skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
deterministic password generator? You mean like https://pwdhash.github.io/website/ ?
Might be worth spelling out the differences for those of us lacking expertise in computer security matters.
I didn’t find any reference but the algorithm is approximately this:

1. Assume there is one point source of sound which dominates everything else

2. Input two frames of samples, s and t, and compute cross correlation: a measure of how similar they are for a given delay between samples

n(k) := sum(s(i) t(i+k)) / (s•s)(t•t)

3. Find the k which maximises n(k)

4. Do some beamforming to improve the signal to noise ratio. This sounds complicated but basically you just shift t by k samples and average it with s.

I’m not really sure how this works if k changes over time, but I guess something could be done to change it in a more continuous way.

I also don’t really know how it works with more than two microphones or if you know the geometry of the array.
More complicated than having to deal with auth, routing, validation, xhr, application state, business logic in an SPA? And write your endpoints again with another round of routing, auth, validation, business logic. And then integrating everything.
Small business mythology is pretty far from reality. Most of the economy is run by large firms, owned by people who receive revenue by virtue of ownership rather than work.
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count down started : won't take long before it gets again repeated here that it's all just Goo hate
The latter is probably not causal - poor Americans have no money for either insurance or dental care, whereas non-poor would pay for retail dental anyway, but they also mostly have insurance.
The conspiratorial explanation is that the three-letters asked them to stall the update a bit. But most likely seems it was something completely boring and ordinary. A business motive seems unlikely.
Seconded, I wasn't satisfied leaving droidcam streaming over wifi 24x7, password or no password, so I have a shell alias to unlock phone and open droidcam over ADB USB debugging.
Ok thanks for advice. Will aim for non uniform key material going forward.
I assume Director of Photography.
>to sell us things it’s not in our interest to buy; to pit us against each other in an effort to destroy our society from the inside; to disinform us and hijack our democracies.

I liked the bit about data collection, the rest seems a little out there.

Who says what is in our interest to buy? If people are not interested, they don't buy.

Pit us against each other? Destroy 'our' society? What about individuals going their own way? Must we stay together and agree?

Who gets to decide what is disinformation? Again, must we agree? Predictably, the next words are about democracy.

The entire premise of democracy rests upon voters being able to consume and digest information on their own. If the author doesn't trust voters that far, then why trust them to vote on our lives and property?
I agree 100%, I just signed up on your website. I would go even as far as saying 3-4 days should/will become the norm as time goes on. There is no particular reason we are stuck at 5 days/40 hours except that workers stopped asking for more time off (probably goes with the reduction of union power and globalization since the '80).
It's a very fast website, but by no means is it interactive application with complex UI and user flows.

Some examples of web applications: Trello, Slack, Notion, Google Spreadsheets, Airtable.
> If the relief is federal, which I understand to be the case, no state or local level relief, then why must there be horse trading?

Choosing what industries, etc get relief is very political.
Why are you assuming the students from Caltech follow the honor system and don't cheat? Seems incredibly likely that a good portion of them do cheat on take home exams.
If you have a frontend that is entirely dependent on data from the backend to display something to the user, then you've already got high coupling between the two.

You probably wouldn't use this for a drawing app. But if you've got something where you're showing/updating database data, this model is likely fine.
I saw that page, but it doesn't mention anything about actually playing a game with these cards.

"Leveling" and "skills" are game mechanics, true, but what are the rules? You must have something in mind. Right now I have no idea even if the intent is solo play, 2-player, or more. Much less whether it's cooperative or competitive, deck building or engine-building or just tactical, and so on. How about whether there are going to be other (possibly a non-collectible core set) card types?
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As a former manager I felt like the first 90 days, even as long as the first 6 months, after onboarding a new employee was spent trying to figure out what motivates them, how to communicate with them effectively. One of the hardest parts of manager is managing someone who likes their praise/criticism presented in a drastically different way than you.

Most managers I've had in the past don't make the effort or make a pretty small effort to adjust based on the individual. I've spent a lot of time managing up in the past to mitigate this.
I'm just picturing Mario and Luigi showing up at this guys front door
There's a reason this is "fair enough, in this case." The headline and article are both highly sensationalized and engage in highly dubious reasoning to make baseless accusations. The authors clearly have an axe to grind and it's strongly influencing their output in this article.

So this article is the anti-vaccination side of your "both-sides-ism," concept. And according to you, that's "some horrible stuff."
I think that since they are discussing the FSF, they just mean that the source of the games will be freely available and redistributable to people who are paying for the software. I don't think this is materially different from models like Humble Bundle, which feature vastly discounted prices for games.

Addendum: People looking at "free" and thinking "you don't have to pay for them!" makes me feel both old and pessimistic.

Is the "free as in speech, not as in beer" thing just a byline at this point? I remember reading about it and being pretty excited by the concept ~15 years ago, and it seems that it was pretty common in the software industry to understand the distinction; especially in the context of the FSF.
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Could I ask you to enumerate, now that we've had the distance of time, just what went wrong? As best I can tell, Ito wasn't guilty of doing rogue fundraising. The President of the University signed off -- literally -- on the gifts.

The other folks who were angry struck me as particularly odd. The best was the visiting researcher who announced that he wasn't coming back after his contract was over -- and pretended that he was somehow quitting or making a statement or virtue signaling.

So can you explain what I'm missing?
No resentment towards Musk etc. They all did some awesome work, and many of them continue to do so.

My resentment is towards hacker news commenters who think someone is "poor" because their parents didn't buy them enough Nintendo games when they were a kid. Even in the US something like 1 in 9 households struggle to feed their children, and globally the numbers are much worse.

Calling the upper middle-class families that these billionaires came from "poor" just trivializes the very real problems with economic mobility in the US today.
Just wanted to point out that it is called duct tape, just to avoid misunderstandings since i had a similiar spelling error as a non-native speaker :)
no one is going to bother looking at a transcript, but fresh graduates should definitely list any challenging/relevant electives they took on their resume (and be prepared to answer some basic questions). if you don't list anything challenging that wasn't a core requirement, it kinda implies you took the softball approach.
> Undemocratic political systems don't even always have power concentrated in one person

This is absolutely correct, which frames my point in an even worse light. The whims and power of the Leader are the whims of subordinates to the leader, who are superiors to further subordinates. Western continental philosophy, Heidegger, Arendt, Levinas, all framed this concept under the term "The Totality." It's fascinating.
> We’re not streaming high-bitrate 1080p H.265 on our 5-person Zoom calls.

Right, even on my higher end webcam, on a connection with 200mbps up, Zoom shows my video (set to HD), as 720p15.
I’ve used intercooler with browser-side routing and, the strategy for error recovery that makes sense in that context is “if something goes wrong, reload the page”: the server is designed to be able render the whole page or arbitrary subsets and, so, reloading should usually be safe.
But Apple's fans are made from recicled SR-71 blackbirds to ensure ultimate noise suppression and each fan blade is assembled by a Swiss watchmaker to ensure quality.

Just kidding, it comes from the same Chinese factory as every other fan but Apple's fans(pun intended) like to believe in magic to justify the price tag.
What if the Smartphone camera cost $20, and the laptop camera cost $5 to manufacturer? Smart phones can maybe justify the extra $15, laptop makers cannot. If a laptop maker can't raise the price $15, it literally eats their profits.
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In my job at Gumroad, I get to work with inspiring people to build resources for creators. Previously, these resources were spread across our blog, our YouTube channel, our own Gumroad page, and more, so I wanted to collect the best of them in one place and organize them according to the three stages in a creator's journey: inspiration, creation, expansion.

I'd love to hear what educational resources you would like to see us create next.

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>There seems no controversy that the middle management era of staff duty seems designed to filter out good officers and keep the worst

Can you elaborate?
I'm struggling to remember who, but I just recently saw a tech talk about microservices at scale by a fairly large company that had started adopting more efficient request/response formats because they discovered that in their tens of thousands of cores, some high single-digit percentage of all CPU cycles were spent marshaling and unmarshaling JSON.
It's acutally above avarage wage in most parts of the world
Still paywalled ;-;
cgi-bin didn’t give you the ability to update a chat page across several different windows in near real-time.
That makes sense. On the other hand, what made me side with the author here is this.

About a year ago, I read a study (which I wish to hell I could locate again) that made the case that children raised with more phonetic languages, such as Spanish and Finnish, had a notable advantage over children whose native language is English, because they learned to read and write much earlier. While American, British, and Australian children puzzle over words like “plough,” “epitome,” and “Worcestershire,” children in Spain are steadily progressing through more and higher-level books, enabling them earlier access to advanced skills such as reasoning, synthesis, and discussion. They simply read at a higher level than English speakers of the same age.

this highly resonates with my experience as Spanish is my first language and started learning English since first grade.

Spanish speakers are expected to read arbitrary words and write (albeit with lots of spelling mistakes) by (optimistically) kindergarten or early first grade. The written-spoken language is very regular so it's very easy so "sound out" words.
This is in contrast to what I hear is like to teach English speaking children. So yes, the author's hypothesis seems plausible to me.
If anything, remote debugging is annoyingly slow - at least from my experience.
Why do you keep bringing up people's beliefs if you admit they are irrelevant? Debate GP with facts about the military if opinions are so untrustworthy.
I personally consider automatic logouts to be in the same category as periodic password rotations: a defense in depth idea that so badly impedes accessibility that it isn't worth it. It is common to type 1-2 passwors into a computer to before getting to the browser, so why isn't a trusted device a reasonable threat model?

I think it is a personally reasonable threat model to consider anyone capable of stealing a token off of my device as capable of stealing my password because if a website has other vulnerabilities allowing credentials to be stolen or misused without my device being compromised then it is a defense in depth technique and it is to cover the ass of the website operator and not me. I shouldn't be liable for a website owner's screw up there.

Now, a genuine two factor authentication changes the picture there and actually adds some security for ultra risky scenarios (like transferring money). But instead of invalidating my session, just ask for a token on every risky transaction. There I can understand a bank wanting to cover their liability a bit more.
This is one of the goals that led me to software engineering the first place. Not to secure a job with a good salary, but to secure a job with a good enough salary at 4 days per week.

Side note: why are you classifying a 4 day work week as 28 hours? Wouldn't it be 32?
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I don't think so either. We will likely be able to create something that self-replicates under similar circumtances what we think were in the primordial soup. And we will call this thing (or after some more research things) as possible first evolution steps.
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A YouTube channel can be considered a 'digital service'.

I don't see 'platform' in the text, where did you get that from?
You might be confusing the placenta with the amniotic sac. The placenta is ultimately the part of the embryo that embeds itself in the uterus and triggers the mother's pregnancy. It connects to the fetus via the umbilical cord.

In practice people don't think of them belonging to the fetus though, and the title "Microplastics found in human placentas" would have been clearer.
OP here - I actually agree with this sentiment to some extent . There's a thin line between "here's a shortcut to all the things you might learn about me over time anyway" and "I think my preferences are more important than yours."

Ultimately the exercise was helpful for me because of what I learned about myself and not because of what others could learn about me.
This error is understandable as there is a popular brand of duct tape called Duck Tape.
Obviously if you release something for free like Spotify or YouTube, few people will mess with torrents for it; but that also makes artists a lot less money. You'll never stop piracy. But laws can reduce it. And some probably-impossible-to-know portion of that reduction will pay for the legal option. 99% of people will never download qBitTorrent. It's a small portion that will even get PopcornTime. It's easy to get disconnected as more technically-inclined people, but you have to remember that most people that pirate things just Google "stream avengers endgame free" and click through the links until they find a site that works. If that gets too hard, plenty will just give up and buy the DVD or whatever.
I'm not a lawyer, of course, but how do you read this part:

> It shall be unlawful to willfully, and for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain, offer or provide to the public a digital transmission service that...
> How do people put up with this?

One common strategy is to not carry anything of obvious value, don’t wear jewelry or watches or fancy clothes, don’t walk with your cell phone out. Basically don’t look like an easy target.
By and by I'm impressed. This has been posted to HN many times now, so evidently they've fooled a lot of people with very little technical substance.
> It is and probably always will be totally ineffective as an offensive alliance.

History has shown otherwise. Every single of NATO’s mission has been on the offensive. Be it enforcing a no-fly zone in Libya (which requires suspiciously many areal bombing), naval missions to protect selected cargo vessels from pirates in the Gulf of Aden or intimidating training missions in Iraq. Even Afghanistan was an offensive mission (with a defensive excuse).

NATO’s offensive operations outnumber defensive missions 6 to 0.
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I can pretty much guarantee you that any CS department will have a clearly worded policy on what they consider "cheating", usually any sharing of code whatsoever on a take-home assignment. of course, you will likely see that policy blatantly violated every day in the computer lab.
Ukraine wasn't a NATO or EU member and the UK had no obligation to defend Crimea. What point are you trying to make?
Is Navalny free today? Can we get him to crank call the CIA and Chinese Officials to work out the exact numbers involved?
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If you're interested for an alternative, keep an eye on my project (in my profile). I've been working on a link aggregator alternative for small to medium sized communities that can govern themselves and intercommunicate among themselves by using the ActivityPub protocol. The grand plan would involve convincing some of the cooler reddit communities to take off on their own using my (or a similar) platform.
This is an isomorphic fetch. The original href already is the visited URL, so I'm not sure that trying that again is wise, or appropriate, unless the user chooses to reload.

The entire design philosophy here is to mimic apparent browser behaviour, or to delegate to it. Hence, to GP's question; you should expect the appearance of browser-like behaviour in any circumstance, modulo anything Turbo is specifically trying to do different. Deviation from baseline browser semantics was certainly a basis for filing bugs in its predecessor (Turbolinks).

As for what Turbo actually does, I checked the source. Good news, even for a first beta, they're not the cowboy nitwits alleged; it gracefully handles & distinguishes between broken visits and error-coded but otherwise normal content responses, and the state machine has a full set of hooks, incl. back to other JS/workers, busy-state element selectors, and the handy CSS progress bar carries over from Turbolinks.
Part of the goal here seems to be about putting the responsibility on video chat applications to censor users who stream movies to a friend or two (perhaps because they need to practice social distancing). That way, we can continue blaming "muh private company" and make it not the government's problem. It seems to have been a great strategy when it comes to policing political speech so expect to see more of this paradigm.
'Ticket walls' can be used as efficient pipelines for work. The problem is the teams who are asking for tickets aren't managing them correctly or don't have a good working agreement with the users. This is unfortunately very common with internal service providers.

But it can be changed. The users have to have a conversation with the service provider about what's wrong with the process, how it's affecting the users (& the business), and how they'd like it to change. If the service provider stonewalls them, they can go up the management chain. Often upper management has no idea what's going on and will get something done if they hear enough people complain.
I don't see any "wishy-washy fluff". It states quite clearly:

we do not institute any kind of write-lock or burnt fuses that would prevent the owner of the hardware from reflashing it with whatever firmware (new or otherwise) they choose.

In other words, you can modify the firmware on the Wi-Fi card or modem.

Concerning the RAM, I do not see any problem with that, since there is no proprietary code running after the booting. As FSF says, it can simply be considered as a part of "hardware" which is necessary for the start of the system.

Edit:

> can’t be modified without the user knowing

> without the user knowing

Did you actually read what you quoted?
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They have so many die hard fans and lovers of their IP that they get away with a lot. There hasnt been a pokemon game that was actually exciting to most fans in over 15 years but people that grew up playing red and blue and watching the TV show will still buy every game.
Washington State has a single-subject rule that affects both bills in legislature and ballot measures[1]. We've regularly had poorly crafted voter initiatives tossed out by the WA State Supreme Court on this basis.

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That's one of the reasons SPA aren't going anywhere: trying to handle all the user microinteractions on the server is great when you leave next to it, but it falls apart when your users are spread across the world, especially if it's not western-ish world with fast internet connections.
This isn’t new at all. This is version 7 of Turbolinks that has been renamed to Turbo and has some added versions. It has been what the Ruby on Rails and it’s creator have promoted for years and years.

The new thing about it are the name and associating it with Stimulus and some features, not the general concept.
Javascript as a language is actually pretty decent these days, your criticism probably applies more to certain parts of the ecosystem.
Didn't know about this company but looking at their history here[1], they used to sell under the brand name Nanao in the US. Nanao made great monitors with consistent high reviews.

[1] https://www.eizo.com/company/information/history/
Adding a currency that everyone can agree upon as the "intermediary" prevents you from needing to hold huge sums of random currencies. For example - you're a bank in the UK so your fiat currency is GBP. If you want to manage transactions within just Europe, you would need to have Euros, Croatian Kunas, Danish Krones, Swiss francs, Polish zloty's, Russian rubles, Turkish liras, etc. Therefore you as a bank are subject to the ongoing valuations of these currencies, not to mention you've got hundred of thousands of (insert currency here) tied up in these accounts. As a bank, you have to correct for this inefficiency so you produce conversation rates that are not consumer friendly, but necessary to recoup the money you've lost setting aside all those accounts.

With XRP, you replace all those currencies with some amount of XRP. Because all member-banks use XRP when you need to transaction, say GBP to EUR (simple example), you would take your GBP, convert it to XRP, then use that XRP to buy EUR from another bank, that bank then can hold the XRP or chose to immediately convert it back to EUR through other banks. Like I mentioned previously, that whole transaction takes a few seconds, so you're effectively not subject to market volatility that could impact the transaction itself.
Worth noting he would be California's first Latino senator (!)
> How are they going to know if you’re lying?

Your friends, and I'm not joking. Polygraphs themselves are poor indicators, but that's just one of many tools adjudicators use when judging people for clearances. The primary tool is documentation (you'd be amazed how many people lie about criminal offenses when it's a quick search away), and second is friends (2nd order ones especially), acquaintances, and neighbors.
I would argue that raising GDP indirectly allows easier access to clean water, food, solid housing, vaccines, etc. All of those things allow for better quality of life. Where I agree with you is in the spiritual or philosophical sense of “quality of life”—aka happiness or fulfillment. At a certain point, no, money does not increase happiness or fulfillment. But it does increase quality of life.
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