skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That has consequences, namely, that nobody invests in the company. Because why would they, if they aren't going to make money by doing so? But that means that the company can't get outside money to buy tools that will improve productivity.

That is, your approach, writ large, harms the economy as a whole. Don't think of that just as money. Think of it as stuff being produced. If there's less stuff produced, that's not good for the workers either.
Most Europeans Now Prefer AMD CPUs over Intel
In America, the law is the law* (*if you’re poor, undocumented or nonwhite)
Most of the time when I do any further processing (save to file, pipe to other tools, etc) I'm interested in the response body. The headers are a useful diagnostic, and things like cookies are useful to save, but those don't typically belong in the same stream: I can't do the same things to the headers as I can the body, and so including both in the same stream will tend to reduce my options for downstream processing. If I actually do want them both in the same stream I can redirect stderr to stdout.
‘Elemental metal’ means the element not bonded to other elements (ie mostly pure vanadium). There’s no reason an element can’t be common but the pure element be rare.

Also the oxide the wiki article is talking about is V2O5, not VO2 (though VO2 was known beforehand - it’s easy to find articles about it from the 50s).
How many key/value formats commonly used for http request/response transactions use = ??

The first feature pitch is “user-friendly curl alternative with intuitive UI”.
> I have an essay pending on this exact topic.

We all look forward to reaching a conclusion you didn't intend us to due to our assumptions.
Vagaries of Git Merge
From what I've gathered from the discussions & links on here:

Our current solution for password authentication is perfectly fine, unless you distrust your CA's.

SRP itself is a bit of a mess, and has gone through a lot of iterations to fix its faults. OPAQUE is probably your best bet. But implementing the protocol seems like overkill for password auth, and is easy to implement improperly.

Such PAKE's will likely prove to have other good use-cases, however, like magic-wormhole.
You can have ‘driven’ Floquet time crystals which are mildly interesting in their own right. I wonder if 5-fold symmetries exist in those.
Aye laddie. Indeed.

Now if we only had computers we could talk to. (Without trying to sell us something in the process.)
Early nukes used an interesting radar design to trigger at a preset distance above ground: there was a long coil of cable inside the nuke, and the fuze would emit random electromagnetic noise towards the ground. The reflected noise would then be received by an antenna, and the original emitted signal would be delayed by the coil by a certain predetermined time delta. This allowed the nuke's fuze to compute autocorrelation (and therefore detect distance) using entirely analog methods, and in a way that's impossible to jam, because autocorrelation on random signal is pretty darn robust (it's a delta function for ideal white noise).
An alternative with daily articles across a range of topics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21675200
https://www.nobelprize.org/about/the-economic-sciences-prize...

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/about/the-nobel-committee-...

Looks like different people to me.
> The tyranny of the BCS theory of superconductors is real.

Are you saying that the BCS theory is wrong? That it's limiting people from looking at alternate ways that could also superconduct? Or what?
"If you want your career to grow beyond shuffling data around to meet arbitrary business goals, you should learn the tools that enable you to write programs that captivate and delight you. Mathematics is one of those tools."

His quote from the introduction of his book rings kind of true to me. I kind of hit a wall in my CS education. It's like I'm learning and building different flavors of the same thing over and over again with no deeper insight. New frameworks and new languages but the same concepts on an endless loop.

At my old age I've come to realize that the deeper insight is located in mathematics... and programming was just a small aspect of what was ultimately a larger structure. If you stay in the programming field, the only thing that's going to happen is you're going to travel in circles, you need to move to math or move part of your learning into something more mathematics based in order to gain that "deeper insight".
Interesting to see. The Vim people at work are constantly harrasing us two Emacs users, claiming that lisp is old and silly, and that vimscript is good. Maybe change is acoming.
Our website is designed to be a more general viewer for these interesting chess datasets, although our main database is the Lichess one because of its size, we do also have other datasets from tournament games, and from chess engines playing against each other. We are not directly associated with Lichess.
A man who drives around collecting leftovers from tech companies
Such a nice utility. And the experience written on the webpage is exactly me.
The claim:

"Google's dominance is almost entirely due to the fact that its by far the best at search."

is, and I'm sorry to say, a make-believe

Google's quality is better than anyone else, that is a fact. Let's go to the point. [[I work on Cliqz, and in search]]

Do you know how much Google pays apple to be the default search engine?

According to you, nothing, because people will go to Google because it's the best.

Well, it turns out that last year was more than 9 Billion (with a B). Quite a lot of money poorly spend, someone should really get fired :-)
Show HN: Coavl – a community to help you share the best things in this world
I try to use DDG as my default but it's so awful at knowledge-graph questions. I find myself using !g for knowledge queries before even attempting it.

An example would be something like "Rick and Morty episodes." I know google will give me a list with recent/upcoming episode names and air dates for pretty much any show. DDG will link me wikipedia and fan wikis. I make a "<show> episodes" query anytime I want to know when the next episode of something is released.

DDG's knowledge graph (and/or query parsing) is just so limited I skip it anytime I think google will be able to produce the answer directly. Similarly, there are things I'm confident asking a voice assistant, and there are things I won't even bother trying. If it's something I'd ask an assistant, I'm skipping DDG.
I really wish physics articles would talk about the actual measurements. It sounds like they are using shrunken gnomes to observe electrons. Is it spectroscopy? Simulation? I think the truth would be a lot less exciting than what the article claims, but if you’re going to lie, might as well just write science fiction. Science journalism has never been great, but now it’s intentionally misleading.
Coavl was created because we believe in the power of a simple list. We want to nurture a community that brings passionate people together to discover and share knowledge in the subjects that matter the most to them and to you in a way that's easily consumed by everyone.

The target audience is people who are into niche communities and who have an obsession with the power of a simple list.

Personally for me, I use lists for everything and my hypothesis is that by having a platform to share useful lists with others would be hugely beneficial. By creating a restricted format in which people share, I think people will bring their creativity in how they use the platform.

I'm excited to hear your feedback and suggestions. I just recently got the app into an MVP state where I'm ready to share it but there's definitely still a lot of work to do to improve the platform.

I'd like to hear what you think! Let me know if you have any suggestions for categories or maybe contribute a list of your own in a topic you're passionate about.
It's a toy compared to serious chess database software.

It looks like it only goes about 6 moves deep and often only considers the most popular moves. For example, after 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3, reaching one of the most popular positions in all chess, it only continues with 6...e5. Chessbase mobile shows 42k games for 6...e5 and 25k for 6...e6, as well as 17 other options, at least 3 of which are theoretically important. It also shows their statistical score and some stats about the strength of the players who chose each move. A couple of taps away are the full games and a computer analysis on my phone: on the desktop app I'd also have crowdsourced evaluations with up to three different engines at depths my phone would take all day to reach.

I see the warning to try it on tablet or desktop for the best experience, and maybe I'm missing some features I need to see later. But for now I don't think this even offers a cool visualization. I'd be interested to see a competitor here, but the state of the art (lichess, Chessbase, chessgames, chess24, Scid) is around 10 years ahead of this.
Have a frank discussion about needs, abilities, expectations, and commitment. If this is a business and not a hobby or lark it deserves clarity. Equity is for going the distance not just showing up occasionally.
There is a tcpdump/wireshark module on OpenWRT. You might want to go with a router that is capable to capture and store the dumps like the extendable Turris Omnia. Highly recommended router.
ManyStories
This is not true for inter-az bandwidth.

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-cross-az-data-transfe...
Why is duckduckgo not mentioned at all?
https://web.archive.org/web/20130901225828/https://www.nobel...

> The Committee members are elected for a period of three years from among the members of the Academy. In assessing the qualifications of the candidates, the Committee is assisted by specially appointed expert advisers

ie. the committee makes election decisions for themselves, while delegating a bit to advisers that they appoint.

In most of the other fields, this is what you want. A physics group shouldn't have to agree with the literature members wrt who is on the physics committee. This breaks down for economics though because the whole prize was originally envisioned as a propaganda campaign for a specific branch of economics, so the process means it stays that way.
Cameron Esfahani's First Job at Apple
To you and others who are giving their personal experience, you're aware how useless anecdata is when trying to determine general medical advice, right?

I get how you were attracted to my "no one" statement, but think a bit about what I could have possibly meant. Do you think I meant, "LITERALLY NO ONE IN HUMAN HISTORY HAS SUCCESSFULLY FASTED"? Or did I mean, "On average, a person who doesn't eat for a longer period of time will tend to have a lower performance mentally and physically than a person who does eat regularly."? And if you think I meant the latter, why do you believe your personal experience is relevant?
This has nothing to do with IPv6. Unless I am missing something, it is literally just a result of NAT, which using IPv4 does not guarantee, and which using IPv6 does not need to prevent.
> As a society, employers were trending towards 40-hr workweeks and weekends. That was already where society was going voluntarily,

You write as if this happened on its own, 'voluntarily', by 'society' as a whole, when in fact it was driven mainly by one part of society - workers:

> "Demands for the five-day week began to proliferate in 1919, a year in which 4 million American workers went out on strike," said Priscilla Murolo, a professor of history at Sarah Lawrence College. "That was about 20 percent of the industrial labor force."
Ask HN: Do animals grasp the concept of solid-liquid-gas?
I'm curious if there are specialists out there knowing if animals understand the concept of solid to liquid to gas phase changes? Is this an "advanced" concept for animals or do they intuit this?
I dislike that this meme from IRC became so commonly repeated. I did not agree with it 20 years ago when just a few people repeated it, and I do not agree with it now.

Capitals were wonderfully used by Pratchett as the voice of one of the characters in written text. And the late Christopher Lee did a wonderful interpretation of that character.

Cyrillic letters for example resemble capitals in that they have a constant height and are generally more square and if anything that doesn't make them more difficult to read, just different.

Actual shouting hurts my ears. It is about a thousand times more annoying than reading capital letters.

I think the real equivalent of shouting in a text media is the hated blink tag. With some bright neon colours. On black background. In a dark room.
My book (Rust in Action) isn't quite finished yet, but I've made ~4k pre-sales through Manning's Early Access Program.

The majority of sales (2.7:1) are ebooks. I expect that will change when things get to print.

The most effective marketing strategy for me has been to just be active in relevant communities. This tweet (https://twitter.com/timClicks/status/1154300574151483394) netted me over 300 sales, for example.

The royalties are _far_ less for me than the $15 that Kun has been able to achieve, however. Using a traditional publisher achieves about $2.5/sale for me. Although the retail price is $40, it's often heavily discounted. I have 0 influence over the price sold.
I wish they'd generate toolchains I didn't have to install in order for them to work, like Buildroot already does. With Buildroot I can just tar/gz the toolchain and libs and integrate them into a build system. This lets me support cross-build in a relatively pain-free way. Buildroot toolchains do not care where they are located on the filesystem, so e.g. Bazel can download and unpack them without any issues and they work fine. In contrast, Yocto generates toolchains that have to be _installed_ and in which the installer has to _rewrite the locations of dynamic libs_ during installation. This makes Yocto toolchains effectively hostile to build automation.
What happens when the SSD in your colo server malfunctions? What happens when the (an) SSD attached to your cloud VM malfunctions? Why do you think those two setups should cost the same?
I dont think so?
Wireshark will capture the packets sent to/from my PC only?
The other packets, if network card is capable of promiscious mode, will be encrypted?
thanks, you gave me a starting point.
So Apple is a “monopoly” over what exactly?
They could have just posted cops at problem intersections for a fraction of the cost but cops are human and sometimes cut people a break when they deserve one.

It's not about safety. It's about reminding people that if they step out of line for any reason they will get whacked because the government is always watching.
> only less-than-decent people are threatened by documentation

This is a rephrase of "only guilty people need to worry about privacy." But:

1. Are you sure you act perfectly above-board at ALL times? You don't occasionally say something that could be misconstrued, lose your temper, etc.?

2. Are you aware of all contractual clauses and laws you may be violating at any given time? Are you able to think about them, in real time, and always act perfectly?
Source?

It’s in their best interests to also use it for ad targeting (in a plausibly deniable way so they don’t get in trouble).

We’ve seen them using dark patterns to coerce users into opting into more data collection, and another advertising company got caught using phone numbers for ad purposes even if they originally promised to only use them for 2FA, so why should we trust them this time?
Solution: ‘Randomness from Determinism’
I have nothing to add but to say I was completely transfixed by the level of detail the hobbyist showed in this video.
Certainly, the salaries are a bit of an illusion when you take the insane housing costs of the Bay Area into account.

If breaking up the American tech companies helped disperse jobs outside of Silicon Valley, that would be a good thing.
No accounting for taste -- truer words never spoken. :)

---

Abandon all hope, ye who read further.

I try not to worry too much about making things tacit. But there's a
neat trick you can play in J to find a tacit definition for a
non-tacit expression (if one can be found). I don't know if there is
a counterpart in any common APL distributions.

First you define an expression in terms of values named 'x' and 'y'.
Your goal is to find a tacit verb -- let's say 'T' -- that you can
call as 'x T y'. (X is always on the left and y is always on the
right, by convention -- compare with ⍺ and ⍵, sort of.) There is a J operation, cryptically named '13
:', which will try to make such an expresssion tacit.

Here's a quick attempt at writing 'N M drop Y', which will return Y
but with the N:M section deleted. Again there might be off-by ones
here (you could use Increment/Decrement to fix that):

Define some 'x' and 'y' values for experimenting:

x =: 5 10 NB. these will be our N:M indexes
y =: 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv'

Here are examples of Take and Drop (these are just to help you
translate between APL and J):

5 {. y
abcde
10 }. y
klmnopqrstuv

Monadically the same verbs mean First and Last:

{. x
5
}. x
10

With M and N defined as the first ({.) and last (}.) values of X, take
M from Y, and join (,) it up with the result of dropping N from Y:

(({. x) {. y ) , (}. x) }. y
abcdeklmnopqrstuv

Close enough! Now here's where we invoke the 'make tacit' verb, '13
:'. We have to wrap the original x/y expression in quotes, to make it
a string, and then call it like this:

13 : '(({. x) {. y ) , (}. x) }. y'
(] {.~ [: {. [) , ] }.~ [: }. [

There's the magic. The tilde (~) is like ⍨ in APL, and the bare [ and
] represent 'take left value' and 'take right value'. The [: word is
called a 'cap' and is used to limit the left side of a verb
fork. (Sorry, I don't know the equivalent in APL.)

And that's our tacit version. We can try it out, give it a name, and
try it out again:

x ( (] {.~ [: {. [) , ] }.~ [: }. [ ) y
abcdeklmnopqrstuv
drop =: (] {.~ [: {. [) , ] }.~ [: }. [
x drop y
abcdeklmnopqrstuv
5 10 drop 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv'
abcdeklmnopqrstuv

If you've truly abandoned all hope, the J vocabulary is listed here:
https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/NuVoc
The European Parliament assigns seats to member states based on population, but the European Council gives one vote per state. So the answer is kind of -- they basically did join, in spite of odd representation mechanics. And FWIW I think the Council (and its majority voting rules) is as much in need for reform in this respect as the US Senate.
Life as a Linux System Administrator
I don't think this happens. How do you think it's being transferred? A header sent only on requests to Google properties? A special JS API in Chrome that only Google knows to call?
Not sure what the conclusion is there,

Europeans have less brand loyalty as a whole, I know a lot of central europeans who are quite thrifty (or, very value conscious at least). And it's not as if we don't see that AMD is crushing intel at this point. So shouldn't the title be "Humanity prefers AMD"? or are Americans/Asians really buying intel over AMD still?
The BCS theory does a reasonably good job of describing the properties of so called ‘conventional superconductors’ which are actually a very small class, dwarfed by the ‘unconventional superconductors’ which include almost everything high-Tc.

However, BCS is built upon a pile of questionable assumptions and simplifications and there are signs that it’s not even a good theory for describing conventional superconductors. I think of BCS as something of a ‘local maximum’ in the space of theories describing superconductors and we’re all stuck trying to find ways of incrementally improving the theory when really we’re going to have to make a large leap to a quite different description before real progress is made.

It’s like climbing a tree to get to the moon. You get a little closer, but to get any further you’re actually going to have to climb down and do a lot of work on earth before getting any higher.
The article says they use UV photons to kick electrons off the surface, and then measure the trajectories of the electrons
at least they make money off those ads. kind of a revenge
Can it detect cookies?

https://www.technobuffalo.com/man-gets-pulled-over-for-eatin...
The product is us.
It's baffling to me how many major news outlets have willingly compromised their integrity in this way, to the point of permitting Outbrain/Taboola to use look-alike fonts and formatting.

In an era where legitimate reporting gets called "fake news", why make that easier to do?
Exactly this. It's mostly just the ivory-tower kind of docs that say "acetaminophen" over "Tylenol." If you use the generic of something like Zosyn "Pipercillin/Tazobactam" you'll firmly go in the weird category. Same with most (but not all) antibiotics. The normal parlance changes from generic to trade with each drug and even region of the country.

The actual medical shibboleth is knowing your dose and dosing interval, total doses over time period X, dose adjustments, that gives doctors the information they need about your drug. Basically just know your history down cold. You'll be forgiven for mispronouncing med names, using the trade or generic name when the other one is more common, etc. Nobody cares. All (yes, all) doctors have a specific framework when it comes to history taking, and it's easy to get. And it's easy to tell when people don't get it. It goes something like, "I (or pt Y) have med problem x, y, z. Recently, I noticed u happening. I tried a, and then b but neither worked." Boom. You're now miles ahead of everyone else seeking care, you're not wasting time while the doc tries to organize and digest everything you're saying, it's that simple.
> Someone comes to you and pays you to borrow your sewing machine. Then by your logic, you should not have any say in what they do with the sewing machine

Yes, generally there is a contract that stipulated what can and can't be done with the sewing machine so that the machine is not completely destroyed.

Generally employment contracts do not give employees the right to do whatever they want with the sewing machine.
What does a healthy game publisher/developer relationship look like?
Always enjoy doing these but there was one last year that nearly broke me. I think it was day15. It was the worst combination of mind-numbing coding and horribly hard to debug special cases. It was purely convoluted with very little to think about which makes for the worst kind of puzzles
Unless you call FlushFileBuffers after all writes are finished, Windows makes no guarantee that the physical copy of a file on-disk will contain all previously written data, even if the file has been subsequently closed and renamed.

Typical (mis)behavior includes correctly-sized files that consist partially or entirely of zero bytes (because NTFS does guarantee newly-allocated space will be zero-filled).

Nevertheless, I agree with you, and, therefore, when dealing with application-managed files (as opposed to user-visible documents) on local NTFS filesystems, I typically

1. Write to a temporary file filename.temporary, say.

2. FlushFileBuffers

3. Rename the original file to e.g., filename.original.

4. Rename the temporary file to the original filename.

5. Delete filename.original.

Then, in some thread-safe manner at some point before accessing any such files — at application startup, say, when performance permits — I remove lingering ".temporary" files and restore any orphaned ".original" files to their original filenames.

This, of course, assumes FlushFileBuffers works properly, so, in particular, still fails in the presence of storage devices, drivers, and configurations (e.g., "Turn off Windows write-cache buffer flushing") that break buffer flushing, which are not nearly as rare as they should be.
For this query, Google was better at understanding the question. Knowing the user had nothing to do with it.