skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN is open in almost every sense, and it exists within an open market...

[1] Open vs Closed System (social science) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_and_closed_systems_in_soc...

[2] Open System (systems theory) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_system_(systems_theory)

[3] Open System (computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_system_(computing)

[4] Open API https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_API

[5] Open Market https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_market
Bunker fuel is pretty horrible but shipping by water can be extremely efficient. Seems like you have to do the math to see which effect is more important?
That's true but Grover search shows that quantum computers can give big speedups so I don't know why I would believe BPP=BQP.
Check sivers.org. He has blogged about this pretty extensively. I want to say it was 2010-2011 when he posted it, but my memory is failing. I came away from reading the blog thinking something was going on that he wasn’t mentioning in his blog. He generally posts in a positive tone but some of his choices seemed at odds with the tone of his blog. Namely, sell the business and put the money into a charitable trust, renounce citizenship and move abroad. I also seem to remember that the folks left holding the bag at cd baby weren’t exactly thrilled with his management style.

Not here to throw shade at the dude and I think he definitely has some gems in his blog, but it’s also showing the best self and not necessarily the real self.
Another way is to take them out every couple days and rinse thoroughly in water. Lettuce especially stays crisp this way.
I use this technique for sharing new tree programming language grammars.

As you modify or create a language, I generate a deep link that contains all the grammar code and sample code for your language in the url:

http://treenotation.org/sandbox/build/#standard%20stump
Well, this should be true, but subsidies go to the luxury foods, mostly animal products, not the most efficient nutrient to cost ratio foods with minimal externalities.

Humans do not eat corn, wheat or soy in coming out of current production levels.
- Work 24/7.

- Brown-nose the boss every chance you get.
Microsoft's eBook Apocalypse Shows the Dark Side of DRM
This is fantastic. Thank you! Really well designed and intuitive. It will save me a lot of hassle monitoring containers on servers.
I think this is one of the few edge cases where gifs could improve the comments on HN

https://tenor.com/view/walle-humans-lazy-eve-disney-gif-5471...
Ask HN: What are the best modern frameworks for quickly generating MVPs?
I know it sounds crazy, but I used to build my MVPs in Drupal. The reason for this was that I could build my data model (objects, fields, relationships, etc.), and then Drupal would automatically generate a themable frontend for viewing items, creating them with forms, and navigating/searching lists using the views module. An older framework that has this sort of functionality is Ruby on Rails.

A more modern framework that seems to have this sort of automatic UI generation from a data model is VulcanJS, but it's not clear to me if there's still an active community/active development(mostly when searching I find articles and discussion from one or two years ago).

HN, is there a modern framework with a large community that can quickly generate UIs for creating, reading, updating, and deleting content after creating the data model?
They could switch algorithms and claim that they were just doing it to be resistant against quantum computers.
Walmart in Mexico launches grocery orders via WhatsApp
you could use fixed tripod with 500/focal-lenght rule then stack with DeepSkyStacker.
That whine you're hearing may actually be a safety sound, not the electric motor. At least in the US, most electric vehicles already emit a safety sound at low speeds that sounds like a quiet whine or hum.
I wondered about this use-case in the context if data URIs.

In theory, an alternative way to serve page content (instead via HTTP 200) should be to return a 3xx redirect and set the location header to a data URI.

This would indeed allow you to use URL shorteners or any kind of open redirect as a de-facto web host.

("In theory", in the sense that HTTP allow redirects to point to any kind of URL, so there is nothing saying it couldn't be a data uri)

I imagine this kind of situation is something that browser developers explicitly want to avoid, because the security implications would be a nightmare. So practically browsers do not follow redirects to data uris.
Not sure about the tax dodge, but more about the Dad loaning him $20K and getting something from the investment. I think a lot of people just do "DBA's" and think "I'll just cash that as an alias DBA..." -- there's implications to that. But if the money is not a lot, under $10K, it's not worth worrying about
We're a family of 4 and I cannot imagine spending even $1K on food for a month. Even half that would be way overspending.
New solar tech could produce affordable clean drinking water
High Quality Backlink Commenting Sites
>> I think I am not capable of summarising his thoughts as I am also trying to decipher and get.

You can't have it both ways. If you are trying to "decipher and get" his thoughts how do you know he has a "profound and deep" understanding?

>> Sure you might disagree with me or him but you have your own perspective and you should decipher the meaning by yourself.

This is a discussion. The above sounds like you are prostelizing or advertising without participating.
They don’t actually prevent you from working. They’ll usually have to declare before you leave if they enforce the non compete or not, and if so
they will pay 50% whatever you do, for the length of the clause.

What the GP was expliciting is that since paying 50% for an employee with low risk is absurd, a lot of companies won’t enforce the non compete.
Concurrency for algorithms shall exploit the many core architecture of current CPUs or even explore many machines (nodes) available. Concurrency can be interpreted as a way of optimization, and one shall start with optimization only at the bottle necks (zen wisedom). That's why parallelism is often applied at compute intense parts of the code (there is even a science about that: High performance computing). Map-Reduce is one of the classic and most widespread approaches.
I'm going to read your book, because your book with Mazur on the Riemann Hypothesis was incredible.
It's quite funny because in this 2 comments lies every reasons why JP is successful. From 0 to 100 baseless personal attack, we're not even discussing facts we're discussing how you feel about people.

> pseudo intellectual

I'm afraid the burden of proof is on you for this one.

> regressive

He's pretty nuanced in fact, but you have to listen to him other than in the 30 seconds, out of context, videos being regurgitated on tweeter daily.

And again, develop, what are you talking about ? You have the right to disagree with someone but if you want to make it public you'll have to explain a bit more, we're not on Trump's tweeter here.

I'd recommend to listen to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIeFt88Hm8s

https://player.fm/series/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast-15392...
SpaceX Reveals That 5% of Its Starlink Satellites Have Failed in Orbit So Far
I bet there are consumers that never even experienced it.
In any case I definitely know nobody who ate more because they rode a bike. Some might get a bit more exercise or will get a bit less fat but I m firmly against the assumption that you'll et more if you ride in current wester societies.
Why is it crazy? You used something that works!
"On June 10, the Wikimedia Foundation did something unprecedented in its decade and a half history: It banned a user from the English-language Wikipedia for a year."

No they didn't. From editing it, perhaps; and using one specific persona. Anyone can read wikipedia without being logged in, and it's trivial to create a new account on any site.
He rocked the boat.

Wikimeida foundation thinks it's cute that their unpaid content worker bees have a governance system. But we just saw what always happens when an autonomous decision maker with delegated authority makes the wrong decision.
Interestingly, the consequence of releasing that algorithm would make having that private key insignificant since most schemas rely on factoring primes to secure the key pair.
I hate these microperformance hacks. There’s no way you’re going to have a bottleneck here and you’re making the quality of your code dramatically worse.
American caravan arrives in Canadian birthplace of insulin for cheaper medicine
Once I saw the author's name I saved, thanks!
I did a toy project on wheel factorization if anyone is interested. Through it I learned some interesting math and ancient algorithms. It is by no means the cutting edge of factorization, but it was a fun little project.

https://github.com/mcastorina/wheel-factorization/blob/maste...
Microsoft Tells FTC Repair Poses a Cyber Risk
Symbols, Iterables, Iterators and Generators
> The metabolic efficiency of a human on a bicycle is remarkably good. Calorimetric studies have shown that a properly trained athlete will have
efficiencies of 22 to 26% depending on pedal cadence and power output.

Anectdote about this, is that my watt meter on my bicycle gives out the total amount of work done in kJ at the end. To convert that to kcal in food, one can convert 1-to-1, as the metabolic efficiency matches roughly the ratio between kcal and kJ.
indirection! you could make the website text

link to self:
http://url.shortener/some-vanity-url

and then get the vanity url and point it at your site's link.
The king had relatively little power to enforce said monopoly grants is whats relevant here, no matter what status the law supposedly gave them. So in abstract terms they might be more invasive, the actual impact of said policy was much less.
Fascinating, thanks for the reply. I always love hearing the protocols for requirements like this, makes a lot of sense tho, re: the sterilization techniques (irradiation for food, autoclave for liquids, etc.).

I'm surprised the germ-free animal models had such surprisingly normal lifespans. Thanks for the link too.

Part of me is still skeptical of the degree to which the germfree animal models are in fact germ free at the end of their lives (I'll have to do some more digging through the literature).

Seems like these germfree animal models should yield some great insights into the microbiome tho.

Just curious, what sort of projects are you working on? It's a fascinating field.

Slash, what are your opinions of all these microbiome mapping tests (e.g. Viome, etc.). I mean, our microbiomes seem to change fairly frequently such that a singular snapshot at these relatively infrequent intervals seems inadequate for most uses.
Trump and Obama agree on housing policy
Services like XBAND were either unavailable or prohibitively expensive for a large swath of the population at the time. Like a lot of early technology, I guess.

For XBAND, you had to buy the modem, you had to pay for the service, and you had to pay for the phone call. Where I lived when growing up, a "local call" was about a 2-mile radius, and that radius contained maybe 700 phone lines. I was one of a handful of people who even had a 16-bit video game console in the area and I was pretty fortunate that my parents were somewhat okay with spending hundreds of dollars (over the course of a few years) in mindless entertainment.

The Sega Channel would have been a complete non-starter since, even if I happened to live in one of the few service areas, you had to pay for a subscription to the Sega Channel which was a pricey add-on to your existing cable bill.

Even back then, I thought it would have been smarter for Sega to charge for the modem (as they did) but subsidize the cost of the channel delivery to customers. They could recoup the costs of delivery through more marketing of upcoming games or even showing ads. But I assume that if it was even feasible, the cable companies would have laughed it out of the room anyway. ("You want us to provide a channel for FREE?!")
> I'm guessing that revenue from job postings (Careers section) and banner ads did not bring enough money.

I've used their jobs platform on both sides (as a developer looking for work and as a hiring manager) and, regarding job postings at least, I suspect you're right. I've had very limited success with it. And yet it's my favorite platform for hiring or job-searching as a developer. I like it much more than Indeed which, to my chagrin, has proven more effective.

It's free for people looking for jobs and IIRC around $500 - $1500/mo for companies looking to post a listing or two. It still baffles me that it does not have more uptake. I spoke with a room full of about 80 new developers at a code academy recently and asked how many of them used it. There weren't more than 2 or 3 hands.

I suggested to our Sales rep that the hostile reception a lot of first-time question-askers encounter probably isn't doing them any favors. (SO has introduced new features to address this problem.)

Their Marketing team also footgunned themselves, at least as far as our company was concerned. When it came time to extend our first contract, our Sales rep asked if I'd like some t-shirts for our team. I said sure. He said send me your sizes. So I polled my team of 12 and sent him the sizes. He came back and told me that a Marketing Director or someone said there was a new limit of 4. I said, "Hey, you asked me and I got a team full of devs looking forward to a t-shirt. Can you send me one for each?" He said he'd check but came back and said the person calling the shots was firm. They sent the 4 t-shirts. I delayed renewing our subscription 3 or 4 months as a result. We gave them another shot in the future at one of the lower levels. But those shirts would have paid for themselves the moment they sent them.

I still don't know what the Marketing side was thinking. It ended up making me more attentive about paying for the platform. If they had sent the t-shirts, I probably would have just let the subscription ride and continued paying it even if we didn't have an active listing up. Instead, I only renewed when we needed to fill a new position. I'd say it taught me a valuable Sales or Marketing lesson, but isn't this common sense?

Alas, the platform itself continued to perform so weakly in supplying candidates to our postings that I have discontinued using it all together, even though I still recommend young developers sign up and use when looking for jobs.

I think SO deserves to succeed so hopefully the private Q&A will boost revenues.
He was a good editor. But my understanding was he was mean. The community did not have systems to handle the situation so the WMF stepped in. And ruled over the community.
Behind the Scenes of Life in the Chinese Basketball Association
Yes. This is simply sharing content.*

*Though the content is integrated well with modern browsers.
I don’t think this is meant to be hand written though. But a bundle/compiler can do this optimization for you.
Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs proposes mobility nirvana
On the abandonment and survival of GitHub projects
That's fine, and if they do end up being part of the JS runtime, then great! But right now they don't, so by including those you are actively having to pay the cost of doing so. My point of contention with the parent post is that these features are requirements for a webpage "to be barely useable". You can absolutely make great websites and webpages without these.
Trump to lift some restrictions on Huawei as part of China truce
The (malicious) goal I had in mind with service workers is to rewrite all other published pages:

self.addEventListener('fetch', event => {
event.respondWith(
new Response('<h1>I murder kittens for fun</h1>', {
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'text/html; charset=utf-8'
}
})
);
})
You fix security bugs.
It's very bad, because cookies, permissions and lots of other presisted data will be shared by all scripts on the domain.

Example:
Alice makes a benign page that uses location data and shares the link with her friends. The friends know what's up and grant location permissions to get the page to work.

What they actually did, however was grant location permissions to "https://jstrieb.github.io/urlpages" and any script served by that origin.

So when some of the friends later open Eve's URL that contains a location harvester, they don't get any prompt at all: Eve's link can just reuse the location permission given to Alice because, as far as the browser is concerned, both scripts belong to the same page.
Even then. Try to send me a `Hello World` webpage both ways and guess which one will actually get clicked on and seen
That’s a slippery slope. We’ll eventually turn the browser into an OS.

And more features = more surface area for bugs.
Of course, they can refuse to sell to the person leaking it, denying them access unless there is another mole. I heard this is how GRSecurity works, which makes a hardened Linux kernel.

Also, the bulk of StackOverflow's data is creative commons. A similar argument goes here as for the Linux kernel.
> AFAIK [there] is no good way to load a script at runtime and get an [event] when the file is loaded and parsed.

You can do this easily by creating a script element dynamically and then either:

1) Listen for the load event on that element, or

2) Have the dynamic script call a function that is already loaded.

Here is an example of the first technique:

let script = document.createElement( 'script' );
script.addEventListener( 'load', () => {
alert( 'three.js is loaded: ' + THREE );
});
script.src = 'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/threejs/r84/three.min.js';
document.head.appendChild( script );

https://jsfiddle.net/geary/szmc1L0h/9/
Mechanical computers that are designed to solve a single problem aren’t necessarily at a disadvantage, especially when the math isn’t that complex figuring out the variables and all factors was the problem.
I think he was rebutting the point he quoted. Don't forget jail too. There's more men on men violence (and rape) than men on women because of the horrendous prison system and how society couldn't care less.

Doesn't make either more acceptable, but it would be nice if prison violence got a little more air time.
No the printer driver problem is that printer manufacturers insist on using proprietary formats to communicate with their printer.

They invariably and up doing terrible things (why does a printer driver ever need a kext).

What they are saying is “your printer better support generic content formats” - AirPrint already forces that concept
Data (including a batch I paid for on Mechanical Turk):

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Dh0wiTCRkBhckWGXtjZg...

(Amusingly, "69" is an over-represented response...)
Note that this photo is not how it would look without a telescope or very good telephoto lens (with tracking), but it will still be visible
The solar panels are called Renewsys[0].

[0]https://www.sustainable.co.za/solar-power/solar-panels.html?...
This is not black and white. If I recall correctly from other interactions we've had on Hacker News, we're both Bangladeshi-American so please know I'm looking at this with a similar lens.

My parents absolutely should have emphasized academics and my need to go to college to break out of the poverty trap my family was in. But they did that in violent and traumatic ways. They did that by using guilt and shame and burden as the primary engine to drive me to act. They are not alone in this. Friends of Asian-American heritage (East and South Asia) tell me their parents did the same.

Those things work when you're fighting for survival and then turn out to be incredibly harmful when you're not. It's taken me years of work and will take years more to undo that damage.

I understand your sensitivity to your daughter's situation. If you live in upper middle class America, and I suspect you do, your daughter is observing a deeply unnatural form of childhood. But there is a middle ground between squeezing performance out of young brains and being coddled into doing nothing. I hope for both of your sakes you look for it.
"I'd like to have an optional sound. Using the horn is an act of aggression ..."

I have considered this as well. That is, setting aside the issue of electric noise vs. ICE noise, I think all cars should have two horn noises - the normal "horn" and a universally defined two-beep "friendly" horn.

That "friendly" horn would be very useful in many driving situations and would make many interactions less confusing / antagonistic.
I recall something about targeted bombing of ball bearing factories.
Appeasing autocracy to not jeopardize trade is like going to debt to pay your old debt. Democracy is what made our countries innovative, powerful and rich, backtracking on that is going to be to the detriment of us in the long term.

How did appeasing Hitler work out for you again, the UK?
Instex: A Blow to U.S. Sanctions?
I was intentionally linking to an early study. There are plenty of studies looking into this issue and more than enough data to determine it’s a real problem. In fact many hybrids have included such systems for years.

Here is a more recent example with far more data. https://www.iihs.org/media/0465243f-89d5-4fa7-95c1-367f1e2c1...

Overall it’s on the order of hundreds more deaths in the US alone assuming every car becomes a hybrid or electric vehicle without these systems.
True, it could still be impossible to break RSA keys used in the wild with one normal PC. But still, you could factor smaller numbers faster than any other algorithm which would give you the confidence that it works.

> _I_ still wouldn’t be able to crack any RSA keys at all.

Everybody can crack RSA keys if the modulos is small enough. You just need to factor a number :)

There actually nice list of numbers to try:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_numbers

You can factor, e.g, RSA-100 on a normal PC with state of the art algorithms in reasonable time.

That said, I had some new insight into factoring, and I was only a mere factor of one million away from factoring industrial crytography, I'd maybe try to optimize it a bit more.
I recently tried this again, and realized how awful Drupal is in most other respects.
I decided to do that.

Data and light analysis is here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Dh0wiTCRkBhckWGXtjZg...

I definitely overpaid on Mechanical Turk per response, given how lightning quickly the data came in. (I decided to pay $0.10/HIT for 50 responses and got 68 responses in 8m26s.) I suspect that offering a nickel would have gotten the survey filled in under half an hour still...
> These hackers, however, were good guys: IT consultants who were frustrated with their hospitality clients’ lax approach to security. To demonstrate the industry’s weaknesses, their leader arranged for a reporter to tag along on an audit of one of his clients’ hotels. The conditions: The hackers wouldn’t break into the personal devices of hotel guests, and neither the hotel, the city, nor the hackers could be named.

This paragraph could really use more clarity. I can't tell if these guys are authorized pen testers for the hotels, or if they're consultants for other parts of the IT stack who are doing this as gray hats.
> Microsoft will refund customers in full for what they paid, plus an extra $25 if they made annotations or mark-ups.

Doesn’t seem all that nefarious. Get your money back, order the paperbacks. No DRM issues again.
Interresting discussion over this https://twitter.com/mathias/status/1143551692732030979?s=21
Given the praise for Bayesian methods here, I'm surprised the author didn't discuss the Bayesian solution. See http://isaacslavitt.com/2015/12/19/german-tank-problem-with-... for a similar exposition.