skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There might be nothing available on this page right now, but wow is this useful. I recently started doing some macOS dev and realized that this is a pretty big limitation when it comes to my normal CI workflows. I know there are some projects that dockerize macOS but they did not seem simple to work with.
In-class classes aren't worth it either... Modern tech facilitates advances in education that haven't been taken advantage of. We need to:

* Gamify the experience
* Focus on mastery
* Build a community online that replaces the classroom

I'm currently working on a project that aims to do the above, but admittedly we are in the early stages: https://classroom.qvault.io
They pushed their deaths forward by dealing with the pandemic with a light hand. I have a feeling two years from now the total damage will be comparable to other countries in Europe.
That article was last updated 2006 and does not take into account ISIS or Mexican drug cartel videos, which arguably meet your first definition and many would consider snuff.
Microsoft has been doing this for decades in a lot of different tech markets. They are anticompetitive and it’s super annoying for users.
Trump to send 'surge' of hundreds of federal agents to cities
With the majority of the population living in cities on the coast. Sydney? Melbourne? Big, dense cities. We're not all out living in the bush shouting cooee at each other.
It is about content - it does make sence for each university to produce essentially the same content 100 times
A few weeks ago I asked a question of similar nature, got some answers that might help. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23477814
One use of GED is for GEnealogical Data[base], or Genealogy Data.

GED files have been used for decades in genealogical circles at least. So I think that's what they're referring to?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDCOM, for example.
I work in early stage product startups.

What R&D do you need? CRUD is solved, hosting is solved, UX is solved, scaling is solved, marketing is solved ...

Everything to do with web and mobile is very solved at this point. Most problems come from tripping over ourselves and cobbling things together to fit new domains.

All real hard R&D happens inside faang these days. At least for web/mobile consumer stuff.
You may be interested in Ruffle, which is a Flash emulator written in Rust that can be cross compiled to run in a browser on WASM.

http://ruffle-rs.s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/builds/w...
The obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/
At my workplace, we've started using Confluence for some projects and it's been incredibly productive. I still loathe JIRA but Confluence has been incredibly good for technical collaboration and documentation.
I tried this on a low end smartphone. Might as well have been called MineSwapper
How Do Chladni Plates Make It Possible to Visualize Sound?
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Clarke may have enunciated it, but Aristotle may have been first to recognize it.
How, exactly? It's not like I can use wide-area instrumentation to locate you via your genome. You can imagine how to do it with cameras and faces, but I just don't see the method for DNA.
> You can then use these "cloaked" photos as you normally would, sharing them on social media, sending them to friends, printing them or displaying them on digital devices, the same way you would any other photo. The difference, however, is that if and when someone tries to use these photos to build a facial recognition model, "cloaked" images will teach the model an highly distorted version of what makes you look like you. The cloak effect is not easily detectable, and will not cause errors in model training. However, when someone tries to identify you using an unaltered image of you (e.g. a photo taken in public), and tries to identify you, they will fail.

So, if I adopt this and upload only cloaked images on social media, and the people I normally interact with also do the same, then facial recognition will be able to detect me based on someone showing the system that I’m present in the photo (even though it identifies me as the distorted version)?

If the above understanding is true, then even law enforcement could cloak all the photos they have and try to match captures with their raw photo set and the cloaked photo set to narrow it down for a human?

What am I missing?
Anti-JS MineSweeper Implemented in CSS and HTML Using the Space Toggle Trick
For the public API, customers want JSON, so they get JSON. Internally there's Coral, and something like Coral/Protobuf outright superior for the use case of an API where a schema can be distributed in advance. The only real use case for Ion is when you have data that's already JSON-formatted for whatever reason and you want to compress it for storage or transit.
The artist who helped drive The Magic School Bus remembers Joanna Cole
Neat seeing 1729 show up there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number)
High level ObjC APIs vs lower level C APIs
If I recall correctly, Ion preceed even Google's protobuf, and is 20+ year old technology. This isn't result of "yet another standard" but parallel evolution
RustScan: Faster NMAP Scanning with Rust
Because it shipped as part of the SDK in the Big Sur beta today.
edit: ^ previously said "with css variables to hold state" or something similar (or my wires got crossed and I saw that somewhere else)

CSS variables can't be set by animations yet without JS's CSS Houdini giving them a type - a CSS @ property is in the works to do it without JS though!
When you don't do your chore, you're assigned the chore for an additional contiguous period. e.g. Floors are set to be swept every week. You didn't sweep the floors on time this week, so now you will sweep the floors the next 2 weeks.

There are group chores, but there aren't penalties for individuals missing group chores so that's a use case hole.

Shoot me an email to discuss more: keyan@choremate.co
Thank you for the reply, Robert! I have bookmarked the site and will be recommending my friends to try out Datagridxl.js in their projects. :)
This is a funny joke.

Also, this is the way any progress is made. Between 15 competing standards, some win over.

Were it not so, we'd still use whatever Cobol used for data serialization.
My hunch is that if this information is used against you, you'd never know.

First scenario that comes to mind: The insurance company that gives you an extremely high quote because you come back as "high risk" from a 3rd party company that they use to vet applications, and that 3rd party company uses your genetic predisposition for a condition.
If you measure average population density across the entire country, sure, but the vast majority of the country is practically uninhabited.

Sydney and Melbourne are much like any other large city in the world and, at around five million people each, combined they represent ~40% of the country's population.

The early success Australia saw in dealing with this pandemic had nothing to do with sparse population.
Yes, but the upload url's should be signed by the server in that case.
Why cut and mirror? Can't you just mirror? Wouldn't this be the same as just looking at someone's face in the mirror?
Notably, Apple still has not released an Apple silicon chip that can do virtualization. So as far as I can tell, this framework is currently not testable on their systems using the A12Z.
I may be one of the people who lost DNA in this breach.

I am not currently worried about anything, but I also know that I don’t know everything DNA can be used for. My greatest concern consists of things some smart crook might think of doing.

While a reputable company might not use the DNA for fear of getting sued, they might use a crappy contractor who does not care.

Banks care about information security and take it seriously. They use a crappy contractor called Equifax which doesn’t.
Just wait until Krebs on Security talks about it.
Ion is actually two formats, with Ion data having a canonical representation both in binary and in human-readable text. The text format's file extension is ".ion" and the binary format's file extension is ".10n", and I think that's the entire motivation.
It's weird to me that we're hearing about this from the press instead of Instacart. If a suspected data dump of Instacart user data made its way to the dark web, surely it wouldn't be difficult for Instacart to buy a subset of it and confirm or deny its validity.

If I was an Instacart customer, I'd feel a lot more comfortable with a preliminary "we're aware and looking into this" statement from Instacart directly as opposed to doing nothing and telling the press that they don't know anything.

When a data dump like this hits the dark web, are companies even legally obligated to look into it?
Firefox-send alternative with malware protection
A privacy focused, secure large file sharing with misuse and malware protection
It's usually like that at first. It'll change later on.
These changes are positive, but I must say I find it hard to trust anything Google does while the impossible-to-disable and undisclosed advertising ID backdoor to DoubleClick exists in Chrome (alongside the most weak cookie policies in the entire industry). Part of me thinks they're strengthening security while deliberately leaving holes for their advertising arms to exploit.
It’s just a bunch of undocumented class names though.
Raising Interest in Studying Functional Progr. Via Interdisciplinary Application
This looks interesting. There are many thing I can do just applying some of the concepts written in here. Thanks for sharing this.
Ask HN: Best 60 minute interview question that can be fairly graded?
Looking for questions where you can give a score between 1-100, assessing various things like speed, thoughtfulness, correctness, planning, and the ability for wrong solutions to still get a solid score in the 70s.

Leetcodes are welcome, but no pass or fail tests. If you pick a Leetcode, please explain what aspects of a (possible) solution mean something to you (e.g they know Binary Trees).

Question is open to all, not just interviewers.

Edit: This is not a ‘best’ take home assignment question, that’s a whole different topic.
Is there a Docker release for Apple Silicon yet?
Narcissists and Psychopaths Are More Likely to Refuse to Wear Masks, Research
We should also spend some time focusing on the utterly incompetent leadership over the previous decades that led us to this point.
Anecdotal: Got hit with a password lock on a pretty unused Instacart account ~7 days ago (Jul 15).

Possibly a password leak from another site resulting in a targeted large-scale account access to download customer data from a leaky API? (Baseless commentary.)
What course did you take?
> watching youtube videos on distillations and titrations is just about as useful as you will never actually do that in a lab, as its a waste of man-power/labour costs

Thats a perspective of university as a job training program. I would argue that the point of university is more of holistic understanding than inflexible training for skills in need right now. Education in general includes many skills that will not be in industry demand for $$$
Then let them do it for free.
AWS-Bundle-Pack – GitHub – AWS CLI and Many Tools, SDKs and Libs in One Bundle
Not that I know of. It wouldn't run anyways for the above reason.
After working (internally) with Ion and related tooling, I'd say that I was opposite of fan. Protobuf strength is in good tooling/codegen around it (especially inside of Google), and with Ion you just have "superset of json".

Ion never had nice code wrappers around serialized structures, and most of the time, especially with rich structures it was frustrating experience.
Ask HN: Can I get some feedbacks for my platform?
Hi Folks,
I am building a platform that would help people from various domains to work on their side projects. Our platform would assist users in finding people with similar interests, browse through different ongoing projects in their field and request owners to collaborate with them. Here is the link for the landing page of my platform.
http://ideatorslab.co
Please let me know what you think about it. Thanks.
Yep. It was also an amazingly natural way to learn to code. Gen Z has a lower barrier to entry than before for creating just about every form of multimedia content except games — I’d love to see someone build a fully integrated, easy-to-learn game design platform to encourage more of them to get into programming.
Maybe we can view it as a high-level API of hypervisor framework?
For what it's worth, that is illegal in the USA at least. Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act passed in 2008.
Well, this also explains why my instacart account got locked the other day for having too many failed attempts to access it.
That's better than Hypervisor.framework was until recently.
Could a lab theoretically take your T-cells and "upgrade" them with all kinds of immunity robustness against say 100 viruses?
This requires the insurance company to be doing something illegal and for it to really cause damage all their competitors have to be doing it as well. If this ever becomes widespread, it would be quickly obvious when a large number of ostensibly healthy people are given quotes that match their genetic profile but not their medical history. I'm just not sure that is a reasonable fear.
> Many people can self-learn. Those same people often cannot perform well in school because school is rigid and authoritarian.

Are you still talking about college here? For a lot of classes, I commonly skipped class and taught myself the topics. In some fields like math that was practically the system even if you attended: Step 1: attend lectures that go too fast and lose you at some point, providing little more than a roadmap to use. Step 2 go home and teach the material to yourself. Step 3 attend exams to quantify how well you did.
Get the next biggest number with the same digits using Python
His statements are very clearly _not_ about the lab versions.

But I also understand that he has a large army of people who, for reasons I will never understand, spend their spare time lying and bullshitting on his behalf. So, congratulations on providing free labor for a billionaire. You definitely aren't a stooge.
I am taking an online MBA course with my local university and there are many benefits to an online format. First, the lectures are recorded and can be rewound for future reference. This is invaluable in the tougher papers. Second, we utilise the chat function in Zoom which allows the whole class to participate in a "full duplex" fashion without one person monopolising the airwaves with a single conversation (I should mention that this technique is only used occasionally when broad input is required).

If the lecturer is facilitating properly (ensuring students are engaged and paying attention, calling upon quieter members), then the class can be as successful as an in-person one.

The only negatives I've seen are: easier to be distracted (no one can really tell you're checking Reddit), the online setting with it's mute/unmute approach sets a higher barrier to entry for participating in discussion.
The skillset of a proffesor is not video editing and university is not a video studio. It is idiotic for a thousand universities around the world to make a thousand videos that explain how compilers works (or whatever).

Furthermore, 21st century learning should be interactive, so actually all those lecturers should become videogame developers
A state machine is more about modelling and restricting the transitions between states of your program. This is a great way to make complex algorithms tractable and less bug prone.
I agree. Saying that a Dyson Sphere is something that an 'extremely advanced civilization would build' presumes that we can project the course of civilization. Seems presumptuous and short sighted to me.
Model reveals why slicing a tomato works better than dicing
Yelp: More than half of restaurants temporarily closed now permanently shuttered
>What R&D do you need? CRUD is solved, hosting is solved, UX is solved, scaling is solved, marketing is solved ...

If you don't need R&D, doesn't that mean your competitor also doesn't need R&D? Where's the moat?
Maybe I’ve had a string of shitty therapists, because I desperately want to improve my mental health but no one has been able to help me. Even with drugs.
Python doesn't require you to have anything around a series of statements. Whereas Fortran requires at least one top-level program block. That program is a top-level function, which directly corresponds to MAIN__ in compiled code.
Perhaps it isn't predictable? I would hope that the face recognizer can't just cloak the uncloaked images and then get the match.
It's just a webpage with a form at the moment, so there's not much to provide feedback on. The premise is fine but extremely vague so I think you'll probably struggle to get some traction since theres already existing resources for that sort of thing.

Note: You need to secure the site.
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Level Up: Real-time video translation with laser projected subtitles
Huh, I wonder why those got exceptions. You said they were "Grandfathered in", but Civ 6 at least is recent.
Real estate is the highest-leverage purchase most people can make, so even if you're living in it and plan to sell in the near-ish future, a 5% appreciation will yield you more net cash than a 5% appreciation on the same amount of down payment put into a "regular" investment. The obviously-oversimplified example is something like: put 20K down, buy a 100K place. Sell for 105K, your 20K is now 25K, assuming your mortgage payments were the same as what you would've paid for rent otherwise. Which is a 25% return on your 20K, even on just 5% appreciation.
No, but they are working on it:

https://github.com/docker/for-mac/issues/4733#issuecomment-6...
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Is there a list somewhere of who exactly was exposed? It's difficult to remember which sites I've given DNA to and which I haven't.
Twitter admits hackers accessed DMs of dozens of high-profile accounts
Indeed, a tradeoff could easily make sense for someone.

That a person's chosen tradeoff might not change in a time of widescale pandemic and massive unemployment surprises me. And that a lot of articles take it granted that people will continue to eat out perplexes me.

We ate out a fair bit before covid19 cases took off but haven't once since March... wasn't even something that we considered at any point.

TBH food at home has been more enjoyable than what we were getting out, the time suck in cleanup is real-- but it isn't like we're going anywhere. :)
One can have a range of perspectives on this.

30% of nothing is nothing. Seriously, for a large number of developers the App Store is a big pile of nothingness.

Apple accelerated a race to the unprofitable bottom rather than to create a bottom that could actually deliver a financial return for developers. I mean, they could have established a $1 minimum price for apps, rather than $0. They could have created minimum business models that would deliver benefits to both developers and users. They chose to got to zero because a bunch of developers killing themselves to fill the app store with apps is good for Apple and users and developers are a dime a dozen (or at least that's the level of importance Apple seems to assign to them).

App discovery has sucked for years, which means that having an app found and noticed requires either luck, a tremendous amount of external marketing, a very large pile of cash or all of the above.

We've had apps on the App Store, about a dozen of them, it was a big waste of time and resources. Still, I am not holding that against Apple, they provided everyone with opportunities and many benefited from this greatly.

That said, I think they could have done a far better job of preventing the ecosystem from becoming a race to the bottom. This is where the optimization of the hardware sales vs. number of apps for free curve likely drove a decision that was not favorable for developers and entrepreneurs.

Early in the day we worked on an app for a client. Before they came to use they had already invested hundreds of thousands of dollars on the app. They needed a large rewrite due to Apple forcing code updates on everyone. This cost them a pile of cash. They made nothing with the app before engaging with us and still made nothing after we got done. They were in a segment dominated by the likes of Disney, who put millions of dollars into apps, gave them away for market share and, if that wasn't enough, poured real money into marketing.

This is where app discovery challenges and the race to the bottom truly hurt a lot of entrepreneurs. We abandoned all of our apps eventually. It just didn't make any sense to expend resources update code for zero return on investment.

I do think that 30% is high, yet that never really bothered me. I'd be glad to pay 30% if there was a real shot at app discovery and the entire ecosystem wasn't --using the term for dramatic emphasis-- tantamount to voluntary slavery for the benefit of Apple hardware sales. Sorry to be so negative, I imagine a wide deep path of entrepreneurial destruction created by Apple as a result of what the App Store devolved into. Apple sure made billions of dollars and lots of entrepreneurs did well. However, nobody ever gets a peek at what lies beneath the portion of the iceberg that protrudes through the surface. That portion, I am certain, is deep, wide and full of sad stories.

Put a different way: You can go sell products on Amazon for about the same 30% cut and have a FAR better chance of your products being found and making a profit.
AI system detects posts by foreign ‘trolls’ on Facebook and Twitter
Why do people post wikipedia links with absolutely no context or comment?
One-Third of U.S. Museums May Not Survive the Year, Survey Finds
AFAIK this is an ARM IP module they can just add.
Kinda like how when you're a worker, not doing any work kills your career. Every strike is a risk.
Out of curiosity is Mason still a thing?
Sure, but would you want to hear that from your bank? Who needs vaults when you can declare trespassing.
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It's the same thing. There were posers and those with practical knowledge. Today it's almost entirely clueless posers.
In my opinion the syntax of layerci is relatively simple as someone coming from docker, and does basically boil down to "give us the commands you use to deploy"

However they also have the advantage that they can run deployments on arbitrary runtimes. It looks like reploy only works if my app fits in the runtimes that were preconfigured by you. Because of that, I can run not just my dev deployment, but something very close to my prod deployment as well (we've had multiple bugs that only show up in prod due to our build process).

And finally, their aggressive docker-like layer caching allows very substantial speedups in not only builds, but tests as well. The speedups are typically in the triple digits compared to a reasonably well-optimized build.

I think the differences are major enough that I wouldn't exactly characterize the end results as similar.

Full disclosure: I know the founder
Is Linear Algebra that useful to the typical working programmer? Or is it perhaps only particularly useful for machine learning and similar?

To me, combinatorics, probability and statistics are much more used day to day.
"The paper speculated that this might be due to cross-reactivity with proteins from the “common cold” coronaviruses”, and raised the possibility that there might be a part of the population that has at least some existing protection against the current pandemic."

...this might explain why different parts of the world (e.g. east Asia, including Australia and New Zealand, vs. western Europe) have vastly different outcomes that don't seem to correlate well to genetics, culture, or policy. If a "common cold" coronavirus hit east Asia in the past, but never made it to western Europe, it could explain the different impact.