skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Radiation full time in a cavity full of soft tissue and with thinner walls to the brain?

What could go wrong? I’m sure the same DoD that gave us cancer via Agent Orange and PSTD is carefully looking after its cannon fodder...
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Putting it in another perspective, perhaps that experience made you appreciate programming and software industry more. It might be a high price you paid (the years of pseudo useless studies), but you'll think twice when considering to change industries.

I worked in sales for a few years and even became a regional sales manager before switching to programming 12 years ago. Now, whenever I see the IT related problems (like bad programming parctices, lousy code, bad architectures and so on), I remember how bad and really unfixable things can be (for me as an employee) in the rest of the industries and love programming even more.
What about security? And connection pooling etc?
>States are evil. The best possible case is that they might be, at times, the lesser evil.

Calm down there American.
I have to admire the courage of the people who have investigated and reported this, given that the entire leadership of UIDAI and its backers in the central government are intolerant of any criticism and have been known to file police complaints[1] against journalists, critics and whistleblowers. Even its visionary and leading cheerleader from the private sector preferred to imagine conspiracies rather than acknowledging its weaknesses [2].

[1]: https://thewire.in/tech/uidai-files-fir-tribune-reporter-aad...

[2]: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/theres-an-orchestr...
This topic is very US centric and shows how deep the disregard is for people of other ethnicities.

> The word slovo ("word") and the related slava ("glory, fame") ... [0]

The word is indeed derived from "slav" ethnonym and it's unbelievable that no one actually cares.
The whole thing smells not just "word policing" but "history revisionism".

Jewish people were enslaved for so much of their history (by babylonians, egyptians etc) should we simply forget that because some people feel uneasy hearing the word slave and imagining this inhumane practice? Also no one forces you to antropomorfize technical concepts.

It strikes me how fast the discussion went off topic to the "subconscious racism" of black people in the previous threads about this. [1]

As mentioned in other discussion, this is a very slippery slope to go. Next time I won't be able to use the technical term "torture testing" to refer to server workloads because torture sounds aggressive and inhumane. What more combination of words I won't be able to use? Will I be able to write about "cookie stealing", it's illegal to steal so we surely need to ban that word. There are after all people that have their whole life savings stolen from them by the crooked investment managers so the "stealing" concept will remind them about that and might hurt their feelings.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavs_(ethnonym)
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17930979
Has anyone here migrated back from lambda to conventional servers? How was the experience like. Is there any straightforward way to convert serverless projects to traditional services en masse. In what cases would you recommend moving away from serverless?
New Crypto Exchanges Launch in Hong Kong, Korea, Indonesia
That sounds like most SMTP servers - they just reject what they don't understand.

The wrinkle here that might be, in the opinion of some, worth noting is that this gives SMTP servers something they understand fully. The HTTP server has been convinced to send perfectly well-formed and valid SMTP commands.
How I traced upsc.gov.in defacer?
From a software point of view, it has always seemed to me that typical MTUs are an order of magnitude too small:

Disk operations as well as CPU operations (authentication, encryption, e.g. TLS) all benefit from using larger block sizes of 65536 bytes and up.

This amortizes system call overhead, enables larger sequential operations, enables more use of SIMD instructions, reduces instruction cache misses (working on one thing for longer), reduces context switches, and serves to increase the leverage that the control plane has on the data plane.

Just one specific example, something like TCP needs to keep track of packets (for retransmission, acks etc.). When you're sending Gbps, small packets mean much more bookkeeping overhead (more method calls, more bits in ack packets, more hash table lookups) compared to large packets. Throughput should be much better with an MTU of 65536 (and latency sensitive applications don't have to send that much).

I can imagine that in the past the cost of memory was radically different, implying a smaller MTU, but it seems like sticking with 1500 for IPv6 was an opportunity missed.
Wouldn't it then just be the assembly of the ROM?
To what extent the composers you mentioned broke completely with Beethoven (and/or the past) is arguable. All of them wrote works in sonata form, all of them wrote fugues, all of them studied counterpoint carefully. Liszt idolized Beethoven, and many of the key works of all four are unthinkable without Beethoven's example. Not to diminish the originality of their respective contributions. But the Beethoven myth was already in place when they were growing up and the legacy can be traced in all of their works.

Received wisdom dictates that every century or so, composers break with the past and do something completely new. The reality is a lot messier.

Beethoven himself is a good example. He is held up as the paragon of artistic fearlessness, not catering to audience's whims, pursuing a vision of the future, etc. In fact he was very well versed in the music of the past, including JS Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, and others whose names have been forgotten. He also did everything he could to ingratiate himself with the aristocracy who commissioned his works: i.e. his market. He followed the Y-Combinator motto: "Make things people want" in the sense that he made things his customers wanted. He forged an idiosyncratic personal style but many of its constituent elements are stolen from older styles (counterpoint, abrupt changes of texture, the unification of movements over a larger form).

I like your analogy about Romanticism reaching an impasse and Busoni picking things up from there. The path I drew above leading from Beethoven directly to the 4 Romantic composers is meant to illustrate that the historical line, now that we are reestablishing Reicha's place in history, might be drawn from him straight to the 20th century (Bartok, Stravinsky, Martinu) in his treatment of meter and the way he is comfortable with abstraction.

As for "Episode 5 Paris", believe me, it's very much on my mind. The current idea is to do a whole second series of videos, only in Paris, or perhaps one in Prague (where he was born) and the other three in Paris. After all, Reich spent 30 years of his life in Paris (1799-1802, 1808-1836) and there is tons of material, including his teaching work (his students included Liszt, Franck, Berlioz, Gounod, and many other big names). I'm hoping we can film in the vaults of the French National Library (BnF) where the manuscripts are, to show people what it's like to dig up old forgotten scores.

For the moment, it's just a daydream, until we secure funding (unlikely).
Does the banning of Alex Jones signal a new era of big tech responsibility?
Ironically, both the left-wing conspiracy theorists and the right-wing conspiracy theorists seem to support this idea.

Here’s one example on the other side of the political divide:

https://www.infowars.com/you-have-been-warned-electromagnetic-5g-cell-phone-radiation-is-designed-to-decimate-the-population/

I can’t remember a topic that both extremes agreed upon. Interesting that this is one.
Show HN: Watermark library that supports invisible digital watermarks
Very true! Firewall rules with a strict filter could contain this!

Of course, that assumes you're not doing something like running in AWS and using the AWS firewall. And that your firewall never has any issues at all.

In general, defense in depth is a preferable strategy. Your entire defense should never be reliant upon a single control.
> Has "the American taxpayer" paid out a great deal for this in the past? What percentage of the annual budget?

Not really, as it's a rare occurrence. Though it does remind me of the time NASA got a AU$400 for littering in Australia with parts of Skylab..

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/34928/did-nasa-...

> Satellites generally stay in their orbits, don't they?

They don't, the orbits decay due to drag from residual atmosphere, and other effects, including solar radiation. Generally, the lower you are, the faster your orbit will decay. Consider that ISS turns their solar panels to act as glider wings when on the night side, just to lower air drag. You can actually see their height chart here: https://www.heavens-above.com/IssHeight.aspx; you can see how they gradually lose altitude, and have to burn fuel to boost back every month or two.

Point being, satellites need to be actively tracked, and their orbits recalculated periodically. Each new object is a little bit of extra work for some people. The procedures are there to ensure this doesn't get out of hand, especially now with tiny satellites that are very hard to track.
In the Anglosphere we've traditionally been quite wary of national ID databases for our own citizens, for better or worse.

Most governments of foreign countries I have visited (US, many parts of Asia) have my fingerprints. The Australian government doesn't (to my knowledge, anyway).
I am so sorry, you are right, it is my problem.
If you ask the people behind the AGPL about the ethos of open source, you're asking the wrong people. They're pretty explicit about having a different ethos:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
Great news! I'm sure this hard work will pay off. :) Go, team!
its kind of weird that they call the vulnerability itself "a patch"

I can be pedantic too and can see how there isn't really a distinction between an exploit and a patch as they both modify the software, but thats a weird colloquialism right?
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Man I hate these with a passion. I always forget one thing or so, and then every now and then you're selected for a random check, and you feel like a common thief and have to do the walk of shame to the actual register for re-scanning and paying.

Also, the self scanners require you to weigh your fruits & vegetables at the f&v section. Although it seems they're adding scales to the self checkout boots lately, so hopefully I can start using the in-store scanning the way I use Anglo-Saxon self-checkout booths soon - just load up in the shop, scan everything yourself at the end.
People would pay for this for sure, but jeez, this page is terrible, I assume it's just an MVP, you need to get some design work on this asap & I'm sure people will pay.
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The current government possesses a type of thinking that considers reporting an embarrassing problem a bigger crime than those responsible for that problem.
This is where Intellij IDEA (and other JetBrains' products) lack severely.

There is a 14 year old (!!) issue in their issue tracker https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEABKL-708 asking for such feature. Unfortunately they are so much better in other areas (code navigation/exploration, refactoring) that they don't have to even try :-//.

There is a commercial plugin https://floobits.com/, but it is
- monthly subscription
- buggy
- transfers code to their servers
so it is not really an option.
Activists Made Mathematician Says Paper Disappear Because Findings Offended Them
You don't have to make it available to the public if you only use it internally. You only ever have to share it with the people who use it. If it's only internally used that means you don't have to share it.

Even if it's externally used that doesn't mean it has to be freely available. If you require a paid subscription to access the AGPLed software then you only have to provide the source to those that have paid for the subscription.
I second the recommendation for Richter's book, which is a fascinating look into the mind of a pianist who musicians pretty much unanimously consider to be the greatest of the 20th century:

https://www.amazon.com/Sviatoslav-Richter-Conversations-Brun...

(not an affiliate link)

Haydn's output is huge and varied. It can take time to find the right recordings and pieces to convince you, as sometimes interpretations can be a bit pedestrian. French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is in the process of recording all of Haydn's Piano Sonatas for British label Chandos Records, and the latest Volume (no. 7) is superb.

https://www.chandos.net/products/reviews/CHAN_10998
I would add a third dimension to that chart: probability of success. I'm sure being a Hollywood actor or a rockstar are both fun and well-paying, but the chance of success is tiny
Water has been obviously wet for as long as there’s been water. The theory of quantized light has only existed since 1900. The idea of using light quanta to power logic gates is a very modern innovation, in a very modern field called quantum computing, which is what the article being discussed is about.

There’s no such thing as dry water, but there’s a very clear distinction between a technology that processes individual photons and one that just uses light. Perhaps ‘quantum light’ is a bit contrived, but the ‘quantum-ness’ of the light is the novel aspect of both the technology and the underlying physics.
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, you are right there is still a lot to be done - we are just trying to get some initial comments/thoughts on it via HN. Is is not 'officially' launched yet. Any specific advice on improvements?
Scenic – a client application framework written in Elixir/Erlang
> But if there were a decent solution, many people in Israel would push very hard to implement it. The truth is, most Israelis just don't know what to do anymore (and solutions have been tried before, negotiations have happened

There are perfectly good solutions. The problem is that they require Israel to give up what has appropriated during these years of violence, and stop appropriating more. And Israel doesn't want to do it, because it knows it can get away with it.

That's it. Enough excuses.
Last I read, most IPv6 networks in western countries are already NAT-less.

There was an IPv6 post a few days ago about how China was surprisingly under-deployed on IPv6. The speculation was that they were sticking to IPv4 and carrier-grade NAT for control purposes.

That being said, I'm sure if NAT-less ever starts cutting into the income of our FANGs, they'll surely cook-up some reason to re-introduce NAT to IPv6.
> This is pretty normal

Can anyone comment how common it is? Isn't normal in Europe? US? Other countries?
> In return, subscribers can be confident that those packages are well-maintained.

1. How can they be confident of that? (Hint: it seems like what you're saying is that you'll place some conditions on maintainers, presumably if you see enough adoption this could make you a powerful stakeholder)

2. I see tidelift offers some value in managing your other dependency concerns, I assume they extract some money for this. What is the ratio of money paid to maintainers v.s. extracted by tidelift.

3. How much are you charging for this service? Couldn't see a pricing page.

4. Who is the intended audience? Large orgs? SME? Single developers?
Kings 200 years ago didn't have to spend most of their lives working.
I have a female boss now and its the worst job I've ever had. None of this is because she's female, just to point out that it's probably got more to it than just male/female.
I hope they like it! :)
Hi akdor1154:
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Couldn't agree more. Of all the engineers I worked with back in Brazil that I would happily work with again, more than 75% of them left Brazil. They now live in places like the San Francisco, Palo Alto, NYC, Toronto, Montreal, Berlin, Amsterdam, London. What's most ridiculous is that at the recent BayBrazil event here in São Paulo, I explicitly asked the panelists if the situation had changed since when I worked there a manager would make 2.5x to 3x what the ICs earned. Every single panelist dodged the question by spouting some bullshit about how people have other motivations besides money for staying in Brazil. Yeah, I'm sure a minority of them do, the majority however keep leaving.
I understand, but if you don't get value for money, then this is pretty depressing. For example I pay for NHS but still go privately, because the quality of care I get is poor. Same with education, child care and other. You pay for this things privately and on top of that you fund this to other people. Then you come back from work and see all the drunks spending away your hard earned money. System is broken.
Good questions - also how does Tidelift avoid people gaming the system?

E.g. my node_modules folder is full of thousands and thousands of packages, could I, as the maintainer of several of those packages, split them into 100 sub packages, all dependent on each other and claim 100x the money?
I must say that even though it might look great for investors and business owners, software engineers suffer a lot.

In the recent years, the situation in Brazil has only got worse. The BRL is worth nothing and engineers get a lot less than anywhere here in Europe or the US.

Life quality is also bad and it's rare to find a good work environment, especially outside São Paulo.

If I had to go back to Brazil, São Paulo is definitely the only city I would live in.
I mean human misery is also completely normal and natural, that doesn't mean we're not going to notice it and point it out when we get better tools for identifying it...
Hi lilbobbytables:
Thanks for your suggestion, I have modified it.
Not a partner so not sure my feedback is relevant there, but an obvious use case would be integration, probably as a plugin into all kind of open source galleries, photo browsers, organizers etc.

Also, generally the wording is vague enough to cover almost anything, which means at some point, sooner or later you might have to rely on the judgement of some random future googler to prevent all your integrations being destroyed.
No worries! It's a foolish mistake. I often don't know what I'm saying.

I suppose what I was trying to say is that by manual labor, I like being outside, and by adding a philosophy major, I get to do work that doesn't always require using the computer so I can do work under a tree and I get to think about something else. If I didn't add a philosophy major, I would just be inside and engulfed in front of the computer, thinking about computers. If any of that makes any sense and has any correlation to each other whatsoever.
“I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition."
(said to Leopold Mozart, Mozart's father)
― Joseph Haydn

Also:
". . . scarcely any man can brook comparison with the great Mozart. . . If I could only impress on the soul of every friend of music, and on high personages in particular, how inimitable are Mozart's works, how profound, how musically intelligent, how extraordinarily sensitive! (for this is how I understand them, how I feel them) - why then the nations would vie with each other to possess such a jewel within their frontiers."
― Joseph Haydn

Also, a letter from Mozart to Haydn:
"A father, having resolved to send his sons into the great world, finds it advisable to entrust them to the protection and guidance of a highly celebrated man, the more so since this man, by a stroke of luck, is his best friend. - Here, then, celebrated man and my dearest friend, are my six sons. - Truly, they are the fruit of a long and laborious effort, but the hope, strengthened by several of my friends, that this effort would, at least in some small measure, be rewarded, encourages and comforts me that one day, these children may be a source of consolation to me. - You yourself, dearest friend, during your last sojourn in this capital, expressed to me your satisfaction with these works. - This, your approval, encourages me more than anything else, and thus I entrust them to your care, and hope that they are not wholly unworthy of your favor. - Do but receive them kindly, and be their father, guide, and friend! From this moment on I cede to you all my rights over them: I pray you to be indulgent to their mistakes, which a father's partial eye may have overlooked, and despite this, to cloak them in the mantle of your generosity which they value so highly. From the bottom of my heart I am, dearest friend,
Your most sincere friend, W. A. Mozart
How we designed Chrome 10 years ago
Being more stressed in your 30s than your early 20s is probably normal too.

You've got less time on the planet, I've got a wife and three kids to support now, career options are vastly more limited, incurred massive debt to buy a house. But hey, things are going comparatively well for me relative to many of my peers.

It seems really hard to compare between generations. Things are so different, but if mental health is towards the top of the pile of concerns now we should probably address it regardless of whether it's really a bigger issue than today than it was previously.
Couldn't agree more! This new generation of companies really needs to speed up their game if they want to compete with big companies
Correct, he was chancellor until 2005, Merkel was responsible for one year only.
Pintrest's algorithm is trying desperately to tempt me back (I used it briefly to look for some UI examples). Last week it sent me... what I can only describe as a bunch of racist mexican jokes.

If anyone from pintrest is here and wants to see the email, let me know and I'll dig it out.
I use it, and normally everything you posted above would matter for me.

But Pinterest works for what I use it for and works really well. So I don't care.