skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate Chrome.

But Firefox drains my battery faster trying to run a VR simulation with an a realistic crypto mining rig and a USB hair dryer. My MBP's fans kick on full-blast when I start streaming video sin Firefox. And... worst Firefox crashes every time my computer goes to sleep now -- this has been happening for about the last month. When it comes back up I have to re-sign-in to about 20 sites... yes, password manager, but... with 2FA on most it's just tedious.

Like for a browser that respects privacy may fall to like for a browser that doesn't kill my battery.
> I think environmentalism is misguided when it works on the principle of “everything that sounds good for the environment is equally important, we don’t need to pay attention to whether it works”.

It's a rather good thing, then, that just about nobody advocates or implements that strategy.

Your examples happen to be of small effect (but also rather low cost) ideas that are just being amplified by detractors because they play well among a certain segment of the population.
Every decent sized contracting firm I've ever worked with offered benefits. It's more expensive, but you just price that into your rate. So I don't understand what the concern is. Is it the risk that after 3 months you won't be brought on full time?
I really hope this fails, something I have never wished for any other startup.

At least personally in my hirings I'll never use or trust anything like this.

There are so many things wrong with this approach that I'm kinda speachless as to where to start.
As far as I know solar roads where never a promising idea because they have obvious shortcomings that this trial just confirmed. There are a million better places to put solar panels than under car tires. Once we've exhausted those would could start thinking about solar roadways.
AFAIK security people usually is consulting on security issues and rarely dictates implementation details.

This IIRC is not the OP referring to.
how does slack have permanent root access to my system again?
Interesting. I think its time to get rid of this junk. I always had a bad feeling about AVs, due to repeated "extra vulnerabilities" they seemed to introduce, while not providing measurable added value compared to Windows Defender.

That Kaspersky is apparently too stupid to fix this leak properly even after it was pointed out, suggests to me that their developers obviously are incompetent and the trust int hem doing AV right is approaching zero, if they can't even load a script into a website without leaking like the Iraqi marine.
The limit for a ticker symbol on NYSE is six characters... from Section 2.1 of the NYSE Symbology spec [1]:

The NYSE defines the symbol into two parts: a root and a suffix. The root constitutes the first part
of the symbol and it can be up to six characters (although traditionally, most symbols representing
companies only use a three-character root).

That said... in the early 00's, our is_nyse(ticker) function looked like: { return ticker.size() == 3; }

[1] https://www.nyse.com/publicdocs/nyse/data/NYSE_Symbology_Spe...
I understood the parent post's view as a zero-sum game among different proposals. There is a set, limited budget, and myriad ideas to choose from and test. Funding one idea means not being able to fund another. Thus, zero-sum.

Therefore, we should fund most probable test ideas as should any scientific endeavor. The parent post claims that this particular idea was not probable to begin with (a poor idea on paper).
Starting an ISP is hard, don’t do it (2016)
The United States should study how the lost of manufacturing impacted Britain globally when dealing with China
Bitcoin block hashes are expensive to manipulate, but not fundamentally difficult to manipulate. All you need to do is bribe the miners. Let's say you strike a deal with AntPool, which mines about 10% of Bitcoin blocks. If they find a block with favorable entropy, they broadcast it; otherwise, they withhold it, and you compensate them for the missed coinbase. So if you only need to control 1 bit of entropy, you can expect this bit to be available within ~20 blocks, at a cost of one coinbase. Very expensive -- but not difficult.

In essence, the difference between Bitcoin and an aggregate scheme is that in Bitcoin, your control over the entropy is probabilistic and directly proportional to the number of bribed parties, whereas in an aggregate scheme, you have no control whatsoever until you manage to bribe every party, at which point you gain full control.
Does that somehow make it OK?
The repo can theoretically hijack a package like util-linux, unless you creatively set up apt pinning.
well maybe if you were affected by a shake and your phone sent your location to the govt then you could be helped? the only possible usecase for it though
I don't swear on HN, but Holy Shit, I just added -P to xargs in a testsuite bash script, and it's 7 times faster.

I only have quad core, but -P values higher than 4 give better performance. Maybe because the tests take different amounts of time, and it avoids them backing up. To get x7, I had -P equal to the number of tests.
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Replace high school students with engineering graduates and elite colleges with elite employers in your first para.... And see..
They recently changed their name to Deep Indian Kitchen.
I think battery life is quite simple to solve for, actually. A common method to work through this, especially for earthquakes, is to only capture sensor data when the phone is stationary and plugged in+charging. If the phone is moving or unplugged, no data needs to be gathered. Sure, this limits the quantity of data you can get in the short-term, but relaxes users long-term and keeps the app installed. Offering these settings as toggles also helps.

FWIW, I mostly work on barometers. New versions of Android lock down the sensor access so it cannot be done in the background; my solution is low-resolution data (15-minute intervals, rather than ideal 1-minute) and for user privacy, I can discard location data after summarizing pressure data into gridded anonymous areas.

I do this in All Clear Weather: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.allclearwe... (US, Android)

Sensor code: https://github.com/JacobSheehy/AllClearSensorLibrary

I am also interested in gathering magnetic data, and presently also collect temperature, light sensor and humidity from phones that have it. I believe all this data could be useful for weather prediction, which is my current target.

But earthquake alerts, magnetic field/solar storm warnings, sound pollution (microphone), and various other distributed sensor networks should also be possible.

I have not noticed any battery degradation or over-use of resources in my dealings with sensors. As long as the developer takes care in the code and respects users' wishes, I think it's totally doable.
I just clocked it at 16 seconds to check for new mail in Apple Mail checking against a Gmail Account on an iPhone SE connected to Google Fiber. It feels pretty slow...

Meanwhile, same update vs same account in Outlook took about 6 seconds.

And in the Gmail App, about 4 seconds.

Not super scientific, just me looking at my watch and opening each app and seeing how long it took to update.

So maybe something with Apple Mail?
Endless OS is specifically geared to "commonly offline" distribution models. Packages are shipped as mostly self contained images.
A loss of political support for manufacturing has caused a loss of manufacturing in the US too - we wanted nice clean information jobs, no dirty factory jobs spewing chemicals all over
So, as someone who’s been out of school for a million years, after my name and contact info, my education info is the second most important thing?

I don’t think so

Maybe this should be titled “Just Graduated? Some Useful Tips”
Indeed.

But then, I don't trust Microsoft, either.

In Debian, I can be reasonably confident that no information leaves the system without my authorization.

Edit: Just out of curiosity, am I wrong in mistrusting Microsoft, or in trusting Debian?
it's a similar value prop to soylent, which has a hardcore base
Elite employers are nowhere close to getting all their projects done successfully or with reasonable quality. The subset of engineering graduates who can do that is small.
Bringing robots home eases loneliness
The First Look at Samsung Galaxy Note 10: Modest Overhauls Come at a High Price
> if you can't speak certain words, then you can't think certain thoughts

Are you saying that you're incapable of non-narrative thoughts?
I think his point was that xbps is fast enough for normal operation, while still offering a traditional package management workflow. Alpine's APK is even faster according to one of the XBPS developers and another void maintainer that uses Alpine at work.

(paragraph 2) https://www.reddit.com/r/voidlinux/comments/ccppu0/opkg_vs_a...
> You can also create two NaN numbers that do not have the same binary representation.

Way worse than that. The interpretation of those different values of NaN is software specific. You can also have signalling NaN values - where the recipient can now have their number handling code trap in completely unexpected scenarios.
Curious as to why the geographical locations provided are only for US and Singapore.
idagio
It shouldn't be zero sum. We should try every feasible idea we can, and humanity has a blind spot for funding projects that aren't sexy and don't have the chance of outsized commercial returns, like cheap lenses for third world countries. Or insulation.

But that's the ideal. In the real world, political and consumer attention for projects like this most certainly is zero sum. They quickly get fatiguing and you already feel like you've done your bit.

In fact, it's probably even worse than zero sum in practice, because after being burned on junk like solar roads, you're far less likely to vouch or open your wallet for the next cool sounding tech that comes along.
It’s not the “dumbest interpretation” since her claim was already ridiculous.

Same thing with the Trump saying windmills cause cancer. There’s no real defense.
Thank you, this is exactly what should be configurable
No. I'm saying that an oppressive enough culture, where you cannot express yourself, interferes with your relationship to yourself and with developing better mental models.
That website looks really useful. Thanks for sharing.
I just want someone on the inside at comcast so I can figure out how to get their gigabit pro package, they say I'm like 200ft too far from this magical node.
Oh, didn't know that.
By the way, all of the common void xbps triggers are found here: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/tree/master/srcp...

These are one of the largest time sinks for the package manager.
Good question. My guess is they saw most users installing Chrome or FF as the first or second thing on a new Windows install, and were tired of reimplementing Chrome features only to still look bad next to Chrome and FF with ever-changing web "standards".
FWIW I always thought of Edge as slow but just recently I picked up a Surface Go. It's not a fast computer... but somehow, Edge is pretty fast on this machine.
Honest question: what is AV even for these days? I have had some form of AV on all of my Windows machines since the 90's. I don't think I have seen a detection in at least ten years.
So what, repaint it.

Do you think advertising is going to fix that?
It's perhaps inevitable. The Chinese, then the Dutch, then the British, now the American. It may simply be that China becomes the next top power.

Ray Dalio on the matter:

https://youtu.be/Mh0vEaac78U
Japanese architects who treated buildings like living organisms
> Wars have destroyed huge swaths of a country’s infrastructure without creating hyper inflation.

It a morbid thought, but perhaps this is because such a war may lower demand a significant amount by killing or impoverishing sufficient numbers of people.
Still no reason to support ugly advertising.
Without knowing anything about the specifics here... yes, I can confidently say that transmitting information between two companies with the same owner is "ok" and should be expected.
Maybe not this time, but next time? Maybe, it'll certainly be a factor in which gas station they use if the prices are near identical.
TeamLab Merges Dream with Reality
Because these people are just memorizing coding problems. It's like a spelling b
There's few things I wouldn't give for the source code to the old Westwood games. Particularly Tiberian Sun/Red Alert 2

Word around the internet though is that EA lost the source code to all the pre-Generals (2004) C&C games
What I don't get is that the modern chips are reaching the level of being limited by quantum noise yet modern GPUs and Tensor processors don't seem to offer any sources of quantum randomness. Can someone who understand this stuff please explain.
I tried feeding some of the phonetically spelled stuff into google translate and it was completely lost at sea. So no worries about the claim this could stuff up NLP/search, then.
Ask HN: What are your prefered tools \ workflow for internet research?
I'm working on a collaborative curation project, and trying to jump-start an internet-research \ collaborative curation branch of the open-source movement.

I'm sure there are others working on similar ideas, but I haven't found them, or not many.

My preferred method is to use discord servers as something of a social-cms (with some help from https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter/ )...

I use the share button integration on my phone to share links to the appropriate channel of a server (even better when on desktop w ctrl+k)

I have a few discord servers for different topics I'm studying, and even multiple servers with hundreds of channels breaking down various aspects of one large subject.

Rather than trying to get people engaged with this platform who don't use it, I'd rather tap into their existing research workflows

I know some people like to organize information in:

-Awesome Lists
-Excel \ Google Sheets
-Wikis
-Hackmd.io
-various note apps.....

would love to hear about how you do internet research, especially if you like to work with big topics, or deep within your chosen niche.

https://sourcecrypto.pub/archive/
<<<POC using discord (and minimal-mistakes-jekyll) as a social curation\research cms.

Thanks
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This is not actually a natural distinction. It's an historical error dating back to OS/360 and JCL (Job Control Language). Fred Brooks, who ran that project, has since claimed it was a mistake.

For examples of languages that excel at quick interaction without the failures of shells, look at Rexx and Rebol. Or power up Smalltalk.
> Get a proper email account with ideally your first name and last name, eg. "john.doe@gmail.com" instead of "angrybirds88@gmail.com"... Avoid emails like "me@christi.na" or "admin@[mycooldomain].com" -- because it is very prone to typo errors.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone explicitly recommend against using a custom domain for email.
Santa Barbara does not have outdoor advertising such as billboards and has regulations on the size of business signage (approx 12 inches tall max).
You need a better completion system.
Dollar stores. Buy Dollar Tree (ticker: DLTR) or invest in Wish.
Do we even need A/V for windows ? I think Microsoft Defender along with "proper digital hygeine" obviates the need for dedicated A/V solutions.
He’s saying it takes at least ten years, not that it stops there.
How often are you hiring people whose professional work is open source? How often are you hiring people for roles where their professional work will be open source?
Would it be wrong to imply that if you're non-PC you're a racist and/or bigot?
It’s definitely not the preferred solution, but the article here is trying to make the case for running a whole ISP for a customer base that’s less than the employee count of this single site. They also already maintain their own roads and I believe some high voltage equipment so they are a bit of a special case when it comes to being able to maintain infrastructure.

That being said, what this guide really gives me is an alternative solution to present to a CEO and IT manager who think that it is an unsolvable problem. I still think this ends with a 3rd party doing everything, but for substantially less than $500k (before monthly service fees).
A question: just like JSON's syntax was based on JavaScript, could we create a JSON schema syntax based on TypeScript? So the schema would essentially be a TypeScript type annotation.
The set of all US citizens, not the subset of US fliers, is the set that democratically elected the reps that enacted this law. They should be willing to pay for it.

Too many laws are enacted on the basis that they will be popular only because a majority of people will not have to pay for them and thus see no downsides.
It is strange that i cannot find this app in Google Playstore..

I am in another country but that should not stop me from seeing the app or installing it.
It's not that simple. Looking at the damaged roadway, I see lots of punctate damage. That puzzled me until I read your comment. I'm pretty sure that it's gravel under truck tires. So the same force-concentration dynamic as high heels.
eating sag aloo ... with my aggy crew...
Only for a little while. It will take a few days to make a browser extension to fix this.
The comments on that page are overwhelmingly friendly. And regardless, how can you even compare the two?! Dropbox fulfilled an obvious need and fulfilled it very well, whereas "solar roads" don't seem to be a solution to any problem at all!
These are good questions, I like how they are phrased so concretely instead just asking “do you have a lot of tech debt?” They’re interesting for getting to know the team and getting a piece of insight you usually wouldn’t have until a few weeks into the job.

But I would be careful how you interpret these. In fact I would almost factor in these answers in the opposite way of what I think you intended. The company that admits to the worst technical issues is at least honest and self reflective. The company that doesn’t admit to any serious issues might be just as bad or worse, but their strategy is to tell employees to lie about it rather than be open to addressing it.
This isn't true at all. The US has more manufacturing capacity than it ever has.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g17/ip100_f2.svg
> They're homeless as a result of their life choices

that's just false. the same as people in privileged circumstances claiming to have gotten to where they are due to their 'hard work'
What sort of browser extension are you thinking of that would only take a couple of days?
> XML became popular because of its human readability compared to binary and allowed disparate systems to cooperate. JSON is even more readable and allowed the whole XLST thing to be ignored, making a dev's life easier, and really took off with node.

XML was simply never designed to represent structured data. It was meant to represent document markup in a way that was both simpler and more extensible than SGML.

If there's one thing the industry always seems to do, its embrace some technology hammer as the solution for every problem. Before XML some people were trying to trade around relational database dumps as data interchange formats, because relational databases were the golden hammer.

JSON is being abused by being stretched beyond its sweet spot as well, but there aren't industry consortiums necessarily pushing bad ideas like there was with SOAP and WS-*.
I meant that it's not OK to collect clickstream data. At all. As I recall, Apple got nailed about Safari doing that, and stopped.
I mean it's all a game as much as it sucks. One of my best friends in high school was a salutatorian because the school didn't wait grade. She took zero AP classes and very few honors classes. She knew what she was doing.

Friends in college took less challenging majors to boost GPA for med school (business admin, environmental policy, etc) to boost grades and there core classes were easy so it gave them more time to focus on med school pre-reqs.

It has been and always will be a game. Few things in this world come down to meritocracy because the way we socialize and the way we interview does not beget that in absolute terms.

Tech did a better-than-most job as a meritocracy for while, but I believe those days are done. Most areas f tech are too mainstream with too much obvious money at stake.
No, a fizzbuzz test is entirely about whether somebody can do it. That's the definition of a fizzbuzz test. When you hear others talking about a fizzbuzz test, they're not talking about the specific algorithm, they're specifically talking about a simple single-function problem that should take no more than 5 or 10 minutes.

If you're dealing with user input or linting, then that's not a fizzbuzz test. I'm not doubting that maybe somebody asked you to do something larger than that including the fizzbuzz problem, I'm just saying that nobody else here is talking about take-home problems when we talk about fizzbuzz.
How quickly could China create a dataset to translate this into Cantonese though? Probably in a year or less. It’s a game of cat and mouse and the cat will win in the end.
> The very first compiled computer language was COBOL

FORTRAN and Lisp both predate COBOL.
I'm working on Challenge 5.
The fact that Metal itself requires the existence of C++ really has nothing to do with this topic though, which is whether there's any downside to writing your app in a language that Apple doesn't ship a compiler for. The fact that Metal shaders are written in a language based on C++ is irrelevant to this question, because it doesn't matter what language you pick for the rest of your app as Metal shaders don't link with your app. Swift has zero integration with C++ and yet I can write a Metal app using Swift, because the fact that the shaders are written in MSL has no impact on the fact that the app uses Swift.

And the language for writing drivers in is even more irrelevant because we're not talking about writing drivers. You can't write drivers in Swift either.
I thought the idea of a game of cat and mouse is that you never actually reach a conclusion?

Pace the obvious and awesome power of the Chinese surveillance state, nothing is foregone.

Edit: it's true that you could eventually translate the literal stuff back into Chinese characters, I'm sure, but that doesn't mean things are predetermined in a wider sense.
Yes, that can absolutely prevent you from seeing it if it hasn't been made available for your region.
I think that's splitting hairs, and focusing on the wrong aspect of it. Avast gives clickstream data to a digital marketing company. That company happens to be a subsidiary, so Avast is a digital marketing company. The problem becomes one not of a company sharing your private information with another so it can me monetized, but the initial company monetizing it itself. If you have a problem with your data being used for marketing by your AV vendor, whether it's shared to make it happen is likely of little consequence to you.
Not really, innovative thought can’t be done with a gun to your head. Perhaps if you’d written this code multiple times over the years and had it memorized. But, that won’t help with random problem #2.

Stick to the basics and a trial period.