skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Delayed banning seems to work well for multiplayer game anti cheat systems (like VAC).

These problems are essentially the same, some of the know-how can be easily adapted between them.
> The problem is insufficiently analysed by the article author

The article author also misidentifies the version of the YAML spec (calling it 2.0, which doesn’t exist; the behavior is from YAML 1.1, and this class of problems motivated a bunch of changes in YAML 1.2, which has been out since 2009.)

But the article author isn’t trying to analyze the problem, he’s trying to rationalize why what is notionally a YAML-processing library just ignores the spec.
Zaphod Beeblebrox's Brain and the 59th row of Pascal's Triangle [pdf]
Wonder if you could check the repeated use of cryptographic functions in a process as a sign.
I read your blog about you became an engineer, and it conveys a very similar nostalgia I think we're all quite fond of.
The easternmost parts of Norway is another quirky area. It is the only place in the world where you have to adjust the time forward no matter if you travel west (into Finland, +1 hour) or east (into Russia, +2 hours).
Is this against the TOS though?
No offense, but this largely reads to me like "I don't wanna use Linux because I wanna use Mac". If you want to move to a different system, you can't expect to get the same thing. Really, the only complaints I can agree with now are 2 and 3, the rest is just invalid. You've got kdeconnect gsconnect nextcloud keepassxc many, many configurable mail clients, especially the beatiful, integrated kmail and their whole PIM suite, Okular has all three features you mentioned. You just have to put in a bit of work, it's a DIY system after all.
We're offering shared hosting for web apps and other hacker/toy projects. Intense compute workloads are just not what our product is built for, so we let other providers handle that part of the market.
Blame the vendor who shipped you proprietary graphics drivers.
Zipf’s Law still applies to the US Dollar, with 60% of the global currency distribution by value.

But will Metcalfe’s Law kick in with the Digital Yuan over time?

The Yuan has a long way to go from its current 2.5% share.

But if Chinese digital superplatforms ever gain traction in the developing world, it would be relatively easy to swap the means of exchange on the platforms, especially if it offers superior purchasing power retention.

Pushing Digital Yuan as part of both physical and digital One Belt, One Road efforts make sense.

Perhaps the future is a battle between relative value propositions but with far lower switching costs than the Cold War.

Apple versus Android, Dollar versus Yuan.

Ultimately, it is the US’s game to lose far more than it is China’s game to win.

But complacency kills.

Especially when it falls beneath the velocity threshold of general population detection.
I have a knee jerk negative reaction to the title rather then the content. "couples who share housework or share child care responsibilities more equally tend to have more sex" - sure, that sounds great. Safety net in society helps in many ways too. They sure correlate with socialist environment. But "Did women have better sex under socialism?" is such a BuzzFeed title that I expect a silly listicle rather than serious research.
Re: mail client - it's been quite a while since I last used it, but I really liked Sylpheed on Linux. Lightweight, good looking, doesn't get in your way. You might want to give it a try if you haven't already.
> XML with a convenient UI tools to edit should have fit the bill.

"You need this special tool to work" immediately and instantly rules out "easy to edit". Or makes the debate irrelevant: every format is easy to edit if you have "a convenient UI" to do it for you.
Design C++ programs for exception safety
Is the Google Issue Tracker Broken?
If I were a disgruntled person with enough time, I would have tried to start a grassroots "Uighur Lives Matter" campaign targeted at all the sports teams, universities and corporations that are too cozy with China. And watch their P.R. machines spin and try to reframe the message as a dog whistle for white supremacy in an effort to distract the public from the issue.

One day, we will have a collective hangover from all the China ties of today. Unless Xi dies soon, the development towards a full blown Cold War II seems to be inevitable.

Having been born in Czechoslovakia in times when the Iron Curtain was a real, operational kill zone with attack dogs, electric fences and land mines, Cold Wars are not fun. But sometimes they just cannot be avoided. Be prepared for some interesting times.

Edit: haha, -2 points. Still does not change the fact that China is a human rights hellhole and hypocrites in suits conveniently forget it in the name of money. And academia, which loves to dump on capitalists otherwise, is fully invested into this racket.
I like where you are coming from, however I think we need to recognise that Windows and OSX are proprietary consumer operating systems whereas Linux is not.

To take an automotive analogy, road cars and SUVs are designed for the rules of the road and they come with things like a warranty. Meanwhile race cars are different. You might have to put the engine in yourself and good luck with the warranty. Comparing the road car (SUV or truck) with the race car is not a fair comparison. The race car doesn't have the cup holders, sat nav, seats in the back, airbags, central door locking or tyres for the road. In everything that matters to most drivers the race car is just useless. But most drivers are not racing drivers, so what would they know.
> Good luck finding that post and linking it to the provider.

No need to link it to the provider. If one provider does things that way, you want to block their method. (And, of course, the odds are overwhelming that the other providers are doing the same thing.)
Yeah, especially from a guy perspective its so easy to have your own orgasm that literally the only other thing you have to do in sex is care for the girl orgasm.

The real problem is that most people have too much ego to go read on the internet how to give good orgasms
I did try Hellotalk actually - and it lead to spending a week with a Russian family in Sochi during the World Cup in 2018! The thing about Hellotalk if you're serious though, is that it will take _twice_ the amount of time to get practice in than dedicated tutors, because if you spend 30 minutes practicing another language, then your partner will want to spend 30 minutes practicing your native language.

Either way, you will have to try different partners/tutors out until you find a few that really click with you personally & also teaching style-wise.
Finder is certainly less visually appealing since it became monochrome, but a disaster? Its preview tools are excellent. It provides tabbed view, which is bizarrely still not available in Windows explorer. It's excellent at remembering the state of folders, and which information was previously available in columns. It works well across different sized screens. Not a huge fan of the look and feel of Big Sur in general, but moving back to MacOs recently after using windows of a couple of years, finder is a wonderful breath of fresh air.
Nobody who lends money to the US cares that the US isn't technically defaulting. They're interested in the real value of those dollars.

If someone lends the US enough dollars to buy a sandwich and gets back enough dollars for 2 pieces of bread - they don't smile ruefully and say "well, they fulfilled the letter of the contract so their debt must have been sustainable". They're going to say "the US basically defaulted! I should have seen this coming, their debt as of 2021 was totally unsustainable".
Or, “use an appropriate schema”. Or, for several of the specific problems identified in the source article, use YAML 1.2 (2009) instead of YAML 1.1 (2005), which the article misidentifies as “YAML 2.0” and acts as if it is the current spec.
That's the problem. This work fine in Wayland but some things that were working fine on X11 do not.

In the end you just give a sigh and go back to you macOS (assuming you were trying to switch).

PS: for me though linux distro share the same problems they had back when I was using Ubuntu and the Arch before 2013. Not much have changed since then. Linux on a home\work pc is still mostly about freedom but mostly not about well build human-to-machine interface.
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Important to note this is the PPP GDP, not the nominal one. When talking about macro concepts like currency dominance, nominal GDP is more useful (in which the US still maintains a lead).
>, but “Membrane Associated Ring-CH-Type Finger 1" being converted to MAR-1 defeats me.

No, that's not what's happening. To clarify...

If you type a 41 characters long string of "Membrane Associated Ring-CH-Type Finger 1" into a cell -- Excel will not convert that to a date of MAR-1.

On the other hand, it's if you type an 6-char abbreviation of "MARCH1" that looks like a realistic date -- Excel converts it to MAR-1.
I'm not quite convinced that "animals don't get lost". How many lost cats never return for every one that does? Did anyone ever make a real study?

Also there are other questionable bits in the article for example "We now have geolocation devices light enough to be carried by monarch butterflies". Where are those devices described? For years I've been looking for a reliable GPS tracking for cats that don't require the use of a collar (which is a huge risk to a cat in dense vegetation). There is nothing on the market (that I know of) that would be available as a small wirelessly charged implant, or even better something tiny that could be attached to the fur like goosegrass pods.

I bet other outdoor cat owners would pay good money for devices like that, but other than a periodic kickstarter scam there is nothing.
The actual worst part is you are also describing us:World Uyghur Congress is funded by NED and one should at least query this? , "Depending on whom you ask, the NED is either a nonprofit champion of liberty or an ideologically driven meddler in world affairs." https://www.ned.org/wp-content/themes/ned/search/grant-searc...
I wasn't talking about Preview, I was talking about quick look, i.e. when I browse files in my file browser, I can hit space and immediately look at that file in a pared-down interface. But I'm not browsing my files that often, and when I do, the only time I seem to be interested in what it looks like is when I'm looking for an image, in which case the thumbnails that I can see without interaction suffice.

So I'm probably missing something. Does that mean that, because it's so fast and low-effort, you use it as a complete replacement of a native app you'd use otherwise? And then just for files you're just consuming, or does it also work for editing? And what kind of files?

Note that I'm not out to prove any point, I just want to understand what I'm missing :)
Potatoes should be next
Ubuntu comes with Wayland, and on the login screen you can switch to it ( at least it does on mine that's a 16.10 updated to 18.04 to 20.04, and i've never installed Wayland myself)
Why I'm Against Anti-Doping [video]
I am honestly curious what makes italian/eu tax so much more complicated. In Switzerland i basically just have to find the right column to declare additional income on my tax sheet. (And add some exports from my billing tools)
Which means they couldn't maneuver at all at the attack site, making themselves extremely vulnerable; Furthermore, a dam is an highly fortified target by nature, making serious damage requires very heavy bombs, not sure they could make it even as a one way trip if they are properly armed.

IMHO, most likely result of an attack (for Egypt) is that Egypt loses a part of its airforce in return for temporarily harming Ethiopia's ability to generate electricity at the site. At which point Ethiopia fills the dam anyway and works on repairing the damage, while Egypt wouldn't be able to repeat this.
The address on the website points to Mathews Manor, a wedding venue, while Tyler Mathews is listed as the CEO of the aeronautics company. Is the SE200 anything beyond a fantasy at this point?
My Pana has noticeable shutdown lag (about 1.5s) suspiciously contrasting the immediate bootup/wake-up. I'd never have started suspecting that they do that hibernate trick if the shutdown started with screen-off instead of proudly (?) displaying a branded placeholder screen. Makes me wonder if maybe far more embedded systems that we know actually do have a slow boot process, but hide it in a slow shutdown that they run invisibly after screen off. If you are as curious as me, take one of your Nikon and flick the power-switch off-on quickly, that should show how deep it really went into off-ness.
How Instagram Leverages AI to Improve UX
I'm currently running 60min every 2 days, in the morning, with an empty stomach.

Hard to say if it really does help with my depression or anxiety.

I'm always seeking social activities.
I like the 'economic fascism' definition, seems useful to define a lot of the current events all around the planet.

We'll never know what Cuba could have become in normal circumstances. Is not fair to expect shiny results when everybody is boycotting your economy for decades or trying to murder the president all the time.

If we learn something about this strategy is that validates and reinforces the government after creating a situation of "keep the power at any cost or we will kill you". The same error has happened in Siria for example.
Is this comment perhaps referring to the WGS84 datum?
Everyone? Hmm... that‘s going to be a fascinating week if a bug appears on Monday morning and nobody is in the office to first detect it and second fix it.

So, no, many people will still be at work just because a plattform requires work to stay online.
We too had this problem, we solved it using the 3 letter country code instead.
Yes I believe the management console can connect to remote systems.
Dell don't sell any machines with Linux on them in the UK anymore (as far as I can tell).
IPsicon
> the velocity threshold of general population detection.

What?
I always do "back door" interviews for this reason.

I try to find a recently departed employee and ask them what it's really like. Not every founder is trying to pull one over on you, but some are...overly optimistic.
Show HN: Libgen-API – Python library for Library Genesis
One of my very favourite programming books. Using it, together with "Threaded Interpretive Languages" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Threaded-Interpretive-Languages-R-G... I wrote a couple of Forth implementations in Z80 assembler back in the 1980s, and a Forth-like language for an Adventure writing system I created when I was first learning C++.
I live on the east coast of the United States and I have always felt that rivers flow east from the Appalachian mountains to the Atlantic Ocean.

If I lived in Siberia I would probably think that most rivers flow north to the Arctic Ocean.
This is where that other article about one pixel object detector could come into play. Build a detector that maps these good bean properties to the color green and then you have a passive identifier than can check a hundred thousand beans per second.

Put a few parallel lines of these up and you could check a truckload of beans in no time.
If you want to learn useful Human-Machine Interfaces, look at old tech, even imaginary tech in old sci-fi.

Why? Because almost as quickly as we started implementing UI/UX, we started running telemetry on them. At first we did a lot of user workshops. Later we got much more sophisticated.

The problem is that people use interfaces to solve problems they have, perform work they need to do, and to otherwise help them and others reach common goals. When the character "Mr. Sulu" on the ancient Star Trek TOS has that little viewer thing come up, it's apparent to both the audience and the other fictional characters in that universe what Sulu is doing and why. Perhaps a few lines later one of the other characters in that universe might comment on Sulu's goals, after all, they all can both observe him and how he's solving a problem. Sulu is as much a UI for the crew as that cool little scope is. The focus is on goals, plot movement.

Why is that important? Because all of that watching people and collecting data is not able to understand any of that. Instead, all we can really tell is whether or not a set of user interface tools are used a lot or not, and if so, how they're used. We've got a lot of "how" but no "why"

So we optimize around getting people to use the tools more. After all, that's all we've got. UI/UX tools become much more about working the human than they are about the human working the tool.

Windows 95 is very close to the inflection point of this story. We knew just enough to make things cooler and cooler, yet there was an overarching concern that computers do something useful.

If you watch old commercials for tech, the emphasis is all about how useful it is: it teaches your kids, it predicts the stock market, and so on. Steve Jobs realized that while that remains a wonderful rationale, it was all bullshit as far as making and selling hardware. So he began emphasizing the coolness and disruptive nature of the UI. Buy it because it's freaking cool as hell and looks like the best video game you've ever seen. If anybody gives you a hard time, fall back to the old "But I've got a worldwide information system in my pocket" stuff. It has the benefit of being true without being especially relevant.

I miss the pinball game.
What do we do with the science of terrible men?
One brave GUI toolkit continues to use the Windows 95 look. Personally I really like that look (or design language, as we're apparently meant to say these days). Clean, high-contrast, and it's clear which widgets are clickable. It has the added bonus that its drawing operations can easily be hard-coded for excellent performance.

http://www.fox-toolkit.org/
Multi-touch doesn’t get in the way of the screen on Mac. Also doesn’t require changing how you hold the device.
> But why not after the Cold War

Because the former USSR is/was far weaker than anticipated.
Hey HN,

I've been working on this for a while now (over a year, intermittently) and thought it would be fun to share.
Hope some of you find this interesting / useful.

Cheers.
How i am not surprised? And people still insist on lax field/input/request validation, without ever knowing where this input will ultimately end up.

Sure, you know this is a simple txt file, so anything can come into it, right? There is no such thing as malicious txt file.
I live in the UK - London too, in a flat in a nice part but no garden. We’ve been in lockdown since forever (feels like it at least...) and this particular one since December. I’ve been avoiding taking leave until after now as was waiting for things to open up. It was my birthday yesterday, as well as Good Friday bank holiday thus a long weekend. When I woke up I was so crushingly exhausted I could barely move. I haven’t stopped since mid December, and also had covid over NY.

I think this is a good thing because it forces people to stop. People need breaks and if pushed too hard something will give eventually. I’m ok now, got through yesterday. But it was a wake-up call.
Just use json.
What happens to tech workers when their skills become obsolete? (2019)
It would be kind of neat if changing the extension of a file caused it to be converted automatically. It would save a bunch of typing and browsing around. Just rename a directory to foo.tar.gz and it gets compressed and tarred. I'm not saying that the kernel should be doing that, but it feels like a nice abstraction for some UI.
:’D

Very, most explicitly mention mining and an accurate description of it

But its funny because ToS is not a deterrent and I thought you were being sarcastic, instead of inquisitive
You can catch this with yamllint (https://github.com/adrienverge/yamllint):

% cat countries.yml
---
countries:
- US
- GB
- NO
- FR

% yamllint countries.yml
countries.yml
5:4 warning truthy value should be one of [false, true] (truthy)
> stylistic expressions such as meter, juxtaposition, symmetry are so much easier to include when the meaning of a sentence doesn't depend on word order.

Eh.... some things are easy and some things are hard in any language. The specifics differ, and so do the details of what kinds of things you're looking for in poetry. Traditional Germanic verse focuses on alliteration. Modern English verse focuses on rhyme. Latin verse focuses on neither. [1]

English divides poetically strong syllables from poetically weak syllables according to stress. It also has mechanisms for promoting weak syllables to strong ones if they're surrounded by other weak syllables.

In contrast, Latin divides strong syllables from weak syllables by length. Stress is irrelevant. But while stress can be changed easily, you're much more restricted when it comes to syllable length -- and so Publius Ovidius Naso is invariably referred to by cognomen in verse, because it isn't possible to fit his nomen, Ovidius, into a Latin metrical scheme. That's not a problem English has.

[1] I am aware of one exceptional Latin verse:

> O Tite, tute, Tati, tibi tanta, tyranne, tulisti.
There are other reasons people enjoy working at startups.

I currently work at a large org, decent team, the pay and hours are good, they look after their people pretty well. I'm pretty happy, but...

But getting anything done is a pain, because every project ultimately touches at least 5-10 different teams - legal, compliance, couple of systems teams, operations, security, risk/grc (different department from technical security!), supplier assurance (sub department of risk), privacy (different department from legal & security!), architecture, marketing, brand (different from marketing for some reason), etc. These are just the ones I remember talking to in the past year, sometimes other "interested" teams come out of the woodwork. For example, if your project touches "retail" there's a whole separate world there.

There are good reasons all these different department exist (enforce best practices / scar tissue / to protect the org), but most of those people have no interest in the success of your project and have no "skin in the game". They are free to govern you to death because they have no other real work to do. They don't have to ship anything and do not bear the costs of the requirements they impose. The tendency is therefore for compliance requirements to escalate.

New people come in, excited about doing things, and you watch them slowly get crushed as the sum of all the external requirements and legacy tech forces endless delay and compromise.

Startups let you ship more, with less "oversight" and assume different (often broader) responsibilities. If you're lucky, and in a high-trust competent team, it feels low friction. A lot of people (including me) enjoy that.