skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your kind "Let Me Google That For You" - but have you actually read what you pointed to?

The first reply does not make sense - it has nothing to do with borders (just trying to differentiate - very poorly - windows though some limited color changes.

The next few ones are "give me borders back", and the other solution does not work. But, if someone actually reads it, they will discover that what the author had in mind is to add shadows in windows in the performance section.

Which again does not have anything to do with borders.

Voilà, voilà.
I'm interested as well. I agree with the overall point and do think Cal focuses too much on expert performance (ericsson et al) while completely ignoring tacit knowledge for some reason. But I've been reading his stuff for years and never thought he was one to peddle his own products beyond "this worked for me, might work for you".

In that sense I find him way better than other authors listed: he actually makes good use of the tools he recommends as a professional (as opposed to making a living spouting bullshit about other people's work).
Isn't firecracker an AWS tech?
Alternative headline: Coca Cola stock dips 1.6%
I imagine that technically RSA-56 would be easy to crack as well.
Gootloader: ‘Initial Access as a Service’
yeah but considering the risks it's actually very, very bad.
This. Unit Test should not connect to external service imo.

And I do not get the gripe with a production rate limit tbh.
Face Mesh: Facial Surface Geometry
To be fair you could probably break 56 bit RSA with a pen and paper.
They don't have an inherent conflict of interest the way Google does (advertising vs privacy in the same company). The App Store makes them plenty of money, and if anything, enhancing user "privacy" by limiting access of other adtech vendors only strengthens their walled garden and increases revenue. Even something like Fortnite or the Epic store... as long as they can dictate their entire stack from hardware to software (very much unlike Google + OEMs + third-party stores), they'll have a huge advantage over Google in terms of being able to limit your personal info being used by third parties, while still retaining it for their own use.
Amazon Delivery Hub in Arvada, CO Rejected
I like this interpretation of the Fermi paradox the most: We're a dumpster-dwelling species barely qualifying as sentient compared to the species whose dump we inhabit.

Lines up great with my self-esteem.
Where I live right now, if my AC broke I would not be able to live in my home; It gets so hot you could easily die of heat exhaustion. I sure hope it doesn't break this summer for whatever reason
How to Style Mini Skirts and Turn Heads
GPRS is the general packet radio service, used for (very slow) data and SMS transfer in combination with the old GSM protocol.
> You've show a syntactic difference, not a functional difference.

Kinda, but that difference is important. We can say that C allows us to simulate pass-by-reference by using pointers. It's still true that the C language does not support pass-by-reference semantics.

Taking the address of a variable is an operation that the C language permits us to do, yielding a new value (a pointer value). This isn't part of C's argument-passing functionality, though.

> What does the 'ref' keyword change about how C# passes the argument to the function?

The internals of C# compilers aren't really the point, but I believe .Net does it the copy-intensive way, copying to pass in and copying again to pass the new value back out. I don't think this a real performance problem though, unless you overuse the feature.
And hopefully a second factor won't be SMS.
TLDR: this "article" is a paid ad for Jane Street
Of course I know that, but did you ever talk to someone who is not in technology but does have a say in determining what "we" need to do to cover "our" asses?

Say, a lawyer with the responsibility that all of our websites implement all of the relevant regulations?

You would think that they are up to date on what regulations you need to follow, but you'd be surprised. Many take a blanket "no risks under any circumstances" approach. These types can only be placated with the "we don't have any cookies at all" argument. And even then only barely.
As were its other cyphers.

Even in their best case effort, 64 bit keys were in the realm of supercomputer level bruteforcing by late nineties if just few more cypher quality degradations, and key leaks were know.
They did after the first attempt to dock by just winging it failed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_rendezvous#First_attempt...
Exactly this, I feel like the "all of your customers" thing is important and what bothered me about the GP comment. I know it's tremendously inconvenient for people who are trying to travel, but it seems like a triumph of technology to be able to sort something like this out in less than a whole day? And to expect literally every customer to be able to jump on an app and get a refund or reschedule in the same hour strikes me as... possible, but not necessarily a thing we should expect?
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Just shows it’s not possible to ever actually say the right thing with regard to trans discourse, regardless of how “inclusive” one is attempting to be. There is always, always, always an angle of attack available.

I’m sorry this happened to her but it’s also an object lesson in what that discourse ultimately leads to. It’s not acceptance.
No one said it's uniquely Western.
Judge Posner took down Gladwell years ago. I periodically reread this: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/posner-reviews-blink
> Carlin has also been criticized for being loose with history in favour of story.

How so? He seems to be pretty upfront in talking about his sources, quoting from them, and saying repeatedly that he's a journalist and not a historian.
Yeah, like we do here in Flint, Michigan
>I wonder if there’s an opportunity to teach a “how to search” class in schools.

We did this in a public middle school around 2002-2003 with boolean searches. Was this unique to my experience or has this been a common thing for awhile?
Because killing the golden goose could mean a several billion dollar payday for the insiders?
It's refreshing to see someone with a big microphone use their fame to promote something positive.
>I think people generally underestimate how non-straightforward natural selection is, especially when epigenetics is taken into account. Living beings carry around a lot of dormant genes that can spring to life under specific conditions.

Yes but that does not mean you discount the straightforward answers either. A more complicated and creative answer does not make it more right then the simple answer. That is one aspect of the bias a lot of people have for the topic.
Pretty sure 20% of my value as a professional web builder and resident family tech support rep is my ability or willingness to "Google" something. I'm being 100% serious - I attribute most of my tech knowledge simply to my curiosity, and willingness to search out a solution. Many people (including my own kids) are happy to A) not know or B) ask someone else (me).
I wonder when we'll finally realize how stupid we're and stop drinking liquid sugars including fruit juices, which often are worse than coke!
I collect things like old Mp3 players because they are interesting examples of product design and UX design. But mostly it's because I just think they're neat.
When I first heard Dan Carlin's macho vocal persona, I expected a very hawkish and USA-centric view of history. But he completely defied my bias. He really makes an effort to present a balanced and nuanced view of history, from all perspectives in a conflict.

Thanks for the tip on part VI, I've been eagerly awaiting the release of that.
When I was first learning how to program I felt this way. High level languages were unsettling in that I knew they were doing a ton of "stuff" but I didn't know what. Old 8-bit micros get you closer to understanding how computers work.
Hasselhoff drifts on to stage in KITT, jumps out, and tackles Tim Cook. They then get up, shake, laugh, and take turns explaining how iCloud+ VPN makes it look like everything you do online comes from Apple.
Six charged in Silicon Valley insider trading ring
Yeah I find it hard to believe that an incident that people will forget two seconds after it happens costs billions of dollars.
Indeed, and if you think science is bad, imagine metascience.
GPRS is the mobile data standard for GSM mobile phones. It's from the 2G era, and is old and slow. GEA-1 is an encryption algorithm used with GPRS.
Source protection is when journalists (including heads of international organizations engaged in journalism) protect the sources of their information that enables said journalism.

A "journalistic courtesy" that people like you would make illegal so as to shutdown journalism that goes against your agenda.
Ideally everyone should get periodic vitamin D level tests, and then adjust their diet, sun exposure, and supplementation accordingly. But unfortunately it's just not practical to test everyone. And also we know that a large fraction of the population is deficient, and that moderate supplement doses are generally safe. So routine supplementation is justified for most of us on an evidence based medicine basis.
org-mode is the truth and the light. learn once, run forever.
Cis-urocanic acid (sunlight-induced): immune suppression via 5-HT2A receptor
"Letters To A Young Poet" by Rainer Maria Rilke. There is a new edition of this work that now includes the letters the young poet wrote in response, long thought to be lost. I plan to pick that one up in addition to my Stephen Mitchell translation.
GANsNRoses: Stable, Controllable, Diverse Image to Image Translation
That Amazon doesn't work its employees to the literal point of death, only up to the point at which they are unable to continue to work? There are many gradations of suffering and torment up to that limit, that are more than sufficient to wreck someone's life.
It was the contents of the bottle that Ronaldo objected to, not the label.
To anyone downvoting me, consider this HN article from not too long ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27489927

The general premise with these studies is that if an effect size is real, then a preliminary study would show something interesting. To my knowledge, statistically that is a nonsense argument. Small sample sizes suffer from various small sample effects to the point that you can't predict either way (otherwise there wouldn't be a point in doing a larger study). To add insult to injury, all of these kinds of studies are only on local college students, which further invalidates any potential information gleamed from a preliminary study.

TLDR: The way science is done in the social sciences is fundamentally flawed & the fact that limited funding ensures that's the case doesn't excuse that a significant enough part of the body of knowledge isn't reliable.
Epicureanism, which is somewhat of the opposite of Stoicism, sees pain and unfulfilled desires as evils that need to be fought constantly. The removal of pain and fulfillment of desires, accordingly, is the "good."

Also, I'm pretty sure many Eastern philosophies have concepts of good and bad.
I would like to hear more details on this - the linked twitter thread is a bit bare ...

Isn't there an enormous risk in manipulating the price as high as $400/tether just to liquidate (someone elses) short position ? Who else, then, has the opportunity to sell at the temporarily inflated price ?

Again, some more details would be very interesting ...
See also the game of Hex. I was introduced to it by Martin Gardner's 1957 column in Scientific American[1]. As far as I know, these columns are not available free online from Scientific American. However, there is an excellent description of the game and its properties by Thomas Maarup available[2], his Thesis on it is at [3]. Like the cited game Influence, the rules of Hex are very simple and although it is easily proven that in Hex the first player has a winning strategy available, this strategy is unknown.

The game was first invented by Piet Hein in 1942 and was independently reinvented in 1949 by John Nash while a graduate student at Princeton University.

There is a recent book on Hex by Ryan B. Hayward and Bjarne Toft, published by CRC Press [4].

Before someone asks, I didn't read Martin Gardner's column in 1957, but I was old enough to read it in 1963 as a child. I became fascinated with Mathematical Recreations monthly columns that year, and at the library I eventually read every one of the Mathematical Recreations columns he wrote for the magazine (over 300).

[1] Martin Gardner. Mathematical Games—Concerning the game of Hex, which may be played on the tiles of the bathroom floor. Scientific American, 197:145–150, 1957

[2] https://maarup.net/thomas/hex/

[3] Thomas Maarup (2005 Thesis) https://maarup.net/thomas/hex/hex3.pdf

[4] https://www.routledge.com/Hex-The-Full-Story/Hayward-Toft/p/...
Perhaps the cause was that the ex-date of the latest dividend was 06/14/2021 [1]

[1] https://ycharts.com/companies/KO/dividend
> It might be that with these killer drones, we will look back on WW2 style armies in the field as equivalent to 18th century musketeers lining up and firing volleys at each other in bright colored shirts.

When the guns were so inaccurate that getting more shots was more important than actually aiming, that's the natural tactic to employ.

Lining up was hugely important for other members of the army to know what you're doing. If you're 1st in line, you shoot. Back of the line you're loading gunpowder (with everyone else). Middle of the line, you're dropping the bullet into the musket. Etc. etc.

Like a choir performance: its more about having tons of other people doing the same thing you're supposed to be doing. So no one in the army ever "misses" a step in the ~1-minute reload process.

Even if you're not that good at singing, you get "better" in a choir because you just follow the crowd. Similarly, even if you've forgotten a few steps in the long reload process, you just mimic the actions of your neighbors.

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Note that the Redcoat beat the US rifles at pretty much every engagement. It was guerilla warfare that allowed George Washington to survive and last through the war.

Rifles took longer to load. Without precision machining, the bullets needed to be wadded up with paper to stick with the rifling, adding a laborious step in the shooting process. Muskets could fire more shots per minute due to the smooth (though inaccurate) barrels. In army vs army battles, aim doesn't matter, your bullet will hit somebody over there, so there's no advantage to the superior aim that rifles have. You've added 20-seconds to your reload process for almost no tactical advantage at all.

USA experimented with rifles / guerilla warfare, but it really wasn't that successful in the 1700s. (It got the job done but... George Washington lost far more battles than he won). Even in the mid 1800s, the British Square formations were doing decently.
Same. I’d be more worried about an API with no rate limit. Say if another customer ships a bug that DoS’s the API on accident.
SSH with a SmartCard-HSM and EC Keys
University of Massachusetts Cybersecurity Incident
It would be a truly novel approach for any state to develop such a huge tech advantage and neither leaking it during development nor using it to gain something in some of the many existing conflicts (cold or hot).
> I don't think there are many sane persons around, who honestly want to deal with company bullshit, if not for the money.

I really don't think this is true. I know a fair number of people who don't really have to work but choose to. And far more who could do something else tomorrow, including self employment, without trouble.

One common factor is the desire to achieve something bigger than you can do as an individual. There is probably some selection bias at work here but I don't think it's so unusual.

I do agree that when considering hiring someone who has been working individually for a long time, you'll want to probe how they will fit into a team. That's not the same thing.
Because that's the only key. HMAC isn't a private-key algorithm.
I don't understand your argument. How much control do you think the White House exercises over chimpanzees? Your hypothetical chimpanzee is completely correct.
Except that I'm not sure that there's any real mention of alien technology in the report. It's just the same old where we're seeing interesting reports about not-fully-understood optical phenomena, and people in the popular press are pattern-matching it to little green men from outer space.
People forget these kinds of reports go back to the U2 spy plane in the 1950’s. When military members on Guam saw the U2 - while still top secret - take off at a 45 degree angle, the entire island was baffled and didn’t understand what they saw. It’s hard for anyone to wrap their minds around but once upon a time a plane taking off at a 45 degree angle would be as unimaginable as a craft with no heat signature (though I do think, even if true, their are many existing technologies that could explain that and we don’t need to imagine it’s an alien gravitational propulsion system.)

Does anyone think it’s an accident the most public incident involved military training flights where the military was intercepted by this and beat them to their own rendezvous point for the mission?

It’s very obvious the tic-tac UFO was either a legitimate top secret military craft (manned or unmanned) that was being tested that day against the flight crews during their training mission, or possibly it was a military hoax serving two potential purposes: 1. Basis of increased funding, and/or 2. Misinformation to unfriendly nations/militaries around the world. None of that can be admitted and so here we are where everyone has to play dumb including top levels of the pentagon.
I've realized over time that my "google a solution" instinct only kicks in while I'm dealing with tech problems.

For everything else, my brain takes some time to make that leap.
>The idea of combining foods, like beans and rice, turned out to be a myth.

No it's basic high school biology...

https://ic.steadyhealth.com/what-is-complete-protein-and-why...

>Proteins are vital for making enzymes, hormones, and other body chemicals. They are needed for muscles, hair, skin and all of the internal organs. Proteins are the only food source of nitrogen, essential to all life on earth.

>Being built from amino acids, different proteins contain specific amino acids in specific order and amount. Proteins from meat are different than those from milk, for example. There are twenty two different amino acids, and nine of them are called the essential amino acids. Essential amino acids are somewhat specific, because they cannot be made by the body and they can be provided only through the diet.

>A complete protein is a protein that contains all of the essential amino acids, in an adequate proportion. Not all of the proteins containing all essential amino acids may be called “the complete proteins”. Correct proportion, sufficient to support the biological functions of the body, is what makes one protein complete.
Researchers can turn a single photo into a video
If you live somewhere that uses reservoir water rather than groundwater maybe. Groundwater tastes like shit.
Everyone talks about how awesome Warren Buffet is, but nobody talks about how the vast majority of his fortune was acquired from owning Coca-Cola, selling sugar water to the masses, fueling the diabetes and obesity epidemic.
For a lot of services like this I think the value prop is not monetary cost but more "this is no longer your responsibility". Since you already have a custom-built solution that is stable & operating efficiently, switching doesn't sound worth it to you. For a team that's looking to add webhook functionality for the first time, not needing to go through the implementation work themselves or need to deal with any maintenance longer-term could sound very appealing. I think it's akin to the rise of interest in user-management-as-a-service products, etc.

I'm not, to be clear, expressing an opinion that the business will be successful with that strategy or that I think it's a good trend. On the contrary, this overall trend of feature-x-as-a-service products depresses me a bit. We've gone from the old days when you had to write pretty much everything yourself (which sucked), to the days when there were a ton of feature-x-as-library choices (which was way better but led to complaints of web programming becoming a chore of just bolting libraries together), to the current trend of feature-x-as-service products.

It's a logical evolution in some ways - similar to libraries over roll-your-own, it reduces your own set of responsibilities. But it also reduces your ability to learn (e.g. from reading source) or grow beyond the provided service (much harder to swap out providers or roll-your-own when the current solution is a third party black box). It also feels depressing in that we've gone from a thriving ecosystem of software based on open source to a much more capitalism-first ecosystem of "this could be a library but then how would I make money off of it". (I realize open source funding & maintainer compensation/sanity is its own set of problems. I just wish we could work on those issues without turning everything into a product.)
> Of course, a big part of the reason for that was presumably lack of external competition in the 70s. If you say to Manufacturing Company X "don't worry about the European and Japanese manufacturers, they're not allowed bid on this" you are unlikely to get the same sort of quality than you'd get if they were.

Yes! (And no). In the US, by 1970, foreign auto manufacturers had achieved a 10% market share, and it had been growing steadily since the mid 1960s. The Detroit manufacturers were fully aware of this, they just weren’t making changes. That was a time of great societal unrest and huge labor strife. It’s not hard to imagine the elites not wanting to save American manufacturing jobs or at least making them competitive.
In general, not bad, but there are some nuances that are described in the previous comment.
If that’s the case, there’s a bug somewhere.
From Apple's statement[0]:

> The first assigns the user an anonymous IP address that maps to their region but not their actual location. The second decrypts the web address they want to visit and forwards them to their destination. This separation of information protects the user’s privacy because no single entity can identify both who a user is and which sites they visit.

Apple is not saying nobody can deanonymize you - they are being very careful to only state that no single entity can deanonymize you. Hence you should still assume this is not a good protection against any entity with subpoena power, or the ability to compel the cooperation of Apple and their 3rd-party egress relay providers.

[0]: https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/07/apple-icloud-private-relay-fe...
Pardon. I meant to say abuse, not spam.
While I don't know if the drop is related to this incident or not, the video was wildly spread through social networks (at least in Europe) and even becoming a meme now. Even some news commented on it (local). Still no idea if it really affected the stock price, but it is 2 days now and people are still talking about it in these necks of the woods.
Nope. We need autonomous underwater attack vehicles if we are to defend Taiwan from Chinese invasion.
So the egg really did come first after all.
Yeah but look how much free marketing publicity they're getting/making from a temporary blip in stock price...
This is true of the vast majority of tech work, notwithstanding typical compensation conversations on HN.