skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hiding messages in images: steganography with Python and Repl.it
What's with the sudden blocking spree Twitter has gone on? Has there been a change of leadership somewhere in the company?
> What if killing the toddler means you can't travel back to your understood future?

How would killing a toddler prevent me from time travelling back? Killing someone will not affect the functionality of my time machine.
No, it's like the “shot designed to produce an immune reaction gives you an immune reaction” story. Which is true. Also true for the flu shot.

Which doesn't give you the flu, but can give you (shorter-lived, milder) flu symptoms, because “flu symptoms” are mostly symptoms of the immune response to the flu.
Sperm whales click at up to 230 decibels, so yes - the oceans can be quite loud.
Technically the 21st century began 1/1/2001
I'm in the same boat. Before Covid finding a company which would hire me (American) while living in Istanbul was easy. Now the competition with unemployed Americans has made me leave the tech industry, as I'm no longer employable.
...or you could use

https://codeanywhere.com/

https://gitpod.io/

https://codesandbox.io/

https://codenvy.com/

for a more streamlined experience...
Maybe go watch a cat and report back =)
What makes you think it is a rare phenomenon to them, or that they have the same conceptualizations of "needs and wants" as we do? What if they view these events the same way we view watching paint dry or grass grow? Just as we have to be careful not to anthropomorphize animals and other species, we must also not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing alien species until there's an actual encounter and we get to 'know' them, once again, assuming their concept of 'knowing' even remotely resembles ours.

For as far as we know, they've observed us, and have long moved on, finding us entirely uninteresting, which seems to be the one explanation we love to overlook, but given we are humans with big egos, love to make ourselves out to be more important than we actually are.
This is vim-surround by tpope[1]. It does way more than just basic brackets!

[1]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround
Does this deprecate my vim/gcc/gdb/make (in general "CLI driven workflow") which I have assigned so much time to, to have a nice vender/IDE-independent solution for development?

I'm curious to know the answer in an honest/practically-speaking sense not ideologically.

IMO, the downside of this container/web-app solution is the memory size that all the SDKs would need and this would add up eventually. But I'm not sure this fact alone could win any hearts over that sweet ease-of-entry-to-development.

People were nagging about latency and bloat in webapps and Electron GUIs...yet here we are...even SpaceX's console is a chromium instance.
Is there a single list of such scores by different domains as well as how they are computed? e.g. for drought severity we use the Palmer Drought Index
Threema is Open Source and didn’t get bought by Facebook. Also, was WhatsApp ever super privacy friendly? They weren’t Facebook level bad, but I don’t remember them being specifically targeted towards privacy
Rent the country of Liechtenstein for $70k a night (2011)
How We Ported Linux to the M1
in Russian it will be: дяди и тёти
Its far less work than AMD or Intel drivers which depend on a massive Linux KPI shim layer.

The nvidia drivers are a binary blob surrounded by a FreeBSD src-based shim layer. If you're running a -release branch, you just install the nvida driver pkg and you're done. If you run -current like I do (with no KBI guarantees) you re-build the nvidia port every time you update your OS.

All in all, the nvidia drivers "just work" and are very boring. I'll pay a premium for boring.
The aliens could also have morals we find repulsive, for example how would society react to aliens that said hitler was right etc etc?
That's a boring act.
How about smoking as a comparison? Most states forbid smoking in bars/restaurants, because it creates a public health hazard for others. Similarly, lack of vaccination causes a public health hazard for others. As to where to draw the line, I would say when it starts adversely affecting the health and safety of workers. Requiring workers to work in a smoke-filled environment is damaging to health, and may not be a condition of employment. Requiring workers to be vaccinated is not damaging to health, and is in fact beneficial to health, and therefore may be a condition of employment.
light brown?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU
created 23 mins ago - aka "this is a CCP 50 center"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
What the Zuck
How dare you?! Won't someone think of the kitty cats?
Pretty specist to assume they have eyes :)
Lazy evaluation. Intermediate computations are stored as "thunks" until the last possible moment.
Probably not, but your vim/gcc/gdb/make flow doesn't scale to other developers. If it works for you, by all means keep using it.
The DNA Regions in Our Brain That Contribute to Make Us Human
Here's a good video on these from Mustard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxyk84t4Q8w

They have loads of content on weird military hardware like this.
> Imagine they were strict vegetarians, or peaceful and kind meat eaters for that matter. It would completely disrupt our own evolution by injecting foreign memes into our culture.

Or imagine they were psychopathic sadists, like the Affront in that Ian Banks novel.
I've been doing some playing around with dev containers for a while now and am loving the experience so far. The one thing I am not super clear on however is doing end to end browser based testing in Web Apps. I didn't find a lot of good documentation on this currently. I can't tell if the "correct" solution is to also load something like headless chrome into the Dockerfile and install it manually or go down the path of trying to set things up in a different container with a docker-compose approach.
Starter kits and with-header variants are always in stock though, it’s just that $5 price is promotional.
>He seems, as an outsider (UK), to be fomenting racial divisions - around the World - just so he can play at being a big cheese. His motivation appears to be purely money, but he and those who voted for him don't appear to have a problem with the cost of that being democracy and racial unity.

No offense, but this seems like a narrative straight out of the left-wing playbook. Fomenting racial divisions around the World? Seems a bit of a stretch.

As far as the motivation being "purely money", I'd say his presidency cost him a bunch of scrilla, though I bet he earns it back in the long run. Is that any different than, say, Bill Clinton, who has made millions of dollars doing speeches around the world after his presidency? I'm not sure.

>USA seemingly can't be trusted to keep even a semblance of Rule of Law

Turn off the TV. The US is still great. Again, what you are watching is mostly theatre.

>If he stays out of prison then the message is 'USA's political establishment endorses white power, and oligarchy'

Wait, you say the US can't be trusted to keep the law, but then say that Trump needs to go to prison? For what crime?
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."

and

"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. "
Doing any sort of development with Docker on OSX can be painfully slow if you have a lot of files that change frequently. There are a few projects to improve it but they quite aren't there yet. It's my least favourite aspect of modern web work.
Disclaimer: Not a pandemic response team member.

I would imagine that if you look at the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic... we have a vaccine and we've been able to give first doses to maybe 5% of the U.S. right now.

It is estimated that herd immunity, or basically infection frequency / transmission dropping low enough that you are unlikely to get COVID-19 requires about 75% of everyone to be fully vaccinated (both doses for the two leading vaccines).

So to have the vaccine or not have the vaccine is not a binary choice for every person at this time. Lots of 64 year olds could walk into a grocery store, wishing they had a vaccine, but they don't. Ideally, every store employee at such a store is low or no risk for that 64 year old, just in case. Masks help but are not 100%. Catching it from surfaces is, I believe, presumed to be low on incidence, but I would not assume it is 0% either.

So the best bet for 64 year olds that are not yet eligible for the vaccine is that employees at places people have to go contain largely vaccinated employees as soon as possible. Also don't know the numbers, but there are probably a lot less grocery store workers than say all people between 50 and 64 years of age.

(I'm also not 100% clear on when a 64 year old with no underlying conditions and no front-line worker qualification will otherwise be eligible.)
> my conclusion was drawn from the following languages having their main compiler written in that language: Haskell, Java, Scala, OCaml, Kotlin, C++, C#, F#, Rust, Go, Nim, Zig...

I don't see a problem, all those languages seem well suited to implementing a compiler. For comparison, the Bash scripting language would be a nightmare.

> Most of these compilers were rewrites after a bootstrap implementation was created in an existing language.

Sure, how else would they do it?
I don't know what could be more streamlined than clicking "Code -> Open in Codespace" on GitHub, and Visual Studio Code renders in your browser, with all of your dotfiles set and dependencies loaded to mess around with something.

(GitPod does a similar thing where you can append the URL to gitpod.io, but they can't use the VSCode extension marketplace).
I think you can factor the idea of loss of community without the other stuff – solely anchored on increasing hypercompetition at global scale in a winner-takes-most markets that are no longer constrained by geography. And that's bad, because this model precludes investing in community-local concerns like teaching, children and social safety nets that are hugely +EV for us all but there is no clear way to inject a centralized private investment (and siphon off enough value to attract said investment).
>Apple spearheaded the modern browser with Safari...

>As for Mobile Safari, it took several years for Android browsers to come close...

>suggested to developers they make their own web apps in lack of a native SDK, most dissed those...

>Safari is not exactly some bad browser holding those apps back...

>do you see many people watching Netflix on Android Chrome...

Absolutely none of these points are arguments against having the option to have an alternative browser rendering engine. Not sure why you think they are.
Yup, overland.

Not many nimbys if you're 20 miles off the coast of NY going to 20 mile off the Singapore coast (not that nimbys would have any say in Singapore), and nobody en-route would even know it's flying overhead.

OK you have a 30 minute ride at each end from downtown, but that's not much more than going to JFK/Changi from downtown. 1 hour checkin and 1 hour flight, you're doing end to end in 3 hours rather than 22.
Nice site. I prefer your body visualization over the Exrx.net implementation (https://exrx.net/Lists/WtMale).
How do particles in delayed-choice quantum eraser [0] experiments know whether or not their path will eventually be observed?

If we accept "magic" as an explanation, then it would appear based on experimental evidence that the universe is, in fact, magic.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed-choice_quantum_eraser
It depends is the real answer for any things. Understanding what it depends on is an important part of the discussion. Most people have no understanding of sound in the ocean. There is a ton of information at:
https://dosits.org - Discovery of Sound in the Sea.

-Full disclosure, I am affiliated with that website.
C programmer vs Java programmer

— Your Java is slow!

— This is because it is written in C!
Yeah if you park your UFO at the right angle, or even better, keep it flying at the right speed and place you can have a perpetual solar eclipse. Pretty mundane stuff when you aren’t planet bound.
Learn English. One day we will conquer the word and force everyone to speak in es-ar, but meanwhile you must learn English.

Do you know any programming language? Which? It's nice to have some previous project to show. Consider contributing to some open source project. They don't care about your official education in university if your code compiles and follow the local tab vs spaces rules, and a few other quirks of each project. [1]

Start with something small, like fixing a typo or adding a tiny feature. You never know if your fix is a bad idea, or it is not compatible with the vision of the maintainer or the maintainer is just a moron. Don't expend more than a weekend (or a week) for a first contribution. Also, I recommend to pick a project you use, instead of a random project you don't care about.

[1] You can't be a Medical Doctor without an official degree of an University.

[1'] You can try publishing in a Math journal without a degree, but it is very difficult without a coauthor/mentor that knows how frame the results and how to discuss with the editors/referees, and pick a subject that is consider new and interesting.
Oh God that is an awful awful book

I can't believe it is taught for anything other than "how to not write"
Alas, before September... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
True, but the point still stands: a lot of people can be influenced by something no matter its origins. Once they can say "X thousand can't be wrong" then you and your pesky idea backed up by facts and evidence can go to hell.

Sadly history is full of such occurrences.
Feds are paying for it:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html
Note that Slovakian police (With the help of Europol) have been able to obtain access to Threeema. https://balkaninsight.com/2019/10/09/puppet-master-slovakia-...
Having worked in an enormous heavy manufacturing facility at a company with a very good safety record, I disagree. In the case of working on the hottest days of the year in full PPE, additional mandatory breaks and hydration are required. Additional airflow should be added if in a poorly ventilated space and compatible with the work being done. PPE used should match the risks presented, which should be well documented before starting work. Shortcuts to the standard process, failure to identify when things start going wrong, etc. cause injuries and deaths.

Safety culture is super hard to build, taking years of collaboration between management, workers, and unions if applicable. Every group wants nothing more than for the employees to go home the same way they went to work.

Any one time you do a task with less than required PPE, probably nothing will happen. But over the course of a career, those "this one time" instances add up and eventually will cause an injury or death.
This is so broad that it can't really be answered in an HN comment. Data science can mean a bunch of different things in different companies and even separating them into small and big companies isn't that useful.

> Is "data science" outside large corporates just about using excel?

No, certainly not just excel.
Thank you for pointing this out and giving the alternate, I'm going to switch to LibreDNS.
I'm about 3/4 of the way through, and feel like I need to re-read it just so I know what's going on in context for the Benjy section.
> Require everyone stop smoking, drinking, drug use, work out consistently, eat healthily, etc. Vaccines, even against covid-19, are the least likely to impact work hours.

I'm curious, are you not in the US?

Many workplaces routinely test employees for drugs, even drugs that are legal in their states. Employment at many places is conditioned specifically on not using drugs.

Similarly, employees at many firms must maintain an adequate credit rating or risk termination. So the slippery slope you describe...we've already slid down it.
I understand this can be done. And this post explains how it's done. I still don't get why it should be done?

What's the advantage of running your dev environment in a container?
In particular, the current NYC vaccination phase includes all "public-facing" grocery store workers (but not restaurant workers!)

Not sure how that plays with stores like Dollar General, which carry some groceries. Don't believe there are any Dollar Generals in NYC, but what about the bodega workers?
Great! I didn't saw the information on top left. For example for the header compression there isn't a two way connection? I see only a reference to the http rfc.
This is consistent with prior work showing that SMART has no predictive value.

Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population, FAST '07

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
Because we assume our instinctual tendency to explore is what makes us so dominant.

More of the same old anthropomorphizing I guess.
> I don't think that is how it works, we have labour laws for a reason.

It's absolutely how it works, because the labor laws we have don't generally prohibit requiring vaccinations, especially where that mitigates danger to yourself, other employees, or the public that come from you doing your job. Lots of jobs require certain vaccinations now.

> If vaccines can be mandated by companies where to draw the line?

Typically, at conditions which unreasonably endanger workers or the public, not ones that protect them.
Sure thing, although I would argue the increased evolutionary fitness would be very small. The fact that they roll in it vs just inhaling it to me also suggests this.

Maybe their use of the word "functional" is different than mine, and we're saying the same thing. But to me there's a big difference from saying e.g. "Our findings suggest that chimps using sticks to dislodge food is a functional behavior."
> i wonder how much money gets wasted on these failed explorations/projects.

Failure is not a waste of money if lessons are learned. The value is in the lesson. As anyone whosed developed a reinforcement learning application knows, there is a balance between EXPLORATION and EXPLOITATION. If you don't explore, your performance will never improve. This is true even if 99% of the explored states are failures.

I suppose if one doesn't want to invest in exploration, one could always join an Amish township. They are very content and apparently happy with their perpetually static state of technological development - and there's nothing wrong with that until someone with a missile comes in to take over your land amd all you have to fend them off with is a hay fork.
Restart, for the same reason why the correct reply to the genie in the lamp is
"Infinite wishes."
> that’s what people want

It’s not what I want. I don’t want my social network promoting violence anymore than I want my toast poisoning my family.
Indie Hacker Built a Charity
Codespaces is in private beta. I have requested access for some time now and got no response.

All the services I mentioned are fully open for everybody today.
So there’s no option to save your reflections as an ongoing journal? That was one of my motivations for installing the app today.
Microsoft Teams Wiki vs. Atlassian Confluence. What Is Better?
Here’s how that goes before the quarter, by deciders less close to the situation on the ground, or whose own job performance evaluation depends on the situation not being as dire: “You’re being alarmist. Don’t ask us to deploy troops, it’s not like Americans are going to actually storm their own Capitol.”

And then after the quarter, “OK, Americans didn’t storm the Inauguration, but are you sure that’s because you so-called mitigated the risk with 20K troops? All this money, no attack, maybe we should spend that money on teachers instead of troops.”

In this space, lack of negative outcomes breeds contempt for the mitigation. (Hmmm...)

Interestingly, in the very long long run, that might even be right, as better education on civics is solving the problem at the left, earlier in the production line.

So now you have a new problem, which is to convince those deciders not close to the problem and disinterested in openly admitting gaps, that they need to both spend on the 20K troops now, and double down on teachers for a payoff 10 years from now, so that after that they don’t have to spend on the troops... best luck.
> "alien cargo culting"

As it is right now we're doing human cargo culting, most of which is indoctrinating people into believing things that are not true - sooo YMMV?
Scientists thinking like scientists!

I'd presume an advanced culture that can traverse the galaxy has many resources. Like humanity, I'd assume that with abundance, entertainment would be prioritized.

We might be nothing more than a new source of fashion and novelty to them! They may like Rock & Roll, our food, our clothing, or even pogs.

We might even be boring to them for the moment, but they're hoping for a future payoff.

Or they could just look at us as a future source of diversity in their society. The different methods of creating sentient beings might be of great importance to a post-biological society (maybe there's charm in our resource inefficiency).

Determining the motivations of a post-singularity society is a difficult task. It's fun because it forces you to think beyond your current means. But I wouldn't consider it a productive endeavor.
That would imply that there are also lots of alien worlds that are similarly developed to us and those might be interested.