skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but it's how I learned a lot about PC assembly and setup as a teenager. Prior to then, I had a Commodore 128 which, while pretty cool, was mostly a box that did what it did.

I had an old PC (I bought it used from some guy advertising in the local paper) and when that fancy new Windows 95 came out, I wanted to upgrade the old 486 processor.

There wasn't any Microcenter at the time and I didn't know about any of the catalog sales companies like TigerDirect yet. What I did know was that summer there was a "Computer Show and Sale!!" at a local event space so I took what meager cash I had on hand to see what I could buy.

Knowing nothing about CPU sockets or brands, I was happy to find a shiny Cyrix 6x86 CPU that was clearly like a Pentium, but better (because Pentium was 586 so 686 is more 86's obviously). 133Mhz was double what my 486 ran at! Plus this thing was so much cheaper than the other stuff they had for sale. Got that and a compatible motherboard and headed home to work on my new amazing PC (holy crap Doom and Dark Forces were gonna look so good!)

So, you can imagine my disappointment when I got home and found that I could no longer slot my video card or internal modem into the new motherboard. I was so disappointed. It would be another month or so before I managed to save up more money to buy a compatible video card from some other guy selling parts. I forget what I did about the modem.

I'm also surprised I didn't need new RAM as well but the old stuff worked for the time being. Before it was all said and done, I'd at least learned what to research (and that it even needed to be researched) before upgrading anything again.

It's gotten so much easier to research online, part out a desktop PC, and drive 20 minutes to Microcenter where I can be back at home assembling everything that afternoon. I don't have to do it very often anymore as they remain useful for a lot longer (although it helps that I have more than a couple hundred bucks to spend now). But it's still useful to know how it all fits together when some friend or family member wants a basic workstation or something to edit family photos/videos on.

I can't justify upgrading my current i7 3770k system yet because the damn thing still just works as well as I could ask after 7 years, but sometimes I secretly wish it would crap out in some minor way so I could have an excuse to build a new one.
Hard Disagree on "subscription only" "network driven" security cameras. I have no interest in sharing when I come and go from my house with the entire world, let alone all the employees of a corporation like Amazon.
There’s few countries that aren’t. After all, all current country borders / cultures / languages / people are the result of thousands of years of war. Many are actively killing either their own people, neighbors, or involved indirectly in proxy wars including both the US and Iran.
Air France 447 was another example.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-...
> If the US is a bad political experiment, which one is good?

That's a tough question, given human nature.

From what I've read, I'd say some Native American cultures, which were ~stable for thousands of years. Also some parts of Polynesia.
I can't say as I like his take on the longevity industry. It is the take that will produce few meaningful advances, the "looking under the lamp because that's where the light is" way of approaching life. Just more marginally better drugs that do a little bit more than those of 10 years ago.

Sadly investors probably care very little from a financial position as to whether a drug works or not, as their exit usually happens somewhere between trials at Phase 1 and Phase 2. Earlier in the longevity market because it is hot.

I've put together Request for Startup lists for the longevity industry for the past few years, based on fairly detailed insight into the state of the science.

https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/02/request-for-star...

https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2017/12/request-for-star...

https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2016/12/request-for-star...

Because things move slowly in biotech, just about everything in these documents except for more senolytics is still valid.
> It's software; it can always be fixed. ;)

No, it cannot be fixed, because the kernel simply does not have enough information in the case of naive spin locks to make good scheduling decisions. I understand the Chesterton's-fence argument in favor of learning why game developers use spin locks before telling them to do something else, but in this case, I really think simple ignorance is the most likely explanation.

You never want a spinlock in userspace. Period. An adaptive mutex will give you what you want without the pathological downsides.

Look: your whole line of reasoning here is just bizarre and invalid. You can't say "well, maybe there's a reason they're doing it!" without actually backing this claim up with specific reasoning. Sorry, but you can't keep using your spinlocks even if they "work" on other platforms. If they "work" there, it's an accident.
Great solution. The previous blockchain enabled solution for this problem that I’d found was https://tlsnotary.org/.

A few questions, how does notarising the tls handshake vs the entire document differ in terms of “proof”.

Is one form of proof better than the other? Or do they prove something different?
> If the US is a bad political experiment, which one is good?

Switzerland, one the only real democracy.
Any reason why this could not be implemented right in the browser? If the browser sends the specific header, either allowing it or disabling it, the server doesn't need to show the opt-in/out nag.
I'm with you, but then again I currently live in a nice neighbourhood where something like "serial packet thiefs" are considered a "low-impact black-swan event", as you say.

Not everyone is so lucky, and I'd wager that many folks would be happy to "automatically purge nuisances" if all it costs them is some sidewalk privacy. I would certainly make that trade-off if I lived in a dodgier environment.
"I just finished writing a vastly simpler, attestation-free library which is less than one tenth the size (I will open source it soon - watch this space)."

...

"Even though I love Rust, I am terrified every time I look at the dependency graph of a typical Rust library: I usually see dozens of transitive dependencies written by Internet randos whom I have zero reason to trust."

I have some kind of point to this comment, but I'm trapped in a sudden feeling of professional malaise.
> Unless you're on mobile and then you're helpless

uBlock Origin is very reliable on my Firefox on Android.

You know, Safari and Chrome are not your only options on mobile.
I think kwantam's point is that you are merely storing a hash of the resulting file, it proves it existed at a certain datetime, but it doesn't guarantee it wasn't modified (which TLSNotary does, albeit with a trusted third party required)

This wasn't clear from the link, as there was very little technical information provided.
I hope it saves you some time.

I'm not an expert on security/math. If you find any mistake, please let me know.
How do you prove that the user did not modify the page before computing the hash?

Do you have documentation of how this is done?
It doesn't matter from whence the blood flows;
only that it flows.
“We thought that we’d kill McDonnell Douglas and we had it on the ropes,” he said. “I still believe that Harry outsmarted Phil and his gang bought Boeing with Boeing’s money. We were all just disgusted.” More than that, he added, the company had “paid way, way too much money [for McDonnell Douglas] and we’re still paying for it. We wrote off so many tens of billions of dollars for that whole mess.”

A good lesson to not play games with hustlers. McDonnell Douglas was famous for being slimy, financial rent-seekers. They got hustled.
Does the button on the live cam page[1] really play the proclaimers in the office? No one's there at the moment for me to test it out.

[1] https://www.lingscars.com/webcams
There would still need to be a link to a page that says that.
I'm not religious either, but perhaps it is not about "fooling" God, it is about showing God (or... something) respect. We care enough to do something special, with intention, to honor the sabbath. Perhaps the things we do to treat the sabbath special are in fact what make it special, it is a choice to make it special in those ways; you don't even need to believe in God for that interpretation, although you still can.
I'm one of the three original co-authors. It was written in early October 2011, just a few days before it was first posted on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3099979

I'm glad it's stood the test of ~8 years time so far.
Yes, I constructively added this guy has no idea what he's blathering on about, and is definitely not letting that stop him from pretending he's an authority and dispensing advice.

Now, you have a choice on where to learn things. You can learn eg development best practices from people who have 10 or 20 years of development, or you can ask someone who's built small greenfield projects. You apparently think we should value advice from noob's equally; good luck with that there.

Since you don't know how to use google, try going to barnes and noble and asking them to get copies of Camille Fournier's or Michael Lopp's books.
EC-Council Codered
I'm guessing your toddler enjoys this but this comment reads as if trick your toddler into doing work so your neighbors don't have to deal with a few extra dandelions.

It reads wrong to me but I get it.
> What would be a network which allowed for more thoughtful discourse

We used to have this and it was called forum (phpbb and such). They have been oblitared and we moved to Facebook apparently leaving our brains behind.

In reality we are victims of armies of psychologists optimizing for engagement.

I have the feeling forums will come back though.
I think this should say [2019]

It feels a bit pedantic to say that about a post from a week ago, but the whole point of the article was that they had until January 1st to comply, which has now passed. When I first saw the article title, I assumed it would be an article about how companies were out of compliance already since the date had passed, but it's not.
Uber’s secret project to bolster its case against California’s gig-worker law
This is brilliant. It reminds me of the way "We will bury you"[0] was used to imply that Krushchev wanted to destroy America rather than say "history is on our side, and when your philosophy dies we will be there at its funeral" as it is possible he meant. I love this.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_will_bury_you
> With the dawn of the 1980s, however, Boeing’s traditional way of doing things seemed increasingly out of touch. Deregulation under US presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan had changed the economics of the industry, Greenberg said. “The idea was that if you had more competition, it would drop prices for consumers. Suddenly, airlines are looking at this and saying, ‘Oh my God, we can’t pass on the cost by continuously raising ticket prices.’ That put pressure back on Boeing, and on Airbus eventually, to become cost-conscious.”

I think the ultimate root cause that led to the 737 MAX crisis was de-regulation and the airlines race to the bottom on price. The whole reason for making the plane a 737 and not a new aircraft was to cut pilot re-training costs.

I used to think that highly competitive markets with low prices are the best, but now I am not so sure. Those kind of markets tend to push the quality down as well as squeeze the workers. Compare the union workers for the Big Three during the 1970's to that of the gig economy workers now. Maybe an oligopoly with high profits and strong unions is what is best in the long term? Or maybe, we need to alternate periods of disruption and highly competitive markets with periods of stability and oligopolies? I suspect we as a society will have to try to figure that out, and that it is not a simple answer.
In China, this already happened with smart cameras everywhere to monitor traffic and people. It’s only a matter of time other sensors are added. And only a small slippery slope away from a US city gov/municipality to think it’s a good idea to install for the whole community. When 5g comes online...
Then divide the battery pack into two (or more) packs. The battery controller then uses one pack to exhaustion, then switches over to the other pack. Normal charging will only charge fully depleted packs. This would reduce maximum range. So add in a charging override for an occasional max distance drive.
It often feels silly to do so but if it in some ways making your fellow employees feel better about you, everyone, the place ... it can be worth it.
Stonecipher

Always have an eye on the exit if your new exec sounds like he belongs in the next Bond movie.
> I've not gotten around to wearing suits even though that would be even better.

The danger with suits is that we're at a point in society where wearing a suit conveys an image of helplessness, not power.

Nowadays, people mostly wear suits when they're throwing themselves at another person's mercy. Wearing a suit means you're on your way to a court appearance or a job interview, not that you're some powerful executive. At every company I've ever worked for, the only times I've seen our executives wear suits has been when they were on their way to or from a meeting with investors or potential investors (and honestly, asking investors for money is basically another kind of job interview). Even at my current company, which is fairly conservative, every time I pass one of our C-levels in the hallway, they're almost never wearing a suit. I'm more likely to see the CEO in a sweater, really.

An article on the subject: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/9/30/20869237/suits-contr...
For obvious reasons, a lot of people here tend to equate jobs at tech companies with software engineering. But a ton of jobs in tech aren't primarily about writing code and may not involve writing code at all, even if they do often require some understanding of relevant technologies at some level.

This is true generally. However, it's also the case that gender ratios can be quite different for different roles.
YouTube overhauls protections for children after regulators fine it
That is a different Honor than the one stated in TFA:

Honor is a San Francisco home care company for older adults that's raised over $100 million from firms like Andreessen Horowitz, Naspers, and Thrive Capital.
We do have bugs and snakes. And we love that. The big old black rat snake that shows up every spring has become a marker of time for us. She's pretty docile and friendly, she ignores us and we ignore her. The possums, groundhogs, and racoon are much the same. My niece and nephew love watching the frogs and gold fish in our pond, and exploring the many bugs that have taken up residence in our wild savannah.

The mosquites were here before the transformation - they come from the scrapyard up the road - and the changes we've made have actually reduced them in the local area. We've increased the number of frogs, bats, and dragonflies to keep them under control. We don't have ticks to speak of, the possums take care of them.

As for hay fever, you get that in suburbia just as bad or worse. You realize that the Yew bushes that everyone loves planting are among the worst producers of allergenic pollen, right?

Again, this is part of the aesthetic change we need to make. Realizing that we are a part of and depend upon the natural environment. And figuring out how to fit ourselves into it comfortably, instead of trying to remove ourselves from it or pretend we are somehow above it or separate from it.
I dunno. At first this article almost felt like damage control: it wasn't Boeing, it was those McDonnell Douglas peeps. But then it seemed to focus more on the engineers themselves and try to make them seem like a cozy family shop .. even before the big merger; Boeing was hardly that. It was (and is) a massive employer that has tactically distributed manufacturing to as many different states as possible (to help with lobbying efforts under the banner of job creation; distributed with a very wide net of employees).

Even without the Douglas acquisition, would we still be here with the 737-Max8 failure as bad as it is? I think all industry over the past two decades have gone down the route of maximizing profits and cutting costs. Hell, there are startups build around the idea of just ignoring or lobbying against legislation (Uber, AirBnB) and marking that arrogance as being "disruptive," as if they were some kind of civil rights pioneers.

It's really impossible to tell what would have happened without Boeing buying MCD, but I there is a good chance we would have ended up here eventually anyway. Focusing on MCD in this article feels more of a narrative tool than an objective critique and analysis.
Ask HN: Personal websites with bold design?
I’m building my personal website [1] and I’m looking for inspiration. Do you know of any bold, memorable, modern, “designer” site? Not really the “fun 90s throwback“ nor the “html purist” types, more like modern landing pages, only for a person instead of a startup. Thanks!

[1]: (WIP) https://evzen.dev
Years ago I worked for a company with 2 hardware techs. One customer specifically asked to for the "likeable dumb-ass" to help them even though they knew the solution to their problem might take longer, the smarter tech was a loud know-it-all ass hole and no one liked working with him.
Definitely. It's not out of the realm of possibility (especially for Google) that the easiest solution to ease the woes of Stadia developers is to fork Linux and switch out the scheduler algorithm for their special-purpose application. Only downside to that solution is games ported to run on Stadia wouldn't be expected to perform particularly well on other Linux architectures.
They tried that with Do Not Track. It just became another bit of potentially identifying data for browser fingerprinting (and tracking).
I think the OP is thinking in a scenario where if the proof is generated locally, it just proves the existence of that file, not that the file was public on the internet, you could use a proxied network (or just hosts file ?) to fool the browser extension.
I'm not implying this is the case, but if you could explain how it is implemented would be great.
Interesting. I wonder what possible motivation is involved there.
It's not like that. I understand your instinct is to be condescending towards men, which is sad - and to be honest, I agree, the rant is missing the point.

Chances are those women are all having casual sex with a smaller number of attractive/high status males. Those lonely men typically want to "date", while the women - if the man isn't high status, wealthy, AND displaying the mental fitness which is counter-indicated by these 'rants' - would much rather sleep around with men who are far more attractive than them (or, younger!) but never have a real relationship.
I dispute that McDonnell Douglas was 'on the ropes' before the merger - the MD-80/90/95 family was selling well, and while the MD-11 was not, the market at that time for wide-body jets was fairly soft. In addition the C-17 was still being made as fast as it could be at that time. I'd also point to the success of the Delta II heavy lift vehicle too.

Whats interesting to me, is the merger between McDonnell Aircraft and Douglas Aircraft was effectively a shotgun marriage. DAC was capital starved in the late 60's and merged for an infusion of capital.
What’s the tldr on why it is fast?
Pollution tracking would be greatly appreciated. Maybe we could catch methane leaks faster, or respond more quickly to fires. Google backed firefly (the one that puts the billboards on top of lyfts and ubers) has air quality tracking; it needs more scaling.
The problem is not with anemic standard library. The problem is with lack of commonly accepted set of libraries. Java is not so good. You can't even copy one stream to another in Java 8. There's no built-in DI. There's no built-in ORM. Even built-in logging is so bad that everyone uses something different. Hell, no built-in JSON in 2019. But there's set of community-adopted libraries and everyone's using them. You need more utility methods? There's Guava (and, sometimes, apache commons). There's no left-pad library. You need DI? There's Spring. You need ORM? There's Hibernate. You need logging? Well, here's some competition between logback and log4j and that's about it. And even that competition has plenty of adapters which allows to write library code that works fine with both.

So JS community should throw left-pad in the window and declare underscore.js as a library of choice, so every other library will depend on it and that's about it.
> its basically impossible to get a five, so all fives just get discarded.

Did they also say that there's a "talent shortage" and they just can't seem to find developers no matter how hard they try?
the law isn't more explicit that this also covers "sharing" where money doesn't change hands

Our lawyers tell me that it does cover any in-kind exchange. For example, if we offered a customer summit in partnership with one of our product manufacturers (as we often do), and if that manufacturer helps underwrite the cost of the event, then us providing to them a list of attendees would count as a sale.
This is sort of correct - its not the temple rather the Mishkan (tabernacle)... The commandment of Shabbos is six days you should "Taaseh Melacha" and rest on the seventh day... later by the building of the Tabernacle, it connects mentions shabbat out of place and is interpreted to mean, dont build the mishkan on shabbat...and to interpret work as related to creating a tabernacle...https://www.etzion.org.il/en/mishkan-and-shabbat

Ultimately, the general idea is "we create during the week and on sabbath, separate ourselves from that creative energy and just enjoy our handiwork, just as the creator of the world did... this is why even plucking a blade of grass would be forbidden..anything that creates either through adding or removing things is in the framework of how Shabbat laws are interpreted...

As I understand it in my lay background.
I've had a VC walk out on a signed terms sheet due to 9/11. I didn't like it but totally understood their motivations and it's hard to enforce a terms sheet. Still, it was less than classy and I would not attempt to do business with them again.
Does it support

1. Dual channel audio? Speaker labels
2. Custom vocabulary?
3. Keyword spotting?

Does the API have an option for real-time and how many languages does it support?

Also do you have a HIPAA compliant solution for healthcare?
I wonder what the breakeven cost would be of a monthly subscription to ad-free journalism on the quality level of the New York Times (or your preferred equivalent). Something like $200-300 maybe? If it were actually ad-free and zero-clickbait, 100% high quality journalism, I'd be willing to pay about that much.
In that case Mozilla doesn't get to market themselves as giving a shit about privacy.
Wars will more and more be fought by remote controlled or autonomous drones. People are more ready to become soldiers if they can stay in a safe country, press some buttons, and their life won't be at stake. Wars will be less unpopular in the countries that deploy those drones. Even traditional forms of combat are increasingly supported by technology.

ASML is a key component here: they build the machines needed to build the chip components of drones. In future wars, having microchip fabs will be as important as having steel mills was in WW2. So ASML has huge strategic importance.
This sounds extremely expensive due to the cost of bitcoin transactions. What ZeroNet is doing seems much more feasible. https://zeronet.io/