skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really stretching to remember, but I recall that initially the Hurd was planning to have a completely distributed user system (i.e., file handles were essentially URLs, they had a system for dealing with users distributed in the network, etc). They were going to use the Mach kernel message passing in really innovative ways and I seem to recall that they had in mind some fairly radical ideas for distributed processing. I don't think they ever really realized any of that (I haven't actually checked what they ended up doing). My impression was that the project was dogged with a lot of problems, some technical and some not. Had they succeeded, it would have been a really amazing system, I think. One of these days I keep thinking I should check out what they actually did.
I've been looking hard for an open source replacement for the backend that would let my users edit as simply as with WordPress, but not tie my hands with PHP and an odd API for creating the front end. But so far, I haven't found anything that meets users needs like WordPress does. I wish there were more competition in this space. The closest I've seen--different services that let you create content and provide a GraphQL API--are all SaaS and not very cheap. Maybe the financial incentives to create a viable WordPress competitor that's open source just aren't there anymore...
NASA does a lot of work on hypersonic flight. Lots of sources to link to, here's an article from a few years ago:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/meet-nasas-new-x-pla...
What problems exactly? The web works pretty well and the source of most problems is non-technical. AMP is cache + handcuffs. No, thanks. I am no web-developer, but pretty sure I wouldn't want to touch that. Is performance really an issue these days? It probably always is but there are worse ones. One specifically being closed web technologies administered by large companies like Google.
It really isn't though.

Try paying 600€ worth of taxes in Portugal with cash and all you'll get is a fine because its banned.

Try to buy a macbook? You better have a bank account because its illegal to buy it using cash.

You owe 3000€ to a friend who lent it to you? Can't just give him the money 100€ bill at a time because that's illegal too.

Anyone who says "you're not forced to use banks" or "cash has value because you must pay your taxes with it" is either ignorant or intentionally misleading.
It really worries me about if we know the implications of the algorithms that are been used. I don't think that this is what FB intended, but more thought needs to be given to affects of algorithms.
Actually...I doubt that. At least in US, for the company I worked for, I don't think there is an option for me to be paid in cash in the first place. Even in reality people use check though, that still requires a bank account.
I haven’t been able to find a clear quote in print, but a year-old article in Vox [1] reads:

> “Musk has been the visionary,” said Steve LeVine, a journalist at Axios who has written a book about the battery industry. “He has been willing to take the plunge all the way along, from the very beginning.” In contrast, he told me in a phone interview, “Detroit has approached this race so cautiously.”

I remember hearing Musk being quite adamant the scale of the factory was for batteries, but you have to understand, he can’t really publicly say that he’s leveraging Panasonic for now, but will drop them as soon as he can.

[1]: https://www.vox.com/new-money/2017/4/17/15293892/tesla-batte...
> ... “it’s a fairly outrageous assumption that any change to this region would lead to some benefit,” Ryder says. “He made new mutations, and there’s no reason to think that they’d be protective—or even that they’d be safe.”

True.

> What’s shocking about this “is the blatant disregard of all the rules and conventions we have in place for how one should approach any proposed intervention,” said Leonid Kruglyak, a geneticist at the University of California at Los Angeles, on Twitter.

That's like saying no one can stab you because it is illegal.

It would seem that the systematic error lies squarely on academia and business ignoring each other for far too long.

ED:

Clearly I have failed the communicate what I mean...

There are two different cultures both using the same tools. One believes it controls the tools and gets to set rules for how they are used. The other does not.

Juxtapose, the censorship board for TV in my country, which decided that calling Yugo surplus "genocide canteens" is bad, but reprehensible filth like Fear Factor and Big Brother is OK for prime time. Clearly, opinions do differ and are allowed to differ. - I call into question: Is the case of bioethics vs. business similar?
You could use the data from musicbrainz

eg
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7d0e8067-10b9-4069-95dc-1110a...
If it's ethically defensible to abort a child based on its sex (or for any other non-medical reason), it should be ethically defensible to mess with its genome.

I, for one, welcome our new Chinese designer baby overlords.
Sonarr and various similar utilities such as Emby also use .NET. The memory leaks of Emby are killing me on a Raspberry Pi but otherwise the performance is OK. And you can safely restart the service (be it Docker or native systemd/sysv or whatever) at 4 AM.

What are you going to switch to, btw?
I'm a few years and 200+ posts deep on my blog and I still mostly write for myself.

Not because I'm a selfish dickwad, but most of my posts ends up being drawn from real world development experience, and to further improve my ability as a developer, I write about the experience openly.

It seems like a win win situation. I get a better understanding of what I'm doing and it becomes a searchable reference for myself and anyone else who happens to stumble on one of my posts.
I don't know the laws, but I know they don't have to accept it. It falls in the same lines as places not accepting payment in pennies or car dealerships refusing to sell a car to anyone paying the balance upfront. Weirdly, this doesn't seem like much of an issue when buying a house.
We haven't called it a day. The servo team still exists, we still work on Servo.

Working on a production ready project is hard and takes forever, the integration work was a pit stop where we had an opportunity to get our work out to users. We'll take these opportunities as we get them.
> There's no reason a 12" (and 13.3/14) laptop should be less powerful than a 15" or 17", though.

yes there is. area and volume inside the chassis increase a lot faster than the length of the diagonal. the limiting factors for performance are heat dissipation and power. a bigger chassis can evacuate heat faster and house a larger battery that can sustain high power use for longer.
That’s Nasa’s quiet supersonic project.

Hypersonic is five or six times the speed of sound.

It would of course be nice to have both.
A guest lecturer from Germany comes to a university classroom and begins giving his speech in German. After five minutes, a bored student gets up to leave.

"No, wait!" interjects the German lecturer. "I've almost gotten to the verb!"
I own a macbook pro 15 , which is a work laptop and it's horrendous. The keyboard has so less travel that it feels like the keys were pasted on top of the keyboard, the touchbar is annoying when you want to use the function keys while programming, it has 'zero' usb ports so when you need to plug in a HDD you need to hunt for an adapter. Same with you are in a meeting and want to connect hdmi/displayport off you go adapter hunting again.
"I think you're reading far too much into a blogger naming one of their fictional characters "Juliana""

That's not what OP is saying, and it's not one blogpost. For a more general background check out this podcast (or hes book that I haven't read): https://www.jordanharbinger.com/jonathan-haidt-the-danger-of... (ok, not the same, but related)

That stands to reason, yes. It's not the case where I live though.
That's not a concensus of modern neroscience, that's a philosophical consensus that perhaps neuroscientists have. Consciousness is not eligible for science because it can't be observed. For example you might think someone under deep anethesia is not conscious, but how do you know that they aren't completely conscious while not experiencing anything, doing anything or forming memories?
> However, as someone who lived through this and experienced it first hand, I stopped trusting cash from that day onwards. I carry just enough with me to get by for couple of days.

I suppose you leave the rest in a bank account. That won't help if all bank accounts are frozen, as I lived through in the early 90s here in Brazil (we called it "Confisco da Poupança", see https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plano_Collor#Medidas_do_Plano_...).
What are HN's thoughts on ungoogled-chrome? It's still a Chromium browser but without the Google spying.
Too bad all these solutions have at least 3 middlemen before the artist... Credit card, processor, bandcamp... and then the whole label, distribution, and management fees... its a great start, but as an artist, its only that. One person buying a tshirt, or coming to a concert makes me more than 100 internet store sales. Support your artist by seeing them live. And dance.
You missed Webrender.

I switched over the firefox a month ago from chrome. While I had tried doing that a few times over the past few years, i came back to chrome because honestly there was not much difference and chrome just feels like home. This time around I had switched to try out a new tech called 'webrender'. Webrender takes a completely different approach to rendering and compositing, instead of maintainting layers and repainting certain sections it renders and paints content like a game engine.

Chrome can get jerky on a 4k monitor with lots of tabs open, but not firefox . With webrender everything is silky smooth. It's so good that I used hacks to also enable it on my intel laptop ( webrender is currently not supported on integrated graphics by default ) and the result is a browser which feels and works smoother than anything that I have experienced before. Everytime I open chrome now it just feels laggy and slow in comparison.
There's little in common between an EV/stationary battery pack and a smartphone battery. What's the redundancy and the battery management/cooling system in the latter?
>> What’s shocking about this “is the blatant disregard of all the rules and conventions we have in place for how one should approach any proposed intervention,” said Leonid Kruglyak, a geneticist at the University of California at Los Angeles, on Twitter.

>That's like saying no one can stab you because it is illegal.

It's like saying no one should stab you because it is illegal.
The only non ambiguous ways to use metric ton are 'metric ton' and 'tonne'. I think its best to evade the use altogether. I propose 1234kg instead of 1.2t.
IIRC this isn't intentional, but it's not due to benevolence either: The whole custom elements fiasco (which is largely Google jumping the gun and shipping an unstandardized API that they eventually had to deprecate) means that some Google properties are still written on custom elements v0, and use a polyfill on non-Chrome.
When you say "not very cheap", you're illustrating the problem: people don't want to spend money in their CMS.

Companies spend hundreds (or more) a month on various SaaS services but are looking for dirt cheap for something as critical as their public facing website.
Most CAs already operate an OCSP responder which supports querying daily (if not more frequently) to make sure a certificate still hasn't expired; it checks the database and responds with a signed and timestamped acknowledgement. (Those that don't need to support frequent queries of a static certificate revocation list file.) So this is already a level of requests that CAs have to be built for.

And even if it didn't, scaling certificates from once a year to once a week requires merely 50x capacity - a finite number, and something that's very easy to plan out. If CAs in the '90s and '00s were able to handle a certain once-a-year request load, surely CAs today can handle 50x that.
These days, there are more viable alternatives to Oracle than there were back then. UPU was complex to administer, and had the primary purpose of extracting more money from customers. I suspect Oracle doesn't want to give customers a reason to start looking for alternatives.
Rent space on an art work
The mindshare of mid- to upper-level execs within its customer's organizations. EG, in today's "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM", "IBM" is Intel.
But that's where the Mi-Go are hiding...
I think a lot of bloggers write primarily for themselves. But I also think many are secretly or subconsciously hoping it'll find some kind of audience. Which makes sense, because if you literally do not care at all whether anyone else reads this or finds it useful, you wouldn't bother publishing it.

A blog is a communication device, so it doesn't make a lot of sense to do it solely for yourself. I think to myself a lot (sometimes out loud) and I write for myself a lot, but I wouldn't talk into a phone with a dial tone to myself :)

So perhaps this piece is also useful for people who write primarily for themselves, but also would like to remove any barriers to others finding and enjoying the fruits of their efforts.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18627020
My background is in the FPGA industry which gives an absolutely fantastic example of this exact dynamic. FPGA companies produce a new generation of chips every 3-5 years or so. There are only two companies, with market share split 60:40. In the last 2 decades we've seen one produce a fantastic product and the other screw up, and then it flips, and then it flips back. Over that time the market share of these companies went 60:40, 62:38, 58:42, 60:40. The actual number of customers who switch to the better product is tiny. Why?

* All the existing knowledge in the company is about one platform, it's incredibly expensive to develop the skills on the other toolchain. Port all your software etc.

* The existing products are all from one vendor so you save loads of effort if all the products are basically similar.

* There are existing relationships with the company you're with.

* You know that if you do switch, all that cost of switching may result in only a few years of using the better product.

* The IP you're buying works better with the vendor you're currently on.

* You don't know what the real world performance will actually be for your application.

So yeah, you could move from Intel to AMD, but the chip is only a tiny part of that cost.
Don't know this time, but Chinese textbooks mentioned the radioactive space environment could cause mutations in the genes, creat new varieties.
The ministries are always the same. Sorry if I implied differently.

The 7 Top Minister (Bundesrat elected by Parliament) pick a ministry and the select based on how long they have been in.

So in the beginning you might get something unpopular like military but after a couple years you can switch to interior minister.

Because they don't get replaced as often as US presidents they can have a much longer term view. In fact they hardly get replaced at all, mostly they just retire.
SuperCell launches a free coding school
Huawei Reveals the Real Trade War with China
Exactly. But no-one would argue that you should use Irish sounding names in your Saudi blog about Saudi people.
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If it’s legal to drink alcohol and poison yourself it’s no different than pouring arsenic in the water supply and poisoning everyone right?
"hanging up"

How can you "hang" something in microgravity
Frankly, I don't want to choose firefox. Their priorities are utterly misplaced.

I can't believe people don't talk about the dark gtk theming bug more often. It's one of the most common firefox questions on stackoverflow: If you have a dark gtk theme, like Arc-dark or Adwaita-dark, then Firefox randomly colors certain web page elements (usually text boxes) dark to match your desktop theme.

Almost always resulting in black text on a black background. There are examples of this misbehavior on mozilla.org

THIS BUG HAS BEEN OPEN FOR 18 YEARS https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70315

If something so obvious and so easy (why not make white the default background color, like every other browser) has gone unfixed for so long, despite its manifestation on their own home page, then why wouldn't I expect that there are tons of other common sense things that Mozilla has totally ignored, waiting for me to stumble upon them like so many land mines?
I've been writing for a while (few years, 200+ technical posts) and I have to admit, I don't follow most of the advice in that guide.

I pretty much go with:

Explain the why, show the how, make it as concise as possible, and whenever possible share shorties from real world experiences to make it relatable to a use case.

Also, up until writing this comment I didn't even realize I was doing the above. In other words, I don't set out to do that for every post. It just comes out like that naturally because most of my posts are based on experiences instead of forcing or trying to invent a blog post.
New Fight for Online Privacy and Security, Australia Falls: What Happens Next?
Use KeePass
What hours do you work? I've worked from home for over 5 years now and had a kid last year. I work in the evenings from 5pm til very late and my partner isn't working, apart from her two full-time jobs of looking after two kids (baby and me :D).

This works out great for us as we can do things together during the day and then I can go to my office at 5. There can be a few interruptions until the wee girl gets to bed at about 7 but I don't mind, I usually welcome them.
Are they ditching php? Webhosts have the most to gain financially from a switch to node.js powered WordPress.
You can try to use Publii CMS https://getpublii.com , it works very similar to WP, but generates a static output.
"often" slowest of the bunch
Securing the Institutions We Rely On: A Grassroots Case Study
One final item I'd add to this list: It is your own writing for your own reasons. Feel free to ignore any rule that you disagree with or just don't like, in particular if your write as a personal exercise, and not to try to build an audience.
Amazing the difference in price between what IBM sold these for, and what it bought RedHat for.

It highlights the decline of their engineering and software assets.
I find that there's tons of embedded systems work out there, especially in the medical device space.
10 Useful Food Tricks
Looks like milliondollarhomepage.com
You'd have to ask Crazy Eddie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yYGoO5imyY
First Long March 5 rocket succeeded in Nov '16. Second one failed in July '17
If you answer and stay silent, all of these calls hang up at 11 seconds without fail.

I'm curious what happens after 11 seconds?
The problem with Fentanyl is dosage. It's really concentrated so if the manufacturing or separation into portions isn't well controlled then it's easy to end up with a much higher dose than expected. In a hospital with a known reliable source, you can get the right dose. When it's been cut into fake pain pills, it's easy to overdose.
Oh, that was with an adblocker on. But aside from that, many of the websites I go to don't have AMP and load quickly. Hacker News is a pretty good example; I try to keep my own website relatively lightweight as well, just like many other personal blog sites.
The tech gap is too big, despite media hype, don't think China can even catch up.
I've seen the comment here on HN and a few other sites in the past few days - are there sites out there that don't work in Firefox, but do work in Chrome?

Like, I'm aware of a few CSS properties that work in Chrome but not FF, but I don't think I've ever come across a site that doesn't look or work completely fine in FF.

The only exception to this that I can think of is Google Earth, which I'm pretty sure you can open inside of Chrome. I've always used the desktop app for that though so I'm not sure.
We got a contrarian!

Seriously tho, I have 16 machines I use. Running everything from amigaos to ubuntu studio, win10, and mac. Windows 10 is by far the least responsive, and tqkes more time updating and fixing drivers than the rest combined. Sure, I use music interfaces, latency is my devil, but even ignoring that weakness, Windows 10 is both the worst OS I run, and only better than ME and Vista even in the microsoft world.
Open Glasgow's Moral Maze
Yes, further details https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/07/long-march-5-lofts-s...
Mozilla has been experimenting for years with ways to lead users to what they want to read without going through a search engine. This is both an attempt to improve user experience, an attempt to workaround Google's search quasi-monopoly and an attempt to find alternate revenue sources that would guarantee Mozilla's independence from Google.

And yes, the difference between this and ads is paper-thin – just like the difference between search and ads is paper-thin – so it's easy to get things wrong.

One of these experiments was through a German start-up called Cliqz, in which Mozilla invested in early stage. For a small fraction of German users, Firefox used the Cliqz engine as an implementation of this recommendation engine: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cliqz-recommendations-f...

For these users, lots of private data was sent to Cliqz (pretty much the data that Chrome sends to Google). Cliqz is open-source and there were contracts between Cliqz and Mozilla to legally guarantee user's privacy, but I do not know/remember the details. Also, I seem to remember that the default Cliqz settings in the experiment were set to minimal privacy, which wasn't very good.

The experiment didn't last long, in part because of privacy concerns, but some people were (understandably) unhappy about this, including most Firefox devs.

(I may be missing some details, I haven't followed this closely)

More details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/74yo19/cliqz_and_m...
Yes, people love to talk about that one law and bring it up at every opportunity as if we were stoning muslims to death.

It was really mostly because people didn't like the architecture. Muslims in Switzerland are freer then in many other countries in Europe and for every 'evil populist' law that Switzerland made you will find that 10 populist proposals have been rejected (left and right wing).

Also, lets remember that Minarett are something people like, they are not required or in any way limit religious freedom of Muslims.

So yes, we had like 4 Minaret and they wanted to build 2 more and can't. Populism has truly made live hell.
>The more sync'ed the more complex the brain obviously

That may not even be true. Octupus brains are constrained to a toroidal geometry because they eat through the doughnut hole. Apparently despite their very large brain sizes and advanced problem solving skills the elements are fairly independent.
Is this something they are trying to study, or trying to protect against?
Doubtful. I'm pretty sure the phone speaker isn't even capable of producing the frequency or volume necessary to do any real damage, you'd mostly just be hurting everyone in earshot.

Now if you had suggested that vigilantes actually get off their asses and find these people and do horrible things to them, you might have something. Of course, as cathartic as it sounds, vigilantism is generally frowned upon for good reason.
And most people seem to be very happy about it.