skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely fair points, thanks for taking the time to clarify your intent and meaning in your previous comments. I also understand and get the points about ignorance vs malice and it not mattering which is present wrt a security tool to be used by others. I admit I’m not a cryptography “expert” in that I couldn’t regurgitate low level details for any industry standard algo, although I do like the think so know what should be used and when (for the most part).

If nothing else I’m smarter and know a little more about what I didn’t know (and still don’t) which I find a ton of value in. Hopefully I’m slowly ridding the world of my contribution to the “ignorance” category you mention above which I admit to have been in wrt developing a secure password manager, but either way I enjoyed learning along the way.
It's largely a co-dependent relationship at this point, the advanced economies are as dependent on Chinese goods as China is on foreign currency, meanwhile China is actively developing future foreign currency revenue streams through long-term investment in developing economies.
I would like to see some evidence to back this claim.
CC info was always selling for similar amounts. People who can steal CC info by hacking into e-commerce websites don't necessarily have skills, connections or resources to extract the money from those accounts. Imagine you get a list of 10K credit cards. What would you do? Buy stuff on Amazon? Maybe try to setup some shady payment processing that'd take card details and transfer to your bank account? Where would you open a bank account that wouldn't be triggered after you've done 25th payment and so on. I could probably teach myself how to hack websites but I'm not sure I'd have skills to find a corrupt banker who can sort out an account for me with no questions asked.
Hi HN. primo is an IDECMSCLSSG (short for IDE, CMS, Component Library, Static Site Generator) I’ve been working on for a few months. The idea came from wanting to host a Notion page at a domain name and not being able to. Once I made the initial version - a basic text editor - the rest of the features just came naturally (except for the SSG, which came from not wanting to deal with hosting).

I’d written off freelance web development a couple years ago after yet another spontaneously-combusting WordPress project, but primo’s enabled me to get back into it and it’s been A+ so far. primo kind of looks like a page builder, but it’s totally the opposite - instead of abstracting away the code it makes it more accessible.

It’s free forever, and I’ll be open-sourcing it soon (built in Svelte - beautiful framework). Ideas & critiques super appreciated.

Cheers
I'm from India and currently live in outskirts of a city. I'm living in a rented place, otherwise my expenses (currently about $150 per month) would be even lesser. I also employ a maid for cleaning/washing purposes. $150 translates to more than Rs.10000 and that puts me above the average income in my country.
One possible use is to prevent the standard right click menu from showing on desktop so that a custom right click menu can be shown instead.
I'm local, born here.

The money (500-600 EUR per day) I get here locally is very much an outlier. I've heard only of a few other people who make that much, and they're all in my area of specialty (big data - meaning Spark, Hadoop etc. - on important projects for huge corps). So I wouldn't really count on someone just off the plane being able to land such a deal. Half of that is not too hard to get though for a techlead or a good senior in a hot field or perhaps even just in Java for a big (=difficult) backend project. Also, importantly, if you work as a contractor, the taxes are just 19%, which is amazing compared to most western countries.

Poland is by far the biggest market in the region (and Warsaw is by far biggest market in Poland, but Krakow, Wroclaw, Gdansk and Poznan are also viable) and I'd recommend moving here if you're eyeing EE. However, the really good deals here are all in contracting (you simultaneously get higher rates AND lower taxes) and I don't know how that works with visas and if it's even doable... Sorry, I just haven't met any non-EU foreigner here on a contract yet.
you start working through an established escrow service, and gain positive feedback on darknet platforms.
You can also do what above-ground companies do and promote yourself via ads, branding and so forth. At the very least that signals you've invested serious money into your image and are therefore unlikely to disappear overnight.
There is science the method, epistemology, etc. There is science, the human institution. The epistemology of science is pretty solid, but in our interaction and understanding of science as people we tend to struggle keeping these separate.

For example: science_the_epsitomologist can only make statements about the scientific nature of a theory, experiment or such. An untestable theory is unscientific. Many experiments can be unscientific.

IRL we want to make wider judgements. Is economics a science? That's not something the Science can properly comment on. A field is not a unit that is scientific or unscientific, strictly. Only specific things economists do or say can get that designation.

This isn't just people being stupid. Scientists are experts, and scientific expertise has gained prestige for a reason. A scientist's unscientific opinion (a more generic form of expertise) carries weight, because science is respected. That respect doesn't conform to the narrow Popperian definition of science. It applies to individual, institutions, etc.

We also sometimes need to make decisions when we need to make them, not when science has a breakthrough. The economy is in recession, what to do? At the point were are in now, it's hard to do anything if you don't claim or imply a scientific merit to your decision. This is another reason why pseudoscience proliferates.

We tend to think of pseudoscience relative to real science. Intelligent design instead of darwinian evolution. Head-on disputes with science. IRL pseudoscience is most prevalent in areas where science doesn't have good answers. The human mind, history, etc. Pseudoscience fills an empty space we can't/haven't filled with science. We abhor those empty spaces, it's how our mind works. Since science is both required and absent, pseudoscience is the outcome.
What are those novel crucial points that this guy making?

I have trouble parsing it out of demonstrably false claims and rhethoric.
I feel like I have a wrong model of how things work.

I'm thinking that for each virus there is a chance that it will infect a cell. The higher the viral load, the higher the number of chances that you will get infected.

a lower number of droplets -> lower viral load -> less chance to be infected.
Maybe, still no evidence to back the speculation up.
Considering SSH is forbidden in most enterprise networks I've seen, your attitude is clearly in the minority.

Enterprise-IT people tend to shutdown first and ask questions later, to cover their ass (and in their shoes I'd probably do the same). If it becomes trivial to torrent via mainstream browsers, I expect they will lock down whichever feature is responsible or apply massive pressure on vendors to remove the feature.
I pad my order by adding expendables, stuff I know I'll use a lot of. There's a certain kind of end-fed SMA pcb connector I use a lot of. Solder. Flux. Certain JST-type connectors.

I also keep a "gift list" for myself of things I've always meant to experiment with but haven't gotten around to ordering. I ended up playing with MSP430 controllers this way.
This thread is a real trip down memory lane!

I joined JPMorgan in 2010, as the first bank in London to offer me a Python role. I ended up staying for 8 years, almost all of it working in Athena: Commodities and FX trading; a bit of Equities; then with the Athena Core team working on the machine learning environment.

I learned a ton, worked with many hugely impressive people - on both the trading and technology sides of the business - and left with lots of good memories.
Yeah, it looks like this is in the category of "things that could reasonably be done with some elbow-grease" rather than "things that are made impossible by some aspect of the technology".
Because it would help if we were closer to talking about the same thing when talking about a subject.

And because Americans are being lied to by their own politicans, and part of that lie is that they have a left wing opposition. They don't, really, apart from the Sanders wing of the Democrats. That Fox News or whatever in the US can with a straight face call Biden "left wing" isn't just a political vocabulary corruption, or a relative shift of frames of reference -- it is an ideological lie, and the purpose of it is to advance an agenda.

And because it would help if Americans looked outside of their own borders at the rest of the world, and gained frame of reference from that.
Chomsky may be right. The FOXP2 gene has been associated with language development in humans although there's still debate about the extent of its importance [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOXP2
where's the best place now?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23759673
> To give you an idea, they can tell when I'm in my bed and whether or not I'm sleeping (based on my breathing) they can tell what I'm watching on TV etc

To be honest I'm confused. What makes you think they're listening to you breathe?

They've denied hearing you, and it sounds like you're guessing they're following your movements because when you move in your apartment, you hear them move in their apartment upstairs at the same time, repeatedly.

What makes you think they're stalking you? Why would they be interested in your movements?
Ad insight can be done on your end by having each ad campaign redirect to your website with a "campaign ID" URL parameter, and you can measure the click/conversion rate by seeing how many people arrive on your site with each campaign ID.
You mean AVX2? SSE was from the 90s
> Disappeared is a strong word, some people get a respiratory tract infection even in summer, but it is relatively rare.

Apparently availability of novel vulnerable populations trump any troubles that virus might have spreading due to warm weather.
Selling the infomation on the Dark Web is an easier and less risky way to extract value than actually trying to get a product delivered physically.
Week of Inspirational Maths
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Trying to sign up. I click the "Log in to Notado" email link and get a "401: Unauthorized The request requires user authentication." error.

Am I doing something wrong?
Yes, you can bypass the check by editing the binary but that’s a non-trivial extra step and, more importantly, it means you can’t use the official binaries for anything. Far from insurmountable but it’s the kind of things sales guys are going to make sure every large customer‘s senior management hears.
Now imagine with the current Rust compile times, compiling those 450 projects from scratch, I bet the 40m would turn into hours.
so you're saying that the gaps are so wide that almost no contaminated particle (getting in) will get stuck on the mask?

but somehow (some of the) particles going out will get stuck.

how is that simple?
But as far as we know, the bare virus does not travel through the air, it only travels in droplets. Although there is some disagreement on how large those droplets are.
Not Dang.

No.

We haven’t really found it before the internet (these problems are endemic to human/sentient nature.)

The internet only makes things industrialized.

There are things you can do, that reduce the number of friction points, thus making it possible to self govern

1) narrow topics/purpose - the closer to an objective science the better.

2) no politics, no religion - as far as possible.

3) topic should not be a static/ largely opinion oriented. More goal driven, with progress milestones easily discussed and queried (lose weight, get healthy, ask artists, learn photoshop.)

4) clear and shareable tests to weed out posers - r/badeconomics, askhistory

5) strong moderation.

6) no to little meta Discussions

7) directed paths for self promotion

8) get lucky and have a topic that attracts polite good faith debaters who can identify and eject bad faith actors (the holy grail.)

Each of these options removes or modulates a source of drama. With enough of them removed, you can still get flame wars, but it will be better than necker having done these before.
BookStack creator/lead dev here. Great to hear your users like the platform and that installation was smooth. Hope the platform works well for you going into the future.
That flies in the face of the actual policy that was put in place in the Reagan and Bush regimes, and what was advanced or defended by the Republican dominated congresses that existed throughout the 90s.

The 80s and 90s were the era of the FTA and NAFTA, and the rise of the fortunes of the IMF and the WTO. And apart from Clinton in the late 90s this was an era of (for the time) pretty strongly right wing American politics.
Why would you trust them though? Their whole business model is based on them knowing as much as possible about everyone so they can better target ads to them.

Facebook also tried the promise of "trust us to not use your 2FA phone number for ads" and broke it with no/little ill effects, so there's no reason Google can't do the same.

Building & running a service such as Google Analytics is not cheap so they wouldn't be giving it away for free unless they got something out of it.
That's a good point. The ownership patterns are basically compiler-enforced best-practices of C++. Fair enough.
I'd argue that has less to do with the merit of cameras and more to do with how little police care about stolen bikes compared to stolen credit cards.
Pointed this out to my elderly father last week. Showed him how much cleaner Duck.com is for search results. He said he’d give it a try.

There is still hope if switching lay people over to more consumer friendly products. Just like any transition it’ll take time and effort.

Hopefully more people continue to switch.
In the old days if you wanted sweepings from the factory floor you shopped at Radio Shack. Usually worked well enough anyway. Just like ebay or amazon today, usually.

I've had worse luck with assemblies than components; switching supply modules from ebay / amazon don't come with decoupling caps or RFI inductors or RFI chokes.
Also at a bank, a file/database server that had two physical sides. Each side could grab a cartridge containing basically a cd-r, push it into a reader, read the track of data based on a file system like record in an oracle database. This was done to meet SEC Rule 17a-4 (Write Once Read Many) requirements.

It was old, like "Side A got stuck have to run to the DC to fix it" old and you would get errors accessing those files but not side B files. I'm guessing 15+ years. Weirdly you can grab a PDF off this thing in less than 2 seconds. This had to exist at other organizations but this was the only one I saw.

Now Azure and AWS provide the same service for pennies on the dollar.
Agreed, I'd ask that moderators change the title to Libtorrent-rasterbar for reasons of clarity.
I'm not sure I follow. Bittorrent is absolutely NOT a "serious" application from an enterprise perspective. Most companies don't use torrents and actively block the protocol (since the most common usages are unsavoury or related to entertainment, not business).

Whereas IMs are an accepted part of business processes (i.e. "serious").
Ah yes, the angels on hairpin.

The debate was about inifinite vs. finite, not about a particular number. It was couched in the terms of angels rather than physical items specificaly to avoid preconceived notions about our physical world - notions which were limited, and recognized as limited, back then. Do we even recognize our notions as limited in our beautiful early XXI century...?
It'll be fascinating to watch if Google eventually falls. They have really interesting strategic weaknesses.

Advertisers will go where the people go, but Google's balance sheets suggest there is enormous scope for a middleman to go and negotiate with the Apples/Mozillas/Microsofts of the world to give them a better cut of the search revenue.

I can imagine a key based system where I register a token with, say, "Hoogle" and then also register it with the browser doing the searching. Then get paid a tiny amount if enough searches get made with it.

If it works at all that'd be a brutal model for Google to compete with. Suddenly all the casual IT types would be directing all their friends and family to Hoogle because they make money off it. Corporations would ban Google en-mass. It'd squeeze all the revenue out of the search middleman and back to whoever controlled the computers.
Science is not a "belief", science is a process, which conists of generating testable hypotheses about how the world works, then using objective observations and real-world data to modify or change these hypotheses.

Science does incorporate the ignorance of experts, but that's also conflating ignorance with acknowledgement of uncertainty. Scientists are usually the first ones in the room to hedge their statements, saying "Well, this is not my area of expertise, however..." or "...not my area of research...". Does this make them ignorant? Well, in the reductionist sense, yes, everyone is ignorant of things about which only 3 people are experts.

So, stating "Science is belief" is an extremely over-simplistic view of science, which may play straight into the non-materialistic, non-expertise loving right-wing which has taken over the US and led to anti-vaxx, anti-mask, denial of basic facts, etc.

So, those opposed to science are people who believe very dangerous and negative things for society, and now we're calling science the mere belief in ignorance of experts? That's just bad strategy, science is so much more nuanced and rich than a belief in expert ignorance.
> working for any SP500 company will easily get you the same amount of money in less than a year

If you live in the US. Which I'm (maybe wrongly) going to assume the author doesn't. 100k dollars is a life changing amount of money in a lot of countries.
> I’d say money should not be the main motivation to do it

It depends on how you approach this investment. For me, a book is like any other product I make. It takes a certain amount of resources to produce and launch it, and it should generate at least as much revenue as I would have made if I had chosen to do consulting instead.

However, selling products can scale better than consulting. So, over time, you could end up making more money from a certain product (e.g., book, video course) than if you were employed or doing consulting.
I stopped all of my ads on Google and only use alternative advertisers. I also frequently use other search engines. For example, Yandex is much better for searching illegal/gray area stuff. I don't use google's cloud and cancelled my Google for business subscription. I will also stop using their browser and will switch to Firefox or Edge (the latest version uses Blink engine and has almost 100% compatibility with Chrome).
The computer used to sit behind a diminutive UPS, though I don't think it was ever fully discharged; off the top of my head I can only recall two brief power outages here in the last 20 years.
Dark net markets have review systems, and sellers pay a small but large enough sum for accounts to make doing this impractical.
What kinds of actionable insights have you gained through analytics? Have you changed your site with the goal of improving those numbers?
Six years without a power cut doesn't seem too surprising.

Was "asinine" the word you meant there? It doesn't make sense to me in context.
No, because the white and black pieces are exactly the same. This is unlike whitelist/blacklist where you’re specifying a preference where white is desirable and black is not.
Ask HN: How to interpret this coding take home interview reject
I recently submitted a take home coding test and got the following reject. Question was to build a simplified tetris game.

"
The code works and it's fine as adequate Python, although it doesn't follow Python's style guideline of using underscores in function and variable names. But there's nothing particularly impressive or that stands out as unusually well done, and a long list of things that are messy, awkward, or should be refactored. And there is very little documentation and no high-level explanation of the approach.
"

for the first line, This is not a python position(clojure programmer), i used camelcase instead of snakecase.

Wondering if there is anything I can learn from the rest of the feedback.

Trying to see where i am falling short. I double checked my code ( ~ 150 lines) and I don't see anything blatantly wrong/ugly with it.
I recently wondered something similar. I "learned" to play music as a child, but could never follow the notes so used to memorize the tune and use the staves as a reference for the timings. Other than with music, my reading has always been above average.

I've always assumed this was laziness on my part, and so I've recently tried to re-learn music reading, and it is getting easier (recently found PianoBooster software which has been quite useful), but still finding it difficult to read even a single note.

There was a recommendation when I went to Uni to get tested for dyslexia, even if you have no symptoms, because more people have it than you would think. And given that there is a range of types and symptoms, the possibility that this is a form of dyslexia is reasonably high.

That said, the fact that anyone can read anything is fairly remarkable when you think about it. I don't know whether we have any evolutionary basis for the repeated recognition of small characters, but I doubt it, and if so the fact that a large proportion of our brains are malleable enough to be trained for it is something impressive.

I'm just gonna have to keep practising and hope something clicks. Good luck!
I don't have a good idea about the compilation speeds of C++, so I don't doubt you on that point.

That's hardly the only other AOT language competing with Rust though, and while some of them are simpler on a language level (i.e. C) the compilers do a fair share of work in the optimizing stage of those simpler languages. There's also several languages that do quite a bit of heavy lifting during compilation, like Zig and Nim have extensive compile time features for example. And Nim does two passes since it compiles to C first (by default) and then that's compiled to machine code.

On balance, I don't think you can wriggle out from the fact that Rust compiles slowly compared to its competitors.

Even the Rust team admits this and are working on improving it.
I first found the book "The Dyslexic Advantage: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain", which in turn talks about the spacing between minicolumns in the brain. So looking for these terms yeilds some intressting stuff, for example this:

https://dept.wofford.edu/neuroscience/neuroseminar/pdfspring...

https://corticalchauvinism.com/2016/12/12/dyslexia-and-autis...
> The GNS which most of the article focuses on has nothing to do with the GNU project.

Doesn't it stand for GNU Name System?
Because it fits in with is a growing body of evidence that human settlement of the Americas happened sooner and faster than (primarily North American) archaeologists used to say. And that it happened along coastal routes that have since been flooded due to rising sea levels in the post-glacial period. And as coastal archaeology has improved we're starting to see more and more of this. And the dates keep pushing back.