skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of very wrong immoral & silent downvoters: you are degrading the web & attacking society. Explain your downvotes & leave somrthing contestable & arguable. Why all the cheapass anti-security dowvotes? Why sign up to degrade security like this? What the frag?
Does anyone else recommend this to people first trying out Linux? I have been mentioning this and Mint (though I use Debian PopOS! seems like the better of the two), and I'm curious which of them (or any other distro) helps convert more Windows users. I stopped recommending Ubuntu a few years ago because of snaps, they're such an Ubuntu specific thing in practice that I think it's harmful for people learning Linux.
Look around, HN has swung very right in the past two years. The comments in any thread related to hot button issues turn into right-wing grievance fests (such as this one).
https://xon.sh/ has an impressive approach merging python and shell
Exact same reaction here. I felt a little embarrassed about being phished so easily.
I can already imagine the DNSSEC/DANE naysayers' complaints. I don't care, I love this.
So is firing and even suing an employee for disseminating your proprietary code, but few would argue that that is censorship, in the free speech sense.
https://github.com/audacity/audacity/discussions/1225
>these were only for the Jewish people. God had no problem commanding them to commit rape and genocide against out-groups.

..and when exactly did God command Jewish people to rape? This comment is very strange
The paper shows that on specific kinds of models even knowing the training data doesn’t help (whitebox backdoor).
I know a few friends who have 'custom' fonts on their phones. I assume they are from preset options, just nonstandard. It is a surprisingly jarring experience when they hand me their phone to do something or read something. I get a similar response because I have my text as small as possible on my phone.

There are certainly people who like to tweak things a little, and then there are the tinkerers who want to use custom fonts or other changes. I wonder if the customization slowed down as computers for work got more standardized? Or maybe interchangeable is a better word.
All the .eth crap makes me gag and recoil, but DANE seems worth investigating.
A Driver on the GPU
I'm not sure "flawless"is the appropriate term.
I haven't turned it off yet. But there are some sites that have become difficult to use. And other sites just look odd.
Yes agree with the current voting system it will not make too much difference. Need proportional representation.

I think the problem is not that the parties are too strong, but that are too weak to strong interest groups.
Mouse DPI, Sensitivity, and Precision
I thought Adobe bought them, turns out I was thinking of Cool Edit.
Thanks for the comment. Do you have any feedback for a future physician interested within the intersection of ML + medicine (does not strictly need to be "healthcare")? Would learning ML and all the other things needed to know be helpful (huge time investment needed here)? Ultimately, would be interested in leveraging medical knowledge into a startup capacity.
This is not true! Stock is not a blockchain!
If you're going to run eslint anyway (which it seems most folks do), this adds an entirely new toolchain and system for downloading modules so it doesn't seem simpler.
Ask HN: What strategy should I use to determine whether to enter an app market?
I have spent my entire career in the app development industry. I have many years of experience as an engineer, and many years of experience as a manager of native app engineers. I’m very entrepreneurially minded and I’m always looking for an app to make that can give me a reason to quit my day job.

I recently connected with a very successful entrepreneur who is far more wealthy than I could ever hope to be and we’ve been riffing on an app idea for a few months and we’re to the point where we’re clear on what we want to build, and he’s willing to pay for the development costs while I manage the team of developers.

We’re excited and nearly ready to pull the trigger!

But…there’s this nagging detail about the current market not exactly being void of competition that is giving me pause. I recognize it’s impossible these days to enter a market and be the only player, but there are a good number of apps that do small portions of what we want to do. Our vision for this tool is to make a large app that brings all of the functionality our customer could want into one app. As it happens, most of the main features exist in smaller apps, in varying degrees, on the App Store today but they are all disjointed. For our customer to get the quality of experience we want to deliver they’d need like five different apps, and then even then the apps don’t communicate with each other. So the experience for the customer is not seamless or pleasant.

So my question is about our fundamental approach to strategy. We didn’t set out to make a mega app that incorporated all of these apps under one roof, rather, we dreamed up what the ultimate experience would be for our customer and we happened to discover that smaller players had developed some pieces already in separate apps.

What are some things to keep in mind when deciding to enter a market? Is it a red flag when most of what we want to do is mostly available today, just in a lower quality/piece meal offering? If our value prop was to merely do everything well under one roof and for a reasonable price, is that enough to get compete against the smaller apps that already have a lead and somewhat of a following?

I love the vision we have for the product, but the existence of many smaller apps (many of which have not succeeded at all) give me reason to pause. But it very well could be the case that I’m being a scaredy-cat and I just need to plow through this.

Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated!
Open source, decentralized alternative to today’s privately owned public forums
There were skeptical people who got burned hard by being forced into using squiggly light bulbs that were supposed to last forever and that you can't throw away because they're full of mercury. Now, I have a box of burnt-out ones that I'm saving for a disposal day, and I've had two repairmen from separate companies bash their heads into an overhead one at the bottom of my basement stairs, shattering it. Pile that on top of various experiences with phone and laptop batteries...is it "different this time", or were the previous promises just lies?
I'm trying to visualize this. I go to Wolfram Alpha and type "chance of getting 504 heads in 1000 coin flips" and see the answer is about 1/40, and when I change 504 to 505 I see the odds are about 1/41 - only slightly worse.

Then I check the differences between 524 and 525 and I see that the odds are decreasing much more sharply (1/400, 1/459). The little graph they helpfully provided shows what's happening: I've moved from the flattish "top" of the Bernoulli distribution to the steepish "slope" of the distribution. And at larger numbers still, the differences between adjacent numbers become negligible again as I reach the flattish "trough" at the edge of the distribution. You could say that the top of the distribution has values that are all pretty similar to each other, the bottom values are also similar to each other, and sides are a region where small differences are comparatively much more important.

Is this roughly what the article means when it discusses thresholds? The rather sharp transition from "both pretty likely" to "the second one is a lot less likely" to "both pretty unlikely"? And if so, how sharply would the slope of the distribution have to change to qualify as being a threshold?
Aw you had me excited. Uh no, different author and title. But maybe that one will have to do for now. :-)
What is your vision of the web and how does the current browsers' default search engine fit into that vision?
What a UX Career Looks Like Today
What modern civilization took from us.
It is easy to do if it supports utf-8 codepoints. You can write them like this: 𓀀𓀁𓀂𓀃𓀄𓀅𓀆𓀇𓀈𓀉𓀊𓀋𓀌𓀍𓀎𓀏
The blue check wasn’t really about identity. It functions as a “noteworthy” marker. Blue checks get notifications from other blue checks is a separate section.

So Milo was hassling one of the actresses from ghostbusters. Her important notifications were full of insults. She complained to her talent agency.

Her talent agency reps a lot of celebrities. Their complaint was that they need blue check notifications to be civil because the talent has to look for questions from reporters and other celebrities.

Pulling Milos blue check was the easiest way for Twitter to fix the problem.
To be a generalist (Inside Industrial Light & Magic)
That 5k line Java codebase is probably equivalent to the 500 line Ruby one. ;)
Thanks for asking, I had the same question and I thought it was some NYSE agreement I agreed to with Robinhood when I signed up.
1. This includes teachers mentioning a same-sex spouse. Unless it prevents straight teachers mentioning their other-sexed spouse as well, it is not “preventing sexuality and gender issues”, it’s preventing anything besides “straight” from being seen as existing. Which sure will be fun for, say, a kid with two moms or dads.

2. Your chain of logic is lacking the nuance that when, exactly, a bundle of cells with the potential to become a human being, if it’s supported by a healthy womb for nine months, actually becomes “a human being” is very much up for debate.
I think there's a real difference between moderation in line with the first amendment (dont make threats or shout fire in a theatre) vs. banning "misinformation". The latter is in the style of "don't question why big pharmaceutical companies don't want studies on cheap generic drugs that could help with covid". The latter gets branded "misinformation" with no real thought put behind it. Questions like that are central to healthy democracy and the current iteration of twitter is more than happy to silence things like that for the wealthy elites.
I never recommend minor distros to new users (and honestly to anyone else) for the simple reason that there is no guarantee they'll stick around or are secure. Newbies need something that is guaranteed to be supported for years.

For new users Ubuntu is by far the sanest distribution because it ships with codecs and drivers, is backed by a sizable company, and has by far the widest software support. Only Linux enthusiasts are obsessed with snaps.
Sure Google has closed ad-serving & intra-net/inside the firewall things but a huge huge huge amount of what they do is open source. Chromebooks, android, vast vast web systems from closure to amp to polymer/lit: open source, huge compilations of open source technogies. Chromium, open source. Huge ranges of Google activity is open source.

Microsoft today is hugely open source. VSCode is open source. WSL is hugely built & expands on open source. They release their Azure networking distro open source. They would have collapsed into Cuisinart irrelevance if not for open source.

Asking whether companies have proprietary closed source is not the right question. Looking & jduging the bigger picture, of whether we- Tim Oreilly style- create more value tham we capture- is the metric. This small view you presemt that any proprieary software means open source is irrelevamt is blinders, ignores the active change underway, ehere more and more keeps getting open sourced, to remain relevant & interesting & active. Contrary 100% to your pro proprietary position, I see no companies succeeding without doing open source, without participating.
Don't forget the boys at the Oxen network and their Session program. Phenomenal work, better than Tor
These are put up by birds, it didn't impale itself.
Actually, the "fluff" in this case is outstanding. The paper itself doesn't provide much context, but the Quanta piece does a great job at explaining why the result is important.
Of the three accounts I’ve created — one as recent as 2020 — I can’t recall any verification process which so much as required me to put in a real name.
> Notably still no web standards for end to end encryption

TLS is end to end encryption.

Maybe you are wanting something like Noise[0]? It's already a standard in many respects and nacl's crypto_box[1] stuff also exists.

Why should it be a "web standard"? Browsers are already stupidly complicated(arguably as complicated as operating systems). I'd argue they don't need more complexity.

> Nitrokey at least understood how biased & half assed this lopsided half-assed standardizing is

Well webauthn is specific to one thing only. It doesn't want to get into all the other things, there are good solutions for almost all of that stuff already.

> Yubico doesnt seem to notice or care, they're happy pushing better ways to uniquely identify ourselves.

For E2E encryption, you have to uniquely prove your identity or it's pointless. Thankfully webauthn just specifies the crypto part and doesn't mandate personal identification.

0: https://noiseprotocol.org/
1: https://nacl.cr.yp.to/box.html
There are IDEs with this kind of functionality. RubyMine has a fairly robust refactoring tool, for example.
How much does an orbital flight cost right now? Are we getting to the point where we can start just telling them to take the money and buy a rocket ticket and see the damn proof its not flat for themselves.
Apache is an example of an open source foundation being driven by individual volunteers or corporate stewardship, not proof one should expect such a thing to always pan out simply because it did for Apache. Much like the trillion dollar companies that give millions per year to the Apache Foundation what works for them doesn't necessarily apply for your typical case.
Hell, “I knew there were boys and girls from the age of 4, and knew that I was the one of those everyone said I wasn’t” is such a common trans narrative that folks like me who didn’t really start getting complicated gender feelings until around puberty have a lot of trouble with wondering if their feelings are real.
Russia gets to rattle their cyber sabre is what this lets them do. Why do they rattle their sabre? because it has been literally the only thing they are doing in response to this war.

Since day one all Russia has done is sabre rattle about the war.
> how do you teach beginners about python's value and reference semantics

The great thing about Python is that it's super easy to learn by example without having to troubleshoot cryptic compiler errors first. So show them a few objects. Modify those objects. Show them how to deep-copy objects and how to modify objects by reference without a deep-copy.

Once the examples have been made then start asking about how they might write their own, in Python, types that could be deep-copied or reference-modified.

Make sure to include your own questions about classes, class attributes, function parameters, initialization, and forced cleanup using either `del` or `with` -- it's handy to use a file object for examples of object destruction since that's buffered and so writes to it won't show up until it's flushed or closed (which occurs automatically when the file object is destroyed).

Then you might expand to questions like: if you have a property somewhere that points to "some reference" but the reference could change to one of several different objects or maybe even to none of the objects, how would you do that? Is the property maybe pointing to one of the other objects? There are many ways to do this and most of them are "valid" for mentoring. What are some other ways to do it and what are some of pitfalls or benefits to the other ways?

From there you can segue your way into describing what a pointer is "under the hood" if you think the student is ready for more info about pointers.
Looks like a bunch of privileged people with the victimhood mentality are downvoting you, the actually disadvantaged person who proved otherwise.
> 2 (of a scientific theory or solution to a problem) pleasingly ingenious and simple: the grand unified theory is compact and elegant in mathematical terms.

A 6 page proof described as "elegant" must be incredibly dense.
> If you are claiming it is the people in the study then you are wrong, no such fact was established.

It's established all over the place. Look at SAT scores, IQ tests, grades, etc. I never claimed that the stidy you linked to established it.

> So some people. That does not support any such claim that "conservatives are more racist" unless you establish that's a general view among conservatives.

Which is exactly what the first link you quoted showed, if you were able to read it.

> Treating people the same regardless of skin color is not ignoring the fact there are statistical differences among different "socioeconomic" groups is not ignoring those differences

The way they were treated differently was by using less competence words to signal that they were a good politician to vote for, since these people are from communities without a highly competent reference. Instead, these white liberals probably talked about the unique problems these groups were facing, which conservatives ignore and blame on genetics. Talking about their problems is not racist, and is in fact why these groups vote for white liberals. Pretending their problems is due to genetics without being able to point to a gene is racist.

> I'm allegedly a racist old curmudgeon for being against institutional discrimination against asian college applicants so I really should stop being so surprised at today's liberal dogma and just agree to disagree with you.

Liberals are also against discrimination against Asians. They try to solve problems where discrimination against Asians hold Asians back, like working to get reparations for interned Japanese Americans. Liberals also recognize that a significant minority of Americans have been systematically discouraged from getting an education and that fixing that will have a far greater impact on economic progress than almost anything else we can do.
This made me nostalgic, I remember when vanity URL shorteners were the coolest thing you could have. A new one popped up every few days and every company land grabbed for something custom they could use for social media.

Then Twitter updated to make URLs use fewer characters by shortening them on the fly (and showing the original URL to viewers). The URL shortener craze died quickly after.
Sorry, but I've already done

:set content.javascript.can_access_clipboard false
If Firefox wasn't so sluggish maybe more people would use it.
It’s definitely a tradeoff. I personally have gone through alternate phases where I wanted to be responsible for a huge piece of a small pie (startup) versus a tiny tiny piece of a huge pie (big company). There are pros and cons to both. The big slice of small pie feels cooler and more satisfying to my ego, but in the absolute sense the tiny piece of the big pie probably is actually making a bigger difference. 1% improvement at some of these companies means north of billions of dollars and improving hundreds of millions of peoples lives.
I had to give Twitter my phone number on a relatively new account after a few days. Couldn't do anything on the platform until I verified my phone number, and they wouldn't take a throwaway number.

At one point Facebook wanted my driver's license to use the platform after a while, so I just stopped using it.
> great that you keep up with hn at your age.

Passive aggressive intolerance and ageism. Aren’t you supposed to be virtue signaling?

> in the US

Explains why an American team winning American “football” are deemed “world champions”. Why did you assume OP spent his youth in America? Even if they are in America now, they could have been adopted from an orphanage in a different country. Logic.
> It is also the first browser to support secure web browsing with DANE.

Props for that. I wish we moved away from CAs.
no, because churches are considered non-profit entities and non-profit entities are tax exempt. Your local chess club could take advantage of basically all the advantages your local church does.

There are some historical nuances about power dynamics and avoiding conflict between the church and state, but that is all long ago.
Well, there are 3 (FIDE) world champions in chess nowadays - classical, rapid and blitz. But the classical title seems magnitudes more important than the others. I doubt many people at all could name the rapid or blitz world champions in order. Maybe if rapid and blitz had the same candidates tournament and title matches that classical does, not just a single swiss tournament, they would be less random and more significant, maybe rivalling or overtaking the classical world championship one day. Not a bad idea.
Disney World draws almost 60 million visits a year. Which is more than that expo.
What an awesome idea! Hope she loved it.
Their job, mostly.

Let's say they took a sample of the primary coolant, saw that pH was going to get very close to the lower limit, but also that they were going to be relieved of duty in 12 hours. Eh, just write it down a little higher and don't bother adding.

Now the next person takes their sample, and finds that pH is now out of spec. They probably suspect that the previous person lied, but they can't prove it, and anyway if they reported the numbers accurately, there would be a huge investigation, lots of audits, generally not good. So they'll just report that it's low and they need to do an addition, and then lambast the person when they see them next.
True, but I think it's a little different when an application has been closed-source for over 20 years.

My point is; open-sourcing something doesn't just mean your project will be "driven by individual volunteers"
Globally, Safari is #2 on mobile, and in the US specifically, #1. Even on desktop, Safari has a fairly strong showing.

Apple and Mozilla have basically just swapped places when it comes to keeping developers in check wrt adopting chrome-only features.

I don't know that more people using FF would change much at this point, to be honest.
I’ve always read that it was the best treatment option. Do you have studies that say otherwise?
What level of expertise is this proof accessible to? Could a final year undergraduate understand this perhaps with a bit of help or background reading?

I am talking about reading and understanding it, not necessary validating the correctness.
Using Fault Injection Testing to Improve DoorDash Reliability
> what is the underlying legal idea, that makes this supposedly "fair deal"?

If you don't trust the board to do right by you, you are free to (and should) sell your shares.

> if you make me to sell my property ...

zwily explained above ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31162992 ) shares are not your property.

> US equities, corporate and municipal bonds can be issued in certificated form, though this practice has been largely replaced due to the costs and inefficiencies of keeping them. Rather holdings are kept as "immobilized" or "street name", with the beneficial owners keeping them in accounts at broker-dealers and banks, just as they do for currencies. DTCC uses a nominee firm, Cede & Co., in whose name a share certificate is held in the DTCC vaults. Each day DTCC reconciles with the relevant transfer agent the number of shares held in its accounts for its member banks and broker-dealers. In turn, other banks and broker-dealers hold accounts with DTCC member firms, creating a chain of ownership down to the beneficial owner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securities_market_participants...