skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This tirade and "go improve it" recommendation may make sense in a vacuum, without governments undermining encryption and criminalizing parts of the activities to provide secure, private comms "because terrorism/pornography/covid/whatever".

In the real world, many states freely admit that they will fight against secure, private messaging between citizens (say, because law enforcement needs a backdoor to solve crimes). And while governments can, and do, make laws to that effect, improvement will be legislated away beyond a certain point. This also produces a chilling effect on engineering: why work on a technology that will likely be outlawed if successful?

In most cases when the government is making laws to criminalize X trying to overpower it with better engineering just does not work. My 2c.
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This is great for practicing! Would it be difficult to implement a page where users could copy-paste text and use the same engine to retype them?
One thing they do much much less of is soft censorship. They don’t sanitize their suggested search phrases (as much).

So if a million people Bing for ‘Rob Snob is a carpenter ant eater’ and you type Rob Snob is ... it will dutifully suggest ‘a carpenter ant eater’ unlike google which soft censors such things.
Major agreement with you there, and glad i'm not the only one. After reading the incredibly rich, beautifully rendered world of The Anubis Gates, I expected more of the same from his other books, but no, not quite as good, oddly. That book however remains the single best time travel fantasy novel I've ever read to this day.

The blend of nearly phantasmagoric horror, fantasy and a touch of science fiction is unique too. If anyone knows of any similar novels from other authors, i'm all ears.
Do you have a source for that quote? I searched elon's tweets and Google but couldn't find anything.
That's not a feature. That's a bribe from Microsoft to use Bing. It's not sustainable and even if it's a temporary gain for now, it's the wrong incentive to use an opposing search engine.

I am not suggesting only use google because google is awful, but Bing shouldnt buy users, it should actually be good to get them.
This:

C's semantics also makes a lot of things which I would assume was "trivially true" fail verification. This isn't Frama-C's fault however, of course.

sounds really interesting, do you remember some concrete example? Not saying you're wrong or anything, just curious of what kind of code is hard to analyze like this.
Sounds a little bit like the process of training a GPT-3 style network...
If you want something smaller than Matomo that works on any shared hosting you can check out the platform that I'm building[0], it does have some extra features compared to the lighter Plausible, but you can disable those if you want to keep it simple.

[0]: https://usertrack.net
This site can’t be reached: play.opendylan.org refused to connect.

Try:
Checking the connection

ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
Cool way to store the bits. I saw the other day a video about an old eletronic calculator that stores itens in memory usinglike a piano wire, and microfones, and small speakers, to make the cord vibrate, and store the value.

It was the Friden ec-132
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BIx2x-Q2fE&t=2s&ab_channel=...
Cool idea. It looks like it doesn't check if french accents have been typed. I could write the letter without its accent and it considered that it was good. And with its accent, it is good too.
> Any chance of typing out custom uploaded books? Maybe copy pasted plaintext?

typeracer.com allows you to submit extracts for people to type; just not entire books.
It's also relevant to the topic because some of the issues its discussing relate to how over full inputs are validated.

Do you reduce the 255 mod 24 to decide if the time is acceptable, or do you just reject anything over 23 as unreasonable... or maybe you only reject larger than 99 (because two digits is enough) but from 23 and 99 you reduce mod 24.

In many kinds of programs it isn't too critical exactly how you handle unreasonable inputs. Garbage in Garbage out. In consensus systems, however, any difference in behaviour can be a fatal vulnerability.

Some might find the motivation section of Bitcoin's BIP340 informative: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0340.mediawi...

Or this earlier publication: https://slowli.github.io/ed25519-quirks/ (which has more explanation for the S value related issues that the parent article mostly skips over-- but lacks the breadth and the amazing illustration of the incompatibility train-wreak).
Penrose's contribution is reviewed in https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5226
As a lay-person, what would you use for non numbers tabular data?
Looks cool.
Out of interest, are you doing anything to mine the data gathered, eg building models of common typos or for user "fingerprinting" from key timing? (the latter may be a bit creepy if users aren't aware this could be done).
This seems something that could be fixed in the browser as a preference.
A 2011 study identified 13 DNA variations across 11 different genes that could be used to predict hair color.

This seems like a clearly recognizable inherited trait, based on a large influence of certain small pieces of DNA. The abstract mentions eye color as well.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3057002/
Off-Topic question for Search-heads. Anyone know of an in-browser solution to make web search start with your bookmarks (rank previous bookmarked items higher)?

[Solution to search browser-URL-history first before the rest of the WWW][1]

[1]: https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/46270/solut...
Isn't that "all of open source" or do they mean something quite narrow by "could be patched by the maintainers of Frama-C"?
This is very nice work. For those who are interested in academic work about detecting/preventing such attacks, there have been some recent papers that looked at the formal verifying protocol models [1, 2] to (dis)prove the absence of such vulnerabilities.

1. https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/779
2. https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/823
Wild Cockatoo solving 3D printed puzzles
Genuine question here... do your users care that much about privacy?

The reason I ask is that I know only two people in my life that care enough about privacy to take steps to protect themselves either online or in the real world, for example I know many people with Alexa's and Google Nests, Android phones (I have one myself) etc.

I'm just curious if people are coming to you BECAUSE of this or if it's just a coincidence.

Edit: spelling and grammar
Quite simply 0x008, because I think this is how Intro CS should be taught ;)

Right now you have courses like Harvard CS 50 where the final project is basically a "Flappy Bird" clone. Which is great for sparking interest. But I'd rather see a strong foundation in computational probability. Providing a more solid intro to machine learning later on. And implementing classic problems like Monte Hall, Simpsons Paradox, or monte carlo sims of casino games is not trivial. Detail oriented design is a byproduct of those exercises. I think back on my own journey and of course the first program I wrote was probably something like command line blackjack!
> In China things were also super simple. When I was there a biker was hit by a car and died.

What would you need to see to conclude that life in China for local people is as complex as for American living in United States?

I am not even differencing rural part of old school China from rich inhabitant of Beijing.
> That's actually an interesting question I don't think I've

> ever seen any real data on.

For sure, not exactly the sort of study you can get people to sign up to. Are you measuring how successfully they hide their taxes or how prevalent it is in that political sphere?

> Anecdotally, I find libertarians and Republicans to be far

> more likely to subscribe to anti-tax rhetoric than

> Democrats, but I don't know if that translates to any

> meaningful action in practice beyond the fringes.

I would guess that you might be a Democrat voter then? The reason I ask is because you might vote for them because they seem trustworthy, or they seem trustworthy because you vote for them.
Example shows promise:

Itemsy: Hey, I’m here to answer your questions about Itemsy

Me: What is Itemsy

Itemsy: Itemsy is a tool for managing the content that you read online. You can think of it as Pinterest for the things you read. You can save it for yourself, share within a closed group or publish to your followers.

Me: Can you export all your saved articles to a pdf or excel?

Itemsy: Unfortunately, there is no way to export your saved articles to a pdf or excel.

Me: So, once we save an article on itemsy, we can’t export it anywhere?

Itemsy: You can save an article to your Saved tab and then share it to a channel

Me: What happens if itemsy goes out of business, will I lose all my saved articles?

Itemsy: No, you will not lose any of your saved articles.

Me: How is that possible if we can’t export the data?

Itemsy: I’m sorry, I didn’t get that. But I’m happy to tell you more about Itemsy.
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I'd prefer working 30 hours/week for the sake of work productivity and good work/live balance.
So if I'm on master, and 'git merge feature-x', then the parent commit on the master branch will be the first parent? (Not the feature-x last commit)
> The genetic split between timber wolves and Chihuahuas was like 5,000 years ago and I bet they have common ancestors much more recently than that.

Well, for a start, this is completely wrong. Dogs diverged from wolves 20-40,000 years ago (lots of ambiguity over where exactly the divergence should be called), but from a now-extinct wolf species. While dogs and wolves _can_ interbreed, it doesn't happen naturally all that often (and when it does, it's pretty much all unidirectional; dog to wolf). Humans don't have the same issue.

A chihuahua, of course, is a result of deliberate and extreme forced breeding of a sort that (thankfully) has not really been practiced on humans. The closest parallel might be certain European royal families who had severe genetic diseases and abnormal physiology due to repeated inbreeding, but those were much, much less extreme. Dogs, though, were subject to fairly dramatic artificial selection from the start.
most US earthquakes are in California where Spanish is widely spoken and lots of things get Spanish names.

however I don’t think this is common usage. it might be “headline-ese” as the word has fewer characters than earthquake.
> It trades too much UX for security, just like PGP.

Thats similar to what eMail does, it trades UX for [nothing] (would place decentralisation there if it were not for gmail etc.)
I was wondering about this too. If I was going to guess I would say it could be stuff that applies to any language that uses fixed width machine types, and not only C. For example, this is not true:

∀a: a+1 > a

if the type of 'a' is 32 bit int. Similarly negate(a) ≠ -a for some numbers.
It doesnt have an annoying popup which google and even DDG insists on.
There are no screenshots or demos of the product, so that was the end for me. Not good to ask for a signup just to let someone see what you're selling.
"What’s a Task Queue?" is not exactly what I need to understand what problems the product solves and whether I might use it in my project.
It turns out I have one in my desk drawer and the display definitely goes off if you cover the solar panel. It's possible there's also a battery but I doubt it because this is some long-ago (90s?) cheap knick-knack and I'd be surprised if any battery still had a charge.
Yes, the person who actually has expertise in the field must be lying because you don't like what he's saying. That's a great perspective.

Anyway my clients aren't patent trolls. My clients tend to be the kinds of companies that get sued by trolls.
Given OpenAI's pricing I am assuming a single chat session should cost a minimum of 5-10 cents. Maybe more depending on their prompt size. So unless they have an enterprise deal with OpenAI, this service will end being very costly. Might be cheaper to have a human agent.

That said, it's still early stage, the bot itself has a lot of kinks as mentioned in the comments. Hopefully things will settle down soon.
this will limit your solution from many deployments.

Knowing returning visitors from first time visitors is quite important and helps to asssess if viewership, audience and customer base is growing over time.

For startups the "how many unique visitors do you get in a month" may be an important KPI and you're saying your solution cannot answer this question, so another solution will be needed to be deployed.

Unique visitor data's also needed to assess effectiveness of campaigns and run e-commerce operations. There's often campaigns to bring back a user who previously didn't buy (email, ads etc). It's important to measure the effectiveness of these investments separately in web analytics given the campaigns will be different for new and recurring visitors.
Nnnno; 3500 years ago, there were already clearly-separated groups of humans on different continents.

Perhaps you're off by a 0 or two...?
typing.io is one option for this.
> and absolutely nobody was charged with anything, let alone convicted

Actually a lot has happened with this story since 2016, it looks like 34 different people and 3 companies were charged and either plead guilty or were convicted.

I am curious though, what is the news source that lead you to believe otherwise?
What annoying popups are these? I am not aware of those on either?
GPT-3 Bot Went Undetected on AskReddit for a Week
really? trying to scroll faster than the infinite scroll JS can trigger is my favorite in browser game!
That Gmail demo reminds me of Google Wave :)
> How about if an engineer founds a startup and dictates that this is how it'll be done there, and the startup ends up succeeding? That would fit your second scenario: "an engineer who agrees who by luck or skill gains extraordinary power, implements this new power structure".

Yes, arguably this is how we got to the current state of affairs, particularly thanks to Larry and Sergey, and the cross pollination and following-on of their approach. What I question is the likelihood of someone with this viewpoint reaching that level of power.
Another novel that I really recommend, which mixes fantasy with social critique and science in one very interesting way, is "Soldiers of Paradise" by Paul Park. Its description of a world with seasons which last for generations and a caste-bound theocratic society that blends magic and touches of the modern world has a certain stark beauty to it.
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Hello! People kept asking for other languages, so I put some out but didn't have time to add an option for keystrokes on non-english letters to require the actual non-english keystroke. Rest assured it's coming soon, though. Thanks!
Unless I'm missing some subtext, yes right here: https://github.com/openai/gpt-2

To quote:

> WARNING: Samples are unfiltered and may contain offensive content.
Bing video search will consider sources other than youtube. Also the lack of (or at least, much less) censorship than google.
Me: Is your service reliable?

Bot: Yes, it is.

Me: How reliable is your service?

Bot: I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. Shall we chat about Itemsy a bit more?

Me: Is your service 50% reliable?

Bot: Yes, it is.

Me: That's rather low. Could you provide a service that is 99.9999999999999% reliable instead?

Bot: I'm sorry, I did not understand that. Could you please try again?

Me: Is your service 99.9999999999999% reliable?

Bot: I'm sorry, I didn't get that. Could you please try rephrasing it?

Me: Is your service 99.99999% reliable?

Bot: Yes, it is.

Me: Will hackers obtain my password if I give it to you?

Bot: No, we don't store your password.

Me: How long is my password?

Me: Your password is 16 characters long.

I'm seeing that you're updating the chatbot script/dataset as I type some of these questions to fix some bugs. I first asked what the service level agreement was and got nothing, then 15 minutes later I was told to send an e-mail for more information. Now you can't ask if the service is 50% reliable and get a "yes" answer!
Dogs are partners. You can work closely with them. You don't have to hunt with a dog to appreciate this but it's very obvious if you do.
I have the exact same mentality when it comes to projects that I intend to operate for a longer time than just throwaway try-outs. If I can't understand what's going on under the hood then I'll be happy to pass. This is a limitation, of course. But at least it keeps me on a path where I don't bite off more than I can chew. Experience has led me to believe that any dependency you have is sooner or later going to turn into a either a liability or an obligation, this makes it much easier for me to see dependencies as costs rather than just as advantages.

The number of dependencies for my current project is four, and each of those (vexflow, tone.js, lovefield, jquery) I'm in principle prepared to maintain myself. Even so, all of them have already proven to be here for the longer term. Ditto for tooling.
He required copious amounts of Wild Turkey and cigarettes though
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Neat project! Would be an interesting way to read a book.
Not sure if this is a built-in feature for typing practice. But one small obstacle I encountered was that if I missed a space or I put in an extra character, but kept typing, then everything that came after was in red (wrong). May be hard to implement, but maybe letting a single mistake show in these instances without marking everything that follows as a mistake.
From the Stupidity of Academic Bureaucracy to the Poetry of Bitcoin
Automated testing makes testing obsolete?
Google constantly suggests you to use chrome
Hiring an IT Consulting Company
Hello and thanks for giving the site a go! Something like this is planned for the future, so do keep an eye out!
DDR5 Is Coming: First 64GB DDR5-4800 Modules from SK Hynix
I'm curious, does ECDSA provide this? Not a crypto expert.
Revelation Space was amazing as were some of the short stories. I just wish they weren't all so pessemistic. I loved the demarchists and the conjoiners.
Can you send an order to my local printing shop for them to print those on nice small booklets with nice paper?

And for them to ship the booklet
You're right in that it's not much of a natural conversation. But I still disagree with what you're proposing as good questions. The questions you asked would plausibly confuse a real person who is ESL or just not that smart. Communication goes both ways.
Cyber reporter? People still use the word cyber? In 2020?
>I had to provide my own loop invariants, which is also a pain

You either make your spec up as you go along and don't check it as its hidden in the code, or provide it so that static analysis tools and/or things like tla+ can help confirm. There never was any getting around that regardless of language. The code follows from spec which both follow from requirements
My wrists hurt just thinking about doing this for any reason.
Nice work but i don't like when i miss a space: from that moment, even if i digit next words correctly, they result mispelled because caret is "behind" of 1 position
I have learn typewriting in school. This how we learn it in 1 hour class in year.

First we start with single letter and need to type 10 page of every letter.
Then we start with random combination 2 letter word, every line contain different word. For few day we practice with that.
Then we start practising 3,4,5 letter combination

Slowly we moved to word -> line -> paragraph -> essay.

Learning typing will take type.
Hello! That's definitely not supposed to be happening. If you don't mind me asking, what browser are you using? In the meantime, Chrome should work ok
How to keep track of all the on going Engineering Initatives
The authoritarian stream in the EU are already working on something similar, but it will be a much harder sell and i still hope we can stop it, before it is too late.
A general rule is that cryptographers never know what applications’ requirements are, unless we’re also developing those applications. The Ed paper took a very opinionated view on what the requirements should be: out in the real world, it turned out that they were often stronger. This doesn’t mean anyone is “wrong” per se, but it should perhaps be a lesson in humility for people who develop primitives.
Very usable and 'functional'. So far my go-to site was maria.cloud, but I'll now replace it with cljspad.
That seems pretty robust, but I have question about the salt. How does the daily salt part work? How is it stored during the day? Are historic salt values stored?
Right now, not really. But they already own GitHub, could easily acquire Stack Overflow, and probably then make a play at being the best developer focused search engine. Even then though, still probably no.
Tried every medication which is legal in my country. Side effects where always too strong to use drugs on a regular base.

What works:
- Enough sleep + naps
- Sport
- Walking
- White noise to cancel out distractions
- Logging almost everything which happens during a work day in a work journal
- Having checklists/templates
- Setup work days
- Setup free days
- Recurring todos for day of week
- Coherent breathing works better for me than meditation
Is Orleans based on Service Fabric Actors?
This seems to have problems with dead keys. Typing ' and then d on US International results in 'd, but doesn't count as such and instead is an error.
Thanks, I am!