skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually pretty neat. I know many will be skeptical and rightly so, am a big fan of GCHQ's cyberchef and it's great they release stuff like this. Think this could be a decent tool for people in certain situations. The caveat of course being that I doubt it will protect you from 5EYES spies and I'd be interested what sort of network calls it is making. For the average exec always pestering sysadmins though, probably a boon.

> The app also includes an inbuilt reverse image search to spot pictures which may be re-used from other sites, since this is often a hallmark of fake identities.

Perhaps should also try determine if it's an neural net generated face. I've come across a few of these and they look legit but aren't tied to actual identities so are harder to pin down as frauds.
(Render founder) Thank you for the support. You might have shared this with our support engineers already but I'd love to hear about what you missed from Heroku (email in profile). We're building Render for the very long term and every bit of feedback helps, even if we can't get to it right away.
Fly have https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek working for them so it's hard to imagine they would get security wrong.
The weird thing is that the code looks like it was written without an IDE! At the very least, IDEs hate the '*' imports, yet there's plenty.
I agree that the requirements should be pared down to the absolute least common denominator, but disagree that the headphone jack belongs in that category. You (and GP) surely have to recognize that at this point requiring a headphone jack is also a niche request.
My 11-year-old just claimed that "The Wings of Fire" animated TV show - Ava DuVernay's adaptation that was in production at Netflix - has been canceled. Googling confirmed the news, and immediately thereafter led to news about the layoff.

My daughter's reaction was mild outrage; she's a huge fan of the book series, and of dragons in general. Mine was laughter (and a little sadness); this was the first time I'd learned major news about a tech company through something one of my kids told me, and it certainly won't be the last.
I will note I've had a bunch of issues with the Blue microphone USB output hanging when I reboot my PC with it plugged in: it still registers, but won't pickup audio - a quick replug fixes it, but it's incredibly annoying.

If I were modifying my setup today, I would've gone with an XLR mic out the gate: at the end of the day I ended up running analog audio to the Blue microphone anyway because the value of having monitor audio to your headphones is incredible (and you do not want any latency on that at all).
> They also make a lot of "alt" comedy shows that I consider to be some of the best comedy content in recent years.

Can you name some of them? I knew they did some Dave Chappelle specials but wasn't aware of anything else
There's only one swastikoid logo more swastikier and cockier than the Sun logo, and that's Slack's infamous Penis Swastika Logo.

https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/17/slack-new-logo-looks-like-pen...

>Slack added: ‘The important thing about being a brand is that whenever people see you in the wild, they should recognize that it’s you.’

>So naturally, it decided to launch a new icon which has now been roundly roasted across the internet and compared to four phalluses arranged in the shape of a symbol that’s forever associated with the Nazi.

>Designer T Carter Baxter tweeted: ‘I know people at Slack and I know they’re smart, capable and caring people. But once you hear “swastika made of dicks” it’s kind of over for the new logo.’

I do respect that Slack stuck to their guns, so to speak.
Nice, I’m glad to see another post from you!

As someone else mentioned, this has intense nostalgic vibes. Something about the acceleration of the sand maybe?

You really knocked it out of the park in any case, the end result is fantastic. I’m looking forward to digging in deeper.
https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Media/News/Article/2031922/mercenar...
Good luck. I think the safest industries are probably the hardest to crack into (medical, aerospace, utilities.)
New Outlook for Windows Preview
Ask HN: Mailing list providers with global deliverability?
As a result of a discussion on one of the longest-running academic/scientific mailing list servers I know, the Computational Chemistry List (CCL.net), I want to consult the HN hivemind.

I'd like to get your recommendations for email mailing list servers or providers. While CCL.net is more than just a mailing list, this is the main way at least a couple of generations of busy scientists have interacted with CCL.

Some have suggested a Google group, a forum or even LinkedIn as a replacement for this mailing list. Such alternative methods of group communication seem to have worked out for some user groups of scientific software packages (especially those mainly focussed on code developers), but I would assert that the breadth of the subject matter (computational chemistry as a whole) favours a 'slower' mode of communication that does not require the user to invest time in regularly checking a website. Additionally, it is worth noting that not everyone, depending on location, has easy access to either Google or LinkedIn.

Hence my request: reliable, secure, globally accessible email list providers/services/software that stand a good chance of sticking around as long as CCL.net already has. I'll summarize replies to the CCL.net list, and post a HN link to the answers here on the CCL.net list.
Many thanks!
It doesnt work.

If you invest 1$, you will pay fees and gas for it. If you try to redeem you will pay fees and gas for another two coins. (Even if they are pegged)

If you redeem those tho coins you pay fees.

Furthermore USDC aren't $s (and are backed by a company that is loosing value) and deus aren't dollars.

Only the issuer and exchanges gain via fees and emissions.

Now conversion without fees or gas is 0.5 to 1.
99% chance this is just going to be a whiteboxed phone of similar origin.
> A professional sports person (like a soccer or basketball star) would not be able to give this same excuse, so why would it not be the same in an engineering setting?

This situation is pretty common professional sports, actually. For example, Russell Westbrook's salary is higher than either Lebron James or Antonio Davis, and the highest-paid player on the Dallas Mavericks has been out for two months (including all of the playoffs). They have a strong union with guaranteed contracts, though.
For special interests, Reddit and Stack Exchange sites.
OK, here is my unrelated plagiarism story...
I was in high school waaaayyyy back in 1974, before the internet lads.
I was in AP path and one class we had to take was a creative writing class, the assignment was to write a poem. I was completely stumped, so I copied the lyrics off the back of a Rick Wakeman Album (Journey to the center of the earth). The teacher said, "one student handed in the most fantastic work" then said my name asked me to read it in front of the class. I did, a few students caught on, but they did not rat me out because they said they were going to use the same idea themselves on the next assignment. I got an A, but it was a dufus move by a dumb kid.

I just don't understand today how anyone can think they could get away with plagiarism with computers and the internet etc.
I think you would just have to provide 3 written warnings that they are not performing at super star level.
With a 32" monitor it's actually really disconcerting to have a bunch of people feel way too close to me.
Obviously you can't do such a simplistic direct comparison between horse emissions and car emissions. How does leaded petrol play into this comparison, particulates, etc.
Awesome tip
> If you wanted that, you’d be playing the same game as your 24x7 colleagues.

I mostly agree, but come to a different conclusion. In my mind the situation is a repeated prisoner's dilemma where defection is equivalent to off-hours responses. With no defections, everyone lives a pleasant life with healthy boundaries, and regular career advancement. If one defects, they receive accelerated career advancement while the other does not. If they both defect, they live a miserable life with unhealthy boundaries and regular career advancement.

It has all the trappings of being able to make individual choices, but the system is best analyzed as a group. An global optimum exists and it doesn't involve playing 24x7.
The real shadow doctor issue in Korea looks like this:

Doctor comes into surgery room or at least does the consultation -> anaesthesia -> inexperienced surgeon/non-surgeon comes into room while patient isn't awake and conducts operation

This is fraud, plain and simple. Especially in the plastic surgery sector (which is very established in South Korea), individual surgeons tend to have a reputation for having a certain style they achieve, which is what patients chose the clinic based on.

Victim is a perfectly suitable word.
That's a fantastic story, thanks for sharing!

As a parent of two toddlers, I can't wait to see what they'll be teaching me once they're older.
We're planning to release the notion of build promotion on Render late summer/early fall.
Have you thought about modeling aeolian transport (wind-blown sand?) the mechanics of it are poorly understood and this could be a decent starting point. I know the other models attempting to capture aeolian transport are extremely lacking.
I don't want a camera as a webcam. I don't want a device that only works sometimes and has to be setup before use. I don't want a camera that is so good all of my pores are in view. A small amount of blurriness is a feature, not a bug.
20 watt-hours per liter multiplied by .3 liters per hour equals 6 watts each.
A new and false one - of all races, whites are least likely to terminate a pregnancy: https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/usa_abortio... (search for "The next graph shows abortion percentage")

In fact, the founder of Planned Parenthood was an outspoken eugenicist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger#Eugenics
They call me Gato
I have metal joints
Beat me up
And earn 15 Silver Points
Is it even physically possible to fit all the high-end features in a mini? The 12 mini was panned for poor battery life and they just about got that fixed in the 13, but now you want 120 Hz (which will eat away battery life), someone else in here demanded all the cameras (which will take away internal space from battery), not to mention the difficulty of heat dissipation
I don't see a paywall or account wall, why is this necessary?
GrubHub has enough money to just give it away?
Here's mine:

1. minimal distractions at
2. scheduled times that are
3. contiguous

I'd go so far as to say that there are times where it's better for a single dev who is stuck on a project to keep his mouth shut for an hour or two than blasting a slack channel and blowing everyone else's concentration.
But they didn't die from a botched unlicensed one, which is the alternative we have to take into consideration, even if we don't like them. Making abortion illegal == scared young women die.
It’s true that some of best accounts are anonymous (that’s why I have rule 7), but also 90%+ of the most toxic accounts are anonymous. Hacker news is a different population, and heavily moderated. Can’t usefully compare IMO.
Exactly. Just reading this gave me PTSD and makes me glad I don't work with embedded anymore.

My memories are of Indiana Jones-esque gymnastics after stepping on functionality that should have been solid... but turned out to have either been not implemented or implemented in a known-broken way.

It makes me appreciate how good enterprise, desktop, and server software actually is.

And understand why Apple and Google both put in the approval speed bumps they did for apps.

The minimum quality floor is far lower than you would expect...

I think the only sane use of most niche embedded stuff is if you're building a product for a single use case and have a team. Aiming for general purpose & everything works? Hell no!
It's not even about connecting them to gov't machines. The issue is that people are issued PIV CAC's to access their email and are expected to do so without having received government equipment (laptop/computer with CAC reader).

So they are left either not checking their email/answering emails from superiors or they have to buy a CAC reader themselves and use their personal equipment to access their email/government websites.
Yeah universities use Turnitin, too. “Selling arms to both sides.”
Data Science Is Seductive
I am in the same bucket, recently switched to an iPhone mini.

I did make a ruckus about small phones not existing. I have found 1-2 supporters of the idea within the dozens of people I complained to. Based on my small sample size I'd say 3-5% of the market would be willing to buy a small phone. A much smaller percentage would be actively looking for a small phone. I think those are optimistic numbers (sadly).
Read it backwards. Start at the end, and read word for word, just in reverse order. This forces you to slow down enough that you end up processing single words rather than sentences and phrases. As a result, you can notice misspellings and missing words more easily than while reading normally.
1200 W for 30 gal/h works out to 10.6 Wh/L (or 38 kJ/L).
> if you're a citizen

Almost any country in the world allows you to bring your parents if you are a citizen. The path to citizenship in US is very very long. Canada allows this while you are on a PR. And not every immigrant is happy to change citizenship, it's a much riskier bet than being a PR.
Wonder how this works with the FHA underwriting requirement that mortgages in multifamily properties can only be written if 25% or less of the units are rentals. Having a revolving door of short term guests in a building upsets some long term residents but causing them to be unable to sell their property to anyone using an FHA loan is economically damaging.
> I am brainstorming on ideas for starting a business, where I'd build and sell in the US.

You're starting on the wrong end. Don't brainstorm products.

I have been around entrepreneurs for 20 years, including more than 10 years of advising them, and this is never how successful businesses start. It is how a lot of failed businesses start, though.

You should start with a single question: what do I have an unusual (or unfair) advantage doing?

This could include:

- knowing a lot of potential customers (for a B2B business)

- having skills that you could charge your company $0/hr for (like digital marketing or software development)

- lots of your own capital

- deep understanding of an underserved target market, ideally from being in that market yourself

If you don't have one (or ideally more) of these things, don't start a business. It's not a good idea for most people anyway.

Once you can identify who you can sell to more easily than most people, then you can decide what to sell them. And you still might not find anything.

"Things that don't compete with China" is a small and unbelievably capital-intensive space, and it's exclusive to things like military and trade secrets. You can't just jump into one of these.
Yeah you might want to brush up on the current state of affairs. A lot has happened in the last 9 years.
interesting...sounds like the stack and rank at microsoft. at microsoft it didnt matter much bc they were a monopoly, they missed out on the smartphone market. the idea is that they were so busy trying not to get axed and worrying about internal politics they didnt innovate quickly and respond to apple and google. they ended up reversing this policy and pivoting to enterprise/cloud.
Without knowing more about this device it's a bit hard to make a true comparison to existing marine RO devices but there are a few reasons I've been following with (skeptical) interest:

- Low volume - RO devices don't scale down well. The Katadyn 40E is the smallest watermaker I can find and it produces 6l/h. This is an insane amount of water that I have no use for. 10l a day would be enough for two people. Unfortunately there aren't cheaper and lighter options available.

- Storage - No pickling would be really nice.

- Membrane - Not needing to replace membranes would also be nice.

- Efficiency - I don't care too much about efficiency because most of the time during the day we have plenty of power from 400W of solar panels sized for days and days of cloud. That said, smaller RO devices also have poorer efficiency, e.g. 9Wh/l in the 40E. Other results in the literature suggests there could be plenty of room left to improve in efficiency from the MIT prototype.

Depending on cost, I think there's a niche for something that addresses the lower end of the market in watermakers.
Some European cities that have a high occupancy percentage, like Berlin, have strict laws around temporary rentals with platforms like AirBnb.
Rightly so, the city should have its longterm inhabitants occupying what little apartments exist as a priority over investment properties and tourists.

Additionally Airbnbs inject tourism money into the area but can have a detrimental effect on community cohesion as a whole
The ship is rapidly disappearing due to corrosion. It won't be long before there's nothing left but mud. I don't understand the point of not making an effort to preserve it for posterity. It's lost if we don't. There won't be any heritage there.

The Titanic artifact exhibit made its way to Seattle some years ago, and I enjoyed seeing it very much.

By all means, bring back the radio.
Legitimate questions.

Certainly, the overwhelming majority of existing portable-ish software in whatever language will not be rewritten. It won't be as bad as code written in the '60s, running on an emulator on an emulator... five deep, which does exist! But they will be recompiled and carried along until they become irrelevant. Code to operate pagers and fax machines is largely retired already.

C coders will always have a job maintaining the legacy stuff, just as people make good money patching COBOL.

C++ has no borrow checker. That turns out not to matter so much as some people insist. It mainly just means that people writing libraries need to step up to do, in the library, what the Rust compiler does. But faster. Users of those libraries get the safety Rust advocates claim as all their own. But C++ also enables library writers to do many, many things Rust simply cannot be made to do, resulting in wholly more capable libraries, and much that it will never do.

We will not "stay with C++ forever". We will stay with C++17 until we get C++20 support, and with C++20 until we get C++23 support, etc. The language is changing fast to meet needs its users face, with a depth that no other language is even trying to match. Someday a language may arise that can grow to match C++. It once looked like Rust might have developed to be that.
Things like that are easily configured
Yeah he didn’t give any evidence but he is right ;)
Was the orthopedic surgeon present in the operating room? If so then he basically did perform the surgery, even if the hands-on work was done by other members of the surgical team. If the surgeon wasn't present at all, and didn't make that clear during the pre-op consultation, then that would seem unethical.
He’s a conservative foreign billionaire and influences US politics (which addressed the parent’s question in my opinion).

And he’s certainly trying to “shape politics one way or the other”. The whole disaster is in Ukraine is based on shaping geopolitics. And US conservative politicians and pundits have been used in the run up for that purpose
I mean, they are still victims of those practices, but there is a reason that the Korean Society of Plastic Surgeons uses that particular term.
What's more - the public status page of this security incident (https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2413) doesn't mention that these secrets were compromised. They chose to send this notification privately instead.
I'd never seen this, thanks! Breaking out the popcorn. I worked on SC in 2010/11, pre-crowdfunding, and it's funny and head-smacking to see this all laid out as a documentary, even spotting some of my own work here and there in the earliest cuts. It's so bizarre to me that this development is still going on, and still in "alpha" although obviously it's now become an insanely huge product. Chris Roberts did not know he'd hit his crowdfunding goal.. and I think that's why he didn't go with Kickstarter initially, because he was going to work on the game one way or another. He sank his own money into building working demos before crowdfunding. IMHO it would have all been up and running by 2014 if there hadn't been so much money and hype. The fan expectations exceeded what was realistic from the moment it was announced, and just kept going higher. It's one of those things I look at in my life and have a hard time drawing a conclusion from. The obvious conclusions about shipping vs bike-shedding don't quite apply, because at some point the making of the game and the game itself became too intertwined. I'm glad to see it's made some people here happy now and it's finally starting to live up to its promise.
They should -- if they are not willing to answer on the runway you probably should not join/prepare to head out.
A video game wiki I use sometimes:

gopher://GiantGopher.com:70/

Games you can play on Gopher:

gopher://worldofsolitaire.com/

gopher://GiantGopher.com:70/--/Winnifred_Huck

There was another HN Gopher thread recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31392145#31410764
And yet, every other streaming app that is not YouTube is quite laggy across devices...
Of course they were motivated, that's undeniable, but the video is the evidence.
This doesn't really seem that compelling. I don't believe that in the real world a system like this can produce drinkable water without at least pre-filters that require maintenance. And unless I'm misinformed, the cost and availability of replacement RO membranes isn't what's limiting the use of RO desalination or water purification where it's needed.
Good quality overall, though it's difficult to tell from a small, hand picked set of examples (which appear to come from the training data, too — have the corresponding recordings been included in the voice build or held out?).

There is a rather obvious problem with the stress on "warehouses", and a more subtle problem with "warrants on them", where it's difficult to get the stress pattern just right.
Former Netflix manager here. Netflix frequently competes for L6/L7 talent against Google, Apple, and FB -- and wins. Look at the detail view on levels.fyi and sort by compensation. They pay extremely well for the best talent.

But that's not really the point. Your job safety is ultimately about whether other companies would hire you. And if you're good enough to get a role at Netflix, then you can get another job extremely quickly here in the valley. Most top recruiters know that Netflix is very selective. I have yet to see anyone who was let go at Netflix struggle to get another job. They usually get multiple offers, in fact.
Why are people confused and distressed about this? This is what censorship is. First, it is used against things you want censored, then against things you don't want censored. There is absolutely no reason to be shocked by it.
We also have this weird dichotomy in regards to people that die in a shipwreck, calling it a grave site that must not be disturbed. But if it wasn't a shipwreck, we'd make every effort to recover and "bring home" the bodies.

If we could ask the people that went down with the Titanic, I suspect that very few would want to remain with the ship that killed them.
Congratulations to Bruce & Team! Always exciting to see a classmate building cool stuff.
For a publicly traded company, that information would be publicly available, if that's what you're asking.

And at a startup, particularly an early-stage one, I would feel pretty uncomfortable if they wouldn't tell me that information in an interview.