skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There's essentially no technical difference between a TLD and a domain name.

Yes there is. You just need to stop talking about this subject because you are very much wrong.

TLDs have authoritative organizations that adhere to ICANN regulations and act as a gatekeeper to a varied and diverse set of domains under that TLD. Certain TLDs have specific purposes. Some are country codes, others are specific scopes, some others are built in from decades past.
More distant (longer baseline), not merely additional sensors.

Resolving power is proportional to the (virtual) aperture size, not the total sensor area (that gives more signal strength).
The brain damage caused by Outlook/Exchange and IE remain with us. The brokenness and complexity don't go away; it slowly grows, making it increasingly difficult for decentralized communities, and increasingly easier for large corporations, to take the reigns.

In many respects the Internet doesn't route around damage so much as accumulate damage. And that's partly the result of apologists within the engineering community endlessly excusing Google (and more recently Mozilla), as well as increasingly greater numbers of engineers having no memory or even conception of running fundamental services independently. As the base layers become increasingly complex economies of scale increasingly prefer centralization, both in design and especially implementation.

There will always be competition. In many respects Cloudflare is a breath of fresh air, pushing against the stampede to AWS. Likewise, Mozilla viz-a-viz Chrome. But there are certain interests that large players will always share to the detriment of small organizations and individuals. DoH and DoT embedded in the browser intrinsically favor large organizations, and specifically Google and Cloudflare. And why do they promote DoH and DoT in the browser rather than promoting it at the system level (i.e. in Windows, Systemd, etc)? Because it's (a) less costly for them and (b) furthers their competitive commercial interests in their battle with other large organizations.

One reads endless apologia on HN about how people would rather send their DNS requests to Cloudflare and Google rather than their ISP, as if those were the only realistic options, and no matter that doing so doesn't require delegating even more functionality to the browser oligopoly. They've already given up. They see their own role as choosing sides as consumers rather than actively participating as producers of these technologies, which is so utterly depressing from the perspectives of preserving an open internet and promoting free software. (For example, web developers are fine with DoH because they don't see how it effects their own server-side and client-side development. It doesn't matter to them that it would make it increasingly difficult to independently implement and maintain the software and systems--they're just consumers. QUIC? Not their concern--that's the responsibility of nginx and node.js, no matter that those projects likely never could have been founded outside large corporations if they first had to climb the steep hill to HTTP/3 and QUIC.)

How do we stop this? By keeping an eye on long-term goals. While IPv6 and DNSSEC are more complex than some alternatives, from a long-term perspective they minimize overall complexity and substantially preserve independence, such as it is. Some options are even more clear cut: push DoH and DoT into the system resolver (and OpenBSD is doing, and projects like unbound and even, IIRC, systemd already support).
So...

My dad was a typesetter and prepress technician for years. His favourite font was helvetica. I sent him this link. Here are his comments:

>They fucked with "R" the only way too tell them abart, and they gave it a streight leg.

>They messed with the dots wich was the othe way you could tell.
I think there is an underlying misunderstanding with the application of "5 whys" which is a bit like the misunderstanding that people have with prioritisation. Let me diverge a bit with prioritisation: a lot of people know about the story of how to fit large rocks, medium sized rocks, small rocks and sand into a jar. You start with the largest size and work your way down to the smallest size (sand). The smaller rocks fit in the spaces of the large ones. The moral of the story is to look at the items that are most important as being large rocks and the ones that are being least important as being sand. And by doing the most important things first, you'll get everything done. Because... um... lesser important tasks fit into the spaces of more important tasks??? What??? No. This is a bad analogy that looks like's related, but isn't related in any way!

Getting back to the question at hand. "5 whys = 1 how". Because if we do the root cause analysis, we will definitely find a solution to our problem. What???? Because there is always a solution to our problem??? It's that same skipping over of the most important detail: you aren't doing the most important problems first because that way there will be space for the lesser important problems. You are doing the most important problem first because then when you run out of time, you've done the most important thing! Similarly, you aren't finding a solution when you are doing root cause analysis, your are finding problems. 5 whys is a tool for helping search the problem space. That is all.

The "5 whys = 1 how" quote is really unfortunate and I think it's taken completely out of context. You don't just do 5 whys once and say, "Oh now we know how to fix our problem". You keep doing the 5 whys over and over and over again so you can identify your problems. And at that point you can start to get a handle on your solutions. "5 whys = 1 how" doesn't mean there is only "1 how" that you need.

And just to sum up, if one of your 5 whys ends up with "An external entity failed us", then you might need to find a way that you aren't relying on that entity. However, run some other 5 whys to help you search the problem space a bit more. You may find another "how" that will help you better.
>> It seems to me that China just gave him some window-dressing

This form of cognitive dissonance is called "mind reading". You should look it up, unless you're a member of the negotiation team and have direct knowledge of the negotiations.
Most of the tech firms do this kind of brutal work schedule, so there are only very few choices left in the market, which are mostly foreign or national enterprises.
No, it's not. We can use facial recognition, we can use voice signatures. It doesn't even have to be recorded, as the device setup can record those signatures of consenting users and refuse to transmit or save any data that does not match those signatures.

Tell me, which of these do Alexa and the like perform?

Would it be more difficult? Yes! This is the reality for any company where rights and laws actually matter. If you can't abide, you can't release. Very simple.
I've been using Neovim consistently for the last few months and it's a game-changer. Terminals within Neovim that I can paste into/from my Vimwiki files or source files is amazing. It's not very different from a Vim setup and using it with the Qt GUI on Windows gets rid if the issue of having everything close when eventually having to call <C-w>. Meanwhile, in my linux environment it runs like a charm on a terminal.
996 is illegal in China. Tech company do it anyway with no consequences.

This is selective enforcement of law.
Is your pregnancy app sharing your intimate data with your boss?
Apparently tweeting the 996.icu website from the official Twitter Android/iOS clients causes it to refuse to send at all. You don't even need to be in China to see the result, because it blacklists the link globally. It allows the link on web and 3rd party clients, though.[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/copiesofcopies/status/111403968059961344...
Any thoughts on Nvidia's RAPIDS?
I was as confused as the other commentators by this post until I realized that fixermark is thinking of analog thermometers with a physical dial, while we (and probably the author as well) are envisioning electronic thermometers with digital displays.
This link on the page is dead (404): https://unlikekinds.com/article/how-google-is-creating-the-o...

Edit, apparently it should be linked from here, as the title and url of the article has changed: http://unlikekinds.com/t/how-google-is-creating-the-one-page...
It’s debatable whether the problem in Europe was too much free speech. Some would argue the problem was suppression of free speech.
The article goes on to point out that the WTO has ruled vast quantities of tax breaks to Boeing by Washington State and South Carolina also amount to illegal subsidies, the magnitude of which the EU is patiently waiting to obtain from the WTO before acting on.

It’s a little rich to see Boeing, the recipient of tons of illegal subsidies, pointing the finger at Airbus, in a pot-meet-kettle kind of way. Then calling in goons in the form of a uniquely sympathetic administration. FWIW this absolutely backfired last time, when they tried to squash the Bombardier C-series. They were afraid of a strengthening Bombardier but forced their hand and they gifted the program to Airbus — a much bigger threat.

The fact is the Trump administration is a fly-by-night operation of largely corrupt, authoritarian-leaning, nepotist, criminal actors (just by number of indictments). They literally tried to appoint a failed presidential candidate slash restaurant magnate with 30ish claims of sexual harassment against him who wants to return to the gold standard and is proud of his lack of knowledge of world leaders to man the Federal Reserve. This Week. That doesn't mean they're always wrong. It just means they've conditioned us to assume they are. Not really our fault, though, you know?
Yes if you dance your focus around the image, it appears to pulsate. Probably your pupils constricting and dilating due to the high contrast in the image.
An easy way to examine this issue is how rallies, protests etc are treated differently depending on their racial origins.

For example, when a city attempted to block the march of the Unite the Right rally, they were met with a strong resistance under their right to freedom of speech. Yet Black Lives Matter was treated with far more disdain and had a considerably stronger and disproportionate response to their activism. Freedom of Speech can be a bludgeon to allow movements filled with hatred to further their own causes, while it's conveniently ignored for minorities or said to be 'at the wrong place'.

This is why the ACLU has started to shift their position on an absolutist view of freedom of speech. Because in defending Unite the Right they directly caused harm to minority populations.
My first job in the US was at a startup located in an incubator building. In the same building was another startup that wasn't doing so well after a lot of growth and management there made sure that they would make some serious money at the firesale while everybody else made nothing. It really opened my eyes about the ethics of VCs and a lot of founders (who were very pleasant and nice people if you met them at the gym or the cafe).
They’ve been an advertising company since 2000, so I’d argue that yes it was there, people just didn’t recognise it/gave them the benefit of the doubt.
Somewhat interested at first, then looked for a sample precis and found the free trial by e-mail ... a stopper. One, online 5-minute segment might help to sell that idea.
When we started destroying alliances, throwing around tariffs and undermining US geopolitical power? Decades of diplomatic relations are being destroyed in just a few years. Putin must be laughing all the way to the bank by splitting the US/Euro alliance.
Sure, but I bet Intellij is a bit better when it comes to debugging java applications. A good IDE beats the crap out of Vim for a lot of tasks.
Not so sure. We live in a very different time, and appetites for breaking up very large companies with dominant market positions in the US seemed to die with the Clinton administration’s failed attempt on Microsoft.
Conform or be excommunicated. Questioning the narrative can't be allowed.

Government and corporate regulation of speech, total invasion of privacy by government and corporations: good.

Thinking like an individual instead of whatever a certain political party tells you: bad.
From my pilot perspective, if a fellow pilot took the action MCAS did, I would consider it homicidal. This is based on the last instance of MCAS activation at ~05:43:21, airspeed is already exceeded maximum operating speed (Vmo), MCAS commands 1.3 units of nose down trim inside of 5 seconds, which changed the attitude to ~18 degrees nose down within 6 seconds. The vertical acceleration momentarily went negative, meaning everyone in the plane came off their seat, and anyone or anything not strapped down went to the ceiling. Soon after this we can see their maximum yoke nose up inputs up to that point, clearly this is the struggle point, and it was not effective, the mistrim was too great.

At the altitude and airspeed at the time this last nose down was commanded, it can lead to only death, it's not recoverable, so yeah mass killing by software is not an extreme claim.
To block the 996 Github presence on Github would mean to block Github, as Github is served via HTTPS. That's not viable as Github is far too useful to block (IIRC it and StackOverflow were blocked a couple of years ago but then unblocked due to uproar from the tech industry).

To block Github 966 pages specifically means the domestic browsers are pre-filtering URL requests before they're made. And that means these domestic browsers are pre-filtering all URL requests, HTTPS or not, VPN or not.

Perhaps all forms on pages loaded by these browsers are also being eavesdropped.

Safe to say any secure experience under these browsers is compromised.
That's an unreasonable expectation. Security is not left to bug fixes. It is a skill developed by overall knowledge of the domain, and an explicit intent to be conscious of how what you write can be misused.

If someone can scan your repo for a problem this quickly, then youre not designing secure software, and that should be posted front and center at the top of the repo given that wasms entire purpose is machine independent code that is properly sandboxed from exploitation.
> google search results between

It's so amazing how predictable some of the response on HN are. Google is a search engine built for the web, and even more so today built for U.S. consumers. Not what's real, or true, or appreciable. And certainly not reality.

The fact that you thought this would be a convincing argument is extremely laughable and again, palpably ridiculous.
Join an old social club: you can use antique physical and cultural resources to jump start things like this. I did it; it works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gentlemen%27s_clubs_in...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Clubs_and_societies_i...

Hackerspaces are wrong -those are educational institutions, not "getting things done" institutions for grownups.
Ask HN: What ML research areas are under explored?
I'm particularly interested in neuroscience inspired modular neural networks, are there any other areas folks find interesting?
Yes, I meant "everything you say is recorded and might be reviewed by employees". But Amazon doesn't have to make every customer a beta-tester. And Alexa could give a warning when setting up for the first time, something like "Look, we are recording everything you tell me so please don't say something too embarassing or something that might get you into a trouble with police". While this is what any honest person should do, no way Amazon or any other major tech company does this.
In Mainland China you have to be really lucky to get such a choice.
Be split up only to later recombine into a larger entity?
> The person who manufactured the device shouldn't since they didn't use the device to break the law.

The issue at hand is that if the manufacturer is the one who turns on the device, then yes, it is 100% them breaking the law.

If my phone is hacked and the microphone is remotely enabled to record a conversation and ends up violating the law, I'm not at fault, the hacker is.

So how is it different if the "hacker" is just the manufacturer using a private channel that they built for themselves?
It feels like AMP is Google nailing its own coffin to me. It probably felt like a winning move when Bell and AT&T made people buy their own products to use telephone systems, but it led directly to their disruption by the DOJ. Even though some poeple at Google probably realize that, it won’t matter if they cash out beforehand, if working on a project gets them promoted, and if institutional inertia is in control.

Google is hurtling toward an antitrust case they won’t win, and it will really be all their fault.
>It's literally the exact argument you made.

No it isn't. What plane of confusion are you on?

I literally tried to describe this with shapes and you couldn't grasp it apparently.
I have practically no doubt that Alexa and others are malevolently spying on their users, I hate to argue their case but I would like to be able to buy one if I wanted to.

Should I be allowed to buy a vehicle without a clear view of my surroundings if I only intend to use it on private land? Should I be allowed to buy a recording device with no privacy features if I intend to use it only in private? Does the potential harm produced by the availability of tools without bells and whistles for public safety outweigh the desires of users who would gladly pay for the bare-bones version and use it private?
I have heard that too. By raising an issue you may delay some deals so they may choose to pay you off just to get rid of you. But obviously there are no guarantees and hiring a lawyer may cost money.
True. Hacker news is the only news I read. Because it mostly filters out the stuff I don’t care about.
Pretty much every “traditional news” headline basically says to me:

“This horrible thing happened somewhere that has no bearing on your life!”

That’s the kind of “news” I try to avoid.
The problem might even be more fundamental than public interest. Even if we had the best possible news organizations, with the best possible journalists, only honest, upright politicians and interest groups, and the best possible news consumers that were interested in the right things, it still might be impossible for most people to be truly knowledgeable about anything but very, very narrow slices of the world, most of the time.

We sort of assume that there's some possible combination of headlines, articles, books, tweets etc that can make us informed and wise about the current state of things in the world, that matter. But what if that isn't true? I think it probably isn't.
Ask HN: HN Front Page Title Edits?
What percentage of posts on the front page do the mods edit? It seems like it is a pretty high amount. This also seems like a very exhausting job to handle.
RIP. Some benedictions, in the form of his brother's timeless voice ;)

https://folkways.si.edu/mark-van-doren/reads-from-his-collec...
The article mentions exactly that like, two paragraphs later
I'm having a hard time finding a good, comprehensive comparison between Qt and Electron. My current understanding (which is probably wrong) is that Qt isn't much smaller than Electron itself and I would need to use C++. The animations do not look simple or easy to understand at all, but that's just a first glance.

QtQuick, at first glance, is weird. It uses JS and the animation transitions look pretty close to css transitions.

I guess what I'm looking for here is: how is it a clear win over electron other than just raw speed?

Maybe I'll make a non-simple app in both electron and QtQuick and see how they compare in terms of ease of development, development speed, app size, ram usage and "speed".
Cue the violins.
Given the title, I expected this to be about how PG improved their counting. This is not what it was about.

I remember working over half a billion records and having problems when I needed a count. I used count(id) but that was mainly from internet mantra. I did not see an improvement. Using Citus gave me a significant improvement from 7 minutes to 1. And that was just a single coordinator, two workers on the same host. It could become much much better.

If the data is very stagnant and writes are very low the triggers are great. Usually the "close enough" with pages is good if you have over 100k since paging - please correct me if I'm wrong - is sometimes 1k off.

My preference is Citus as a catch all, but a trigger, a Redis cache managed at the app level, or using page counts are all . really useful for stickier situations.
Most articles are little better than click bait. Journalists writing about X usually aren’t trained in X and usually have little time to build expertise in X. They are by training writers, so for the most part they’re reduced to parroting the narratives peddled by this or that group or political party. It’s very rare I read a general news article within my areas of subject matter knowledge and think “oh, this writer really understands and has highlighted the important issues.” I have to assume the same is true for subject matter I’m not familiar with, like tax policy. In reality, for a lot of these subjects, nobody knows the answers, not even the “experts.” For those things, journalists have neither the space, time, or education to even do a good job raising the relevant issues, much less elucidating the answers.
Sound analysis from one sentence.
Man, that is pretty reductive. There is a lot of nuance here, and to act like this is somehow a priori "immoral" is not a reasonable conclusion. This behavior is clearly related to trying to provide the service that people bought. We can argue over it being immoral or not, but this isn't as cut and dry as you are making it out to be.

Of course, you already said I am a shill, so I don't know why I am trying to respond.
"Still, he took a $250k investment from his parents to help found the company."

Seems he is another wealthy guy who "made it on his own". I couldn't raise even a 10th of that from my family.
Searching with regexes is more likely to be useful when trolling through log or data files than code.

Even then, the most common cases for me are searching for a string only at the beginning or ending of a line, or only searching for instances that are not part of a larger word.
Much of internet news seems to follow the TV news model: lurid "breaking stories" interrupts and soundbites designed to capture your interest and trick you into watching advertising and vapid commentary. The important information is usually summarized quite adequately in a couple of headlines or sentences the next day, and it's usually easy to dig up more information if you really care.
There's an interesting disconnect from pieces like this and those demanding that tech companies monitor every piece of content on their networks.
Granted, advertising in the early 2000s was vastly different though. It was served organically, with none of the tracking or embedded-scripting nonsense that's ubiquitous today (whether from Google or other actors). The very notion of "ad-blocking" or "tracker-blocking" would have made no sense back then.
You mean like the US does to Huawei?
Preloading is a waste of data on mobile. If you're on a metered connection then this costs more. Ranking sites by performance would already ensure a fast UX for users.

Also position on the SERP page is a major indicator of relevancy. Biasing results because they use AMP is unfair and inaccurate.
How are these places insured against industrial accidents?

I wonder if the way to get your foot in the door would be to partner with an insurer who would provide discounts to the client if they installed security technology meeting a certain standard. You could come up with some kind of bump on the wire type Linux device that proxied access to the old insecure system bringing them up to the standard. Then sell it as a return on investment through savings on industrial accident insurance premiums.