skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One hopes that the paper (which I haven't read yet) answers this better than the press release

The paper: As the number of reviews is statistically significant and positive in all of the regression models, the more reviews a restaurant receives, the higher rating it has.
I don't know anything about Tim Ferris but the crane kick and "crane style" are actual martial arts techniques.

It being some kind of unblockable kick is BS of course.
I find it much more newsworthy to hear of civilians being purposely killed by people in pursuit of their political aims than a disease where 80% of the deaths are people over 65
I think the ability to detect eavesdropping seems useful?

(As part of KQD, not sure if useful or feasible as part of some “quantum internet”)
really? I have the open-source adblock patterns from one adblocker installed at the fetch level blocking requests. You should see at least some ads being blocked.

I get you're just trying to be helpful thanks. Actually memory, and CPU is not such an issue for any browsing unless people are cryptomining or playing online games (like quakejs). I've got scripts to try to watch that usage and cut people off.

Chrome is pretty lithe with most usage.

In terms of blacklist do you have a good ref point? Also...what sort of spam/abuse are you thinking? I didn't consider people browsing open internet to be risky re: content...I thought all bad stuff is on the dark/tor web.
I thought the same, but I saw the size of the form for the field trip and the detail they were asking for (most liability issues to absolve the school of responsibilities) - though, I don't think it would bother me personally enough to want to do it.

And important legal documents... Wouldn't you hire a lawyer or a solicitor to deal with them?

I think even a will - I would probably pay a nominal fee to have one generated for me, on the assumption that I can modify the final version before I personally sign it off on it.

Though the point wasn't really the forms, the point was more that there is a near infinite level of low hanging fruit, it's just not always apparent based on your own situation (and to an extent country!) and set of tasks/frustrations.

Another example that came to mind would be automatically updating all my stuff when I change address (banking details, car registration, driving license etc etc) sure there is a huge trust issue with this but with care, probably not totally insurmountable.
Maybe it’s because I’m tired, but for a moment I thought we were talking about Hong Kong.

If I can’t keep straight in my head which country is having its press shut down, we live in sad times.

In America, we don’t have press shut down, as much as it becomes “sponsored.” Someone decides to run it at a loss, or close to one.

Quality goes down, advertising goes up, and ideology seeps in.

Lots of “small town papers” are just brands managed by conglomerates.
That's surprising to someone not in CyberSec that so few can do basic tasks of their job.
I wonder how they declare the bar for basic or not.
Off topic, but related enough that I feel its relevant to mention:

I learned this week that many blood donation and plasma centers [1][2] are doing Coronavirus antibody tests for anyone* that donates right now.

I've heard a lot of people in my social / online circles comment how they wish they knew whether or not they had antibodies. Seems like a great way to find out.

[1] https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/dlp/covid-19-anti...

[2] https://www.lifeservebloodcenter.org/donate/recovered-covid-...

* Probably not literally anyone, but it sounds like they are giving them out pretty freely.
tldr: Large corporation abuses power to maintain position.

Unfortunately, nothing will change until consumers start noticing/caring about these sort of things.

Government regulation will just cause it to become more hidden.

Or I'm horribly misunderstanding the situation. It wouldn't be the first time.
Hi Peter,

I asked my company if there was any electronic alternative for the NOF and they insisted there wasn't. Do you have any sources I could use to prove this to them? I tried searching something myself but I couldn't find anything concrete.
Personally, I don't think the ECC tutorials are very good-- they are mostly analogs of the RSA tutorials that are extremely mechanical and do not impart much to any useful intuition about the system.

Someone versed in the monthly HN "how ECC works" submissions will find themselves able to implement a completely naive sidechannel vulnerable and unusably slow implementation of pubkey generation and ECDH (and maybe ECDSA, if they cribbed from wikipedia while doing it). Yet they should on no account be doing this because there are already many excellent, well written (or at least battle hardened) implementations.

By contrast they are unable to:

1) recognize vulnerabilities, even trivial ones, in implementations (including their own)

2) Invent new useful applications (which would be the best reasons to not use an existing piece of code-- it doesn't do what you need)

3) Come up with or implement performance optimizations.

The reason I've found for that by focusing on a mechnical understanding of how to apply the group law gets in the way of an algebraic understanding of how the group can be used.

For all but (3) the specifics of the group law are irrelevant and even for (3) everything except for specialized cracking code uses projective coordinates so the procedure people learned for affine coordinates isn't useful.

If people are having fun they have my blessing :)... but it's my informed view that overwhelmingly ECC tutorials give a lot more "feeling of understanding" than useful understanding.
> Has anyone ever seen an attempt to define these terms in an objective, data-driven way?

Broadly, yes.

The Five Factor Model includes axes for openness (what Graham divides has as "conventional-minded" to "independent-minded") and agreeableness (Graham's "aggressive" to "passive"). The FFM is well supported by various lines of evidence.

Graham's model however overlooks three other axes: conscientiousness, extraversion-introversion and neuroticism. Plus it doesn't allow for any nuance, based on a binary classification when in fact the spectra of human behaviour are incredibly wide and nuanced.

The characterisation of folks as "tattletales", "sheep", "dreamy" and "naughty" doesn't suggest an attempt at good-faith discussion.
As of right now those two links and the third on the example page 404.
You know what else tends to have poor ux in my experience? Overly priced specialized commercial software targeted towards a specific industry.

I think the worst i've ever experienced between floss and commercial software had to be the software to program the waterjet cnc at my last job. For some reason, half the menu items were in german, all the configuration was done in a text file where variables were a mix between english and german, the machine manufacturer stopped officially supporting the program and literally one person at their tech support office even knew how to use it and his knowledge had gotten pretty rusty. That program was an ugly, bug ridden, confusing mess that at one time cost lots of money.

According to the tech i talked to, it was written by one german guy who had a poor grasp of english, vanished years before and nobody knew how to contact him.
I’ve been following bunnie since I was 11 years old in the days of the original Xbox. I hope others know how important knowledge sharing is. For me, I had no idea what was going on, but the fact that I could try to understand it was enough for me. I’m now 32, and an engineer. I didn’t have money, but this thing called Linux was free. Such great memories.
WSJ: Companies Start to Think Remote Work Isn’t So Great After All
Boeing Just Gave Us a New Reason to Be Terrified of Flying
If a fucking toiletry fucks with me... are you even serious? You see nothing remotely wrong with this?
Trust me, your words sound overwhelmingly warm, and I am very happy that this effort looks compelling to you. Also, they create some pressure, since despite being functional, the tool is still at its MVP stage, and there are MANY things that I want there, which are simply not there yet. I will personally reach out to each person that signed up across the next few days, with a clear description of product functionality along with a brief roadmap, of what features you can expect in the next 1 to 6 months!
Article link, No Paywall: https://outline.com/spYjdY
There are no bitmanip extensions in the core instruction set where it is needed. And there are no bitmanip extensions in any existing chips, may never be in any future chips, and will likely not be in future microcontrollers if it ever does get adopted, so anything you find there is moot.

The notion that basic bit manipulation primitives are an obscure optional feature is a serious problem in the RISC-V process.
I recently purchased Islanders [0] which is a similar incremental building game. Really peaceful to play and just zen out for a bit. Might grab Townscaper too, looks nice.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islanders_(video_game)
What are the costs?
Oregon just had their attempt to remove federal police thrown out.[1]

In a 14-page order, U.S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman ruled that the state lacked legal standing to bring the suit and had “presented no evidence that these allegedly illegal seizures are a widespread practice.”

[1]https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-charges-18-p...
I agree! But they patented something! So we’re all asking ourselves what the deal is? Why the patent?? Is it some troll head fake?
1. Become enough of an expert/authority in your field that you're hired on the work you've done in the past. If you're a superstar that invented a game changing JavaScript framework or open source project used by millions, people aren't gonna throw you into a technical interview before hiring you.

That depends. There's the case of the person who wrote brew being asked technical questions to work at Apple.

In smaller fields, maybe. In FAANG I believe you would still go through the pipeline.

On (2) likewise for a FAANG
Flexport is hiring employees all over the world
Dumping (Pricing Policy)
I'm Indian, so yeah!
Seems like a good place to copy/paste one of my comments from a different thread.

Disclaimer: I'm not particularly good at this, so whatever comments I make are well intentioned but may be of varying accuracy.

...

Online sources:

* OWASP.org is a good place to find info. If you look something up, there's a good chance you will find it here.

* https://owasp.org/www-project-web-security-testing-guide/ Thanks to redis_mic for this one, I didn't know it existed until today.

* overthewire.org Similar to HTS, but you don't need an account. The subject matter covered is also slightly different.

* https://0x00sec.org/ A forum dedicated to security. There's a lot of script kiddies, but also some gold.

* https://www.hackerone.com/ What better way to learn then practice on live targets? That being said, I would do some of the others first.

...

I do a lot of learning through reading, so books:

* Network Security Assessment by Chris McNab. I have second edition, which is a good and instructive read, but quite outdated.

* Real-World Bug Hunting by Peter Yaworski. Web security 101. Good read, and fairly useful.

* Advanced Penetration Testing by Wil Allsop. Outdated, but interesting. You will never use flash again after reading this.

* Social Engineering, The Science of Human Hacking by Christopher Hadnagy. This is a very interesting read. Also, one of the few that can't go out of date.

...

This should be enough to get you started. There's a couple more books I can think of, but they tend to be more specialized into certain fields of security and less approachable/generally applicable. If you want these recommendations as well, feel free to email me, my email's in my bio.
I enjoyed this when it was posted previously. Keep up the good work, Nick.
not sure why everyone is trashing this person's service. if you have >250k in your TDA account to gamble on IPOs, think $19 for a notification service on upcoming ones is reasonable. that being said i signed up and when i click on one of the ticker names i get a heroku error, so while the idea is solid just not completely functioning.

edit: working now.
Ding ding ding! Yes. We all are. Christians and Jews.

Everyone is born with original sin from being born from Adam and Eve. Many or most never question this concupiscence.

In my experience, folks who have been actively working on heresy and inquisitions for years if not decades are the first to admit that they too carry rebellious, largely hereditary, inclinations towards sin.

A lot of people don't seem to grok original sin.
> Historically sometimes people would say "Well nobody would make an error like that in a modern elliptic curve scheme" and then Microsoft turns out to have shipped a very popular operating system named "Windows" which didn't do curve validation - so much for that belief.

I am pretty sure that CryptoAPI does not support (or at least did not at the time) any modern elliptic curve signature scheme, and by modern I am referring to thins like ed25519.
A new Cessna 172 SP with a Garmin G1000 glass cockpit and 180HP engine is 230,000$ that’s a significant upgrade over the 1970’s model for similar costs. Or you can spend 1/2 that on a The Cessna 162 Skycatcher with a 100HP engine and Garmin G300 Avionics.

100+k is expensive, but even a 162 is likely to be flying for 40+ years.
OMG! I can actually search for something and not end up in some conglomerate corporate non informational results. This is a dream! How are you able to filter out all the garbage.
> The bad news is as I tried to create an account on Strava , all sorts of warning bells went off. The website is full of dark patterns ...

I'm glad I'm not the only one considering these warning signs, but also puzzled why not everybody thinks like that, especially with services that could hold your data hostage. Is it a lack of education, lack of care or careful risk/benefit analysis?
I also feel it is frustrating. I have some good experience, lead a team of seniors and implement very complex software solutions in a big company.

Still, when I send a CV, I receive a leetcode challenge that I have no desire to study for and that doesn't represent my skillset or what I will be working with.

Is frankly very upsetting. That is before even talking with a human being.
There are plenty of amateurs using actively cooled specialized astrophotography cameras with total integration times reaching hours (2-3 are typical).
Readout noise can be cancelled by taking so called bias frames. Shorter exposures are sometimes preferable because of the light pollution and to minimize the possibility of an exposure being rendered usles by some plane or satellite: it is less painful to throw away three minutes of exposure time than 15.
When I worked on google wave, one of the most requested features was adding print support (to allow users to print waves). Printing support is a super simple feature (especially compared to "make it run faster on IE9"). But print support didn't occur to us at google because was ... well, of course we didn't think of it. Google (and most tech companies I imagine) work in paperless offices. We almost never try to print things ourselves so we didn't think of it or care.

I have a working theory that any software used by programmers will eventually get excellent (or be replaced with something excellent). And everything else stays vaguely mediocre.

Postgresql? Excellent.
The tooling to allow non-programmers to edit data in postgres? Halfbaked.
Sound cancellation in macbooks for video calls? Fantastic.
The software bank tellers use? Garbage.
Github? Fantastic.
Github equivalent for non programmers (eg people with folders full of Word docs)? 404 not found.

Anyway, the fact that modern printer drivers are garbage should come as no surprise. Who amongst us cares enough to fix them? RMS was probably one of the last competent programmers who will bother writing clean, minimal printer drivers. I expect the world will become paperless before HP cleans up their act.

I have the same problem at the moment with my Wacom tablet - the hardware is great but the software is truly awful, and apparently it phones home regularly. Software for artists is unfortunately off the golden path.
Sorry about that, was deploying some updates. Should be working now.
What happened to being worried about the "Filter Bubble"? While I'm sure this will enable new voices to find a platform, which is (mostly) a good thing. However my prediction is that newsletter writer will be largely incentivized to write things that affirm rather than challenge their readers world views (since that will drive retention), and I'm pretty sure this will result in further polarization of our rhetoric and society.

Is it really so much better to choose your own bubble vs having it chosen for you by "an algorithm"?
No, you should have said "No thank you, have a great day" and keep on walking. You already bought the item and you have no duty to them for anything further.

(I do this at any store that checks receipts, except for Costco, because I don't want to risk them revoking my membership. Never had a problem.)
It has left traces in stoneworks all over the world. But many of them may be old enough; usually we have no way to discover how old one is.
Not really. There's a lot of debate on the role of government within socialist circles themselves, and there are many socialists that are skeptical of the idea that you can implement socialism top-down, without it becoming either totalitarian, or a form of collectivist capitalism where the ruling elites collectively own the means of production and collect economic rents from the rest.
We are pretty sure that an impact liquified the entire surface of the Earth (creating the Moon by casting a big chunk of molten material into space). So clearly the “greatest imaginable” impact does not leave the Earth more habitable than the alternatives.
I’m honestly not trying to be snarky here but I didn’t know there was any other way to design microservices (with intention) that weren’t domain oriented.
Need speech for your guns, guns for your speech; just the way it is.

Not that everything is a power dynamic, looking at life that way kills all your friends and family really quickly.
Invoking Godel to assert that people have inconsistencies in their personal beliefs is like using a DNA test to determine whether an animal is an elephant or not - technically correct, but absurd overkill for the task at hand.
Ask HN: How much time do you spend studying outside working hours?
I think it's not so much that it was a huge gamble. It was more that it was a sensitive time politically, to make that gamble.

I mean, if they found nothing? Sure, that's still a question Hubble should be trying to answer. But right after such a rocky start, the politically obvious choice would have been to go for easy wins.

The timing was as ballsy as anything else, if not more so.
I dont fully disagree, nor do I think anyone should purposely seek to make anyone feel badly. But at some point can we just bust someones balls/ovaries/whatever they identify as having and maybe have a laugh? If everything is an egregious offense then nothing is...
Talking about US being the most successful economy in the world is kinda misleading without talking about the role that political geography, and how it applied to WW1 and WW2, played in that.
For a reader what matters is what is used in the wild.
Swagger and Spring Boot 2
Surely this is fine if you dont drink it. I'm not convinced toddlers would like the taste anyway.
Great! Reminds me of TTC.tasuki.com which only has four translations but was a great joy to discuss together in class and compare the translations.
Really? The message I got from American Factory was that there are stark cultural divides between Chinese and American manufacturing. It's been a while since I saw it, but they made a point to emphasize some of the poor financial decisions the Chinese bosses made during refurbishing (I think an overly expensive stage was built).
It sounds like a description of the Indian caste system. If I recall one person would wash dishes, and another dry then, because of caste imposed rules.

Except it’s now applied to programming languages.
Someone from an ex soviet state isn't better positioned to understand our current crisis...

You'd think someone who is against fascism would be interested to hear from someone who actually lived in a oppressive, authoritarian state, whether it be communist or fascist (since they use the same methods).
What to Choose to Implement Audio/Video Calls Solution Using WebRTC?
Gorilla Glass Victus Will Be a Lot Harder to Scratch
I had a 200Hz (?) Performa (maybe it didn’t have cache) and running AOL Instant Messenger and CodeWarrior at the same time was a joke. A new IM would interrupt what I was doing and it took three seconds to switch back to the other app.

Meanwhile on my Pentium 166, I could smoothly have a few IM windows going while doing other things (Visual C++, Netscape...)
Yeah... They're pointless, unless you're an athlete - where ice baths actually work.
I swear by secondhand Brother HL-2133’s

They’re $30 with barely used toner cartridge, and have worked no effort on Mac / Linux / Windows for me.
If that’s your reason, then Apple would need to move to Switzerland.

India has its own atrocities with Kashmir, Pakistan, recently Nepal, and their discriminatory Citizensip policy.
It’s important to respect the boundaries, but also have the flexibility to change them as the business changes.

I’ve seen many times where people were afraid to change boundaries because they assumed the first person got the architecture exactly right.
How do we get programmers to use bank teller software?
Who says it's bad for consumers? Big corporations are monitoring what's popular to develop their own offerings in these markets. For consumers it means more choice and potentially better products.

It's bad for startups which obviously don't want competition from stronger players.
Sorry, what do you mean? In the comment above, you said “I don't think there are comparable forces in the Republican party”, and now you admit that there are. I am very confused by what you are trying to convey.
BeOS was even better and you could get real work done (with the little software it had)
> What are the odds any of them are like Shigeru Miyamoto, whose body guards brought around shrouds because last time he turned one of his day to day activities into a video game, it made billions of dollars?

Sorry, what's all this about?
Agree, but if you are the person to say "I told you so", you aren't in a position to influence avoiding that condition. Also, the individuals in the project have the potential to learn from the failure even if the project/company doesn't survive.

Obviously there are life critical systems where this shouldn't even be possible, but hopefully there are tests and trials that filter broken products/services before life is put in harm's way.
I had a Bondi iMac and a friend had a Pismo, even after maxing our RAM and HD, we’d go back and forth between OS 9 and OS X Because one was crap and the other was terribly slow
> I get task siloing and hiring green people and giving them a chance to ramp up but that just threw me for a loop.

one thing i notice about a lot of companies is, they just dont invest into growing and improving the knowledge and skills of "green people" or they stop short at very basic stuff

i understand there are costs, but i think its eventually self-defeating.. maybe there is something i am missing...
If you can't reliably distinguish between genuine and scam vendors, yes, that makes sense.
Did you look at the article in question? Expensive uses (built on) SQLite as the RDMS for their application.

What people are conveniently leaving out is they wrote a serious wrapper around it that makes it very similar to other conventional large scale systems like MSSQL or MySQL: https://bedrockdb.com/