skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What? Assuming you sleep 8 hours a day, your waking hours per week would be around 112.
I needed that info three decades ago...
"SAP Concur refused the offer. It intends to shutter both the Hipmunk consumer brand and the Concur Hipmunk business travel incarnation on January 23."

Do Sap Concur stand to gain by closing Hipmunk down? Why would they not take money for something they were going to destroy anyway?
Great idea, it's a shame that they had to add this 50/50 nonsense. I know a lot of guy that would kill for that opportunity.
Remember how the first iPhone released without an app store and the plan was for developers to use web apps?
Related question: is Github (specifically) considered a must, or is it just considered a need to have code online? I primarily use Gitlab--is that seen as a kind of demerit?
Google Enhances Privacy and Perhaps Itself at the Same Time
And I admire the one of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. - one of the biggest financial conglomerates in the world:

https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
Something that always bugged me with cardano's Ouroboros is the name. Ouroboros means eating (usually your own) tail, and the symbol that usually goes with it is a snake/dragon as a loop/circle.

Blockchain is basically an ever expanding chain (or tree if you include the shorter branches that didn't make it) so I can't understand the relation to ouroboros loop/circle.

I assume they have a different reason for naming it that but didn't ever find it.
https://www.sheldonbrown.com is another great one. His website got him to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Brown_(bicycle_mechani...
If your points are with Air France (another airline in the same "partnership") I believe you can. And if your points are with the exact same carrier as the flights you also can. But apparently points on one "partner" are not fungible with others, and you can't use Delta miles to book award flights on other carriers' websites.

This was when I found out that frequent flyer experts choose their "home" airline very carefully. To Delta's credit their points never expire...but if they block the flights I want what good are the points?

Their website offered me an alternative: fly with a different partner airline into the destination country then fly domestic on the airline that flies to the actual destination. That was bookable using (a lot of) points, but would make the journey twice as long.
Internet search was regarded as a feature right up until about 2000.
Latest Linux Kernels Fix Security Flaw in the Intel Processors with iGPUs
Last Modified: Saturday, 18-May-2019 18:38:40 MDT.

Someone is still maintaining this... How/Why?
"Just" is one of the most dangerous words in the English language. I used to work with a guy who used that all the damn time. "It's just X" he'd say.

He was never right. Things are never just that simple
The Bleak Future of Australian Wildlife
>The absolute biggest thing that I find different is young women going on trips alone. This is incredibly popular and obviously a departure from older culture. My friends who were young when I met them (been here long enough that I don't have any young friends left!) often specifically wanted to travel alone.

I've seen it quite a bit living here - airport buses especially tend to be crammed full of single women going to various places both within and outside of Japan. Coincidentally I've heard this used to explain why you see relatively few Japanese men dating foreigners.
Probably by hand writing HTML. And there's nothing wrong with that at all. It's not even hard. As for the why: the site has a purpose. It's a catalogue of waterfall visits. Of course it's updated if a new waterfall was visited.
"Reasonable" is defined by the market. But since they are a monopsony...
And that why you see more and more Gigabit Ethernet replacing stone-aged protocols such CAN, Profibus or Firewire, because a simple Ethernet Chip is dead cheap, >100x faster and comes with a modern memory-mapped driver, the others not. It makes hard real time latency and throughput much easier.
With CAN you cannot get very far, and the typical CAN multiplexing tricks get dirty very soon.
only if you want to, if not just lie and say you got your degree back then. Realistically it is just a perceptions thing.
Maybe look at doing something very specific in your field. Most masters are paid for and won't really look at your undergrad if you are paying.
Ariane is a 6-stage RISC-V CPU capable of booting Linux
I hope someday we get truly minimalist movement around the web design. Static site generators are a good start.
A solid vaccine for liquid tumors
> 2) I find games today not much more original than in the past, it plateau-ed somehow

This can be typically said about the mainstream AAA market but much less so about indie games from small teams.
Disagree. You may listen to all this advice and follow through with engaging with your people productively only to find you’ve used up your budget or runway and have to lay them off. As you move up the ladder, reasons matter less and less. But outcome always does.
To be fair, you probably do a bit better this time around. Most likely not on most counts, but you probably internalized a few mistakes from last time and improved on those aspects. And come next project, you'll improve on a few more.

You'll do great!
O'rly?

Try sending a mail from satya.nadella@microsoft.com to anyone you know.
http://gowaterfalling.com/waterfalls/cascadecanyon.shtml

If you press Previous or Next you will download un-parsed php file .

let me guess it was hosted on PHP-capable host and now moved to PHP non-capable host?
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is fascinating stuff. Your body makes roughly its own weight of ATP daily.
There's no black magic in that at all: serve a static HTML page with small images on modern hardware. Suddenly it becomes visible that our connections are not 128Kbps ADSL any more, and that the bottleneck is actually JavaScript processing, not the network.
I recently found myself trying to describe modern software techniques to a layman, who is a carpenter.

"Its like this - you're hired to build a house. First, you have to go get someone motivated to harvest the raw materials for you - designs, logic, etc. - which will then be turned into the 'raw wood' that holds up the walls and keeps the roof on. Then, when that person is busy getting the materials cut, you start building the tools you know you're going to need, to get the walls up and strung together. You don't have these tools yet, because you left all the previous ones you've worked with at a previous construction site. The reason for this is that you are going to use the tools to put the walls up, sure - but then you're going to glue all the tools in place to make sure the walls stay up. That glue is the most powerful stuff in the universe, but it will fail catastrophically if you don't put the tools at just the right angle in the glueball .."

Basically, you glue all the new tools together, cover them in wood, and leave them in place so that the thing doesn't fall over ...
I think I wrote the manual about my software in the same manner :) https://www.photopea.com/learn/ It also loads very fast and the HTML code is readable :)
In most cases, up or down casting 32 and 64 bit integers would be a shitton of work that barely adds anything.
A similar case could be made for casting ints to floats (i.e. 2 + 3.1 should just work).

Beyond that though, most implicit casts are just bad.
Why the U.S.-China Trade Deal Targets Corporate Secrets
It's funny that this is posted on HN since places on which you cannot speak any controversial opinions are the main way in which CC spreads. HN being one of those places by design.
Such an immense wealth of hard earned cycling knowledge.
You think they have seen many HDDs? Especially inside?
On a Mac they are just chips on a board...
That is twice the average household income in the US. Less than 20% of all households have combined earnings over 130k.

You may want to reassess your understanding of middle class.
Good connections key to startup success
I remember last time there was a discussion about this style of websites, someone posted a link to a static site that showed what kind of amazing things you could do with a <map> tag[0], but I forgot to bookmark it.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ma...
OWC has custom icons for their SSD's

https://eshop.macsales.com/support/custom-drive-icons
Thanks for sharing your story
Show HN: Credit Card UI with Swift
CS:GO is free to play now
Skim reading through this, I still don't understand the need for a 'Metaverse'[1]. Sure it's a fun sci-fi concept, but what problem does it actually solve?

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[1] Or 'Matrix', or 'Oasis', or 'Cyberspace', et al.
More than 100B pain pills were shipped nationwide over nine years
How?

By editing the HTML and uploading it again! :) I still do this for lots of older sites I keep going - FTP in (well, SFTP ideally), make a couple of changes in the HTML and you are done. Easy - no compiling or bundling, just edit and save and re-upload (some FTP clients will do the save + re-upload in one-step). Some hosts you just SSH in and edit with vi and save. Aint broke - don't fix it etc.

As for the "why", I guess why does anyone update a website?
Given that you can buy these Bitcoin miners and they are specialised ASICs for calculating SHA256 hashes in a specific way to find the first acceptable nonce, it's unlikely that Bitcoin mining hardware can be repurposed in this way.
The title has now been editorialized (fairly enough), but I posted this as an encouragement for all the great "classic" websites. I love seeing others people are posting here.

Working right now with a static site generator for my own website (Pelican) and been loving it.
.. which they do far less often than hardware changes. You have a reasonable chance of running a 25-year-old Win32 program or 20-year-old statically linked ELF Linux program.
How? By writing new html pages when they take a picture of a new waterfall.

Why? Well, as the FAQ on the site says, because they like waterfalls.

More generally, I'm not sure why it strikes you as odd that this site is still being updated. The old(er) way of building sites hasn't gone anywhere, and this site seems perfectly functional. Why not contenue to update it?
High performance tracing GC algorithms don't stop all threads.

Also there are tracing GC that operate with local heaps.
Amusingly, there are two sets of people arguing about why Apple is bad, and each have their own argument:

1. Android sells more, and offers more variety of mobile and wearable devices than Apple. And here’s the data to prove it.

2. Apple is a monopoly/monopsony and should be forced to allow more user choice of apps, allow sideloading, lower their prices, lower their app store cut, &c.

Which one is is?

Apple is like Tesla. They don’t sell more cars than anyone else. They don’t have a stranglehold over vendors. They sell more luxury cars than a bunch of other people. And while you see lots of Teslas on the road, you still see more F-150s.

Their market is insanely profitable, and for many developers, their little market is highly profitable. But how is it their fault that app developers don’t shun them for Android-only, or Windows (do they still make a phone OS?)

Apple make their own devices. They don’t license an OS and then use shenanigans to force vendors not to offer consumers a choice, like Microsoft did.

They make a desirable product, and offer developers a desirable market. But they don't have enough of the market to do whatever they like.

They can’t charge $5,000 for a phone and succeed because of network effects. Android phones can call and text Apple phones.

They don’t tell developers that apps must be iOS-exclusive to be in the app store.

Apple’s current success is exactly what the free market is for. People may grumble about the price of a phone or the keyboards, or the app store cut, but those who pay it do so because the value is there, not because of arbitrary constraints.

They aren’t Facebook. Nobody has to buy an iPhone to keep in touch with all their friends who have iPhones.
Hmm, don't want to be rude, but there is nothing classic about that website. Actually it's quite modern, and maybe I'm too old to consider site from 2008 as classic. :)

Yet, it's nice source of information.
I never said that Siphash is broken, read what I said. It's not broken, it's just theatre,and way too slow to be useful for anything. And it doesn't protect against hash table attacks. Proper protections need to be done at the collision handling step, not in the hash function.

http://perl11.org/blog/seed.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13361860
Show HN: Node.js Desktop Application (Electron, Bootstrap and Express.js)
Show HN: containerd and CNI Provider for OpenFaaS
Tips:

- avoid custom installer like this, while it looks cool, it kinda give an "amateurish" look

- avoid custom IDEs, i'd rather see a CLion/VS plugin; you just waste your time creating something people don't want to use, they want to use their favorite editor

- allow top level functions, so i don't have to create a freaking class to have a main()

- let me do:

// Press F5 to compile and run program

using System;

namespace HelloWorld
{

class Program
{

// look how it is nicely aligned

let myint: int = 4;

let myfloat: float= 4.5f;

let test: MyType;

static void Main()

{

writeLine("Hello, world!");

}

}

}
The submitted title was 'gowaterfalling.com : example of the "classic" web'. We changed it per the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
You could get a very similar issue in C++ where a destructor closes an FD that was already erroneously closed by an earlier call to a member function due to an exception.

The issue here is a bug in resource management. The specific bug was caused by an exception that shouldn't be caught still being caught. Which erroneously messed with resource management.
>It’s true that to date, gaming IP has not delivered strong results at the box office.

Warcraft (2016) made $440M worldwide on a $160M budget, mostly in China IIRC.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22051358.

By the way, only about 10% of the HN community is in the Bay Area and that segment is by no means all "technocrat". People's impressions of the community's politics are mostly the afterimage of what they saw that they disliked, because those are the things we tend to notice and that make the strongest impact. People who dislike the opposite things have the opposite afterimage. In reality, the community is divided and produces lots of examples either way.
Author is confusing active screen-browsing (TikTok) active digital pastimes (gaming) with passive leisure activities that also involve screens, and before screens, radio.

Before the age of TV, you could lay on couch with eyes closed listening to radio shows. You can still do this technically even with TV shows, but it’s obviously not as good.

Watching TV is a completely passive activity, especially watching TV shows like on Netflix; maybe sports are more active watching.

TikTok is just scrolling social media, you have to keep your hand on the screen constantly to browse that corner of the Internet. And that’s really all the social networks are, a corner of the Internet. With a bunch of different people and interests promoting their own ideas or selves. You can’t lay down and passively watch it; you have to browse and control your destination.

There will always be people who simply don’t find video games amusing or prefer passive activities like laying and watching shows.

I had the opposite thought as the author earlier tonight - Netflix is taking over the world; it already did. It seems like every few days new content is showing up for people to consume; as a heavy consumer, I think part of that is because Netflix knows they are feeding the hunger and they never want you to have a night alone on the couch where you can’t find something to watch. Apple TV+ will only intensify this.

I bet there are a bunch of single, young people who have little social life and spend most of their free time watching Netflix. People of all ages and demographics, really, families too, but I guess I identify and understand the first group.

After a few days of binge watching, you feel woven with the characters and it feels like a part of your social life possibly more so than that friend you haven’t seen in months/etc. Just for a few moments until you move on to something else, you feel like you know these characters. Like you’ve lived in their little world. I’ve heard the same things about people who watch high-profile gamers play, or YouTuber fans.

So maybe the really scary thing here is that Nf, YT, gaming and other avenues make entertainment sooo cheap and sooo accessible nowadays that real, in-person relationships are being replaced by something less tangible - and much less valuable. Reminds me of the article I read a few days ago about a person listening to “pretend boyfriend pillow talk” on YouTube. Apparently these things help with feelings of loneliness but they. Just. Aren’t. Real.
Gaming has a narrative format. Moving through a series of rooms that reveal the story. BioShock, Stanley parable, half life, the witness, max payne, spec ops the line ect have been doing this for a while.

From a semiotics perspective the story format is to move a player character through a series of rooms that reveal the story to you via characters and world. The game designer has near total control over space, pushing players through portals and dropping them from heights into new worlds. Worlds must be constructed in near complete 3d. The game designer has limited control over time. An increase of time pressure has to be applied carefully. The player controls movement through time.

Film controls time with near complete control via cuts. Film can easily lose track of space and geometry. They only have to film a section of space that looks realistic to a 2d camera.

I'd argue the conflict you are describing is a desire for the artist to control the viewer's time whilst you are participating in the art form. Games that do that are RPGs with levelling progression that tune the player's actions to maximize synchronicity with spawn rates, item drops, refills, selling timers and more. Single player architecture and audio book simulators like BioShock do not aim at that level of controlling time. TV does, film does even more so, you give up control over time to a predetermined 24fps film.
The rank hypocrisy of Jeff Bezos' $690k donation to Australia
Reconnecting with nature 'triggers' eco-actions
I was thinking about this last night, and was going to make an ASK HN about it. How do we build a site to help explore these parts of the web?

I know it would get gamed really, but what if there were an injected "related-sites" link list as an extension, that drew from a curated directory? That was how you used to explore, through blog and site "friends of" sections that sent you on an endless rabbit hole.

I feel like it can't be feed oriented, because that's a more consumption mindset than exploration mindset, and I feel part of the fun of the old web was that constant active exploration.

I don't want to turn this into a conversation about SEO, but suffice to say commerce dominates search results for so many terms that it can be hard to find anything community oriented, or niche information. So search engines and feed sites are not quite right for exploration.
Economics could have been a gateway to a high-earning career, but you'd have had to work in finance.
Ouroboros is really cool, here's their old site:

https://ouroboros.ilabt.imec.be/index.html

And a direct link to a fantastic introductory video from FOSDEM:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fH23l45984

I'm really interested in ouroboros as a transit layer for systems like kubernetes -- of course you have to kind of rethink the interconnections between resources an but ouroboros look simple and cleanly composable -- it really feels like it could fit well.
Vulkan is both a good and bad example.

Vulkan tries to remove the "bloat" of the driver by moving it into the engine (or the middleware the engine uses), which, yes, reimplements a pretty sizable chunk of what the driver used to do.

But it exposes the API in a way that requires domain-specific knowledge of how modern GPUs work, which requires, frankly, smarter engine developers. They need to stop only thinking in the ways OGL/D3D taught them to think, and need to also think like a driver developer, or possibly even a compiler developer.

OpenGL was written wrong because no one knew what modern GPUs would eventually look like, and tried to solve the problem at the wrong layer; and fixed function hardware worked pretty much the way OpenGL worked in the beginning, not realizing stuff would eventually become, basically, absolutely massive highly parallel DSP-esque math coprocessors that are more complex than the system that hosts it. OpenGL became a mess because they kept bolting newer styles of hardware onto it (VBOs/IBOs/VAOs, the eventual move to unified buffers, compute shaders, fixed function geometry then non-fixed function geometry shaders, ubershaders and the move from direct to deferred back to direct, etc)
Valve continue working behind the scenes for Linux gaming with 'Gamescope'
Micro PCs also still have higher power requirements. For running costs, you can't beat a small ARM board (like Pi or its clones)
> those who want and can afford to move to X, but are prevented because of a non-reciprocal policy by X.

It's easy to have open borders if hardly anyone takes advantage of it, so looking at reciprocity isn't very relevant. Faced with rising immigration, non-Western countries tend to adopt restrictions as well (see NPR link on Brazil).

Furthermore, China will only grant citizenship to ethnic Chinese, whereas the West takes in many Chinese immigrants, so in this case, the non-reciprocity is in the other direction. A quick search failed to turn up what restrictions other non-Western countries have, but there's no lack of border walls - a few random examples from every non-Western continent:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/india-installs-laser-wall...

https://www.seeker.com/why-india-is-building-the-longest-bor...

https://thediplomat.com/2019/01/will-pakistans-wall-work/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonchang/2016/11/13/chinas-b...

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2013/05/16/184524306/...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/22/western-sahara...
The link should have been https://github.com/lmorg/murex or https://murex.rocks/
What kind of data is my new car collecting?
C# 9 Proposals: Module Initializers
"By hand", and "because they like it"?
The key is to have a high-paid part-time job.
Network lag is not an order of magnitude larger than local input lag.

E.g. Dota 2 and CSGO servers in Europe have <40ms ping for most people. Local lag should be up to some 16ms from a 60Hz display plus 1ms from a 1000Hz mouse/keyboard, half of that on average. If the hardware is bad, it could easily be some extra 30ms from the display and maybe 16ms from the mouse/keyboard -- think 125Hz poll rate and bad debounce implementation.
So who should the government compel to provide us all with access to email services? How do you propose it to do without violating MailChimp's rights?
Classic, in this context, is a way how the site works, navigates, looks. It's not necessarily classic by age.

I do like the idea of neo-classicist websites though. The "brutalist" websites a few years ago were simply ugly, and I with to avoid the ~2005 era pastel-on-pastel trend to emerge again. (I'd love a neo-gothic website trend, with dark by default though.)
Yes. It is about as incorrect as the 3.5" Floppy used in Save Icon which most haven't seen one for the past 20 years.

And Child would ask their mum and dad why have they 3D Printed the Save Icon. ( And this is not a Joke )
"soneca" it's a Portuguese word that means "sleep for a short time". Is something people usually do after lunch.