skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great talk. These presentations of in-depth research about random obscure topics is what I really, really enjoy at CCC events.

Here are a few other talks I haven't watched yet, but certainly will because of the title alone:

* "Rage Against The Machine Learning"

* "Very Pwnable Network (VPN)"

* "RUN MSC"

* "Fuzzing the phone in the iPhone
(aka D-d-d-di-di-d-d-di-d-di-d-di-d-dimm!)"

* "Fuzzers like LEGO"

* "I could not resist aka (Resists for Electron Beam Lithography )"

Here are a couple I might watch because of the people involved:

* "Conversation with Bruce Schneier"

* "Cory Doctorow: What the cyberoptimists got wrong - and what to do about it"
Interestingly, both Jersey and Guernsey are officially bailiwicks headed by bailiffs until today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailiwick_of_Guernsey
I completely agree with your point about modules.

My rule of thumb is: only use a module if you want to enforce a very opinionated way to create resources across multiple projects.
Most of the times you don't want that.

Regarding lambda, I also run a "make build" before "terraform apply". After all terraform is not a build tool.
But I do make the zip with data.archive_file so that I can pass the output_base64sha256 straight to the lambda resource.
There's a lot of buzz lately about flash player being retired. Why couldn't Electron copy its approach? Install a single runtime and run all your apps on it (like Archlinux already does, btw); problem solved. It's pretty much how the JVM or .NET have worked for decades.

I understand people don't care about supporting multiple version of the runtime, but there should be a way to reduce the cruft of multiple bundled Chromiums on systems that might have storage constraints (thanks Apple and soldered SSDs)
Is soda a common thing in america? I ask because while there certainly are a lot of soda products here (central europe), we've been thaught from a young age that it is reserved for special occasions. For example, when the parents drink a glass of wine for some occasion, the kids get to drink a glass of soda.

But the thing is, I haven't had much soda since I was a kid. I drink tea, oj and milk but most importantly, I always have a big water bottle that I take absolutely everywhere... This also seems to be really common. I always see lots of people in public transit drinking from their own water bottles.

Maybe it's because tap water is clean and cheap here...
Anthony's story is exceptionally brazen. Corporate espionage, reckless public endangerment, and embezzlement while having produced very little.
Interesting. I have tended to think the book's main flaw is in encouraging some amount of manipulation of others and a degree of artificiality in doing so. I always thought of it in tactical terms for things like business negotiations. It never occurred to me to treat it as a general guidebook to personal interaction, but I can see how that could cause problems.
That's good. Replication is valuable for science. Boring is fine. Thinking that boring results aren't useful is exactly how we ended up with the current problems in research. You just need to make sure that you don't give scientists an incentive to redo studies that have been replicated so much that additional replication is useless.
If they did that, Chrome would become the single browser everywhere, and google would "encourage" iPhone users to stop using Safari entirely.

As it is, developers and management recognize that Chrome !== Browsers, which means that they also budget in Safari, and sometimes FF.
I'm a big fan of Firefox as well and appreciate some of its unique features like containers. It's improved a lot in the last few releases.

But none of my clients even ask about Firefox support anymore. They don't care and neither do 99% of their users. Supporting FF maybe be the morally correct and heroic thing but it's like being vegan. You're a rounding error on policy decisions that matter.

As a thought experiment - what has the existence of FF done to prevent Apple & Google from going their own ways lately on web features? Not much if anything at all.
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If you live in a place designed for it and with weather good enough for it.

Most jobs I've had did not have a secure place to store a bicycle while I was at work. Oh, and the roads: Some places, I couldn't take a direct route because bikes weren't allowed on those roads (I lived a couple miles outside of town). The country roads that were available to me took longer. Not to mention that I had to share the road with cars (laws) and the cars didn't have my safety in mind.

And then you get into hygiene and weather. Few places had somewhere I could dry off in the rain: I didn't know studded bike tires (for snow) existed until I moved to Norway. Few places really and truly accepted a sweaty employee showing up for work either - and again, no place to freshen up.

Sometimes I would be lucky to have room to store snow/rain shoes.
Show HN: The list of (almost) all my projects since I was 10
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It's simple to use and cheap. It's like comparing Dropbox and a FTP server.

Also Google Photos has a nice search feature with machine learning behind. I can search things such as "beach name of family member or "classic car" and it works.
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Ask HN: Where are containers for desktop applications?
Containers have exploded in the server space, why arent applications being shipped as containers on the desktop?
I don't see how, in the presence of unrestricted function types, you can tag values as linear unless you have a separate kind for linear values. I'd be interested to know how Rust does it.
The article mentions the methodology is unsound but says “it’s the best we can do”. It then discusses implications and conclusions based on unfounded claims.

Prove that the number of Nobel Prizes is a good indicator of scientific process. It doesn’t even sound right when said aloud.

To refine the point:

The number of Nobel Prizes establishes a lower bound on the number of “Nobel Prize worthy discoveries”. That bar is ill-defined and constantly moving. What’s more is that many Nobel Prize worthy discoveries may not be awarded for a very long time. If prizes stopped being given to current discoveries and are all given to discoveries in the 70s and 80s then does that say anything about the rate of scientific progress or even large discoveries? No. We don’t know, with the information presented, if it is from changes in the community. What drives Nobel Prizes being awarded? None of this is seriously looked at. It’s the most important part of the article.
Reading the article I understood it like this.

~10 million residents from Wuhan (almost same size as Swedish population) got screened for covid. In ~30k people who recovered from covid, 107 tested positive for covid a second time. Roughly ~1000 people were in contact with asymptomatic carriers, but none (as in 0) tested positive for covid.
Do you work in the auto industry? How do you know the specifics of these issues so well?
Can someone enlighten me on storage? Is it stored on the docker container (locally) or does it allow for storage within say Google Storage or S3, even Backblaze perhaps?

I tried the demo on Firefox but I couldn't actually figure out how to upload an image to test it out. Firefox / Linux user.
Your service should be able to cope with a failure. Just ensure your updates don’t run at the same time on all your services.

I have two proxy servers which auto update. One in the morning, one in the evening. If the morning update breaks, it flags up the problem, and we can then fix before the evening one updates.
The Future of Mobile Phones
I was reading about this company a few weeks ago. Looks like a really interesting idea!
I stopped reading after that. I understand the author has good reasons from his perspective. I m also realizng the need for opinionated tech solutions in order to create a cohesive system. However the authors opinion is not moving towards a direction I want to follow.
How does DropBox handle customer data? Is it protected from any analysis or scanning at least according to the ToS? Or do they also inspect and/or sell my data?
The ultimate origin is obviously geographic and topographical, as first laid out by the Romans.

The region 4-5 boundary along the A5 is just Watling Street. It originates in London today as Edgware Road, which preserves its distinctive Roman straightness (it even has the faux-Roman Marble Arch at the start in Hyde Park):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watling_Street

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgware_Road

The obvious exception is the boundary
of the phased Roman invasion, which cuts diagonally from south-west to north-east:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fosse_Way

The Fosse Way was originally a military road
to support the eponymous barrier 'ditch' and rampart.
Now it is mostly (near) the course of the A38
which does not follow the radial region 3
and does not fork from the A3
to the SW of London.

The regions are also approximately the division of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Sussex ( South Saxons, region 2), Wessex ( West Saxons, region 3), Essex ( East Saxons, region 1) and Mercia (er... midlands, for all-the-other-Saxons, regions 3~4):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptarchy

Watling Street later became the border between Viking and
Anglo-Saxon sectors of the island
(hence the radical divergence in accents and place names
on opposite sides of the road):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danelaw

Also note that because it is essentially topographical,
it was also followed by the private railways,
giving LNER (region 1), SR (region 2), GWR (region 3) and LMS (aforementioned Mercia and west coast line, ~ regions 4,5,6), hence the originating stations in London:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_and_North_Eastern_Railw...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Railway_(UK)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Western_Railway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Railway_(UK)

P.S. Direct links to Wikipedia should be banned from HN submissions.
Absolutely, what really spoiled me even more is (the early) Reddit. I learned a lot from it but the language that was cultivated there is certainly not how grown up people speak to each other in English speaking countries. Reddit is not the only culprit but the one - for better of worse - that probably influenced my English the most.
One way is to return the list along with its length.
Technology doesn't make resources, it uses resources to produce wealth. Improving technology improves the efficiency with which this can be done. Stopping growth in the technological improvements doesn't mean we go back to zero, we simply get stuck at the current level of efficiency.

Also the premise is unrealistic anyway. Technological improvements will still happen incrementally even with zero funding for research. Especially as big changes occur and needs arrive.
I had a metal workshop and materials science has always interested me. Trying to accurately and repeatedly cut sheetmetal is an interesting - and ultimately very frustrating - experience. You can easily get to a certain degree of accuracy and above that it rapidly becomes hard or even impossible to make progress.
This is a very good point! Looking at our top menu items again I can see how it looks for a new visitor.

* Product (https://defold.com/product/) lists engine features. This should probably be renamed Features.

* Showcase (https://defold.com/showcase/) shows games made with Defold. It is not so much a showcase for specific engine features but rather a showcase of different kinds of games that has been made with Defold. Perhaps we should rename it to Games.

As a side-note regarding games: We will start posting developer case-studies in a few weeks. These case-studies will show both the games and the features of the engine as well as clever solutions to problems and how Defold has helped the creators while developing their games.
> I cannot think of any situation where someone right out of college would be a good fit for a management role.

In some places it's a good fit to be a bosses nephew.
What is TWA:s?
Many people seem to think the same but I don't get it.

If you only want to change lambda's configuration without touching the code, Terraform will do exactly that since the source_code_hash hasn't changed.

Opposite is also true.
Making the Leap from B2C to B2B – A Product Founder’s Perspective
Sounds like you should be taking this case to the Congress.
Hard disagree for the long tail of apps.

My company’s payroll admin system uses a PWA as a mobile interface. I don’t need slick ui there, I need to view my payslips (click a link to open a pdf) and request time off (fill in a 4-field form). It’s perfectly fine for this usecase and there is no conceivable business value in pouring more resources into it.

News flash: a majority of applications is simple CRUD like this. They don’t need a native UI or performance. They just need an icon on your homescreen.
Here are three of mine:

- https://linqable.pro/
- https://podradio.live
- https://arounda.world/

All three built in 2020 with the awesome Elixir Phoenix. Hopefully, at least one of them will take off in 2021.
Can’t read past the paywall
Interesting, did you take these from a calculator? I'd love to see a graph of the marginal tax rate from 1k till say 6k.

Because here it seems from 2k, 3k or 4k, an extra 600 is taxed consistently by more than 50%, and sometimes even 75%. That's a very high marginal tax rate. I wonder if that's cherrypicking something and the x600 to x000 range looks better.

I also wonder what the taxes break down into, I think it's always good to separate pure taxes (going to the government for the public good) from various social safety net contributions (some of which go to a general fund for the public good, but some are also individually-accrued benefits by paying a monthly premium, e.g. unemployment insurance of your particular salary).

When making cross-country comparisons, I find there's a ton of apples to oranges comparisons like this, where taxes and other things aren't properly separated and just lumped together.

Another example: in some countries healthcare is arranged as a benefit on-top of gross income. In others healthcare is subsidised by 80% by the government, and paid for through a tax on gross income. It could very well be that compensation in both these countries is the same, but that the former looks like you're earning more because you get paid out more of your gross income.
I’ve said this before and I’m more convinced of this now: the cfaa is unsalvagable and must be completely repealed/scrapped. All of it. No half measures.

It does nothing to stop what matters: corporations or nation states. Horrible corporations like LinkedIn try to use it. Having the CFAA is literally worse than not having any laws about this. Not only must WE repeal it, the US must go around the world helping people understand that other countries must not enact or must scrap such laws.
Apple is helping Amazon et Google to publish their gamestore's on PWA [0].

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/25/21455343/amazon-luna-appl...
This is the opposite of my experience. I often navigate by road signs alone in the UK.

Maybe your experience is from a particular part of the UK where this depletion has happened, but I thought things like direction signage were centrally managed.
I would also highly recommend
"Traue keinem Scan, den du nicht selbst gefälscht hast" [0] but I just noticed that there are no english subtitles available.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FeqF1-Z1g0 (2015)
"just"? That's exactly the problem I was referring to.
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Are you calling anything that uses PayPal/Stripe/Shopify not D2C?
You are entitled to your own opinions, but not to your own facts.
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That's fair. I wanted to point out that the answer is more complex than "don't incentivise replication".
Desktop Firefox is also a mobile Firefox on GNU/Linux mobile platforms though.
Why do the two waves add up?

Because the electric field only has a single value at any point in space. The equations that describe this are linear (ignoring quantum stuff irerelevant at these scales), so the waves combine by simple addition.

Why can't they just coexist?

In a way, they do continue to coexist (again due to the linearity): For example, if two waves pass each other by, you get back the original waves once you leave the region of interference.

And if they do add up, doesn't that mean that the atoms are piggyback riding on the light wave and essentially slowing it down which shouldn't be possible?

Rather, the electrons around the atoms start wiggling around, making new waves. I wonder if one could set up a mechanical analogue by putting some floating balls in a pool and attaching them to the bottom so that they breach the surface if a wave passes through, creating new waves...
I know it’s an analogy, but elevators are dead-simple concepts with many fail-safety mechanisms independent of the controlling ‘program’. Self-driving cars are ridiculously complicated black-box program with at most software fail-safes that are itself more complicated than one can reason about so the only thing remaining is empirical testing in real-world situations. And every single bugfix have to be retested substantially as it can just as easily make something else worse - and I don’t feel confident about today’s “self-driving” cars
Though here it’s rather “we experimented with this thing, and it turned out to not be as useful as we expected, and it’s a maintenance burden, so we’re removing it”.
Please mark as 2007
Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
Not really. Ex-employee had access. If his password expired, he could just choose a new one and keep access.

Revoking credentials of employees after they leave and doing regular audits of the access list, are controls that would be relevant here.
I think we might be using different definitions of words.

In my mind, without 'society', there would be no police, no hospitals, no public education, no roads. In my mind, these are all part of what we get by being in a society. Amazon is welcome to try to function in countries with no functioning government, but I suspect they would have limited success.
I think I'm able to answer this myself. Supports Nextcloud for storage; not sure I'm happy with just that.
I agree. The dertiest work you can handle, that nobody else want to touch, the more you will get paid. Plumbers are good examples. They also fix problems in category of "emergency" which deserves even bigger buck. It also worth mentioning that the time for get to the client should also be included in profitability calculations. Sadly it's not a service that we could deliver over the internet.
I think that was the owner being shortsighted. If the plugin was something that a reasonable fraction of your users would like to have, then very shortsighted.

Not only you had a person that already knew much more about your product than the average potential hire, but a person that probably was interested in your product (and maybe knew what users wanted) too.
Flash is dead and it's a good thing. Now, what I want next is for ActiveX to be just as dead. Not ignored, but pro-actively support for it on all browsers to be dead as well.

Why Flash is dead but ActiveX is still supported? It's a bigger risk than Flash from security point of view. I can, if I want, write a malware in ActiveX and feed it to visitors on my site if I see they have Windows as OS.

Now kill ActiveX just the same. My pet peeve!
I'm not sure that video helps anything. At the very least it confuses the QFT level description of light and electrons with the EM classical description.

The "waves" you mention add up because each photon sent in through the glass takes all the possible paths, and you need to add up the contributions from all these paths to see where this single photon wants to go. This looks like wave propagation mathematically. The reason the waves add up is because they are all the same photon.

If you send in two unrelated photons, they get their own waves and in that case they do coexist without interference, for all practical field strengths (there are light-on-light scattering effects that come into play at immense field strengths, just now starting to get probed).
Why do you put Iraq in quotes as if it weren’t a real country?
Many of your reserve nurses/doctors work as doctors in local E.Rs so they're basically already taken.
Elon Musk's tweet: "We’re going to try to catch the Super Heavy Booster with the launch tower arm, using the grid fins to take the load"

That'll be fun. Grid fins tend to be jagged in order to avoid troubles at transonic speeds. That means little sharp points need to be caught on something. Both the fins and the catcher will face enormous stress.

My suggestion: ask a tire company to make sausage-shaped pads from thick tire material with lots of tough fiber. It should resist puncture and be able to withstand high air pressure.
While are are not on the topic, anyone want to help me petition our senators to get all U.S. Interstate exits to be numbered by their mile marker rather than sequentially?

Know that exit 32 is at mile marker 32 provides me so much more information than knowing that exit 8 is immediately after exit 7, which could be 1/4 mile past it or 40 miles past it.
> The runtime and the tooling go together. The reason why tooling doesn't exist for HTML5, SVG, and Javascript is it's just so damn complex and fiddly that it's impossible to paper-over and abstract with a robust authoring tool.

Indeed. The fact that Flash is proprietary meant that all browsers had to use the same software (up to versioning and OS API implementations) to run SWF files. Now with HTML5, developers now have to deal with differences between different browsers (Chromium/Safari/Firefox are the most popular ones).
Defold is definitely not for everyone and not for all kinds of games. Defold is better at 2D than 3D for instance. But it is a 3D engine so it will sort everything on z-value.

> It felt like someone was caught up in an architecture more suited to creating very large games and applied it here.

Defold is supposed to be the exact opposite. The two initial creators of Defold worked at a big AAA developer and with Defold they wanted something different from their day-to-day experience working on huge console games. They wanted a small and performant engine with quick turnaround time on changes.

This is why it is somewhat opinionated regarding certain things. To avoid some of the costly things that usually comes with huge productions and big complex engines.

It is also why you can usually build and bundle your game in seconds to any platform without any setup.

It is the reason why you can hot reload your changes into a running game to further reduce iteration time.
And outside of the west, monolinguism is rare. Speaking two or three languages is the norm for the majority of humans.
Problem with SAM is having to deal with one more tool.

But also, maybe even important, it makes things less transparent. I want to be able to refer to the original CloudFormation docs (even when using Terraform) without "translating" every time.
Never understood the point of instalable PWAs given they are restricted like simple websites(i.e CORS)
Nothing much, it's like fighting the sea at this point. Internet comments run on a hype cycle. Firefox had its high relatively recently with the Quantum project. Now it's on the downward slope where everything big and small is not just wrong but the worst thing ever.

The upside is that eventually the hype cycle will again turn in their favour. Hopefully they can capitalize on that once it comes.
This guide is indeed opinionated and subjective and in many ways misses the point but the "don't use systemd" advice is among the on point ones.

Still this is a minor issue for majority of users. Like most of this guide.
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