skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew a guy who knew a guy who decided to get revenge for some stupid perceived offense on a MUD.

This guy had the patience to put a time bomb onto their system and not trigger it until it was on all of the backups. How does someone have the patience to do something like that and yet do something so petty when they have a month to think about it? The older I get the less sense it makes, and it didn’t make much sense even then.

Years later another person did a similar thing to a different victim, hacked the kernel on the machine to clone all conversations. Published them, and then published the new conversations after the admins restored from the tainted backups. Surprise, motherfuckers!

Both sites went offline for months.

It’s easier for me to imaging doing something like this on a fishing expedition. You’re gonna try with a dozen potential victims and then enjoy the two who get bit the hardest. Vendetta is also possible, but more fanciful and can often be mitigated by not being an asshole in the first place. Also motive? Easier to catch a jilted lover than a serial killer.

In part because of these experiences, I had been known from time to time to keep a secret cold backup of the 10% of our assets that would be hardest to replace. But if that were ever stolen? Oof. I’d be fired so fast they’d throw my belongings out the window, so I stopped at some point. Git provides a little bit of that now anyway.
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Likewise. Termux is the killer feature for me. This needs to wait a year or two so a FLOSS phone is ready for daily driving D-:
I'm often confused as to how many people really have a potential future where they become motivated long term participants, but a few bumpy roads at the onset turn them off. And I don't just mean in kernel development, learning the guitar isn't fun either.

Who gets into software as a profession, and then lets a bad UI turn them away from a project? When so much of the valuable skillset in programming is understanding and navigating a possibility space where the UI isn't built yet? (And I'm sure some kernel contributors would argue it's more _unusual_ than actively _worse_).

I know this paints me as old and out of touch. I know this. But I think it still applies. When I look at my interns, the good developers tend not to be the ones tripped up by onboarding to systems and workflows that aren't exactly like the trendy development tools or what they saw in school.
Before Google acquihired my team I ended up jumping ship to a NY based company from the Toronto startup I was at. Difference in culture was night and day.

With the increase in remote work availability I'd probably hunt for work from US companies at this point rather than beg for crumbs from Canadian startups.
Ask HN: Do you use any plain text calendar strategies/solutions?
I recently switched over to using todo.txt as well as plain text accounting. I have my text files synced across my devices using Syncthing; I edit with Vim on my computer and Simpletask on my phone. But I am dissatisfied with my calendar and I wonder if anyone has tried approaching the calendar in the same was as todo.txt or PTA. Thank you & Namaste
For the everyday developer messing with data, there are some nice concepts to know.

I'm talking super basic like when is it useful to transpose a dataset, to apply some function, then transpose back?

Being congnizant of the data-shape is something that comes as a side effect of studying linalg and matrices.

Just recognizing things like that will be the most value add unless you get into some domain specific requirements (games/engineering software).
For those interested in how Apple's current iPhone chip fares against Qualcomm without the active cooling found in the Dev Kit:

A13 Big Cores:

>In the mobile space, there’s really no competition as the A13 posts almost double the performance of the next best non-Apple SoC.

Last year I’ve noted that the A12 was margins off the best desktop CPU cores. This year, the A13 has essentially matched best that AMD and Intel have to offer – in SPECint2006 at least. In SPECfp2006 the A13 is still roughly 15% behind.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro...

A13 Little Cores:

>In the face-off against a Cortex-A55 implementation such as on the Snapdragon 855, the new Thunder cores represent a 2.5-3x performance lead while at the same time using less than half the energy.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro...

A13 GPU:

The differences to Qualcomm’s Adreno architecture are now so big that even the newest Snapdragon 865 peak performance isn’t able to match Apple’s sustained performance figures. It’s no longer that Apple just leads in CPU, they are now also massively leading in GPU.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15246/anandtech-year-in-revie...
Heisenberg (1958): "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."
I know it was Google's goal to be able to deliver advertising to viewers at a zip code or even personal level. Are they actually achieving that with Google TV? I imagine the CPM on those ads are far, far higher than typical local TV ads... why the higher fees?
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My personal experience strongly says so as well. Been a very employee at two different companies - at least one made an “exit” - only the founder made any money at all. I took a deep pay cut for two years.
I'm a Bitcoin skeptic, and much of my skepticism is around the practicality of use for day-to-day transactions. Seeing low fees is very encouraging to me - the last I had checked, fees were in the several to many dollars range.

Now if they can hammer out the volatility, figure out a simple UX, encourage adoption at most places of business, and increase trust in exchanges for USD conversions, I'm on board.
You get your money back up to the CDIC insured limit which is $100k right?

Canada’s banking industry avoided the Great Recession only because Canada did not have a housing market reset. Prices continued upward unabated, along with household debt which is now among the highest in the world. They kicked the can down the road, but didn’t avoid the issue permanently.
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It would be completely straightforward to do the work you describe. Presumably numerous private actors have already done it for themselves. Until someone does this work and shares it with the public, we'll all have to wonder how valuable it would really be... anyway, it's unreasonable to expect the npm people to do this work on top of everything else they do.
Yup! Essentially a premium "social reading" experience. Sounds kinda like marketing speak but it really is both a reading app and a social network that's powered by the reading activity of its members. The idea of having half of your subscription allocated to tipping the writers of the articles you've completed is also an incentive for readers (a powerful one based on the user surveys we've done).

I really appreciate the honest feedback. Also sorry for kind of blowing up this thread with all my replies but I'm pleasantly surprised that some other people were interested in checking it out and asking questions as well!
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> How do we make this better?

I do believe that a great library (package) is either self contained (e.g. lodash, moment, etc.) or has a minimum number of dependencies on other such libraries.

I think we can think of dependencies as adding to the code size and code complexity of the library which uses them, and then derive the quality of said library from those metrics.

JavaScript is great for writing code which can do a lot, and writing it fast, and I think this power shouldn't be misused to manufacture a lot of small libraries with a lot of dependencies. Perhaps we should use something like Github Gists or Stack Overflow answers for that.

This why I am personally gravitating towards Deno (https://deno.land/) now -- it has a nice set of base APIs and modules, and it allow me to pull a self-contained library straight from the CDN.
I’m not sure what’s more depressing... that some people are surprised by findings like this or that some people believe laws are moral.
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I've tried! I keep SIP off anyway, so it's certainly possible, but Apple neglected to actually give us a mechanism for turning off TCC, and I'm not an OS developer. There isn't a boot flag, or a process you can disable, or anything like that.
That's TERRIBLE news for The Great Lakes:

https://greatlakes.org/2019/08/new-study-finds-asian-carp-th...

People are fighting like hell to keep Asian carp out of the lakes, this makes me think it's an impossible fight.
Vs code can do that?
How much faster is vanilla DOM API calls compared to all other transient DOM API abstraction libraries?
> Judge Les Hayes once sentenced a single mother to 496 days behind bars for failing to pay traffic tickets. The sentence was so stiff it exceeded the jail time Alabama allows for negligent homicide.

> Johnson’s three children were cast into foster care while she was incarcerated. One daughter was molested, state records show. Another was physically abused.

Speechless... Makes my blood boil
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The stakes in pro sports are just as arbitrary and "imaginary" as in games... I know a lot of people who care more about their standing in a guild than in real life. At the end of the day it's still playing out in the brain just as real as any other competition.
The FCC designates Huawei and ZTE as US national security threats
Yes, AMD as a power hog or a space heater is just a weird assumption people make based upon some old chips. It hasn't really been true for any of the Zen architecture chips.
I don't think all these whores were concerned about it.
As the other guys said.
And it is not just that.
Chrome is, considering it's architecture and purpose, a minion in a botnet, working for google to harvest data.
They even got a lawsuit pending because they were even tracking users in privacy mode.
This stuff cannot happen with IE, or FF.
Brave, Vivaldi, I dunno, don't use them, but I am weary that they are using the same rendering-engine (and soon Redmond as well) (well depends where the G-men(what a pun) put their mischiveous code in).
Because it is a pipedream to expect a privacy-compatible product from a company that build it's empire on mining the users data to the bit.
Tape makes more sense at higher volumes and more difficult retention needs. Even then, as disk sizes crossed the TB boundary, VTL and S3 made many of these use cases difficult to justify tape investments.

Early in my career, I worked at a place that had to retain certain records for up to 100 years. At the time (circa 1999), they had a big tape silo solution that probably cost something like $10M/year (or more) to own and staff. Today, capacity for "cool" data is essentially unlimited and near-free. You could host all of that data on a small device locally (if needed), and retain the data (and outsource the engineering for long term retention) in one or more cloud services for <$100k/year>.
"The First" series on Hulu reminded me of this in terms of the glasses technology they use quite frequently but coupled nicely with voice and gestures. I was watching this yesterday then saw this thinking this could be just around the corner. Maybe Apple is doing something similar?
IIRC there was a time Yahoo bought search-default rights, for the US at least. So it's not guaranteed that Google will always have influence over Mozilla.
No OP, but I fall into the camp that can draw/sculpt/paint/etc what my mind's eye produces. I'm not as good a sculptor as a painter, but I can generally paint a face/landscape/car/etc that my brain is seeing, at least to a degree that I am satisfied with. Paintings take a long time to get 'good'.

Getting better at drawing and creating takes time and practice. I'd go on youtube to take a look at how to get better quickly, there's a lot of good people on YT that are happy to share and teach.

One good 'cheat' is to use a camera lumisia or a reference mirror to see how light interacts with your media directly: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/11/vermeer-secret-to...

I'm likely an outlier though, as I'm a synesthete and my senses get a bit mixed up from time to time. So take that into account.
Why not? It's an interesting point that he was a Boy Scout, an organization whose statement is "to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes", and he went on to be a terrible human being.
> apps can't simply access the "external" storage (enforces scoped storage)

So how will perfectly valid use cases like file manager or backup manager work now?
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I used that once, successfully. Then I reconfigured my system and uninstalled a particular input method, and the app refuses to run without it. So my comment was about the in-browser version. I know they all use the same browser APIs, so it's interesting that some work well but Zoom won’t work at all.
Don't start with the tools for implementation of creation. Find a problem you are deeply passionate about solving or improving. Then figure out the best way to approach it based on your current understanding, and then iterate and evolve.

My history was:

- Stock Market / tradebot (unfinished)

- PhD work to find math formula in big data to help scientists

- SpotJams, Hans together for music (real human contact in a digitally divided world)

- Hofstadter, current, helping people realize their ideas through software, aka dev tools / low code

- on/off line predators and groomers because I recently found out someone very very dear to me is one of many dozens of victims of a man still walking the streets freely. And likely by extension and generality, child abduction and human trafficking.

As you might see, the motivations and inspirations have evolved into aspirational goals to the point I don't care what it takes to fix it, it just needs to be done!

Also AR/XR because I recently picked up the Hololens 2 and it's the bee's knees
It looks like apps can spy as much as they want and that it has little implications for the perpetrators... "ooops sorry! now let's carry on"
Please elaborate on why people should be allowed to steal the work of others.
if you accept the premise that tiktok is collecting data for the chinese government, then anyone using the app would indeed be an asset
Coming soon. The Magic Leap auction. https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/22/21231236/magic-leap-ar-he...
Oh god another thing to cringe about in the future! Make it stop!
If curious see also (from 2017): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16013179
This is why I'm always confused my privacy arguments. When someone says that they want privacy the responses go like:

reference Goebbels: "I have nothing to hide, so I'm not worried"

Downplay: "They only read my emails and everything I write to sell me stuff better. Sometimes I need stuff. They're helping me!" As if it can only be used to sell and nothing else.

World revolves around self: "Well ads don't affect me." Like it doesn't matter that everyone else is affected even if you aren't.

Completely ignoring the fact that if someone can manipulate you to buy stuff they might be able to use it to manipulate you do do other things. I mean we have political ads. And Coke ads aren't there to sell you coke (they are there to make you feel better about your purchase). Frankly, to me it doesn't even matter if no one has done that yet (I'm aware of the clear evidence that people have) but that we're giving people the ability to do this in mass and in very precise ways. That just leads to a potential turn in democracy. "Just educating people" doesn't solve the problem either. Ads are still effective on smart people. So the question is "are the benefits ~~profits~~ worth the cost?" It is reasonable to think "yes", but I'm a resounding "no."

Yes, we use political ads to "manipulate democracy" and the like, but a mass statewide commercial is a very different thing than an individualized ad targeted to a specific person. At least to me these are very different (and we still have regulations on what you can say in political ads). Where do we draw the line? We talk about data a lot here and what we can model with it. What will ads look like in 20-50 years if we don't draw a line in privacy and technology continues to become more powerful? I think individualized ads will look very different. We do need to determine what level of individualization we can target with an ad, and I don't see much of that happening.
As a lover of Tcl (https://web.archive.org/web/20200615130120/http://antirez.co...), I'm surprised you're using ruby and not something Tcl-based with its built-in concurrency
Read their argument in the context of legal proceedings after the defendant pleads guilty

The lawyer is still on the right side of the law after the plea
According to IRC rumors, automatic updates are delayed for a bit after the release is announced. Not sure if this is due to CDN replication or some other issue. At any rate, you can get the update faster by downloading and installing it manually.
This is how you backup the Internet Archive: https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE....
If they do that, I wonder whether it would make sense for Apple to get into the ARM server CPU business while they'are at it.

Currently, the Intel Xeon is used in both high-end workstations and servers. If one x86 design can be suitable for both of those, presumably one ARM design could do the same.

If they could sell server CPUs at a profit, then Apple could get more return on its design investment by getting into two markets. And they'd get more volume. Though apparently they'd be facing competition from Ampere and Amazon's Graviton.
I suspect that this will significantly cut down on the JavaScript needed to make websites feel more like a mobile app. I've had to add more complexity to the social network I'm building to make the web experience feel fluid. I'm also implementing a no-JavaScript subdomain of the website for people who hate bloat also.
This makes my head boil.

The Bay Area can also build more of those schools and infrastructure as well. There are so many metro areas, probably hundreds, that have done it before. It’s entirely a political problem. I always hear the NIMBYs complaining about these made up problems and other people choosing to live in “shoebox apartments” as if they’re real problems and not simply them imposing restrictions on everyone else
When the December 2014 git vulnerability was disclosed to git maintainers (I can't find the CVE number now, but this was the github blog about it: https://github.blog/2014-12-18-vulnerability-announced-updat..., and this was the hn discuss then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8769667, tl;dr is git only checked and protected all lower-case .git directory from overwritten by clone/checkouts, which will becomes tricky when it's used on case-insensitive fs), they contacted both Microsoft and Apple to make sure that they fixed all the corner cases of their case-insensitive file systems. Microsoft was very cooperative at the time, pulled in someone from NT kernel team to make sure that the fix covered all the corner cases; Apple, on the other hand, didn't response. Even after the patched version of git is released, Apple didn't do a hot release of Xcode tool (which is how they distribute git officially on Apple's systems). They only included the fix on their next scheduled beta release of Xcode.
It's nice that they have an easy opt-out system. But this is kind of like spammers who have easy opt-out... better than nothing, but I shouldn't be getting spammed in the first place.
> You don’t get to give out free digital copies of books to people without permission and expect to get away with it.

As hard as big content producers try to make copyright synonym to "property", it's not and it never was. Why? Because ideas can't be copyrighted and all ideas are remixed. Nothing is 100% original. NOTHING.

Not to mention copyright used to apply for only 14 years. But corporations, which have bought just about everything else in the government, have also bought copyright laws that now last life + 70 years. And they keep trying to extend it all the time.

Relevant: https://www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series
Hows it compare with a real world example like Cinebench rather than "Geekbench" scores which never seems to actually correlate to the real world?
It's not so bad. I'd gladdly take a 33% pay cut to save over a million dollars on a house. Plus many of your other COL will be half too. Plus, you'll pay less in taxes too. Earning a decent income in a high COL area can be quite punitive.
Hackers ransom California university’s academic data for Bitcoin
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It's possible that over the long term it could be backed up via torrents. However, in the short term the only way to save the archive is for IA to sell it. I hope they swallow their pride and do so.
I shared your concerns prior to trying Big Sur, but in practice I'm somewhat shocked by how much I like it. Big Sur is very snappy on my aging 2015 Macbook Air, and I've encountered far fewer bugs than I'd expect in an initial developer preview, which bodes well for the final release.

I like the visuals too, at least compared to Yosemite-era; Leopard-era still wins out overall. Using the OS has made me feel much better about the Mac as a platform, although I'm certainly still nervous.
Isn't that the definition of separated? If you want to edit content or markup, you open the HTML file. If you want to edit business logic, open PHP or JS. And so on.
The more direct control people have of a metric, the more likely it is to be gamed. Some metrics are almost guaranteed to be meaningless and unproductive: bug counts (open/closed), lines of code, closed tickets.

Other metrics are informative, but game-able: fuel efficiency, crash tests.

Other metrics are expensive and potentially confusing: customer satisfaction, number of automotive deaths, CO2 levels, pollution levels.

If you are measuring a game-able metric, you should probably also measure a higher level metric and make sure that they are both heading in the same direction.

Obviously this is expensive and complicated to figure out.
I assume it means "per million hours of living." (Though I guess it could be "per million hours of living in a residence")
If I ever find a baby trapped at the bottom of a dry well, I'm not going to help until I know whether or not the legacy of slavery had a role in it. If yes, I'll help. If it's just an unlucky white baby, it's on its own.
Hobby Performance Computing.
I have to write a lot of technical reports and I really dislike writing. Writing first thing in the morning is the only way I can be productive with it.
Did they get the runtime size down?
Crash test dummies have basically this problem also. They're designed for realism in certain very narrow ways, and then the very small number of approved dummies are used for testing car safety.

The industry has made a bit of progress, surprisingly unprompted by regulations - female and child dummies came into circulation before they were required in tests. But overall, testing is still run against a tiny handful of body types which move 'realistically' in only a few regulation-guided respects.