skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it is not common but does happen. There are several cases on drug testing, DNA, bite mark, and software that comes to mind. Scientifically well established processes, tools, etc. are rarely called up.

Bite mark was a big deal in the industry because it turns out, it is not so unique and the methodologies developed were weak.

My personal opinion why the are resisting? They are resisting because they are bottom dwellers. Forensicators whom I associate with, tool vendors, and I understand that we have to share knowledge. I dare say, we are the most open source scientific knowledge industry.

This is not because of some altruistic reason, but because tomorrow they can be called on to explain.
Seems like an amazing product! One thing that would be amazing for you to tackle is support for devices, services, etc. Things that are not driven by a user and do not have a browser. I've worked at a few IoT companies and authentication is always a massive pain in my ass. SSO for web pages is annoying, authentication for 3rd party APIs or devices that need to sit in the middle of nowhere and don't have people to "login" on them is a whole other layer of pain. I'd love if you had a solution in that area.
Yeah, it's tedious. But worth doing. I didn't do it in one go, I kept an eye on my Gmail and slowly moved the email across that sent me messages or when logging into that service for the first time.
That ignores how likely intelligent life is to arise, which is something we don't know.
> So many practices in that book would get me and my entire team fired it’s hilarious.

Such as?
My question would be closer to, how would you feel if someone high up decided to strip away your attraction to women, and replace it with an attraction to men, because they deemed this more "appropriate", or positive to society.

And now, for the rest of your life, you view having sex with women as disgusting. Would this not be the slightest bit alarming and distressing?
"Not funny ha-ha, but funny 'BANKRUPT'"
Two questions:

1. Why use this over AWS Cognito?

2. Any intention to manage authorization as well?
Both of my corrections are right, but thanks for doubling down on something that's false with no evidence.

- Charity vs non-profit: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz...

> To be tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, an organization must be organized and operated exclusively for exempt purposes set forth in section 501(c)(3) [CHARITY], and none of its earnings may inure to any private shareholder or individual [NON-PROFIT].

You can be a charity (albeit not tax exempt) without being a non-profit, and moreover you can be a non-profit without being a charity. (See also https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/other-nonprofits ; and keep in mind that still other types of non-profits are not tax-exempt at all!)

- Trust "owning" Hershey's: If you look at the document I cited, you'll note that the trust (which is still neither a charity nor a non-profit!) owns only 5.5% of Hershey's common stock.
The big question that this viewpoint misses is what to do with fears that certain things "turn people gay" and the flip side of that fear: that the straight community might use successful conversion therapy to eliminate the gay community.

All of a sudden both of those camps have ammunition for their points.

Saying that it's "genetically determined" (or at least innately determined) very nicely sidestepped that. To the extent that that is not true, then you have to grapple with those other questions.
I see what you are saying but I think it misses the point. We need a filesystem right now because data disappears from RAM when electricity goes away.

With persistent memory you don't need that extra serialization/deserialization step to/from the filesystem. Look, think it like this:

1. In memory we store our program code and data as blobs in various parts, in the stack, in a heap, some only for the current program, other stuff like shared libraries linked at runtime to various programs. It's a rats nest of pointers.

2. When we "save" or "restore" we takes that rats nest and pull out some of the important parts (e.g. we ignore the shared libraries in memory and the app code) and we serialize that state out to disk.

3. Then the file system takes that logically contiguous "file" and breaks it up into pieces and stores those across the disk in various blocks and writes metadata which describe how to put the pieces back together again.

With persistent memory we can ignore steps 2 and 3 most of the time, but they still might be useful for sending data to other computers, especially step 2.

Disclaimer: I read the slides but didn't watch the talk
> You don't use a loaded phrase like "Stasi-like" unless you're implying something nefarious.

To be perfectly clear, he was using it to refer to citizen-surveillance which is patently nefarious.

> Greenwald is ascribing a lot of intent that he can't back up.

Those of us who suffered her social media account while it was public have the context to know that his characterization isn't far off. More importantly though, this isn't about her, but rather about the broader trend of policing ideological transgressions and passing it off as "journalism".
A lot of bashing over a vague third-hand quote without a source.

In the very next paragraph they say:

> The company offered the defense access under tightly controlled conditions outlined in a non-disclosure agreement, which included accepting a $1m liability fine in the event code details leaked. But the defense team objected to the conditions, which they argued would hinder their evaluation and would deter any expert witness from participating.

So it's a concern about IP protection for them.
Enjoy it while you can folks, next iteration of this project will only show Starlink serial numbers in great detail.
Renaissance Clients Exit After Firm’s Anemic Run of Results
That makes more sense. I am sorry I misunderstood and thank you for explaining.
Even non-connected systems can be a problem. Stuxnet was an example. But I think the main point is that owners of those systems think they are protected just by being disconnected.
I'm not 100% positive about Hetzner, but suspect much of it is is actually on a VM, and would indeed be old standard. Back at Heroku we were in the very early days of carving up databases within containers. Containers themselves very much were not mature enough at the time (10 years ago), but the underlying primitives of lxc and cgroups we could mostly get to work. At the time though, and this was still just 10-12 years ago we had people actively debate that VMs on AWS weren't suitable for databases...
I'm probably not the main audience for this, but if you mention security as a top-level feature it might be good to fix these:

https://securityheaders.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fclerk.dev
https://securityheaders.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fdashboard.clerk...

For me it is also a red flag to include third party CDN JS (especially without SRI) on security critical applications (like the login for the dashboard and customer logins do with jsdelivr).
I worked at a water treatment facility for a few summers, and the SCADA system there was on a physically separated network. Actually, there were two SCADA networks, one for each of the plants, with the distribution system (the water towers and pumping stations randomly scattered throughout the service area) attached to one of those networks. I don't know how secure those remote links were, but I suspect they were the easiest ingress into the network.

A couple computers did bridge the two networks, but (IIRC) they were simple embedded systems doing read-only access (for compiling reports). I know when they did a pen-test, the pen-tester could compromise most of the corporate network (including service accounts), but they couldn't punch through to the SCADA systems.
Only if those dollars are used effectively.

If you’re just checking a checkbox and not actually securing the system, you’re no better off.
> For example, there’s a benchmark that’s supposed to measure 20 calls to Postgres, but one benchmark gets to the top by making only one long SQL statement that changes 20 rows.

That seems like a clear cheating case, over-optimised to the circumstances of the benchmark.
In addition, one suggestion is that a possible “gay gene” would be something that causes extremely strong attraction to men in both men and women with that gene. Women with this gene would then be more likely to father children, which could counter the evolutionary pressure resulting from the male offspring with that gene not having any offspring.

(I’m massively oversimplfing of course, my bio knowledge is fairly limited).
Neither of those things is okay, because sexual orientation is immutable, not a choice.

As to things that are choices, such as polygamy and adultery, the government can certainly punish people for those, even in western countries. It could set the age of consent to 25 if it wanted to--it would certainly have a rational basis for doing so. That's true even in the west, much less anywhere else.
I guess the pricing is more feature-based than MAU based.

The professional pricing have "Two-step verification" and "No visible Clerk branding".
Would you have the same reaction towards a mentally retarded orphan growing into a very strong man? Lenny, from Of Mice And Men?

My immediate reaction is horror at the unspeakable cruelty of selling a person - a participant in society - into caged slavery in the circus. Imagine the feeling of confusion and betrayal he must have felt. Imagine the trauma from suddenly having personhood privileges withdrawn. I don't see any justification for that. The article rather lightly glosses over the gory details of that shameful episode.
Tangential to your point, but I enjoy the comparison you draw between DNA mechanisms and Rube Goldberg machines. It’s an apt metaphor because DNA, and the body as a whole, is constructed quite randomly according to the demands of the environment.
Right, but the concern is that if we focus too much on the "hacker" and not enough on the vulnerable infrastructure, we may spend all our tax dollars chasing computer criminals instead of preventing computer crime. As a general rule, I don't like blaming the victims of a crime for falling victim... but the real victims here are the people downstream of the water supply, and we shouldn't absolve industry or infrastructure operators of negligence because some scary hacker attacked them.
I'm just waiting for the Impossible Baby.
We are alone.

The aliens, they are extremely far away. Probably not even their light can ever reach our "known universe".

They also are alone.
That's because Tegna is lazy and geoblocks EU visitors from their sites to avoid GDPR compliance.
Other discussion on this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26061935
I really wouldn’t worry about “being viewed as a failure”. I think it’s admirable if you choose your passion over normality. You’ll be better at your work and at life, you’ll be happier and live longer.
Job titles are, in my humble opinion, a trap.

So my advice is to set boundaries. If you don’t want to be sitting in meetings, then stand your ground or come to a compromise. If they don’t understand then quit! Find the path for you, life is too short to be unhappy and someone else’s pencil pusher.
Ask HN: Is there a modern equivalent to instant messenger file transfers?
Back in the 90s and early 00s in the age of ICQ and AIM (and other similar desktop messengers), direct file transfers were a standard feature in every messenger. If I understood correctly, this was a direct connection between two client users.

Nowadays the options for file transfers typically involve using some web services. One user would upload the file to some service, and it would be available for an http download by the other user (even if the link is protected).

As far as messengers go, most users use a mobile one now (understandably), and file transfers naturally aren't a part of standard featuresets (also understandably). What options do we have nowadays to send files to friends directly, on a computer, if we do not wish to go through uploading to a web service?
> That is, I can see how the derivative can help optimise a simulation, but I'm not clear on how using an auto derivative really helps.

Finding a derivative by hand gets tiring fast, and is error prone.
Used to be a neural net paper doing anything novel spent like 1-2 pages deriving the derivative of its cool new thing.
Not it's derivative isn't even mentioned.
Why is this flagged? Obviously the claim is pretty insubstantial, but there’s nothing wrong with the article as far as I can tell.
Look crazy to fresh eyes. I've found it to be a non-issue the more I write lisp code. With structural editors like parinfer, paredit, smartparens, etc. it becomes a whole lot better.
This black-and-white thinking ignores the spectrum of what constitutes non-toxic. There are those that accept nothing short of perfect purity in air, water and food, a condition which has never existed in a million years of human history. Others are less concerned about humans and more about ecology. Still others value the morals of human-animal relations above issues of nature.

So no, we are not all 'ecologists', not in the same sense anyway. And not to the same degree.
Virtual reality tourism ready for takeoff as travelers remain grounded
Not really fair to blame the performance on Jekyll, then. Presumably you could build yourself to the same issue with any other generator.
All products have a warranty of merchantability defined by UCC. Basically goods need to be average/expected quality.

With services it’s a little different because there is no average unless the contract is missing performance terms. If you agree to a term of performance, then that is the obligation.
Counter-counter-claim: The existence of Bitcoin doesn’t reduce the energy use of traditional banks - in fact, it increases it. Bitcoin is not just responsible for the energy used in mining, but also the energy used in its voluminous interactions with traditional finance.
I don't think anyone is proposing that moderation rely solely on humans. The question is about machine learning with human backup/appeals vs. Google's approach of machine learning with no appeals.
I'm not sure I agree that this is /wrong/ per se - the issue arises from the city council's disinterest / lack of expertise (which itself comes from disinterest) in these systems. If the issues are disclosed clearly, and the city council continues to sign off on the implementation (due to disinterest, cost pressure, whatever) without consulting knowledgeable third parties, then it's only realistic that the blame falls on the ultimate decision-maker (in this case, the city council).
Setf is a fun example of an amazing freedom in naming. You name how to address something, and setf is how you set things at that address. No longer do you have to have two names for one address, depending on if you are getting it or setting it.

And completely agreed on stability. I love that all of the code samples from all of my lisp books still work. Seems that number approaches zero for all the other languages. :(
Any idea what the colors indicate. There are some patches of mainly blue galaxies on a black background. These stand out as kind of unique. I initially zoomed all the way out, and in the top left is a giant blue and black area that looks like a lamp. I assumed this to be some imaging problem. Upon zooming in though one can see other blue on black areas.
There are several comments regarding that if one cannot pay for an opposing forensic investigation, then forensics is a black box.

Either you are moving the goal post, or I am to donnish.

Let's agree that it is scientifically not a black box, but some may not be able to pay for such service.

There were suggestions of nationalizing, centralizing or governing forensics and just have one, unbiased working for the courts.

This diametrically opposed to the problem pointed out by many where prosecutors will use specific labs because they return more positives. If the prosecution and the forensicator work for the same employers, how is that prevent further erosion of this problem?
“Not have any security issues whatsoever” is literally impossible. Passwordless auth is the security equivalent of putting all your eggs in one basket. If someone hacks a users email account, now they have access to your service too. Now I’m pissed that you didn’t let me enable 2fa to prevent that or have multiple secure passwords to isolate the hack to my email. You could have just shelled out the 10 cents it would have cost to have my account in auth0 and prevent all of this with 2fa and fraud detection.
People are entertained a little more and I'm not spending programmer hours on something like a robocall.
Addressing flaws in the government's process for hiring technologists
Counting the number of galaxies in these image datasets is actually a highly non-trivial, supercomputer-scale problem. I worked on this a few years back! Paper link for those interested: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.10277.pdf
You don't have to lock up a pet. Plenty of dogs lead happy contented lives, with family who take them for walks whenever asked, or even have free range of a generous rural territory.

"Pet" can simply mean non-human family member.
>So, from your human reaction to the resulting frame, at best, it takes from 107ms to react to something on screen and see the results of your reaction.

People can perceive delays smaller than their reaction window. For argument I'll say it's 50ms is the perceivability barrier, since we seem to throwing numbers around here. I can get 50 or 60 ms lag on my wifi often, and I would say that I have a pretty good connection. So therefore, the input lag potential with stadia is significant. 60 > 50.
Additionally, Paketo's buildpacks build reproducible images given the same source code and buildpack versions.
Surface modeling in Rhino, tutorials and e-book
Sounds like Azure... Solid 500s from API, but status is green.
Completely agree with everything here.

It's not documented yet, but our frontend components leverage an API that was built with the expectation that some developers won't like our designs, or will need something custom we can't accommodate.

In those cases, using the API directly should offer the flexibility you need.
http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/ might help.
I agree Taibbi is biased, what makes him a good example for a new model of journalism is that his bias is a) clear and b) not hegemonic. Let a thousand Taibbis bloom each with their own worldview, hangups and bugbears. That seems like a much healthier landscape than the boring, hegemonic left-y (but not Bernie lefty, because his fans are sooo mean online) milieu that we have now.
Nobody knows. If only carbon based life is possible and it needs liquid water then, afaik, most of these stars don't have a planet susceptible of hosting life as we know it, and even for the ones with the right conditions we might be a bit early or a bit late.

It's hard to quantify the chances of life existing anywhere else at the same time as us when we don't have any idea of how it came to exist in the first place. We might be the exception, we might not. You can't just make the connection: "billion of stars" = "we're not alone". I don't pretend to know what's "likely" on a universal scale and I don't think anyone should
11K ppm is 1% of the entire water supply. I doubt the plant had that much lye in stock.
Me too. The only people who think Azure is viable, haven't actually used it.
I thought it sufficed to say that overt defamation is abhorrent, at least when one is a journalist at the newspaper of record.
There’s probably a dumb reason I’m not thinking of, but why does the US have such a higher count than other large, industrialized nations?
Is your Gmail safe?

https://www.arcanus55.com/trust/key/vault/is_your_gmail_safe...
Known in game theory circles as Cena Equilibrium.
I think you can acknowledge the evils of the circus during that time and still also acknowledge that a gorilla is far stronger than most adult men, and more difficult to reason with should it get angry or violent.
How many of those benefits are based on regulation avoidance and will go away after crypto is more main stream or after its disruption will force institutions into offering more agile features through existing institutions (like faster cheaper transfers)?
I agree with Markdown + Git. I recently migrated my personal tech blog from Jekyll to Nuxt with static generation and the @nuxt/content API. I had some difficulties preserving the /YYYY/MM/DD/slug.html routes that I had used for my markdown files. It is very nice to be able to mix markdown and Vue components, but this adds additional work for cross-posting and future site migrations.

For example, I recently wrote an article about YC's Work at a Startup that contains some interactive visualizations embedded in the markdown file I used to draft the content as Vue components. If I want to cross post, I'll probably need to maintain another version of the markdown that either contains static images of the interactive elements and/or links back to my site (on GitHub pages).
that's not a solution to a problem.

end users don't want to run their own spam and moderation filters, and they definitely do want them.
> Neither of those things is okay, because sexual orientation is immutable, not a choice.

How do you actually know that? You can't just state something like that as a fact and assume people are going to accept it especially in response to an article call "No 'gay gene'".
I wonder whether or not it blocks certain light frequencies.
Hire minecraft computer builders. They have a lot of experience in that.
Site needs some love for mobile, doesnt scale properly if you zoom out
The built-in TDS sensor shows 004 after filtering, but the unfiltered tap water is good here so that probably helps.
I once tried to get my app in F-Droid, but they refused, because they did not want to install the dependencies because the dependencies were too big. Turns out you cannot compile something without dependencies. I wrote my app in FPC/Lazarus to make a truly cross platform app that runs natively on anything from a Raspberry PI to Windows 2000, and they did not like that tech stack.
I find it puzzling that aws uses rust so much yet don't have an official rust aws sdk
> Are you suggesting that unvalidated data is being used to prosecute crimes?

Yes. Pseudoscience is the bread and butter of criminal forensics.
Kafkatopia
Protolabs is a supplier with instant quoting website, we are a directory suppliers you can compare, talk to directly read reviews and rates.

Sort of like the difference between Hilton and AirBnb
Genuine question: what's the end game here for Musk? He's been tweeting about dogecoin, and then Tesla invests a non insignificant amount of money in BTC. I smell something fishy.
> it was fine when they were cancelling Bari Weiss, because he was on board with that

? I don't recall him being on board with Weiss getting shown the door.
Not if your account gets suspended in this way - there are some testimonies from people that said it locks you out of support and you get stonewalled too.
> I enjoy mentoring and explaining things, writing docs, and being involved in design of systems and influencing technical strategy

One of the great dilemmas is that these things are always interwoven with the non-technical aspects of being a manager. There is some aspect in which it is essential - "how long will this work take" depends intimately on the technical complexity, exactly how skilled the available resources are in the necessary areas etc. Other aspects are completely non-essential - "responsibility for staff completing health and safety training lies with line management". I would really like to see a model where these are disentangled.
WikiFlash: Generating Flashcards from Wikipedia Articles [pdf]
That's cheating. A person is only a homicidal psychopath after they have committed homicide. Locking up a psychopath who has committed no crimes is just as fucked up as locking up someone for being gay.