skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the literature in neuroscience and ai perpetuate this meme, going something like "medieval people thought their minds worked like catapults, Renaissance people thought of clockwork, early industrial age people thought it was like steam engines, and now in the digital age we think it's like computers, oh aren't purple so silly."

It's a superficial and unfounded observation that tries to frame neural computation as a bias or conceit of modern culture. Not how science works, and the argument is condescending as hell.
Below - time traveling resource monitor for modern Linux systems
It’s more like a series of trucks.
The whole pharma industry relies on IP and patent law. No generic drug company is putting money for RnD, they just try to minimize production costs. It’s the companies who rely on the protections of the law for exclusivity that put the money for rnd and take the risk.

Pharmaceutical production costs are close to zero. It’s the funding of a research pipeline that mostly fails that concentrates all of the costs. If Pfizer spent 10 years on research and clinical trials of a new drug, and I can the next day of the FDA approval produce a generic derivative of their drug, I will drive them out of business. My costs are essentially 0.

And no, not all innovation has been produced by universities.
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There are other methods to ensure access. Extra devices. Postits on the back of their TV. Codes their friends have, with 3 of 5 needed. Carving it into jewelry.
JavaScript can certainly be awesome, but the tricks that JSFuck relies on aren't "flexible". They're things that make you say "Wat?"

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
Complaints about downvotes are boring, and are often made redundant when the comment is upvoted again, as happened here.
and the extra 10% off on-sale items.
Ask HN: Blogs/YouTube Channels on Cancer?
Are there any blog/Youtube Channels on Cancer? My family is fighting this deadly disease & except a few bits of info here & there I'm struggling to gather a comprehensive set of information about this disease. Communication with doctors is another challenge where a bunch of medical terminology frequently comes up in the conversation which I've no clue about. I guess, oncologists in my part of world aren't that open to sharing information. My knowledge about Cancer is close to zero and I'm sure some of you must have navigated the world of medicines & thought of reaching out to this community.
I noticed that you had to use !== instead of != because the comparison operators in JavaScript are awful :D
Thanks for all of these, I'm making note of all the great tips.

I'd have never thought of any of these. I just feel like the older I get the more precious books and knowledge become. Like if there's anything at all worth collecting it's books.

I can't believe books are sold by the foot now! I used to save money from doing odd jobs to get encyclopedia Britannica volumes as a kid, those and the Wildlife Treasury Series. When I got a bit older those damn Scholastic catalogs got me too! XD
Oh, the country that banned union strikes long ago suddenly realizes that the world depends on workers.
At this point I really think cars should have a CO2 meter built-in. The space is so small that CO2 might come fast and drowsiness might explain a lot of accidents on long-distance travels.
> The statement "It almost _felt like_ a product delivered from the future" is entirely justified

Not in the American middle-class, upper middle-class, and wealthy.
I continued. Next time out was solo from home airport to another 20 miles away. It went pretty well.

Then there was some major stress in my personal life, and after that I lost a bit of nerve. Was working back up to solo flight again and then had to hang it up for a while. Hoping to get back to it one day. There's something about it that's different than any other thing in life.
Patents are sufficiently abstract that most people believe the very basic story we are told about them and they don’t ever learn the true details. It wasn’t until I saw all the work engineering hobbyists did to advance 3D printing that I realized how many people are held back by patents. I do wish people would engage with comments instead of downvotes as I try to make good arguments.
> You run your own email server on your own VPS and your own domain name, serving yourself and maybe a few family members and close friends.

I would not recommend doing this unless you have a really good idea what running a public facing smtpd involves in the year 2021 for full email deliverability to/from all destinations.

Your main problem will be that almost certainly whatever VPS host you're on will have "polluted" IP space from previous customers and neighbouring IPs in the same netblocks. It will be something entirely beyond your control and not likely to ever get fixed.

If you want to self host your own email you need an unimpeachable clean section of IP space, which these days means working with a more traditional ISP that will cost you a lot more for service per month.

Like, not a $5 to $25/mo VPS, but a minimum of $150-200/mo for colocation services or a dedicated server from a hosting company that has an absolute zero tolerance abuse policy. Or if you happen to know somebody at such an ISP and can work out a friendly deal with them, that might be an option, and would involve much less money.

And that's before you get into a proper SPF, DKIM and DMARC setup.

re: what's "wrong" with common open source webmail IMAP clients, neither rainloop or roundcube are terribly offensive or bad. I don't see a need for a new third thing that's apparently not designed for large scale production use (both of the above are used by some large universities and others), catering to a niche market of people who want to just self-host personal email.
If Big Tech is too powerful, and the US government is too corrupt, then combining them together in a planned economy is unlikely to improve matters.

If, on the other hand, you're instead suggesting an alternative to the capitalist mode of production that doesn't involve state-run monopolies, then I think you need to draw the rest of the owl before we can judge whether your system will end up with authoritarianism or not.
Google Meet allows you to share tabs, or windows, for example; this works better for scenarios where the presenter uses a larger relative screen area that might be illegible when shared as full-screen. Plus-least privilege and all that.
I was expecting a Persona 5 strategy guide. The title's pretty misleading.
I think every company could benefit from a partial work from home schedule. Make 1 day a week a mandatory work from home day. Employees would then schedule all of their random appointments to happen on their home day.
WCDC stores viruses? Why would they?

Isn’t WIV the only BSL-4 lab in that city, and WCDC mostly paperwork/admin?
No validation of hex encoded IPv4? Or did I just miss it on my quick scroll through.
> And that's before you get into a proper SPF, DKIM and DMARC setup.

only to be pushed into spam and plain rejected by "non-mainstream" email providers regardless
I think you ultimately need to do something like Function(code)() in JSFuck, so it is always possible to remove the final function call and get the `code` directly.
To be fair, the good things that happened in the past might also have been the same under atheists.

The thing that's puzzling to me is that religion is supposed to have such a profound effect on society, but is utterly innocent of involvement in anything bad that happens. Granted it's very hard to pin historical events on specific root causes.
Same what happened with toilet paper last year in Germany. I never felt such a panic. This is a taste of what collapse will feel like. Only that there will be nothing to panic buy again, the week after.
yes, indeed, even if you have perfectly clean IP space and do everything flawlessly, expect months after you put it into production before email to/from anything microsoft hosted starts to work properly.
What’s a campaign lab? Like a vaccination campaign? Those don’t have a live virus afaik?
“Even the Iraqi Air Force could manage to hit a rail yard” — did I roughly capture it?
> Unit testing will be built directly into languages as an intrinsic part, like compiler optimization or GC.

Rust and Zig have this, right?
> When I was younger, I respected agencies like the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc. Now I think they are corrupt as hell and we’d be better off without them.

Hear, hear. I'd abolish these institutions long before I abolished the police (and I'd love to reform US police into something basically unrecognizable).
Oh man happy to help! I hope you enjoy it, your comment made me list Wargames and Sneakers on my watchlist, haven't seen those in a while.

Condor and Blackhat are actually new to me so watching that first!

Mr Roboto was good to me, I love BD Wong so hard- I don't know if anyone out there has seen Focus (Will Smith movie) but he is Fantastic and steals the movie though he's only in it for 10 minutes.
> Besides migration, some theories of the time held that they turned into other kinds of birds...

Makes me think of loons, which completely change their plumage for the winter in addition to migrating from fresh water lakes to oceanic waters. Without close study, you might not realize they're the same birds.
So you are telling us electric cars, loaded by home solar power have no issues?
Procreate, it's just so nice to use on the iPad Pro and refreshing compared to Photoshop for drawing
Is Microsoft one of those companies that pays you a bonus if you file a successful patent? This invention doesn’t strike me as being particularly lucrative for them during the 18 years of patent ownership.
If apple, one of the most controlling companies on the planet, thinks it's okay for their users to install any extension they want, why does Mozilla feel justified to do the opposite?

What risk are they trying to mitigate, and was it worth pushing addon developers away from their browser too?

Their reasoning? https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/10/31/firefox-to-discon...

No wonder people abandoned them. Mozilla is the digg of browsers.
Same, I found TF2 to be less engaging than TF1. Neither holds a candle to OpenTTD though.
While just an anecdote, Leo Laporte mentioned recently his Tesla often tried to run him into the same barrier. Based solely on news like that and others I get the sense that Tesla's radar-averse solution is far worse than the average driver.
> Judeo-Christian values and morals

Just no.

Normal human values were co-opted by various religion-based memeplexes to justify themselves.

> a purely scientific worldview produces no inherent sense of meaning, morality, or right v. wrong.

Absolute morality does not exist. Fundamentally, morality is selfish (i.e. relative).

I don't murder someone because I don't want to live in a society where I myself can be murdered. That's what all the religious bloviating boils down to. That's it. That's all that really is.
Sure, but all of those are for more complicated than "sign up for iCloud". As I said, most people only care about convenience above all else. They are willing to trade convenience for 3rd party data access.
It can be an interesting thing to look at, much like the idea of remote harassment with an air loom.

But I agree that it's a really shallow way to dismiss arguments. In this case, it's basically just saying that a brain is deterministic and made out of parts. Clockwork and steam engines and circuits all work fine. I can't comment on the catapult without more elaboration.
> I don't think we need to return to a time where women and children are effectively chattel.

This is very much factually wrong description of the position of women in America before no-fault divorce. In fact, I consider the suggestion that women in America completely lacked agency before 70s to be rather reprehensible.

> Yet you should also see lower levels of violence against women in Bangladesh from all these happy families but it seems that isn't so.

I don’t think anyone argues here that family life in Bangladesh is better than in America in all aspects. Violence against women is obviously bad thing, just as all violence is. It is a good societal goal to reduce violence against any of its members.

At the same time, this is only one of the goals the societies might want to pursue. Often, you might encounter hard trade offs to make. For example, is it better to have a bit more violence, but much fewer children raised by a singe parent? Or, is it better to give the members of the society more choices, at cost of the society failing to choose to procreate, leading to ultimate decay and dissolution of the society in a few generations? One of the problems in the secular society in the US is failure to acknowledge these trade offs, and deciding that more choice of, less violence towards, and more workplace empowerment of women as always preferable at all circumstances.

If anyone thinks it is a straw man, just look at how responses to this comment will claim that I want to enslave women and promote violence towards them, which I of course do not, but the mere suggestion of the trade off existing, and potentiality of choosing something other than liberal women empowerment is an idea completely outside the overton window of secular, liberal discussion within educated, professional community.
Without blank CDs and burners, Napster wouldn’t have happened.
I think someone once asked me the simplified variant of that question.

What is the result of:

[]+[]

And I didn’t know the answer to that (I mean, who does that kind of fuckery in Javascript, you can’t sum arrays). I would have no chance with these Google level questions.
What is blockchain? The shortest explanation
Just don't bring anything you can't afford to have stolen.
The rules here don't make sense to me. http://223.255.255.254 must be allowed and http://10.1.1.1 must not. This is to provide security for the 10.0.0.0/8 range? This doesn't do that, because foo.com could resolve to 10.1.1.1 .
Outsider to US religious / politics interface here but the impression from over here is that it’s the Falwell end of the evangelical movement rather than the RC church that has been driving denialism.
makes me sad to hear that :( I will say, as a reverse engineer, that javascript minifiers like closure compiler will optimize almost all obfuscation out, and the rest you can usually translate to a form which it can understand and then it will do the rest.

The effect of obfuscation is not what you expect. It seems like it moves the whole difficulty up, but it only moves up the floor. By doing so it tends to remove all the signals that would warn non-experts of security issues. Remove the obfuscation and then you have all the catastrophic security issues that have accumulated in there like treasures in an egyptian king's tomb https://zemnmez.medium.com/how-to-hack-the-uk-tax-system-i-g...
How many “Law Enforcement Notice” emails did you receive from Facebook? 1 or multiple?

Did Facebook release the case ID associated with the legal action?

Have you tried a Privacy Act request with the FBI? They may deny it based on “current or prospective law enforcement” but if you were scooped up in a dragnet, they may give you something.
As a routine practice, yes. If my phone was subpoenaed (or likely to be in the future), wiping my phone would be against the law. I would only do so if the risk was worth it.
Headline does imply that when the FBI seizes your messages from Little Tech, you would find out in a different timeframe, but I'm not sure that's the case.
If you write good law you should be able to reap some amount of the financial rewards.
Have you used renai transportation mod? Now that's a realism transport simulator /s
I didn't quite understand how those API "migrations" get exactly applied and at which point. Is it in the client or the server? If it's in the client, does it require using a specific library or framework?
That's not a good reason that it isn't even an option.

And I don't know if most people are aware of how easy it is for their data to be stolen.
Youtuber MandaloreGaming has a really in depth review of the game for anyone who wants to check out what it looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9R7QJ5Sh1o
I have a list of other things I would like explained in this fashion
At best a coincidence and at worst what? Evidence? I think being near or at a bank at the time it was robbed totally does count as evidence that you may have done it. Forgive me for pointing out little details in your post, but

> It must be combined with other, stronger evidence ...

This sounds like you agree. It's just weak evidence, and that's for darn sure.
Did you have a legitimate reason to make things harder for reverse engineers?
> For anyone who really cares about pursuit of truth or the scientific process (and how it tends to be ignored even by science institutions) this would actually be earth-shattering.

I wonder how much is this due to this noble pursuit of truth and the scientific process, and how much is due to having an axe to grind and desperately seeking any scapegoat to be sacrificed in the altar of self-righteousness.

Even your justification reeks of "you're with us or against us" mob mentality.
Why not paying them to review? It takes time for them, why should they do it for free?

I was just thinking "a way to solve this problem might be if they started charging for reviewing add-ons and updates".

Maybe they could charge more from organizations with lots of money, and less from indie devs with less money
Honestly at this stage I just have to assume that the three letter orgs have access to all my online data. All my important data is being captured and stored forever. Even if I'm using encrypted communications channels, and even if I know that I'm doing it correctly, the other endpoint likely leaks like a sieve.
> musicians' performances

It's kind of nonsensical that performances based on a public domain piece of art can be copyrighted. That would be the similar to making the Linux kernel proprietary again just because you change the way the code is formatted.

Also, let's not even pretend it's impossible to imitate someone's way of playing while still doing your own interpretation. How would algos know?!?
JPL Horizons system telnet access
Huh? China would unload its forces in Iran or even Afghanistan under Russia air protection. Iraq airforce would have to cross into Iran airspace.
It would be a second or third order effect. It stands to reason that someone who is a part of a strong religious community would have a much better social life, support structure, and network. All of these things reduce the likelihood of getting addicted to hard drugs. You could also take it a step further and say that having such things makes breaking an addiction/rehab more likely to be successful, too.
Well, the early (like in 1983) CD players were incredibly expensive (often over $1000 and that was in 1983 money), but by the time CD-ROM drives were a thing nearly a decade later you could get cheap CD players for under $100. We kind of saw the same thing later with DVD players starting as luxuries and ending up as under $50 impulse buys.
I've given Go lots of shit, but once generics land and are widespread, I suspect it will undergo a culture shift.
Recently my work playlist have been Philip Glass. The repeating structure of his work makes it unobtrusive, and he wrote such large quantity of music, that there is always more. Came to explore his music only after seeing a recent article on him, in HN.
Sec.gov is blocking all requests from AWS?
I noticed sec.gov is blocking all requests from AWS since the 4 days ago. Has this been the same for you? How are you able to bypass this issue? Currently I can scrape sec.gov only from local computer. My ideal solution is that I can have a program that runs on some remote servers
Then why wont they allow users to install their unsigned addons in %ProgramFiles%? I don't think protecting against a compromised %AppData% was their only goal.
Facebook executives keep comparing social media to cars, chairs and telephones
Honestly it was super clear to me by late January or early Feburary 2020 that the pandemic was a big deal. I had no closed door briefings and I have no political connections. I am just a smarter than your average bear critical thinker I guess.
> We’ve done a lot of talking about what the problems are and not a whole lot of proactive thinking to address them.

…

> We’ve observed the main problems with voxel engines being how our data is laid out and processed, and what happens when it’s not optimal for a given job.

…

> Now it’s time to apply these ideas to voxels. As I previously mentioned, the answer is simply to use whatever format is best for the job.

> But when working with volumes, it’s not that easy. Even with different formats, we can’t ever just store raw data for the entire world because of memory usage.

> Conversely, we can’t always work with compressed data because compression takes place after the raw data has been filled out.

…

> By building systems around formats that can be swapped out at run time or exchanged/changed in the future, your codebase is safe from painful refactors.

…

> The very thing we started out discussing and are going to close on. How do we take a dynamic voxel format with dynamic attributes and expect to throw it at the GPU?

> The solution here will have to wait until the *next post* where I take a deep dive into the rendering setup (I guess I accidentally lied on the last post). I’ll briefly…

I mean, I’ve obviously cherry picked quotes here, but you decide if I’m being unfair.

We enumerated a problem; it’s a well known problem.

Perhaps, there is a novel solution to the problem; there certainly seems to be the suggestion there is; maybe it’s not novel… but the solution is not shown, so who knows?

Does it need to be novel? Dunno, but it’s a bit rubbish to say you have an interesting solution to a problem, and your solution is “generic data processing at runtime” and give no other details.

In my opinion.
It won't work for me, because I hate being interrupted by ads on Spotify.

I'm anti-subscription. I only subscribe to basic home utilities.
Biden messaging on Covid booster pitting White House against scientific advisers