skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And that would defeat the thought experiment.

What is the thought experiment? It's easy to know what the coordinates of the cylinder are. It's easy to project them however you want. Doing this doesn't tell you much. For the actual problem, we also have to ask:

- Is the rest of the world seen normally, or is it "not deformed by perspective" either? If there's no perspective for anything, most of what you see will just be blank white, the effect of the many different representations of different distant objects all overlapping one another in your vision.

- How are you "looking at" this cylinder? You're not using your eyes.
Airbnb Brian Chesky rejection emails from investors
I think they did want it broken, they seemed to treat everything like a game.

My guess is that they didn't count on the errors and that made things much harder.

The time to send random message is after the successful decryption of the first few. Drop a few hints in the early messages so that they're valuable to the police, then hit them with the time waster once they're hooked. Tell the public it has the answers and claim the cops aren't even trying, etc.
> bruzu.com

Good idea, well executed, short memorable domain name. Solid work, motyar.
Yep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56-bit_encryption
Ask HN: How do you find jobs to apply for? What's your main pain point?
I'm working on a solution for connecting engineers with their best fit roles at startups (or other tech companies) but I want to know what your biggest challenges are when looking for a new job and interviewing. Is it:
- Finding a job?
- Finding a job you're passionate about?
- Getting invited to the interview?
- Passing the interview?
- Not being satisfied with your role/job responsibilities after being hired?

Just to give some background on myself, I've conducted over 1000 interviews over the years for companies such as Amazon, Robinhood, OpenDoor, and many others. I've interviewed candidates for software engineering, data science, managerial roles, etc.

I want to better understand what your ideal "discovery -> hired" roadmap would look like, and how you feel we (recruiters, interviewers, hiring managers, etc.) are failing you.
In 1988 I bought a Uniden Bearcat 800XLT, specifically because it didn't lock out cellular frequencies. Listened to lots of (one side of) phone calls.
> some really irritating people with wholly unprofessional conduct.

Yeah, they're very common. But, in my experience, showboating wasn't.
I was using India as an example since they already have a large number of English speakers.
In the age of camgirls? I’d doubt it.
Disclosure: I work on a related project (Fluid Framework) that makes application agnostic CRDTs easily available.

The CKEditor folks did a great job building an OSS text editor and they did an especially strong work building a text editor that works well with collaboration. I've made a few OSS rich text editors work (mostly) with Fluid [0, 1] and the design of the text editor really changes how easily collaboration can be added. Luckily the text editor accepts remote changes, integrating an OT or CRDT solution is approximately the same.

They also did a great job explaining the problem. My experience has been that people don't intuitively understand why real time collaboration is a tricky problem. I didn't. First of all, for a bunch of use cases websockets + redis + a last write wins conflict resolution (or some similar solution) is totally enough. Second, it's not immediately obvious why rich text editing requires more complex conflict resolution. Third, it's not obvious why solving the RTE problem doesn't immediately lend itself to other problems [2].

Because we started building in mid-late 2017, right as CRDTs really started to get competitive with OT, we chose a CRDT approach, but the collab problem space in general is much deeper I realized before getting into it.

Anyway, I always appreciate seeing people explain their journey. Especially when it has to do with collaboration.

[0] https://fluidframework.com/playground/?path=/docs/react-demo...
[1] https://github.com/microsoft/FluidFramework/tree/main/exampl...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7drE24geUw
Lots of places you could do this from where it would not be illegal.
I’m not dismissing canons of interpretation as being incorrect. I’m stating that canons of interpretation are themselves nothing more than subjective opinion. And there are surely many versions. Some of which align with conservative beliefs and some of which align with liberal beliefs. So what is a “correct” canon of interpretation? Or are canons of interpretation just another layer of obfuscation used to pretend there are objective opinions?
> but I had a history professor who said that when a company made an argument that it had equal protection under the law from the 15th Amendment,

That seems...implausible:

Section 1

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Section 2

The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

> they managed to hire the only living writer of the amendment as their lawyer. Given that it was written under secrecy, his word was all anyone had to go on.

The Court (and courts in general) don't tend to look to authorial intent as the original intent that matters, but legislative intent (the intent of the body/(-ies) adopting the provision.) So, the word of the “only living author” wouldn’t be the only thing anyone had to go on; they’d have the records of legislative debates. And an authorial position (even if well-documwnted) that wasn't actively considered in legislative debate would probably not be considered to have much weight.
I’m not sure if it still works with current iOS but I used this to do that a lot several years ago https://apps.apple.com/us/app/prowl-easy-push-notifications/...
I've been super happy with BunnyCDN for my personal SaaS. Their UI is super nice, and it has been super easy to setup. Costs are really easy to predict, which is awesome for me.
Could try extracting energy from radio waves with a wire antenna around the frame (it's not a lot, but for charging some sort of battery it could work)
I macro agree with your point about leverage although I'd like a bit more insight here...

"You can give them a hint as to what it is, to vouch for the legitimacy of your finding, but Facebook has one of the better-resourced security teams in the industry, and they're just going to find it themselves and shut it down without paying you anything."

Wouldn't that cost Facebook much more than $7,000?
RedHat hired[0] all the CentOS developers/maintainers almost seven years ago.

[0] https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-Janu...
Only if they did so or were likely to do so right away.

I think the standard could change, considering that when that standard was set, such advocacy couldn't be effectively spread without a trail of publishers and broadcasters that would be vulnerable to direct retaliatory violence.
Heat Death Paradox
Seems like real slave morality to me.

Also, that kind of attitude could be used to convince people to do some horrible things:

Tasked with executing a political dissident? No problem! Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities.
The difference is email is not centrally controlled.

There is no way to "censor" it the way you would a platform you control. The function of email is to deliver messages and there isn't a good way to prevent abuse, hence spam filters, which in some cases acts identically to censorship.
I guess that makes two of us! It's nice to know that I'm not the only sane man!
you have the concept, the rna is a synthetic one manufactures by directing the translation of mRNA in vitro[lab glass].

if not enough is known about the spike protien it is possible, but not greatly probable that an undesireable biochemical process can be initiated but not likely.

if you know how the protien acts biochemically it may also be possible to guarantee a synthetic that is an antigen , but does not induce adverse pathology
> It's my civic duty not to, because people are trying to make it mandatory and we have to set a precedent that mandating it is unacceptable.

Feels a bit like not letting the taxpayer-funded fire department turn their hoses on your burning house because you're worried about "socialism".

COVID is your house burning down while your family and friends are still inside it. Maybe get on with solving that problem first and then worry about the (currently totally speculative) spectre of mandatory vaccines later.
If you find a bug in Chrome then I'm sure the team would like to know about it. We even have a website for reporting bugs in Chrome - crbug.com. Filing a bug there isn't as flashy as creating a website but it is probably more effective.
Even before you get into GPU, it looks like you could do the normalisation here https://github.com/n7olkachev/imgdiff/blob/master/pkg/yiq/de... using _mm_mul_ps or _mm256_mul_ps depending on availability instead of standard math. (CPU based vector processing)

There's also bound to be some vector compare trick as well which falls back to pixel-by-pixel only for differences.

I think there are quite a few simple tricks you could apply here to get a bit more performance... Starting with sacrificing some memory and decoding a chunk of image at a time rather than calling .At(x,y) every time. And maybe improving local cache by dividing the image in `cpu` parts rather than having the work interleaved.
Show HN: Factonaut. Collect historical events and create chronological overviews
I simply do not care. We have career health officials getting credible death threats due to wild conspiracies about Coronavirus or even 5G. I just don't care.

Society needs to move forward. We do not need to accommodate the cranks.

They can talk to each other, no one is stopping them.

And what a hyperbolic reply from you. USSR? Get a grip. No one is throwing anyone in the gulag, they are just saying, "Hey, this is my platform that I own, play nice or get the fuck off."

Do you understand the difference? Please don't minimize what actual authoritarian censorship looks like.

> also...where's the ban on all forms of liberal speculation?

Why don't you show me the dangerous conspiracies coming out of liberals?

Currently the president of the united states is claiming widespread systematic election fraud (without evidence) and undermining not only our system of government, but the peaceful transition of power that is the hallmark of democracy. In response, many of his supporters are calling for civil war or other violent unrest.

Show me the liberal equivalent.

The only thing you have is false equivalencies, and you know what? Most of us are sick of it.

Your partisan deflection aside, we don't care to accommodate violent cranks any longer.
Author here.

When COVID-19 hit the tourist industry, for which I was coding, and my assignments were deferred, I suddenly had a lot of time to work on a side project of mine: 'Factonaut', a Windows desktop application that allows to compile historical events in a knowledgebase and create chronological overviews. Although I still have a huge mass of unimplemented features on my to-do list, I finally took the courage to release a minimum viable product. Compared to similar software, it does three things quite well: it copes with Gregorian as well as Julian calendar dates, it allows to use date (and time) values of different magnitudes (from the second up to billions of years) in one chronology, and it does a decent job when using LaTeX as an output format. Apart from that, it lacks many of the features and ease of use that other applications offer. However, it is difficult for me to decide what to focus on next. I would especially appreciate feedback from people who find the Julian/Gregorian feature useful, about what else matters for them most. You may reach me via the email adress in my HN profile or on the Factonaut Web-site.
I had (and probably still have) a Radio Shack Pro-2006 scanner from the late 80's. Even pre-Internet, instructions on how to bypass the cellular band block were easily found on Fidonet and local BBSes, and all it involved was removing a single diode.

https://www.wentztech.com/radio/Equipment/Pro2006/pro2006mod...

It was really a golden time for snoop...er..listening to cellular phones because they were so enormously expensive, including per-minute usage fees, that only drug dealers, doctors, and the 1%-ers could actually afford to use them. So there was always interesting things to hear.

Ordinary cordless phones were much more affordable and fairly common at this time. They broadcast in the clear at 49 MHz (at least in the USA) and had no legal protections like the 800 MHz cellular phones.
If companies want something to be reliable and accountable then paying for RHEL seems like the obvious thing to do. They are able to pay for Windows but why not for RHEL. The current change is not unexpected given their acquisition.
I see so many people around NYC wearing masks in empty streets and it frankly makes me believe these aren't science-educated people but science acolytes.

Likewise exercising in a sparsely occupied park with very wide walkways, no one even remotely within 6 feet - running with a mask.
Good point about filters.

I think diversity of ideas and influences is inherently valuable in an organization, and to find it, we have to be thoughtful and not jump to conclusions.

For example, even if we announce that speaking up is safe and encouraged, that's going to be more familiar to some, and others will take a while to integrate it and adapt it.

I can definitely imagine, say, 2 engineers founding a company, and the company thus far was built on caffeinated whiteboard sessions, where they were comfortable shouting out their ideas, grabbing the marker from the other, etc. It worked for them so far, so it would be understandable if they think that's their culture and would be a key to ongoing success of the company. But if, for their next hire, they're passing over every introverted thinker, person raised being told not to interrupt, etc.-- then I'd suspect they'd probably be missing out on a ton of skills that their org will probably need, and also personally missing out on traits/practices/behaviors/etc. from which they'd grow by being influenced and meeting halfway. (I think this is tricky example, since the whiteboard jam session is a very appealing idea to a lot of us, and we might ascribe mythical power to it. But I think it's also easy to imagine some big design insight coming in a pause in the excitement, from someone who was standing slightly back from the flailing markers, and who hadn't said much in the first hour of battle. Or even from someone who went off to work something out on the computer, that was being missed in the endorphin rush of whiteboard eureka.)
Craig Federighi’s Keynote, 10th European Data Protection and Privacy Conference
The following sets up a key binding to grab interesting lines from the history, throw them into a file, and pop it up in an editor:

# put interesting lines from history into a file, open an editor
function h2e() {
echo "#! /bin/bash" > "$3"
history | tail -n"$1" | egrep "$2" | sed -re 's/\s*[0-9]+\s+//' >> "$3"
"${EDITOR:-emacs}" "$3"
}

# prompt for h2e's arguments
function h2ei() {
read -p 'num. lines [1]: ' lines
read -p 'pattern [.]: ' pattern
read -p 'file [foo.sh]: ' fn
h2e "${lines:-1}" "${pattern:-.}" "${fn:-foo.sh}"
}

# fix the terminal settings for the duration of a command, revert afterward
function insane() {
save=$(stty -g)
stty sane
"$@"
stty $save
}

# bind F12 to our history grabber
bind -x '"\e[24~":insane h2ei'

It's been quite handy of late.
What was skipped? phase 1, 2, 3 happened, right?
He's faithfully captured the 1980s BBS vibe.
I don't think so. Those people get paid whether or not you focus their attention on a perimeter-exposed RCE bug. By tipping them off, all you've done is make them more effective for a time.

The bug is there whether a bounty hunter finds it or not. The other "leverage" you have, if you don't like $7K bounties for auth bypass on random backend thingies, is just not do hunt for bounties at all. Facebook knows that; their desire to attract bounty hunters is priced in to the bounties they pay.

It's for this reason that people who want to make serious money and who start in bounty hunting break basically two ways:

* Either they get really good at mopping up lots of 4-figure bounties (hitting the occasional blackjack on something that pays into low-mid 5 figures), often with a fair bit of automation, or

* They graduate into consulting, where the weekly rate for this kind of work is substantially higher, you're given a briefing by the target about where to look, and where you get paid whether or not you find a marquee bug.

(A good person to ask about this stuff is 'daeken).
Yeah I wasn’t worrying about that. I don’t think proprietary software is evil.
If you want to look deeper into this, check out this paper (PDF warning) https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/downloads/t435gg51w

Examples are given in Common Lisp at the end, which at least for me, is infinitely easier to read than mathematical notation.
> As if when you are new to a module, you are slow because you don’t know anything, then once you have expertise, you are slow because you know everything and are helping others.

This suggests that the proper way to keep team productivity high is to have all team members working on the product since the beginning, and treat them well so that they don't quit and don't have to be replaced by new ones. Maybe even start with slightly more people on the project than necessary, so if a few of them quit during the project for unrelated reasons, you can still finish the project with the remaining ones.

Probably not going to happen, because this goes against maximizing short-term productivity at the beginning of the project. The short-term productivity is maximized by having the team as small as possible, and only worrying about problems after they happen.
Scientists suggest US embassies were hit with high-power microwaves
its a game of numbers and timing. first off there is a patrol inside that cell that cleans up mRNA that doesnt have a "hall pass" cells that are very damaged or confused will go into a procedural death mode called apoptosis, different from simple cell death as others are imformed of events and can react accordingly.

as soon as the cell expresses S protien the immune system may then tag it and take a sample then produce a great many antibodies for the price of a small number of cells death relative to the large number of antibodies
> CentOS is changing, but not all that much

The lie detector said that is a lie.
“We aren’t going to fulfill our LTS support promises of CentOS 8, but just wait a few months until we announce the replacement. Trust us, it will be different this time.”
Precisely. There is a cost to integrating off the shelf software which people often forget. Less so in small startups, but in large enterprises this is non-trivial.
You just need to convince everyone that you thought of it first and pg is following you around and regurgitating your brilliance.

Problem solved!

(Do I needy a winky or something to clue people that this is intended as good clean fun?)
It’s a combination of a rigorous program, and very smart people as inputs.
All of those arguments also apply to Facebook. I'm not nor have I ever been a Facebook user. I'm not forced to engage with Facebook in any form.
Would you rather pay for a boring hot person or an interesting hot person?
Punching Holes in Disks: A Risky Business That Saves Money (1984)
AskGit SQL Can Now Query the GitHub API
Kevin Kelly's views are essentially similar to those of certain followers of Hegel, who read him as putting forward a theology universal incarnation, in which all human beings realized the progressively realized divinity in history, as opposed to the specific incarnation of the divine in Jesus. The working out of technological artifice and political institutions are among the ways humanity was to do this.

Kelly just takes this (dubious, reductive) reading of Hegel, which was spun into apologetics for Prussian absolutism, and spins it into apologetics for contemporary tech entrepreneurship. As others have pointed out, this leads to a whiggish view of history and ethical/political fatalism.
...And you could use a code on Motorola startac models to listen to these channels very easily. One of my hobbies was to do that when I was waiting for my girlfriend in the car.
Wayland is such a big pain. Breaks all kinds of things.
What about cases where there's multiple tables with foreign keys between them? Should you just drop the constraints, import tables individually, and then re-apply the constraints? Any alternatives?
Just use email, the problem you cite with it is configurable by simply using another client for these notification emails.

You can also use Telegram plus telegram IRC to use IRC bots for notification.
From the discussion in the article (especially the coin flipping example) it just sounds like distinguishing expected utility from expected value. This is a concept covered in beginner or intermediate undergraduate economics. I’m sure there’s more to it than that, maybe someone who knows can elaborate here?
Cordless phones were more "fun" to scan since it was generally your neighbours you heard just because of the range of those things. Also baby monitors were (and probably still are) wide open. Literally a 24/7 mic broadcasting for anyone to listen to.

Pagers were also easy to listen to. You'd get short messages without context. A lot were office to doctor or dispatch to tradesperson.
There are many great reasons not to trust Oracle.
Well in the US[0] it's

Chrome 46.17%
Safari 37.83%
Firefox 3.7%

Worldwide[1] it's:
Chrome 63.54%
Safari 19.24%
Firefox 3.79%

I was a bit shocked to see how low FF is. It's exploits are being valued the same as Safari.

[0] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/united-s...
[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#monthly-2020...
You have not provided enough information for me to reply to you.
My favorite are the river parks in New Braunfels and there are a lot of other beautiful areas that all pale in comparison to California.
FTA: The ATF previously gave Polymer80 permission to sell unfinished receivers. But the Buy Build Shoot Kits, which are advertised as having “all the necessary components to build a complete...pistol” weren’t submitted to the agency for approval, according to the application for the search warrant. These kits can be “assembled into fully functional firearms in a matter of minutes,” the warrant application says.

Somebody felt that selling a kit that allowed the customer to construct a fully-functioning gun violated the laws prohibiting gun sales without a background check.
It’s at least marginally harder to get shot sitting at my laptop in my room...
They still got hundreds of millions in ad dollars because they didn't fact-check ads, so I wouldn't say they got "nothing".
Microsoft turned down an offer to bid on Red Hat, whose enterprise focus is a much better fit for them, before the sale to IBM so there's no reason to believe they would bid for Canonical.

https://www.businessinsider.com/red-hat-deal-talks-with-amaz...
Bypassing traditonal Linux bottlenecks: Seastar in 2020
Right but to me that seems like a good thing. In fact, don't you think it is a little bit risky to have all your games in the steam library, protected by DRM? What if steam stops being around?

Having different stores also forces these publishers to be more creative to get people on their platforms, see the weekly free games in the Epic Games Launcher.

If there was no competition, there wouldn't be the possibility to buy DRM free games on GOG for example.
It's not "interpreting a law as unconstitutional", just "interpreting the law". As in "how does the law apply to this situation?".
Oculus Facebook account row prompts German competition probe
Why Microwaved Eggs Explode (2017)