skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't understand the first meeting either.

Sounds like they were keen enough to lean on two respected connections to snag this guy. And he himself wonders why they'd want someone so green to be CFO.

Is this some elaborate psychopathic humblebrag? Did he have some other connection that would be useful? The other two things they mention are big money and high level hires so it would seem it's not desperation, which is how it would have read if they didn't mention those things.

So was he being set up to take the blame? How would that even work at that late stage.
A movement, or an ideology, doesn't need your approval nor does it need to convince you in particular, that it's methods are just.

Is your argument that a website that encourages people to report violators of the anti-abortion law a net good for society?

If that's your argument, I don't see why anyone should engage with you.
Your comment is directly contradicted by the article, which has scraps of syntactically valid Ruby code in it, like

Arguments.to_opts(
['-c', '--compatible'] => :compatibility,
['-t', '--threads', Integer] => :threads
)

Then it goes on to explain that the author wrote out a Ruby/C module in her notebook before she "created a new Github repository, typed in the code, added some tests and wrote the README."

Since it's against the rules to question whether you've read the article, but people on here call each other liars all the time, I am forced to ask you why you are lying about what the article says.

Why are you lying about what the article says?
Agreed. Second factor where you tell the attacker they got the password right before asking for the next factor isn't really 2 factor.

Either that, or you force the user to do a password reset if ever they provide the password but cannot provide the 2nd factor in the same login attempt. I think that would upset a lot of users though.
As of now, there is the function to import / export from the app itself and the function to export to Anki (actually, these are not working now since the app was completely changed, it needs to be fixed).
Anyway we will implement more import/export functions in the future and the ones you mentioned will be included.
> If you know a better way to do that, I'm all ears.

on /r9k if your message isn't sufficiently unique (judged by bot), it gets deleted and you get a small ban. if you continue, the ban duration increases.
laziness. they could just not use a tool that generates reams of bullshit markup but that would require thought and effort to understand and work with the material of the web.
Search by text have interesting results. Try "jina.ai".
I think this is the same as my earlier comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28273947

Quote:

---

This number is meaningless without also knowing what percentage of the people are vaccinated. Compare:

"80% of the people in hospital have $foo, and 80% of the general population has $foo" - $foo has no bearing at all on hospitalisation.

"80% of the people in hospital have $spon, and 5% of the general population has $spon" - $spon is clearly linked to the majority of hospitalisations.

"45% of the people in hospital have $bar, and 5% of the general population has $bar" - $bar is linked to higher rates of hospitalisation, _despite_ not being the majority of hospitalisations.

Spoiler: for some age groups in the UK now, "being unvaccinated" is much like $bar.

---

I would add now:

"not $bar -" i.e. "being vaccinated" could make up "55% of the people in hospital" (or more) despite reducing the odds of it.

and "not wearing seatbelt" -> "in hospital after a car crash" is probably like the $spon case.

Those examples above of course come with the caveat "all other things being equal" which isn't the case if, e.g. that others have raised, the age breakdown of the whole population vs hospitalisation is different. That's why there are graphs of "over 50s, vaccinated vs. hospitalised" as a catogory.
> As someone who's worked a fair bit now - coding has absolutely no value to any company. What delivers results is deploying solutions...

I don't see how some solutions not requiring code means that coding is not valuable, as some solutions evidently do require code.

When the solution requires code, the code is the solution, whether it's written in pseudo code or a language. I don't think there is a line separating the two. Just like language is thought.

Your "deploying solutions" could be replaced with "deploying code" (whether created in house or third party).

If your solution depends on code, then the quality of that code will also be important, which will include aesthetics, design, readability, tests.

In the long run, this is valuable, as you can't regularly and reliably ship the solution, unless you're confident it still works.
> cringe at seeing the anti-mask or whatever protest

This started the thread.

More generally, act = take active measures to protect whatever is on the other side of the line you drew (wherever you drew it; e.g. your life & the life of your kids). At which point you don't recognize the legitimacy of the government and will break its laws and oppose its agents with clear conscience.

The "action" could be as simple as buggering off to a safer country – the winning strategy in the 20th century (especially for Jews). Jollybean also wrote this:

> Consider this: "Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country"

It's conflating "country" with "government" but otherwise a good litmus test for which side of us-vs-them you see your government. That quote did remind me of Pavlik Morozov [0], when used by jollybean in the context of this particular article on Australia.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlik_Morozov
Since I helped build it, I'll explain :)

This example is quick and dirty, indexing only about 1,000 images from a dataset we pulled from Kaggle. So if results suck, that's due to either the meme you search for not being in the dataset, or it just didn't get indexed in the random batch of 1,000.
A deep-dive into the SolarWinds Serv-U SSH vulnerability
I’ve contacted support, there’s a known issue and they’re working on it. Hold for feedback
they’ll lock you up in the secret deep state dungeon and force you to watch Bubble Boy over and over
For anyone living on Earth the result would be mindfizzlingly spectacular. One hundred and twenty-eight stars would appear to go supernova simultaneously, burning with such ferocity they would be visible even in daylight.

And the hundred and twenty-eight supernovae would spell out a message.

And this would be the message:

‘COKE ADDS LIFE!’

For five whole weeks, wherever you were on Earth, the huge tattoo would be branded across the day and night skies. Honeymooners in Hawaii would stand on the peak of Mauna Kca, gazing at sunsets stamped with the slogan. Commuters in London, stuck in traffic jams, would peer through the grey drizzle and gape at the Cola constellation. The few primitive tribes still untouched by civilization in the jungles of South America would look up at the heavens, and certainly not think about drinking Pepsi.

The coat of this single, three-word ad in star writing across the universe would amount to the entire military budget of the USA for the whole of history.

So, ridiculous though it was, it was still a marginally more sensible way of blowing trillions of Dollarpounds.

And, the Coke executives were assured by the advertising executives at Saachi, Saachi, Saachi, Saachi, Saachi and Saachi, it would put an end to the Cola war forever. Guaranteed.

Pepsi would be buried.
In case anyone is wondering about the keyboard prices, i looked through the list and also looked up the unavailable ones on the Internet. Here's their current prices at a glance, in USD:

Keyboard Latency Connection Price (USD)
chinfai silicone 35 USB FS 17
genius luxemate i200 55 USB 21
logitech k360 60 unifying 25
logitech k120 30 USB 29
easterntimes i500 50 USB FS 31
razer ornata chroma 35 USB FS 59
MS comfort 5000 40 wireless 71
kinesis freestyle 2 30 USB FS 89
apple magic (usb) 15 USB FS 99
das 3 25 USB 101
unicomp model M 30 USB FS 104
hhkb lite 2 20 USB FS 112
pok3r vortex 30 USB FS 129
filco majestouch 30 USB 129
topre type heaven 55 USB FS 149
olkb planck rev 4 40 USB FS 169
kinesis advantage 50 USB FS 319
ergodox 40 USB FS 354
MS natural 4000 20 USB 399

Personally, i have a Logitech K120 at home as a backup keyboard, and as far as membrane keyboards go, it's a solid and affordable choice. I'm not sure whether it's regional differences or something else, but i got my keyboard for about 10-15 euros. I guess the fact that it's extremely "boring" also adds to the charm, at least when compared to designs like Logitech K360.

Also, i wish i could vouch for the Unicomp Model M keyboards, however shipping one to Europe would almost cost me as much as the keyboard itself and i'm currently not sure i can exactly afford to splurge like that. Regardless, have a look at their site, they're essentially carrying on with the legacy of IBM Model M keyboards in a way: https://www.pckeyboard.com/

From what i've seen while occasionally visiting their site, they also seem to introduce some new varieties occasionally. From what i've heard, those keyboards aren't exactly ideal for gaming (a regular mechanical keyboard might be better there), but are really good for typing because of their buckling spring design. LinusTechTips also had a video on the Model M keyboards a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7wmMZmMinM
Let me write it all down, it's a bit confusing. There is a React framework, created to produce Javascript backed applications running in the browser. Then there is a React Native, a wrapper to run those applications on mobile platforms by compiling Javascript apps to native code. And then here is a React Native for Web, a way to compile a Javascript React Native apps into... Javascript to run inside browsers?

Boy, that frontend ecosystem is really cursed.
Every year, 37,000 Americans die in automobile accidents, yet we don't set the country's speed limit at 25mph even though doing that would save most of those 37,000 lives.

We tolerate --- even demand --- higher speed limits because the time saved by driving faster outweighs the additional deaths caused. It may sound callous to put the trade-off in those terms, but it's true. And I bet you, personally, would absolutely hate it you weren't able to drive more than 25mph ever.

Why should COVID be different?

When you optimize for "safety" to the exclusion of all other considerations, you create a dystopia.

A non-zero number of COVID deaths is a fair price for restoring our society to normality. The weird refusal of people to apply cost-benefit analysis to COVID mitigation is gravely concerning. Without cost-benefit analysis, we can't make good decisions.
Why Is Philosophy Important?
“The stress of the pandemic is just burning up medical staff”
144hz but not gsync
I really dig the product and demo. Nevertheless, I feel there are crucial points missing in your landing page:
- Where is the code hosted?
- Where is it executed?
- Are my tasks versioned in a GIT repo?
- How do you manage secrets?
I'm wondering: are there any RXRS compliant scheme implementations that are competitively fast? say comparable to js or lua, or even C/rust? If not, is the reason coming from scheme itself, or is it more a lack of effort in this direction?
Not sure, but I ported Jim Bender's sxml-match to Racket so I could use it to pull apart some XSD: https://github.com/dgoffredo/stag/tree/master/src/stag/sxml-...

Hardly had to touch it, it's brilliant.
No, she probably kept editing it after she typed it in; aside from debugging, I always find things I can improve when I'm typing in code I wrote on paper first, so I do. But that doesn't mean that what she wrote on paper wasn't the code for the module. I mean, you can see some of it in her photos. It's syntactically valid C and Ruby code, semicolons and all.
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I have no idea what your app does besides flashcards because your landing page doesn't give much information
Keyboard Input Latency Compared: Wireless BLE ZMK, QMK, and Corsair
I’m interested to know what are common epiphanies for developers.

For me, I can remember:

- objects are closures and closures are objects
- properly getting the JS asynchrony model
- pointers and the whole memory addressing model
- HTTP being stateless

I must have had an early epiphany with function return values, since I remember not writing functions correctly at first, but I don’t remember the actual epiphany.
If the server software were smart, it could consider certain emails undeletable for 7 days.

I often wonder why Gmail 'Suspicious login' emails aren't like this.
Not really as it's not that of an issue. It's just something I'm feeling and it can be attributed to many different factors - keyboard switch, key travel, software sluggishness. However bring 100+ WPM typer those couple ms could contribute to that feeling.
Thanks for that, great idea!
Don't remember the details, could have been a dual- or even quadsocket machine. Was before AMD surpassed Intel IIRC.
As in "Revised Revised Revised Revised Revised... Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme".
I feel like there are some clever uses for this that aren't even security related.
(It isn't clear to me that it even makes sense to compare Tor and Orchid, as I don't think Tor tries to accomplish the same goal as Orchid, but I am going to take this comment at face value and accept the premise ;P.) FWIW, not only does Tor not need to take payments on iOS/Android devices, afaik Tor still doesn't have a working iOS port (as it uses too much memory to be a network extension).

If you just don't like money being involved, then you are leaving a lot of speed on the table (Tor clearly has a public good issue: they want you to use it... but not waste it, which is weird). (And like, they know this, and want to figure out how to add payments, but they are--I think intelligently--having issues figuring out how to support payments while keeping their goals intact.)

That all said... Tor is also only barely decentralized, if we are on that topic :( it has only like 9 directory servers, you certainly can't run your own to help/verify, and control of those servers is sufficient to pretty narrowly direct traffic. When asked "what would you do if someone threatened your family to alter the results from your server?", the Tor developer I talked to seriously seemed to have not considered that problem before? It was strange.

I've gone to great lengths to try to prevent anyone at Orchid from having that level of control, even when dealing with money purchased via in-app payments (so: no one come threaten my loved ones? it won't help you ;P).
Probably desperate to find employee to fill an empty position. Calling around, to see who is going to buy compliment and join sinking ship in exchange.
Why does there need to be a what's next? It's pretty clear what the point is and the problem being addressed. No need to fall for a slippery slope here.

You can get lung cancer, it could be from smoking, but it could also be from living in a city or next to a highway. if your in a hospital with covid its pretty much only because your unvaccinated at this point.
I just want to read and write:

x = if condition(): 4 else: 5
I devised a notation for this kind of thing but haven't implemented it on a computer: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/paperalgo
Unicorns are becoming less rare globally and in Africa too
That requires you crossing your eyes, or look past the image, which makes your vision double.
It is real tragedy that latency has gotten worse over time
or social anxiety, or they haven't learned that skill or they have been stuck on an issue with no progress or they've learned management makes their life harder because they don't accept the level of progress or ... Have some empathy bro

edit downvotes for empathy :) HN at it´s best!
I respect Thrun. He's a brilliant researcher and a very smart man. I've read his "Probabilistic robotics" book. I can also tell you right now that he's _wrong_. There will not be purely optical FSD on non-modified city roads shared with humans in the foreseeable future. Highways? Maybe. But not city roads. The problem is exponentially more complex there. It is even more so on top of that if you have to _estimate_ rather than _measure_ distances to things. It is true that the LIDAR does not simplify it all that much, but LIDAR at least gives you a fairly good idea of where all the obstacles are so you could avoid them. That's what it's for. Cameras fed into neural nets have to _guess_ based on appearance of things and stereoscopy. They are also subject to all the other limitations of optical sensors: rain, snow, fog, dirt on the camera (anyone who has a Tesla knows the cameras get dirt on them pretty easily), and just plain not recognizing an obstacle if it's positioned in a way that the neural network just happened to not generalize for.

We (humans) can only do this purely optically because we have general intelligence and extensive knowledge about the world. The FSD computer in your Tesla does not.
"...manage unprecedented crowds and travel chaos that could see, in the words of one official memo, London become “full” for the first time ever."

This is so depressing.
Not sure what you're explaining? I'm just pointing out that their metric is extremely flawed and can be easily gamed by an inferior solution. Like the Apple Magic.
https://archive.is/5j0tJ
This pattern also nicely expands when you need to select from more than 2 values. And it lets you keep the mapping as a data instead of turning it into logic.

{"a": 1, "b": 2}.get(selector(), default_value)

for the else-case.
You know what, in years this might be true. We never know, what cutting edge tech we would invent next to show ads.
WhatsApp hit with $267M GDPR fine
Ironically, the font that flashed for half a second before the intended font loaded is actually more readable and pleasing that the latter.
What Is the Outlook for the Crypto Brokerage Industry?
Website seems down; https://archive.is/0vc8S

It's pretty cool how the comments are divided between "I write code on paper/I used to write code on paper" and "Nobody could ever write code on paper, she must be speaking metaphorically." It's kind of like China Mieville's "The City and the City": somehow these two populations in the same place don't see each other at all, or they pretend not to, in order to avoid conflict.

I have an easier time writing code on paper than on a computer when it's "algorithmic" and its problems are internally generated, or when it's in a domain I already understand really well. I wrote a Soma cube in OpenSCAD once in a text editor on an internetless iPhone, which is more or less the same thing; Naomi Wu mentions that this is one of the benefits of OpenSCAD for people in poor countries, where they maybe don't have access to sit in front of FreeCAD or Blender all day, but they can totally type text on their cellphone while they're on the bus. Or write it on paper, maybe, but that takes two hands.

On the other hand, I also write a fair bit of code where the relevant unknowns are things like "What kind of user interaction will feel responsive?" and "What will this API do if I invoke it with these arguments?" and "How many public recursive DNS resolvers are there on the internet?", which are not things I can find out by thinking and writing things on paper.
also have keyboard set at 1000hz
I assume they're talking about the meaning, not how you spell it.

So you can read both as a sentence. The arguable part is more about "condition and then thing" versus "thing if condition".
Large RCT investigating different strategies to get people to wear masks
I guess this comment was meant for https://notegarden.web.app/ on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28400446
1. There is a conservative government in power, and the Murdoch press for the time being wants them to stay in power so they shape the message and direct attention elsewhere. A labor government would be less successful introducing similar laws

2. Australians overall are less frightened of their government. Any Indigenous Australians on hn can attest that does not mean everybody is safe from state violence.
Police still kill people, power is still abused, but comparing my life in the US and in Australia, most people experience the government as being more benign, and helpful than people in general experience in the US. It's not black and white, its just a few nudges along on a spectrum of grey. So most people are viewing the these laws as clumsy collective effort that they do not imagine will be abused.

There are many things that can be said about the problems with this view, but the acceptance of these laws does come from a reactionary hard line position, but rather that people find it hard to imagine that they will be abused
Linux distros for phones - PinePhone, Librem, or even hackable Android phones like Pixel 3a - exist and depending on your usecase are... mature enough to use as a daily driver.

As long as you avoid platform lock-in apps anyway.
Again, very dependant on your usecase.
sex toys yes, internet-enabled sex toys no. teens can use regular magic wands with nothing more sophisticated than a oscillation dial. morals aside, underage use of this would probably fall afoul of child porn laws, even if both parties to the teledildonics session were minors (see the litigation on sexting)
I like anonymity and wouldn't trust a platform to identify me. I take the disadvantages that come with that. With a lot of effort you could identify me in person, but I like this effort to stay. Even intelligence service members spied on their girlfriends. A human flaw. Better to keep anonymity to the largest degree possible.

People that call for accountability are modern witch hunters in my opinion. The try to put blame on people that are probably not responsible for perceived ills.

I am pretty aware of the difference between anonymity and privacy and there is a strong correlation in many cases.
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I am a Fullstack Developer with over 15 years of experience and I am open to remote part time contract opportunities of up to 30 hours/week or for a fixed term (long or short) as a senior developer.
So it seems Distill is mainly an online journal limited to machine learning?
I think this generalizes further too. Any incumbent group that holds power (or its supporters) will assail newcomers as being [something bad]. For instance, those on the political left, which is supported in kind by big tech, might attack some new social media platform as a haven for white supremacists. The charge doesn’t have to be true - it just has to stick in order to scare everyone who fears that label away, and the damage is done. Users, advertisers, web hosts, app stores, and so on will all abandon the platform. It’s an effective way to keep power on the side of the incumbents.
I've mentioned before that I track technological progress by the change in criticisms.

It appears that AI screening of breast cancer has reached the "not always better than a human expert" stage which is pretty good, that would be sci-fi like 10 years ago.

Makes me wonder how a human-AI "centaur" or the averaged output of multiple independent AIs would do, since the standard already seems to be multiple humans to catch everything.
That's among the worst, but not the only, direct evidence she presents of harassment at Apple; deeper context is at the other link (where she has screenshotted her extensive Twitter presence on this subject for the last month or so).
The Only Queer Latinx:The Start to Graduate School Experience During a Pandemic