skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look mommie! A cyber stalker!

It's funny how within 3 comments you're just all over the map on what can and cannot offend you or... heaven forbid... comprehend the pearls of wisdom you keep dropping.

Not 2 comments previously you defensively tried claiming you weren't maligning "all" Japanese women... just 2 of them... and here you are engaging in a worse type of assumptions... "vitriol toward 'western' shit."

AAAAAAaaaaaand there you go again back to the inaccurate equivocations about what is and isn't in Asia... vis-a-vis... the West.

Dude.... happy trails. You enjoy your tea in the Fuhrer Bunker. The RUSSIANS ARE COMING!!!

LMAO

Where do I block trolls on this thing.
> it would be useful to use the same as a language you are very likely to see combined - so, single quote.

Why? It’s obvious that it causes issues as I showed, and yet you simplay claim the opposite without argument? The difference between other programming languages and SQL is, of course, that it’s very common to have embedded SQL code in your program, but not common to have embedded strings of code in another programming language.

> in SQL it's much more common to quote identifier names than to have literal strings.

That is certainly not true. The kind of SQL you quote is only found in auto-generated SQL by ORMs and the like, and those are not likely to exist as strings in code. To use your example, this is the normal SQL way to write that:

query = "SELECT columnA FROM aTable WHERE columnB = 'foo';"

I.e. no double quotes needed; no need to escape anything.
I don't know which field you studied, but I think that in physics it's not quite that bad. There might be some research published that's just wrong or fraudulent, but not that much. I think it's because in physics, outside maybe high energy particle physics, it's usually feasible to check other people's experiments. In theoretical physics it's certainly common to work through other people's results before extending them.

However, I would say there's a lot of pointless research. Lots of graduate student and postdoc working hours are spent to produce results that no-one could possibly think are interesting or useful just because papers need to be produced.

I think it's the reduction of the system into a career mill (PhD for students, tenure for postdocs and grant money for professors) that ruins it. Science is inherently too unpredictable to be reduced into an algorithm that just about anyone can use to produce knowledge.
That's a very interesting situation for two reasons:

1. Arguably your matchmaking data is someone else's as well. Meaning, they'd be potentially exposing other people's data to you.

2. Arguably you don't own the matchmaking data. You only own the initial request for matchmaking. The end result is actually a product of their proprietary algorithm. You didn't generate it.

Perhaps it might be a good idea getting in to touch with a privacy campaigner, or if the European equivalent of ACLU exists, and have them test this in court because it affects two different and important aspects.
Nike missile sites were common around the major cities in the US. The were there to shoot down Soviet bombers and try to shoot down an ICBM warhead.

Of course being 1960s technology, the missiles’ inaccuracy and lack of numbers, was offset by having nuclear warheads.

The plan was to set a nuke off above your own city, to try to destroy/deflect another nuke, or an entire bomber squadron. SMH
Oh god, today I learned teslas don’t have a driver gauge cluster, what the ever living fuck?
Odd how there's no study on reducing the massive manipulation being done for the greater good.

The pandemic has really shown how weak and sleazy all institutions are.

Any while 'scientific misinformation' means there's at least a modicum of science in place, wait until you see what people are really sharing privately!

The disaster that will come is well deserved to all governments and institutions.

There used to be a time when transparency was seen as important. Well, no transparency if it's for the greater good!

From what I see people are not stupid. And I suspect they are getting better at detecting manipulation too. In the end, what the state / institutions say will be seen as just noise. A sort of advertisement with no real information.
Yes! White moves first, then black makes two moves in a row, followed by regular back and forth moves after.

This would theoretically allow black to start on equal terms.
Help me understand... Why would I need dedicated hardware to render chess moves that are slightly different to regular chess moves...?

Your comment makes no sense...
My ideal is a static site generator that has markdown as the input, a couple of data connectors (to things like Google sheets), and that can be "hosted" in GitHub. On commit, a Github Action would generate the static content.

We're close to that I think. Something like Hugo may already be there.

For the vast majority of WordPress or small business portfolio websites (beauty, building, etc) this would be perfect.
Are we allowed to mention pharmaceuticals in this context or not?
I think the performance optimisations people use these days are not kernel patches so much as:

- userspace networking which avoids copying in the kernel and expensive context switches (both advantages of io_uring) and some costs of sockets apis[1]

- specialised NICs that can e.g. do TLS in hardware

- specialised NICs with on-board FPGAs to which some custom processing may be offloaded

- specialised NICs with first class virtualisation support to avoid hypervisor overhead (mostly just a cloud thing)

One thing about high performance networking is that there are really two different desires: maximising throughput and minimising latency. Different choices will be made based on what kind of performance is most desired.

[1] if you imagine a typical high performance, pre-io_uring, portable web server, you have some socket which you listen on, many threads which call accept on it (with an option so that only one would be woken up at a time with new connections) and a load of fds for open connections with the server calling epoll to wait for inputs from them. And when a packet comes in and makes it through the kernel tcp stack, the kernel has to assign the packet to an appropriate fd and figure out if any thread needs to wake up. But instead with specialised networking configurations, you can just receive the packets in the order they arrive and send them off to their handlers yourself without the overhead of explaining how to do that to the kernel.
The screen in my Ford CMAX goes out on a regular basis. It appears to be trying to update its software, and hanging in the process. Eventually it comes back, but it could be weeks later. In the meantime, I have no backup camera, navigation, or radio.

Fortunately the HVAC is controlled via physical buttons.
I agree. One can be sceptical of the system while still working in the system and trusting that there will be a small number of winners that compensate for the sea of noise.

I feel the HN community might resonate with how startups are seen currently. Most of them fail, some are outright fraud, but a few completely change the game.

The model to assess the scientific enterprise should be similar to a VC. Most will fail but the few big successes will more than compensate for the losses.
This is such an intriguing comment. What question are you answering?
I wouldn't use the word 'charlatan' as leniently. Without commenting on the validity of their work, the 'mainstream opinion' about them is most certainly negative. Yet instead of pivoting elsewhere, they stick by their convictions. They might be right or wrong on their opinions, but they are hardly doing it to win any favours. And it's certainly not wrong to stand by something you believe even if the mainstream discredits you; time will tell who was right.
Show HN: xls2ics – Convert Excel files to calendar files
I just began to read your article and I'm already tired. Really?
ps -

"As a society is has TONS of deep social issues that cause massive damage to it's own citizens and worldwide."

Yes. Industrial scale cannibalism and submissive giggly girls. Very, very, very similar. Oh, and WRONG!!!! DEADLY EVEN!!!!

Please mods... make this person go away. Pllllllleeeeease....
I'm not sure if I have exactly the same concerns as the person you're replying to, but I've definitely noticed problems coming from this form of "replication" through just re-running existing code. I don't think that means code shouldn't be released, but I think we should be wary of scientific code being reused verbatim too frequently.

If existing code is buggy or doesn't do what its authors think it does, this can be a big problem. Even if the idea is correct, whole swathes of downstream literature can get contaminated if authors didn't even attempt to implement an algorithm independently, but just blindly reused an existing docker image that they didn't understand. I consider that poor practice. If you claim that your work is based on Paper X, but what you really mean is that you just ran some Docker image associated with Paper X and trusted that it does what it says it does, instead of independently reimplementing the algorithm, that is not replication.

In older areas of science the norm is to try to replicate a paper from the published literature without reuse of "apparatus". For example, in chemistry you would try to replicate a paper using your own lab's glassware, different suppliers for chemicals, different technicians, etc. Analogies here are imperfect, but I would consider downloading and re-running an existing docker image to be dissimilar from that. It's more like re-running the experiment in the first lab rather than replicating the published result in a new lab. As a result it can, like re-running a chemistry experiment in the same lab, miss many possible confounds.

Of course, you do have to stop somewhere. Chemistry labs don't normally blow their own glass, and it's possible that the dominant way of making glass in your era turns out to be a confound (this kind of thing really does happen sometimes!). But imo, on the code side of things, "download and rerun a docker image" is too far towards the side of not even trying to replicate things independently.
There are much better underground bunkers for sale. AT&T had chains of underground bunkers they operated for DoD. Many of those are for sale. Here's one.[1]

These are much more useful. No silo, mostly big high-ceiling areas sized for telephone switches. 3-phase power. Onsite well. These were only shut down a decade or two ago, so they're often in good shape. They're all far from cities, because the whole point was to have backup network nodes that were unlikely to be attacked.

[1] https://homeslandcountrypropertyforsale.com/sustainable-prop...
These look so advanced to me the whole thread looks like nerds hurling dark magic spells at each other. And I consider myself technical.
Yeah, living in a nuclear silo is one of those things that sound a lot cooler than it really would be.
> Isn't this most positions

It is.

Thing is, technical positions (compared to 'artistic') have the means to show the proof of work, though sometimes it requires 'translation' to manglement-speak and they are not immune from 'I can't see|touch you work - means you are not needed'.

Creative positions... they literally show the [finished] product, and in our sphere it is usually seen immediately - you can't imitate redesigning the home page of yoursuperbank.com, or spend months on it.

But while DBAing, administrating or securing is a never ending process, re/designing is a process with a clearly (well, usually) defined finishing line. So if you want the paycheck - you need to sell the dire need to tweak fonts every couple of months.
What about playing two games at the same time?

One you play as black and the other white.
Airplanes provide a useful service that otherwise isn't available (the ability to quickly move from one place to another).

That said I've no idea why pushing back against a regressive technology requires you to have similarly strong opinions about every other potential harm or slight out there. This is whataboutism. Let's address one issue at a time, and if you have strong opinions on air travel, write a blog post and let's talk about it. Otherwise, one must be prepared to defend their position about the entire universe of ideas when challenging one - surely you can understand why this is counterproductive, untenable and harmful to the discourse?
Yeah, that’s the point; it’s not a superpower. I happen to be a pretty handy as a plumber too, but not because I was born that way, and not because I had dreams of being a plumber; it’s because I’ve had to fix nearly everything in my house. Now, mind you, everybody in the house has faced the same set of problems, but not everybody in the house has become an expert handyman over the same span of time. I wonder why. Must be my preternatural talent at turning screws. Others are all quite certain they would be terrible at it.
It's not about authentication. There is no misconception among any educated person that just because there is an else certificate means that it is a trustworthy site. All it means is that the information is encrypted in transit. Google prefers sites that have TLS certificates installed and so everybody gets one from let's encrypt for free. Therefore their SEO is better.

The argument that if you create a key and put it on a VPS or shared service is effectively giving it to the service provider is true. But what does it matter. If you don't have an element of trust with your provider than where you hosting with them? And if you're that worried about it why not do full disc encryption on top of it all?
The thing makes the "Ising" model do what it can do i.e describing 'complexity' of what's called the renormalisation group[0].

So any model that uses some kind of renormalisation will be able to accurately describe the lizard's skin too.

[0]: https://youtu.be/2jggOWsHzeg?t=188
I was always taught that information is the product of data and bad data will yield bad information. With this in mind, I feel that the terminology of `misinformation` is perhaps not the best choice of words in some way. Though in the context of science, we have data, information and finally facts. So with that in mind, I appreciate what the Royal Society is getting at and in effectively addressing a form of non-platforming per se.

With that, the debate is what is and has been the due process of much great science and yes, science learns more from its mistakes than any unattainable being 100% right all the time.

For without the ability to question and debate things that for some may appear as facts, we stifle innovation and creativity. Which is the crux of advancements' of science for by its very definition, sits on the edge of fact or false.
The roles most likely to be moved out of the UK due to remote working
That is all nice.
And then python updates from 3.9.n to 3.9.n+1 and nothing works anymore.

brew sucks with python.
Voltage is stable around 230-233 volts. There may be power spikes I cant reliably measure. I also do not operate big inductive loads (motors) which cause power spikes when stopped.

Also I never had those issues in the past with other appliances. But alas it is anecdotal and someone has to be statistical outlier.
Not really true, I develop .NET Core apps on Linux only. Migrated from Windows to actual Linux because of the simplicity.
I went with WebOS, so far the best of them, meaning the less painfull one.
> no one asked!

Hmm, but the above post clearly states:

> ...but I cannot switch from Google's gmail, docs and drive to anything.

Is me offering workable alternatives counterproductive or unhelpful? The fact that the software is free and open source is just a nice boon to have and something to mention in my eyes.

Here are the links for the aforementioned software so that anyone may attempt to switch to it, if they so desire.

Thunderbird: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

LibreOffice: https://www.libreoffice.org/

Nextcloud: https://nextcloud.com/

(the latter needs a server, much like Google Drive does, have a look here for a non-self hosted option if that seems like a hassle: https://nextcloud.com/providers/)

If anyone has thoughts on the viability of any of these solutions, hearing arguments for or against them would also be nice! I know for a fact that many prefer to just use web browsers nowadays as opposed to installing software on each platform locally, which could be one such argument!
> LE is definitely a NOBUS. Neither I am going to support that, nor they allow me to (because of sanctions-related laws)

I think this statement does require some support, and the explanation for why the writer can't support it is both intentionally vague and conspiratorial.
will this compete with the performance of kernel bypass networking? (and potentially obsolete it someday?)
The problem is not for these 100 players specifically. It's for all the fans watching them.
Hey!

Little side project went live last week.

This tool helps you to convert Excel/OpenOffice table files into ICS files to use them with your smartphone calendar and whatnot.

Build it mainly because I missed the garbage truck twice last year and wanted to ensure that I get their plan on my smartphone without creating single entries for each pickup.

Now I create an Excel file instead (sample provided on the website), convert it, and import the resulting ICS file. Work is still there, but I can share the file with everybody without touching some FAANG calendar infrastructure.

Maybe someone finds it useful, appreciate all feedback.
Most people have no idea that their car with telematics features (ie Onstar or similar) is almost constantly reporting their location and a slew of parameters back to the manufacturer.

This is true regardless of whether you have a telematics subscription. The subscription just enables the stuff you can actually use.

Manufacturers are monetizing that information, selling it to anyone who wants to buy it. I know someone that worked for a company using said data to try and enhance weather reporting (the data reported back includes outside air temperature, headlights, windshield wiper status, etc.) They were receiving data from multiple manufacturers.
The CO2 break-even is around 8 years for an electric car, and the bulk of the other materials are recyclable.
I’m still surprised that it’s a revelation to many managers.

“What do you mean an oppressive environment is not conducive to good team dynamics?”
(But isn't available for G Suite Legacy, for anyone idly curious.)
Hmm? Chess is already very drawish at the top level, a specific goal that they highlight in this paper is to unbalance the game.
I feel compelled to say that, Coronavirus shenanigans aside, Wijk an Zee has just finished and was a fantastic event with many interesting and decisive games. Classical chess does not need fixing, even at the highest level.

It’s fun that we can run these experiments though. I’d love to test out some of the variants a friend and I came up with! One of my favourites was starting with all the pieces off the board and a move was either to put a piece on your own half of the board (king had to come first) or move an existing piece. Another was having a mark on the bottom of one pawn on either side, and as a move you could look to see if a pawn was the “assassin” and if so, immediately move it. This of course meant that in some circumstances you could win on the first turn by capturing the king.
This is it. Inverse is a property of functions or other relational operators, not "static" individual objects. You need a direction in order to invert it.
Kind of an incoherent rant.

Half of it is about not wanting to pay $$$ for certs, which is really irrelevant if the question is why not use lets encrypt,not why not use some other service. The author also seems to be arguing at the same time that the webpki threat model is both too strict and not strict enough, which doesn't make for the most compelling argument (pick a side).

The only reason given for not wanting let's encrypt is that its usa based, and the author doesn't trust the us government. However the author totally ignores the primary control against that - namely certificate transparency, and the idea that even if us government has this capability (big if) they can only use it once and you're probably not valuable enough.
> are not kernel patches so much as

Intel even offers DDIO (Direct Data I/O), which allows an Intel NIC and CPU to share data without going through main memory.
> the TV has just one proprietary port where you connect the One Connect Box.

That is not a step forward.
This reads like private industry propoganda for free money from the government without any strings attached. Amazing deal....
You also get to become one with the road in case of an accident.
The more recent previous nodes are too new for companies like the autos as they want 20+ year old process nodes like 90nm+. So having excess 14nm capacity, for example, doesn't give them what they want since they can't just retrofit the fab for 130nm. However, not having made arrangements with fabs to keep the older nodes around contractually, they (customers like the autos) may not have an option other than paying to redesign their chips for newer process nodes in at least some cases at this point.
yeah you are right, that can't be it. Maybe the core point is that he considers the whole browser vendor based pki to be nonsense and refuses to partake, offering a self signed certificate instead. He probably memorized the key fingerprint and can verify it in person. The core point might be that those who want him to use LE barely care enough to make their browser not show warnings, they don't actually care about establishing trust.
>For the vast majority of WordPress

The current crop of SSG's will have no impact on WordPress because they are only available through the command line. Normal people have no interest in learning how to use the terminal nor how markdown works.
>Do any chess games support these modes or is these possible to play today?

Chess.com currently supports most of the modes in the list - except, I think, semi-torpedo, no-castling (10), and pawn-back. Which, to me, are the least exciting mods anyway.
They're constantly collecting data on anything you do on the TV, and that data is being sold to whoever wants it?
A thesis: most websites are implicitly designed with a short lifetime
Wait, what? [citation needed]
See P.T. Barnum's, "This Way to the Egress"
http://www.ptbarnum.org/egress.html
Or stuff that requires low latency on a weak platform. When I was at Microsoft we did this with Media Center Extender running on linux on ARM where we needed to stream 1080p MPEG and didn’t have the memory bandwidth for two copies. We added send/recv calls that allowed the memory that the NIC was reading into to be the same memory the mpeg decoder was reading from. It allowed us to get better latency by not having to buffer as much video to keep the decoder fed. Neat that there is a general mechanism for this now.
Good point, the page is designed for easy usage and beginners, rather than experts.
I mean, if you turn off WiFi radios, unplug from ISP, remove the antennas, and then reset with a single Ethernet connection, it’s really beyond the typical imagination to have the device still compromised. If you don’t trust it at that point, just get your own. Air gapping is the best you can do. So.. if you have access to a subterranean lair, take your laptop and modem/router down there (at least 50 feet). Then perform the reset.
I recall hearing a hypothesis that one consequence of global warming might be an uptick in opportunistic fungal infections. Warm-bloodedness might be largely an adaptation to make the human body uninhibitable by environmental pathogens, but as warming pushes tropical areas to long sustained stretches of temperatures above 98.6F, it acts a selective pressure for organisms to evolve such that they can now thrive in the body.
ZTree Gold, my friends, is what I miss most dearly ever since I moved my whole life to Linux.