skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And here Google delivers almost this exact vulerability:

https://offensi.com/2020/08/18/how-to-contact-google-sre-dro...

>An attempt to modify the database name in the API call from ‘mysql’ into ‘--help’ results into something that surprised us...
That is not what the OP is saying. They are indicating _not_ that the oppo party would win, but that the party in power is clearly lying about the results. If they are lying, then that calls for a new election.
The explanation that makes it more visceral for me is to increase the number of doors:

- You pick a door (let's say 17)
- I open 98 doors (let's say 1 - 16, 18 - 78, and 80 - 100)
- Only doors 17 and 79 are still closed

Does that help make it more intuitive?
I’m not so sure the end result would be fees dropping considering Android allows third-party stores and they still charge 30% like Apple.
Free Dynamic DNS Service
Fair comment. I'll work on this.
Thanks Dang!

It's interesting that in 2016 the top comment was about how out-of-date the documentation was, which made it very challenging for the novice to approach. When I did it in 2019, my experience was very different -- I marveled at the quality of the instructions and documentation, as well as how up-to-date it was.

In fact, just this week I was googling for some information about building GPG without having to deal with generating PDF documents, and I stumbled upon an LFS GPG page[0] that had been updated that day. There seems to be a fairly active community who is maintaining the guides.

[0]: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/gnupg....
> I didn't expect to have to do this kind of debugging right off the bat.

Stick with it, and consider setting up your own machine instead of trying to use Colab. I say this because literally the hardest part about the previous course for me was getting started and doing the setup. Once you're able to actually run the notebooks I promise it'll get much easier. I can promise this with confidence because the lectures are excellent, and I've been through what you're talking about on the previous version of this course when I was first starting with AI.
You don't need to wait around for natural selection to make changes (we don't do that for medicine).

We have an entire universe to grow and expand into, along with the capability for long-term thinking. These problems are solvable problems and a critical part of reducing suffering.
What is to stop them from acting like a blackmailer and going back for more later? Technically all they need is for giving money to "help" short term to maintain their "reputation". It is a danegelt situation.
P.S. if you know any aspiring Python programmers who are keen to beta test this, I am happy to provide some free help and mentoring in return. Contact details in profile.
Assuming someone knows you used those dice, but doesn't know the order you arranged them in, and assuming that the d6's with the letters on them are not identical, I think you've got 55 bits of entropy there [1]. That's equivalent to between an 8 character and 9 character password of ASCII non-whitespace printing characters.

Password crack time estimator sites are giving me times ranging from a few months to a few centuries to brute force it. Probably OK but I'd personally want something a bit better for a master password.

[1] 12 x 6^6 x 12 x 6^2 x 7 x 11! / 2. The first 5 factors come from the individual dice, the 11! covers order, and the divide by 2 comes from the two numeric d6 being interchangeable so order does not matter for them.
Microsoft seem to get away with it:

Forza Street on iOS - 125 Gold: £4.99, 255 Gold: £9.99

Forza Street on Windows 10 - 125 Gold: £3.99, 255 Gold: £7.99

Both connect to the same account.
> compete against each other for developers.

They wouldn’t be competing on underlying frameworks though. Epic’s letter asked Apple to extend its app install frameworks and related frameworks to competing app stores.

So the only point of competition would be price, or marketing savvy. This seems to resolve to my point above: reducing Apple’s cut would benefit all developers.

Not clear how the rest does, except perhaps indirectly by forcing Apple and Google to surrender their businesses. And big developers would have a relative advantage. It’s not that small developers would have to run an app store: it’s that the ability to run an app store provides relatively more advantage to large companies who can.

Whether small developers had an absolute improvement might depend on whether prices dropped to match the lower cost structure.

Epic also wants anyone to be able to install apps on ios outside app stores. See point #2, app stores and apps available via direct install. This would lower trust in apps. The trust of the app store has led to an explosion of developer revenue. Not obvious that dismantling this system will help small developers.
No problem, it's my fault I phrased it badly.

Same to you!
The App Store TOS specifically prohibits you from redistributing any app you download from it. GPLv2 specifically prohibits that, so any distribution of an app under GPLv2 terms is a license violation. GPLv3 would be even worse as you cannot provide Installation Instructions.

However, WordPress/Automattic has copyright ownership, which means GPLv2 terms don't apply. If you get the app from the App Store, then the App Store terms apply, and if you downloaded the source code from GitHub, then you have GPLv2 terms and can compile and install it yourself. However, you cannot legally submit, say, a modified WordPress app with GPLv2 code in it back to the App Store. This gets tricky if WordPress accepts pull requests under GPLv2 terms, though, as they would then be bound by those terms and no longer be able to offer App Store terms. This is why some Free Software projects require CLAs, so they can both have a strict copyleft and still be on app stores that don't allow that to happen.

Funnily enough I'm pretty sure Microsoft realized this problem, and added an explicit waiver of Microsoft Store TOS terms for software distributed under Free Software terms. I haven't actually checked their TOS in a long while, though, so I may be misremembering things.
Did you `pip install fastbook`? TPU runtime is slow since there is currently no TPU support (it's upcoming). Please share your issues on forums.fast.ai and I bet the community will help you get up and running very quickly :)

EDIT: I just tried the Colab notebook and it worked successfully for me. We can discuss on the forums if you want.
I am thinking of getting a Mac and iPad too now.

Apple's whole game is to make profit from hardware and their services, not ads.

Even if Apple charged - $50/month privacy fee to keep things secure, I am fine with it.

I'd pay twice as much for an iPhone - at $2000 even - something that keeps everything about my life secure - I have no problems paying for it.
I watched the demo video and I'm intrigued! It's like a better interface for group conversations. Some feedback/questions based solely on the demo:

- Will I be able to see who has notifications on or off?

- Relatedly, if someone has notifications off, is there way a way to notify them anyway?

Say for example during the branding discussion they've decided to use Pears instead of Plums, and they want to bring you back into the conversation to make sure that you won't veto that choice before they get too far along.

- If someone who is not on plummail signs up, will the conversations they were previously included in be in their inbox?

- You should put an invite link on the bottom of the fallback emails, or at least have it on by default and allow the sender to turn it off.

- When you added gary@example.co there didn't seem to be any validation. That's obviously not a valid address, so when/how would you be notified that the message failed? Would there be a way to fix the email and resend?

- When someone is added to the conversation I assume they get the full history? What if they're not plummail users? Is there any indication that you're sending to a non-plummail user so you know that they aren't seeing the whole context? Or a away to send them the full context?

- How do you get my inbound email? Do I forward it from gmail to you? Do you act as my MX recipient?
Epic doesn't even want to run an "app store". They want to sell Fortnite items to Fortnite players to be used in Fortnite's world. Those objects never leave the Fortnite ecosystem. They're not installed on the phone as "apps". Some of them have no client side presence at all.
Oh, some people say I'm an insatiable monster. I appreciate that you have taken the time to reply. If you are really here for a discussion, I'll have one. I do care about what you say and don't say (and I'll prove it to you). I do ask quite a bit of those in power (https://philosopher.life/#Power).
Nintendo takes anywhere from 40-60% for the Switch.
I too work with similar tech. It "just works" and fulfills requirements.

> Our Azure bill now cost as much as an average European developer.

> The main reason is a slow horrific monolith.

Would changing the tech either improve revenue and/or reduce costs? That is how I would suggest changes (if it applied where I work)

Edit: On the topic of working with boring/old tech...one thing that I've been doing is learning more of the internals of the environment I'm working in. For example, with C#, I've decompiled libraries and read through source code to learn new APIs and how some important functions are implemented (e.g. Crypt32 API).

I'm not sure if that would be interesting or if you would consider it a good use of your time.
long double in either x87 or SSE mode will force the use of 80-bit fp values.
I don't know why you're getting down-voted. It's an accurate statement that many loyal Signal users can attest to. Signal has been my primary messaging app for years now, but that's my main issue with them outside of group MMS issues still being problematic all these years. Their slow response or lack of care was especially apparent after the huge outcry over constant nag notifications for verifying PIN, setting a profile name, and asking contacts to join Signal. It's like they don't understand how badly they need better adoption for Signal to be effective. If 90% or greater of my contacts don't use Signal, then what good is that? They need to start listening to their users better.
Their bribe wasn't big enough, so it was the BAD sort of bribe, seems to be about the size of it. Bizarre.

I have a lot of concerns about the Irish college admissions system (a numeric score is derived from final school year exam results; places are filled based on the highest scores who applied by a national computer system, then anyone left is shunted to their second choice (which may be in a different institution) and so on), but at least people can't outright buy a place.
There is no need to invent scared citizens when corrupt election officials suffice.

From what I've seen of reporting in Belarus, nobody watched over the shoulder as people filled in their ballots. It's still a secret who any specific individual voted for (unless they choose to tell you).
Not OP but, I'm on a Pixel for the "bloat" free Android experience. I don't install any apps, I do all webservices through Firefox, DDG and have uBO enabled. I'm only moderately privacy concerned and I fell like this is an ok balance. Seems like every app on either platform comes with some problematic BS.
It's not just payment processing. It's a distribution channel similar to a physical store.
> can you reserve an Uber on a Linux phone?

Yes. https://m.uber.com
Are you thinking of something like NeXTSTEP ?
Nice! I know the project maintainer and he is really methodical about everything he does. Nice work Gerard.
I agree that GPT-3 is impressive (https://philosopher.life/#Aispondence).

You might agree: "thought and discussion termination isn’t cool," right? I hope you aim to live up to your own principles. Maybe you meant to say something else to the human being on the other end of the line.
I think YetAnotherNick means the actual words "30% Apple Tax" on the screen.
This sounds to me like someone looking at premodern child mortality and saying "well, you know, families would have too many children if a quarter of them didn't die as babies". I have no doubt that a society where people don't die would require other major changes to compensate - but it's hard to imagine those changes could be so tragic that death is preferable!
Would be great to see someone run this through some photogrammetry software. Meshroom is free and open source and would do it. I am pretty busy lately but if anyone wants the glory... download the video with youtube-dl, extract frames with ffmpeg, and pull out frames from one contiguous section (the footage jumps), then run it through meshroom. If anyone does it please share!

https://alicevision.org/
Any recommendations of other work of his to read?
I do too, but CNN are clearly turning a blind eye to the organisations behind the cause. I will actually ascribe this to most major networks, not just CNN.
That's right, /r/unixporn influenced me quite a lot. I read a lot of folks' dotfiles that were posted there and was inspired by the screenshots. Because I had built a lot of software with LFS, I wasn't at all afraid of tackling building custom versions of i3 (i3-gaps) and compton (compton-tyrone) to get visual bling.
I know I'm not supposed to detract from the main point, but something is a bit odd about this company:

A) It's classified as a Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB).

B) All its work seems to be for the government, and this is reinforced by its mission statement.

C) "The Federal Government’s goal is to award at least 5% of federal contracting dollars to SDBs."

I wonder to what extent it's valuable work vs just compliance with a kind of charity program?
> $120k/year to fund one technical writer full time

god, I _wish_
FYI your home page doesn't display quite right on Firefox: https://i.imgur.com/kjs0nPR.png
That is a very astute observation! I seem to remember Tolkien himself explaining that The Silmarillion was from an elvish view, the middle tale of The Hobbit was a virtually human view, and The Lord of the Rings blends them. I think he meant in tone and style, but the subject material aligns with your view as well. To my mind, the Numenorean legends in Unfinished Tales seem closer to The Silmarillion than either of his other two main published works.
Ask HN: Recommended resources for learning advanced JavaScript
So I've been learning Javascript for a couple of years now and I feel more and more that my poor understanding of how it works under the hood is holding me back.

So I'm looking for resources that focus on how Javascript works under the hood. I'm thinking concepts such as execution context, event loop, scope, etc..

Preferably the resources contain a lot of examples and exercises for practice.

I've been following the guide on Javascript.info which is great, but I'm looking for something that goes even deeper than that. I've tried reading the "official" specification but it's just too dense for my brain to grasp.

So I would love to hear if anyone here has any such resources to recommend.
Where are you seeing 90%?

The poll itself says 59% of the 2.3m respondents were people who voted in the election.

That's 1.4m people, which is 15% of their population and 21% of their eligible voting population.
Phone number is not an unique identifier. There are plenty of people who use multiple phone numbers.

While I don't believe in Belarus official results, that Telegram evidence is not a real evidence. It's just a hint.
One probably doesnt want immortality but permanent middle-age.
It's more cost effective if things work for everyone, but it's not like we reject things because they are not generic enough. See how many different statins you can be on for example if one doesn't work for you. If RNA testing was cheaper we could skip the guessing part (for statins) though and know which one to start with. Same with different techniques in psychology.

I don't think any serious professional disagrees with different needs.
Were any parties receiving bribes similarly identified, charged and convicted? I can’t recall hearing much about that.
You clearly didn’t read the letter. Point #2 specifically asks for an Epic Games app store on iOS. Available through the iOS app store but also through sideloading (direct installation).
The thing is that you should indeed start with the landing page, as it makes it a lot easier to define your target audience, message, benefits, etc. Also, it isn't really worth bringing customers to a landing page that looks awful, as you might lose a lot of customers that you manage to bring at your door step just by showing a low quality website, even though your product might be good. I think it's about 50-50 the importance of on-page optimizations and off-page marketing. I also think it's about 70% product and 30% marketing.
> Other interesting facts: Palantir was/is based out of
> Palo Alto, CA and occupies a large chunk of Palo Alto's
> commercial office real estate. It's main office once, or
> still does, occupy Facebook's former headquarters
> building, 100 Hamilton Ave, from its early days.

Facebook was headquartered out of 156 University Avenue until 2012, when they moved their headquarters to the campus in Menlo Park.
Now what if a wire was moving backwards in the opposite direction faster than the drift velocity? Could current still flow?
Just remove the aircrafts altogether, use only a cloud of AI-enabled missiles....
At least the English alphabet has been covered: https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/one_letter_proglangs.html
I would be shocked if there were any single letters remaining unused for programming languages. We reached <letter>FS saturation for filesystems many years ago, after all.
I know a few. I have been teaching part-time for a web development bootcamp where some students have either heard of Python from developer friends or came across it during their learning.

I'll send this to them as a resource to check out. Thanks for posting!
Artificial Intelligence, Health Disparities, and Covid-19
For people who don't automatically recognize the name, Behdad Esfahbod is one of the significant people behind internationalization in the open source world--especially for Middle-Eastern languages and scripts.

He is a major persona behind HarfBuzz (which is like one of only 3 text shapers in the world) and also created Glyphy (which does font rendering using graphics cards).

It is an absolute tragedy what was done to him.
If that shiny cool mall makes your business unviable, either because they charge extortionist fees or because they impose so many restrictions that you can't make the ends meet (or simply ban you outright because you compete with something they want to get into), then it is completely irrelevant that the customers that come to shop there are rich and willing to spend money. You are still going bankrupt.

And we are getting to this point. The amount of BS an app developer on the Apple platform has to jump through to do anything is beyond ridiculous (yes, I did try to develop for iDevices professionally) - and that is before even this stuff with the 30% transaction cuts.

The time when those $10-$20/apiece apps could actually pay your salary is long past unless you happen to be the one of the very few that has hit a jackpot with an extremely popular app. But Apple keeps piling up new requirements, restrictions and overhead on developers, jacking up various fees - and if you don't like it, they just ban you outright.

At some point people decide they had enough and cut their loses. There are better and easier ways to make money than with iPhone app development.
Immortality is totally selfish and uninspiring, and really just a bad comms strategy to recruit more tech progressives. We need a better vision for how it'll make the world more Good and Just, improve lives, and make things more egalitarian, instead of helping privileged people just continue to enjoy their status and wealth.
I think it would be ok if they were charging for _some_ of the content. Docs could stay free and they could charge for development courses. They could even make introductory courses free and charge only for advanced topics.

Another example - browser compatibility matrices. They could be free just for the current versions of browsers and you'd have to pay for historical and future (i.e. development versions) data.

I think it's possible to find a balance between making the essential knowledge free so newcomers can join the industry and charging those who already have a source of income. I know that 5$/month can still be too much in some parts of the world, but this could be addressed with regional pricing.
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This is great, maybe we can use Telegram for the actual election, because if we're absolutely sure that this poll is clean and we use it to ask for a new election, why don't we just take the results officially? If we don't, well, maybe we should make no assumptions about the results either.
And? Let's assume Trump loses, Biden wins. Do you have a specific basis to say that'll significantly change things for Palantir? Noting Thiel/Trump's relationship seems insignificant.

There'll always be entrenched national defense & security + intel bureaucrats who hold power, regardless if a Democrat or Republican is in office. Seems Palantir has at least spent a pretty penny building relationships with some of those folks.
The video description contains a link to ethoff(.)org which is registered by a private person from Russia.
https://whois.domaintools.com/ethoff.org
The dark secret of non-private search engines
Absolutely. Unfortunately at the moment it's a case of choose the best of a terrible bunch. I have really high hopes some good will come out of Purism's Librem 5 and the PinePhone.
great list!
> A pretty familiar HN trope is calling in the Tech Billionaire Ex Machina to solve the world's problems

Love how you creatively defined this concept. This is a recurring pattern i´ve seen particularly in tech, and its not just over billionaires..

In psychoanalysis theres this great lacanian concept of "Big Other".

Once i understood this concept better, its much easier to spot my own flaws on counting on the Big Other (that is actually some illusory tendency of our minds to give us some comfort and help us to cope with the brutal reality).

You can see a great fictional tale about this concept embodied in "The Wizard of Oz".

Once we understand that the big other we were always counting on is in fact pretty much "smoke and mirrors", and that the big other (unlike in the wizard tale) doesnt really care, its a sour wake up call, but one that makes you grow up a little.

And if you not only believe in Big Others, but also assume they have a good willing nature, especially the ones that followed a road paved with gold, i have a bridge to sell to you..
I hear you, but I will persist in the point I was trying to make. Laughing takes warmup. You might hear an excellent joke and not even snicker at it, but given the proper mindset where you're attentive to the setup, the expectation, and you're just caught off guard, it's so nice to be able to enjoy that moment. It's easily missed.
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Former Army Green Beret Charged in Russian Espionage Conspiracy
Btrfs Benchmarks
No, that's not even remotely close to how aircraft defeat modern radar-guided or even heat-seeking missiles.

Even when you take the fleshy bits on the inside of the plane out of the equation, a plane that's capable of carrying multiple missiles and/or bombs is simply not going to be able to out-turn a missile that can pull 50G+ approaching at Mach 4 with any sort of regularity.

Pulling hard Gs is all but pointless because even if you cause the missile to "miss", the missile doesn't care about actually impacting you. They're proximity-fuzed and will happily detonate right next to you instead.
That doesn't sound like a very big blocker; don't you "just" need someone to "package" a compiler chain?