skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Streaks are such a useless all or nothing system that fail in ways like you describe. A better method would be a 4 week average or some other system that prioritizes consistency without letting tiny mess ups ruin everything.
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%Q or just % does interpolation:

$ ruby -e 'a=5; puts %Q/[#{a}]/'
[5]
$ ruby -e 'a=5; puts %/[#{a}]/'
[5]
I'm curious what sort of malicious code was distributed this way.
Same with Finland. TV licensing fees were replaced with public radio tax.
Why not buy a decent computer screen, a mini itx PC and use a TV tuner card?? They come with an IR remote.
I bet for every one like your friend that succeeds there will be another that ends up lying in the gutter somewhere.
(What follows is a layman's understanding; I have a physics degree but never studied particle physics to the kind of depth required to give an authoritative answer to this question.)

Because any attempt to quantise gravity via the methods that worked for other forces leads to theories which aren’t any use to us. So far all such attempts have led to theories which are not renormalisable. Renormalisation is not an absolute requirement for a useful quantum theory; you can do perfectly good physics in a non renormalisable theory with a high energy cut off. But we only expect quantum gravity effects to be noticeable in high energy / curvature regimes so that's no good to us. We already have a perfectly good low energy theory of gravity that explains all observable phenomena after all: It’s called General Relativity. A non-renormalisable theory that results in infinities that cannot be eliminated in the energy regimes that you hope to probe is not a useful theory.

The other source of difficulty is that existing quantum theories assume a flat spacetime background. Reworking them to account for curved spacetime makes the mathematics much harder, even if you only assume a fixed but curved background.

So we need new ideas, because the existing ideas give infinite answers in the regime where existing theories fail, but even testing such new ideas mathematically is currently challenging & very few people have the mathematical background required.
For the communication part, E2E encryption is the obvious choice and the Signal Protocol is a great candidate. They could either implement it themselves or make a deal with Open Whisper Systems to dual-license it (not 100%, but I think that's what WhatsApp did).

The problem here is the profiles, which can't be E2E encrypted because the server need to run matching algorithms on them. This is where hiring competent developers comes in, along with semi-regular security audits.

Regarding this issue specifically: as far as I'm concerned, a password reset endpoint should return absolutely no information, which should be enforced by an integration test. And I don't only mean the HTTP body here - even the return time of the request (check db, send email if user exists) could be a user enumeration exploit, which for a gay dating app already sounds like a big problem.
Throw the email into a queue and return immediately. Have a background worker deal with asynchronously. Add a random sleep() if you can afford it.
if resp.code == 200: "If the address was correct, you will receive a reset link"

In many parts of the world, you could be risking people's lives by having a side-channel user enumeration bug, let alone this level stupidity. But I doubt your average overworked "full-stack" JS dev would even think about this, and the incentive structure simply isn't there for a for-profit company to hire people that would.
I'd like to see the return of classic "donationware" shareware - where the app is fully functional but the about box notes that it is shareware and asks you to pay if you end up using it regularly.

Sure scammers could try to pass it off as their own work, bundle it with adware/spyware installers, etc. but what's the point of getting a bogus bundle when you can just download the original for free from the developer's web site?

Note: even "legitimate" download sites like download.com used to be notorious for basically doing just that, and possibly ranking higher than the developer site in search results. They also hosted deceptive ads with large, fake, "download" buttons [1]. The current incarnation seems to have improved in that regard, fortunately.

[1] https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2012/10/pick-a-down...
> Another longtime agent said she couldn’t believe how many “perverted calls” she had to field on Sunday mornings.

Having worked in a call center, I was shocked at how many customers masturbated on the phone with our female reps. We had a "banned" list of phone numbers and clients that was over 250 people long, and that was only after 2 years!

We also had the problem of wives calling in pretending to be their husbands on the phone and vice versa.
and what happened to the "go-" prefix? is it silently dropped?
Because GGP confused energy with power. It's a common mistake (the fact that the most popular unit of energy in everyday use, in context of electricity, is kilowatt hour, is not helping). But a mistake nonetheless, and one that, uncorrected, will make it hard to think about topics related to energy.

In such cases, a friendly correction is very much the right thing to do.
one hint is that rocks at the top of mountains have moss on them.

Trees are made of air.

also... 1 gallon of gasoline creates 20 pounds of CO2.
Hello! I would like to recommend to everyone one of the few utilities I've found in the last few years which blew my socks off, called x2x [0]. It is a small console program you can use to link your X session with a remote session (over SSH), so that you can move your mouse off your current laptop (or whatever) desktop and onto the remote "TV computer" desktop, and type things into that desktop with your keyboard. I'd been dreaming about this for years before I randomly stumbled on it. You can run it and just forget about it since it isn't literally streaming a series of JPGs like VNC. I've been using it with ZERO problems now for a couple of years exactly for this purpose.

[0] https://github.com/dottedmag/x2x
Baker can lay the groundwork for you:

https://web.archive.org/web/20171207154321/http://www.pipeli...

Once you have a basic grasp of how to use thermodynamic statistical analysis to understand memory pressure (and other compute pressures), you can probably see how tubes could be helpful here.

:)
Security keys protect against phishing, in addition to account takeover.

Say you click on a link that looks like Google but it's not. You enter your credentials -> these are now in possession of the attacker. If you have 2FA enabled AND you use a security key, the key digitally signs the hostname of the site you're browsing. This second factor won't be valid on the real google.com site because it was created on the phishing site.

Phishing protection is a core feature unique to security keys, and it's completely independent whether you keep the key in your laptop or you bring it with you.
I was not able to find the text of the rule change, but they seem to be signifiant:

> The draft regulation says that each year’s supply of 85,000 H-1B visas will be given to the companies that offer the highest salaries, and it says all H-1B employees must be paid above median wages.

source: https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/06/22/donald-trump-se...
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But then it doesn’t track your sleep...
The article actually addresses this:

Monitor displays are relatively darker than TV displays. This is because monitors are designed for people who sit up close.

It may not be a problem when you’re watching a movie in a dark room. If you watch with the windows open during the day, however, your monitor won’t be able to produce enough brightness to give you pleasant viewing experience.
I fear that it will get really bad in our lifetime. Customer-facing businesses are getting bigger and bigger, and with that growth comes the need to scale customer service and to diffuse responsibility.

Worst of all, more and more systems are built by a small segment of like-minded middle-class workers. They are blind to the peculiarities and the struggles of other cultures.

With those firmly established factors, I expect this to get much worse.
Tech can often make complex processes simpler but it can also make simple things complicated by adding too many unnecessary bells and whistles. That's how I feel about a lot of the IOT products coming out today.
And then there are the monks and the sand paintings.
Each time I've looked into the react based static site generators, even late last year this seems not to be true, at least not easy, they always seem to bundle client side js for rehydration, turning that off seemed impossible and wasn't a priority seemingly for many generators because the site would work without js enabled, but for cases where I don't want my sites payload to include a huge bundle of needless js then I was out of luck.
This is a nice theory, but what is the proof? Were people just as smart 30,000 years ago? What about 300,000 or 3 million years ago? How do you set the time scale? When was the boundary when people became smart?
They do. And it does take day our couple of days. But somehow it's high enough barrier of entry that NPM and Go style of publishing packages is taking over the world...
They can bail out at any time.
Really? Around here people charge money for horse manure.

Also, a community compost heap need not resemble a manure pile.
Not all physicists think they are incompatible. Mark Hadley [0][1] for example suggests that:

"On spacetimes that are not time orientable we construct a U(1) bundle [model of a particle as an asymptotically flat spacetime manifold with a region of non trivial topology where time is not orientable] to measure the twisting of the time axis. This single assumption, and simple construction, gives rise to Maxwell’s equations of electromagnetism, the Lorentz force law and the Einstein-Maxwell equations for electromagnetism coupled to General relativity. The derivations follow the Kaluza Klein theory, but with the constraints required for connections on a U(1) bundle rather than five spacetime dimensions. The non time orientability is seen to justify and constrain Kaluza Klein theories exactly as required to unify gravitation with electromagnetism. Unlike any other schemes, apparent net electric charges arise naturally because the direction of the electric field reverses along a time reversing path."

"Deriving the U(1) bundle as a measure of the twisting of the time axis is new, as is the application to manifolds that are not time orientable. Like Kaluza Klein theory, it is purely classical, but free of the complications and ad hoc assumptions required by full 5D Kaluza Klein theories. It is remarkable how so much is derived from such a simple construction without additional assumptions."

"The connection with quantum theory is intriguing. Classical structures that are not time orientable have close links with quantum phenomena such as the logical structure [4], particle creation and annihilation [14] and spin half [7] The derivation of Maxwell’s equations and electric charge is just another result from the same premise of non time orientability."

Electric charges are a natural feature of the model, but quantisation only appears naturally for magnetic monopoles (which arise in pairs). However, adding elements of quantum theory to the monopole structures leads to quantisation of electric charge. The simplest such argument uses quantisation of angular momentum, but the argument fails when more than one monopole is introduced. The other approach uses a wavefunction for a charged particle [1, p262]. Uniqueness of the phase of the wavefunction leads to quantisation of charge. This is a tantalising link between the complex phase of the wavefunction and the orientability of spacetime."

[0] https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/staff/academic/mhadley...

[1] https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-017-3344-4
Let us hope so. Your comparison is apt, but let us not forget that even at gunpoint, some people aren't in a position to pay and their bodies later get dumped into the harbor by the mob.

Where there is a debt, there might be a later bankruptcy.
This is a good point. I've been very impressed with how well Nuxt works for static builds: https://nuxtjs.org/blog/going-full-static.

I think for a startup with the liberty to choose a new tech stack, Nuxt.js is a great choice. It allows you to start with simple S3 bucket hosting, and move up to Vercel/Docker on ECS/etc. as you grow.

Hugo is a fantastic choice for blogs, but not for much else.
The PDF is for the people who are hearing about the criticism (through people who have watched the documentary), and want to feel better about enabling facebook through their work or investment or continued use.
Our food waste has been collected for more than a decade now. Once a year we can go and collect free compost from the council. It works in other parts of the world.
Of these new image format I am a fan of FLIF

http://flif.info/index.html
Hijacker: yes I shot him but it is of his own making. He didn't cave in to my demands.

(Yes, I know Android marketplace is Google's but what we'd think if MS did the same with Windows, charge a cut of every transaction. Don't like it? Too bad, no one is forcing anyone to use Windows)
['but', 'boy', 'am', 'I', 'glad', 'I', 'don\'t', 'have', 'to', 'read', 'stuff', 'like', 'that']

qw/but boy am I glad I don’t have to read stuff like that/

But why?
I paid 25€ for a 120GB KingSpec Portable SSD. A link to the shop I was buying from is in the link above.
I downvoted you because your first comment was "Hellosign is a joke." solely due to the aforementioned bug. Then you edited your comment.

You ran into a bug in some web software. It happens. Sounds like it was already fixed.

Meanwhile, the above blog post is a pretty amazing technical breakdown that is extremely detailed and well constructed. To reduce the entire company down to "a joke" because you ran into a bug once is just rude and dismissive. You might even agree because you changed your comment, although you still found a way to insult the blog post and the author.

And no, I don't work for Hellosign. I'm just a software engineer with some empathy for the hard work that has clearly gone into this. This is great knowledge sharing. Time and place.
The React SSGs are not very good at this, but as mentioned in my reply to the parent comment, Nuxt.js (based on Vue), is a great option. See https://nuxtjs.org/blog/going-full-static.
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> it’s depressing when we make a lot of money and somehow can’t save much of it.

I obviously don't know your situation nor how you handle your finances. If you have the time to spare though, The Millionaire Next Door is a interesting read on exactly this topic (how some people with high incomes don't seem to be able to save a lot of money, while some others actually manage the inverse). Not saying that it'll fix your situation, but it might provide an interesting perspective. Best of luck to you in any case, I'm sure you'll get through it.
They don’t, but they should if they intend to use me as part of their marketing campaign that could lead to spam on my repos and pissing me off isn’t one of their goals.
There is a shit tonne of static site generators that ain't hugo though.
Only after Samsung has scanned it to decide what advertising to pump into your smart TV.
Usable 3D APIs for starter.

WebGL 2.0 is at the level of OpenGL ES 3.0 (we are at GL ES 3.2 since years now) and has constraints in place due to security reasons.

WebGL 2.0 compute got a standard update last September, but there are no plans in sight to ever make it out of nightly previews, specially given WebGPU.

WebGPU still remains to be seen when it will be available, and in what form, if ever.

WebAssembly in 2020 is still trying to catch up with what Flash Alchemy allowed for in 2011.

To top this, even if you managed to make a cool 3D Web game in proper framerate, it can run like a dog in the customers browser in spite of their good native gaming experience, because the browser for whatever reason blacklists their GPU model and reverts back to either software rendering or not running at all.
Maybe.

Though I interpreted that as implying "places of the future help combat inequality" (like that particular policy of Singapore arguably does), not "places of the future sweep inequality under the rug".

There are other policies in Singapore that you can argue increase inequality. But giving poor foreigner a chance sort-of does the opposite.
Package and food delivery is going to have to be moved underground. People are going to hate the sight and sound of drones all day and night. Hopefully delivery drones will at least have a curfew so they're not buzzing around 24hr/day.
Is it wrong to suggest and admit that I write on my blog in plain HTML? How often do people refactor their designs and links? In PyCharm, I can do Regex search/replace and it gets the job done if I ever need to change the template (which hasn't happened in last 4 years). Not a single minute spent on searching for the right framework, reading docs, setting it up, dockerizing the app, and perhaps even building CI/CD for automatic deployment.

Simple is better IMO. Just calculate the ROI and time spent on it and in next 10 years how often you'll be changing stuff in terms of template or links (Neither should change - Design is not fashion and links should be relative).

I also have complete 100% control over the page. I adapt it for a particular content if its got more pictures and less text for example. It's so easy and beautiful. There is a kind of zen-like aspect to it.
> Are people in Germany more critical of Google? I somehow don’t believe that…

For historical reasons (NS, Stasi) Germans value their privacy very high. Google is collecting a lot of data and therefore they are critical. 10 years ago, before Chrome vs. Firefox it was IE vs. Opera. This is also the reason why still a lot of Germans avoid using credit cards.
My beef is microwaves that force you to press “cook time” before can use the number pad.

If I walk up to the thing and start typing, WTF does GE think I’m entering? Their default is... NOTHING. It ignores the input. STUPID.
My mnemonic for the "-r" flag is to just remember that k8s gets it right:

"kubectl apply -f myfile" ("apply file ...")

and pip stacks two verbs together in a silly way:

"pip install -r myfile" ("install read ..."??)
What does that have to do with TV vs. monitor?
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Since TOS isn’t enforced on them, Epic will have to provide some evidence that they have no choice but to agree to those unreasonable terms. So far it looks like they can’t do that. Mobile monetary share of Fortnite is small.
Yeah that's right, but people also use Google to search and use Windows on the desktop.
You do not have to abandon distribution model. I've just installed Nix on Arch Linux [1]. It ships all required dependencies - glibc etc - version specific. Works on Ubuntu/Debian [2].

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nix

[2] https://ariya.io/2020/05/nix-package-manager-on-ubuntu-or-de...
I would be happy with a big red rocker switch. It should have labels "ON" and "OFF".

A more daring design uses the door as a switch. Close the door, and the microwave runs. Open the door, and it stops. This is about as simple as it could be. User efficiency is maximized.
So what?

"Spontane Verdampfung führt zur Entkrampfung!"

or, "Spontaneous evaporation is your salvation!"
I think that smacks too much of penalising companies not for their behaviour, but simply for being successful. If It’s ok for them to charge standard market rates for providing a service to a company, if they compete with that company suddenly they have to charge less? That just seems anti-competitive. I just don’t see why it’s ok to charge Spotify 30% before Apple Music exists, but not ok to charge the same rate for the same services after.

I realise a lot of people argue Apple shouldn’t be able to charge anything, or should provide features for side loading and APIs and services to third party stores for free, but that’s not what your suggesting. I’m just critiquing your suggestion.
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I'd like to see them cut down the streak timeframe to a week, e.g. 'you've had 84 perfect weeks'.

This would allow a few slip ups, vacations, etc, and when looking back on your activity you wouldn't feel guilty or annoyed that you had missed that one day a year and a half ago, you'd just see the '84 perfect weeks' record and be content.
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Use the mouse cursor and explore your imagination
Marginally related, but something I've been curious about:

With the recent news about things like the TSL (Timescale Licence), BSL (Business Source Licence) maybe?, and other such licences, is there anything that's more general that covers the "you can use this but not sell this-as-a-service" use-case for a broader category? For a contrived example, if I were to make a geolocation-by-IP API as an open-source (source-available?) product, and I wanted to run a business around it, but didn't want a cloud provider to just snag it and offer it unmodified, what licence would I use?
You got any sources to back these claims up?
Why bother? Whatever you plug into it will have its own volume control, and when that switches off or disconnects the monitor will go into power saving mode.
> Could GR and QM be wholly separate with no unifying connection?

What does this mean? Is it mean that Universe have insufficient rules, so there are phenomena which do not follow any rules? Is it possible to devise an experiment whose results would be totally fundamentally irreproducible?

Or you mean that Universe has strict rules, but human's ways to write these rules are flawed and insufficient to grasp in a full a fractal nature of mythical rules of Universe?
Good point. There’s also, to me, a perception of style and technique: there were a lot of stone-based art, made specifically to endure time. Bas-relief, a very fit approach of art for stone-based material had this specific style that got aesthetically and technically translated to paintings and stained glass, for an overall quite consistent style whatever the medium.

You can see the intent on many religious sculptures in medieval churches around e.g France: the technique is precise, so it’d be really easy for a sculptor to just compare and match to a living and breathing model, therefore they chose not to. Contemplating how churches tell stories through imagery, you can see how they used this style for emphasis on specific physical features to elicit strong emotional response instead, not entirely unlike those TVs in stores cranking up contrast to completely unrealistic levels.
The thing is, cogeneration (incinerators producing power) is a bit of a red herring; usually our waste doesn't have the calorific value to actually produce usable power, so it's mixed with fuel, which is not exactly ideal. Also, unsegregated garbage, when burnt, will produce stuff like dioxins and furans which you don't want in the atmosphere.

It's necessary for some types of waste (medical, for example), but it's not a power generation method.
Found the millennial? The knob design is the much older one as it's purely analog.

I don't have a microwave anymore for almost a decade now, but even before I used it occasionally only, mostly for heating up food from the day before, nothing where I'd need sub-millisecond accuracy.
Also in general food tastes different/weird if you blast it at full power, so going for lower wattage and longer cooking times would reduce the need for super accurate timing controls. Unless you grew up on microwaved food exclusively, then I guess food prepared on a stove tastes weird. :-)
As a preemptive strike Google changes third party stores rules on Android 12 towards easier operations.