skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I can remember causing me quite a bit of anxiety as a kid was the clothes I had to wear. I was terrified of school events where it wasn't necessary to wear a uniform, because I knew the other kids would find out that I didn't own any nice clothes. I'd always pretend I got my days mixed up and show up in uniform anyway, but I'm sure I wasn't fooling anyone.
It is better to submit the main page https://www.codejoh.com/ instead of the sign in page.

You should add some background and favicon. They are not necessary, but make it look more professional. Also, add links to the main page in the sign in page.

In the main page, do you have links to the article in linkedin an youtube?
I would guess¹ that DayZ would also be just as, if not even more, harrowing. I mean, in DayZ you are playing against actual, real people.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7003821#7004805
I wasn’t aware of this. Do you know where I can read more?

ETA: https://abc7ny.com/suspicious-package-queens-astoria-fire/64...

I have most of this stuff in my home as well, along with pounds of gunpowder. Absent other evidence, I tend to believe Marak.
A Conversation with Tezos Co-Founder Arthur Breitman
Domain Design vs. Data Flow
Sufficiently large cities,much like sufficiently large companies, fall into the tight hierarchical management and red tape. Basic services become more expensive and less effective.

This also mirrors large enterprises, especially in things like IT services for providing infrastructure before AWS started hollowing them out.

In large enterprises with a dozen different datacenters (often from acquisitions and mergers), I never understood why these assets were placed under the same management and policy. Instead, the opportunity to provide internal services competition was ignored, with two or even three or four different infrastructure provider services competing to serve IT systems and applications.

Likewise, in a large enough city you could have competing services for snow plowing, garbage collection, pothole maintenance, and even if you don't have consumer choice or transparency, have a relatively cheap oversight group rate and reallocate funding. School choice has been pretty popular in cities.

And when privatization occurs... why go all in? Use it for competition, not replacement. Although charter schools have been generally a failure of policy if we use that as an example of this strategy.
My Datasette project is leaning in that direction: it's a web application that provides a JSON API (or GraphQL with the datasette-graphql plugin) to execute read queries against your database, and I've been adding write functionality to it as well.

https://docs.datasette.io
We reduced our failed payment rate by 92%
Puppy is very interesting in that at first glance the distro comes of as sort of a toy distro. But then when you look closer at the files system and the security ramifications related to that, it's a very serious distro.
Or they could have just used arbitrary elements, like <myelement>. Folks forget that this is valid HTML, and it’s just treated as a div.
That only works on Firefox. For all other browsers, you need to go through an extremely cumbersome process to install the certificates in the Windows trust store. This is not even possible on my work-issued laptop for example.

It's really annoying that the only way to provide secure HTTPS is to make your local devices dependent on a public service and abuse DNS resolution.

Hopefully as more and more people encounter this problem, some router-based certificate signing protocol will become known and accepted, maybe even with some kind of extension to DHCP to allow advertising the root cert of the router. Of course, a lot of care would need to be taken to make it hard to accidentally trust some cafe wi-fi...
Ask HN: Solutions to count website visitors that's not blocked by ad-blockers?
I'm trying to weed off from Google Analytics and looking for alternatives. I don't need anything complex, I'm mainly looking for a reasonable guesstimate on the number of visitors per page. This is hindered by common use of ad-blockers, which understandably block many analytics scripts. Do I have to build my own solution to this or is there an existing product for counting visitors that is not blocked by ad-blockers?
flame on, brother. They could have done some work that advances the world a little but did not. Instead they just threw keyword-bait into sciencey echo chamber.
Interview like an asset, not a beggar
Good, glad it exists, though it looks like it's only been available for about a year.

I don't care about JEDEC. I care about the XMP spec that's promised to me by the manufacturer, so I can rely on it. I'm not against overclocking myself but if I'm trying to boost it by a significant amount then I have no idea what to set the timings to and there's a good chance it just won't work, with no recourse on my end.

Also that module costs way more than $65.
How would you handle spam with predominantly E2EE emails? WhatsApp et al. have complete control over clients giving them a few more cues to go by. I would imagine it would get even harder to send anything from your own server. Though one could argue it's already too hard to bother.
Georgia, modified to put a slash through the zero, and a small horizontal line, like a serif, on the l. Theory being, letters in serif fonts are easier to distinguish since visually they're more different from each other. Same reason the body text of books uses something like Times New Roman, only headings use a sans serif font.
No, what is listed are the concerns they have with W10 but they don't say what is preventing them from using W7 if they really want to.
That sounds a little desperate. I 'truly love' few things. I'll give that one a miss.
Use server logs instead of client side libraries
> "In fact, I hope and believe the majority of mental illness cases are not serious."

Then your understanding of mental illness is very poor. For example, from Wikipedia, "In 2015, ... [suicide] was the second leading cause of death for young people aged 15 to 34 and the third leading cause of death for those between the ages of 10 and 14." And, in comparison to treatments for common cancers, the successful treatment rate for many common mental illnesses is often quite low.
Bing is even more vulnerable to SEO spam in my opinion.
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A very comprehensive theory of physics including the physics of

computation can be developed. However, such a foundational

theory will be inferentially undecidable.
Antibodies Good. Machine-Made Molecules Better?
(On Mac, it works in Safari too—it'll actually add the certificate to macOS's Keychain.)
You're kind of confusing different issues.

On the one hand, PRNGs aren't a very popular research subject AFAIK. The Blackman/Vigna PRNGs (which are the other recently popular PRNG family) likewise only got papers on Arxiv, AFAIK; so it's not clear to which peer-reviewed PRNG are you comparing PCGs. We are talking about non-crypto PRNGs here after all, which mostly get tested just experimentally, to check their statistical quality.

On the other hand, there is a really weird claim associated with the PCG family: that it is challenging to predict and that it thus "provides many of the benefits provided by CSPRNGs". This is how the PCG designer ends the abstract of her PCG paper:

> These functions can be designed to make it difficult for an adversary to discover the generator’s internal state by examining its output, and thus make it challenging to predict. This property, coupled with the ability to easily switch between random streams, provides many of the benefits provided by cryptographically secure generators without the overheads usually associated with those generators.

That's baloney. PCGs are not CSPRNGs, but she's deceptively trying to make it sound like they kind of are (have the same benefits). Anyway, a relatively efficient attack has been demonstrated this year: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02700791/

Another issue with the "challenging predictability" design goal is that it seems to come at the cost of necessary trade-offs at the expense of speed and/or statistical quality, even though it is of dubious utility (considering that no real guarantee is given, and that a relatively efficient attack has recently been demonstrated): https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/16313#issuecomment-726...
Software engineering basically selects for people being able and willing to sift through vast amounts of information and rapidly build intricate mental models in order to figure out how some system works or ought to be working. That's basically the job description.

And it's not just software engineers who tend to be 'know-it-alls'. Just spend some time on Quora.

The part about kids is a bit uncalled for though. Anyone raising kids should strive to be a specialist at raising kids, don't you think?
Ok, so that's one use case. How many webapps are doing image manipulation (not to mention plain sites)?

There should really be a prompt whenever a site tries to access this information, especially in privacy-conscious browsers (I wouldn't expect Chrome to want such an anti-feature for their customers, the ad companies).
> - At home I have an ergonomic mechanical keyboard vs. a cheap rubber dome keyboard that kept running out of batteries at work.

> - An ergonomic mouse, vs. a tiny mouse that doesn't even have a back button.

This might be surprising, but you can bring your own keyboard and mouse to the office. Perhaps even get your employer to pay for them.

I've done this with every office I ever worked at. Dear employer I love you but my hands are my bread-and-butter and they trump your office standards. My hands, my peripherals. You're welcome to pitch in. If you have a problem with me using custom gear, bye.
> That only works on Firefox. For all other browsers, you need to go through an extremely cumbersome process to install the certificates in the Windows trust store.

This is a bug in those browsers, then. It's totally fine to use the system certificate store as a default, but it should be possible to trust other certificates at a more localized level - perhaps for a limited time, but not in a way that's limited to a single browser session.
Author causally mentions having a family.

I think that's the big difference here. Someone single like me absolutely loves WFH. I make a very good salary, don't have to worry about even showering if I don't want to. I have my own dual monitor setup.

I can order whatever food I'd like. I wouldn't mind doing this forever , and the vaccine rolling out so we can all do concerts and stuff.
I highly recommend a smart bulb that can change color, for example Philips Hue White Ambiance. You can even set it to automatically fade from daylight to warm at a time you specify.
Sounds like the emotional truth of the action didn’t carry through.
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I think what you’re hinting at is: is there a tertiary common causal factor that causes both low parenting ability and low income? The relevance being that if we ‘solve’ the income portion then the parenting ability will be unaffected, leading to similar results. I think it’s a worthwhile question, but shouldn’t compel inaction on the income portion. Let’s work on that part and see what happens, how about?
"unhumane" lol just quit and take up a job as one of the thousands of professions who dont work in an office. Your entitlement is ridiculous.
I wrote the things that make it more than meaningful to work on it or to want to have it these tools available to myself and others. You dismissed those on the grounds on not being important to you.

You come with the comment of "Blockchain does not solve trust" like you're the only one who has figured that out. Not only it is a laughable notion [0], you make it sound like people should abandon everything and lose all hope. What do you want people to say: "Oh, Mr. Louwrentius said that all this work is kind of foolish and not important, so let's pack our stuff and go work at Big Co?" or "Yeah, tech itself is not going to solve social problems, but those societies that want to operate in certain ways will need to have specific technology to support them?"[1]

You point out a known and largely acknowledged issue with the current implementation, to which I respond "Yes, it is known and a lot of people are working on solutions to overcome that, and if you want you can take a look at how the progress at Proof-of-Stake is going." Your only answer is "Oh, 12 years and they haven't delivered anything of value yet." Do you see how non-sensical it is?

Bias, "emotional investment"? Yes, of course there is! Anyone working on something based on some form of idealism will keep their biases and will be emotionally invested on their work. But as long as this work is not violating any moral or ethical values, what is the problem? I'd rather have more people working on things they are also invested in, where they have more skin in the game than anyone else and that they can actually defend what they do for their work. The alternative is to spend your professional life as a corporate drone and perhaps (if they feel guilty about it) try to make it up by the occasional virtue-signaling hobby.

Trying to discredit people working on blockchain due to "bias" or "emotional investment" is a terrible mistake.

First because you think that the "emotional investment" is all there is to it. It's not. You would be fully right to argue if it was "a lot of wishful thinking" if the people were only talking about it and never implementing anything, or if the people never stopped to learn the lessons of failed projects, or if you saw those leading projects making promises but never delivering. It's easy to dismiss things when you are only pointing to the scammers and the crackpots, but if you actually bothered to listen to the people that are working on it, perhaps you'd find people way more grounded in reality than you are.

Second, it's a mistake to discredit their work because you are not giving any alternative. When you say "none of these issues you pointed out are really worthy", you are displaying your bias for the status quo.

[0]: https://twitter.com/rlullis/status/1307420668372430848

[1]: https://hub20.io and https://hub20.io/architecture/
Proof by contradiction was a thought that went thru my mind as well when reading this article. Not sure if high school teaches that stream of thought, can't recall using such methodology in school.
I'm still sore about Reader...

Google Music was decent. This new replacement is not so good. The "I'm Feeling Lucky" mix was generally right. The YT versions are good for about five songs and then trail off into Do Not Like. No amount of thumbs down seems to be making a positive change.
I spent most of the article thinking about non-Euclidean solutions to the octagon problem; however, non-Euclidian geometry is clearly not something one would introduce to a group of students who did not already know four right angles cannot be in a convex Euclidean octagon.
>I don't understand why people think I'm against helping people.

For the purpose of trying to fill in that knowledge gap, let me say that as someone that just casually browsed the comments, you originally came across as tone-deaf and disconnected from reality. After the comment attempting to dismiss mental disorders, you came across as actively malicious.

If you're serious about just trying to help people, try harder than telling them to work harder on a forum almost exclusively populated with well-off professionals.
I agree. I would expect genetics to be a fairly significant confounding variable.
Yep, could be. Could also be some BOM error in their part library if that problem is present on every board of a certain revision.
Mike Bostock, the creator of the visualization language D3, also created a javascript notebook product called Observable [1].

I like the idea of doing everything in the same language, but I can't give up the python scientific computing environment to switch to javascript.

[1] https://observablehq.com/product
I'm wondering if it's due to a shift in where the reading occurs (eg paper vs screen)
Your yearly reminder that the original use of 10x engineer referred to an engineer who took 10 times longer to the same task as the typical engineer, and has also been variously subverted since in a variety of ways including the “team multiplier that isn’t especially more productive, but is the secret sauce that makes the team 10x more productive.”
Huh... where are the negative values? That where I am at
Seconded - use the server logs.

One way to do that is to setup this package:

http://www.webalizer.org/
I know of at least one customer that you're going to loose as a result of this tone deaf PR, and based on your responses in this thread am hoping that you loose a lot more.
Oh, fascinating. I've suspected this is possible for a long time, but have never seen any ideas on implementing it.

I have a POWER9 desktop, and a fair share of other users do so for privacy/security concerns, pretty hardcore Tor browser guys and the like. I've mentioned before that fingerprinting firefox on ppc64le would be very easy because of timing the non-JIT'd JS engine. I guess there's potential for much more specific fingerprinting.
> on first reading it really seems like they want to get people to hate them

Didn’t read it like that at all. I just read someone explaining their principles and how it relates to something they make.
Yes, as a user I feel nnn was extremely disruptive as a FM. As the author I see at least 7 to 8 FMs drawing inspiration from it, which is a very positive testimony.
This. Its better polically to improve by 5x then later another 5x etc. if you dont want to embarrasse anyone.
https://www.virallisetlinkit.eu/static/screenshot/original/4...
I think these are beautiful
The light grey text under "MVP.css works with the following HTML elements:" surely fails (WCAG2).

`section` has an `h2`, but no `h1` for some reason. Other failures like this.

Other than that what's wrong?
Not related to the goal of the article, but if you're looking to learn Morse check out https://morse.withgoogle.com/learn/

And then install a morse keyboard on your phone.
That's not entirely true. There have been plenty of shutdowns over the inability to monetize, either directly or via ads or data collection. Products have to have a value add for G or they don't survive. It's just that "money" isn't the only currency. The statement about promotion is spot on though.
I have no doubt this is true and has been for me at every place I worked since I got into this field in the 90s. Except when I did an on-site contract for a government department. They would not allow this. I had to make a spreadsheet to show the stakeholder that the computer they had provided was costing them $x a day for me to just sit there watching a build. They did replace the computer.
Demoscene in 1939.
I think by "metric" he means your definition of a good abstraction, not the fact that all abstractions leak.
> There’s a reason why the class attribute exists. You can also validly use custom elements and attributes

To hammer this home - there is nothing bad about divs when it comes to accessability which, to be honest, is the only concern that "semantic html" should be about.
For those of us who still prefer to use legacy BIOS on current hardware when possible, the article is not obsolete.

I suspect the downvotes were because your comment comes across as unreasonably negative.
It seems a Bayesian interpretation of probability is more general. The frequency of events over an infinite number of trials is one way of interpreting probability for things that are able to be repeated. But this wouldn’t make sense to apply for an election that is only going to happen once and yet one still wants to be able to quantify uncertainty in these situations.
Someone intercepts that hash and replay it to gain access to the router. You can’t solve that problem without trusted CA.
Yep, that would be a better rewording. I missed it in my search for a <80 character title.
Houston schools see surge in failing students as Covid wreaks havoc on grades
> That's not technically true.

So your argument is that rejection from peer-review counts as peer-review?

> I'm confused about why the author didn't just resubmit it elsewhere [...] concerns were about presentation rather than substance

As far as I understand, the PCG paper is double the size it should be to get accepted by a serious journal. It contains a lot of unnecessary explanations of basic facts, making it unnecessarily tiresome to read for an expert. Presentation matters, because it stands between you and the substance, and you have to be able to get to the substance as fast as possible to review the paper.

> [...] (given the attention to PCG at this point, if there were serious criticisms of it it seems a failing on the part of the journal not to address these).

Well, the paper was rejected before it could come to that point...
> Is it unfair? Fuck yea it is, but what are you going to do? Stay there and complain? Or are you gonna get busy running.

This is literally “pick yourself up by your bootstraps”. Get busy running is not a thing underprivileged kids can do.
Thank you for the input, i will look into all these issues.
For the pedantic, like me, "The first edition of the [ASCII] standard was published in 1963" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
> I agree that this practice sucks, but to play devils advocate - is it possible that this is due to binning / yield maximization?

Oh definitely not. They disable all kinds of arbitrary features that are totally unrelated to yield.
> They don't necessarily have control over their disorder, and are unable to change themselves alone.

As someone who has dealt with serious, chronic health issues for a decade, I truly hate this attitude.

I don't necessarily have full control over my health issues, but I'll be damned if you tell me I am unable to take actions to change myself and my situation.

Yes, I much prefer messages that emphasize my personal agency, which your well-intentioned message actively denies.

This is a tight-rope to walk: sick people have limitations and one should acknowledge them, but repeatedly asserting their utter helplessness is also a form of shaming and encourages them to stop trying.
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Ask HN: Does it make sense to write a blog in 2020?
what a verbose way to say correlation isn't causality.
If you knew him at all or had bothered to spend the time to look at his work and projects in any level of depth, you would know he is not a self-aggrandizing person.

And if the arguement is that this is a gateway action that leads to other bad things, that's not an arguement I put any stock in. It's used a lot in many places and many discussions, but just focus calling out the bad. It isn't his responsibility to ensure that some person building off his work at some point in the future does the appropriate level of research appropriate for their project. Assuming that an action is bad because you think someday down the road it might lead someone else to do something and that that something will be a bad thing is just ridiculous.
Under properties of capitalism:

> Poverty, crime, violence.

Anybody want to tell him?