skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Goodreads is owned by Amazon. It's sole purpose is to drive customers to Amazon, not provide a 'delightful user experience' outside that goal. That's why they bought it.
Sigh, idk how far I want to go with this but I'll ask this: How is this an abuse of power dynamics? To me, if someone asked me "Can I masturbate in front of you?", them being the CEO of my company wouldn't pressure me to comply because I'd be afraid of what people said, or what have you.

Even this article just brushes past the fact that he did ask. Now, I do think what he did was weird and creepy, but I try not to judge people too much on what they get off to.

Lastly, this article just seems written to be purposely inflammatory and is missing quite a lot of context...

"C.K. didn’t just subject these women to sexual harassment and the personal struggles that come with that, he subjected them to threats from strangers, to alienation from their colleagues and peers, to lost professional opportunities. "

Really? He purposely subjected them to threats and alienation? If anything, the colleagues and peers are pieces of shit, which has nothing to do with Louis C.K.
why do you want them default on?
>> If hacked sites were really that much of an issue, then WP wouldn't be as popular as it is for business sites.

Business owners have no idea how often they get hacked. They get hacked because business owners want a DIY approach and start installing plugins willy nilly without sandboxing and testing them, making their sites vulnerable to attack

September 2020:

Millions of WordPress sites are being probed and attacked with recent plugin bug

The sudden spike in attacks happened after hackers discovered and started exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in "File Manager," a popular WordPress plugin installed on more than 700,000 sites.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/millions-of-wordpress-sites-ar...

That's a hell of a vector for a hacker. Target one plugin - hit over 700K machines? Unreal.
So is Facebook.com
Chrome users should seriously reconsider switching to Firefox. We've created another Internet Explorer.
This sounds like a waste of energy to me. I think all roofs should be covered in solar power generating equipment. Reflecting all that sun energy back into the air just heats up our planet, better to convert that into electricity
Why build a new city when you can build a new neighbourhood in an existing city? Building a new city is risky. Building a neighbourhood allows you to piggyback on the success of the host city. People already want to live there. Employers already want to open up shop there. If you have a billion dollars, use some of it to grease whatever wheels necessary to skirt the zoning ordinances.
Human being have the right to have an opinion and question the decision of the people designing the product they use.

FOSS is not a religion.
knockoff means imitation https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/knockoff https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/knockof...
> There are still major risks with the Starship program

To expand on this: I think it's reasonable to assume that the stack will reach orbit just fine and be a functional rocket.

The big risks are related to recovery. Starship will require in-orbit refueling to go to the moon, so (rapid) reusability is somewhat of a hard requirement.

Superheavy (the first stage) is huge and will land directly on the launch tower instead of using landing legs - to reduce turnaround times. This is innovative and completely unproven. And a RUD would at the very least put the launch tower out of commission for a while.

Starship (the second stage) will also have to survive the high velocity reentry in a good condition and nail the crazy landing maneuver. SpaceX heat shield tiles and the general aerodynamic and thermal properties of the rocket are an unknown for now.

Musk recently said that Starship will probably require "many test flight" to achieve successful reentry and landing.

On top there have been quite a few reliability issues with their new Raptor engine, which need to be ironed out.

I'm sure SpaceX will figure it out, but there are a lot of risks lurking in the development program.

All this makes the choice to go for SpaceX more impressive for the usually so cautious NASA.

But the payoff would be enormous. If the re-usability works out, Starship can completely change the game for the launch market and lift capability.
Since you're interested in playing, not collecting, is there a reason you can't just use proxies?
Academic Writing: How to Write Like an Expert
I literally wrote "It was necessary for the things that are were not easy to do without breaking compat such as unicode"
Robin Hood hashing should be your default Hash Table implementation (2013)
Keeping work at work.

Getting regular sleep.

Regular exercise. Mostly 15-45 minute walks these days.

Those are all pre-loading to make the skill learning possible.

I get my skills doing long term projects. In terms of 4 years or more. This time I'm writing novels. Writing good long form fiction is hard. Very hard.
It's content from the school, on a tablet owned by the school that I have no administrative control of. Besides changing schools, I don't see many options.
"An infrared camera (right image) shows how a sample of the whitest white paint (the dark purple square in the middle [of the infrared image]) cools the board below ambient temperature."

So... Maxwell's demon?
Is this a NATO-sponsored think tank?
I am not sure that is the ferret experiment mentioned. However, this [0] one might be.

[0] https://www.pnas.org/content/112/45/14060
If Webflow added native i18n support, I wouldn't be surprised if they ate up considerable marketshare from most headless CMS providers.
One of the contenders for replacing 3rd party cookies is The Trade Desk's Unified ID 2.0, which if I understand correctly, would require users to login in everywhere and be tracked in exchange for free content. But it's going to compete with other companies like Google and Facebook for managing users' online identities.
So far, this thread has been the most uninteresting. These types of opinions lead to completely unsubstantiated back and forth. It’s not even remotely close to truth unless we have some facts to disclose. Threatening to flag!? I apologized to flag and provided reasons for it. Far cry from a threat. Obviously, you’ve all agreed that it was an overreaction.

I’d say, the entire article is flamewar prone. How can you say something is best?
Power generation when it boils down to it, whatever method used, is the conversion of momentum into electricity. Nuclear power, while pretty ingenious, seems like an example of extreme overengineering to solve a problem.

I know I'm simplifying here, but essentially, nuclear power is generated using the heat generated by the decay of radioactive material to boil water, to generate steam to spin a turbine.

This creates many challenges and hazards and generally, costs a lot of money.

There's a lot less extreme ways to generate motion and capture said motion into electricity.

Motion is everywhere. All the time. As we get better at capturing and harnessing the natural motion around us, which is the basic idea behind actual renewable energy, there's going to be less and less need for such extreme things as generating motion through radioactive decay.

Again, it's an ingenious idea and provides a lot of power in places that would otherwise be powered by fossil fuel, but it's still a short sighted solution with long term consequences that on the scale of centuries is not sustainable.
If you had flipped one coin 4.35e17 times and never saw 60 heads in a row, on a biased coin, I'd be rather surprised. (took 13.8 billion years as the age of the universe). Do that 1000 more times and still don't see 60 heads in a row it would be even more surprising.

It doesn't change the point of my original comment, regardless of the improbability of 60 heads in a row, you aren't "due" 40 tails in a row because the events are independent. That's all I was getting at before you took us on a weird tangent.
While I quibble with your original presentation, the impact is much bigger than “social media” as usually understood; see my edit. While it wouldn’t kill big tech, it would radically transform big tech and every person, business, and other entity that interacts with it.

It might not be the single biggest economy-slowing piece of legislation adopted in the history of the US, but…ok, yeah, it definitely would be.
The site is toast, so I can't read how it works, but I will comment in general on 3rd-party auth.

I refuse to use sites that require 3rd-party auth. If I have a problem logging in to your site, I want to reach out to you and get it resolved. I don't want you to say, "We don't have any ability to address auth issues on our own site. Take it up with <completely unrelated site>." I don't want my account with you to be suspended because I had a falling out with Facebook or Google or anybody else that is not you.
I think HSM's are just expensive because of price gouging rather than cost of the device? Like the Yubikey HSM is the same form factor as the Nano FIPS key but over 10x the price.
Thank you, I've been made aware of this and have amended the post to clarify that it's ineffective w.r.t. FLoC; for the technical reason that you mentioned.
I think the post is making this seem more complicated than it is. (Not a criticism of the post -- it's interesting to explore edge cases sometimes.)

The general takeaway is private fields are private, and the "in" operator is consistent with that.

If constructor code results in an incorrectly constructed object, that's simply a bug in the constructor code, not really anything specifically to do with fields, private fields, in operator, etc. (I guess this is a criticism of the post. Bringing this up implies it's somehow relevant to the topic, but it isn't and causes confusion.)
"Past performance is no guarantee of future results."
Yes of course, don't fix what's not broken.

It's orthogonal to my point though.
googles front page for any term is already "what we think is best." it's their discretion, their opinion, they have no obligation to be fair.

if somebody paid for rank, the FTC requires them to disclose the sponsorship.
I'm pretty empathetic to people like football players who make millions and go bankrupt because managing money isn't what nature built them to do. They're also not asking to be hedge fund managers. Would you feel comfortable having your high-level security managed by someone who's living hand to mouth and resents us for not paying him more?
Old Steven king book. On a group traveling to a rain forest.

They gave all the equipment to a pack of monkeys for the night.
Anything still working in the morning was certified as reliable.
> It only takes looking at the responses to the common core to see how resistant parents can be to any innovation in education.

This assumes that common core was a good thing, and that the resistance to it was thus incorrect. Which is controversial at best - retrospectives are not generally positive.

> A decade later, scant evidence exists that Common Core produced any significant benefit. One federally funded evaluation actually estimates that the standards had a negative effect on student achievement in both reading and math. Fortunately, the overall impact is quite small.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/04/05/common-c...

> By 2017 — seven years after most states had adopted them — the standards appear to have led to modest declines in fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math scores.

https://www.chalkbeat.org/2019/4/29/21121004/nearly-a-decade...
Well, no book, but I might as well write one, why not :P
Yeah... "ambient temperature" is very different than "other nearby surface temperatures".

Still, it's pretty cool.
Unfortunately I enjoy the degenerate combos and brainstorm shenanigans to much to let them go.
If the database leaked, the salt would become known. A truly anonymous system should still be just as effective if the entire DB is known to an attacker.

Assuming there are on the order of 10 billion valid phone-numbers (there could be on the order of 100 billion depending on how far down the rabbit hole of international numbers you go). A GTX 1080 can do SHA512 @ ~1 billion/sec[0]. This means it will take 10 seconds (longer if you have a >11 digit number) to recover each phone number. This is fast enough that you don't need to bother hashing the phone book, you just brute force every possible number.

I would expect the napkin math to come out to years of compute to unmask someone in the face of a DB leak, not seconds or minutes.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/epixoip/a83d38f412b4737e99bbef804a27...
Or... just keep a database with an API you can look up.

There is no need for it to be trustless and distributed.
Progressive figures work hand-in-hand with social media to silence opponents
Yeah... you might be right. About both points.
I don't think this is true except maybe on ancient architectures. function ptrs are usually just addresses (64 bits on most modern computers). virtual member function ptrs can have an extra bit of info to resolve the this ptr at runtime.

so usually (but not always), sizeof(int ptr) == sizeof(func ptr)
Is anyone else hyped about the possibility of tunneling traffic over QUIC?

Public networks in coffee shops and libraries that block outbound SSH and outbound Wireguard are the bane of my existence when I am traveling and I try to get some god damn work done.

With HTTP/3 most public networks in coffee shops, libraries etc are eventually going to allow QUIC. This means UDP tunnels masquerading as QUIC traffic, as well as tunneling over QUIC itself, is probably going to work. Eventually.

I am cautiously optimistic :)
It won't get reflected back into space. It will get reflected back to us because of the Greenhouse effect, and it will just keep warming us up. We need to have solar panels to convert that into electrical energy.
If you're using IntelliJ from JetBrains, there should be an option to store the run profiles for the project in the version control system.

Even if your project is so messy, then you should be able to just to version a working setup (maybe needing to figure out how to make the correct JDK version be used across different machines) and after that it'd become a question of just having to check out the project from the version control system and click a green button in IntelliJ.

This most likely wouldn't solve all of your issues, but at least would help make onboarding slightly less painful and slow.
> Skin-deep this article is.

Yoda you have watched lately?

SCNR
> Recruiting tool

Smart people (the kind you need in a rocket company to do the heavy lifting -pun intended-) don't want to work for loud people such as Musk.

Matter of fact they are disgusted by them.

All Musk companies have in common a huge lack of a particular demographic which is deemed to be both "book smart" as well as "street smart", ask yourself why is that.

Academically smart people with just a bit of street smartness do tolerate people like Jim Simons or John Overdeck as their bosses, but those guys are the best bosses in corporate America...and by the way they also belong to that particulare demographic. They absolutely despise loud individuals such as Musk or Cuban or the former host of reality tv show "the apprentice ".
Isn't that itself very suspicious that they are going all Calvinball and changing the rules which long stood out of the blue?

Now they say it is a monopoly is a problem after Walmart managed to become the biggest employer in several states and literally becoming the only option in many areas? Now they cite vague unspecified harms while long ignoring concrete ones and claim the ones with no ability to exclude from the market are too far? That just screams "pretext".
Even at a marginal rate of 40%, that $60k-102k a year.

At 1200/year, that's 2-1.2% of aftertax income.

Also this is for gigabit home internet, which could be considered a premium service.
Bad compared to what? Is there any OS that has a better DNS resolution process/methodology? Windows? BSD? Solaris? Serious question. I mean do they all suck or?
Considering atomic energy as somehow a “consumer tech” looks fishy
>> I think Webflow will ultimately own the space inhabited today by Wordpress (as well as static site generators)

Not sure about static site generators though. They already have a pretty big head start. Netlify, Stackbit and others are constantly adding services for both tech savvy and non technical folks.

The area where Squarespace sets itself apart is really their available themes. Most are way better than Wordpress themes, and easier to change to suit your needs without much work. Static site generators like Gatsby just don't have the depth of themes like WP and Squarespace do. Its kind of the app store comparison. One is Apple and Android with millions of really good apps (WP, Squarespace) and the other is the MS app store which has a limited, sort of the run of the mill stuff (Gatsby, Netlify, Stackbit).

If WebFlow can offer better designs out of the box, then I agree, they will most likely own the space. Design will always be the X factor to me.
Content providers want third party cookies. Users have no idea what third party cookies are. Any deprecation of third party cookies will have to come from the user-agent (Safari and Chrome being the only ones that matter).
Pentagon confirms leaked photos and video of UFOs are legitimate
List of Neuroscience Databases
Also does not work in Firefox iOS or Safari iOS, which I suppose is mostly the same thing.

Also does not work in macOS Safari. Also does not work in macOS Firefox, or macOS Chrome.

Methinks the hamburger menu simply doesn’t work at all!
That was a non binding referendum. With our current government I suspect they will move to legalize regardless of the referendum results. It would not be the first time they have decided to go against a non binding referendum.

I would be surprised if they don't legalize within the next decade.
Django: zero dependencies for years, you could literally copy paste the code and it worked, ORM included.

It now has 2 dependencies. It is a 1000 times easier to use than hibernate, despite being one of the worse ORM in Python.

That the problem with old Java libs like Swing or Hibernate: they have been designed for the 90' and don't leverage the potential of what a modern Java version can do.
Light turns into heat when it is absorbed by a material. Reflecting it back into the air sends it (and the heat) back out into space, and since air is mostly clear it does not get absorbed so doesn’t “heat up the planet”, at least not in any significant way.

Sure, using the energy for solar would be nice too, but that’s far more expensive per square meter, so paint is a fine solution that’s cheap.
From a software perspective, I've experienced being in the small startup company that partnered with the huge established government contracting firm to try to win an award. Complete disaster. The culture clash alone was fatal.
I know, the original source is obscure on that one.

I've also heard that the anecdote (mentioned in TPR) didn't involve William James and that it was Bert Russell talking to the lady.
social media was prior decade.
Invention is great, but I would think that statement has an implied "... that we can make money on" at the end - at least, it seems to me like there's lots of value created by people doing non-inventive things, whether that's a chef making a great meal or a teacher helping a child or... most of the things most people are doing most of the time?
Then use a more generic hosting site. I don't see anyone preventing you.

There's always a tradeoff.
I have experience, and this is trivially true. Search engines can only look at proxies for relevance , as General AI hasn't been achieved yet. Proxies can always be gamed.
That seems pretty dismissive of the people who have trouble working from home because they have more distractions at home. Not everybody can be child free, single, and live in a quiet place.
Ask HN: How are you implementing membership/auth for your SaaS or other project?
I have a side project that will involve subscriptions. I would like to offload as much of the db/code overhead that comes with membership data, auth, payment processing, etc, as possible, without paying enterprise-level fees. I thought about having a Squarespace site and just integrating my backend API, but I'm thinking my application will be just complex enough to prohibit that approach. What is everyone using, and what small-scale third party membership integrations do you suggest? Any feedback appreciated.
The big box stores employees at the paint counter seem as ignorant as a novice about the vagaries of application most likely because they themselves are novices. They may know quite a bit about colors and matching and how to work the mixing machines, but they probably don't have much more experience painting than the average homeowner. That knowledge comes more from doing, whether its a handful of projects as a homeowner, or regularly as a professional.

IMO, the stores could do better about offering basic information about this, about when one would need a primer, or just a topcoat, what kinds of paint bases are appropriate for what applications, what kinds of application methods are appropriate, etc. Instead, the response of the big box stores seems to be to skip the question entirely with combined products, e.g. "paint and primer in one".
Generally speaking, they're both: 1) higher performance, and 2) held to a much higher standard in terms of certifications they need.

For example, a normal YubiKey is unrated, a YubiKey FIPS is level 2 rated, and a Thales HSM is level 3 rated with all sorts of zeroization hardware.
Stores can choose to allow proxies, but they are incentivized by Wizards to run a certain number of sanctioned events and report attendance, and events that allow proxies can't be sanctioned. People will play with proxies for testing purposes, but for Friday Night Magic you are expected to have legitimate cards.
Well crap - I thought this was amazing. :-(

Are you sure (y)our hyperbrain didnt make you write this?
That is some impressively fast mitigation for an unexpected problem. 6 minutes to start the incident process, another 6 minutes to identify the issue, and another 25 minutes to start rolling out the solution.
Does someone know if this includes the QuicTransport JS API?

Im still salty that Google scrapped the p2p mode from chrome, which could have been a nice alternative for webrtc, too.
Can LispWorks (easily) use quicklisp libraries?
First, employers should be able to keep employees based on merit, not on arbitrary measures neither the employer nor the employee can change (sex, gender, age,...). If a company is already in trouble, having to let go talent will hurt them even more. It’s so hard (and expensive) to let people go in Germany that it’s almost always the last cry for help to get more subsidies or shut down for good. The 50 year old won’t any guarantee to keep that job for much longer like that...
Secondl, the reasoning holds also for an overperforming 50 year old employee who’s recently been hired vs. a 35 year old that started vocational training 19 years prior - no chance for the newbie to stay. What’s your opinion on this?
Third, the job market for people with experience is very good in Germany. There are indefinite ways to learn new skills and redevelop your career, mostly sponsored by the taxpayer. At age 50, a lot of people start their second or third career. I don’t trust the narrative that old People are doomed if they lose their job compared to a 28 year old with two kids and a husband that’s doing his PhD on a shitty part time salary.
In general in biology, when there is long-standing dispute as to whether a certain system relies on Mechanism X or Mechanism Y, my impression is that the answer almost invariably turns out to be that X, Y, and previously-unsuspected Z all play a role.
I never tire of hearing these apocryphal turtle stories. They’re just hilarious to me.