skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's not even that. if you assume that the entire codebase was leaked verbatim, it would still take entrenched knowledge of many google engineers to replicate the same services and infrastructure to support those services.

If any state actor who stole that code could deploy such engineering capabilities, they don't really need the source code tbh.
Fans of Squishmallow plush toys are getting harassed online
https://archive.ph/TQdQU
The licence doesn't make sense to me.

"decompilation prohibited" - but I thought it's written in assembly?

Which means it's not compiled?
Fight Club summarized the Pinto thing nicely:

https://www.quotes.net/mquote/31826

without providing the illusion that such cost benefit analyses are a thing of the past.

(Pintos had a problem with the gas tank, not the differential, but it's pretty clear what they were referring to.)
Then you click yes on the cookie request that your own browser makes to you.
Design trends: Kinetic typography, anti-design and risograph-like backgrounds
I would slightly modify your suggestion for 1; it may be easier to gamma irradiate the fecal samples (or something) to kill all microflora instead. It won’t tell us whether the chemical effectors came from the host or the bugs but I would prefer comparing healthy mice than two separate classes of mice.

Another idea I’m curious about would be to preserve fecal samples from a young mouse and transplant back to their older selves to see if that also shows the same effect.
> From time to time, I consider shielding my website with Cloudflare's services. I resist the temptation, because I strongly suspect that, despite Cloudflare's current good intentions, in the long-run, this is playing into the hands of the corporate-controlled web. Relying on commercial web services limits the freedom we have as personal website owners. Once they have us relying on them, we are forced to play by their rules, and at that point the battle is over. We may not have realized it yet, but we have been captured. Unless we manage to free ourselves, in a short time, we will be working for the enemy. Soon, we will have their advertisements on our websites. Soon, we will be rewriting our articles and modifying our websites to attract more traffic from their search engines. Soon, we will be throwing out our best content, because it is too controversial for their teams of often ethically-challenged marketers. Soon, we will no longer be knights. We will be their lowly serfs clad in filthy rages begging for scraps. They will own us.

OP conflates two different issues: the difficulty of running infrastructure that you own, and the difficulty of running content that you own. They are not the same!

Concerns about ownership of content because you no longer own the infrastructure are, I think, irrational. I can take my compiled heap of HTML, CSS, and JS to Cloudflare, and if they try to "make me a serf", I can move it to CloudFront, or Netlify, or GitHub Pages (which, to the point, even works in Iran from what I understand, because GitHub went through the pains of getting approved by export control), or any number of similar services.

Concerns about ownership of infrastructure are valid, but that war is largely lost. I still can't get IPv6 at home, and even if I could, leaving it open to ::/0 is playing with fire. Somewhat literally, depending on whether your hardware's automatic temperature shutoffs are working or not, something that is increasingly unlikely in an age of cheap connected kitchen appliances with heating elements. Denial of Service is real, and the fact of the matter is, even if IPv6 were to be offered to every household on the planet, virtually no Mom-and-Pop consumers want to screw around with network firewalls to get anything working.

Yes, own your content. Write what you want. Stop running long-commoditized hardware at home.
It's true that such things are annoying but they're so common and so annoying that they easily take over the discussion.

In the case of your comment, literally all of the replies were about the annoyance. Not one was about the on-topic portion of your comment; it might as well not have existed. That's why we have that guideline.
Karpathy doesn’t lead FSD.
One of my cousins dealt with a Canada goose that way and it seemed to work. Sample size of one though I guess, and he wound up and gave it a very robust kick. In my cousin's defense, the goose was chasing a small child at the time. A solid kick gave him time to grab the kid and get him out of pecking range.
Part of our employee agreement says we have to state it whenever we talk about Google in a public forum. I feel like it's meant to provide Google a level of protection in case we say something stupid.

Previous companies I worked at (like Cisco) explicitly said in my employment contract that I couldn't post things online about the company without prior approval from PR or whoever.

Part of why I do it is also so people know I may be biased as I'm financially motivated to have Google seen in a positive light and be successful.
The original iPhone SE from 2016?
An internal page on "posting about work on your personal accounts" has this as the first suggestion among 20 or so points about "dos and don'ts". Also includes sections such as "suggestions for content to post", "how to respond to questions from candidates" etc.
The Odd Lots podcast from Bloomberg just did an episode on the Foreign Dredge Act.

As a Houstonian, I was shocked to learn that the Port of Houston is being hobbled by our inability to dredge properly, limiting container vessels to once a week, and slowing down oil tanker shipments. There is currently only one narrow lane that is dredged, and opening a second lane would improve traffic flow quadratically.
When your preferred PHP alternative has produced as many open source killer apps, in terms of adoption, as PHP has I'll be all ears.
Xbox has been down since 1PM Pacific Daylight Time
Probably standard legal copy. Most if not all proprietary EULAs have something like that. More interestingly, they're invalidated by the laws that permit RE in many countries.

...and on a somewhat related tangent, look at how many appliances have a "do not open/no user-serviceable parts inside" warning.
I agree that how to use tools like editors is super important.

But it's not "left out" of CS courses. Rather you're expected to figure that out yourself using any of millions of existing resources to do so.

In other words, instead of spending a week teaching you Git, you are shown the concept of version control and the course moves on. You are _expected_ to Google "how to use git". Precious CS time should be spent teaching concepts not products.

This has the advantage of making you flexible. You learnt Git at college but you got a job at a shop using Mecurial? No worries, you did it once you can do it again, just Google "how to use Mecurial".

It's the same for language. It really doesn't matter what language you learn, what matters is that you learn how to program. You can learn another language in a matter of days. (

At college level we once did 10 languages in 10 days, with an assignment in each, just to prove the point. Clearly we didn't turn into experts but it showed how the concept of language matters more than the syntax. Switching between functional (lisp like) and imperative (c like) is more interesting but by that point we already had exposure to both.
Note that there are totally valid reason to not saturate NVME read speeds. Given the read vs write speeds of modern SSDs, if you have an algorithm that makes your reads 2x slower, but reduces the number of random writes, that can be a major win overall.
> we have no evidence

It means they don't know. They must say "we are confident" otherwise.
Not really difficult. In fact, I'd say pretty easy. Got five unicorns first try with the recommended founder.

There are a lot of things it makes out to be "really difficult decisions!!!" but... no? Don't fall for obvious traps, maintain ethics, don't cooperate with law enforcement, do the bare minimum to comply with "copyright," and you'll win every time.

It also tried to sell taking investment from a Big VC at the cost of losing more stake on the last fundraising round it forces you to undertake as something you'll regret if you do, but... why? The amount some VCs can take of a company per-dollar is inflated right now, and it's not like they have any valuable knowledge. The biggest one is by a guy who managed to get a few billion during the biggest bubble the industry's ever seen. What do you expect?
The little bandits are always stealing my trash.
Their comment doesn't blame anyone for their situation.
given the terrible dangers to aquatic ecosystems associated with dredging, I don't know if citing the feet per hour is going to win a lot of fans to the cause -- which is then further compounded by this defense

> That doesn’t rule out a position of roughly ‘yes this is a no-good-very-bad way of limiting how much we dredge but it does limit it and that is what matters.’

> I don’t know how to engage with that perspective as anything but opposition to civilization. If you don’t think we should maintain or create ports, make it possible to navigate rivers or free ships that get stuck - which are the primary reasons people dredge - then that’s not compatible with having a technological civilization. Perhaps there are other ways to work around that and still have a technological civilization, but they are orders of magnitude worse in terms of their consequences for the Earth.

I'm of the opinion that we should learn to use our sprawling ports in the United States more efficiently rather than stacking more inefficient ports[0] across all of our coast -- especially given the tremendous ecological cost of what we already have -- and apparently that stance is defined by the author as 'opposition to civilization' and not even worthy of rebuttal.

Hard disagree.

Look around the U.S. ports and identify the bottlenecks mentioned; it's rarely marine-space related -- it's almost entirely logistical or occupational related -- bigger ports will require more employees that don't even exist in large enough quantity now to fill the roles needed even today -- and this is aside from the additional employees needed for the larger dredging operations.

"jobs created" means precisely zero in skilled trades without a captive and waiting audience -- these people will need to be trained and placed -- it can't just be spun from nothing over-night.

(I have lived in Wilmington, the number one port in the U.S. in commerce value)

tl;dr : let's fix ports rather than making more broken ports and ruining our seas.

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/california-ports-key-us-sup...
Probably some, but the Tor network is designed to be robust to that.

The community does a lot of active monitoring to kick out misbehaving relays. "Misbehaving" includes running multiple relays without correctly setting the family attribute to identify them as being run by a single entity.

The main danger of malicious exit relays beyond other relays is that they perform some man-in-the-middle active attack. This is largely mitigated by end-to-end encryption. Tor Browser will soon be HTTPS only (other than explicit manual overrides) to help avoid inavertent non-e2e protected connections.

More in another recent blog post: https://blog.torproject.org/malicious-relays-health-tor-netw...
Would be great to have an image in WASM v86 emulator

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31270543

https://github.com/copy/v86

https://copy.sh/v86/
It seems like it would also affect the mental granularity of any counter offer. If I bid $10,000 someone might be like no way to high how about $8,000! Cause the significant digits were working with are in the 1000s. But if I say $10,542. They might be more likely to focus on the detail and come back with 10,100 or something.
Fiber is a scrub brush that keeps the inside of your digestive tract clean so it can function properly. Supplements won't really do the job.

It would be like trying different gasoline additives instead of taking your car to the car wash.
Think the main confusion going on here is that people do not think of tree as lists, even if they could be 100% represented as such.
Don't say the Internet. There are tons of good information/tutorials/reads/etc on the Internet.

You have a social net addiction. You spend so much time on it b/c it is designed for that: catch your attention, sell ads.

I already see the parallels between social nets and tobacco. We are at the stage where we realize it is harmful. Eventually, it will be regulated.

But then again, you do not need to wait for it to be regulated. Quit now. Be disciplined. Find a hobbie that is offline. Become a maker.
I really like this turkey who is standing up for himself.
About a year ago another HN commenter really helped me out with this and recommended an application called Cold Turkey [1].

It lets you lock yourself out of specified websites and applications for a scheduled period of time. You can break out of it by either rebooting or setting a long string of random text you have to enter, but it basically stops impulsive browsing.

It helps me a fair bit to stay on task at work. I whitelist only the sites I need for work and take away the ability to randomly alt-tab into a browser "just for a minute".

If your looking for a way to discipline your computer habits, I highly recommend this program. It's not a cure, but it does help.

[0] https://getcoldturkey.com/
By the way, Stop The Madness is a godsend, nullifying some of the worst anti-user crap (like forbidding paste in text fields, auto play, etc) inflicted upon innocent browser users.

Until there is a place in hell for such people, Stop The Madness is even more necessary than an ad blocker.
I deleted Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and other social accounts five years ago. Now I am refreshing HN all day, and other sites too. This problem really not about the platform, its about the consumer here.
There are tons of downloadable components and quite a lot of people who still use it. If you need help with getting started, do let me know and I can walk you through an introduction which will save you a lot of time and get you going pronto.
> If we're running out of supply, you're running out something (becoming closer to a zero sum scenario)

...or structure policy such that supply increases?

> It actually doesn't account for what I'm talking about. It dismisses it without much substance while avoiding the topic that we're talking about which is:

It directly accounts for it - "if you don't acknowledge this, then there's potential for you to be priced out of markets even if your income is growing, but growing slower relative to everyone else" -> A purely nominal, non-real effect.
I do the same thing anytime I post about AWS or a direct competitor:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31279881

We are specifically told to disclaim that we don’t speak for AWS when we speak on social media about anything related to the company.

Even if not, if I say something positive or get in a discussion about AWS on Hacker News that is opinion based, I disclaim so people can consider my biases (“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”)

Also when I post on r/aws, I sometimes disclaim. It depends on the question.

If someone ask “how can I stop API Gateway from timing out after 30 seconds?” - ie something that can be answered factually (you can’t) and post documentation, I don’t bother about saying where I work.

On the other hand, if someone asks, “what are the steps I need to take to improve security on AWS?”. Then my usual reply starts off with, “I am a consultant in Professional Services at AWS, I’m not your consultant. All opinions are my own”. The last thing I need is to be in the middle of a controversy because a company got breached based on taking my very generic advice and saying they were listening to me.
> Miura also skied Mount Kosciusko, the highest peak in Australia

This is stated as if it's supposed to be impressive, so I think the author is unfamiliar with Mount Kosciuszko! (They used the old spelling, too.) I "climbed" it as an ordinary 10-year-old. You literally take a ski lift [1] up to a flat plateau, walk along a well-maintained path (which used to be a road!) for a while, then walk up a little hill [2]. Cars have been taken to the top [3].

[1] The first one was built in 1958, before Miura's trip.

[2] https://www.atlasandboots.com/travel-blog/climbing-mount-kos...

[3] https://www.flickr.com/photos/87791108@N00/3201954921/in/pho...
"cookie" consent exists because of laws.

If it's gonna happen at all, there will be a law enforcing that, because it's not in the interest of website owners (which also leads to the dark patterns in the dialogues).

If there is law, people can sue, which usually is enough for companies to (usually) follow it

This isn't the case for do not track afaik
Show HN: Refactor – Duplicate Code Finder
Nah, only a tiny portion of HN is in SV and surely not all of them are "shockingly ignorant upper class groupthinkers". I think you might be running into the tendency of the internet to be extremely maddeningly annoying. That's actually a complicated phenomenon, it feels exactly like "banging your head against a particularly stupid brick wall", and we all suffer from it to one extent or another. I don't want to ban you.
At a high level there’s some dissonance between having such a strong bond with one’s employer that one would identify as an employee of theirs, socially, outside of work, but also claim to still be independent enough of the employer to have independent thoughts on technical matters directly related to the employer.

If you wore an I’m with her! tee, you would not claim to have a neutral opinion on politics.
hmm, I wonder when they switched to machine learning though, because I remember some very mean technical analysis of their recommendation systems from 10+ years ago, where the problems were more the problems you would expect from naive averages and not taking into account outliers...

so maybe someone read that review and the recommended solutions and said screw that, we're going to do an ML solution, that'll show em.

Note: state of internet search being what it is not going to try to find that review of recommendation systems early Saturday morning before coffee.
Like it or not, Fortran is a very fast and memory efficient compiled language with compilers supporting most platforms and many open source libraries written in it.

These days, it survives mostly as an authoring language for math and statistical libraries.
> Amazon calculates a product's star rating using machine-learned models instead of a simple average.

lmao! i thought you linked me to an April fools page for a second .-.

"63% of reviews are 5 stars" but when you filter to 5 star reviews, there's zero. small indie company. i'm guessing this is all just an excuse for Amazon to inflate their numbers
Is Mark Twain’s old age best forgotten?
considering the rapid decline of quality of both the text and image searches, I don't think there are any people left at google that actually know how any of that works
:) yes, quite disturbing!
This is awesome and opens up a lot of doors for creative expression!

But it's 1.7 MB

Is there no way to reduce that?

It would be great if you could "compile" a pre-defined combinations of Axes values to only bundle what's needed for a design. I suppose flattening to SVG could help provided the text had captions for screen readers?
The Fight Club math is complete. They specifically quote the cost of out of court settlements, implying hush money.

This has been done successfully before. One model of elevators used to turn kids into ground beef (under a dozen a year -- the gap between the inner and outer door was too big).

Eventually they were almost all replaced, the deaths tapered off and everyone involved retired.

One year, much later, one of the few left in service killed a kid. No one working at the elevator company knew what was going on, and all hell broke loose. The remaining surviving culprit was in an old folks home at that point. The company ended up recalling something like two or three antique elevators.
Related:

An interview with Chuck Peddle (in memoriam) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22633446 - March 2020 (1 comment)

Chuck Peddle: Personal Computer Pioneer, Dies at 82 – WikiChip Fuse - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21898433 - Dec 2019 (1 comment)

Chuck Peddle Dies at 82; His $25 Chip Helped Start the PC Age - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21875001 - Dec 2019 (53 comments)

Chuck Peddle passes away, December 15, 2019 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21848251 - Dec 2019 (2 comments)

In Memoriam of Charles “Chuck” Peddle - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21847718 - Dec 2019 (22 comments)
Show HN: Ask Deeply, a social game for small talk haters
I hate small talks, I build a social game to help me deepen my relationships and connect with people beyond the shallow levels.

I want your feedback, maybe inspire me with questions you would like to see popping in the game.
As someone who uses PHP nearly every working day, this RFC is the first time I've ever seen the ${var} syntax in PHP. It only gets a very brief mention and a single use in an example snippet in the documentation[1]. I don't think I've ever seen it in production code, and would have flagged it as a typo if I found it during code review.

Removing {$var}, on the other hand, would have broken practically every string interpolation I've ever written, and probably about 50% of all uses of string interpolation in the ecosystem.

[1]: https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#lang...
> There has been plenty of work on how to de-anonymize Tor users over the years, e.g., see https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jrex/papers/usenixsec15.pdf.

But that's not what gp asked.

Has the work you linked to been shown to lead to the successful deanonymization of a normal user during normal Tor browsing? It's a simple yes or no question. I don't follow tor news like I used to but I'm willing to bet a months-worth of salary that the answer is still no.
I have the same experience. I could go ahead and start implementing. But that means committing to a particular design. The first design that comes to your mind is typically not the best at all, why would it be. Therefore I feel hesitant to start coding it right away. Give the design-ideas some time to boil a bit in my head while perhaps focusing on something else. The better designs then typically pop up and that saves a lot of work in the future. And eliminates a lot of unnecessary technical debt.