skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't necessarily think that you're wrong - but it's a moot point since the consequences are the same.

For example, I don't think James Comey was acting with malicious intent calling for universal crypto back-doors; I do however think that he was dangerously naïve and deeply wrong-headed.

No back-door will ever remain unbreached and by baking vulnerabilities into the specification you're paving the way for malicious manufacturers to exfiltrate your network's communications as they see fit.

There's a reason that 5G rollouts have national security implications and they could've been largely avoided (metadata aside).
SpookyGhost, a procedural sprite animation tool, is now free and open source
I estimate 99% probability of sarcasm.
It's now or never. When you have family and kids sabbaticals are pretty hard to come by. 7 years ago I quit my job and went hiking across Spain. I went back did the same hike 4 years ago after taking 2 months off from my job. Both times have been very healing experiences and have completely changed my outlook on life and made mess less anxious about life changes.
Michael Crichton's Gell-Mann Amnesia strikes again.

>>You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well... You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect.
https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
Neither of those would be considered insider trading in the US.
This line of reasoning makes no sense.

A founder CEO is there because it’s his/her company. They built it up, they grew the company and grew with it. That’s how a business works.

This is not the same thing as a person with little or no managerial experience being appointed to one of the the highest offices available.

Your comparison would make sense if young businesspeople with little experience were made CEOs at blue chip companies. This obviously doesn’t happen very often.
Chris Gilliard: I don’t think you can have an anti-racist tech company at scale
Until formal verification becomes common, something the size of systemd is always going to have security bugs that intelligence agencies will know about before the rest of us. If you don't want North Koreans hacking your server you would do better to opt for non-systemd.
I created this tool for game artists a while ago, with the hope of selling it and start an independent company about game development, tools, and game technology.

Unfortunately, it sold pretty much nothing so I'm back to the game industry as an employee while I decided to make it FOSS. :D

It is written in C++ using my game framework nCine (https://ncine.github.io/) and ImGui, and it supports multiple platforms, like PC, Android, and the web.
It doesn't need it, I think it was just something that was interesting to have. I have not seen anyone saying there were any plans to make it non-optional, and that would probably not make sense to do that, because there are a lot of other network daemons that people use with systemd.
I presume because they are using a mono-repo for all the related projects. A GitHub repository doesn’t have to map to exactly one output. Just because the code is in an adjacent folder doesn’t mean that it’s used in all the targets.

If it became non-optional, then sure you can include the LOC then.
I call it not being able to put one foot in front of the other. You will find all kinds of distractions to try to not think about it, because to think about it is almost physically painful.
Is there any proof to this?

Not that I'm in disbelief, but I guess I just wonder why nothing has been done if it's as intense and awful as the claims.

Either way, it's repulsive to hear about bad behaviors like these in beautiful scheme communities.

I hope everybody involved heals and flourishes.

Edit: to be clear, obviously I believe the guy. It just seems crazy that such an amount of responsible, educated people would let this happen in any kind of professional or educational setting. If someone spoke that way to anybody at my work, they'd be absolutely brutalized and more than likely terminated that same day.
It baffles me that Void is so obscure. It's everything good about Arch, plus a better package manager and larger repositories and no systemd. I even put in on my appliance Raspberry Pis because they boot in 4 seconds.

However it is rolling release which it sounds like OP doesn't want.
To build a Dyson sphere so that you have enough power to finally run VR Minecraft at 60 FPS! ;-)
> RNNs are Turing complete.

Turing completeness requires access to unlimited read/write memory. RNNs only have a fixed dimensional state.
I guess I'm theory that starte is continuous, but it has to be a pretty optimistic model that assumes we can handle unbounded data like that.
The article does read like it's pointing out the lack of randomized controlled trials for parachutes:

https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094

People don't pay for studies of something they think is obvious. That's why you get only poor-quality studies. Dentists can tell who's flossing and who's not just by looking, and they know that their healthier patients floss.

It's not impossible that they're being misled, but it seems more that it's just old but correct observational wisdom that predates modern methodology practice. And if it's wrong it would take a fair bit of effort to disprove it -- so nobody bothers.
The whole question is a proxy for the evolution question.

If God put chickens on the Earth then they came first obviously.

If chickens evolved from some close but not quite chicken ancestor then the first chicken hatched from an egg with a beneficial genetic mutation.
Worldwide. Quoth the paper:

> According to a study by Tomcs ́anyi et al. [11], that analyzes the use of the ciphering algorithm in GRPS of 100 operators worldwide, most operators prioritize the use of GEA-3(58) followed by the non-encrypted mode GEA-0(38). Only a few operators rely on GEA-2(4), while no operator uses GEA-1(0).
I use time. The usual flow is like this:

- Day 1: exciting idea comes to my mind. I start to think a bit about why it would make sense to implement it, who would pay for it, etc. I do some investigations (e.g., how many competitors are out there? Would I ever come with something "better"?) and if things don't look good, I discard the idea... otherwise I let it stay in mind for a few days. Most of my ideas don't pass this stage.

- Day 21: if I haven't yet discarded the idea, I do more investigations. I evaluate potential competitors (if there are none, I check why). In general is now when I spend more time digging around. If I feel confident about the idea I tell it to people I know which I consider would be potential customers.

- Day 41: if I haven't yet discarded the idea, I start working on it. This could be a simple online website (just a landing page) where I track visits and the like. I do some marketing in places that I know people would be interested in my idea, etc.

- Day 61: if I haven't yet discarded the idea, I take it more seriously. It's now when my idea becomes a "serious side project".

Usually, 1 idea or so every 2 years reach the "Day 61" stage. Almost all my ideas get discarded because I realize at some point that "they don't actually make sense. Let's not waste time on them".

Note: I don't think one can "quickly" validate ideas. If you decide something in a matter of a few days... you are probably missing a lot of details (unless you have a whole team working for you): and most probably the outcome will be "wasted time". For learning, sure, it does make sense to "waste time" but I'm assuming here that the goal is not "learning" but to actually decide on what idea one should spend time on.
China Admits Fuel Rods at Nuclear Plant Are Damaged
I find it hard to believe that someone looking into alternative shells would have never heard of PowerShell. I get that Windows isn’t exactly most people’s OS of choice, but the existence of PowerShell is widely known.
What is not great about saying that "Trans women are trans women"? I thought modern feminist theory was about intersectionality, and isn't trying to rewrite a trans persons history to be equivalent to a cisgendered person's history the exact opposite of intersectionality?
I'm not aware of any soft drinks that have significant amounts of salt added. Certainly for the most popular drinks (e.g. coke, pepsi), the only sodium in them is from the water source.
Because it can be difficult to approach cruel people about their cruelty, would be my guess.
not = now
Sorry...
This article is really light on details.

What is in The Greatest Speculative Bubble of all time? Everything? Crypto? Stocks? Just Telsa stocks? All tech stocks?

Then there's the other half of the equation, which is, "what can I do about it?" The answer to that question is what's actually important. Anyone can make accurate predictions, but it the decisions you make with those predictions that count.

If everything is in a bubble, then what does it matter? If crypto is in a bubble and you don't own crypto, then what does it matter? Same with Tesla.

The dude is probably right, but over what time frame remains to be seen. Frankly, I'm more worried in general over normal economic issues than I am about any speculative asset bubbles:

The USA is "returning to normal" while a pandemic is still raging.

There's a massive supply shortage across all sectors of the economy that politicians are blaming on a boogyman (unemployment insurance) instead of actually investigating or addressing the problem.

The country still hasn't addressed the riot that happened in its capitol where a mob attempted to murder politicians (and successfully injured/murdered officers protecting them).

There's a drought and record heat wave hammering half of the country, putting them at risk of more deadly wildfires.

Plus dozens of other things I've either forgotten about, or are not widely reported enough for me to be aware of.

So yeah, the likelihood of Bad Shit happening in the next year is pretty high. But I'm not worried about Tesla and crypto at all.
We sell to gov institutions worldwide, essentially its best i move to each country we sell to but I have to be in the USA half of the year to maintain my green card.

Weather + Business. Startup climate. I need to build a network to fundraise for a seed round. Also gotta live cheaply.

I am mid 20s, cofounder is older based in Europe. We work remotely. No need to hire people anytime soon for anything critical, just some remote contractors from time to time.

Which cities do you recommend?
Digital self determination index – measure progress towards a m
It's difficult to separate out equipment from rules and just general attitudes--at least at lower levels of the sports. (And rugby is certainly not immune from concussion issues.) I do remember long-ago undergraduate we had some major problems in a match against a team where the rugby players were basically castoffs from that school's top-tier football program. We ended up walking off the field because they were basically deliberately trying to hurt people.
I find it kind of funny that they would choose to show those as demos when it's obvious that most of them really aren't Youtube video IDs. Like "Accept-Lang" is pretty obviously not actually a video ID, even if it matches the [A-Za-z0-9_-]{11} pattern and technically could be a valid ID.

On the other hand, I don't know how you would actually verify whether an 11-character string is or isn't a Youtube ID (short of querying Youtube itself), so I suppose it's nice that potential IDs are shown, just seems they have a very high chance of being false positives.
same reason we believe observational studies in nutrition, or worse - studies on animals.

if you have the weight of peer review or at least a well documented study, then the media runs wild with it's claims, it gets shoved into textbooks, then governments shape policy on those claims, corporations and medical practices sell gimmicks, books, supplements, therapy and plans of action to heal you... it all becomes lies, half-truths, bad data all just repeating itself ad naseum until "truth" is established in the public consciousness. Quacks on the web, the American Heart Association, your local doctor's office will all pedal garbage based on the bad data. And once it's well established as true, backing away from it is hard because it's become so woven, institutionally.

This is why people think saturated fat and sunlight are bad or at least a net-negative.

Even modern medicine, psychology and nutrition sciences all have horrible replication crisis's and we're no better in rejecting the nonsense now than we were then.
If any electronic device tried to do this to me, I would sue. I would be furious, and I would not settle for a small amount. I'm definitely not the only one who would react this way; I expect this reaction would be fairly common.

This means that no company with a sensible legal department would try this. However, a fly-by-night startup might try to do it in a way that's hard to trace back to them. In that case, I'd be suing the advertisers, rather than the hard-to-find software company. And I'd be adding CFAA claims.
Funny enough, the new PowerShell fits this description too now that it’s packaged for Linux.
I feel like the Atari ST is the second easiest one to get into (after x86), because they share the floppy format with PC's.
I've just started a 15 month sabbatical myself. Fortunately mine is paid, but I like the author's focus on enjoying the mundane. I'm focused on the opposite: overanalyzing the mundane. I've collected complete data about my sleep, productivity, location, spending, work tasks, etc. for almost ten years and plan to analyze them with multivariate correlation and forecasting techniques.

I started my first self-reflection about the papers I've written and will be doing more over the coming months: https://jeffhuang.com/struggle_for_each_paper/
I guess the way you throw off the algorithms is by having a strategy of making large wins and medium losses and only taking the delta between the two. Then it would be pretty hard to prove insider trading just from the trading records.
Just blows my mind how much content you can provide through the browser. Beautiful game, and a wonderful experience. Some bugs (one of the paths lead outside navigational area) but not that bothered me particular. The browser is not a browser any more. It definitively is a multipurpose, cross platform delivery infrastructure.
Digital self determination index – measuring progress towards a better internet
The main function of a federal agency head is navigating the political landscape; they're the bureaucratic janitors tasked with maintaining the organization so its subject matter experts can make better decisions. She has demonstrated that she has political capital by getting the appointment and confirmation, just like billionaire founds have demonstrated they have financial capital.
I don't even trust data anymore
Wage your-battle to-destroy the-evil forces-of...
I think you could have a “free floating” barrel - these are already used to reduce barrel movement before the bullet leaves the barrel.
The missing backstory here is that the author _played the game_. This is the end state. You play with fire, you get burned.

If you want to use graduate student/CIA-recruitment language, reduce individuals down to their demographic components, and rely on stereotypes to build a hierarchy of piety, this is what you can expect. There is a lot of incentive to play the game, for a brief time you can be king of the hill, and have NPR, the BBC, Vox and Twitter fawning over you, and maybe get a good book deal out of it. However, whenever the slightest crack appears in your facade, which it inevitably will, there will be dozens of people rushing in to knock you down and take your place. That's what you chose.

You don't have to play the game. You can establish yourself as a critical, independent thinker and become "uncancelable", because your ideas will stand on their own merit. It is not the easiest path.
In case OP shows up, we believe you and support you! Speaking out like this is hard but it's the best way to help the community you love.
How is it affiliated with TSA Precheck? I'm quite sure I've never directly used login.gov for anything related to my TSA Precheck, and I don't have a password associated with it either.
I think this is the first time I'm seeing Felleisen mentioned in the main post. Some comments here mentioned him, but the main post kept his name out.
>And signal isn't really very helpful in this scenario, because it doesn't properly protect against MitM attacks.

I suppose it depends on where exactly the Middle here is, but for basic MitM of the physical network, if nothing else shouldn't the TLS connection to Signal's servers be sufficient?
Ask HN: Whatever Happened to Bill Nguyen, CEO of LaLa and Color Labs?
Just curious, I admired his determination.

Just in case you wonder more about him: https://www.fastcompany.com/1784823/bill-nguyen-the-boy-in-the-bubble
I actually don't know first hand. I only heard it was easier and thought it was a well known fact. Thanks to your comment I think it may just be a popular myth rather than a well known fact.

Either way if you're saying the "hardness" is the same, the conclusion still stands. "Hardness" is not the metric that is making European quality of care better than the US because both countries have the same "hardness".
What would the author have to gain from fabricating it?
Why external speakers? Is easier to play them back in the phone!
I tell you how it will start. A company finds out the way subliminal message can help people to be better. They release an app, it works! They promise it will always be free. After a few years they sell it for 100 million to Facecook, Facecook keeps it free for a few years untill they find a way to make money. Voila!
The science-as-religion people think that science delivers truth in the same way any other theology does.

I took a philosophy class filled with people in science degree programs and a few of my classmates were often vocally upset about how nothing was certain in philosophy and everything had multiple sides to it. That was very eye opening, many of these people were soon to be graduated and through their entire educational career they had only been exposed to Truth to the extent that being shown debate and disagreement on a topic made them upset.

You're not supposed to "trust the science" you're supposed to trust the process to approach the truth. If you can't read multiple arguments on the same topic and analyze them, you really don't get it at all (and waaay too many people with degrees can't do this).
Others have gotten very rich creating a world in which poor pedestrians can now expect to be threatened by SUVs. But what exactly was your point with regard to the story?
Wow, this game is beautiful! Has a monument valley feel to it in the music and the art. I wonder what technologies where used to make this, the seamless transition between the cut scene at the beginning and the game.

But it's definitively beautiful and relaxing :)
> why nothing has been done

Felleisen is a project founder. People often feel extremely uncomfortable holding open source founders to task for their behavior.
>"zero-tolerance policies are sold as necessary for mitigating legal risk,"

I guess I fell for the marketing. In any event I detest zero-tolerance policies for just about everything.
We're talking about it because it's in the headline of the article. Why is it there? Presumably an editor (or the original author) thought that the age was either the most newsworthy fact here, or the one that would attract the most clicks. Given your question, I assume you don't think it's newsworthy, so it must be the latter explanation.

Who benefits? The BBC benefits from running clickbait headlines, since they carry ads.

Happy to help!
I’m familiar with that language.

I think it’s intentional.

We’re being tested somehow...

(I particularly like, when I’m sent to the store, reading “Wwwwwwwww” followed by a legible “etc.”)

ProTip: always bring home some flowers; it seems to distract them.
Don't miss this opportunity and start minting your BBB coins now
Okay so now let's take person A and person B.

A is super friendly. B is an asshole.

A and B both indepedently go solo hiking to the same park.

A ends up making some friends with some company X employees on the trail, hikes with them for part of the trail, and hears inside info, and then they depart ways.

B is an asshole and so those people don't want to talk to B. B makes no friends, hikes alone the whole time, and therefore gets no inside info.

A should be rewarded by the markets for their people skills, no?
My personal favorite thing about Docker, and the part I'd most miss if I switched to Jails (which I'm fairly confident could meet my needs with some fairly simple scripts and aliases that wouldn't take me long to arrive at, which is why I think there's so much less of an "ecosystem" there, even a nascent and under-developed one) is the way it forces projects to un-fuck their configuration.

500-line config, much of which few people ever care about, with all kinds of ill-conceived nesting? Better put the ~20 options that 99% of users ever touch in environment variables, and document them. Weird state garbage that's not captured in your config-on-disk? Better figure it out and get it into env vars, and have your startup script use those to transparently manage whatever bad decisions you made re: state in the past. Shit files all over the system? Better get that sorted out so people can handle persistence with at the very most three total mounts—and oh, gee, look, now your simple example docker-compose also serves to document where exactly you store files. And so on.

(my second-favorite thing is that it's a de-facto cross-distro package manager with very up-to-date packages that are trivial to completely and cleanly uninstall)
Yes, this is bigger than Trump. Been happening for decades on now.

Honestly, Trump bumbled around and made a lot more obvious to more people. In addition to just being Trump.

I can tell you a lot of people went for Trump, 70 million total this last time, precisely because they saw Trump as not being part of that order. Fascinating indeed!
Kind of a weird instance of The Bystander Effect
I don't think that's classified as insider information.

Insider information is "details about a company's plans or finances that are not yet available to the shareholders".

If you overhear employees talking and you have no relation to them except you're in proximity, that's typically not insider info.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/i/insiderinformation.asp
I guess it depends on the definition of "company bullshit"

"I know a fair number of people who don't really have to work but choose to"

Because those people probably do not have to put up with lots of "coporate bullshit", otherwise they would indeed go find something more fitting, if they are not desperate for the money.

But also people who are mainly desperate for the money, can be good employes - and if they do not have to start by having to fake enthusiasm ("don't tell me its because of the money") - there is a good chance that they will stay, even when they are not desperate anymore. That was my main point.
My code would probably be better served by:

This place is a message… and part of a system of messages… pay attention to it!Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture.

This place is not a place of honor…no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here.

What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

The danger is in a particular location… it increases toward a center… the center of danger is here… of a particular size and shape, and below us.