skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Joel Spolsky has a great writeup on this phenomenon.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/01/18/big-macs-vs-the-na...

Mike was unhappy. He had hired a huge company of IT consultants to build The System. The IT consultants he hired were incompetents who kept talking about “The Methodology” and who spent millions of dollars and had failed to produce a single thing.

Luckily, Mike found a youthful programmer who was really smart and talented. The youthful programmer built his whole system in one day for $20 and pizza. Mike was overjoyed. He recommended the youthful programmer to all his friends.

Youthful Programmer starts raking in the money. Soon, he has more work than he can handle, so he hires a bunch of people to help him. The good people want too many stock options, so he decides to hire even younger programmers right out of college and “train them” with a 6 week course.

The trouble is that the “training” doesn’t really produce consistent results, so Youthful Programmer starts creating rules and procedures that are meant to make more consistent results. Over the years, the rule book grows and grows. Soon it’s a six-volume manual called The Methodology.

After a few dozen years, Youthful Programmer is now a Huge Incompetent IT Consultant with a capital-M-methodology and a lot of people who blindly obey the Methodology, even when it doesn’t seem to be working, because they have no bloody idea whatsoever what else to do, and they’re not really talented programmers — they’re just well-meaning Poli Sci majors who attended the six-week course.
Ah I see. Well in any case, thanks for the link, it led to several books I'm interested to check out...

- Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of Np-Completeness

- Computational Complexity (your page has the one by Papadimitriou, but putting it on my Goodreads list led to two others of the same name by Goldreich and Arora/Barak I didn't know of)
Interestingly that's the approach Switzerland took by adopting "CH" as its country code/abbreviation: Confoederatio Helvetica in Latin.

This was to avoid giving the appearance of favoring any of its four official languages (It would otherwise be "SE" in German, "CS" in French/Italian/Romanish).
A good chunk of HN is really fed up with cryptocurrencies.

Whoever are pushing them - including Telegram that I otherwise like - are damaging their reputation in my eyes.
My guess it is actually more about silver bullet syndrome. Haskell seems great on the surface when you don't need to deal with state, order, memory constraints, memory layout etc. and can just focus on data flow problems.

I think people want programming in general to have that sort of simplicity, but data flow programming is already where focus can be on transforming data without the complexities of most real world programs.

I think there is a lot of desire to try to make Haskell work in all situations instead of what it is best at.
Fast new 3D printing method creates objects as big as an adult human
How do you find customers for that? Any job board tricks, maybe?
This is a feature of the current Silicon Valley model, not a bug.
.. eventually going bust and being bought by Oracle?
That's a slightly worrying precedent, they're calling the way to diaable certain bits of obnoxiousness (the header bar in Tree Style Tabs comes to mind) "legacy", which is usually a precursor to removal.

Is there a new method available/forthcoming, or is this more control planned to be wrenched out of user's hands?
Hence “most” not “all” backstreets.

For example in soho Frith street could be fully pedestrianised, while the neighbouring greek street only accessible to taxis
sequester that attitude, dude.

if "governments really start putting money towards it"... that money comes from your paycheck first and foremost.

if you're going to advocate for a market based solution (and you are, if you're talking about putting money somewhere) then consider the hard work of pricing external costs (those costs to the commons, you're so fond of considering), that governments are truly good at.

we don't need governments spending our money. we need governments to help us coordinate prices for the consequences of our desires, which would otherwise not be priced at all (e.g. dumping billions of tons of pollutants, etc... into the shared environment).
I avoided doing so because I don't really want the internet to know what credit cards I have.

With that said, let's say I specifically name "Chase". Are you going to cancel your existing Chase bank account or credit card upon hearing this?
I think your experience is a complete outlier. I literally only go the ATM when I need to give cash to a friend or something weird like that. I spend most of my life in NYC / Financial District. I can't recall the last time I even had to use a physical credit card - everything is either Apple Pay or Level Up, i.e. pay with the phone. Even the subway lines I use have been converted to touchless entry. It's pretty marvelous.
Digital Mapmaking Resources
I think they would need to fully adopt CALayers to get all of the way down to Safari's power usage.

>This proposal is a bit hacky. The more pure solution would be to teach the compositor to create CoreAnimation layers for Gecko layers, so that for example the throbber animation gets one CoreAnimation layer that contains all the animation frames in a film strip, plus an offset and clip that only shows the current frame. (That's how the Gecko layers are set up for the throbber animation.) Such a solution would be preferable but it would require much more work in the compositor. The tiling solution that I'm proposing in this bug is easier to implement and a bit more generic, because it treats CompositorOGL compositing as a black box that just produces a framebuffer filled with pixels, along with an invalid region.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1491456

If I am following this correctly, when dealing with a small on-screen animation, they are moving from having to repaint the whole window to only repainting a largish chunk of the window.

Adopting CALayers at a deeper level in Gekko would allow them to only update the animation itself.

Doing so would require a good deal of additional work.
I should have been more clear. I'm not talking about sophisticated adversaries performing hardware attacks on a middle school student's laptop. I'm talking about the very basic steps necessary to prevent your brother from googling for porn on your school computer. in the vast majority of cases, having a good password and logging out of the computer when you're finished will prevent these kinds of pranks. if the child can't handle this, they are not ready for their own computer.
Okay. We only need one set of gendered pronouns. Using words from one set for some people, while using words from a different set for other people, is subject to arbitrary interpretation and therefore vulnerable to othering.
you're right, it's ego. thanks for the advice
And handicap accessibility, people with limited mobility need closer parking.
Wow, interesting comment. I just started with such a Puppeteer (et al.) project...
Many people, including myself, believe that the most significant difference was the authoritarian nature of the Soviet State. Soviet citizens had no privacy, no safety, no protected rights, no recourse to an impartial judicial system, and that's all pretty orthogonal to socialism vs. capitalism. The Nolan Chart[1] is a pretty handy way to conceptualize this, as is Political Compass[2]. Be careful, though, because the people making this kind of two-axis argument practically always do so from a libertarian perspective, so the "other corner" of socialist but non-authoritarian alternatives (worker cooperatives, kibbutzim, etc.) tends to get short shrift.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Chart
[2] https://www.politicalcompass.org/
In software, I am hopeful for applications of homomorphic encryption. It could solve some privacy issues preventing some classes of software from moving to the Cloud. There have been huge efficiency improvements over the last 10 years, there needs to be even more, probably hardware-assisted.

In general, climate change is the topic of the century, and with it energy generation and storage. I think intermittent renewables (wind and solar) are overvalued today. Nuclear fission has a large role to play (with SMRs for instance), hydrogen as well. Of course if we make fusion work all bets are off.
there is a search engine for oldie sites: https://wiby.me
I'm not missing the point at all. Yes, in short, I believe the government could make that choice. Yes, I believe in redistribution. Taxes are one means for that. Your argument seems to be that literally no one has thought this through, which is patently false. Anyway, we've shifted from a theoretical question about billionaires to a question of practical implementation, which is beyond the scope of an HN comment from a dumbass like me. If you want to know who I think is doing some of the most serious and noteworthy research and writing on this and many other topics related to social welfare and redistribution, check out the People's Policy Project: https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/
Why Bitmain Is Building the World’s Largest Bitcoin Mine in Rural Texas
Yes, it says "match if y is two, and x if it's between one and four, inclusive".
I'm hoping Dynamic Relational will catch on. Unlike the dynamic NoSql products, this is pro-SQL so you don't have to relearn much. You get dynamism AND familiarity (per existing RDBMS experience). I believe the industry wants it, they just don't know it yet, expecting a rigid dichotomy between either "stiff" RDBMS's -or- NoSql.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66385/dynamic-database-s...
Do people actually want it? Technological limitation or not, this is how things have been both in print and digital for as long as I can remember. Not to mention handwriting. I still find the non-overlapping underline weird (even if kind of neat).
perhaps those who wish to survive, after the initial wave of effects begin to be felt
UTC is unique/boring and doesn't have semantic baggage. I think that's a plus.
For us non-Americans this is not that great. How would you feel if China or Russia launched such a system? Or even Germany?
What value does augmented reality add to anything?
I’ve seen sites fail to load if google analytics doesn’t load, so that could be it.
crypto is fake money, and it will never survive government scrutiny.

we need our dollars to be made by governments, not basement dwellers.
My experience has been that the vast majority of McKinsey and BCG consultants have absolutely no real world experience. My company has been hiring these people for internal roles in droves and it's hilarious (and depressing) to watch how useless they are when they can't just leave after dropping some nice sounding but useless solution on someones desk.
In particular, you can give the intermediate result a useful name (using something more descriptive than 'n' would have helped in the example)...
I probably would not write the code that way either, but it's really hard to say how I would, given that it's not a realistic example.

This is one of the hardest parts about writing examples: you want something that's real, but also not long. Very difficult.
But will machine learning experts be automated out of a job by their own algorithms?
Blocking scrapers?
TransferWise is an Estonian startup btw and works great here.
Great to see a new major release! I have used Ghost in a couple of projects, and I am always impressed with the functionality & the flexibility to use it how you want.

The built in editor and admin panel is great, but the real sweetness comes from the REST API. The ability to integrate into any custom website is fantastic!
Lilium releases new footage of air taxi
Go on forums where people who use a platform/API/SaaS post implicit feature requests

Off the top of my mind:

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/c/selling-on-amazon/...
https://community.ebay.com/t5/Tools-Apps/bd-p/tools-apps-db
It isn’t sensational at all. Imagining some future tech where oil can be used for fuel in a carbon neutral manner is essentially science fiction.

Reducing petroleum demand to just plastics and lubricants eliminates demand to the point at which most of the reserves do remain in the ground.

Mild oversimplification is not sensationalism.
IME making a left turn on a yellow is more dangerous than waiting for the light to turn red and quickly making the turn, as long as you are already in the intersection. Turning on yellow means racing oncoming traffic trying to beat the light, while turning on red just means traffic has to wait a bit for you to clear the intersection.
Ask HN: Did Route53 delete your hosted zones recently?
A website I manage for a friend went down recently, the cause was DNS issues. They have an AWS account, but they never log in (and frankly don't know how to use it). I investigated Route53, and found that the hosted zone (and as a result, all DNS records) was deleted.

AWS statuses mention Route53 issues on the 20th[0], but no mention of data loss. Couldn't find any results on twitter either. I can't be the only person affected though. Anyone else have a similar issue? I'm trying to narrow down the causes.

0. https://i.imgur.com/p7iSwPS.png
It’s an issue with bipartisan support, so you can bet no matter how hastily conceived some of the specific proposals are, that you’ll see them all clamoring to get credit for “taking down the man.” It will be interesting to see if out of the anti-monopoly legislation some genuinely interesting start-ups can find a new, interesting niche.
Turns out this was an issue with Firefox's automatic certificate selection logic. I changed it to ask me every time instead of automatically selecting certs, and once it saves my selection it's back to normal.
I'm not sure how that changed in this release, but it's at least resolvable.
It's a fun tech, but I fail to see any real world value that can be derived from it. I have worked on AR stuff before and found some niche uses, but I am having real trouble finding general commercial applications apart from fun and games.
Start using a wildcard and then you can create promos-company@yourdomain.com
I'm thinking of assisting drivers. Projecting stuff into the road to guide the driver, or warn him when there are dangerous objects.
As a subscriber, this is nice to hear about; I was actually thinking about creating my own (however that is done - I know it is possible in some manner as a subscriber) - but I'm not an audio expert so I would probably have screwed it up anyhow.

There used to be a site that allowed you to "mash up" multiple sources of audio and gifs to create ambient backgrounds. One that was my favorite consisted of a particular "rain and thunderstorm" audio track, an audio track of "bladerunner ambience" sound, plus a track (pick whatever) of "You are listening to {city}" - which was (is still?) a site that had recordings (or live streams - I don't recall) of police scanner recordings. You could take those, mix them up, then drop a background on screen of a "cyberpunk city" and add javascripted "rain drops" as if you were looking out a window onto the city...

It was a great effect, but like most things on the internet, the "pieces" either went away or changed in some fashion, and it was no longer available. But I've always wanted that same thing back - and what you describe might come really close to that.

Can't wait to see (ok, hear) it!
What is the legitimate restriction? You'll let "users" POST but not PUT? In what Mordacian fever-dream is that reasonable?
> people in those countries tend to (strictly speaking incorrectly) refer to the timezone as GMT all year round.
Not really. I've found that mistake much more common in Americans. Calling the time in London GMT got baked in to some software (ing Outlook) but locals perfectly well understand BST.
It's difficult to figure out how storage is used in gmail. I downloaded my data and did a little analysis, summarized here: https://i.imgur.com/x6yQBQu.png.

As of that time, my mailbox was using 17GB (14GB of which are in one long-running thread), and 900MB of that was email reply quotes. Google refuses to provide an option to disable email quotes, which are completely useless in an email thread of all gmail accounts.

I want my 900MB of free storage back, dammit!

Also, there's no way (AFAIK) to delete images attached to emails, while keeping the messages.
when a computer is provided to you by an organization, you are usually obligated to take reasonable steps to prevent its misuse and especially to prevent misuse of your credentials. do you really disagree that this is the case?
WeWork 'Accepts Takeover by Softbank'
Certainly, hiding liabilities to inflate your company’s value is bad. But is that really what anyone cares about here? If Exxon can show that their financial models were always properly adjusted for the future risks of climate change, how many people do you think will conclude that they did nothing wrong?
Probably Kaggle competitions
p xor true => true
Pushy robots learn the fundamentals of object manipulation
I wasn't necessarily talking about the origin but the current state. But to answer your question I believe AOL gave FF about $5M USD to get started off...
So that they can watch your interactions with the site to confirm that you do it in a “normal” way, nevermind that this discriminates against those with disabilities.
FED money printing and the subsequent bubbles will create the first trillionaire.
I remember that ticker, felt neat. When it disappeared I assumed it was a sign Google had enough textual data to mine. Similar with their handling of photos hence free down sampled storage.

Throwing my voice in I now pay. It is worth the price to keep high resolution photos of my kids with effortless sync from my wife's phone.
Smart assistant in some narrow field of knowledge.
> (I wish I could read this article, but my usual NYT tricks aren't working.)

I use netsurf so I don't have to fiddle with things. The page just loads so I can read stuff and see pictures. Any minimalist browser should work.
Given slowing growth of computing power, and that ray tracing algorithms are already mature and well studied, I don't think high-sample real-time raytracing will come along for a long time.

Instead, I think de-noising based on machine-learning will be the crucial factor for real-time raytracing, as Nvidia has been showing.

I think a coming advancement will be in dispatching rays based on ML too. That is, economically deciding where to cast rays, based on feedback from the de-noiser.
Pinch-to-zoom is still incomplete on Mac
podcasts, virtual reality, deep fake detection, diy internet
> username ‘admin’ and password ‘admin’

Ah damn, I gotta change the router password now?
Wow! Here's a review of Siberia's climate by 2080: "Even under mild climate change, they estimate a five-fold increase in the potential human capacity."

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-siberia-habitable-climate-ch...
The triple negative in your sentence makes it confusing.

I expected that you wanted to say : It is conceivable that they would have got funding from somewhere else
Seems like a technical ad for their product. If the thread model includes malicious admins then all bets are off as admins can change both server-side and front-side code.

Some measure of security could be achieved using browser extensions (c.f. Mailvelope or https://stosb.com/blog/signed-web-pages/).
Is Firefox's sandboxing on par with Chrome yet? And on Linux in particular?
Audio and Visual Quality Measurement Using Fréchet Distance
Hold on.

You are saying there aren't ways to keep oil extraction carbon neutral, but saying that we can't make oil extraction carbon neutral is sensationalism?
Number of french speakers in the world... 76 million. Number of english speakers... 1.5 billion. It should be CUT, fuck the french and bad acronyms.
Seems like a wash to me on a non-retina mac. It was fine before and seems fine now. Does anybody know if this should theoretically help non-retina mac users?
Not sure what you mean. Are you worried about next-generation climate activists or next-generation weather catastrophes?
Personally, if it were not for Exxon’s lying to its own employees (I was one), I would have switched from being skeptical to believer a good ten years earlier.

That times a few hundred thousand is a political difference.
I agree with Rob Pike that stated that systems software research is a dead end ... why reinvent yet another Unix like kernel in some C like language (Rust)

I want the Bill Gates intelligent software agents and way better sofware development tools (no-code is interesting).
Given that cabs typically have 1 passenger in, why should they be allowed in bus lanes?
Yeah, I have to ask what percentage of Firefox developers are paid for by Google's money?

I was somehow under the impression that Firefox was developed mostly by volunteers, and so Firefox development would be largely unaffected if Google was out of the picture.
I was going to say. Many companies are already investing heavily in RPA (Robotic Process Automation) these days. It’s not widely known in tech circles but kind of common knowledge in traditional companies trying to automate tedious workflow tasks.

When I first saw it, I thought: this looks like a glorified Autohotkey or Automator. But companies like UiPath are doing very well selling this type of automation software.

It sounds mundane but for a company with lots of entry level staff, the paybacks are appreciable.

Coupled with cloud based OCR as a service offerings etc. a lot of data entry tasks can be automated.
Saw that too. What a wicked feature. Will make reverse engineering and debugging other peoples code much much easier!
and also gain an enormous new overhead cost in having to actually own the cars.
They've started putting these (blinking yellow arrows for non-protected left turns) all over Austin. Confused the heck out of me at first as well.
> This is up-and-coming

Real-time raytracing is usable in games today. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/quake-ii-rtx-ray-t...
Better than Finder/Explorer would be something like QDirStat/WinDirStat to get a recursive size count, with graphical display.

https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
New Windows 10 Secured-Core PCS Block Firmware-Level Attacks
My memory is also that FF was originally a decoupled version of Netscape and I think they also simplified the code base a lot back then to remove bloat. I remember a motivation being that Netscape was just too slow and big and couldn't compete with Internet Explorer very well.

I am not sure it's fair to say that Mozilla "supports ads" by making Google the default search engine in exchange for a bunch of funding. It's a default, you can change it, they need money, I'm glad they took it.

I'm sure that even if it didn't enable Firefox's existence I am sure it made the developer's lives a lot better and increased the number of research projects they could afford to do.

Edit: But the point that Google makes money from ads and so Mozilla would have less funding without Google making money from ads is I guess true. I think Google just wanted to push an alternative to IE. I don't mind ads existing (well, I get that they're a necessary evil) but tracking is something I very much mind.
likely individuals, not governments. We bought our way into this problem.
Google's payments are not charity. FF has users and could have routed traffic generated by them to the highest bidder. It just happened that the highest bidder is Google. And they do it for profit: ad revenue generated by those users likely significantly surpasses traffic acquisition cost.
Recently switched from Safari to Firefox because of the awful extensions environment in Safari but definitely missing the battery life. Really wish one browser could just get everything right
The consumers for Google are advertisers.
Will Starlink, when operational, put price pressure on satellite phone and internet service providers such as Inmarsat?

Or will prices for internet coverage in remote areas just as expensive as before?