skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do people say that? I've never heard anyone claim that Go is simple to write.

The article we are discussing now has a big subtitle "A simple language."
Usually the factory default WiFi network that IoT devices create during setup is open. No password required. It seems the author left the device in that state when he reverse-engineered the API. So anyone in the vicinity of the network can connect to his lamp and control it. I wouldn't call this "secure."
I consider food security a national security issue. Produce is one of the few areas where I would consider a tarif justified. Every country should be able to feed it's citizens with the food grown there, or they risk hunger when cut off by war or natural disaster.
Compat2021: Eliminating five top compatibility pain points on the web
> It's not so apparent to me that banning painkillers because broken legs shouldn't exist is a good idea.

Not my argument. Lotteries are an irrational “opiate of the masses” to choose compared to other opiates of the masses. Lotteries, in practice — mostly because you can buy multiple lottery tickets per drawing, and some people really go in on that — are more negative-sum (i.e. more extractive on the part of their operators) than almost any other way to trade money for dopamine.

(They’re actually worse than casinos — because casinos kick out gambling addicts, and there are only so many casinos that eventually you’ll be recognized at all of them. With lottery tickets, you can just visit every convenience store in a five-mile radius. Some people do.)

It would be like if you were on the street with a broken leg, and a street drug dealer offered you the option to buy either morphine or krokodil[1] for the same price. They both do the same thing (strong analgesia, addiction) but one has far worse side-effects. Why, other than either ignorance to the costs, or the inability to rationally weigh costs and benefits, would someone choose to self-medicate with the krokodil over the morphine?

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/krokodil-the...
Building a command-line time tracker in shell script
I've been doing some research on this lately.

US Numbers [0] direct from USDA and World Numbers [1] who claim to be from USDA but I haven't been able to confirm that yet.

[0] https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Cattle/inv.php

[1] https://beef2live.com/story-world-cattle-inventory-1960-2014...
Pretty much a noob at FP in general: Wouldn't f# solve the FP and OO integration?
> Why is it now "well, others are doing bad things, we may as well pollute the shit of the planet too"?

Why is the burden on me? That's never been explained by all the climate religionists out there. When the west does something it's bad. When everyone else does it, they get a pass?

We already did the industrial revolution. We already went through the long process. They have free wins - they don't need to design new processes or methods - they have plenty of money.

They have the wrong priorities.

Instead we can sit here and pat ourselves on the back for not using plastic straws, because save the turtles or some absolute crock, while 4 or 5 countries in asia produce almost ALL of the plastic trash in the oceans.
> Blood testing 4m people during a pandemic is impractical

On at least two occasions China has swab-tested 10 million people in a single city within a week, when covid re-occurred in a city where it had been thought to be extirpated. I don't think blood testing is twice as difficult as swab testing. So, I don't think it's impractical per se. It's just impractical in the UK.

You know what's impractical? 2.7 million people dying and an unknown fraction of the survivors suffering disabilities and injuries such as diabetes, heart attacks, and cerebrovascular attacks.
How to Use Apple Music, TV, and iCloud on Non-Apple Devices
> It's not the AI's inherent bias as such though. It's the bias of the dataset...

An engineer builds a chat protocol and app on top of UDP. Chat messages between users frequently never arrive and are lost.

When questioned about it, the engineer says "it's not my app that causing the message loss it's UDP that's causing it."

The engineer selected the communication protocol.

To avoid packet loss, I build retry logic into my app, or build on top of TCP.
And if it is something which is mostly intended to be used in a different system or ecosystem say it.

Some time ago one of the big data serialization formats of the apache system was discussed. I didn‘t understand the benefit of it as it looked like all the other ones. But the hn comments had discussed the main benefit: it‘s an in-memory so the different (layered) big data frameworks can directly operate on it without permanent encoding/decoding for the next layer.
I would disagree with his rhetorical stylings whether or not he had autism, and probably wouldn't change much in the way of how I disagreed or really talked about him.

> publicly sharing that private medical information

Are we gonna side-step the fact that he's publicly stated in several interviews that he suspects that he's on the spectrum, or nah?

> make you start treating him as an actual human being

In what way have I not?
The wikipedia page you link to clearly shows that enteric fermentation accounts for 16% vs Coal and Oil at 19%. There is also another 36% anthropogenically produced methane in that chart so I think that easily accounts for the 3x increase without pinning it on cows. Interestingly rice cultivation contributes a whopping 12%.
https://youtu.be/-Jh0EN1De4Q

sorry for pun. But that's not always a solution. Sometimes employer is greedy. Sometimes his business just does not allow to pay enough salary.
Electronic lights seem like a small convenience for a high price, not to mention how they require even more use of smartphones and such.
This is kind of a use-case for Bitcoin, no?
Languages evolving and borrowing good ideas from each other* is not the same thing as hyperbolically sneering at some of the most popular programming languages in the world because they're supposedly all converging into one single language, which they never were doing and never will do.

*Note that the new Python pattern matching has a somewhat controversial design, and it probably won't see significant adoption in the wild for several years, if ever.
Yeah, there's a chance VW are playing this to the market. As a commenter opined in another thread; new engines are rarely developed anyway and they stated that they will continue to iterate over current set of engines.

Note that there's no word about VW's EV plans besides this line "None of the executives specified a definite date for when they would exclusively produce electric vehicles".

There's also this line "Completely new engines were unlikely, he said.".

Seems like a planted PR piece by VW to further fuel the stock price momentum.
Tiny Rolling Angel Fund (Andrew Wilkinson)
I think this is a fair criticism of Buzzfeed, after all, they have an employee/employer relationship with said creators; this is not true of independent creators.
> as generated by for example `head -c 30 /dev/urandom | base64 | tr -d '+/='`

If you want exactly 30 alphanumeric characters you could do `tr -dc '[:alnum:]' < /dev/urandom | head -c 30`
Who is "we"? Of course, many people want to move, work and live in the big cities. But it is not clear it is preferable to let all of them do that and leave the rest of the China depopulated. The hukou system seems designed to keep big proportion of all people from settling and living in the big cities. And it seems this is working. For example, agricultural hukous are motivated from changing to urban hukous by property rights that urban hukous do not have.
Strapi for Headless CMS
Sitting in an increasingly concentrated puddle of my own CO₂ when I close the door of my small home office is not a life safety issue. It just seems to affect my cognitive performance at some point. If there were CO₂ tanks or combustion in play, I'd be using a proper industrial CO₂ alarm.
There is limited progress in terms of store representation, but it's not nearly fast or complete enough. It has to be mandated to stop it because there are too many "no mask, anti vaxx" people who will never stop using it like sugar of lead, DDT, asbestos, PTFE, or leaded gasoline.

"Almond milk" grow of almonds is a waste of water in water-scarce areas. Also, compounds in almonds bind to testosterone. It's a very wasteful product.
A lot of things, in my opinion. If you do work that can save even one life, it's worth it on a utilitarian level. It's not that hard to think of life-saving things to work on. You could imagine, perhaps, COVID vaccine distribution, solar energy technology, suicide hotlines, lots of food solutions (impossible meat perhaps), even autonomous vehicles if you've drank the kool aid, etc.

Of course this assumes that the 40th-80th hours provide marginal utility (perhaps a big assumption).
You can do better than their first offer which is certainly a low-ball one, for that is how negotiations go. Also whenever the opposite side tells me a deal is good for me it is certainly self serving!

You have to do some calculations and forecasting w/ some assumptions but can all be done in a few hours.

The other strategy would be to wait and let the cash flows start.

Lots of way to take this forward - get someone to counsel you.
It doesn't matter. He waded into a giant scandal and published something that sounded like he was defending the whole thing. I can't think of a single institution that this would not get you fired from, usually within hours.

Hell CEOs can be fired for such things... unless they have Elon Musk or Steve Jobs levels of reality distortion fields and cult followings.
The indexing runs on the remote server. Now, not sure what traffic autocomplete and such ends up using, but most of the hard work happens remotely.
I think the major problem here is that this information was sent *by default* and many websites didn't realize that outbound links where sharing the source URL. This could result in an exploitable security issue.

Now the website has to do something explicit to share information (beyond the hostname) to outbound cross-origin outbound links. It is much more likely that the website will pay attention to what information they are sharing in this case.
I think the more expressive language is that quality.
Which I believe is the base of the problem. If you have a really professional team then it will make programming even complex programs a breeze. But this same thing is a catastrophe in the hand of average devs. Go’s design was pretty much this (though I prefer a more expressive lang than that).
Java while not necessarily an elegant language, I think strikes a great balance between sufficient expressiveness and not-too-many ways to express things.
> I can't tell whether you're being facetious, but this is almost exactly how it works. (Lotteries are state-run, private gambling is banned almost everywhere, profits go to state schools.)

In the US. Perhaps derefr was not talking about the US.
The questions are, of course, what else are they including that they aren't advertising and what else are they going to put onboard in the future that they aren't advertising?
nah. documentation only goes so far.

you handle this by having and exercising a disaster recovery plan and having (and listening to) competent people that would spot this issue in a jiffy.
The last time I talked to him he was trying to write his own discrete Fourier transform so he could avoid shifting around his matrix.

https://github.com/JuliaOptics/Fourier.jl
Oh please, even such a crappy place knows better.

Its Password123. Adding capital letters makes it more secure.
You make no sense. No one will pay $25 to clean a single room in a hotel. Just because your room is $150 it doesn’t mean that “there’s plenty to pay everyone 100k/year.
Yep, 100%. The thing that bugs me about Oculus is the facebook connection, and there isn't a viable alternative at a similar price point. Otherwise, spot on. There's also a dotted line between VR and AR which kind of makes it a combined discipline imo.
I'm trying to understand what you are accusing him of... but I don't actually see any actions or conduct towards real life individuals.

It seems like you're offended by his opinions to the point that you think he should be removed from his career - which also has nothing to do with the subject of the comments he made.

I'm also glad you posted his specific comments so that people can see what all this drama is about - instead of the vague name-calling.

On the surface, his two comments seem at least rational - even if I don't agree with them. Is it "moral" to define the same act as "rape" depending upon which country it occurs? That's a pretty reasonable question. Is it plausible than the victim in the case above "presented herself" as willing? I don't know - that's plausible I suppose, isn't it?

What's so heinous about these comments that you think he should have his career destroyed?
We have a bunch of cursed USB-C cables that exhibit this behaviour. So the orientation matters, but only with some cables and only with some devices (that use 2.0)… good luck explaining that to office staff. Sigh.
It’s kind of irrelevant whether or not a cow is carbon neutral by some definition. The point is that greenhouse gas emissions are effectively reduced using this feed. Sure, it isn’t as great as getting rid of all fossil fuels, but it’s something relatively easy we could do.
> They are supposed to be used as references, not as introductions to a subject.

Assuming 'man' is short for 'manual', this is exactly where man-pages go wrong.

Especially as a beginner; reading man-pages is a waste of time. It's so dense and obtuse that reading man-pages almost requires reading a man-page on reading man-pages.

For example try to figure out how to extract a zip using tar by using the man-pages.
There have been a few ship tunnels built already, the longest one is 7km long
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rove_Tunnel
Eh, it's all relative. You can make some queries perform pretty terrible even with tiny data. It's something that has had measurable performance impacts on queries I've had to tune and deal with with over the years.
This is utterly false. About 20% of livestock feed is fodder crops and grains. The rest is grass, leaves, and plant matter by-products such as crop residue, oil seed cakes, etc. All things that are inedible to humans.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22119...
The UN humans rights are not law in the USA. The first amendment says that the government can't make laws about religion. In the USA, people are free to have whatever religion they want, which is great.

Pointing out that all available research points to some religious claim being wrong is not harassment.
Yeah, good luck when someone with experimental temperament decides to implement some of your crucial functionality with semialgebras. (that's what happened in my previous job where we run Scala). I'm happy I didn't have to debug any customer issues around that module. Also, I didn't enjoy constant bickering with my reviewers what makes a beautiful code or not. Apparently there are five ways to do everything in Scala and I always ended up picking not the one my teammates would like the most.
How could they expect to get away with this?
An equivalent to excel's record macro functionality, but at the os level, based on what's on the screen using ocr.

Sikuli got close, but something with a little more AI behind it to get a sort of "fuzzy" macro recording.
Some basic research on "hormones and personality" or "empathising–systemising" will lead you to relevant works, such as:

"Results provide strong support for hormonal influences on interest in occupations characterized by working with Things versus People." - Gendered Occupational Interests: Prenatal Androgen Effects on Psychological Orientation to Things Versus People (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166361/)

"Gender differences in personality tend to be larger in gender‐egalitarian societies than in gender‐inegalitarian societies, a finding that contradicts social role theory but is consistent with evolutionary, attributional, and social comparison theories. In contrast, gender differences in interests appear to be consistent across cultures and over time, a finding that suggests possible biologic influences." - Gender Differences in Personality and Interests: When, Where, and Why?" (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1751-9004....)

It would be ignorant to assume that biology has zero impact on occupational interest.
But Bill Gates is incorrect. The Cement industry has a plan that they think can lower cement production greenhouse gasses by 40-80%.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cement-producers-...
It's the planned/future use-case for Bitcoin, yes. As of now, you cannot pay a lot of your daily expenses with Bitcoin so you still need a way of going from Bitcoin to USD/EUR/$LOCAL_CURRENCY so instead of Visa and Mastercard being the gatekeepers, the centralized exchange facilitating the fiat-trade is now the gatekeeper instead.
Even if atmospheric methane has not increased in recent times, it may be a good idea to try and reduce it.

We have too much of one greenhouse gas, and so far we've been unable to change that. Reducing another greenhouse gas could partially compensate for that.
The problem is that functional programming is a really good idea but nobody has figured out (yet) the specific industry applications where it makes possible new things that weren't possible before. Mapreduce was a big win but you can do it in java. Spark was a big win but you can drive it from python. How do you make a better CRUD app in Scala? Serving http requests but with monads is not the answer.
UX Design Patterns to Improve Transparency and Feedback in FinTech Apps
Other people feel differently.

I personally hate living in a haunted world which is filled with devices watching me, ready to pounce and fill me with delight at their fulfilling my every desire. It's absolute exhausting and downright terrifying when you think through the hell some motivated hacker (or hater) could subject you to.

Is it unthinkable that all this stuff will turn on you one day? What if you become infamous for crossing the wrong person and a viral video sends the firehouse of political hatred from one group or another your way? "Swatting" is a thing. Just wait until people start hacking your house. They could burn it down while you are away by just turning on your oven maybe!

Me? I'd like my bricks, locks, doors, lights, and life to stay dumb.
Why not tax meat into oblivion?
good idea in that thread:

If you don't have a backup of your zone files, a good way to quickly pick up the main domains being used would be to turn on logging for your DNS server and output into a log collector. That way you can quickly build queries on which IPs are asking for which FQDNs and start rebuilding a list of your lost zones and can maybe do some guess-work on which IPs those FQDNs were likely to resolve to.

I would expect irregular or extremely infrequent processes that use specific FQDNs will pop up from time to time as errors/failed processes and should prime IT teams on what to look out for.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/ma4mwl/the_absolu...
That's actually a great suggestion. We'll add that!
Do you, or anyone, have [links to] more information about exactly what Outlook does when requesting a tracking pixel to display in an email.

I can't sniff it (Wireshark) as I don't have that sort of access to a network with Outlook on. I've googled but didn't find anything useful.
Maybe I missed a step. They talk about how site operators with objectionable content know they are not welcome and maybe leave, but don't mention how the site operator would know their site has been marked.
Isn't this just a vailed SEO/Content filled blog post/Ad for puri.sm?
EFCore.FSharp: Adds F# design-time support to EF Core
Corn, people... American cows prominently eat corn.

It is extremely fertilizer and pesticide intensive, and entirely engineered. As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, the fertilizers are also fossil fuel based.
Using an incandescent light bulb is not “better” than an LED bulb, even though the latter is a “pile of electronics” while an incandescent bulb is just a little tungsten wire. So I really don’t think this is a good rule to follow. Simpler technologies are often far less efficient and often have a far larger ecological impact.

LED bulbs are comically more efficient than incandescent bulbs (by a factor of 5-10), which in turn are comically more efficient (by 10-50 times) than like a candle or oil lamp. “Simple” is actually a terrible heuristic for “low ecological impact.”
Ditch Wordpress with This Serverless CMS, Using Ghost, Gatsby, and AWS
The moment comes from a mortal sacrifice more often is desirable for certain. Examples of the top of my head are Thích Quảng Đức [0], and Tarek el-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi [1].

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi

2.
> it depends what benefits me and my closet tribe members. Currently I’m in a high cost of living area with very high minimum wages, so I’m for high minimum wages.

If I could make a suggestion, don't do that.

What benefits the tribe's leaders is not the same thing as what benefits the members of the tribe. Elected officials want a larger tax base because once they have enough to provide a basic level of services necessary to prevent the population from revolting, the excess can be diverted to cronies. What that means to you is that you and yours pay more for housing and have a more wasteful government; it's not a benefit to you. Not fighting against it would tend to raise your cost of living by increasing competition for local resources.

But also, that mindset is poison. Once you admit to a willingness to be inconsistent for the benefit of tribal conflict, you're no longer engaged in good faith negotiations. You're making a declaration of war against your own countrymen. Then it's might makes right and the strong taking from the weak. And they don't stop at the other tribe. Put kleptocrats in power and they don't just steal for you, they steal from you. If that's not what you want, you have to refuse what causes it.

> Federal UBI and no minimum wage or any other subsidy to anyone.

> But that’s not going to happen

That's what people say about everything, until it does.

But it doesn't happen on its own. If you want something you have to work for it.
> Is it?

Yes, in the usual sense medical researchers use the term "risk factor", e.g., having a heart attack is a risk factor for having one of your great-grandparents die of a heart attack. Taking vitamin D probably won't reduce your covid risk, but it might, and it's a low-risk intervention that probably isn't harmful, so you should do it anyway unless you have some contraindication such as a high risk of kidney stones. The best review I've seen of the research literature is this post:

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/covidvitamin-d-much-mo...

(That post isn't medical advice, but this comment clearly is.)