skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a local racetrack here in Waterford, Michigan, US (north of Detroit) which hosts road bike races. It really is a great use, because it's a closed/non-open-to-public route which is generally well paved and free of the usual road debris (gravel, grass, car parts, glass).

Details: https://www.flyingrhinocc.com/flying-rhino-race-series

Bicycle road races are otherwise pretty complicated to put on, because they require a section of road that can be closed (eg: private industrial park / campus), sometimes work done to the road to clean it beforehand, etc. Using a race track has a lot of this done for you.
JS has a very weak type system, full of implicit conversions. In dynamic languages with strong type systems, like Common Lisp, such operations typically result in errors:

(+ (not (not '())))

The value NIL is not of the expected type NUMBER.

Similarly in Ruby:

+!![]

undefined method `+@' for true:TrueClass (NoMethodError)
[Condition of type TYPE-ERROR]

Interestingly, Python does the same thing as JS in this case, even though it is typically quite strongly typed. Edit: not quite the same, as the empty array is converted to False in Python, just as it is in Ruby (in CL, nil/'() IS the canonical false value); but still, Python outputs 0, it doesn't complain like the other two.
Audrey Watters has really good insights on what she calls "The History of the Future of Education Technology"

Her Hack Education blog, while on hiatus right now, has a lot of supporting info.

https://hackeducation.com/
Microsoft is thinking that Apple somehow manages to have billions of people creating "iTunes" accounts, and they don't, and what the hell, John, why don't WE get all that sweet data and them big account numbers, can't we do what they do? Sure, Bob, but some people will get upse--Screw them, John! what they gonna do, move to Apple and pay more get the same treatment? Just fix the damn process, John, I want those account numbers up 300% by Q3.

...Alright Bob, you're the boss.
Maybe wall sections with built in services could work too. e.g., a wall with plumbing to handle a bathroom on one side and laundry on the other. Design a house around these service walls in strategic locations, then fill in the other, more-standard plasterboard walls.

If the more technical bits (electrical, plumbing, etc) could be done by accredited tradesman in the factory, leaving a general worker to screw on taps and plug in power cables, that might reduce the individuals required on site during the assembly process.

The factory professionals could knock out dozens of custom service walls (even if each was slightly different) in a day, versus driving around to individual building sites in the traditional model.
No, but the claims are automated as well (there are APIs between content publishers and big content silos which make this distinction pretty unimportant).

Ideally, the law would defend you against content providers and Googles/YouTubes and protect you from frivoulous claims. Instead DMCA codifies this approach (even if it's a bit different than what Google is doing right now).
https://xkcd.com/1053/

There are a lot of people being born every year. If a 16-18 year old teenager is getting into web development, they were 4-6 when that talk was given in 2012. Sure, that talk still appears here and there, but it's past its prime and you'd have to be in the right place at the right time to run into it.

Crockford's book (JS: The Good Parts) was ubiquitous among JS devs who were coding between 2008 and 2015 (give or take). These days, younger devs have never heard of it. Due to the Seinfeld Effect, if they read it, it would seem trite and obvious not realizing how revolutionary it was at the time.
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I did it recently by accident. When it asked for an email address I entered fuck@off.com with the C word as the password.

This obviously failed as a legitimate Microsoft login, but it did, very handily, offer the option to create a local account instead.
I wouldn't say Penicillin is 'unnatural', there are probably better examples out there.
That does seem like too far of a leap, unless you have some strong evidence to support it. Did the government ask him to tweet about Gamestop, too?
I have been developing that for a while now: http://www.anomie.tech/
just in case someone missed it, leak is huge
See https://grumpy.website/post/0Q8s2Zc3p
The real change will happen when Ethereum moves to PoS and overnight turns off PoW mining. It is estimated to happen by end of this year or Q1 2022.
The chilling effects it will have on free speech should not be discounted, though. Despite the patchy enforcement and relatively small fines, people will self-censor rather than risk saying anything "illegal".
How much research is being done into exploring "exotic" new invented fake-meats with different textures / tastes / etc. ?
Abu Dhabi Starts Using Facial Covid Scanners at Malls and Airports
The list seems to be incomplete - I recall there were several more incidents in 201x, for example [0]

[0] https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/mexico-says-stolen-radi...
The Many App Stores Before the App Store
CO2 goes down due to chemical weathering - basically it binds to the rock and is then washed into the sea, where it is subducted into the mantle due to plate tectonics. It comes back up from volcanoes - the deep carbon cycle.

The amount of weathering depends on the access the atmosphere has to the rock. If there is a thick ice layer, the rate goes down. Water plays a role as well, and the fastest weathering happens in the tropics and not the deserts (where you have mechanical weathering which does not bind CO2). Accordingly, the configuration of continents can play a role as well, which is interesting if you go back far enough. On the other hand, the volcano emissions appear somewhat constant over time.

In total though, there are still many open questions. Why does CO2 appear to go up so fast after an ice age? Does CO2 or temperature go up first? In the records, the temperature increase appears rather sudden, on the timescale of decades. How does this happen? (Note though that that has no huge importance for our current problem since the situation is different. But the reaction speed of the system is relevant, for example.)

Note: If we wait long enough (~tens of thousands of years) the CO2 level should go down again from weathering. There are proposals for carbon capture that uses this mechanism (by grounding the rocks and distributing them openly so the atmosphere can reach a lot of the rock surface, thus increasing the weathering rate massively).

Note2: You need silicate rock, which is not distributed evenly.
I have a habit of looking at the calendars of the tracks F1 goes to, just out of curiosity. Many of them have bicycle events in addition to car events, for exactly the reasons you would think (and mentioned): well-maintained roads with no cars, an interesting, undulating course, nice surroundings, and infrastructure for crowds.

As an example, the 2020 UCI Road World championship was centered around the Imola track, and looking at their schedule they frequently have other cycling events.
Does karma matter enough on HN to want to farm it?
Any insights as to how this technology works, or is supposed to work? The articles says "the technology can detect infections by measuring electromagnetic waves, which change when the RNA particles of the virus are present in the body" which seems a bit hand-wavy.
Without in-process multi-threading with OS threads, writing performant parallel code is nearly impossible. Most of the time you have to drop down to C/C++, disable the GIL and implement parallelism there.
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No logic to this comment either.
Paella actually has a lot of variations all over spain, and it was a very "what do we have on-hand" kind of food!

My relatives in Madrid have chorizo, shrimp, shellfish, rabbit, chicken, sausage as far as meats I've seen in the paellas they've made.

Chorizo, shrimp, shellfish, and chicken is by far the most common they make. It may also make sense that the paella that "caught on" in the states just hails from a different region of Spain. So "American Paella" may just be closer to a non-valencian paella.
Apparently it's the pastes which are used:

https://www.theasiancookshop.co.uk/bulk-pataks-balti-curry-p...

It's a shame, because a lot of the dishes have lost a lot of their subtlety and especially regional variation.
Different multiverse.

Y.T. notices a black Town Car that has been sitting there for a while. She doesn't have to see the plates to know it is Mafia. Only the Mafia drives cars like that. The windows are blackened, but she knows someone's in there keeping an eye on het. How do they do it? You see these Town Cars everywhere, but you never see them move, never see them get anyplace. She's not even sure they have engines in them.
You're overthinking this. It's on by default because many users now expect it and it's surprising (at least to me as an Emacs user) how little people tend to dive into configuring their editors.

I guess it also looks kind of neat.
I am actually willing to pay it if I can try a demo of it beforehand and confirm that it’s good (like I have paid for Sublime Merge). The problem is that I can’t try it without paying first.

(And I’m also disappointed at the fact that a software that strives for fastness and lightness is so much of a monstrous hassle to build. This has nothing to do with free/non-free software.)
The worst line in this is "let"

Like UBS is some form of beneficent demigod deigning to allow employees to get their jobs done
I'll assume you missed the fact that this is the store price vs the cost price.

If you can buy a chicken breast for $1.99 in a store then the actual cost for the meat is probably close to 80c-$1.20
Now you have a cloud dependency to access your local files

- What happens if your Microsoft account gets blocked (rightfully or wrongfully)?

- What happens if the next Windows update, Microsoft "helpfully" activates onedrive sync of your folders by default and exfiltrates your data? (HTC did this to me before with their Sense UI).

- Maybe the latter leads to the folder if OneDrive syncs some copyrighted data to their service they think you're pirating?
Dont worry, they will soon. All developed countries have been bailing out banks etc by printint trillions. It will catch up to them.

Good on him. Good on Mexico. Preserving the wealth of the middle class and giving access to the poor and unbanked is tye way forward for a more egalitarian society.
That's what I was hoping for ...
+1

That's a fantastic reco. I've read this book..
I've never been to the US.

Before you hurl incorrect accusations at others, check out how international keyboards look. All have QWERTY-like (in some cases AZERTY etc. but still similar) layout as a BASE, and the local characters are on top of that. Yes even in China, Japan, Russia, Greece, Bulgaria, Macedonia and so on.

This is why languages center around this charset, and why it'll stay like that.
If I remember correctly, he was mainly against "compelled speech": not when someone tells you not to say something a certain way, but when someone tells you you're obligated to say something a certain way.

Was that the crux of it?
Isn't oil subsidized while nuclear covered in red tape and regulations? It should be the other way around: tax carbon and subsidize nuclear.
There is this strange patent registered by Microsoft Technologies [1] which mines human body/bio activity into a crypto currency. From what I understand, it can measure your energetic flow when you are exposed to certain ads/applications/Blue Screens/etc. ;-) I am sure it gives are very detail of your inner workings (psyche?) to Microsoft.

"Body activity data may be generated based on the sensed body activity of the user. The cryptocurrency system communicatively coupled to the device of the user may verify if the body activity data satisfies one or more conditions set by the cryptocurrency system, and award cryptocurrency to the user whose body activity data is verified."

I guess this mining technology requires the mining user/body to be connected to the internet, hence this move by Microsoft to require an active online account facilitates to role out this patent technology.

[1] https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO20...
My Twitter account got locked in about a minute.
I think "meat from animals" will quickly become considered higher quality, or luxury.

We can kind-of see this now with seafood, where "wild caught" is more expensive than farmed.
If you don't mind learning a new language (golang and it's not particularly a difficult language), then you should consider joining our Kubernetes SIG Instrumentation meetings (https://groups.google.com/g/kubernetes-sig-instrumentation). We're particularly well suited for people who want to get their feet wet, and despite our focus being instrumentation in Kubernetes, the kind of work that we do varies a bit, we've written hand-rolled parsers for promql, CLI tools, static analysis tools which analyze metrics across the kubernetes codebase, etc. That google group should have a calendar link on top, if you subscribe, you'll be auto-invited to our meetings :) Hope to see you there!
Yeah guess this is where Typescript comes in
And, in my experience, the FCA doesn’t find this sort of pedantry too convincing. Where US regulators tend to more be deferential to each entity being separate (provided you’ve jumped through a few small governance hoops) the FCA tend focus on how the entities are actually functioning rather than what the paperwork says.
Windows isn't anywhere near as ubiquitous as it used to be. Once W11 requires a MS login I'm not installing it for any friends or family - they're getting on the Linux express or working it out themselves.

I won't be party to this BS, this isn't the future I wanted to facilitate.
My first recommendation is to send them to a project you use and care about. If you try to send a PR to a project you don't use, it's difficult for you to understand the jargon, the hidden assumptions, the vision, and other high level stuff that are obvious (or easier) if you are using the project.

* Send nice bug reports, with foolproof reproduction steps. Err on the side of too foolproof. People underestimate the importance of bug reports, but they are very helpful. Try to see how they fixed it, so perhaps next time you understand where the error is and perhaps fix it. (Sometimes navigating the project structure is hard, and it's difficult to even find the file where the error is.)

* Send PR fixing typos. Typos in the docs. Typos in comments. Typos in error messages. The nice part is that it's an easy fix, it's probably correct, and it has a high chance of being approved. (English has a few spelling variants, check that it's not just a en-uk vs en-us difference.)

It's also helpful because you must learn how to clone the project, use github (or gitlab, or the mailing list, or whatever system they are using), and how to interact with the maintainers.

* If you have a feature you want and can implement it, it's a nice PR. Start with easy and short features. Don't spend more than one or two days building it (4 to 8 hours, or even less). Nobody guaranties that it's correct, that it's in the vision of the maintainer, that the maintainer is not a moron. If it's not merged, you've only lost one or two days. If the maintainer likes the idea but want a different implementation, you've only lost one or two days.

Some people recommend to ask in the mailing list or an issue in github/gitlab if the maintainer likes the idea. My English is not so good, and some features are difficult to explain. So I prefer the alternative method of just writing the PR, but only short PR that need one of two days of work.

Be prepare to fix your PR. There are implicit local rules about the code, like tabs vs spaces, trailing spaces, indentation, ... try to follow the local conventions. Also, you may need to add some new test for the new feature or a regression test, and other testing. So expect that sometime you will need additional work to polish the PR.

* For big features, discuss them with the maintainer first. Again, nobody guaranties that it's correct, that it's in the vision of the maintainer, that the maintainer is not a moron.
I don't think you can dismiss the sustainability of meat-substitutes just because we as a society continue to use coal or import plastic. A bean-based veggie burger has a much lower environmental footprint regardless of those things. The major difference is that choosing to buy a meat-substitute instead of the real thing is a decision that people can individually make, even if just for one meal a week, while most of us don't have the ability to choose to close down a coal plant.
Myself included. Ill mislabel things that look like they could be, but are obviously not. If im asked to “Tag motorcyles” ill tag bikes as well.

Also, i dont want self driving cars. Not until all the social issues are resolved.
There's a certain squeamishness some have about eating something labeled as "lab-grown", as if it's somehow tainted with "unnatural" origin.

At the same time, there's a certain machismo, bravado, "manliness" associated with eating meat from an actual animal, mainly a vicarious association with hunting, but also by demonstration of some certain kinds of "alpha male" traits (access to resources to afford it, dominance, etc.). Lab-grown meat wasn't hunted or butchered, so may be viewed as "easier" in some sense--less manly, in other words.
Facebook does exactly the same.
How many passwords do you have?

Thinking of websites I accessed over the weeked, I have a couple of work accounts, a personal email, 3 social media sites and at least three sites where I buy things. That's 9 passwords for sites I use frequently, and there will be a couple of dozen more sites I don't use frequently. No way I can remember that many passwords.
> Our urban sprawl/car dependence is probably mostly responsible for the decline in friendships.

Maybe. I think this has its own set of problems, but I struggle to see a link between car dependence and friendships. I think social media and online games have contributed more to the decline of interpersonal relationships than car culture has.
Interestingly enough according to Null, the KF operator, Near did try to close that thread, offering $120000 or threathening suicide. It does seem contain pictures that I have no idea how Null could have found it.

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/byuu-byuu_nyan-setsunakun0.430...
Team Shark Brand here. It's sweeter and spicier, though I do wish it came in a bottle smaller than 750ml...
Nasty as these dark patterns that make you create a MS account are, it's not like we haven't moved forward. I don't really see the same amount of horrendous, unnecessary bloatware like i used to. It wasn't like it was perfect 15 or 20 years ago.
They're thinking they need to make it 1 click to buy things from Microsoft
How about this?

The instructor forks a real open source project, with an existing license, contributor guide, etc. The instructor then picks an issue from the issue tracker with a known solution, but no PR yet.

The assignment is to submit a PR to the instructor's fork of the project that fixes the issue, and the PR itself is the final project submission. Points can be deducted, according to a rubric, for failing to pass the test suite, failing to follow contribution guidelines, etc.

Choosing an issue that has not been publicly resolved in code should prevent obvious cases of plagiarism.

I'm not sure if this could scale up to a big lecture-type course with TA is doing the grading, but I think it could be a fun assignment.

The risk of course is that there is some unforeseen problem preventing the "known" solution from being valid. But maybe that in and of itself is part of learning exercise...
If that password manager has a zero-day (unlikely but not impossible) you could be in trouble.
The Automation Challenge: Kubernetes Operators vs. Helm Charts
I always think about how in 2021 we're still manually scrubbing toilets or paying other humans to do it for us.

Always leaves me thinking about Airbnbs and how even if you have a great set up to rent, you still need to clean it every day or two, or pay someone to do it. Ends up being a significant portion of the cost. Assuming it's too difficult to automate stripping and making a bed, or auto-cleaning an existing toilet, it's crazy we don't reinvent toilets, bed linen and various other things so they are no effort at all.
You yourself just explained how this is not a need of the everyday user: Most people do not need to have their PC/laptop account be the same as their account on some Microsoft services/apps.

Also, and to generalize - we need to stop judging these decisions based even on everyday single computer user's needs and consider the needs of the computing using _public_.

... and the public definitely does not need Microsoft to remotely control access to all Windows machines.
Exactly, I had only one summer internship back when I graduated many years ago, now a days 2-3 is not unusual
The site is called "JavaScript Is Weird", not "Weird Javascript", even if they tell you that the examples aren't common they're still saying that this weirdness is unique to JS. Which definitely isn't true in the case of basic floating point precision problems
https://www.velominati.com/
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Not used in this case but if you open the console docked (which is the default as opposed to a separate window) then the resolution of the window will change.
Good question. Another: How will the ranchland dedicated to their raising be used? In Montana, where the cows outnumber the people, the land they occupy is considered unfit for farming, largely because it’s not friendly for combines.

There’s also the whole infrastructure and supply chain dedicated to the breeding and raising of various meat sources. What will happen to them?
Push back on PCI DSS by showing you’re NIST compliant, which is generally considered higher grade and acceptable.

Sharing details, as many “sacred cows” are slain:

- User-generated passwords should be at least 8 characters in length

- Machine-generated passwords should be at least 6 characters in length

- Users should be able to create passwords up to at least 64 characters

- All ASCII/Unicode characters should be allowed, including emojis and spaces

- Stored passwords should be hashed and salted, and never truncated

- Prospective passwords should be compared against password breach databases and rejected if there’s a match

- Passwords should not expire

- Users should be prevented from using sequential (ex. “1234”) or repeated (ex. “aaaa”) characters

- Two-factor authentication (2FA) should not use SMS for codes

- Knowledge-based authentication (KBA), such as “What was the name of your first pet?”, should not be used

- Users should be allowed 10 failed password attempts before being locked out of a system or service

- Passwords should not have hints

- Complexity requirements should not be used, ex. requiring special characters, numbers, uppercase, etc.

- Context-specific words, such as the name of the service, the user’s username, etc. should not be permitted

https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html