skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to Hofstede's cultural dimensions, of all the countries listed US has highest masculinity. Does feminism equals misogyny in your mind?

https://www.hofstede-insights.com/product/compare-countries/
These are scientifically unsubstantiated claims but to claim that they are impossible is to go beyond the scope of the current science. We have a default stance on this, the 'null hypothesis' that states that these are not possible, a hypothesis which we have thus far failed to reject. This is not the same as saying that we've proven the null hypothesis to be true, we never really prove the null when we do hypothesis testing - we either reject it, or default back to it.
How can you know that mind control is impossible? If you were truly capable of it, would you advertise it? I know I wouldn't, unless I had a burning desire to end up in a government lab somewhere, which I don't.
Real science always rests on a backdrop of agnosticism, which people often forget and get caught up in emotionally charged ridicule.

But all that aside, it's not really about believing or not believing in whatever the claims are. These disciplines are all based on the 'doing' aspect - you do it, and if you feel the slow transformation of your character, then great. Whether or not you become a pyromancer is actually not important, most of these disciplines actually discourage these things even though they believe in them. Their stance is that different strange abilities may come and go but clinging to them is more destructive to progress than anything.
The word does indeed seem to be attributable to Whewell, with the OED attributing the first printed use of the word to an 1834 article by Whewell in the Quarterly Review, in which the discussion you allude to regarding "philosophy" being too broad of a term, appears on page 59.

However, you seem to have neglected to mention that this 1934 article by Whewell was a review of Mary Somerville's book (On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences).

The full text of Whewell's 1834 article appears to be available [1] from a University of Kent blog post on the topic [2]

[1] https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/sciencecomma/files/2015/04/whewell_...

[2] https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/sciencecomma/2015/04/09/whewell-and...
Walt Disney builds the city of tomorrow (1966)
Out of curiosity, how many people are working on this at Plaid?
The False Positive Problem of Automatic Bot Detection in Social Science Research
There was a wonderful project "choir.io" that did exactly this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6220740

I got early access and wired it into our software, which essentially processed streams of various events. And you could get a sense for when the pace picked up, or something unusual was happening more often than normal. Sadly the project was shut down at some point.
When the click fraud decision is made and when the decision is communicated are different things.

When combating fraud, communicating the result of fraud decisions gives fraudsters information they can use to evade fraud protections. The faster the feedback loop for fraudsters, the faster they can find the gaps. Give feedback too quickly, and you'll never keep up in the cat-and-mouse game.
depends on where you live. have a look at 1cp-LSD.
If they crash and burn someone can just fork the project from their ashes. I think some group will take it on because it's important to have another rendering engine that's not Konqueror-derived.
Snowden didn't defect to Russia. The US trapped him there by revoking his passport while he was traveling through on the way to Ecuador.
I read an overview of Gemini that described it like this:

gemini is a new internet protocol which:
- is heavier than gopher
- is lighter than the web
- will not replace either

It looks like you disagree — how come?
Protobuf supports "oneof" which is also cumbersome to implement in these same languages but all of them support it (with some extra LOC and no exhaustiveness checking watching your back).

Java/Go/C++ are perfectly capable of parsing a "type" key and conditionally parsing different shaped data. If you make a programming mistake here, you'll get a parse error (bad, but not a security problem). The pushback seems to be that a Java/Go/C++ implementation adds LOCS and won't gain much by doing this extra step so lets make the protocol itself match match their (less precise) data representation.

FWIW there is work towards improving Java in this regard:
https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/amber/pattern-match....
Except when more important things are on the line. Werner Von Braun begs to differ.
I’m with you.

And it’s true that’s it’s hard to take account of your own perspective. It’s possible to write a kind of story of Markdown and not make Pandoc a big part of it. But it seems like a glaring omission to not even mention it. It‘s what makes Markdown a real lingua franca, what gives it real power.
It would be interested for user behavior data to be considered non-privatizable and mandated to be licensed non-discriminatorily like music.
Even the people moving away from the regular web will most likely be switch-hitting. Using MegaGloboChromeWeb for all that stuff where you have to do it, but also trying separate approaches.

Gemini might be one of them, for applications where hyperlinked text offerings make sense.

But betting too much on a single protocol is what got us in this place.

For example, this site makes no sense to me at all, technically speaking. There's nothing HN offers that couldn't be done with Usenet or a mailing list. Alas...
Interesting, there's a location off the coast of San Francisco in the pacific ocean called "Morocco Mole Lab Pacific Ocean, Pune"

Anyone know what that's supposed to be? Maybe a dummy location for test data?
We built the Chrome DevTools WebAuthn tab
Pay wall free:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201022210841/https://www.econo...
Isn't that something that Google has been accused of before, adding things to carts, and then leaving?
This is content-free blogspam.

It looks like all of this user's past submissions are too?
There is much more proof of the Hunter Biden news than this, yet social media censored one but not the other.

Interesting how it always seems to go one way.
In addition to what the others said...

- Safer web browser integration (uses WebExtension Native Messaging, rather than a localhost service)

- Built-in YubiKey integration

- "Health check" dashboard that shows you problematic passwords (expired, weak, reused, Have I Been Pwned integration)
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24861825

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgU2B6tasaA
It's not entirely true that regulators haven't plushed back: in the USA, there's a minimum amount of cream required before the vendor can call the product "ice cream".

The products in that category that have been puffed up with air (and don't meet this minimum) get sold as "dairy desserts".

(I don't work on the food industry, so I won't be shocked if I got details wrong.)
Those are some big words but.... the chat market is flooded. I barely use Whats App as well as most people I know so they are far from ubiquitous.

Why then? Why not any other chat app, or even messenger with far greater reach and just as many resources?
Even someone like me, a VFX professional who does a lot of RAW processing, dealing with RAW is sometimes such a chore. There are plenty of times where I want to use Halide and I want to shoot RAW but I also want to easily share a photo (without going through the laborious processing thing). So I'm really looking forward to that.

I'm curious in what way you believe your processing pipeline for "getting to jpg" (RAW -> Instant Raw Processing -> JPEG) is superior to Apple's (capture -> Apple's Processing -> JPEG). Does it just come down to different aesthetic preferences and one-frame-per-image? Or is there something else to it?

Also, love the XDR Analysis. So cool.
That solution is existentially terrifying to them both in the "job depends upon not understanding it" sense and their very ideas of how they feel the world works/should work so are institutional non-starters until they are replaced one way or another (generationally or competition rendering them irrelevant).
This works for targeted attacks, but doesn't work for untargeted, shotgun-ransom-ware attacks.

Shotgun attacks aren't discouraged if some X% of their targets can't/won't pay the ransom.
Being non-partisan isn't about seeking out a middle ground and planting yourself there. It's about saying "you know, there's a lot of strongly held beliefs on this issue, and we're not the right organization to reconcile them".

It's the same principle as being a non-religious organization. If the ACLU went around telling people that accepting Jesus as your lord and savior is the most important liberty, I suspect you'd agree that's very strange - even though many devout Christians do hold that position and think it's important.
It’s amazing that it’s 2020 and we still haven’t managed to completely fuck up either (1) the web or (2) email. Can’t blame Google for trying though.

Ditch Chrome. Ditch Gmail. Your vote will be a drop in the ocean, but as an internet leader, you need to at least empathize with life outside the Google Gardens.
Here is the full text [1] of Whewell's review of this book, by the way, in which the term scientist appears to have first appeared in print [2,3]

[1] https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/sciencecomma/files/2015/04/whewell_...

[2] https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/sciencecomma/2015/04/09/whewell-and...

[3] https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/172698 (note: paywall, but generally the authoritative source)
This could be really good or really terrible.

My son is a big fan of the Java Edition, because it has the most options and allows the most modding. But some of his friends have the Bedrock edition.

If this change means that you can use the same account for the Java Edition and the Bedrock Edition, that would be great. The Bedrockers could move to the Java Edition with the same account, or Java Edition players could switch to Bedrock for the occasional game with Bedrock players without losing their access to the Java Edition.

If that's the case, then this is awesome.

On the other hand, I'm not a big fan of Microsoft Accounts in general. Microsoft pushes them too hard on Windows 10 users, and for the most part, they're pretty bad. Overly complicated, mostly, and 9 times out of 10 it's not what you want.

I even made the stupid mistake to use Microsoft Family accounts to keep an eye on my son's gaming habit. Microsoft Family is probably the worst thing Microsoft has ever created. It's overly complicated, the UI is awful, it simply doesn't work, while pretending to work, and at some point my son's account got locked with no hint of how to fix it, except create a local account for him.

All of that has nothing to do with Minecraft, but it explains why I'm wary of Microsoft accounts.
It won't completely replace the web, but I hope that it's a viable replacement for a subset of the web worth preserving. The rest of the web is either (1) best served some other way or (2) not worth keeping.
How much beef would I need to buy to be thrown in jail?
Why wasn't this just open sourced?
If the chance is sufficiently low then the practice becomes unprofitable.
My intuition also.

I can practically date my old passwords (for unimportant things) by this, and/or how many times I forgot it and had to set a new, unique password.
kinda reminds me, another dev and I at a hackathon several years ago were able to reverse engineer Uber's API; probably did it on android.

We were able to real-time map _all_ Uber drivers anywhere with their name. Pretty sure we had to set a geofence.
Amusing to see people at the top of the most fashionable industry while holding the moral views of a 19th century.
Show HN: React and TailwindCSS Landing Page Templates
As a CEO there's no such thing as "personal" politics. They are in a position of high power and their beliefs influence the company culture. They are also likely to be able to influence politicians with the pull of money.
Anecdotal but I see buses run really late yellow and even red lights all the time.
But why bring up Android at all? Halide doesn't work on Android and this entire discussion is about iOS.
Are you trying to say rockets would not be invented without him?
Has anyone on this thread seriously discussed leaving the US with their partner, based at least in part on the growth and aggressiveness of its domestic security services?
I never said anything about that. Just arguing against your false claim "there are no additional costs for the employer". If you mean something else, say that instead.
Hey dimitri, what's up.

JSON is not 100% a subset of YAML, this is true; that's slightly a simplification of the truth that is commonly echoed. It is a syntactically a subset of YAML, and for anything representable in JSON you can still do a functionally-lossless translation* from JSON to YAML and back again. This is because:

> In the case where there are duplicate name Strings within an object, lexically preceding values for the same key shall be overwritten.

So,

{ "key": "value", "key": "otherValue" }

becomes

{ "key": "otherValue" }

in a round trip, but represents the same thing, going by ECMA262 rules.

These are definitely distinct snippets of JSON and if you only use RFC4627 then it doesn't define anything about how to parse the JSON beyond the syntax, whereas the YAML spec is a bit more complete in regards to specifying semantics probably partly since it's a more complicated language. Thankfully in the common case most JSON parsers do as specified in ECMA262 (which makes sense since that's where this format came from anyways) and use the latest key. You can see this in Go's "encoding/json" for example. So this property is still meaningfully true, I'd argue, even if it is more nuanced than commonly believed.

tl;dr: It is true that not all valid JSON is valid YAML. However, automatic translation between the JSON and YAML is still possible if you are going by ECMA262 JSON semantics.

P.S.: In practice, YAML parsers do actually often take the liberty of interpreting YAML to be a proper superset. This isn't too surprising since most YAML parsers take a lot of liberties that are/were outright spec violations, but just as an example, here's PyYAML:

>>> from yaml import load
>>> load('{"a":"1","a":2}')
{'a': 2}
The second part of your comment made me curious, cause I use AWS Lambda a lot. No extra credits for that... was that a limited time event or regional?
Amazon faces a more costly workers’ comp classification in Washington state
I’ve traveled a lot in the Sahara and an old expression amongst the expats was “The French send troops, the Germans send money and the British send regrets”.
I like that it doesn't automatically open in a new tab. That means I have control over whether I want it to open in a new tab. It puts users in control, and that's good.
Sacklers–who made $11B off opioid crisis–to pay $225M in damages
I'm sure your kids are fine, I don't mean to imply that there's anything wrong with what you did. I just want to float this idea.

There is the possibility that they are less-prepared in terms of the coping skills that normally help us adults deal with others who are located somewhere on the 'bully' spectrum.

From the hostile police officer that pulls you over on a fishing expedition, to your first boss who is on an ego trip, to terrible in-laws, to the neighbor trying to get the HOA after you because your kids play too 'loudly.'

Bullying never goes away in life, and there is something to be said for kids learning coping skills early-on in situation where your parents can't necessarily swoop in and help you.

But, maybe they're better-prepared in other areas.
you write states per purpose. you can import, you can extend, you can define functions in one and reuse them somewhere else...
On MacOS I've been using MacPass (https://macpassapp.org/) for years, which uses the same file format (so can use KeePass with the same DB on other platforms) but is more Mac OS-y.
Firefox Tweaks and Fixes and Styles and Things
> The problem with using the web, but less of it, is that the web is still incredibly complicated and even conservative websites require a massive engineering undertaking to render properly

The main problem is that "less of it" isn't well defined, so any website, while still appearing to require little of the web, requires its own subset. If there is a clear demarcation about which features are supported and which aren't, then websites can be built targeting this smaller subset, and everyone would be happy. There is no need to reinvent the wheel and start totally from scratch. Reading the Gemini specification, it seems like a NIH of HTTP. What's wrong about a HTTP 1.0 server?
It happens all the time. What's the problem? The community decides with little up and down arrows if they like it.
Oh, neat. I just started playing around with a new crossword puzzle project earlier this week.

I don't really want to use C++, but I'll bet I can get a lot of helpful design concepts from this.
> When the tribes got crushed and everyone became Roman peace and prosperity (mostly) reigned.

Well, it didn't really go well for the tribes. About half of the gallic population was killed or enslaved. As for the romans, that war was started to reinforce the personal power of Caesar, and the power imbalance it generated led to the fall of the republic. I'm not sure your historic analogy makes a great case for your point.

> it makes things way easier for developers to have one browser to target.

What makes things easier for developers is standards. As for targetting one product present in a walled garden, it may be pleasant in the short term, but we have many cautionary tales about it, and Google is responsible for more than their fair share of them.
^French^Americans probably.
"Go make your own Facebook and Twitter"

Meanwhile, the Facebooks and Twitters that currently exist will continue to try to shift public opinion toward their preferred political candidates and causes
Here you have a pseudo article of someone ready to say with confidence anything to support his own agenda. Being it true or false...

Here it looks like that this one wants to promote bicycling so will say anything to support that.

But it is like going back to the dark age. Do you remember when we couldn't go very far from home? Transport things?

He pretends that Paris was better and a paradise before the 'evil work' of Haussmann. It is so untrue!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Pa...

<<
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the center of Paris was viewed as overcrowded, dark, dangerous, and unhealthy. In 1845, the French social reformer Victor Considerant wrote: "Paris is an immense workshop of putrefaction, where misery, pestilence and sickness work in concert, where sunlight and air rarely penetrate. Paris is a terrible place where plants shrivel and perish, and where, of seven small infants, four die during the course of the year."
>>

Also some interesting photo of that time:

https://www.messynessychic.com/2013/10/11/lost-paris-documen...
> The word does indeed seem to be attributable to Whewell

I know. I said whewell coined the term. But as I noted, Laura Synder said that the term was coined by Whewell in 1833 in response to coleridge.

The point was that whewell coined the term to differentiate "scientist" from "natural philosopher", not for mary somerville.
Ask HN: Anyone in Melbourne willing to help fix a vintage S100 disk controller?
Anyone in Melbourne with precision soldering skills, keen eyesight and electronics knowledge?

I have a vintage S100 disk controller but it isn't working. I paid someone to replace the capacitors on it and I'm sorry to say it never worked after that.

I have about 30 vintage floppy disks that I want to try to copy off to preserve and publish publicly for historical archiving - impossible of course without a controller.

I figure maybe an electronics expert with a magnifying glass, a keen eye and precision soldering skills might be able to make it work again. Perhaps some of the solders are bridged or something - just guessing here.
Everyone has a reason to fear (and fight against) surveillance (2017)
We had a spirited debate about this in our application at work recently. Some devs feel (strongly) that having no option to open links on the same page is a user-hostile choice. Other devs feels (also strongly) that users most likely want to open a link in a new tab so that’s what should happen.

We never reached an agreement but someone did make a claim, that I was unable to verify, that modern users don’t use the back button and therefore relying on it to allow users to find their way back is unacceptable. I wonder if anyone else has heard that (I suspect the HN crowd knows about the back button though ;))
The police need to be held accountable, full stop. The police need to be held to a higher standard than the people, full stop. Even if that means an angry mob it's still preferable to no accountability.

It's clean because the police should be held to higher standards than the public, and they can quit if they don't want that responsibility.
Ningx Plus isn't open-source, and this lives on top.
> [DMCA] section 1201 creates a potential legal obstacle for a researcher or coder if a software vendor employs mechanisms that control the way copyrighted software or other materials can be accessed or used. Many people think of section 1201 as prohibiting cracking digital rights management schemes (DRM). However, the language of section 1201 prohibits more than breaking traditional “copy-protection” mechanisms applied to DVDs and digital video downloads. It also prohibits breaking “access controls”. Software vendors have argued, or are likely to argue, that techniques such as authentication handshakes, code signing, code obfuscation, and protocol encryption all qualify as “technical protection measures” protected by the DMCA.

EFF has an interesting take: https://www.eff.org/issues/coders/reverse-engineering-faq
Yes, just through AWS and GCP marketplaces.

ESNI (now Encrypted Client Hello: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-esni-08) is still in draft.

v1 of the firewall that is currently published ignores the extension but will deny in case SNI is absent.

v2, due in a couple of weeks, will actively seek presence of any of ECH extensions and deny them. This is to prevent domain-fronting style of exfiltration attempts. We expect HTTP Clients in the enterprise to not have moved over to ECH any time soon. However, the firewall has a lot of checks and balances built-in to mitigate this in the future when it arrives.
There are no absolutes. Things do get cheaper but you're ignoring several factors like scale, branding and just product awareness that make a difference for consumers.
I assume this is perfectly legal right? otherwise there could be a McLawsuit.
Wow, a free update... much appreciated. I figured that with a new number, it'd be an upgrade. And a loupe! Thanks so much! That was my number one request (that I never made).
Ah, yes, the trained master-mind Snowden. It was all a ploy to embarrass the US and hide the fact that Snowden actually collaborated with Russia, which the US for some reason would never even assert.
At what point is it okay to depend on a feature?

> not leashing themselves to some TLS cert feudal lord

Really?

You can get one free and change at any time.
>there are over ~55,000,000 documented police-public encounters in a given year, and ~1,000 cases of lethal force

>The rate of lethal force as a percent of interactions: 0.0000206473%.

Could you explain this number? I get 0.001818%. Did you forget to correct for the factor 100 in giving a percentage?
https://hanna-barbera.fandom.com/wiki/Morocco_Mole
The best tasting soft pretzels are the ones dipped in a weak solution of lye, for sure.