skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a good friend, full time full stack dev for the last 2 years. PHP + JS, on a 2 man team/project/product.

He is the epitome of the late bloomer programmer (bachelors in CS and masters in econ math), they started using composer 3 months ago. No package.json yet! No make file, no linting, no CI/CD, no deploy. Though they feel that it'd be great to bundle JS files.

No templating engine either, though they are doing AJAX, so no <?= spaghetti.

Probaly on their next project they might venture beyond PHP. Who knows.

We can't force people to start with Rust. :|
That's what I took away from the article as well. It's installed via a VBScript file.

Edit: I'm also not able to find any other record of it (yet). Everything links to the OP link or analysis on the OP link.
You joke, but a JavaScript backend was added to Freepascal last year.

https://wiki.freepascal.org/pas2js
Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing using Office 365 installer
No one would choose it. This is a terrible idea. No one asked for this. No one wanted this. No one needed this, yet here it is.

Like some many-angled Lovecraftian horror, it spites reality, sanity and common sense merely by existing.
There were some good stories about US folks living in China who made some good side money putting on a suit and being paid to show up at ribbon cuttings and other visible PR events. Often they weren't identified in any way.

The idea was just having what appeared to be a connection to the west would imply legitimate business connections and thus good prospects.
A super minimal note taking app for Android
Revealed: The Saudi heir and the alleged plot to undermine Jeff Bezos
I always loved the clever phrasing: "NeXT bought Apple for a negative $430M and 1.5M of Apple Stock Shares in 1997."
What was the point of this project? It sounds like an enormous waste of time (in addition to the aforementioned glaring privacy issues).
This. I would also love to know what connectors I should use for my hobby projects.
I’m also designing my first PCB board and something as simple as choosing connectors is daunting...
Cars in Space
The page http://www.github.com/neeilan/neeilang/tree/master/doc/Lang is linked from the read me.
Again, that article is inferring that Solar and BEV (Alternative fuel and Energy Source) sales equates to Elon getting government money.

Everything that generates a receipt or purchase order when dealing with the U.S. government is a publicly available record and can be requested via the FOIA act (Just like the DEO grant).

Did you notice how none of that where presented in the article you linked?
According to vice [1] he was using an iPhone X.

1: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v74v34/saudi-arabia-hacke...
Well, you have dividends, which presumably can help pay for some of your (likely now lowered) rent?
I grew up in a large family, and we moved over 10 times during my childhood. My parents moved our family every time we needed (like when my dad was laid off and couldn't find work).

It's a complete cop-out to say that only young men with no obligations can do such a thing. My parents had tons of obligations and responsibilities, and they found a way to move when necessary.

People get way too attached to the idea of staying in one place their whole lives. The world is a big place.
They charge per seat so it gets expensive if you have lots of people that need access but are not full time support. That being said we never switched and are still paying! Good product. Surprised there isn’t more competition. Lots of SMB’s need this.
That sounds like a great idea, but you today we can't even synthesize arbitrary VHDL/Verilog code efficiently. The author needs an understanding of hardware architecture to write something that synthesizes versus just a test harness not intended to be synthesized.
If I had to guess, using clock-less (serial) protocols like 1 wire and UART requires some logic on each RX side to figure out what the clock of the incoming signal is, usually a PLL of some sort, and you'll need lots of crystal oscillators to ensure that clocks are sufficiently stable and accurate as to ensure reliable communication.
Defer everything until your 50s, sounds great.
Glenn Greenwald charged with cybercrimes for reports exposing alleged corruption
> No one actually pictures a man or anything else in the middle upon hearing the term.

Thanks, I’ve always wanted someone to mansplain to me how I hear terms and what I picture while I hear them.
> Without some form of surveillance, you're never going to catch terrorists or other bad actors.

The article: Surveillance fails to catch terrorist.

Your argument: Without surveillance we cannot catch terrorist.

My question: How are we catching them now? How did we catch bad actors and saboteurs before surveillance?
Don’t you think that, in today’s climate, customer knowledge and involvement about online tracking, fingerprinting, filter bubbles etc. is at an all time high? And that makes this the best time ever to indeed be proud to tell your customers that “we value your privacy”.

It’s one of Apple’s strongest marketing pillars.
Seriously? Is this even legal?

Antitrust has already ruled that companies aren't allowed to forcibly change search settings, haven't they?
Orange Pi 4B Review: Raspberry Pi Competitor Has Built-In A.I. – Tom's Hardware
As someone going through this right now, the main difficulty in being GDPR compliant with GA is the cookie problem.

You can either disable cookies to run GA in cookieless mode [1], which presumably will affect how GA performs, since they can't determine repeat visits (but this might be fine, depending on the type of site you have), or you need to gain active consent to enable analytics cookies [2], which isn't much good if you want metrics for all users, not just those that opt-ed in.

If someone has solved this reasonably, I'd love to hear how! For now it seems like cookieless is my only option.

[1] https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
[2] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/cookies-a...
Warning: Blue sky thinking ahead..

I always wondered if a huge quantity of diamonds, arranged in a specific pattern, could be used to build a passive laser.

The energy input would come in from the sun, and it would refract the light to a second layer of diamonds. That second layer would accumulate enough luminous energy, before it discharges as a laser. Since a laser diode needs to reach a certain level of optical amplification before it discharges its beam.

So that makes one operational unit. And you have to assemble a bunch of them together, to fire off to a third layer, that has a bigger diamond, which requires a larger energy threshold before it fires off.

And you keep repeating that until you get enough energy to do useful work.

So the whole thing ends up looking like a giant inverted pyramid, of a Rube Goldberg machine.

The final result, is that the laser is used to do useful mechanical work, like boiling water to create steam, to move a generator, to create electricity. It can also be used as a giant death ray, but that’s not very useful, except for the emperor that wants to hold a planet hostage.

Why this setup? To build something solid state, and somewhat passive, that can be used to reliably generate electricity for thousands of years. And it’s not a radioactive nuclear reactor that will create deadly waste that lasts thousands of years.

And it can also be orbited in space to beam the laser down to earth. It should last longer than solar panels, which doesn’t seem to last very long.

And now that we can manufacture industrial diamonds that are more pure than a natural diamond (just add heat, energy, and pressure), that I wonder when we can make this cheaply enough.

The next trick would be to find that optimal arrangement of diamonds and design to make such a thing feasible.
Hey there, I'm the author of the tool!

Just wanted to thank you for the comments, feedback and shares! I 'm very happy!

PS: If you liked that project you may find my other stuff interesting: https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Aanvaka%20min_retweets%3A... - it's just a hobby but I love it :D
You might want to consider running something like the Raspberry Pi Zero. Looks like the Nano is 45mm x 18mm and the Pi Zero is 65mm x 30mm. If you could fit the Pi Zero it would probably make your life a lot easier.
The right question is: How should ranking work in a distributed search engine?
The F-150 burns gasoline. Tesla have only just entered the mass market. The market is comparing expected sales in a few years.
FAANG being even in the running is downright bizzare in my opinion given the countless companies which are worse and don't receive such condemnation. Cynically I suspect a propaganda push by rivals, more innocently a stupid human anti-novelty bias where a self driving car hitting someone at a dangerously designed road crossing at a blind intersection with a high speed limit worries more than at a stop sign scares people more than a drunk driver running over a bus stop full of kids.

Some of it might be because of information compression of things that are less relevant or taken for granted like "Don't work for the Mob, Blackwater, or the NSA." are essentially a given."
It's not quite a function key, it (appears) to be more of a mode switch, with 3-4 possible modes. And there's another "home mode" button to go back to the text lines. So, as I understand it, red->space->home
The structure of your statement has problems not related to the topic at all. When you take something away that never (or rarely) happens, how do you establish causality?

Suppose I told you that taking bazookas away from people that live in the city prevents bear attacks? You might say that there aren't bear attacks in the city anyway, which would be true, but you couldn't prove it one way or another. Who knows, maybe there would have been one bear attack if people ran around with bazookas shooting up the nearby forest.

Now add in the complexity that terrorism is more like a rate than a yes/no question. What if I told you that taking away bazookas in the city reduced the crime rate? Well, the crime rate in many cities has decreased, but how are those two related? Once again, we're left with a statement that might sound good to some and bad to others -- and no way to reasonably discuss it.

The only thing we can say with certainty is that no matter what we do, terrorism will continue exist. We can never eliminate it no matter how hard we try. So unless we want each new terrorist act to wreak havoc with massive changes on our societies, we're really talking about trade-offs here. How much stuff do you want to give away for a 50% reduction in terrorism? And once you come up with that answer, how would you know if your giving those things actually was the thing that reduced it?

It's one thing when a pubic discussion has reasonable people talking about the various sides. It's another thing entirely when we start injecting these semantic landmines into our conversations. I'm not saying you're wrong or right; I'm saying there is no way to know.
Link between stress and hair turning prematurely gray revealed in animal study
Or I type ‘tldr’ and don’t waste my time? I swear to god, engineers are so focused on efficiency and yet are so eager to waste so much time and effort on repeating crap like this unnecessarily. Just think about the context switches alone necessary to type all that.
It's your software needs that are really important.

What distro?

Do you need virtualization?

Are you looking to just have access to bash and unix-like tools?

Windows and Chromebooks fill most of my software needs for Linux... I push whatever else to a cloud, or switch to a more dedicated tower/rig for horsepower.
Showing that a claim implies an absurdity is what the “reduction to the absurd” proof technique is, yes.

Generally, “implies a falsehood” is considered to be equivalent to “is false”.

What’s your point?
We fully stopped supporting IE11. Refactoring code to use ES6 and reducing code size by 20% is proving a big win for the vast majority of customers. If any customers are still on IE11 - they can run Edge, which now that that is Edgium we have even more code size reduction we can implement to improve load time and user experience.
I mostly skimmed the article but isn’t he basically talking about Lisp and the REPL? He dis mention Smalltalk but i’m pretty sure it adopted the interactivity from Lisps.
said the company laying off staff while giving CEOs pay raises
In the same era few cars would see you better off. A Polo or Escort would be similarly totalled, a big Merc or Volvo would often happily demount the engine and punch it back into the cabin taking your legs with it...
Laziness is surely not always the answer. I advise learning how to read man pages. Eating your Wheaties, so to speak.
Heads up to op-the website is giving 502 bad gateway.
I tried changing a to a reference and doing:

fn foo<'a>(a: &'a f64) -> impl Fn(f64) -> f64 + 'a { ....

but it doesn't work
Super-Spreader
I think part of it was because it was being pushed at all. I didn't see a lot of collaboration from Hack towards PHP. It was a - sadly typical - "Hey, here's our thing, it's better".

A few select individuals came forward (or were part of PHP core already) but it felt like a Silo, so I'm not surprised there wasn't a lot of participation from outside.

PHP 7 and the speed improvements were a direct answer to HHVM, though.
In my case, I noticed many driveways were rendered when I did my town.
> This ransomware seems to be in development phase and has some flaws as mentioned below:

> ...

> Hard code destruction time of Private Key “March 1 2018”.

Quite possibly. I'm not sure what that language means and they don't provide more analysis of the HTML page that comes from. If it's in development maybe some dude has been sitting on this idea for a few years and their virus scanner just picked it up recently.
Ancient never-before-seen viruses discovered locked up in Tibetan glacier
You can't catch "terrorists" with surveillance and even generally bad actors, except for some naive desperate people doing stupid things. What you can do with surveillance is catch dissidents, create some chilling effect on dissent and overall use it as a tool to suppress dissent. It's basically a power supporting tool, nothing more.
You can fit two car seats in the back of mine as well -- but only if the parents are both under 5'6" tall and happy to have the front seats as far forward as they go.

My car isn't one of these modern, ever-growing ones, but it's not particularly small in most respects either.
I was at Motorola Tokyo Design Ops, back in the day and the General Magic people and the old Mac people and the Next people were frequently coming through.

I learned the 56K on the NeXT (and it saved my butt when I had to emulate a slow small MCU (together with an FPGA) to build a real-time emulator so our customer (Canon) could complete development in parallel with the US mothership getting their act together for shipping verified silicon). But I didn't spend much time with the i860. I should have. And, over course, their main CPU (68040) was better than the 68020s running on my desktop workstation.

That Magnetic Optic thing, though, it turned a pretty slick design, and a very slick SDK, and an "ok" implementation of Display Postscript into something that just felt like a sluggish brick. And, of course, back in the day, Jobs hated networking because it was "just an umbilical cord back to the mothership".
Minimizing their support surface makes a ton of sense for a long-term release, and of course if you just choose one browser for Enterprise you're gonna choose the one people built their internal apps on for the last few decades.

I expect it's not not that MS believes no one needs IE, it's that they know they're stuck with it and would really rather not be.
One key take away is that all DIY drones will be illegal to fly the way people use drones today if the proposed FAA Remote ID rules goes into effect -- I think this is excessive regulatory overreach. The DJI post is excellent. Further reading here: https://fpvfc.org/remote-id-talking-points
These Boomers with their new languages.
A "gender-studies course" criticism isn't a claim that the underlying subject doesn't matter. (Everyone can agree that gender matters!) It's a claim that they don't think the course is going to teach broadly applicable concepts and patterns of thought; they expect that you'll be presented with some particular orthodox concept of privacy, and that the class will be about learning how to correctly recite it.

I can't say whether they're right about your school's course specifically, but it's certainly something I can imagine.
So many cars built within the last ten or so years look like the same boring identical bar of soap on wheels. Minus trivial details like the headlight cluster and grille, you really can’t tell most 4 door sedan brands abart unless you look closely. I wish the Cybertruck succeeds, not because I need one (I don’t) but because finally someone out there is trying to get a little creative with styling again!
Deploy a Pod on CentOS with Podman
They're all roughly equivalent. I would choose a cost effective one and move on.

One thing to watch out for: i2c is not designed for long wires, so you may have signal integrity issues beyond a 1-2 feet. You'll want to switch to differential signaling beyond that (e.g. with https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14589).
This thread brings up a lot of interesting stuff (Fortran soon in LLVM earlier, too).
Related podcast on free market healthcare in the US (Oklahoma Surgical Center) - which publishes prices online and hasn't raised them in 20 years:

http://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-ca...
The development of some suburbs was enabled by mass transit prior to widespread adoption of cars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar_suburb

Cars enable more suburban development, but their throughput on highways sucks compared to mass transit, which also minimizes their spread in some cases.
What a $10M lab dedicated to cracking iPhones looks like
Self-driving cars wouldn't be a faster horse, but a carriage for everyone type deal. At least if we manage to overcome the limitation of needing the driver to be paying attention to the road, even when the car is in auto.
Wow, I didn't realize the standards stuff is also done by volunteers.

> The only people paid at conferences are the registration people.

...if by paid you mean "free labor from local organizers and their students, plus some $1K-$3K travel awards for a PhD student in exchange for 20 hours of front desk registration, with maybe one association employee overseeing everything".

TBF, the travel awards are actually a pretty reasonable rate (avg $2K for 1/2 week of labor) if you close your eyes and ignore that:

1. CS PhD students are under-paid by a factor of 10x

2. CS PhD students are probably the only tech workers who are expected to raise funds on their own for work-related travel multiple times per year

3. these organizations double-dip. They are essentially paying a bit over market rate for labor required to run their conference registration desks while claiming that this relatively small amount of $$$ gives them some moral justification for price-gouging everything else (see: any ACM/IEEE statement about open access policy, which inevitably mentioned sponsoring student travel...)

4. ...and then still lean on conference organizers to find corporate sponsors to supplement those travel awards.

5. and those same students do a ton of other free labor in the form of writing and reviewing papers.

And so on.

Basically, any time I think "oh yeah, ACM/IEEE do that thing I didn't think about. Well, those people must be paid / must be receiving honest-to-goodness grants", it turns out: nope! All the work is done by volunteers, and any "grants" come with labor requirements.

TBF, none of that is totally unreasonable until you realize how much money these orgs are raking in. Where the hell does it all go!?
> SPI is much easier to write correctly

I'm not sure that I buy that. A daisy chained SPI bus is a rats nest of configuration hassle and basically impossible to debug. You're trading hardware robustness for software complexity, and that's not always a win.

And as far as hardware messes: SPI doesn't synchronize anything beyond the bit level (modulo an out of band chip enable or reset, of course, which would work to "fix" an I2C device too), making shift/offset bugs a real danger.

Board-level digital interfacing is just hard. That's why we do it as little as possible and put everything on the SoC these days.
Microsoft update for Office 365 makes Bing default search engine in Chrome
I don't see any actual logical fallacy here. Tu quoque is often misunderstood and mis-applied. Can you explain, in very specific terms, what you see as logically incorrect here?
Did it _ever_ work?
I jumped off a cliff for a cheap Black Friday HP-based Chromebook (i3 with 16GB of RAM)

For my day-to-day Linux needs it has been great. I get all my apps/streaming through the play store, and all major SW for Linux works for my coding (VS Code, GIMP, Android Studio).

The current downside: I can run vms on the box (but I likely could run Docker...maybe?), But there's SSH for that.

Mainly it's a drag that the mouse-lock feature hasn't been implemented. So I can't play Minecraft. XD
So what? Immigrants don't want to buy homes?
Joby Aviation Gets Infusion from Toyota
It might be a bit of a stretch but I wonder what standing someone has to sue when search results are noticeably worse and changed in this way.

e.g. I just searched "<my town name> emergency" in google and bing. Bing came up with a travel site and several news articles. Google came up with a map with the local emergency department as the highlighted pin and urgent care as subsequent pins.

Google's little blurbs are also very handy in this case with instructions popping up as the first result when I search snake bite treatment and seizure care. (Actually I went through a few more emergencies after that and was pleasantly suprised how good google was at turning up instructions for emergency care)

It wouldn't surprise me if the monetary pressure associated with medical care in the US and the deep pockets of microsoft made them a tempting target.
SB50 allows for 4 and 5 story apartment buildings near "high quality" bus routes. This is a not the same thing as just allowing development near transit stations. If you look at a map of LA almost everything qualifies for development.

https://urbanize.la/post/sb-50-could-bring-sweeping-changes-...
I agree with that advice for most sites, especially SPA's, 100%.

But Google search has some weirdly specific requirements. It needs to know if it can show a result that required a polyfill mere ms after it gets your request, for example, or if it would be better to just send less bytes and a scaled down version of the same result that might need different data to assemble. It's not perfect but a UA string is one of the only practical ways to do this. Having qa and engineers to keep track of this mapping for the most commonly used browsers may make sense for search to shave off a bunch of time shipping js and doing feature detection to figure out what it needs next, but may not make sense for your website.

In general there are no blanket general guidelines that apply to every single site regardless of usage patterns or business needs.

Disclaimer: Former web search eng, current Googler.
https://sectionhiker.com/why-does-dwr-suck/ mentions

- Nikwax (all products)
- Sciessent Curb
> Such an implementation would be GDPR compliant in not tracking any personal data, although your counsel might still say you need to list them as “analytics” cookies in a cookie banner (mine did).

Your council should also have advised you that you need active consent in your cookie banner, since GDPR raised the standard for consent, which is the stumbling block I'm facing. [1]

[1] See "In brief": https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/cookies-a...
Quibi’s CEO Meg Whitman Compared Reporters to Sexual Predators