skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Truly capable people rarely want to be “scooped up by some big firm”, much less “no problem”.
2019 Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index
Quite amazingly neither of these pages work without JS.

How difficult is it to make a page saying 'not found' using static HTML, perhaps with a GIF if you want minor animation.

I mean, how difficult is it to not use tech that you don't need?

Edit: loved the FT 404 though
> OpenVPN is horribly difficult to set up.

That statement could need some more explanation in my opinion. I never felt it being much difficult.
It is very annoying to have to explain to your boss why you have that game installed on your machine.

Specially when his only IT experience is playing Candy Crush with his kids.
I don’t have much experience, but A Philosophy of Software Design has a lot of sound principles.
Because the first step to doing something about climate change is believing it exists.
Worksnaps Features: Integration with Other Top Software
Your example using the verb "see" is not quite right, but a genuine ACI does exist in English: I want him to swim / I expect him to swim.

For another example, in Dutch it happens to work with "see" (zien): "ik zie hem zwemmen" (I see him [to] swim), it doesn't work with want, and with expect, "verwachten", you would have to add "to": "Ik verwacht hem te zwemmen" (I expect him to swim).
What to do when a website you’ve trusted gets hacked?
> I can't think of an application that would justify paying $5000 for an extra 300MHz of base clock, but I can imagine that someone needs it.

Here's one: EVE Online servers. Back in 2013, CCP had at least one 4.4GHz Xeon they used to host fleet fights with thousands of players:

https://forums-archive.eveonline.com/message/3917593/#post39...

Why? Because EVE is mostly written in Python, which is both very slow and, thanks to the GIL, effectively single-threaded. It's a fundamentally limiting architecture, but that extra single-core performance let them push it just a little further – which for them was (is?) well worth it.
It's from a soviet cartoon. There is a cat and a dog. THey live in a vilige and sometimes they fight. SO the meaning is: "You have mustaches and so do I! I'm no worse than you."
And the reason for this is probably that Chrome comes bundled with Android.
In the end the change each and everyone can do is to stop buying products from those companies (and from companies buying products from them).

As long as everyone is blaming someone else for the problem political action is worthless. Americans says it doesn’t matter what the US does as long as China is much worse (even though US per capita is 4 times worse than China).

It’s cute how you use demeaning expressions like “it’s nice to feel in control”. If you think anyone with a brain think they are in control of climate change, then you utterly delusional. Everyone with a brain should be on the brink of panic.

And just leave the Titanic. As I said, the simile was stupid from the start.
I desperately want Chinese companies finally begin producing and designing general purpose CPUs, GPUS, and other types of accelerators. Current situation is terrible duo- and mono-polies, slow pace of innovations, and low reliability. We need more players.
I mostly care about the available time for Bitcoin to switch to quantum secure cryptography. It’s scary that people wouldn’t accept a 10x fee increase which would be necessary for the switch.
A dark chocolaty theme for Emacs
Hundreds of Boeing aircraft could be unsafe
I think you are conflating the notion that, at a given time slice, a majority of the popular sentiment about the future may not have always been positive, with your own opinions of modern engineering.

For vast swaths of human mind, popular opinion tended to see the future as bleak and the past as filled with greater men, accomplishments, etc - the good days are behind us. Post industrial revolution thinking and adoption of science has mostly changed that opinion to hope - the good days are ahead of us.

As for people who can optimize code like back in the day: I am not sure where you work, but I bet if you look at the best engineers in the best tech companies today (google/ Facebook / Netflix / amazon / Uber / palantir) you’ll find a lot to be impressed with.
Inferno already runs all unprivileged code in a VM. When I installed it on a Raspberry Pi for example could disable or enable its MMU, it didn't make a difference at all.
Nice bit of digital archeology there- thanks!
The point is that Linux distros are customizable by default, whereas you need to work against Windows to customize it, and all your changes will probably be reverted in the next update.
The Great Hack: A film that goes behind the scenes of the Facebook data scandal
This is a blank page with uBlock/uMatrix. Fitting. And also the reason I haven't read a single FT page in over a year.
GDC Classic Game Postmortem: Elite
I have just fixed the plots with the article and it works well now! The Plotly's free account limits the number of views to 500 per day and the article views went way over that.

Thanks for your feedback!

~Oskar
I'd like to put one of his books on my reading list. Given his voluminousness - any suggestions?
You need JavaScript to use the web in 2019. It has nothing to do with difficulty. You also need an ID to get into the boarding area of an airport and you can't smoke in restaurants. It's never going to be 1995 again. It's time to stop complaining about this.
Thanks for pointing it out. I fixed the issue!
I fixed the issue! The graphs are visible now
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From the README:

TCP-over-TCP is not as bad as some documents describe. It works surprisingly well in practice, especially with modern congestion control algorithms (BBR). For traditional algorithms that rely on packet loss, DSVPN has the ability to couple the inner and outer congestion controllers, by setting the BUFFERBLOAT_CONTROL macro to 1 (this requires more CPU cycles, though).
Medium is great! It's Plotly that sucks. The graphs are up and running now
You can hibernate both instead of cold reboot.
The podcast Blueprint for Armageddon by Dan Carlin is fantastic too.
I thought I had a general idea of what happened in WW1, I was very wrong.
I am well aware of that, and have read Im Westen Nichts Neues a number of times.
This doesn't affect my point: Huge numbers volunteered for slaughtering and being slaughtered, many with gusto and in great haste.
According to some sceptics it does matter. Some are saying that error rate will grow the same way as “computational power” ie. you can’t physically get value out of quantum computing and it will never outperform classical computer. I’m not saying that is the case but the argument is sound and until proven otherwise we won’t know.
The trick is to not look like food.
My apologies if I get this wrong. Is this stating that the many possibilities are all coexisting and that our brain is acting as a filter to provide a view of possibilities that we define as ourselves?
That sounded a bit low. This

https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/cooper...

says "Higher bandwidth (174.84 GiB/s, up from 119.209 GiB/s)"

I don't know if memory bandwidth matters for this type of job, though.
Any plans to open source this?
That's a good line, but I think Labour did it first and the Lib Dems are parodying the high-five https://labour.org.uk/aaaa
The Washington 38 apple (2012)
I will have to disagree and state that I think that years of guerilla war in the South would have been preferable to the actual outcome. It would have kept federal troops in the South for a generation at least and enforced structural changes upon southern society and its economy that would have probably lessened the unpleasant costs and consequences of southern racism for the next century.

A simmering rebellion in the South would have also tied Johnson's hands and enabled the legislature to fully enact its desires (or at the very least ensured Johnson's conviction by the Senate.)
New Zealand troops were certainly involved in atrocities but I have been under the impression they behaved better than the Canadians - I am a New Zealander though so have a bias.

The ones I know of:

https://ww100.govt.nz/surafend-incident

https://i.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/84221541/editorial-claim...
Whoever developed Gizmodo frontend probably never read any article on it. That's some really bad image load animation. That solid 1 second delay hardcoded in CSS + network delay for lazy loading just leaves the whole article a white canvas while I scroll.

Why would you want to re-hide the image after I scroll out of it? Scrolling back up gives me that 1 second penalty to make the image visible. So frustrating.
Seems like BFloat32 would have the same exponent range as Float64 (double precision), and a correspondingly shorter significand.
I find this article rather hand-wavy. I mean, we have a very good understanding of the measurement process in quantum mechanics through experiments performed e.g. by Haroche's and Siddiqi's groups, which demonstrate that quantum measurements are continuous, deterministic processes. Irreversibility and the transition of a quantum state to a "classical" state can be explained very well using entanglement and decoherence, which originate from the coupling of the measured system with a very large, external quantum system. With this approach, no magical wave-function collapse or breaking of time reversal symmetry is required to explain the observed collapse of quantum oscillations after measurement.

The interpretations of quantum mechanics that rely on wave-function collapse need to provide a plausible mechanism for how the irreversibility within the measurement process comes about, as a collapsed wave function is no longer time-reversible (i.e. if we would flip the sign of the Hamiltonian we would not be able to go back to a previous state as the wave function was irreversibly changed during the measurement) and I haven't seen any physically plausible attempt at this so far. So personally I still favor the many-worlds hypothesis, if only because it doesn't require invoking a so-far unknown process that destroys reversibility during quantum evolution.
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Those are not remotely the same. A web page can function without JS. It's not something you need to display some text and some images. And it's not harmful to others. Smoking in a closed space is.

Also, I can't believe every time this refrain pops up we need to be reminded that js not loading is not only a problem for those deactivating it explicitly but also in those cases when it didn't load for any number of reasons (like a bad connection). You're doing your visitors a disservice if you need js to load static text and pictures.
>You need JavaScript to use the web in 2019

No you don't. Nor should you ever if the page doesn't need it.

Having your code running on my machine always was and always will be a security risk. If you don't understand that you shouldn't be in that job.

> You also need an ID to get into the boarding area of an airport and you can't smoke in restaurants

Respectively, that's because a boarding area is not a public area, and relevance of smoking to this?

> It's time to stop complaining about this

No, it's time web devs understood the implications of their job, and the risk they put their users at if done improperly.

An axiom of technology design: Simplicity. If you don't need X, don't use it.

Edit: so you're the "Founder of Improvely: https://www.improvely.com" which "Track, Test and Optimize Your Online Marketing". That explains something. No, no, no, you're not going to track me. I am not your data point.
As I understand this is more of a mechanism for controlling the production of seeds. The idea is simple: producing seeds increases the population of seed-eating animals. But if the trees coordinate and keep on releasing few seeds, then many all of a sudden, then animals will be overwhelmed by the food supply and much of it will go to uneaten, therefore more seeds will germinate. Next breeding cycle there may be more animals (because the forests were all-you-can-eat buffets), but the seeds supply will be low again, reducing the animal population.

I'm not sure what's the specific mechanism of coordination (i.e. the specific signal that selects the many-seeds years), the article does not explain it. But it coincided with very high temperatures this year, on top of the persistently increased CO2 levels in the atmosphere (plants love the CO2 levels we've generated).
Using easy-rsa, choosing the right ciphers and other protocol options always seemed overly complex and opaque to me. Wireguard was a breath of fresh air in comparison.
BlueIris, TinyCam Pro
This phrase is older than cartoons, it can be found in works of Tolstoy.
It would be no problem whatsoever if playstore/appstore were just two of many market places. As it is however, they both completely dominate their respective markets. On top of that, it is costly, both in terms of money and in terms of friction, for a customer to change between the two, so they really are quite separate markets. As a customer, you pretty much choose one of the two, then stick with it (or pay a hefty price to switch). As a developer, you either also choose one of the two, or both. Choosing neither really isn't an option.

In this situation of non-competition, some very crucial assumptions about the efficiency of free markets break down entirely. I think hardly anyone is debating that apple/google make some money for the infrastructure they provide. But the amount they take would be significantly lower if there was real competition. Which there really isn't. That's what's called "rent extraction" and basically just means you're extracting more money for something than would be needed to make you do it in the first place. Would google/apple still be motivated to provide the same service if their cut was halved? Probably. It would still make a killing. But their dominant position allows them to take more, so they do.

TL;DR:
At the base, your question (for me) really boils down to "why should there be any rules for corporation at all?"
To which I would answer: because if left completely to their own devices, that would be a bad system for nearly everyone, except the very few at the very top.
Yup that's what curious droid's video on this is saying as well [1]. Basically the plans all were off a little bit and each rocket engine was hand-tailored to the demands of the individual rocket by these skilled people you mentioned. They did document their changes but only on scrap notes that since were lost. The plans themselves that were archived don't contain those notes and even if they had them, you couldn't find people with such skills any more.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovD0aLdRUs0
First of all, great work. In the "Final Scene" with DOF, the reflection of the mandelbox on the stapler seems to be more in focus than the stapler itself, is that actually correct?
Been using this https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script script for over a year and it's been my goto to fix Windows 10 after a fresh install.

It's purely Powershell based unlike some other binary based tools out there, clean, in a single file. I'd say it doesn't use any hacks either to stop telemetry.

Keep in mind Windows will revert some settings occasionally after a Windows update.
Anaxagoras Was Exiled for Claiming the Moon Was a Rock
Intel had been considered to get insane premiums on their chips for a long, long time...
It addressed the parent comment that implied that programming organizations are inherently not diverse.

Too many are not, but it's not because programmers from other demographics aren't available; it's because true diversity isn't wanted.

Look at the photos on the Careers page for your typical USA coastal tech company. I see over and over again 22-35 year old Asian and white males (mostly). Latino faces are rare; black faces are rarer still. And faces over 45 or so are non-existent.
Slaveholders were a tiny portion of the UK economy by the time of the 1833 abolition act and were effectively non-existent in the UK itself so there was no voting constituency to oppose it, the slave trade act almost 25 years earlier had seen to that. The southern US, on the other hand, depended completely on slavery and its influence was pervasive throughout the economy and society. The federal government simply did not have the funds to buy off slaveholders.

As to why the North did not secede I would probably say that when you have the majority of the votes you don't need to be the one to leave. The slave states were already losing ground in the legislature and after the 1860 census they would fall even further behind. The North could just wait them out and then impose its will, and the South knew this...
It is a great investment and people are installing crazy amounts of it around the world.

However on an individual scale, market externalities mean that individual choices often lead to inefficient outcomes because the true cost is not borne by the person making the choice.

This is almost certainly the case when you decide that solar doesn't make sense for you economically.
Finally Bloomberg will
be able to report on real hardware backdoors!
The tragedy of the US health system right here: working a second job during paternity leave to pay the medical bills.
There are multiple setup scripts like [1] that make it super easy to setup OpenVPN.

[1] https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install
One thing that annoys me about funny 404 pages is that they tend to assume that either a) the content referenced by the URL was deleted intentionally, or b) the user mistyped the URL. While in practise, the majority of the time I hit a 404 page, it is due to malpractise by the webmaster. A 404 page has to be very funny to offset the fact that it often is very unhelpful and blames the user for the webmaster's faults. (Fortunately, I found the FT Page submitted that funny, unlike many of the others in the comments.)

In that light, I find 404 pages like these refreshing for recognising the situation for what it is: https://two-wrongs.com/404
Yes. You are right here. It does takes away from version control systems. But the thing is that this functionality is not forced upon you. You can still choose to code in your real file system, and use Quark only as a runtime.
People now write stuff like this for fun.

Pretty sure the original Tetris was also written in assembly because there was little choice in the matter though.
Could you use this principle to detect any kind of life?
The fact is that people are just storing more. Higher resolution pictures or even RAW files, 4K movies, high quality audio, games with fantastic visuals in enormous worlds.

Of course the operating systems and apps are full of bloat but that’s only a small amount of storage, really.
As a side note, there are tons of countries, including in Europe, which are not supported as merchant countries in Play Store - i.e. devs are only allowed to publish free apps.
Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal starred in a 2016 movie from the viewpoint of a fictional detective.
You’d be surprised. Almost all of the German cities were destroyed in WW2 (meaning their downtown area). The same goes for Polish cities, or further East cities like Kiev, Odessa or Kharkiv. WW2 was also quite brutal for Western cities like Rotterdam or London. WW1 obliterated most of the cities in Northern France and South-West Belgium. The streets of Madrid saw active and intense fighting in the Spanish Civil War. And many of the cities that escaped the wars relatively unscathed had to contend with the modernist movement of the 1960s and the 1970s, which saw many interesting buildings demolished because they didn’t look modern or functional enough (Athens being a prime example for this).
I still have code I wrote for the C64 in 1988 lol.
> It then follows that that cost must be paid by the customers ..

It absolutely does not follow at all. When costs are disconnected from pricing, the business undergoes a loss. For instance, many rural Texas cities have high property taxes, and low demand for hotel rooms. In many of these places hotels are unviable, because the market would never pay enough to eke out a profit.

In such places, Airbnb is surprisingly effective, as the renter typically sees AirBnB income as a bonus, and doesn't rely on it to make a living.
5 Biggest Java Myths Debunked
Compared to Wireguard though...

It sounds like OP would've like to use wg really, but only had TCP 80/443 to play with.
There is an easier way (for those with access to the version of Windows involved):

Windows 10 N LTSB / LTSC

N = No media things built-in, so you'll need to install VLC if that's a concern.

LTSB / LTSC = Long-Term Servicing Branch / Long-Term Servicing Channel. This is really the killer thing but it comes with catches. You'll get an absolutely stable Windows and to achieve that a load of things are removed by Microsoft.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3250464/faq-windows-10...

> LTSB does not include Edge nor any Microsoft Store (Universal Windows Platform, or UWP) apps, whether Redmond-made or third-part, because the browser and those apps constantly change and need updating. Also AWOL: the Cortana voice-activated digital assistant and access to the Microsoft Store.

And for the HN community... lack of Microsoft Store means that you are not running Ubuntu on Windows.
They are all very good. Even with a decent background in history, as an American, I tended to think of the 1840s in terms of the lead up to the US Civil War and ignored/forgot most of what was happening in Europe at the time. The season he did around this period was a great reminder of all of the seeds of change and destruction for future generations that were sown in this decade.
Newbie question: what is the typical and extreme values (excluding +/-infinity, and are these used too?) that can occur in training/running of NNs? Also, what level of accuracy is needed?

It may well be a stupid q but I really don't know, and always assumed they would be [-1..+1] and that fixed point would suffice. Clearly not.
That's for the hosted version, you can self host on aws
I think the models did consider this. And in such models, this is one of the "tipping points" (along with sea ice / glacier ice melting) beyond which it becomes much more difficult to reverse the process.
`ssh -D 9090 $HOMESERVER` and configuring firefox is pretty easy
Makes it super easy but even more opaque, that is not a good thing with incredibly security-related software.
The 1991 eruption of Mt Pinatubo caused 0.5C degree of cooling the following year (i.e. instantaneously).

We need short-term remediation, starting immediately. This is the only cost-effective method.

https://pubs.usgs.gov/pinatubo/self/
I'm fairly sure the Lib Dems were doing the 'funny' 404s first. I'm not sure if archive.org keeps 404 pages though.
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I recently read A Dog's heart, by Mikhail Bulgakov. There is a part where he describes the operation on the dog. When I read that part, i told myself there is absolutely no way he could come up with such a vivid description if he had never operated on a live body.

Turns out, the author had been a doctor in world war 2 and had witnessed some terrible things. And they made their way into the book.
Woe to emperors

Who are parading smartly

And have their buff called
Ask HN: What's your toolchain for bootstrapping a new local environment?
When you start in a new local environment (eg new Linux desktop, Windows desktop, MacBook, etc) how do you efficiently make it "home" to you? For example, dotfiles, ssh keys, file sync such as Dropbox, terminal and preferences, etc.
No taxpayer money is being spent. That's the whole point of this system, to avoid spending on housing benefits by utilizing price caps.