skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your business is a financial equivalent portfolio allocation of too many lottery tickets and not enough stably yielding bonds and securities, you're gonna have a bad time. Predictably, many businesses run with such a naive mentality fold.
What You Need to Know about Strong Customer Authentication (SCA)
I don't have any additional context, but the overall style of the post makes it sound to me like it could be talking about a change in the add-on API license or something (in addition to a general pro GPL post). This is the strongest evidence I have:

> I expect that all add-on developers recognize and respect this concept.
Theoretically yes, but its impractical and expensive.

Verifying classical hardware and removing side channels is hard enough.
Meson is basically SCons done right.
I'm not sure it's as small a step as you think. Naked people aren't allowed in public in most places either, so not being in ads isn't that wild, you don't see many naked people that you don't want to. I think banning people in ads is closer on the scale of likelihood to banning the actual products than it is to banning naked people.
5G Espionage (II) – German-Foreign-Policy.com
Good luck trying to get all the 15 nutrients that only are present on animal food.
True.

Also interesting:
Current physician guidelines don't recommend treating to a specific number, like <200. When I trained (<5 years ago) we were taught to check cholesterol levels and if LDL > n then start a statin and increase the dose until LDL < n.

Now, its (almost) entirely risk assessment based: https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/ten-points-to-remem...
If we're talking about things that capitalism requires, one is perfect information. Is advertising closer to perfect information than never hearing about products?

edit: I should say, is advertising closer to perfect information than word of mouth? I guess that's subjective.
That blog post is an impressive logical leap on the authors part.

I realise that the post is not from recently but the benchmarks are on seriously outdated software and hardwaee, those specs are over a decade old at this stage. His conclusions are also misleading, all of his graphs show that make is 2-10x faster than scons, and that make scales better than scons.he seems hell bent on proving there's no quadratic complexity, despite there being an order of magnitude of a difference!

On the other hand, I don't think it's reasonable to assume every build system will immediately support every compiler/IDE. At the end of the day, scons is an open source project and if that's the only issue stopping you using it, I'm sure they'd be happy to accept patches providing support rather than wait months.
I agree with this conclusion.

Not all mortality risk operates through cholesterol-dependent mechanisms. And even for those that do, decades of exposure to high cholesterol can’t be totally reversed by medications.
You can't expect to be taken seriously in a discussion of age discrimination when you are using blatant discriminatory language. Imagine if in a race discrimination discussion you had said the equivalent "I hire respectable black people, but I don't hire--[the word I can't say or HN would ban me]"
I think this is for the recent surge of quasi-open-source license changes some products have gone through. That's why they underline the difference between free software and open source.

Recently people started saying that the OSI's Open Source Definition is restrictive and obsolete, that having the sources available is enough, that it's not a problem to restrict usage, etc... That's why it's important to stress "free as in freedom" in free software and not "open as in you can see the source" in open source.
I was playing a Moba with my brother almost every day, talking on voice while we played. I had to quit because the Moba was really sucking up all my drive and free time, but after quitting, I really missed talking with my brother. I started playing again for that reason, but had to quit again, because in the year and a half I was playing that game, I really got nothing done other than have lots of fun and piss off my wife. Of course I never call my brother on the phone otherwise, I have no reason to. I have a really hard time finding a middle ground, but the social aspect of gaming is definitely one of the strong positives for me.
The main comment here seems to be sluggish performance.

Is it some sort O(n^2) rule handler deep inside the builder? Or is it just "python-slow" ? :/

Can someone give an example of a big open source project which is too slow to build?
The title is a mock of “Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know”[0], although these are (a) limited to a popular, yet not exclusive platform, (b) subjective to change at any moment.

[0]: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/interactive_l...
I agree, it doesn’t fit the definition. I still call it that in casual conversation when getting the point across while being more precise would be more wordy.
From the article:

"And if you think you ‘suffer from piracy’ or find it hard to do business with Free Software? Just distinguish yourselves with the proven successful free/open source business model: provide docs, training, content, frequent updates and support. Your customers will love you!"

Well, then why does Blender need a development fund? [0]

I honestly agree with most of what this article says and I admire the spirit of open source development and the GPL. Still, I don't think it's a viable business model for all of us under all circumstances. People need to be able to make money with their software or otherwise some software just won't be available. I guess that's effectively what this says for the Blender community. Nothing wrong with that at all, just not the way to go for everyone.

[0] https://fund.blender.org/
The challenge is that they need to run on a budget and so buried cables in a earthquake prone area may have been prohibitively expensive. Not a great situation to be in.
Crank motor will allow you to have derailleur gearing (with a chain) or a hub gearbox (Shimano Alfine, for instance) while keeping that nice, low-maintenance belt drive.
Reflection in C#: Instantiating generic types at runtime
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Any analysis of AWS costs that doesn't start off talking about outbound data transfer pricing, let alone mention it at all, is useless for anything beyond pure-CPU workloads.
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> * Flags bring comments to moderator attention, ...*

Is that what they do? The FAQ and guidelines don't explain flags or the circumstances under which they should be used very well. I always was under the impression that flags only did the "kill the comment" part of what you said and others may be as well.
I assume that we are talking about situations where public key cryptography is used.

If you share one master key for long time, having (effectively) 128-bit secret shared state is too small.
Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers (2000)
It isn't a question of one being more important than the other.

Climate change is already having systemic impacts in the form of displacement and migration. This has, for the most part, been internal, however as ecosystems degrade, the people who depend on them will move farther afield to try to at the very least maintain the standard of living they had prior to their displacement.

I think it's both important and relevant to raise the security issue - there is a militant core who are in absolute denial over climate change, and unfortunately, a substantial and vocal proportion of policymakers in major developed economies fit into this category.

Those same policymakers tend to be extremely hawkish on migration and security issues, so to frame climate change as a threat to security is a potential route to getting them on board.

Sadly, the effect so far seems to have been to encourage them to build walls and razor wire fences, as treating the symptoms is quicker and easier than treating the disease. Nobody wants to embark on a costly multi-decadal project that will see them out of power forevermore - so instead they go for the quick wins that they can shout about on the campaign trail.

If climate change continues to be framed as a security issue, it will hopefully cause policymakers to think more holistically about their strategy for dealing with it, as if it ends up posing an existential threat to the continued existence of their state, then hopefully this would trump party interests.

That said, the UK government seems to be putting party interests ahead of the state, unless of course brexit is actually an attempt to put a ring of steel around the UK to protect it from climate-change-driven mass migration, and the costs therein - but I am probably giving the powers that be too much credit.
White men can shave bald too, and anyone can dye their hair. There's even a famous hair dye brand that specifically advertises its product for use in gaming age doiscrimination! The product (Just For Men) and ads are gender-discriminatory, of course!
Maybe think about it in a different way. Right now, there is a kill-switch within googles primary product that could essentially destroy their business model.

This is not about google wanting to harm the current power users. It is probably the idea that someone could come along and destroy their business.

If such an extensions goes mainstream that could seriously harm them.

They may also want to get rid of paying Adblock Plus money for their highway robbery.

Now that I think about it, getting rid of ABP may be the primary reason for this move. They have to basically pay a third party to get access to their own users.

Either way, the battle is not over the power user minority, but over the average user.

The idea is to make the API just powerful enough for the most annoying ads to disappear. Most users would probably be content with this. They will probably make it so they won't lose all of their power users. I think what they really want is increasing the amount of works it takes to have full adblocking functionality to the point where the average user has no access to it.
I remember a long time ago when I first heard about OLED displays I was promised that they could be effectively transparent, and this is the first time I've heard of this property actually being used.
It's a pretty old idea, going back to "derived objects" in ClearCase aka wink-ins.

If you think about it though, it's not hard to cons up a tool that files objects on disk by normalizing all the inputs to a compile step, and retrieving that object if it exists. Here's one but there's others.

https://www.commandlinux.com/man-page/man1/ccache.1.html
I find the subtext of all of these articles and complaints somewhat irritating, even if I am politically aligned along the same "side".

If people vote for this or that populist, then they must have been tricked. If they were better informed, they would surely vote for The Economist-style liberal centrist status quo, right? Sad to see that democracy is dead and that these voters are completely wrong about their own lives, eh?
> Blender’s scripting API is an integral part of the software. Blender add-ons work, look and feel like Blender features. And as for any other Blender feature that means – it has to be free, free and free forever! Paying for an add-on can only mean access to the add-on download service… offering it to you as GNU GPL. Your freedom as a user and developer is guaranteed.

This is the same issue that wordpress has faced in the past, I believe - are proprietary plugins allowed to a GPLed product?
> But as I said, it doesn't really matter with ROT13 because it isn't a serious algorithm.

Depends on what you use it for. I've seen it used for "spoilers" text when other tricks were not available.

BTW it is funny that Caesar's cypher cannot handle "Latin" characters.
Somebody recently launched a new site "Blender Depot" which hosts a bunch of Blender add-ons and provides a batch install feature.

Some of the add-ons on this site are commercial plugins available for sale by their authors. All Blender plugins have to be GPL so this sort of redistribution is legal but some of these authors have been rather upset about it. So a large argument ensued on the Blender forums about the GPL, the ethics of software redistribution even when copyright law says it is okay, etc.
Things I have learned about the general public whilst working at the library
AT 36, you would of hit the internet explosions about spot on, prior to the PC days with mainframes and `corporate/government ` structure it was not easy at all. Late 90's was the internet boom time and there was a real sudden shortage in skills back then and it was easier.

I was taught programming in school (well, actually self taught from magazines like Byte, computer World and Unix World and a ZX81) in the early 80's, was an acoustic coupler modem that took 30 mins to get a stable line to a mainframe at some college our school had some airtime upon. Today, far more accessible, but back then, was hard on many levels.

Biggest hurdle was HR and one role I went for (was 20 then), had two interviews, HR and then the tech people. Litterly had HR peon say to me "That's a lot of money for somebody your age" and really was a very uncomfortable attitude. Blow the tech interview out of the water, got offered the job and more money than the HR peon bismershed for somebody my age and turned the job down flat solely due to the attitude of the HR peon and made that very clear. Took another job offer, for less money outer principle. Though turned out to be a better job. But had I not had the attitude from HR, I'd of taken that job.

Lot changed in that 15 year gap between mid-30's aged people and people in their 50's today. But then much has changed on many levels and I'd say for the better overall, albeit the age discrimination thing still exists, they just moved the goalposts.

But IT is still a young industry, compare to say accountants. But then accountant qualification from a decade ago, still worth it's value today, not many tech certs/qualifications that you can say that about as the industry changes and is still evolving. That is kinda the crux and what makes IT as an industry, hard to compare to many other industries as IT is just more dynamic.

That said - COBOL has remained pretty darn static. But I moved out of that area decades ago (before you the internet boom and the time you got into tech).

But tech is a constant learning curve, that won't change soon either. Hence any job in tech is not just the job, but a full time education on top of that to stay current.
Because doing infrastructure well - as opposed to holding it together with bubblegum and bailing wire - means spending money. And every dime spent is one dime less for shareholders.

As the saying goes: this suboptimal outcome is a feature, not a bug.
Yes that was an overlook on my part when formatting the markdown file. Fixed now!
> Re-realize the edge-cases and difficulties

I think comments can help avoid such scenarios.
The Logic Fetishists
Agreed. Although I'd much sooner recommend just using Mopidy. Mopidy supports spotify and many other music services, and has a number of low-effort ways of controlling playback programmatically.

But for sure the interesting part of this is the method, not the purpose.
Hmm, TIL. I was under the impression this work was already completed.
Eagerly await the follow up: Falsehoods programmers believe about AWS costs
You might want to look up clean room engineering.
Thanks for sharing. Looks like that article was from about a year ago, before the analysis of the cracks was performed.

Perhaps there’s simply a dearth of expertise in this field outside of the industry itself, which I guess would make it difficult for news articles to find folks who could review EDF’s work. Or reviewing and critiquing the kind of simulation described in the article might not be possible, it isn’t clear if they’re sharing the details of the analysis.
Not legally. No. There is currently no extradition of any kind between China, Hong Kong, and Macau.
>Like others his age, Gill says that his close friendships from high school and college have atrophied, not only because of the distance but because of their mutual aversion to talking on the phone.

I'll take the liberty to illustrate my own experience: my number of friendships and acquaintances has incredibly declined not because of any personal aversion to voicecalls, but to texting and social media.

I've noticed how, gradually, people I'm frequently around have grown more and more reluctant not only to pick up a phone call but also--and more importantly--to engage in face-to-face interaction, something I find absolutely essential to fulfill one's social needs to a deeply satisfying extent. Not having an online, public presence makes you irrelevant to a lot of people. In some countries, for example, not using WhatsApp is plain social suicide.
Only 5.5% of all vulnerabilities are ever exploited in the wild
Can you point to a single real-world example of Spectre being used in a browser attack?
How would our contract be enforced if the world is over? I assume rule of law will go before human civilization.
I have worked at two startups now where we made the fatal mistake of being profitable. If you make this mistake then the investors will swoop in and demand you spend more on marketing and AWS infrastructure, because we're scaling up to 5 billion users of course.

Of course we started spending all the money on new people and AWS, and soon there was no money.

At one point we were dumping like $15K a month on AWS for a dozen unnecessary over-engineered toys that nobody was using. This is the real cost of AWS.

I'd love to see Amazon's data on money invested vs actual user traffic for small startups, that's got to be some of the most interesting and valuable data on earth. Forget companies, I'll bet Jeff is sitting around predicting when entire industries rise and fall weeks before anyone else based just on this data.
They do have their own store. However, Opera's add-on store is not a great experience. I'm not sure what's going on there, but I know of at least one company where they submitted a new extension to that store it took them around 6 months(!!!) to approve it.

It was easier to self-host the add-on for people who want it, so that they can download it from your website.
I'm living that right now, except he has no MBA, is a consultant, has the dogged determination of an elderly employee on his last ever career project and used his leverage to bring in a bunch of unqualified architect yes-men.
They treat addons as GPL'd. The same issue comes up with Blender Game Engine, requiring the whole game to be GPL.
It's a pattern title. It's not meant to be taken literally and most reasonable people wouldn't read it that way.
There is a purpose in that for the colony, so it evolved that way. And of course it took time, and a lot of small adaptive trials, to get there.

There is not purpose in that for the plant, hence it would not have evolved that way. And of course we just made a big leap out of it.

My point with the terminator gene is not about the feature itself, but the concept: we make fast and important changes with very narrow objectives that have zero logic into the system context. It's just for a few people's short term gain.
I don't think that every programmer should know it off by heart.

I do think it should be a reasonably common skill to make common tradeoffs without too much investigation.

Besides, the title is an homage to the Latency Numbers article which follows a similar concept. You don't need to memorise numbers, but you probably should be able to reason about them in very vague terms.
America, a supposedly a capitalist society. I expected Americans to be at least more finally literate than people from the bloc.

Artificially low interest rates may well benefit you to some tiny extent, but imagine just how much more benefit is given to a bank. You still take an enormous risk, staking all your livelihood, and the bank get a near free way to make money. That's not equitable.

The prime majority of people have no genuine need to own a home, yet the 100+ years of state+banks instilling the mortgage culture managed to make it look so. It hurts me to see that even intellectuals on HN don't seem to see through that.

Every time I raise that, somebody jumps with a calculator to show me "how much I miss out." I am not missing out anything of that, unlike near 2 millions of once well off, middle class Americans who got screwed by "a low risk mortgage"
I was thinking more of:

"Extra ads for Chrome users: ... Want less ads? Use ..."

Bonus for putting the extra ads in a pop-over div.
Hence the move toward static site frameworks like react static and gatsby
Struggling through their newly released tensorflow-graphics library right now. They wrote it, published some simple, single google-colab tutorials and left it at that. No documentation anywhere else
It is fundamentally not the same though. You are saying that there isn’t any reliable bio marker other than “age,” but you can’t measure age. So what reliable bio marker are you talking about? What would be measured?

If you mean there are no reliable bio markers, period, it would be more clear to just say that.
Yes, it's part of the conditions to be a sponsor of "Tier 4" (student) visas.
Was the offshore wind only installed because the nuclear plant was taken offline? I’d assume the wind generation capability would have been installed anyway...

According to https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/...

“Although a significant share of coal-powered energy has been replaced by renewable sources such as solar and wind power, the largest power source in Britain remains natural gas, a carbon-emitting fossil fuel.”
That is one worth framing and adding to the CV. My personal favorite was time IBM said something could not be done, I knocked up some code 30 minutes later doing what they said could not be done. Took IBM a week (which entailed contacting outside consultants) to come back and say my proposal would solve the problem.

I really wished the response of "over qualified" was made illegal as we all know it is used as a way to say no for reasons that are not legal...like age discrimination etc or other forms of discrimination (note I'm autistic spectrum).

Oh well, I've grown to loath and borderline hate HR departments over the decades thru such experiences. Which have been predominantly staffed by females, not that I'm drawing any conclusion to that, but it has been solid observation over my entire working career and at the very least, curious. Maybe there needs to be a drive for sexual equality with HR departments :/