skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a real risk of complacency. Computer Science is for the most part quite a diverse community, both here in the UK and in the US, and I love that. But there are groups who are very underepresented. In my CS classes in London there are a wide range of ethnic and national backgrounds, but there are relatively few black students. This doesn't need to be self-perpetuating. We should take Ibrahim's comments seriously, and try to be more welcoming.
OAuth is perfectly valid as a standard for inter-API authentication but it is complicated. You'll also have to figure out separately how your oAuth clients manage the secrets they use to authenticate to the oAuth server to retrieve access tokens, and if encryption as well as authentication between the APIs is important to you, how to manage the keys to do so.

Take a look at https://spiffe.io/ which avoids these concerns focuses specifically for system to system authentication at scale.
I'm beginning to feel this fatigue also, is there anything you've discovered as an alternative? Am tempted to start just picking up a newspaper.
I hope the team is thinking of dusting of GitBook Editor too
Orcaa: Algorithmic Auditing
> They can be compared in terms of who dictates the model/is the leading source of truth.

You can also use introspection to keep the database as the source of truth for the model, and lean on the Prisma schema for type safety if you prefer.
PHP has opcode caching. Not that it invalidates your other points, but you're not hitting the disk once per file per request. Just once per file per deploy.
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What if they use error coding?

My pet theory for a while has been that they use point-to-point communications (lasers), rather than wasteful omnidirectional radio waves, so that you have to get very lucky in order to eavesdrop on them.
I can see why it is cause for alarm, and subsequently depression, but having been involved in the Environmentalist movement for nearly 15 years now its really about how this is addressed.

Looking at this in just a pragmatic perspective, the damage done is irreversible, what isn't is how we assess this moving forward. If you had leaks in your pipes its best to know before it causes rot or mold to your home, but not knowing it until it all happened at once isn't any better, either.

We have a choice on how we address this, and to be honest we should build our Global Economies on that, especially since its so dire, but also because we've exceeded the benefit of perpetual and endless growth of consumer driven business models.

We have a large segment of people who will no longer have jobs moving forward all over the World and if we use this as an opportunity and see we have the Human Capital as well as the Financial incentive to try and create sustainable models to ensure we try and slow down and ultimately reverse this. The truth is we have ways to recapture greenhouse gasses and have proven models to utilize waste products from manufacturing processes [1], its just that in our pursuit to makes things as cheaply as possible the externalties to get there were always hidden in order to be able to compete in the Market.

It has always shocked me how an endless amount of money exists to prop up a broken financial system (specifically banks and fiat currencies) that eventually lead to environmental destruction, at least now we have an ability to usher in a new value system and paradigm that re-connects us with our Environment and our Communities, something that I think has led to wide spread depression as we've seen with this COVID lockdown/social distancing.

1: https://www.thermaltech.com/codeless_portfolio/biogas-reclam...
Or maybe it is blocking more aggressively. The site works fine for me even with both uBO and Firefox's tracking protection enabled
How is the Palm Phone? What do you like and dislike?
Exactly. If you wanted to get someone's attention, you make your signal something that would standout from all of the background noise. If someone send a RCPT signal back, then you could consider sending a more complicated signal.
still today, most of our civilization lives on the coast. The coast lines and ocean levels have changed significantly over the last 100million years. whole regions, such as where England used to be connected to mainland Europe, were just submerged.
I have a Palm Phone.

>OS

You are indeed stuck on 8.1. Android devices all seem to have this problem because Google can't figure out how to let users control the OS, unlike what every other OS developer (even GNU/Linux) has done. You just have to hope you get stuck on a version that is tolerable (or continuously buy new phones?).

>Face Unlock

It is not the only method. You can lock and unlock it like a regular Android device. I've never used face unlock before.

>The size

It's fantastic.

>GPS

It would definitely not last you a 12 hour bikeride.
Chattanooga's EPB - 300mbps up/down 57.99, 1Gps up/down 67.99 10Gps up/down 299.00

https://epb.com/home-store/internet

https://www.reddit.com/r/Chattanooga/comments/hfeu38/epb_rep...
Minimalists sometimes need Google maps
> cache coherent

What do you mean by this?
Cheers!

> How do you verify a dependency? Do you literally examine the source code?

Yeah. It's part of the overhead of using the software. You also look at the history of bugs and how they were handled.

> It's pretty common for JS projects to have thousands of transitive dependencies

Yeah, I know, and it's bonkers IMO.

> The entire open-source ecosystem is built on the foundation of trust

In practice, yes, but in theory, no. The whole idea is that you get to see the code you're running, because the guys who wrote it are clowns. Free Software started when RMS wanted to fix his printer and Xerox said, "No."

> if I use a package that's being used by 500 other packages, I can have a high degree of certainty that the package is safe

I think history has shown that that reasoning is at best probabilistic, eh? You're gambling.

Now, of course, there are limits. Some things get a pass. Do we audit the source of the bash shell? No, despite the fact that it's maintained by a single volunteer.

> Anyway maybe I'll look into the dependency portfolio, see how it goes.

Check out that "Hollywood Secrects" book I mentioned.
The SPIFFE JWT-SVID standard attempts this, although for a specific context: https://github.com/spiffe/spiffe/blob/master/standards/JWT-S...
Interesting. My own speculation had been that giving Substack creators their own domains wouldn't necessarily be in the creators' interest as a group, because of things like e.g. Apple's policy with respect to blocking third-party cookies. Keeping everything on substack.com means there's less friction when a user signs up for their second (or N + 1th) newsletter, which surely implies more revenue for creators in the aggregate.
I had considered buying the 15 inch XPS to replace my Thinkpad X1C (6th gen). I really need 32 Gigs to run kubernetes and compile GraalVM images locally. But the latest XPS 15 has the RAM soldered to the board. This means if I want 32 Gigs, I have to pony up the premium price. They do have a Precision that is basically the same specs that DOES allow upgrading the RAM. The biggest problem is, Dell's website has the option to remove Windows and add Ubuntu... but you can't add it to the cart. It complains that McAffe won't fun on my OS of choice... and I can't remove McAffe! That pretty much stopped me right there.
Because your grandma gave a lot of rides? ... /s
(But, where does such a phrase come from? The implication is not flattering.)
Also, the concept described is a common one in the scifi genre, see Arthur C. Clarke or Ian M. Banks. I believe they are known to a few of the people that read HN. It is hardly comparable to the anti-vaccine movement.
The "excess deaths" number is the hardest to fake, because it doesn't rely on classification.
I agree, they used to have a configuration page where you built up your PC,now you get to scan through what they offer as canned configurations. I totally dislike it, especially since they have different sections and you have to go to each a scan for the config your looking for (and the price of course).
I can give you the example of France, my country where they are illegal, this is a relevant legislative text: https://www.cnil.fr/fr/la-loi-informatique-et-libertes#artic...

Translated with google: "It is prohibited to process personal data which reveal alleged racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs or the trade union membership of a natural person or to process genetic data, personal data biometric for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, health data or data concerning the sexual life or sexual orientation of a natural person."
Pandemic-Proofing the Planet
There's something on Wikipedia about how maybe all black holes are basically a ball of subatomic stuff, termed a "fuzzball", with a diameter equal to where escape velocity reaches c. This appeals to me, because falling past an event horizon, let alone reaching a singularity, seems like it can't be physical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzball_(string_theory)
The cryptocurrency startups trying to save Argentina from itself (2019)
Isn't that the same as being logged in with a user account, vs. an admin account?
I'd love to hear about the long list of issues that require updating on Mac. I have many old Macs and I've never seen an issue that require updating other than new software (especially from the App Store) requiring a newer OS or the inconvenience that Safari updates are tied to OS updates.

The idea that Mac is unstable and requires a lot of updates and reboots to just function is news to me...
On my games machine, yup. Generally works a treat. On the Win 7 era laptop used as a web browser by parents though? The same updates take several hours (slow spinning rust). So that machine is likely being replaced by a Chromebook in the near future, as a Windows replacement is looking at least double the cost for enough hardware to avoid the update problems.
They appear to just be green on the bottom, yellow in the middle, and blue on the top.

Such that it might be plausible for outdoor scenery, but useless otherwise.
I live in the UK and my family lives in Czech Republic and they've been way more organised than the UK from day 1.

There is no shortage of testing capacity in CZ, I just had a coronavirus test for £60 and got results immediately.

The country closed borders while UK government was busy squabbling. They have masks avaliable in vending machines, post offices, and many other places throughout the city. Wearing masks was mandatory for months, hand sanitiser is avaliable in every public building i've been to.

In London noone wears masks in supermarket except asians. In theory you are suppose to wear one on public transport but compliance is like 10%, and seems to be lowest amongst white folks, god knows why. In Czech I have not seen a single person without a mask on public transport.

Sonetines money cant save you, but being organised can.
Well, he didn't die, so he wasn't counted on the death tally? But if he did, he would. This is not complicated.
Easily the best Android device I've ever had. Just wrote up a description here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23661964
Common Web Developer Interview Questions...
Linux Mint 20 “Ulyana” released
Lots of excellent introductory sources here, but I was hoping for papers!
I’m Leaving Seattle for Texas So My Employees Can Be Free
I had some really horrible habits and distractions with my phone. Anytime that I should be focused on someone else or something else, I leave my phone at home - or in these days in another room since we don’t go out and just have my Apple Watch on me.
I think this is right.

> whose bias your are familiar with I
This is fair, but there is a positive version which is "whose worldview you understand, and find interesting/valuable"

Every person and organization comes with some kind of bias - even if part of that bias is "try to be clear eyed and tell the truth".

The advantage of subscribing directly to writers is that you get to choose explicitly who you want to trust, and having done so the writers' incentive is to keep that trust.

As a writer, you get to make your own bet about what work is important, you get paid in proportion to the value you create, and only your readers can fire you.
Estimated costs for exposure notification server hosting per Google
Jwt works in this case... You issue a key to a known user.. In this case you create an API user (doesn't have to exist in a backing store) and set the expiration to a super short duration and validate it on the other end... You can also use this for API testing in unit/integration tests
Wave Hunting: good problem selection is a force multiplier on effort
Awesome, well done
> I look forward to the April 1st version of this tool.

It would lint every appearance of a ‘<?php’ token with the message ‘you wrote your code in a crappy language’.
Not yet indeed. Prisma doesn't support long running transactions and advocates for alternative ways. We're preparing a post on the topic soon, and will improve the means for those alternatives.
The whole concept is to have a defined plan, it is absolutely ok to not achieve KRs, what matters is you have motivation in working towards it. You have the ability to actually track it.

If you don't set a goal, you might just procastinate over it.

> Consider: the author has set himself to read 20 books per year. Suppose this is double of his standard. What he will do to fulfill his OKR? He's not going to choose a difficult read such as Ulysses, or an existential crisis inducing book such as Crime and Punishment, he will go for what is more superficial and easier to read, because his goal is not to be transformed by what he reads, his goal is to read 20 books.

- It is okay to read 10 books or X number of pages. Now, you actually started reading right! One's aim should not be to complete the KR for the sake of completion, but rather pushing yourself to do more, slowly improvements will be visible.
Northern Ireland to launch separate contact-tracing app
NASA's Lunar Loo Challenge
This is a terrible captcha. I am a human and have sailed significantly and failed the captcha a few times and it frustrated me enough to not want to be on your site anymore.
If it's periodic, it's something orbiting something.

If it's powerful enough to be seen 500 million ly away, one of the two orbiting objects is going to be a black hole.
And presumably all gone by now
The full price is a ripoff, but you can buy them refurbished on Amazon for cheap.
I was pleasantly surprised last time I stayed in Chattanooga ;).

I was flying a private airplane (am a pilot) and the monthly GIS database updates and PNG map tiles required to fly with an app rather than paper maps go well into the tens of gigs, which is usually quite painful on hotel wifi.

I set the update going on my iPad one night in the hotel before going to bed, took a shower, and was pleasantly surprised after coming out of the bathroom a few minutes later to see that it was done!

Proof that private ownership of infrastructure is bullshit, and utilities (including internet lines) should not be owned by profit-seeking organizations.
This is a pretty big assumption? Humans use periodic beacons, too.

In this case, I think it is most likely an astronomical object and not an artificial signal. Either way, it's interesting to see how we project ourselves on the extraterrestrial and the assumptions we make on aliens' behalf. There's a great book that came out last year, Extraterrestrial Languages[0] that covers this phenomenon in-depth as well as the "universal" methods some researchers devised in creating languages for transmissions. (it gets very technical! Highly rec'd for PL nerds)

0 https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/extraterrestrial-languages
Zuckerberg Loses $7B as More Firms Boycott Facebook Ads
I only use Facebook as an ICQ substitute and for a couple hobby groups, for these kinds of reasons. Sanity: Not found.
I keep wondering if the gas industry will turn on the major leakers- they give everybody else a bad name, and perhaps if the public focuses on the major leakers, producers who are doing a good job can then avoid scrutiny & regulation altogether. Doesn't seem to have happened yet though.
“Kindly find me one startup that has gone on to have a successful exit that has publicly stated "We took funding from US SBIR and it really made a difference"“

There are a lot of them in the DC area. You just don’t hear much about them.
I actually spent a couple of days trying to preserve the Win install so I could dual-boot in case I wanted to test my code under Windows or play games, but I finally got tired of f&cking around and gave up.

I have no interest in running Windows day to day. I live in Emacs, the CLI, and Common Lisp, all of which work best in a Unix-based OS. So it's MacOS or Linux. Plus I'd heard too many horror stories of how difficult it was to turn off all the Microsoft spyware, advertising, and no-choice updates to ever consider Windows seriously.

This was a couple of years ago before WLS was production quality. I might try again if I was doing it today, but only if I could turn off all the Microsoft daemons. Even so, I still find it philosophically distasteful to have to engage in technological warfare against my operating system just to stop it spying on me.
The trouble is, the US is still in an earlier phase. Compare the shape of the curve in the US (sharp rise, flatline, sharp rise) to the standard rise-fall shape seen in most European countries.
This is something I've given a lot of thought about in the past few months. I almost bought one of these palm phones but ultimately the drawbacks mentioned here and on reviews sort of dissuaded me from getting one. Your smart pocket watch reminds me of the runcible, which was really cool and I wish I had gotten one but didn't have the funds at the time.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/runcible-circular-open-so...
Facebook AI: NetHack Learning Environment
You don't have to be within "arms range" of a police officer for them to shoot you if you have a knife. It's generally accepted that someone with a knife is a deadly threat at about 20 feet or so away, as it takes a little over a second for them to cross that distance. In that video, the man who was shot clearly drew a large knife and turned towards the officers before they started firing.
> Since it hasn't come up yet: whenever a new astronomical phenomenon is detected, people think "Aliens!" as the reason.

Same thing with UFOs, despite the fact that there's been decades of R&D into weaponizing and developing novel UAVs.
I agree with this. Taking on a "UI overhaul" of something folks don't see as a problem is just inviting them to try other tools. A lot of devs love using Github already - why up-end them?
I think the more important AI becomes in guiding robotic hardware, the more America will gain a competitive advantage in manufacturing. At the very least America would be able to eat Germany’s lunch. I also believe that America will ultimately “win” the AI race against Asian countries, but many here may disagree with that.
Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea
Oh, I know. I would love to see even taller displays make their way to workstation computers.
It's not only in climated related news but I understand the feeling. This is how science works: we know a bit about something, we improve data collection, we reasses the problem... in an infinite loop. If the new data shows the reality is worse, then it is worse. On the other hand, consider the famous comparison of photos taken of Pluto over the years: things got clearer, with more resolution, so we can rationalize with a better understanding of it... than previously thought.
That looks great, but this early review suggestS they skimped on the battery again:

https://knowtechie.com/?p=122471

If so, that’s too bad. I’d like one as my daily driver, but it sounds like it won’t cut it. I wonder if it could be underclocked or something.

Why can’t they make it even thicker?
For anyone looking for another alternative for a minimalist phone, I’ve been following this for a while:

https://mudita.com/products/pure/
Groove Pizza
Saw a similar article about the same thing on hn a few weeks ago. It pointed out this is actually a good thing. This was leaking before and being factored in to calculations but now we know where it is coming from and it turns out it isn't going to require insande lifestyle changes or crazy new tax schemes to cap this portion of methane emissions instead we can just retrofit the gas and oil infrastructure, which is a lot less radical than other things we might have to do.

Of course nothing the west does will make much of a difference as long as China keeps escalating it's emissions.
I think there’s a strong argument that that isn’t a separate wave at all. The first wave is ending in NY and NJ, but it’s still on the upswing in many other states. Add those together and it looks a bit like two waves, but that’s not a helpful way to think about it.
They are not going to do a batch with 3000 companies. They are saying all in all this will allow them to fund more companies over the coming years - " In the coming years, this will enable us to fund as many as 3000 more companies".
This is really the best possible answer. you just did the root cause analysis for them too (you should send them an invoice).

Nothing new, in a way: cut the spending on IT, lower quality, get incidents.

Meh.
What? By all accounts, Manning was the source of the leak.
That, again, is a result of measuring the wrong thing. The measurement should be "relationship strength" or "spouse/child happiness" not "time spent".

The problem that most of us seem to have is that we're only tracking easy things to measure. Everything valuable is difficult to measure.

Reading a book is worthless. The purpose of reading a book is to gain something (learn something, read faster, practice public speaking, etc.). That's what we should be tracking.
Why would an advanced intelligence advertise its location?

It is a high-risk low-reward strategy.
Isn't Vietnam too small to be a real competitor to China?

I also had the feeling that Vietnam would be more of a redirection for "Made in China", only with the Vietnam label stamped on.

I think the only real competitor would be India. But I could be wrong ofc. Feel free to argument.
Actually the headlines are painful to look at - they should not be adjusted to the column’s width like they are.
eh, there's no free lunch.