skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To paraphrase stuff from Scott Aaronson that I can't find right now: The currently known laws of physics say yes, and nobody's proposed any new laws of physics consistent with current observations which say no and don't allow even more computing power.
I worked on a student film set for a few weeks, as a favor to a friend. For months afterword I couldn’t stop seeing the decomposition into shots, recognizing dollies, jibs, etc. Just standing on set watching the sequence of events, connecting the image to what the camera is doing (very often moving on some apparatus), seeing the repetition of shots for correctness and multiple camera angles, the laborious dragging around of lights on C stands, etc. provided a great introductory education to film.
Because supply chain logistics. The Germans in WWII were world leaders in manufacturing (perhaps bested only by the US), and one of the elements of that manufacturing quality is the ability to trace individual parts back to the exact manufacturing batch to figure out why particular batches go wrong.

The Germans did (eventually) make some effort to obscure details of their supply chain--they forced manufacturers to use three-letter codes instead of their normal trademarks--but that still suffered from poor operational security which allowed the codes to be quickly matched up to manufacturers. It didn't help that the British analysts meticulously kept track of everything, allowing them to identify the manufacturer of one unlabelled part by the inspector's number.
Also, how much of this effect is basically the rest of the world playing catch up in terms of economic production?

China and the rest of Asia are magnitudes more competitive compared to 50 years ago. And prior to that US industry was unmatched thanks to the massive effects world war 2 had on the other, western industrialized nations.
Will try and find a way to test this. Feel free to open an issue on GitHub
Show HN: Tool to store all Kubernetes resources (incl. secrets) in Git
It's interesting to see other commenters saying that manipulating IDs wouldn't occur to the Germans, it reminded me of an interesting anecdote from Hitler's rise to power: "It was in January 1920 when a numeration was issued for the first time and listed in alphabetical order Hitler received the number 555. In reality, he had been the 55th member, but the counting started at the number 501 in order to make the party appear larger." [0]

I think it's more likely that many were aware of the security issues, but it wasn't worth the coordination of coming up with a scheme, giving it to all spare parts suppliers in a secure way, etc. potentially slowing down the war effort. I bet the Allies used a lot of serial numbers too, despite this work.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Workers%27_Party#Adolf_...
He was told (in 2017 and 2019) to completely avoid interacting with her and her content. The notice Fram posted himself was quite clear - don't report her content, don't edit her content, don't interact with her in any way.

That's quite serious. How does someone get a warning like that from WMF?
Trump has already ended that policy.
Haven't you heard, the UK is not part of Europe anymore.

As a generally healthy Dane, when I get the cold or the flu I generally don't take any medications for it, and neither does most of the people I know.
Don't buy DRMed goods. If you did for some reason, make sure to break DRM and back up what you bought.

And there should be a stronger push to repeal corrupt DMCA-1201 and the like.
>I believe Microsoft's 'regression of progress' goes further back. BASIC is the real culprit. Nobody needed line numbers and goto statements, yet hobby and home computers from the 8 bit era were invariably burdened with lousy variants of MicroSoft BASIC. Including the Commodore things, even if they did not say Microsoft on boot up, they were.

The Atari 800 series had a unique BASIC with unusual string-handling conventions and graphic and sound commands miles ahead of the vanilla Commodore (pre-7.0) dialects.

I don't blame them for line numbers. Remember that the earliest hobbyist machines were going to be connected to who-knows-what display devices, even literal teletypes, where you might not have been able to support a full-screen editor or a convenient way to differentiate immediate versus program commands. Line numbers give you workarounds to those problems.

It could be argued they languished too long-- perhaps BASICA/GWBASIC, built for a machine with standard robust display controllers and ample ROM and address space-- should have been more like QuickBasic-- but f you wanted a box-checking 8k BASIC for your new microcomputer, it's not an awful choice.
Skipped randomly into that video and she was going through an apple bin to find the apples that had stickers already fallen off so she didn't have to be the one who threw it away...

Man, this topic really brings out the normally hidden mommyblog capacity of HN. Everyone with their weird anecdotes and misinformed two cents. Someone in these comments said they were 340lbs on 2,000 calories per day, etc, etc. I can't stop reading.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement

> The term is most often applied to the foreign policy of the British governments of Prime Ministers Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain towards Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy between 1935 and 1939.
I deliberately did not give you an en.m.wikipedia.org URL. What you are seeing is a known problem with MobileFrontEnd, which erroneously masks some things. Use the URL that I actually gave you.
Will add QR code generation to the TODO
The tech, sweat, and anxiety that goes into shooting a rocket launch
It's whatever they want their 'message' to look like at the time. Ridiculous SJW garbage as usual.
Ayyyy, finally a use for my ultrawide monitor!
The sexism dig isn’t about refinement. It’s something that’s rife in all popular media from music videos through to movies and computer games. However that has always been the case in gaming. There’s nothing new there. Even 8bit games for the C64/Amstrad/etc would often feature highly embellished cover art.

Things are getting better though. Before it was just the accepted status quo but at least now those clichés are being challenged.
having learned Excel functions in English and having to use them at work in German makes me always nervous
The credibility of the article is undermined by hyperbolic statements such as, "For a lot of children, when they’re 8 years old, it’s too late. If your parents aren’t engaged in the education system, in 10 years you’ll be competing in the labor market against people whose parents sent them to violin lessons and summer programs in the Dominican Republic. There’s inequality of opportunity."

It's too late for "a lot of children" by age 8? And you're underprivileged if you didn't attend a summer program in the Caribbean?
It feels like most answers on this site come from robots or from moderators who barely know anything. I still have to see a good, on point, answer there from someone who really knows things.
Growing your own food becomes a full time job if it's the only source of your food.
I don’t know how much you are downvoted, but it seems the issue is pretty public, accusations and responses are in the open, the whole threads are even linked in the article.

If you care to any extent about the issue, going down the rabbit hole and looking for yourself would be the best course of action.

If it seems tedious, pointless and gossipy, asking for other people’s super biased TLDR wouldn’t help anyway, so perhaps ignoring this event could be a course of action (that’s what I did after reading 2 pages of finger pointing BTW)
The truth doesn't matter anymore, they think we won't remember that time they joined in the free-for-all to say whatever terrible thing possible about the guy.

There is a war on between the truth and the sensation of the high horse.
I'm surprised we haven't seen more hard sci-fi in the jovian or cronian systems. While constant 1g acceleration drives open the whole solar system to the ~month travel time that benefits stories, much more realistic accelerations (or limited fuel) can still manage the same within those systems.

If an entire Sci-fi continuity were limited to just Sol and Alpha Centauri, this by itself would constitute an inexhaustible number of potential settings. In addition to planets, moons, asteroids, dwarf planets, Oort cloud and Kuiper belt class objects, there could also be space stations numbering in the tens of millions. Such a setting could use known physics, yet be incredibly vast. The Expanse is going in this direction, but doesn't go that far, and doesn't stick to known physics. (Though it remains closer to it than almost all Sci-fi continuities out there.)
Conservative writer Andy Ngo beaten and assaulted in chemical attack
Calling someone a harasser is not lynching, quotation marks or otherwise.

Notably, having a discussion in a forum allows you to say, "Ah, thanks, I was wrong." Lynching does not.
There is nearly no end of triple tricky clever ways to take a particular optimization problem, exploit its special structure, and have linear programming still be the main part of the solution.
This is a natural consequence of the "build an audience first, figure out how to monetize it later" business model.

At the beginning, the service does all sorts of nice things in order to attract users. These things all cost money, but nobody cares at that stage because they're burning other peoples' money and building the userbase is Priority 1.

Eventually the other peoples' money runs out and the service has to be sustainable on its own. That means it suddenly matters a lot that all those nice things the service did to attract users cost money. The nice things get cut, of course. But the users have all now gotten used to having them, so when they disappear, people start screaming.

As long as we build our businesses around the idea of getting big first and worrying about how to make them sustainable later, this pattern will continue repeating itself.
Sure, the Arbitration Committee and the processes associated with it are not perfect. But is an unaccountable, invisible and all powerful judge, jury and executioner institution like the T&S a good or fair thing? If you look at the context apart form just the Fram case, you will see that T&S behaves very strangely.
From Wikipedia:

An autogyro (from Greek αὐτός and γύρος, "self-turning"), also known as a gyroplane or gyrocopter, is a type of rotorcraft that uses an unpowered rotor in free autorotation to develop lift. Forward thrust is provided independently, typically by an engine-driven propeller. While similar to a helicopter rotor in appearance, the autogyro's rotor must have air flowing across the rotor disc to generate rotation, and the air flows upwards through the rotor disc rather than down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogyro
I've just installed the iOS 13 public beta, and I can confirm that certain things are definitely a bit buggy (especially autocorrect, not sure what's up exactly but it's being annoying).

However, based on my experience with the iOS 11 and 12 betas, I'm confident that most of the issues will be fixed pretty quickly.
Or maybe rather "to the accumulated value the community has created"? I don't even think the community at SO is that large, or has grown that much recently. At some point, the users are committed having sunken so much time and effort into making the site great, and the company knows it and wants to squeeze more money out of the user contributions.

I wouldn't be that surprised if they introduced a "pro user, only $7,99 per month" package in 2020 that gives some small perks ("your questions cannot be downvoted", "add a 100 points reward to three questions per month", "animated avatar", "special highlighting of your very important questions").
I thought the same thing: if I go around my house I achieve the same thing. Not the same epic adventure though.
If you have a lot of weapons and military around, there are usually people who suggest using them as well.

Can't be tempted to start a war without an army to match.
In a perfect world they would have put their keys + unlock tools in escrow with a service that would publish them at the first sign of a major outage.
I wonder how much effect immigration has had on the matter of inequality.

I'm going off these assumptions:

-> Lesser immigration would've led to a higher GDP/capita figure for US.

-> More resources to subsidize college and lesser cut-throat competition for jobs.

-> Employers would be forced to pay higher wages and people would be more easily to retrain for different jobs.

-> Bonus points: We can help Africa and South american countries with a much higher monetary amount and resources to help them catch up to a developed world status.
The last milestone I see on the WASM page is from 2017 - is it still a thing?
Yes but when the next President comes in we will want to have had Trump's anti-war policies to have been cemented in place.
I also have this problem and to make thing worse my windows not cannot install upgrades anymore. There's one bad upgrade that fails to install and rollback just to try again in the next boot, entering a reboot loop.

I had to disable upgrades and I don't really want to format my already configured OS soon.
Although the Trump administration has voiced a desire to extract themselves from the existing military engagements in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan, they have not yet done so. (As a side note, the previous administration also expressed a similar desire). Thus it is perhaps premature to claim that the current administration has 'ended' the policy.

However, this misses the point that the goal of the proposed institute is to:

> ... promote an approach to the world based on diplomacy and restraint rather than threats, sanctions, and bombing.

Unfortunately, the current negotiation tactics being pursued against, say, Iran, do not fall under this new style of diplomacy. I'm sure other examples may come to mind.
Right to repair is just one of the many cases of "security" being used as an excuse to take away freedom, and it's one of the ways the corporations and governments (nearly the same thing, really) gradually build their dystopian vision of complete control over the population. It's so alluring, because "who doesn't want to be safe and secure?" On the surface it's appealing, but if you think about it, much like "a world without (cyber)crime", the ultimate result of striving for perfect security is dystopia.

Then, much as perfect freedom is unattainable, so is perfect security; and I think it's time we rebelled against this desire to achieve it. Unfortunately, it seems desiring any sort of security is only going to give the companies more leverage to use it against us, so the way to go is to reject completely their notion of (centralised, authoritarian) security, and make freedom the highest priority. Insecurity is freedom, and that is what we should fight for.

That infamous Benjamin Franklin quote has really taken on a deeper meaning recently.
The worst part is that the system restore (or reinstall) advice is often from some official Microsoft support drone. Microsoft's official stance is "it's too fucking complicated to even know where to begin, so start over". How is it that we put up with this bullshit?
Imagine if a bunch of people on a public forum (with posts upvoted to a high place) called you a harasser. Would it still not be lynching?
In this case, the presentation of exact and provable facts creates a satisfactory satirical outcome.
Is it illegal to break encryption by brute force?
Omg, lol. I'm both humored and slightly annoyed by this. Why is this even enabled as a default.
We've had modified cars and the associated culture for over a century, and no major danger has arisen from it (no more than the usual attributed to bad drivers, anyway.)
Blame it on the "old people" but you soon you will see that "young people" will pull the same nonsense as soon as they have to hit quarterly numbers. Big companies can't be your friend.
So your internships were all with the same company? Or you violated them in taking subsequent internships?
Sure!

Our run is about 20'x30' with a 8'x4' coop in one corner. The perimeter of the run has a 6" post every 6' that stands 10' high. The top of all the posts are connected by a metal wire. On this wire we have plastic fencing (same gridded stuff that is used for construction, but dark green instead of construction orange) for the "roof" of the run. The sides are two types of fence. From ground to top is chicken wire fencing. This is strictly to discourage the hens from getting out. And the bottom 5' has very thick gauged wire fencing as well, which keeps predators out (though living in the downtown of a city that is just dogs really, and most dogs around us don't care because lots of people have chickens where we live).

The compost system is setup so that there are four, 4'x4'x4' compost areas next to one another (constructed with pallets). Every three months we change which compost pile gets new material added to it. We mostly let the chickens do all the work of turning, and once a week we just go and throw everything back into the pile. It takes about 12 months for a pile to be ready to go, so we get a new 4'x4'x4' pile of compost every three months or so (I said 3 month turn around in my previous post, I was thinking of every three months we change piles, not ready compost every three months).

Because we take so long to compost and because we have chickens that do much of the work of digesting, we compost everything we can. Normal stuff like vegetables and leaves, but also all our food, including bones and meat and sugars. There is a deer carcass in one of my piles right now, by the time we dug out that pile most of the bones will be dust, the skull will be pretty much the only thing left over.

We never see any issues with bad germs in our compost because we let it cook so long and let the chickens eat the stuff that most people say not to compost (and birds have titanium stomachs).

We use old and bad hay/straw from my wife's clients (she's a farrier and horse trainer) as the "browns" in the compost, which makes up the bulk of the matter in there.
Yeah, except there wasn't.
Thanks for the input! Finding a more concise alternative to base-64 encoding is currently an item in TODO. I've also been thinking about other forms of compression.

Regarding your last point, my plan is to have the main page (index.html on the site) always decode from pure base-64 but to eventually have other "publish" targets or endpoints (e.g. /b65536/index.html#asdf) that decode in different ways. I can then add corresponding "publish" buttons to the editor
> who do not know anything about the case calling him a harrasser.

I know what I've been told by WMF, which is that he was a harasser and that en:wiki failed to stop his harassment.

I know also what I've read in the fram-gigantathread, where a bunch of admins describe him as kind of an asshole, and say that it's being going on for years, but then go on to excuse that because he makes a lot of edits.
Perhaps the reason many (like myself) did not immediately expect the speedup is that they started on or are still using another non-scripting programming languages.

There, the language parsing penalty is paid during the compile step, and as far as a user is concerned the object approach is obviously faster than parsing from JSON.

This does leave me wandering - is the result here applicable to other scripting languages too? The argument in the article would seem to apply in the general case, but perhaps other languages have some particularities that change the result.
> Also, how much of this effect is basically the rest of the world playing catch up in terms of economic production?

If the rest of the world becoming more productive results in US workers being worse off, then something is severely wrong with US trade policy. For one, it contradicts the dogma that more trade is strictly beneficial.
You wouldn't write this in an inner loop, you would do it once in the entire program. It's a literal object that doesn't change.
Just look to the 3rd World if you want to know what the US will be like in the future. No middle class, lots of shanty/homeless camps, walls around properties, loss of pretty much all public spaces due to crime and violence.

Sounds like a really great place to be, can't wait.

Democrats and Establishment Republicans did this to us. It didn't have to be like this.
Sorry, man. I was drinking beers. Anti-freedom people make me a bit crazy. It's difficult for me to see so much hate on HN.
Yep. And even the people with college will necessarily compare less favorably with that older cohort over time.

In a world where everyone has a college degree, well, some people with college degrees will have to be the ditch diggers so to speak.

I don't know how you solve that problem? It's just math.
This is the case on every single site that enables content placement by user sentiment.

Downvotes are the digital tantrum.
It would still not be lynching, no. For example, I would be alive.

What use is free speech if I only grant it to people who agree with me?
The people living a 1000 years ago indeed could have used the same argument to show that they should be 95% certain to be in the last 95% of all humans to be ever born, and history indeed showed that this was not the case; the dice fell on the other 5% possibility for them and the population increased more than 20x.

However, the argument will still give the correct prediction for most humans that try to use it. Just not for the few that were in the special position to be born early in the sequence of all humans. The argument essentially tells you that you have no reason to believe that you are also in that special position.
That would make all JavaScript that has non JSON object literals (most JS code) slower
Yeah, for sure, there are degrees of success (as you suggest, "you might think it would be successful but it really isn't", or, "you spent loads of resources on something that felt good but achieved nothing when you could have done this unappealing effective thing"). I do think 'consume less, fix things, make reuse a hobby' is a good norm to work towards. I think the Restarters community is a good example (casual affiliation) [1]

I'm quick to defend the belief at a 'meta level'. It seems good to pretend we each can make a difference, in the same way it's useful to pretend free will exists: if you act 'as if' such a thing is true, then you avoid the outcome of acting as if it is false, one that seems to me utterly terrible - 'you could have made a difference, but you chose not to'.

I'd rather bring important but optimistic goals down a peg than abandon them - thinking I may as well leave things up to Moloch [2] leads me to despair.

[1] https://www.restarters.net/about
[2] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
So if you sold it, then used that money to buy food, would it count?
Interesting, I did not know that anyone opposed this on legal grounds. Thanks for sharing!
if you wanted to pay me several thousand dollars to re-buy my library on a different platform? Sure, I'd take that deal

And what do you do when the media you want isn't available on another platform?

In the recent article about the burning of the Universal music archive we learned that less than 11% of recorded music is available online. Anyone who subscribes to a streaming service knows content comes and goes.

The only way to keep the things you buy is to actually own them. Not continually rent them from one online service after another.
Security against institutions is just as important as security against individuals, because big institutions aren't any more moral than the average individual. Everyone thinks about security against criminals, but the reason we don't live in a third world dictatorship is our constitutionally enshrined security against the police.
"Google Maps doesn't require Google Play Store, but it does require Google Play Services..."

On the phones I have tested Google Maps works with Google Play Services turned off.