skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m hoping that the success of the “Ask Iwata” book leads to someone writing a Miyamoto book. That tiny team at Nintendo basically invented the modern games industry after it had crashed from Atari. It’s always great to hear details of what happened behind the scenes, when future legends were just people at desks trying to build something great
> I don't see why developers fear XML so much. I think it has to do with the fact that everything is built by web developers now.

I heard exactly this same thing 15 years ago from a mainframe programmer I was working with on an integration project, but flipped around: "this XML nonsense... you web developers want everything to look like HTML!" Wasn't a good look then, isn't a good look now.
Sorry, I cannot change the title now.

It is ported from Jekyll, and it’s easy to port it back. Maybe I will do that later.
Ask HN: What is your 2008 Global Financial Crisis story?
I was 13 then it didn't effect me much as I had parents working for the government. I do know that my cousins graduating in that year had a tough time looking for a job.

What was your experience
during the GFC?
> What's the advantage of Python if you already know R?

AFAIK in statistical modelling Python is better only in neural networks, so if you do not need to do fancy things with images, text, etc. you do not need Python. R is still the king.

In terms of charting and dashboards, I would say that if you work high level R and Python are both pleasant. R has ggplot, but Python has Plotly Express. R has Shiny, but Python has Dash and Streamlit. You can do great with both.
https://archive.is/rT2ew
I used to use this to decompile the Netflix app and others to allow screen rotation back when Android tablets were brand new and unsupported.

Edit, found the thread https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/rotation-lock-removal-req...
How would you estimate the Kolmogorov complexity for the author's example?
> Because choosing good passwords is about memorableness as well as sheer strength

That's not been true ever since the development of good password managers. There are fewer than 10 passwords I remember. One of them is my password manager's master passphrase (5 misspelled-and-with-random-punctuation words). The others include stuff like my work and home laptop/disk passwords, which I can't autofill, my 3 important banking passwords which I do not even entrust to my password manager, and my AppleID password because iOS is annoying enough at asking for that that I'm using one I can remember.

The other ~600 entries in my password manager are 25 random characters (or whatever the upper limit if password length is for sites/services that are 'doin it wrong').
I have read several books and several blogs - you get some good bits from the all. Most of what you learn is by actually doing and discovering what works and what doesn't in your specific case.

I found Steve Blank (https://steveblank.com) the easiest to relate to and his book https://www.amazon.com.au/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steve-Blank/dp... is particularly relevant to high tech products and services.
tl;dr:

Mathematician: "Absolutely."

Physicist: "Sure! actually no."

Engineer: "No way in hell. Go play with a blockchain."

Zefram Cochrane: "I already built it."
What Biden Can’t Do on Student Debt–and What He Won’t Do
One of the virtues of JSON is that you can break it into parseable chunks by line, which also enables stuff like line-delimited JSON streams. JSON5 seems like a good format for a configuration file, though.
Yeah we've sampled a full horse genome from 700,000 years ago.
Well, the biggest error for me is that the tongue-shaped region is completely filled with color! On any three-color device like an LCD display, the gamut of producible colors will cover a triangular region inside that tongue. Any chromaticity diagram that is filled completely is a lie.
Maybe the File System shouldn’t be hierarchical but rather relational as well.
I am not sure I disagree but one thing I think is a little misleading is the comparison between the US havin 23% of world gdp and and 60% of world market capitalization. One small problem with that is that countries gdps are often compared by ppp (as in this case) and market capitalizations are compared in dollars.

A more serious issue is that the US markets really represent much more than just the US economy. All the biggest corporations listed in the US have huge busnesses outside the US that count toward other countries GDP. I would guess WallMart is the most US based, but even they have stores in other countries.

Apple is a US company that manufactures in China, buys important components in Asia and has employees and sells products all over the world.
Your argument makes the case for human reviewers.

The examples are a stretch though. I've never heard of anyone losing an interview due to their spelling of nodejs or computer science. I don't buy that's something that happens often enough to spread FUD over.
I once had a near death out of body experience and that gif reminds me of it like nothing else I've seen.
that still doesn't really explain why big companies have not initiated a RFC for resume format. they only have to come up with an RFC and just ask everyone to follow.

The cost of producing such an RFC is so small. guaranteed reduction in inefficiencies including operational costs.

my gut feeling is that 20% improvement could have big butterfly effects.
Lego sued over leather jacket worn by toy
I wrote a script a few years back to automate decompiling, and weaving in code in to an APK, then recompiling it using a recipe type structure -- https://github.com/elliottcarlson/Otto -- kind of abandoned it sadly, but figure it's worth sharing in case anyone has value in it.
If you're looking for an open-source replacement, I have been really impressed with Syncthing. It is decentralised (and directly device-to-device), but if you can afford the space on your phone or an always-on computer at home, it is basically a drop-in replacement for Dropbox. It only worries about syncing files. Nothing else.

https://syncthing.net/
In theory, on a modern machine you could almost spin up a brand new instance of this for each request. When it's done, delete it.

Pretty secure. Horrible, but secure.
I mean for that matter you can have a RISC-V core with an open source boot ROM that refuses to boot anything but Windows (pretend for a moment they deign to do a RISC-V build).
I saw this earlier today as hoytech's github was on HN front page: https://github.com/hoytech/serialipedia

Curious how would HN readers rate YAML vs CBOR.

TinyCBOR has a json2cbor utility which uses cjson. Is there a similiar utility for converting JSON to YAML.
Cool example. An attacker will take 2^234 guesses on average to guess the password, but that's an average of 19 1's and one enormous number. So the attacker will usually guess the answer quickly. It's kind of like the St. Petersburg paradox in that the expectation value doesn't reflect typical behavior.

Seems like this might be a use case for "dispersion" (the second moment of entropy) [1].

[1] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1626522/higher-mome...
I came across this before. wish it's an accepted format on job portals.

A challenge I see is -- resumes change wildly by industry.

a tech resume is totallly different from an actor's resume.
I'm pretty sure my Resume says "crazy outside-the-box madman" on it somewhere near the top. It pretty much guarantees that I work somewhere with a sense of humor while rejected from places that take themselves too seriously.

Resumes aren't just a list of skills and work history (education isn't even on my resume anymore), it's also a chance to let a small amount of your personality show through so you stand out against the pile.

Of course, if you're submitting to a big corp, you'll be fighting against AI reading your resume first, so, write for that if that's how you roll. I usually only apply to smaller companies that apparently end up as bigger companies by the time I move on.
Kolmogorov complexity is only unambiguously defined asymptotically, and "asymptotics is merely a heuristic". It is also uncomputable. So, to use entropy arguments for passwords, the only correct way I could think of is to generate long and (elementwise) random passwords.
I think the point of the tabbed windows isn’t so much window tabbing, as the idea that the window belongs to the user and not the app.

The user manages windows and not apps.

Currently, this is being leveraged in tabbed apps, and in the ability to open a window, resize it, etc and then decide which app should show itself in that tab of that window.

But the paradigm change itself could potentially lead to new workflows, etc if creative app developers and designers really start working woth it.
I used to have cars like this back in 80s.:) We didn't have many set but they were so, fun. Memories... I have some new sets but I don't play so much with Lego this days. I've even bought few books to get ideas what could I do with them but I don't have time to, try things out:(
I like the preview with the caps, that’s nice. What does slightly annoy me is that the animation is a bit “wobbly” for lack of better terms.
Does it support Netscape Navigator or Mosiac? This could be perfect for when I go back to the early 90s
the conversation derailed long time ago, I originally commented about why they need a new OS because it seems too me it's easier to just create a DE.
UChicago Must End Its Booster Mandate–We Are Not Lab Rats
Wow this made me feel old, once I figured out why this would even be interesting to anyone. How did I get here?
There’s a difference between a simile and a metaphor too, but GP is ignoring the fact I used one of those entirely.
Camel spiders: Big. Scary. Harmless.
https://m.timesofindia.com/india/why-millions-of-indians-don...
It is interesting that the MR was opened by someone who wishes to remain anonymous. Fuck you DI and mathieu

This repo helps dividing the internet into monitored or not. Just like recaptcha. No wonder someone from google came up with it.
America has the highest incarceration rate in the world, though. Maybe the issues with American society aren't ones that can be addressed with more arrests and jail terms?
All of these complaints also seem like valid complaints about XML, except the thing about duplicate keys.

Also as far as I know, there is only one "JSONSchema", and it has a clearly defined version scheme. Are there other JSON Schema standards that I'm not aware of? I'd be interested to see them.
You asserted that Kolmogorov complexity will disagree with Shannon entropy in this example, so how do you know what the Kolmogorov complexity of this example is?
I'd say the entire Indian cuisine.
This is a good place to advertise https://phrase.shop - a webapp I wrote that makes secure yet memorable passphrases.

It makes entropy requirements explicit, and you can even roll your own dice to supply the required entropy to generate your passphrase.

Try it, it's fun!
How much do they drink? Alcoholic drinks contain quite a lot of energy: https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000886.htm
To be fair, almost every deep learning paper that comes out needs something like 10x GPU cloud nodes to run on.

The days where you could run anything significant on a single 1k graphics card are long gone.

This is, ironically, the first time that (I’m aware of) you could distill this Nerf stuff down into a size that runs on a single consumer GPU (RTX 2x or higher)

…so, some of your points are fair, but hey, at least these folk are trying to bring this down from “only usable by large corporations” to “runs on your desktop”.

I mean, it’s not perfect, but I think in this case you’re complaining about something abstract, when these folk are actually going in the right direction.
Rat Tickling Certification (LaFollette, Cloutier, Gaskill)
https://youtu.be/nQrTORBS-co

Terrible looking ghetto, video of the result of train looting.
Microsoft wondered that too and for a while developed "CairoOFS" as a possible replacement for NTFS. It was intended as a relational "object filesystem" https://betawiki.net/wiki/Microsoft_Cairo
I wonder google doesn't show Lichess in the first page when I search "lichess"?
Over a decade ago I worked with a vendor who had a SOAP service where every method had a single parameter, and that parameter was a Base64-encoded XML document containing the actual parameters. Just this year I was reviewing the web services documentation for a Fortune 500 company and realized that their SOAP offering was a transparently thin (like a soap bubble?) façade over a simpler "POST us some XML" API. Between these two experiences I have worked with more SOAP services than I can count, and I can't think of a single one where SOAP made anything easier.
By ending the fundamental right of ownership itself, the vendor ensures no one can resell stuff and lower the value of what they "sell". It has little to nothing to do with actual security, but instead pure greed.

You will own nothing, and you will be happy.
Which solution list did you use to calculate the mean attempts?

Another comment mentioned https://botfights.io/game/wordle, if you evaluate your solver on their word list you could compare scores.
I'd rather see a currency that has a guaranteed validated identity tied to every wallet, and you can only have 1 wallet, and that wallet has a max limit on currency.

The coin would also tax based on hodl vs spending the lower your overall wealth and the more you spend monthly (more transactions, not more total) the more UBI you get, the more you hodl, the more your tax obligation is. The longer you hodl the more your tax obligation as well.

Basically use it or lose it, and if it could become pegged to the price of a loaf of bread or something wherever you live... then it could achieve some form of universality...but that last bit would be hard to figure out as I'm no economist.
> That's not been true ever since the development of good password managers.

A lot of people (do not trust password managers, case in point the recent last pass scare.

You want passwords to your key accounts to be 1) memorable 2) strong 3) only in your head. For these, I think the article is fairly relevant.
It would work, but still not “credible”, too “forward thinking” :) Who in the DOS era would come up with such folder name ….
The causes of crime is a different discussion from the crimes being caused. There should be more a holistic approach towards the causes but simply deciding not to prosecute is not the way out of this.
But is this really a "warranty" issue? Sounds more like a fraud issue (ianal).

Given it was done with the intention of messing up other people's computers which the maintainer did not have legit access to - maybe its even a CFAA criminal hacking issue (ianal).

Anyways, there's a huge difference between accidentally doing something and doing something with the specific intention of hurting someone else. Sure you can disclaim responsibility for accidents & negligence, but i'm pretty sure you can't disclaim responsibility for intentionally malicious conduct in a contract, certainly you wouldn't be able to do so if it was criminal conduct (IANAL).
Like many extension-oriented protocols, XMPP works for internal use where the same organisation (or two closely cooperating organisations) control both ends, but doesn't work for communication between two loosely connected or unrelated parties.
Gas stoves have a negative impact on air quality
Unbounded extensibility is a great way to get adoption of a standard, in the sense that a lot of products will say "Fully $standard Compatible!" in their marketing materials. It is a bad way to ensure that the standard actually means anything outside the marketing materials.
Conspirituality
Exactly this. The changes were intentional malware, designed to break the usage of these two modules. GitHub is under no obligation to assist you in hosting malware. The fact that these changes were intended by the original author has no bearing in this situation.
Enom down for 24h, many Google Workspace-registered domain's DNS records gone
Whatever dude, we will see the hard numbers quite soon.
As inconsistent as it is, "AngularJS" is the correct spelling and casing, that's probably why it kept coming. Just check the official website.
As the interviewer, in several places I've worked, I'm usually handed the resume 10 minutes before the interview along with a couple of questions my manager wants me to ask. By that point, it's gone through HR, managers, etc. You're getting hired if you can get past me and whomever I'm interviewing with.

There was even one time they forgot to give me the resume... that was probably the funniest interview ever. They got the job too.
When will we stop using passwords?! They are an elementary school kid “secret club” game taken way, way too far. They are totally broken. Nobody can come up with and remember good passwords. Nobody can store passwords securely. 100% busted.

Instead of continuing to debate what makes a good password, we need to put our energy into better techniques altogether! No more shared secrets! Let’s talk about one-time codes, asymmetric key cryptography, hardware tokens, anything but passwords!!
I don't know the numbers for the general population, but Fig2 [1] illustrates the difference between the high-carb and low-carb arms between the elite athletes, and Fig3 [2] shows the difference in absolute fax oxidation rates between the groups. If you're interested in finding out more, I'd also recommend doing a literature search for "maximal fat oxidation" (MFO, FATmax) - eg, here's a recent (2018) review w/ Fig1 that shows MFO peaking at 0.72g/min [3] (the FASTER trial cohorts avgd 0.67g/min for the HC arm, and 1.54g/min for the LC arm)

If you're interested in some of the other physiological impacts of keto adaptation, here's a presentation Volek gave a couple years ago that helps contextualize both the FASTER trial and a related TANK trial his team ran, as well as some other interesting related performance research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeS_dhM8dsY

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002604951...

[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002604951...

[3] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2018.0059...
I mostly agree, but I do find myself choosing a new FDE and login passphrases about once a year, and I wish that I could choose these using something like Diceware, but memorable enough that I wouldn't need to write them down at all. Thinking about how I might do that is what ultimately led to this post.
I haven’t seen much difference in attitudes towards religion between Reddit and HN. Both very dismissive.

HN is more tech focused, so I get its not what folks are here to discuss (generally).
> GitHub isn't obligated to support anyone's malicious acts with their platform.

Github isn't obligated to support anyone's anything, your relationship with Github is entirely at-will. And yet, I believe that there are moral boundaries on how Github should act, and that different people can disagree on where those boundaries are. I do not believe that "updating a popularly used library to break it's core functionality" is harmful enough to the other users of Github-the-code-hosting-site that it necessitates intervention from the owner of the platform. I think specifically that the way in which Github came to the determination that this change was "malicious" is unclear, and that Github very clearly has a conflict of interest when it comes to determining which sorts of political speech are "malicious", and which sorts are allowed.

> GitHub hasn't done any of these things with faker.js.

Correct, that's why it's a hypothetical question. If Github is willing to intervene against "malicious behavior" on behalf of "the community", then the obvious question is "which behavior, and which community?"

As another hypothetical example, the https://996.icu/ website is hosted on Github. Chinese browser manufacturers have implemented a pop-up that calls it a "illegal and fraudulent site" if you navigate to the repo. Is this "malicious" behavior? Many in China would think so, and definitely the browser manufacturers seem to believe that it's malicious behavior targeted at Chinese tech companies. Should users be allowed to use Github to perform this "malicious" act, even if the victim isn't Github itself? If Microsoft was criticized for their Chinese offices' working conditions on the site, do you think this would change their viewpoint on whether the repo should stay up? Personally, I would hope that those within Github who are responsible for making such a decision wouldn't take such personal matters into consideration.

> Reference to a conspiracy theory

I'll be honest, I didn't know this was in reference to a conspiracy theory. Aaron Swartz was driven to suicide by the relentless and cruel prosecution of the United States government, and the inaction of the MIT administration. That incident is tragic and sad enough as is, and I hope it goes without saying that don't agree with anyone attempting to co-opt that tragedy for their own conspiracy theories about Qanon. But I don't think Github should be responsible for making the call on whether something is "good" enough political speech to be worth protecting.
Funny how the early Windows OS did not even use a graphics mode but used ascii symbols to render windows.
Theres an XEP that allows users to write modern and not-off-putting json instead :^)

https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0295.html
It is called experience from a failed Linux Desktop sales pitch.

Been there done that.

Ex-Linux zealot, whose digital trail even includes emails using M$ on the signature.
Lego is the best at their core business, creating building blocks and toys. Maybe it is due to a fact that I'm not a kid anymore but I'm not a fan of Lego movies/cartoons.
Poe's Law strikes again
The US Government thought they were bad, and got rid of them. In 2004 (Thanks George W. Bush!)
The crypto job is most likely related to Community Points.

https://www.reddit.com/community-points
But, is prosecution truly the way out of this? It doesn't appear to have been effective at preventing plenty of other crimes, in America. Why would it be any more effective in this case?
When physicists say something is true in the infrared limit, they mean that it is true for low enough wavelengths. In this case the exact definition of "low enough" depends on the temperature. If the temperature is high enough, then that set of "low enough" wavelengths will include the entire visible part of the spectrum. So as T goes to infinity, the light that we can actually see will get brighter and brighter, but the relative power emitted at different wavelengths will stay the same, so the colour will stay the same. But that's just in the visible region. There will be higher and higher frequency x rays and gamma rays emitted, eventually to the point of being lethal to a human observer.
You remember correctly. See paragraphs and table before examples in the doc I linked.
> I don't see how you'd disagree with that or why you think most user would want that.

IME most regular users are application-oriented rather than operating-system-oriented; they're not "using iOS", they're "using WhatsApp" (or whatever). Frankly I think they're right; the operating system is meant to be the platform that supports the applications, not something that puts the attention on itself.

> Right but that is a different type of collaboration and doesn't need a web app for it. I do not remember the name, but i remember a P2P text editor from a decade before Google introduced Google Docs - and i'm sure Emacs has a mode for that too (actually i just checked and there are more than one modes for that).

It's possible with enough effort, sure, but you'd have to manually reimplement a lot of what the web gives you by default. In practice with limited development time, this kind of collaboration is much more commonly available in web apps than in native apps.