skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What alternative to a users passwords do you have in mind?

The only other potential cryptographically secure alternative might be a TPM chip, if a machine has this. However since a TPM stores secrets system wide, keyrings for each user seam unfeasible and it's likely less secure since you could just boot into single user mode and get the TPM secrets.

Additionally I tend to not trust the TPM (esp. on Linux), because if one firmware update somehow fails to apply properly, I'll have a far more nastier time (since all secrets are gone) than GNOME Shell promoting me to insert my old password.
If you want to make a million copies of something, Jacdac is unlikely to help you much outside early prototyping. OTOH, if you want 10 copies of something it may simplify things - you don't have to solder any wires 10 times. If you want more, you can get a PCB with holes matching holes on modules and screw them in with M3 screws (skipping the cables - the holes carry signals), or solder them down.

Gold plating is not strictly necessary, depending if you plan to use the plug thousands of times.

Edit: also very good observation on top of the comment - Jacdac is indeed a way to bring "modern" software engineering practices to hardware design.
I thought the argument was good and convincing. Perhaps you could find the time to write something more substantive because I and others, as seen in comments, agree he has some good arguments. I would be interested in seeing what parts you don’t agree with.
U.S. Senate votes to overturn transit mask mandate; Biden vows veto
>Can you back that claim up?

Yes-ish. Since we could theoretically just culturally change how we look at wealth, the current distribution of resources is a symptom of our cultural and societal systems design. People don't know how to have conversations, which leads to isolation, which leads to dispair. If we'd fix the root cause (teach them how to have conversations, i.e. finally fix the education systems), leading to an open and actually progressive culture, we'd realize that at least in the rich countries, we have more than enough resources to be able to afford a couple super rich people that just go wild. Lets say you'd take all the money from the US's billionaires and give it to the US government. Are you truly convinced that the world would be a better place? 10 years later? 20? Who is to be truly trusted with the distribution? How?

The resource-distribution problem is only the core problem when the majority of people actually lack resources. My impression is a different one - everyone wants more, regardless of if they have enough. That, according to my model of the world, is our core problem. We're building a culture of material greed and constant comparisons with peers, thus we are breeding insecurity, fear, hate, etc. - its much easier to just point at billionaires and claim that they are the root problem.

Don't get me wrong, hoarding wealth out of greed is disgusting and I have zero sympathy for these people. But I don't see how someone being able to fund a space company (which simply would never happen otherwise) is the problem when the vast majority of people have food on their plates and a roof over the head but fail to be happy with just that. And, if we learned the latter, maybe the super-rich wouldn't be as shit as they largely are, either.
Autotune is a tool like any other. Generally those who consumed media before that tool was invented will be skeptical of it because “things I like didn’t need it.” Those who begin consuming media after the tool was invented don’t have the same biases.

A 50-years ago version of that would be microphones on broadway. It used to be a point of pride to fill a theater without amplification. Now we don’t really care.
reader beware, the rules are selectively enforced
I can hardware remap the capslock key to ESC, which is pretty much a requirement for vim. Doing this in software is moderately annoying in every OS
Except Google never automatically opted users into Google Latitude, so it is not at all comparable to what pg says happened with Google Pay.

> And the privacy watchdog said users of Latitude were not informed that Google tracked their movements to enhance its database of Wi-Fi information

This looks like they are confusing two different things (Latitude and Location Services, though maybe Latitude required Location Services to be enabled). Are iOS users warned that getting their location on iOS at all is used to enhance Apple's database of Wi-Fi information? The difference is that on Android, this is opt out with an explicit prompt at device setup, and on iOS, you can't even opt out. Which is more evil? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21708157
Largest quake in at least a year in Japan. Also strangely almost exactly 12 months since a 7.0 in the very same area (20 March 2021): https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000dl6y...
I worked on the system. It's a similar idea but it's on e-commerce products and not websites. So you can't use things like page rank when doing product search.
The maximum GDPR fine is 4% of previous years revenue, or in the case of google $3Bn.
It's not great but I play part of Mary Had a Little Lamb like:
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Proving this would require an objective measure of developer output.
AFAIK in California, personal work that’s done on personal devices outside of work hours aren’t accessible by your employer from a legal perspective.

Just not sure if that separation will hold up if you have a single GitHub account.
Good lessons here on tracking the market, keeping skills up to date, and skating to where the puck is going. I imagine the modernization niche pays pretty well. :)
I'm glad that works for you. It's not a general solution.
It requires companies to
report within 72-hours of discovering they were hacked. If they don’t know they’re under no obligation.
Please explain your work.
I'm not a morning person, because the sun isn't up. This will make it even worse. This is bad for night owls.
The most exclusive website in the world
Yes. Just try to use it on a slightly poor mobile signal, like when actually in a Home Depot store.

I'm remodeling a house and I end up having to go to one of three HD stores that are each about five miles from the house. Each is in a slightly different area demographically and thus has a different selection of stuff, and each has a very different layout.

Their listing of stock and aisle/bin makes it easy to find what I need, but the site is so awful on mobile that I'll often look things up at home on a full PC, write down locations, then go.

On mobile I've seen the layout shift all over, the search break if I touch something or scroll after I submit a query, checking the "in stock items" box sometimes breaks my session. It's awful.
Like any platform without (human) editors in control, the top 1% of content can be great but the bottom 99% mostly terrible.
When I did shift work I loved earlier start times because it meant I had more free time during other stores' business hours to run errands/do chores/etc. Also in my store, earlier times of day were less busy with customers so I could catch up on work. Of course I can't speak for everyone, and not every store is the same (I think early AM is a coffee shop's busy time)
You are counting older folks short.

Approaching 50 here, and no major issues dealing with project deliveries across Java, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, C++, Transact SQL, PL/SQL, PowerShell, bash, ....among plenty of other stuff, naturally depending on project specific workloads.

Maybe it is some devs that can't fathom how to transport water buckets to the top with all those stairs.
Given how vulnerable carrier groups are already against submarines, I don't expect that to change anytime soon. Same goes for tanks so, they are still useful systems. Infantry is walking around anymore, a tank is good in taking out the APCs and IFVs used by mechanized infantry for example.

Thing about war is, losses and fatalities are part of the game. Nobody is assuming to have a silver bullet that is undefeatable and invulnerable.
> The flaw in that logic is that, if it weren't for the people who develop lethal weapons for the bullies, we wouldn't have to fear the bullies.

False. Bullies are a problem even if no one has weapons beyond what can be grabbed and used from the environment without any invention. Heck, bullies are a problem if everyone just has the weapons built in to their bodies.

> But I wonder if you could develop defense capability to make your country unattackable.

Not without incidentally developing a huge edge in offensive weapons that would make you attackable when it inevitably diffused to others. Uniquely defensive technology mostly doesn't exist.

> Not by threat of retaliation, but for example by much much stronger missile defense.

Much better interceptor missiles mean the technology for much better missiles generally. Directed energy interception means direct energy weapons. Hypervelocity kinetic interceptors are general purpose hypervelocity kinetic weapons.

> Or by educating ("indoctrinating") your own population, so that an occupier would not find a single collaborator?

That kind of indoctrination can also be used offensively, but the enemy doesn't need collaborators to attack you. (They might need it to conquer without genocide, but attackers willing to commit genocide for land are not unheard of, nor are attackers whose goal isn't conquest.)

> Or by mining your own infrastructure, and giving every citizen basic combat training (a bit like the swiss)?

Mining your infrastructure is itself creating a vulnerability to certain kinds of attacks.

> Or by fostering a world-wide political transformation that is designed to prevent wars from happening at all?

It's been tried, repeatedly. The League of Nations, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, the UN. It’ll be nice if someone ever finds the “one wired trick to prevent war forever”, but it seems distinctly improbable and particularly suicidal to bank your defense on the ability to find it.
This would seem to be a better response to an occupying force which must patrol captured land, as per Iraq and Afghanistan. Right now it seems the difficult terrain is doing a lot of immobilisation making them sitting ducks.
In the years I've picked up a structure that works quite well.

I have a very good personal curriculum and I specialize in a niche (mobile cross platform apps) so I believe the algorithm picked and start driving traffic to recruiters, which in turn message me about opportunities on the market.

My wife takes care of the sales pipeline so I get lead calls on my calendar after she vets and schedules a call with them.

So far it's been working quite well.
That's a brilliant way of putting it! I'll save that for future use :)
To be completely fair - that's not ecological use either. Decoding a video stream must be more electricity-consuming as comparing to just doing a native audio stream.
Interesting. I am going to try to build a Slack bot using this code.
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If you assume bliss is something neurons in the brain need to tell keep telling each other about so that it doesn't naturally fade, you can saturate the physical medium that transports the signal, and there comes a point where being too vigorous breaks the wires

Intuitively, there's a much lower limit to how much bliss I desire. Too much of a good thing sounds like a bad thing, I do not want that :)
> You just move the complexity one layer up, at the composition of all those small utilities.

Out of curiosity, what would the name of the metric for measuring this tradeoff be? Average lines of code per script/program? Average scripts/programs to accomplish a given task?

I feel like it'd be really good to talk more about this tradeoff, e.g. having smart programs that do a lot but are bloated (OpenVPN, OpenSSL, Docker all come to mind) versus smaller programs that do less, but chain together (most GNU tools with the piping mechanism) and the extreme ends of this scale.

Yet, i don't even know how much research has been done into this, what the status quo is and what terms to even look up. It's like talking about the difference between a monolith application or a microservices application, an abstraction that would be applied to tasks and the ways to do them, much like we have SLoC or cyclomatic complexity in regards to reasoning about code (though neither is exactly perfect either).
The second paragraph of the article literally states:

> The new law mandates that companies report hacks to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security within 72 hours of discovery of the incident, and 24 hours if they make a ransomware payment.

The burden of proof is on the person claiming you discovered it earlier.
>There's multiple forms of "Google Pay" and people seem to be confused about this.

>Data is shared between these three systems.

I understand the point you're making, but if the three systems share the same name, and they all share data between themselves, then for all intents and purposes it's one system.
I haven't tested it yet but it sounds awesome.

Could you talk more about how it's built and where the data is stored?
> China, the former USSR, and the USA were commonly referred to as the superpowers until the collapse of the USSR

China was not referred to as a superpower at that time, during the Cold War. I've never read that. China was a very poor, economically and politically unstable country that was little threat to its immediate neighbors, much less a global power. It was not like China now.

> Is the USA, today, more powerful than China? It’s not clear.

It is clear today. The United States has far more political, economic, military, and 'soft' social power than China. For example, China could not orchestrate the response to Russia's invasion anything like what the US did. The US also has a network of alliances across the world, and most of the worlds most powerful countries and almost all advanced economies are part of those alliances. The US military, as a very visual symbol, still dominates China's own region as well as the rest of the world. Not only is the US currently more powerful, but the alliances in aggregate dwarf China. That is the problem with dictatorships - no friends, other than the ones they buy or compel.

What people are concerned with is that, in the next 10-20 years, China might have the potential to challenge the US. Right now China's government is focused on becoming the dominent regional power - a major challenge, competing with the US alliances of Japan, S Korea, Australia, India, and others - and being able to conquer Taiwan over US opposition. In contrast, the US not only is the leading power in its own region, North America, but in South America, East Asia, Europe, the Middle East, etc. etc.
I really appreciated the insight into the KPI's they are using to measure the impact of Intent Search:

* counted cumulative gain - a measure of ranking quality
* query reformulations - a measure of search friction
* complaints about search relevance
* engagement with top search results

It's great to be able to define concrete KPIs that have an objective impact on user experience.
All those 40 million customers are already on a 50 Hz grid, it's just that the phase of the Ukrainian grid might be slightly different from the European grid. You can (with the correct know-how, training and access to generator controls!) fairly easily get one of the two to speed up or slow down by 0.1 Hz or something like that, wait until the grids match phase and then bring the frequencies back together. Now that they are the same frequency and phase, you can connect the networks just by flipping a switch and provided they were both in balance before the procedure no current will flow initially. Afterwards the two separate networks have effectively merged into one bigger network.

It seems very complicated, but bringing generators and subgrids into sync is something that network operators do all day long. (Ship engineers too, since they can't rely on shore power for obvious reasons! You can have some very "interesting" outages if you forget to synchronize a newly started generator before connecting to the rest of the ship electricity system.)
Sorry about that: https://fusebit.io/blog/dynamic-utm-tags/
I actually took 3 months off and completely disconnected. A large portion of my direct team churned while I was off, a long time engineer took his own life, and I came back to the same issues but magnified.

Overall, it's not unreasonable to assume I'm a control freak and couldn't let projects go. However I'm a big proponent of letting fires burn and I delegate to no end. My particular type of stuck was exasperated by a corporate culture that has sales quotas pulled out of the air and implementation that was tracking time down to the minute because 90% had to be billable. In that culture there's no incentive or ability for individuals to learn.
How did you deal with it? I would expect they don't take returns.
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Thanks, the same way that people in Go community see as inconvenience to learn how to write better code.

The old ways of code generators are good enough.
It writes metadata into .la files, which are text-based adjuncts to .a files. It's meant to give you a common and portable interface to static and dynamic linking.

But libtool is written in POSIX shell, it's not part of the linker, and it is a bit of a disaster.
I switched to Fastmail with my own domain (max.engineer), and as I'm changing email on various services, I'm running into the same issues. Synchrony bank and treasurydirect.gov are among the offenders. My solution for these sites was to use another domain I own (a .com) mapped to the same Fastmail account.

My preferred email validation is a combination of string contains '@', actually sending a verification email and/or making an MX lookup.
not only "geniuses", I'm sure the widespread reduction in reading in the general population has had significant affects across all aspects of society
Because the technical proficiency of a singer, or any musician/instrumentalist for that matter, is not what makes a song interesting or memorable.
So much of the video I’ve seen online is fake. I’d argue most of the video on Twitter; particularly of burning vehicles and tanks.
Tanks help anchor infantry to the front line. They are mobile fortification. But they are more for open field combat than for urban combat. You're not the only one seeing tanks as partially obsolete. Force projection via planes is typically much more important.
Trump never came around to accepting Covid had to be dealt with (doing so would have easily given him a second term), and is just barely starting to condemn Putler. This idea that Trump masterfully chooses his positions based on popular effectiveness is highly overrated.
Yeah, this makes sense. Don't let the HN commenters grind you down.
It does semantic matching. We don't have a lot of exact matches for that search for birch wood (given the exact dimensions) so the engine broadens the search criteria automatically. You never want to just show exact matches, so long as they are ranked near the top over fuzzier matches. People often assume the search is bad if they see a lot of broader matches, without realizing that there might not be many perfect matches for the exact query given.
The OP brings up Memex. Says they don’t do it any more.
> I don’t think the the utility of a tank is completely obviated.

The whole point of tank, as the word suggests, is to be able to survive enemy fire.

With proliferation of easy to carry weapons that can pierce any tank it is largely relegated to being heavy, costly and fragile mobile cannon that needs a lot of support to stay alive. There are much better devices that can fill those roles.

You should no longer assume that you can ambush anything with your tanks -- with live overhead feed it is easy to spot any tanks encroaching on your position and place any antitank in the right spot.

And then you have drones that you can basically point and shoot any tank from.

I am pretty sure this is the last war where we see large number of tanks involved. Every country that is watching this is click spamming to buy as many drones as possible.
You have to reach deep into the internet to find the original recording of "PENTAGON BRIEFING ON REMOVING THE GOD GENE"

The amount of people that feel the need to "debunk" it makes it all the more mysterious.
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Is it possible that you don't appreciate the great innovations of the last decade, but looking back there will be just as many as the 1900-1910s?
We developed our own generative model for synthetic data generation. It is an autoregressive model where each variable/attribute is derived from previously generated ones using Transformers networks (more details there: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.02145.pdf). So yes, correlations are modelled, although exact multicollinearity (when there is a linear relationship between bunch of attributes) would be a bit blurry in the synthetic data.

This being said, the goal of Sarus is to enable analysis on the original data with privacy guarantee on the result (synthetic data is merely used as a tool and a fallback when there is no better solution) so you can write a statistical test to detect multicollinearity and run it on the original data within Sarus.
@tbran, curious what your initial search text was. Was it "2'x4' piece of birch plywood"? That returns relevant results in the top row for me, though I admit, it also returns two not-quite-relevant items in the first slots.

Full disclosure: I work in THD Online Search.
Add jemalloc to your Python Docker images
I do not believe this is how humans work.
This will probably come in handy for industrial espionage type tasks.

Lets say you had a nation-state enemy who eats a lot of some ethnic ingredient. Come up with a cheap artificial flavor/color or process that is optimize to give heavy consumers cancer in 30 years. Not in one year, that will show up in the approval process. Then have an agent in the target country "discover" thru random chance this really excellent food dye or whatever.

Now you kill half the population with cancer, you're gonna get nuked in response, even non-nuke countries will be pissed off enough to get nukes just to nuke the perpetrator. But lets say you make the victims fat and sick and die a little younger just enough to get 1% hit on economic growth...

Some people would say this is how we ended up with trans-fats and margarine and vegetable oils in general or certain veg oils in specific.

Certainly, corn syrup has caused more human and economic devastation that fission, nerve agents, or most any WMD I can think of...
Then that's a problem with the provider. I'm not completely ignorant of the inherent issues of email and spam, but solutions shouldn't be user-hostile.

If a "is this real" filter is required, they should write a script to check for new TLDs daily.
The main issue with audio jack cables is that they are not designed to carry much power (Jacdac cables are rated at 1A). You get different voltage drop depending on what cable user bought at the gas station. This is a problem is you want to run a small servo or even a few neopixels on a module.

Another issue is that the connector often short while plugging-in and out which may cut the power to your entire bus, resetting everything. Not a great end-user experience. There is also a risk users will plug Jacdac to their headphones, possibly burning them.
Why is everyone talking about decision tech these days?
The claimed kill rate for Javalin in practice is over 90%.

NLAWs are even cheaper and easier to use but don't know their estimated kill rate.
You call your university's EHS department and tell them as much about what you know about the contents of the bottle (which may not be what is on the label). They seal off the lab, remove it, and using what they can determine about the contents, destroy it safely.