if reinventing the wheel was a bad thing, but it is not. Technology advances by the continued reinvention of the wheel.
Great write up for a problem I'm thinking about myself a lot (https://marcus-obst.de/wiki/Notetaking)

Thanks also for using the Yak Shaving - for one, I got curious what was first, the term or the Ren & Stimpy episode illustrating the term and second, I found a description of most of my modus operandi.
> This is a ridiculous requirement that is not at all practical.
dehydrated is nice and painless.
It is no more complicated than a self signed certificate. Two clicks in Firefox, 4 taps in iOS
Thank you! I appreciate you checking it out, I'm @guac. I agree that we've lost the aesthetic of the old net and that we need more choices when it comes to these types of things. I grew up chatting on irc, aim, icq, etc and have fond memories of those times. A neat aspect of current technology is that we can build similar experiences that are now accessible to everyone w/o e.g. "download and install the client, configure the server" (most ppl have no idea what you're talking about). The goal is to create a simple, frictionless, open chat site that lets ppl talk about news/current events/etc with no hassle. Admittedly I'm a news junkie and started building this because I want to use it myself!
Isn't that horribly patronizing?

I'd feel offended if someone treated me with kid gloves based on my skin color.
There’s always the .local TLD, which is reserved for this use case:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local
I don't think they disagree that we should spend money on science. The question is which science. A bigger collider is a lot of money, following a lot of money on the existing collider. It could instead be spent in many other areas, with at least as good an opportunity to repay itself in jobs and technologies. Fundamental physics is sexy and has had tremendous success, but less sexy areas can also provide benefits.
With Google’s practices of gathering your personal data, why is Chrome even in the running in any of the discussions about browsers? I mean, Firefox and Safari exist, people. But maybe it’s me. What am I missing here?
It ray-marches the SDF when integrating them into the probes. You can see that here: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/blob/481151be09108a3000...
I feel like we were doing fairly well moving towards a single 'human tribe' for the first part of my life, and that 'Racist' was such a powerful label because it was tantamount to putting the human tribe secondary to some sub-group.

I'm not sure how or why, but it feels as though a large swathe of the intellectual class betrayed the project by changing the definition of racism from something an individual did, and could thereby be considered a traitor to the 'human' tribe, to something one could be guilty of merely by benefiting from when someone else betrayed the human tribe. If one person is a racist, everyone he favours is also guilty of racism under the new definition. No tribe could hold together under such conditions.
This won't work either, btw: You'd have to request from Let's Encrypt a new certificate for each individual device. LE has several rate limits that will prevent that from working for anything more than a trivial number of devices: https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/

The only way I see how this would work is if you not just purchase a domain but also an internet-facing server and do the renewal and certificate management centrally for all devices - at which point, your device is definitly not standalone anymore.
Vim works great. Don't see why you'd want to use anything else, except maybe Emacs.
This is how I am using my Raspberry Pi (running Pi-hole) too: overlayFS. It means that I lost the statistics after a reboot, but it also mean that I don't care if the power in the house is suddenly lost either. I also enabled watchdog support so my Raspberry Pi is probably the most reliable part of my network.
Probably because for the amount of time and money its absorbed it seems to produce very little of value in terms of applications, it's hard to perform real experiments with, and string theory and high energy particle collision physics both absorb the vast majority of grant money - and by extension - make it harder to do work in physics that doesn't pay homage to those two large bodies or continue that work.
I agree that this is implausible within our lifetimes, but I hope one day it will be possible. There are all sorts of other physical characteristics we mostly ignore by default, and with enough time I'm hopeful we can one day live in a world where the mental biases associated with race will disappear too.
There are no calories in diamonds and I dont understand why you assume there are some.

The old method of calorie counting involved burning food and measuring temperature. You wont burn diamonds by same methods they used.

The one one involves counting carbs, protein and what not inside and then adding assumed calories from that. Again, diamonds return 0.
Agreed. Talk about sledgehammer to crack a nut. Typical sysadmin solution to a problem assuming every Joe Blogger is going to setup his own VPS and fsck with certbot.
It's just "Let's see what happens" - and that's why it's a bad idea.

LHC was justified as a search for the Higgs. The Higgs was found. Everyone was happy. Fine.

LHC 2.0++ is just banging rocks together for the sake of it. Something interest might fall out, or it might not.

But considering that we still don't understand quantum origins, have no clue how to make a theory of quantum gravity, and have no idea what Dark Energy is, or even if it exists at all, it might be better to spend the money on pursuing creative theoretical leads in those other directions and coming back to country-sized experimental hardware when there are some new theories to test.
In no particular order...

Motorcycle

Good kitchen knives

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Nope.

My parents were refugees and arrived in this country with just the clothes on their backs. They worked factory jobs their entire life and never made much more than minimum wage.

I scraped and saved to buy my first computer and teach myself about the internet. We were never given anything from anyone.
MiniSEQ C64 composer source released by 4mat
A neat little thing for your C64
Will you also add it to the iPhones of other people that would want to use the device? (Or more realistically, would they let you add it?)
according to pg viaweb was one

I can also think of nichimen mirai which was also 10 years ahead of the competition in terms of ergonomics and features and was based on symbolics S-graphics system (and I kinda believe most of the value in mirai was due to the lisp broader paradigm, you could clearly see how limited most programs were at the time, exception being maybe prisms/houdini [which was probably C based though:)])

some people also quote apl or prolog to be an extensive reason on why their product exists or has an edge
Well-said. That's why I believe it will lead to a backlash if left unchecked. History suggests that forcing people to suddenly view themselves in stark racial terms is a recipe for disaster.
Too late to edit, but the title at the time I wrote this comment was "We need to overturn calorie counting as nutritional advice". It has since been changed to "Challenges and opportunities for better nutrition science", the title of the linked paper.
Note support for the tau constant has been added to several languages and frameworks including the upcoming .NET 5.0 runtime.
Not to be harsh but the only evidence he actually gives is: there weren't many other black developers...which isn't surprising given how few black people study CS.

Like getting offended when someone says: "I couldn't tell where you are from"...is odd. I get that...and I am white, I just have an accent that is dissimilar to the place where I live (I am from "here" but people think I am not...everytime I go into this shop, literally everytime, the guy asks me if I am on holiday...I don't think I know that he is a xenophobe because he asks me that). If you come from Guinea...yes, people are going to ask questions and say stuff about that.

A lot of it sounds like hypotheticals...him saying, if you are black then this will happen...which is a really negative way of thinking (it is like saying if you are fat, you will get abused in the street...maybe it will happen but that stuff happens to non-fat people too, and saying that being fat is the reason kind of disguises that).

Also, I think most people have experience of being the "only" something at their workplace. You will work some places and have nothing in common with anyone...it happens.

Irregardless of the above, I struggle to see what could be different for some people not to have a problem. Some people have a very unrealistic interpretation of how other people live their lives. Everyone always has more friends, more luck, more money, their boss is nicer, the air they breathe is cleaner, etc.
It's speculation that it will ever be practical for computing, let alone in the near future. And even then I'm not sure how much that'll be related to recent experiments in high energy particle physics.
TOFU doesn’t actually work. If you set up a TOFU cert environment, 100% of non-security people will click right through it, and 95% of security people will also click right through it.

They’ll just assume that because it was untrusted the first time, that cert errors are normal and ignore it. Especially since they will have a “first use” for every new device and every new browser they visit with.
Has this actually happened recently?

Because the UK still has full EU law in its statute books, and it's home to a guy who was just fired for flying a airplane banner saying "White lives matter". Oh, they didn't just fire him, his girlfriend was also fired (from a different company) ... just for good measure.

But if he can sue and force them to rehire him I'd be very surprised. The problem is not merely what the law says, but that the institutions that enforce employment law are just as corrupted as everywhere else.
> but the fact that a crude general-purpose model like ANN works as well as it does is certainly evidence that humans can learn language statistically

Humans learn language intuitively (subconsciously), as well as formally (through academic training). Humans understand language (to a greater or lesser extent in any particular case).

Statistical NLP is not, in any human-translatable way, understanding. It is approximation and prediction, in a purely mathematical sense.

Perhaps one of us misunderstands, or is imprecisely using, the phrase "learning language statistically", but I am unaware of any evidence that humans do so.
It is not close enough to real life. The controlled calorie counted diet given to you by doctor is also designed to contain all iron you need, all vitamins of all kinds you need, fiber and so on. It is not random person food minus whatever that person finds easy or reasonable to kick out.

The people in metabolic wards are also not expected to be performing in work simultaneously, they are not expected to perform family duties or handle stressful situations reasonably. That also makes it massive difference against normal life where needs like this contribute to peoples failure to keep perfect diet.
That doesn’t need to be a problem. In Rust, the most popular thing in this space is Serde, with the serde_json crate. It can cope with such things just fine; define a data type that is capable of representing all the possibilities (perhaps as simple as an enum with a variant for each style, or perhaps it normalises them into one), and then… well, you probably have to write a visitor to help deserialise, which isn’t trivial, especially when you’re used to just deriving those things and so you’re not so familiar with Serde internals. But it’s possible. https://serde.rs/string-or-struct.html gives one example. The length of the example may be daunting, but it’s actually not too bad.
I've recently switched from Chrome to FF on Android. It's better in many ways, but it's noticeably and frustratingly slower on nearly all websites. For example, trying to minimize a comment on HN is now very frustrating as there's a >1 second delay which frequently results in me tap the target multiple times causing all kinds of weirdness.
As a merchant you chose Wirecard because no other acquirer wants you business, see FriendFinder.
I have frequently heard stories like these but find them odd. Perhaps these are scenarios that occur more frequently at smaller companies. Most of my professional corporate experience has been at large companies. As an example people of Indian and Middle East decent make up less than 1% of the US population but if I had to guess the percentage of my developer coworkers from Indian or Middle East decent it would be at least 40%.

At larger companies like I have been at there are all kinds of foreign accents and nobody makes a thing of it. Nobody tries to guess where people are from. I only discovered one of my coworkers is of Kuwaiti decent after disclosing that I am temporarily relocating to Kuwait (I thought was Greek but was not curious enough to bring it up).

Honestly I don’t think I would want to work at place that allowed such exclusive habits about my coworkers which make these stories all the more strange to me.
s/web of trust/centralization/
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I think you have a point, but I think your point is about out-group exclusion more than in-group affiliation. Otherwise we'd just affiliate with "humankind."

Your feeling of obligation to learn French, I think, is about not wanting to be seen as an outsider, not wanting to be judged for your poor command of the language, etc., more than the positive aspect of fitting in. They're two sides of the same coin, yes, but it determines a bit where you end. You don't have to be immersed in French culture to avoid funny looks at stores, but you do have to be able to order food without people noticing anything strange. And you're not affiliating with the expats because you inherently want to define yourself as one, but because they won't judge you.

And so I think responding to the truth of human desire for affiliation by saying "Everyone needs an out-group" is bound to end poorly. Historically, the expansion of certain in-groups (e.g., "white" in the US encompassing the Irish, Italians, and for the most part light-skinned Jews, Arabs, etc.) has been tied to more firmly defining an out-group or responding to the presence of a new out-group.

I think we need to figure out how to make people comfortable with not having an out-group.

(And, to the article itself, we very much need people to make a conscious effort to get over their desires for in-groups or distaste for out-groups when making hiring or investment decisions.)
TD;DL: we discovered Higgs, but we don't know much about it because LHC doesn't give us enough resolution, and its exact properties are crucial for the future of the whole of theoretical physics. Therefore, even if we do not hope to discover new particles, there's motivation enough to build bigger colliders.
I think the fact, that most of the galaxy mass is in dust and gas clouds is the most important bit here I didn't know.
The experimental platforms that I am aware of that are been used to try and build quantum computers are based on condensed matter physics (superconducting junctions), atomic physics (trapped ions) or photons (quantum optics). None of this involves particle physics. The theoretical side of quantum computing, while a rich and deep field on its own, is an application of quantum mechanics and does not share any deep connection with particle physics.
Then what's up with the whole "directions" part?

In an answer to another comment you wrote:

> I'm requiring the users to make a leap from the title of the page 'Gif Directions' to uploading a video, which will become the directions.

Maybe you should clarify what you mean with "directions".
They are probably talking about freelance. Not mentioned was that the top 0.1% are ones that make 200 to 500k.

Also no mention of starting a testing business? No mention of cyber security jobs?
This is a messy workaround, but I just delete the container and create a new one with the same name.
Yeah, I think it was for zone transfers. It was pretty fun discovering 'private' hosts :-)
For a company? Absolutely not. In private? Probably not worth the effort, just skip the cert warning.
> The larger picture is that you can use PNG or SVG anywhere you need transparency, which are also better suited for the content that has transparency.

It is pretty common to have anime characters where you remove the background to use as reactions, and while you can use PNG in those cases it makes the images huge. WebP makes it ideal for those cases, this is even the case that I saw this being used in some image boards (specially also including animation, another thing that is popular).

Just because you can't think in a use case there isn't mean that there isn't a use case.
It's a tough question and I don't know the answer. I think the current trend of aggressively calling out micro-agressions is counter productive. In cases where there was no negative intent, it's easy to alienate the person who made the faux pas by implying or outright telling them they are racist. That makes them less likely to change behaviour in future. We need to take intent into account and response with education over policing when possible.
This is one place where Google's cloud platform is better in that it automatically applies continuous use discounts without the guessing games.
That's a shame, I had a happy few minutes remembering assembling binaries via debug.com which was the other way of creating files back then.
WINOS >> a work in progress since the 1980's
WINDEVS >> don't touch what is working unless your boss told you to do so.
WINUSERS >> don't update unless your boss tells you to do so if you have no boss don't update. REALITY >> you need two computers which can do the same work if one goes down.
I haven't heard about that yet. this sounds interesting indeed. But how would I get a valid certificate for a .local domain?
It's not just firing, however. The article discusses the case of the guy who owned the company, whose daughter (whom he employed) posted some bad stuff to Twitter years ago.

He fired his own daughter but this was insufficient: not only did virtually all his customers abandon him immediately but his landlord revoked his lease (how can a landlord do that? I have no idea).

So basically his entire business was destroyed overnight in response to something he didn't even do himself.

A lot of these firings are driven by fear of customer boycotts. And the customer boycotts are driven by fear of more boycotts/outrage/etc... it's a circle of destruction.
You can do it with JSON too. Various statically-typed languages do JSON parsing straight into structs all the time. (e.g. in the Rust ecosystem, Serde is the most popular implementation of this concept.)
That's because _patisserie_ is really a combination of processed ingredients (fruit is mostly decoration). Should my obese friend grind wheat into flour, turn milk into butter, juice sugar canes into sugar, he'd surely bake less and expend more calories doing it.
I'm surprised that's how it's called in English. It's very similar to how we called it in Portuguese. How is it pronounced?
Depends on them I guess. If it's a corporate phone then it's no problem. The rest can either add it or get used to cert warnings.
The cancellers can be cancelled; this very article is an example. Show the public the chain of events that occurred, show the victims, and show the identities of the cancellers and the mean-spiritedness and illogic involved. And show, like Obama did[0], that cancel-culture progressivism is not what the the American left stands for.

We can (we must!) turn the left against cancel culture if the left is to regain the moral high ground and the trust of the voters. And, ironically, we'll make more progress that way on the issues that progressives care about than by using their methods.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50239261
DO had one of the best ads, or a least one of the best targeted / positioned ads.

"You've been developing like a beast, and you app is ready to go live"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHZLCahai4Q
So, it’s important to treat them...the way you should treat everyone. True statement. I think you’ll need to elaborate further on what the philosophical and semantic difference is between ignoring and noticing, because the outcome is the same in your example.
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Just as systemic racism can occur in institutions, systemic bias can occur in the technology sector. Once momentum builds in a political direction, there becomes a cost associated with going against that grain. Over time it has built up to a breaking point where dissent from that bias effectively removes people from being able to participate.

I think it's not intellectually honest to believe systemic issues in one instance require intervention, but not in the other.
Do self-signed certs not work? Yes, you have to tell your browser to permanently accept them the first time you connect, but after that, they work.
France might be a bad example.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/19/17590302/t...
Here's my relevant anecdote:

I was working in a large telecoms company in Amsterdam when we had a problem with some hardware that needed fixed. Someone came over to fix it the next morning and after a few hours it still wasn't resolved. I then asked my colleague who had been with the technician if it was likely to get fixed soon.
He said something about how terrible the technician was and that got me confused as my colleague wasn't a hardware guy and I didn't quite know how he had assessed the technician. I pressed him a bit more and he said something like "you haven't seen him have you"? Which made me wonder - so is there something about this technician which will make it obvious on seeing him that he is bad?
No prizes for guessing the first thing I noticed about the man when I went down to the server room.....
Re "borderline racism", I think xenophobia is the term you're looking for.
TIL that this thing had a name. I used to clench my teeth unconsciously for around two years, until one day I broke a premolar. The reason was mostly anxiety, unhappiness, etc. I was aware of my mental state but completely unaware of the clenching. Surprisingly (or not) focusing on the clenching helped me relax my jaw as well as my mind. Kinda like what is taught in Vipassana ... just trying to be mindful of what the body is doing helped me get out. I still find myself clenching my jaw some times, but I quickly relax when I do.

EDIT: added a missing "body _is doing_"
Managed vs unmanaged anger can be the difference between a rationality clouding typhoon vs the faint smell of rain on the horizon. The deleterious effects of anger are avoidable, usually anyway, with some effort.