skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is the opposite. He is very transparent - it is just people do not want to believe his goals are exactly what he says they are.

I have lost count the number of times in the past about something I have told people the truth, the 100% truth and they tried to skip over what I said because it did not match what they wanted to believe.

Worse, afterwards when events prove they were wrong they then try to make all sorts of excuses to support their original claims.

You can try and pick on Elon's fine details, but look at the stuff people said he could not push thru. If this was before 2010 the idea of the Tesla cars, Solar Tiles, Power-walls, Falcon Rockets, Dragon Capsules, Boring Tunnel and Neuralink all seem like fantasy - yet today they all exist.

Instead I see people send lots of time concentrating on things like Hyperloop not working out so far while trying not to mention the successes.
The article is wrong in many places. For example, it says:

> –One study showed that that training is non-transferable. This means if one learns a sequence of numbers, the skill fails when one tries to recite them backwards or a new set of numbers.

but just about every person who has ever memorized numbers with those memory techniques can recite the numbers backwards too. If you gain the skills to memorize one page of random numbers you can memorize a different one too, no problem.
Sure, though here in the US I would bet most insurers would require a physician to order the test for it to be covered? Which presumably would happen only if they thought it'd be useful for diagnosing something, rather than that you were curious (esp. if your curiosity was about your heritage and not something clearly medical).
Because btc helps money launderers and politically it becomes delicate.
Thank you. I've been ranting about the "let's use a big rocket to provide visual impact but then forget about it when it's inconvenient to the plot" thing since the movie came out. Interstellar is the type of movie that gets worse the more you think about it.
I like to use foreign letters like ß and ö in my passwords.

Good luck guessing that password. I'm not even German.
This is very true, and genotyping just the HLA/KIR loci won't tell you much about all the other genes that are important for health. However, the HLA typing is at least a start (and a free byproduct of signing up to donate stem cells) to introduce you to the rabbit hole of personal genomics! :)

This is also slightly different to the (linkage-disequilibrium-based) SNP arraying done by other genotyping places, since the HLA locus is fairly widely researched in its associations with infection and (auto)immunity!
I searched for HackerNews alternatives on the web once and a couple came up, but most aren’t even that good (Lobsters being an exception). Note that you need invitation for many of them.
The mere technological advance bitcoin has enabled via blockchain alone has led to creation of smart contracts and an explosion of innovation in the space, no doubt all this will inevitably lead to massive productivity gains. Maybe bitcoin itself won't be the final answer but something inspired by it will be.
Bloomberg Terminals Have a Secret Craigslist for Crazy Rich People (2014)
Funny title, seen how volatile bitcoin is, to express it in dollars.
shouldn't you be able to match yourself (at least partially) by uploading your data somewhere?
More Trump Derangement Syndrome spotted!
I used to post on test failures in Perl modules when building `perl` with MSVC on Windows. Just two[1] examples[2].

Also, there is this gem[3]:

> I still run into modules that try to create temporary files in the root directory of my C: drive. That usually happens due to the script clearing the environment and not saving temporary directory locations. This is an unfortunate interaction with File::Spec->tmpdir which defaults to trying to write to the root (hey, Windows 95 allowed it!) of the current drive if it can’t locate the customary directories. I think File::Spec->tmpdir ought to croak if the environment does not contain one of TMP, TEMP, or TMPDIR, instead of offering C:\system\temp or C:\temp or /tmp or / on Windows. Regardless of File::Spec’s behavior, scripts, modules, etc should not delete those environment variables.

[1]: https://www.nu42.com/2014/12/yeah-you-put-me-in-my-place-rea...

[2]: https://www.nu42.com/2014/11/fixing-hard-coded-file-path-in-...

[3]: https://www.nu42.com/2018/03/dont-complicate-things.html
The trick to minimising negative comment is ensuring your feedback form doesn't work in IE11 either.
> Probably you're not a human population history researcher

No I am a very interested amateur. I just learned about Denisovans. Sapiens is a good story and I assumed he was simplifying. I plan to go deeper on this subject.
Architectural performance assessment of an electricvertical take-off aircraft [pdf]
No I think he is, he just doesn't like to show his hand.
Most devices require some sort of out-of-band signal to generate an attestation, but this is fairly trivial to bypass if you wanted to automate the process. They used the example of a mechanical Rube Goldberg contraption to press the button, but you could also do it more reliably by connecting a circuit to the touch sensor. I also see no reason why the process couldn't be sped up, at least in aggregate, by using multiple keys and activating them in sequence.
I agree. I used to be a huge fan of Repl, but the limitations start to present themselves pretty early on. My advice is still the same for people who want to code: go on Ebay and buy a used Thinkpad, install Linux on it and write code. By step two, most people can self-educate themselves on where to go next.
Business travelers take taxis from their arrival airport to their destination and then get reimbursed by their company later.

They are among the least price-sensitive travelers and are the ones least inconvenienced by the last-mile problem, so their decision-making differs from those traveling for other reasons. (On average, they are less constrained by price and switching of modes, but are more constrained by idiosyncratic company procedures around travel.)
Yes, that’s how the btc network works, that’s what censorship-resistant means. You would primarily transact on a payment layer, which true, may not have all the features of the base layer. But you also have the ability to opt-in and transact directly on the blockchain and get all those nice features listed above, however the transaction fee would be higher and the speed of the transaction slower.
It’d be fine if the charity made it an option to donate an additional amount if you wanted your sequence provided to you, to cover their cost to fulfill the request (negating the need to fulfill a GDPR request). Otherwise, it’s just poor form and not to be emulated.

Because one can does not necessarily mean one should.
My recollection is that this arose from a bad translation from an astronomer's Italian. The word should have been "channels" in English, but someone rendered it as "canals".
Assuming the ransom was paid, it's an interesting example of how cryptocurrencies contribute to the viability of this new "business model"
"Have you ever tried to sell a diamond?" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-yo...
These stories are coming out almost daily and it’s killing my interest in working at startups. There are so many sketchy companies
Awesome, appreciate the perspective. A few qs for you:

My understanding is that you ended up writing java code to extend keycloak. Is that wrong?

Is keycloak resource hungry or have I heard wrong? Have you tried keycloak X? Is that better?

Is there a way to configure a dev environment? Is Terraform the preferred IaC solution?

How many realms do you use typically?
Are you saying that you don't want to take any risk of dying of covid, but your odds of dying of the flu don't bother you?
That's good news. Some services like https://super.so/ (which is brilliant) were already using unofficial APIs.
Thanks for testing it on Windows. We mostly tested it on MacOS Big Sur because all devs on the team have that OS.
With Windows different timings might be needed, we'll check into it tomorrow.
The version I remember is that Discord was going to opt out everyone from NSFW channels, and require ID to prove am accounts age before opting in. This may or may not still be happening, but is much more extreme than the current rules.
The person you are replying to has said he would not mind if all humanity were to die and go extinct. Ugh.
>but this attitude is why I don't do free software

What attitude? The selflessness of the developer for giving away the software, or the gratefulness of the user who got exactly what they wanted? In either case, I struggle to see what repels you.
> have polluted water, or polluted air

There is no "pure" water or "pure" air. The "right" amount depends on costs and benefits ... None of that can be looked up anywhere and people end up bargaining over them indirectly.
This is fantastic, congrats Jess and Jo on a really impressive product!!
You could probably ask an undergraduate or pop science fan to write a paper title and first sentence of an abstract that would turn heads and get good results.

Faking an entire 10 page paper with figures and citations is much harder. I'm sure it'll happen next week, but until then I can still say that's where real understanding is demonstrated.
The more amusing (or disturbing thing) is that we have created an environment where, practically speaking, investors have less risk than everyone else. We were just hit with one of the largest global disasters of the past century last year and the immediate reaction was flood equity markets with $3 trillion to prop up financial markets. Owners of capital cannot lose.

Even before these last few years of craziness, what I will never be able to get out of my mind is the story of Frank McCourt. I'm a lifelong Los Angeles Dodgers fan. He bought the team from Fox in 2004 and proceeded to treat a storied franchise in the nation's second largest city like it was his personal credit card. He didn't even use his own money to make the purchase. It was entirely with loans. He then proceeded to spend 8 years gradually bankrupting the organization until the league kicked him out and forced him to sell.

What was his loss? Nothing. The team sold for 8 times what he originally paid, not because of anything he had done, but just because television contracts for the entire league had become so much more lucrative over that time. The man put up $0 of his own money and made $2 billion by being one of the worst team owners of all time and making the organization he owned literally bankrupt.

I will never again in my life accept these econ theory gibberish about all the "risk" faced by business owners. If you own a salon or a restaurant or something, fine, I accept you might actually be out on the street. But if you're the right class of person that the banking system has accepted into the club, you can get infinite loans to buy whatever you want with no collateral, drive a business into the ground while spending the bulk of your time with hookers and blow, and make out with billions anyway.
How come you happen to detect Xcode and Sketch on Windows?
Show HN: `assertables` rust crate of testing macros
Yes, I know that (Kip Thorne commented about it publicly), but still in my opinion it was a stupid choice. What would be so bad about trying to actually show what the BH would look like, if you're going to go to all the effort of GR ray tracing? My comment is being downvoted, but I stand by it. Why include lots of the physics, but not one of the most important effects?
Because that takes more than one minute, and most curmudgeons like me will leave if something doesn't present some kind of download link immediately.
That is why I find most interesting about social media generally. Many people seem to care about government mass data collection all the while voluntarily and intentionally providing to private companies from which the government purchases it. Having your cake and eating it too.
You don’t need to kill all plants, just enough of those we can eat. Not even all of those, either. Look into history to see what happens when enough people don’t have enough to eat.
It's a bit of a leap from "Don't write a book about the tech industry trashing people within it, then keep trying to work within it" to "Keep your opinions to yourself."
I've seen Notion discussed on HN for a time now, and while this seems to be well received I'm not really sure what it's for.

What are the use-cases here? What's Notion being used for that this new API functionality will help in? How are you using it either personally or professionally?

Thanks
There is a HUGE difference in metals concentration in planetary crust and an asteroid that's mostly that element. Also a huge difference in gravity if you want the materials offworld.

You don't have to colonize them, but mining asteroids makes tons of sense.
Millions of people search for wi-fi on facebook? Wtf?
Packaging is simpler. psycopg2-binary is actually not recommended for production use, so you have to compile it yourself.
I had an app get banned for copyrighted content by Google because there was a movie poster in one of the backgrounds of the screenshots (camera type app in 2013). It will happen, probably for something ridiculous. In every job I’ve worked at, it had happened or they’d been threatened to be banned, at least once.
Can someone give me a quick rundown?
"Create your first project in minutes. Create your next project in under 25 seconds."
"75th percentile of industry" is almost meaningless.

Does industry include programmers at Comcast, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Staples, Smalltown Bank, Wipro, and everyone else who employs programmers in any capacity?

Or does it mean Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, and Google?

If you're beating three out of those four, your comp is excellent. If you're beating 3 out of 4 all companies who hire programmers, you're hopelessly uncompetitive with the "actual" top tech market.
Computational model demonstrates similarity in how humans and insects learn
I like to think that using this analogy, here you're going to the food bank and donating food (or your stem cells) while getting data on how many people liked it in return.

I've seen too many kids with blood cancer who couldn't get a match, so please do consider signing up to your local charity :)
I would add The Right Stuff to this list; it inspired me to study physics.

Edit: Others have mentioned Real Genius which I thought was also cool as a kid.
If hackers take the slow route, all backups may be encrypted too. Or at least, compromised.

Also, backups are often taken but rarely is their actual recoverability tested.
Coinbase's new compensation policy is good
> They never justify or source this, they literally just pulled it out of their ass.

You do realize they have the data, right?

>Apps rejected for containing hidden or undocumented features
A lot of those are probably development tools that users legitimately wanted.

You never justify or source this, you literally just …
… I think you know how this goes.

>Other rejected apps
> Good job they blocked some stupid obvious scams. The web is full of these so the users careless enough to fall for them will still get scammed.

No, people trust the App Store more than they trust the web. That’s the whole point.

> I don't see how that justifies the ridiculous situation they've created.

The situation where consumers are happy to pay for software because someone is weeding out scams?

>credit card numbers are never shared with merchant.
The whole point behind credit cards is that you don't care if someone steals the number. Otherwise everyone would be using PKI instead of shouting an ID number at eachother. So yeah, thanks I guess for saving some banks money but that does little to help the end user.

I guess you’ve never had a card stolen or been the victim of fraud. Eventually you can get your money back in most cases, but it can take a long time and be a huge hassle.

Again you argue against beneficial protections for no apparent reason.
Like it or not, and I'm undecided, that's principled on his part.

He's been pretty clear that he thinks shorting, as it works right now, is dirty pool and should be illegal.

I try to stay out of esoteric finance stuff, but it's hard the way the world works these days. I kinda think he has a point about naked shorts, at least, Gamestonk showed everyone an ugly failure mode for that one.

So my take is that the huge Tesla pump was just a side effect, this was Elon taking something personally and wading in like the 800 pound gorilla he is.

No opinion on whether he should have been punished more, or deserved it, I basically don't understand where the boundaries on market manipulation or insider trading or any of those things are really supposed to be. Just moderately confident that he was personally trying to rake short sellers over the coals, not so much moon Tesla stock to an insane valuation.
Seems like this submission is a bit undercooked. It probably should have been submitted once they had some real world samples or at least gated it to their specific use case
The right of voting is more essential, however, it is the sine qua non of all the others. If we fall down to the point where guns are required to indeed defend the rights, they functionally are not existing any more.
Using Firefox on Linux, it detected all the apps (very few of which I have) except Skype (correct, I don't have it).

Security through obscurity does it again!
Elon probably read about the retired coal power plant in New York state that's being retrofitted and brought back to life for the explicit purpose of mining bitcoin [0].

Honestly, this is really frankly terrible. Even though I knew that the power consumption of bitcoin miners was high before reading this story, this particular concrete example still moved me.

One could easily be tempted to think "sure it's power-intensive, but this will all move to solar/wind along with the rest of the grid"---but it's hard to square that with stories about dirty power being spun up explicitly for mining.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/private-equity-f...
Curious:

> We have generated your identifier based on 1 applications you have installed.

Skype

Then it told me I am ninety-something percent unique...

I find that odd because pretty much every Windows machine has Skype.
Just a wiki really which is made up of smart blocks. I've used it a couple of times professionally but the companies have usually moved on to something simpler after struggling to get buy in across the team. It can be daunting when you first use it, although very powerful.
We wrote a similarly tedious piece about how our certificate system works, if you're interested: https://fly.io/blog/how-cdns-generate-certificates/
The SEC doesn’t consider Bitcoin a security, so it can’t be securities fraud. Also there usually must be lies (or intentional omissions) involved to prosecute these things, and I don’t think either of those apply here.
Agree although these days even curl|sh isn't far fetched
What are some good human population history writers?
Are either Roam or Obsidian collaborative?
Microfarms come to South L.A. frontyards, bringing fresh produce to food deserts
There is a part of me that would like to go back to the way we dud business before the internet, and computers.

I think three daily encrypted backups mandated by law would be enough to stop the multi-million dollar ransoms.

We will still see companies paying ransom for a business days loss, but not complete shutouts? And infrastructure specific operations, like this pipe line, should be air gapped.
And if you're gullible enough to believe that "Russia is going to try to clone an army" I have a wonderful cheap bridge for you.

Who exactly is going to do the cloning?

Where will the cloning be done?

How long will it take to clone a whole army?

Why is it cheaper to clone an army than let unskilled boys and girls do the same job cheaper and more enjoyably?

How will the clones be trained?

Who can speak Scythian? (Assuming that clones can be created magically from a few bits of DNA harvested at random, AND they can be created fully-grown, AND the clones have full memories of when the original bodies were alive.)

This isn't Marvel Comics.
He mentioned transparent migration and the problems encountered with it.
On my Windows/Firefox computer, it appears to have correctly identified which 6 of the applications I have installed.
I'm writing a Python client right now, 99% copied from their JS implementation, if anyone wants to join the fun!

https://github.com/ramnes/notion-sdk-py

I hope they will release an OpenAPI specification file soon so that code maintenance between different clients is kept to a minimum. :)
The external auth service's API would receive textual input (expecting a string read from a textbox), not binary. A hash that included null bytes would output those in hex as ASCII zeroes, which wouldn't cause the same problem when the external service received the value.
It absolutely does affect backups. If you stand to gain $5M from an attack you can also target the backup systems and still easily end up profitable. Only if you stand to gain less than $100k does the budget actually start to get tight.

As for how you attack the backup system it depends. If it push based you send your payload during the push. If it is pull based you craft your payload in the data that will be backed up. If it is not append-only you can easily nuke the entire available history. If it is append-only, but that is only done in software you just need to take over the software. If it is in hardware you just infiltrate then silently encrypt any new data until it would be painful to revert that far back in time. Given that the mean-time to discovery is on the order of months that is quite painful. If they regularly test their backups you just silently decrypt the data on restore until it is time to strike. There are plenty of ways to beat vulnerable backup systems in that sort of budget.

Like, seriously, with a $5M budget you can literally purchase and burn multiple zero days for every system in the chain and still come out ahead. You can hire 10-50 full time software engineers for a year per attack. Most systems have serious vulnerabilities discovered by lone individuals working for a few months in their free time let alone a team of 50 people. The current backup systems survive because most of these attacks are being done with budgets closer to $10k-$100k to maximize profit and growth rate and that is not really enough money to pay for the second arm of the attack. But with a $5M return they could easily allocate a few million to capitalize on the opportunity if that is what is needed once all the juicier targets have been eaten.
Real Genius was great. Are there any other movies about graduate school? I can’t think of any.
thisisunsafe...
"So you feel, in a world of properly run companies, he should never work again?"

Yes, not because he writes an "occasional shocking thing," but because he was a product manager for *uckerberg.
> it is often stated that locks are not for honest people, but to keep dishonest people out.

The saying goes the other way: "Locks are for honest people", implying that criminals aren't deterred by locks, and will just break a window if they want to get in.
Thesus's ship has left the building.

I could see both sides, but ultimately I use Firefox as an attempt to try and keep chromium's monopoly as a web renderer at bay, even if for seconds longer. Firefox on IOS being forced to basically be built on top of a chromium engine defeats that purpose.

It's for similar reasons that I don't recognize "Visual Studio for Mac" as VS, but a rebranded Xamarin. It lacks several core features of VS that devs hearing the name would expect (let alone hundreds of more specialized features).
Scientists estimated the mass of all life