skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a measure of humility in accepting you have a problem that you don't understand yet and asking for help. Kudos but don't let it get to your head and keep at it :)
Identification of proteins associated with Fusarium crown rot resistance
OmniDB – Open-Source Collaborative Environment for Database Management
Hey y’all, over by the Horn of Africa there’s a big school of diamond-studded squirrels. Break a leg.
I recommend "Tuesdays With Morrie" for a good why book.

Either you value collaboration and the opinions of others, or you don't; there's not much that you can do to reason yourself into or out of it, since it's not really a rational position.

I find dialetheism[0] to be a fulfilling model of mental gymnastics for this 'humbling' you refer to.

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dialetheism/
The person mentioning secret store, and the blog post they put up does seem to somewhat point to Vault, but no name drop.

> A core system in our infrastructure became overwhelmed, prompted by a subtle bug in our backend service communications while under heavy load. This was not due to any peak in external traffic or any particular experience. Rather the failure was caused by the growth in the number of servers in our datacenters. The result was that most services at Roblox were unable to effectively communicate and deploy.

https://blog.roblox.com/2021/10/update-on-our-outage/
What’s the threat model where this is going to be useful?

Every key/cert rotation will need verification and if you connect to enough sites, can become overwhelming (especially with lowering certificate lifetimes).
Seems like the overhead to ensure two different systems' clocks are sufficiently synchronized would be fairly expensive.

It looks like PTP only works on a local network; not sure how you'd do that across the Internet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_Time_Protocol
I tried to buy a license for the extensions and they told me to call them back when I wanted at least a few hundred, and until then just to enjoy.
Could you provide a link from mainstream media saying that a riot was "the good kind"?

And again, there was documented subterfuge to provoke these riots -- but according to you "it's all fair play"?

What I see reported about the anti-mask/vaccine protests are about as neutral as one could hope for such a crowd.

Let's see, one side is asking for the police to refrain from abuse of power and the other is people who don't want to take simple steps to help mitigate a pandemic. Hmmmmmm.....

The conservative persecution complex is a hell of a drug.
Interesting that they mention the link to fusion magnets.

I'm currently in the market for a used MRI scanner to supply the external field to my prototype fusion reactor. One reason I'm looking at MRI is the extreme uniformity or the field. I'm likely to get a much better field than I'd otherwise get if I tried to build one myself. I only need a fairly old, ~.35T permanent magnet model to do what I need, but the uniformity is vital.
Some fields have good preprint representation while others don't. Talk to academics outside your field and you'll quickly learn this.
Robolox is back online. https://twitter.com/roblox/status/1454994222583455744?s=21
no offense to you personally, but that's a naive position. "greed is good" is a movie platitude, not the basis of our complex socioeconomic system, so it's practically useless to argue against it. more crucially, your solution says nothing about the universality of human desire, which is why it's simply a non-starter.

if you really want to improve social equity, distributing esteem more widely[0] will be more fruitful as a guiding light than trying to devise a more perfect, automation-based socialist/communist economic model. extreme automation will inevitably increase inequality as capital will find ways to corner ownership of the machines and hoard the productivity gains, no matter your good intent.

[0]: 'flatten the pile', if you will.
I feel like this comment is almost a kind of inverse of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23424853 (which I remember to have found interesting).
Saudi Aramco is estimated to be worth $2t-$10t (it's privately held, so noone knows) and 35,000 of their computers got their MBRs and MFTs (extrapolating) nuked in a political sting operation in 2012. It's handwavily rumored the HDD supply chain shortages at the time (remember the floods in Thailand?) were partially from Saudi Aramco momentarily redirecting chunks of the world's HDD manufacturing capacity to fix it.

https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/30/ "Shamoon" (the epsiode about this, which says it depends on the previous two episodes)

https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/28/ "Unit 8200"

https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/29/ "Stuxnet"
Maybe they should've given out TCK licenses then? You know, the thing that exists to prevent fragmentation of Java except you're not actually allowed to use it?
According to Wikipedia (and from my memory of how long it felt like it lasted) 23 days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_PlayStation_Network_outag...
Technically it should be illegal to scrape websites without the consent of the server owner because it would be a violation of their property rights. That being said, I think that in reality it would be pretty difficult to get courts to agree with you and then to enforce it.
>I'm fed up of being classed as a bot just because I browse with uMatrix, a Linux user agent, and a ton of ad filtering and anonymisation tech.

Have you tried not using these things? Anonymity is exactly what bots want. They want to be able to post a spam message every single second and be impossible to ban since they are anonymous. The internet can't function if people are allowed to be anonymous.
Have there been any more articles about the absolute disgusting place Kiwi Farms is?

The last blip I saw of them was when legendary SNES hacker Byuu/Near ended their own life over literal years of abuse from Kiwi Farms toward them and their friends, and that was mostly limited to smaller "tech news" sites and only in passing
Thanks ! dunno hots also write a blog.
I watch almost his stream on youtube.
> What good is supposed to come from Zillow (et. al.) oligopolizing the housing market

The same good that is supposed to come from essentially every action by a for-profit corporation. How you get there through monopolization/oligopolization is pretty obvious.
Pretty often for cerebral scans you don't have a whole lot of room to move due to being literally restrained by the focusing gear. Most people who have done MRIs regularly get pretty good at not blurring the images; the more still you remain the less chance of them having to do another round.
But no! The very first sentence clearly states: "In this post, we'll look at the natural problem of how to communicate an estimate of a real value in [0,1], using just 1 bit." The second paragraph sketches the motivation for the problem.

How much more exposition do you want from a casual blog post? There's a link to the academic paper if you want full details (you can follow up on the numerous references to other papers, which explain applications.)
Prestige journals like Nature don't work in the same way as academic journals. Their editors are full-time employees who did a PhD and often had some postdoc experience before leaving the academia for the publishing industry.
Ask HN: What are remote startups doing for Holiday Events?
With the holidays around the corner, how other remote-first founders thinking about company events?
some of the comments on this article are so embarrassing. It's just a short and clearly written article on a pretty simple and fundamental type of problem in information theory. Similar ideas are the basis for the systems we use in data compression and transmission and error correction among other things.

Maybe better to think for a few seconds before dismissing the problem as pointless and claiming to hate it.
Large swaths of the humanities and social sciences, biology, chemistry...

There are exceptions of course. The preprinters tend to be the more CS/quantitative subfields of these disciplines.
Sorry for a back-and-forth replies, but I don't want readers to be misled:

> You do not retain the copyright, and the only permission you get is to share it for classroom use with some other constraints. Authors posting them on their university websites is a grey area that is likely non compliant but it would be really bad PR for ACM to go after such instances.

See https://authors.acm.org/author-services/author-rights the options that authors have, including "Authors who prefer to retain copyright of their work can sign an exclusive licensing agreement, which gives ACM the right but not the obligation to defend the work against improper use by third parties."

And the copyright block in one of my papers as an example: https://jeffhuang.com/papers/SelfE_CHI21.pdf which says "© 2021 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM." (there are no fees to choosing this option, by the way)

>> the executive salaries are $0 as far as I know

> I have no way of verifying this, but clearly the money is going somewhere and it's not publishing.

Here's an article by Vert Cerf saying that all ACM positions are voluntary and paid $0/year, if you want to believe him: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2013/5/163764-acm-presidents-...

>> It's not completely free because there are real costs to publishing

> The amortized cost of putting a pdf on the internet is close to 0.

Yes and posting a jpeg on the internet is close to 0, yet AirBnB still charges a fee for their service. The publishing process (including coordinating peer review and development of multiple web apps) has more costs than hosting a pdf. You're welcome to review the non-profit filings for ACM/IEEE if you're genuinely interested in what the money is spent on.

And you're always able to upload your pdf to arXiv regardless of what you do with ACM, "an example of a site ACM authors may post all versions of their work to, with the exception of the final published "Version of Record", is ArXiv" [https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess]
I agree, though I suppose you could make a case for "vegetable" around pickling the rinds...
What I Tell All New VCs About Their First Funds
"vulgar" is a much classier insult than I'm used to here
I don't understand what you recommend. Who would drop the traffic?
Having malware installed on every users phone is so many orders of magnitude harder than downloading the latest db dump and testing the email/password on every other site.

At the bare minimum, TFA stops most attacks. That's a whole lot better than the current situation.
I think it's a decent enough guess and I'd give better then even odds on it.

Whales have the capacity to communicate. Stories are more effective than unadorned facts at being remembered (for humans anyways). Remembering important facts is a huge advantage in almost any context. The biggest jump imo is the second one, but I find it unlikely that whales would have a radically different memory storage and retrieval model than humans
You should set a standard you can live with. If you're boycotting one company for something that you tolerate dozens of other companies doing, you should probably reconsider.
And I always thought it was because the radioactive iodine and such contrast agents.
Is every generation more attractive than the last? – a conjecture (2010)
> your impact as an individual is limited

People such as Solzhenitsyn prove that your impact as an individual can be staggeringly large. Individuals can shift the course of nations and effect the lives of hundreds of millions.

> ignores the reality that you have no weapons with which to fight

Again, Solzhenitsyn proves that you have the written word and it can be an extremely effective weapon.

> there's not much you can feasibly do other than watch it

You should really read a bit about this Solzhenitsyn fella for some counter examples. But of course very few individuals are willing to bear the burden it entails.
I’m only missing OpenWonderland on HN front page now to have the complete Networked Virtual Environment nightmare combo from my PhD days.
GitHub – sungaila/SUBSTitute: A GUI for mapping directories to virtual drives
This is funny for me to read because I converted a bunch of constants for file permissions to octal values in the Linux kernel because they're harder to read and there's multiple ways of arriving at the same value.

You wanna look up what a constant is and you find

#define S_IRUGO (S_IRUSR|S_IRGRP|S_IROTH)

or you could see 0444 and immediately know what it means.

I agree in cases where you're modifying existing permissions it's much better to do a `chmod u+w` than to replace the whole thing with octal. When you're defining permissions at the time of creation though, everyone can parse 0644 at a glance.

a=rX,u+w isn't so bad but I don't know if I'd prefer it personally, in code where you can't use chmod syntax I'm definitely preferring octal.
> I'm pretty sure they meant recompiling binaries to be x86-64 instead of 32 bit x86

I don't see why you should think that given that the discussion has been pretty much about the uint32 nature of TransactionId.
Interesting paper. Note, however, that the general problem is already known and there are a number of pre-existing works that discuss it. This is typically called "underhanded code" or sometimes "maliciously misleading code". I'm surprised that they didn't use the normal term for the problem nor cite the previous work on it - maybe they didn't realize this was a widely-known problem? Previous works on underhanded code didn't discuss Bidi to my knowledge (though other attacks on text like this have exploited Bidi).

Here are a number of other materials about underhanded code:

The Obfuscated V Contest (http://graphics.stanford.edu/~danielh/vote/vote.html) was created by Daniel Horn in 2004 and is the earliest “underhanded” programming contest that I found. It was a contest to create source code that looked like it did one thing, but actually did another.

Underhanded C Contest (http://www.underhanded-c.org/) has run in many years. Per its FAQ, "The Underhanded C Contest is an annual contest to write innocent-looking C code
implementing malicious behavior."

My PhD dissertation "Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling" discusses how to counter the "trusting trust" problem & includes a section about maliciously misleading source code. See: https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/

The JavaScript Misdirection Contest announced the winner on September 27, 2015 http://misdirect.ion.land/

My paper "Initial Analysis of Underhanded Source Code", (by David A. Wheeler, April, 2020, IDA document: D-13166),
discusses underhanded code and the effectiveness of several potential countermeasures. It also includes a number of citations to other works on underhanded code. See:
https://www.ida.org/research-and-publications/publications/a...
https://www.ida.org/-/media/feature/publications/i/in/initia...
Nominee Omarova Published Plan to Move Bank Deposits to Fed, Let Fed Short Stock
Use a hardware wallet.

This is not news, user got phished.
X-ray / CT use ionizing radiation and basically trade off image quality with how much damage they are doing to you (I don't mean they are dangerous, but they deal with high power radiation). MRI uses harmless magnetic fields, the tradeoff being that the Zeeman interaction is orders of magnitude weaker than whatever happens in an xray and so the signal to noise ratio is much lower.

In an MRI, stronger field means more magnetism to work with an a higher db/dt so higher voltage induced in detection coils so you end up with a notional square law (actually 7/4 due to skin depth) scaling of sensitivity with field strength. But higher field introduces other problems - more RF power deposited into the patient, field variations over the spatial scale of the patient, static field homogeneity, others, so it's not automatically better. Also, making the machine bigger means more challenges creating a homogeneous field over the large region (for example, its easier to make a narrow bore nmr magnet than a big clinical MRI (but the nmr would want better homogeneity).

Speed really again trades off against quality. You end up with essentially a fixed amount of signal per time, which you can use for more resolution or more SNR
Good point. But the academic journals could switch at least.
I’d argue that you’re being overly fatalistic. You call out actions you can take (talking to those close to you) and yet claim “you have no weapons to fight”. It’s just the degree of personal suffering you’re willing to risk.

I think part of the message of the writing is that thinking of what’s “feasible” is the trap that prolongs the ideology of the time.

Yep, society can crush you and there’s not much you can do about it. But it won’t get better unless you stand against it anyway.

That’s one the hardest things you can do, but countless humans have done it before you, and we praise and honour them (when we remember them). So much of commemoration and remembrance rites/ceremonies is is trying to prolong the memory of their hard, but correct choice.

We even honour those who fought against “us” when we recognise the costs they knowingly paid for their beliefs.

It’s our capacity to be noble that the essay calls out to. And sure enough, it has a cost and may not succeed.

If you are guaranteed to fail, and speak out anyway, all the more noble. And perversely enough, if enough people agree that it’s worth doing despite the certainty of failure, suddenly success isn’t impossible anymore
Mortgage rates in 1989 were over 10% (in USA, don't know about Canada) (http://www.freddiemac.com/pmms/pmms30.html).

Obviously there are other factors in play as well -- income inequality, printing more dollars, international & corporate investment -- but low interest rates are likely the biggest influence, and the longer they stay artificially low, the more people assume they will never rise again.
I work in the social sciences where we have lots of overlap with other social sciences, stats, and data science, machine learning.

Those are the domains I know and in those domains anyone born after 1970 knows that if they want to distribute their work they put it on their site or a number of free archives.
I nearly down voted you.. But here you go: a language is a tool, you can make it as simple as Lisp or you can add complexity but the complexity must be there for a reason.

Making languages users remember whether + has higher precedence than | is 'unworthy' complexity, the only reason we have such things is that it simplified language implementation..
Asymmetric Workloads: One Way Leaders Can Poison Their Culture
This is exactly it. The wealthy and powerful of our world want to continue their reckless and rampant exploitation of the planet for profit; bullshit solutions like these are what they come up with because they want to keep doing what they're doing, earth be damned.

That's why the solution isn't these absolutely absurd "solutions", but rather in destroying the power of the profit motive, reorganizing our economic model based on rational resource allocation rather than chasing infinite growths and profits for the 1%.
I moved from Edmonton to Toronto in the late 90s and stayed. But I know very few people who did the same (though my wife's grandparents did the same exact migration.. just 50 years earlier). Most Albertans move west to BC if they leave the province.
Thank you both for replying with so many salient data points that underline how fucked things have gotten.

Immigration is an interesting variable. I'm an immigrant myself, but I'm also coming to question the wisdom of shipping in a cheeky hundred thousand people every year. It does seem like a bid to keep a scam economy running more than anything else. The supposed dearth of skilled employees is most likely another politically manufactured "shortage."
Right, they should have been inspired by something less generic… like the alphabet - it worked for Google and Amazon (the logo has an arrow from A to Z). Feels like Meta is just as generic in that it can be used to describe everything.
but what prevents me from using your ID? I'm guessing something like a blockchain.
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I've struggled with the accuracy of statements like this as someone who writes a lot of music. Writing the melodies is always the easiest part (lyrics are the hardest). So how much is it brain wiring vs just practicing an order of magnitude or two more than most? I have thousands of hours spent improvising over random songs - just setting Spotify to shuffle and jamming to whatever pops up. It's fun for me, and something I generally do to procrastinate other work. I couldn't imagine someone practicing nearly as much if they didn't innately enjoy it. So it makes me wonder, is it fun because I'm good at it, or did I get good at it because I find it fun? I personally believe the latter, but it's hard to really tease apart the nature vs nurture in such a subjective art. It reminds me of comic artists trying to illustrate just how much art they have to produce to go from amateur to pro.

Note, I don't mean to imply I'm part of that small elite you mention. I'm no prodigy, it's just that I've had many musicians (in far less competitive circles) express a similar sentiment about my skills.
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As I said, you're probably in a more quant-oriented subfield like economics. Ask your colleagues in field biology, or physical chemistry, or anything less quant/CS/stats/data/tech-flavored.
True. Not the same thing but an equally disastrous outcome.
Canada doesn't generally admin immigrants who aren't coming with substantial investment or education. Many are coming here with enough $$ to at least field a downpayment.
Basically. Most websites already make you login with an email and verify you have access to that email and use the email as a password recovery mechanism. May as well just use the email itself as the login.

Of course if everyone did this, then all of your logins would have the same password (your email login).
Hmm, it's been years and years since I worked in cafes, but I don't think cutting wages is very common - cutting hours or shifts, yes. Of course, with tipped wage laws in some states, people barely get paid in the first place[1] so not having customers (and tips) would drive you to quit I'd think.

1: https://www.minimum-wage.org/tipped
it’s not illegal to scrape a website
Recording the feats of the emperor is already miles beyond what whales probably do and I d go as far as to call that recorded History,since the goal of writing is to allow the dead to speak to the future, a megalomaniac endeavour only overly inflated brains could think about.

After seeing that poor monkey spending his life learning sign language just to ask for more bananas and never asking a tough question, Im a bit pesimistic.
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It's great they you're going to counseling. Good job taking that big step. It helps.
>Feel-good rhetoric aside, your impact as an individual is limited and your defenses are fragile.

In the age of social media, we have witnessed the power of the collective when it comes to combating hate speech and hate entities. Sometimes all it takes is one courageous whistleblower to ignite the spark that leads to the dismantling of lies, and the deplatforming of those who spreads them.

I didn't meant to come off as being political, but the networking effect of the individual must not be underlooked.
Selenium and other tools in that class essentially just build an api on top of a standard consumer browser engine(s). There are some differences that are difficult to completely hide, but it’s about as close to real as it gets and can be very difficult if not impossible to tell it’s an automation framework vs a standard web browser.

Travel information is also one of those services where it’s not weird for a significant number of their users to use it quite heavily, making behavioral detection more difficult.