skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
95% of Mozilla money comes from Google. Last time I checked Firefox still sends everything you type into the address field to Google. So if you do not trust Google, how can you trust Mozilla!?
I had the pleasure of experiencing DMT over 20 years ago and only recently had learned that what I experienced was not unique: https://non-aliencreatures.fandom.com/wiki/Machine_Elf (mine looked like an animated Persian carpet). It was the only time in my life where the hallucination took over full visual (and auditory) input; I could see nothing but that.

While it was really intense, I didn't take away any lessons from it as I have from LSD and psilocybin. I think it's too strong to be a proper teacher and is just more of a thrill ride.

I recognize that we all have different responses but I'm betting that I'm not alone in this assessment.
The weird thing is that old school software like Microsoft Streets and Trips could do this pretty easily.

These map apps make a conscious decision to deliver this user experience.
Replying to myself, because it seems like a comment in the blog answers my first question.

> Hmm, in my experience with AMD-based hardware profiling, AMD CPUs may place the blame as far back as ~200 instructions (pathological worst-case) behind the instruction that was interrupted.

pkhuong in this comment: http://disq.us/p/271zzg1, suggests that he's using an Intel CPU. As such...

> For example, page 18/37 of Intel's manual volume 3B (https://www.intel.com/conte... states that when an instruction causes a PEBS assist, the PEBS record will point to the next instruction: "The return instruction pointer (RIP) reported in the PEBS record will point to the instruction after (+1) the instruction that causes the PEBS assist. The machine state reported in the PEBS record is the machine state after the instruction that causes the PEBS assist is retired."

Since PEBS is activated, we can be assured that the instruction samples are just one instruction away from the triggering instruction.

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The discussion includes a link to this blog post that further discusses this "skid" problem: http://sandsoftwaresound.net/perf/perf-tutorial-hot-spots/

> The combination of these two factors is called skid and it affects the attribution and distribution of samples in the final profile. In the presence of skid, samples are attributed to the general neighborhood around performance culprits such as long latency memory load operations. The cpu-clock event cannot be precisely attributed to slow instructions — just the hot code region containing the culprit.

Its important to know if you're running an AMD or Intel CPU! The hardware performance counters are implemented differently between the manufacturers! So this low-level profiling information should always have the CPU-type close by, for clarity.
I really don’t like the example of “monter en haut”. Certain verbs, like “monter” can have very different meanings without the noun.

Monter en haut: to go up (not specifically stairs, contextually maybe, could just as well be an elevator or a tree house ladder for example)

Monter a cheval: to get on a horses back

Monter un meuble: to assemble furniture (think ikea)

The noun here is not irritating, it’s essential.
You may already know this, but for anyone else reading, Morse code is no longer a requirement for any amateur license in the US. (I don't know about other countries.)

It still can be a useful skill - and fun when you get into it - but there is a lot you can do in ham radio without Morse.
Infamously, here in the UK someone employed by the government had a similar thought and issued a memo that day saying that it was "a good day to bury bad news". Unfortunately for her, the memo was leaked.
One recent theory suggests that the appendix acts as a safehouse for beneficial gut bacteria in the event that the gut microflora is wiped out:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3551545/
Does anyone else see a rendering artifact (looks like a really fast cursor) moving through the page? Happens in my Firefox and Chrome.
Ask HN: What are some interesting problems you love solving in your spare time?
Critical mass tends to target busy city streets, partly perhaps with the goal of causing actual congestion. I daresay it wouldn't serve as much of a protest if the entire goal were making Google maps look worse.
I would imagine the UK would like to have its cake and eat it too, but the US will make them choose.
An already up and running nuclear power station is not at all that expensive.
I enjoyed reading that, thank you!
Widely anticipated Iowa Poll thrown out due to web browser font size problem
Not really. A lot of DOM tests involve try/catch, and checking whether the exceptions are precisely right. Web applications tend to not intentionally throw exceptions.

Acid3 also tested some other things like SVG fonts. SVG fonts specification didn't make any sense, browsers were against implementing an under-defined specification not designed to interact with HTML and Acid3 test authors likely realized this, because a lot of tests were like: a web browser can do this or this or this, because we have no idea what the specification requires. You really don't want a standard like this in a web browser. Web browsers implemented bare minimum sufficient for Acid3, but literally nothing else. WOFF won over SVG fonts in the end as it was a better specification, but Acid3 insisted on SVG fonts. Case in point about issues with SVG fonts: what should `<iframe>` in an SVG font do? The specification won't tell you.

Some other tests also feel weird. For instance, test 86 is literally checking whether `new Date().setMilliseconds()` returns `NaN`. I mean, that doesn't seem very useful to me, why would anyone pass no arguments to a setter intentionally? Official ECMAScript Conformance Test Suite would be a better place for this test.

What I think is fine in Acid3 is CSS selector tests, the rest is honestly kinda pointless. I have the same issue with Acid2, the CSS tests in it were fine, but Acid2 test also decided to include an SGML comments test for who knows what reason. Web browser vendors were against this test, but had to support it anyway. SGML comment test broke real world web sites without providing any real value. Thankfully, this test is now gone from Acid2.

I hope Acid4 won't happen or if it will, it will ONLY have CSS tests and won't test anything else. Although, it likely won't (thankfully) due to The Web Standards Project's closure.
> Browsers still lose my 15 minutes of typing when something goes bad

It’s not browsers but poorly-designed JavaScript: if you use a standard HTML form all browsers will preserve state and resubmit it for you on retries. The problem is when you have JavaScript altering the form but not reimplementing the standard state management, and since few sites do more than casual testing these days it tends to require a number of user reports before that’s prioritized since it’s so easy for lazy developers to blame the error condition rather than accept that handling it is part of the job.
I disagree with the point that as a pure carnage simulator, "Doom is the closest thing you will be to a pure instrument of destruction whose sole function is to search and destroy", and that it stands the test of time as the greatest in the genre.

The Serious Sams, Bulletstorm, Painkiller (and others) have taken the Doom experience of finding a horde of somethings and killing them into the modern era, each with their own take.

Serious Sam expanded the levels and monster counts to a grotesque scale, allowing for perverse satisfaction in watching and killing off a distant and vast sea of fodder running towards you.

Bulletstorm lightened the mood, and as a precursor to the Gears of War series, was the first in my mind to make the action movie tropes of kicking and punching things, coupled with cheesy banter, genuinely pleasing.

Painkiller took the heavy metal influences, and merged them with some of the great settings from the previous century of horror novels and coupled it with immersive and creative level and weapon design.

I definitely believe that Doom was the original seminal piece in the genre, a Tolkien-esque work. But mankind has improved on the experience in the years since. Try those out too.
>a lot of modern music is built around the same major scales and largely homogenous chord progressions, it must be the same, but this simply isn't the case.

But it is, to the point where there's songs I learn only somewhat and i'll get confused to which lyrics are which and I'll sing a mix of the two songs when playing them, imagine and no woman no cry jump are two it happens to me with all the time. Same with truly madly deeply and kryptonite oddly enough. Then there's the whole pachabel's canon meme which is entirely true. There's a few songs, the most recent is some maroon 5 and i think a jonas brother's song which I was confused as hell as to why I liked until I realized they're just another rework of canon.

That's not even getting started on the direct ripoffs such as the 1000'@ of songs based on the Amen break or the thousands of songs that are basically a simple 8 or 12 bar blues progression or the tangled web of constant remakes that is reggae and dancehall and every song that lifts a bassline or melody from them without credit all the way up to such obscure things as the friendly neighbours tune from earthbound being a relick of the real rock riddim.
Love that Elite is 2nd Class. Very clever.
Germany is a rich country. It can afford to import things.
Object oriented at least and probably using a modern JS framework
Is there irony in referring to shopping at Amazon-owned Whole Foods (regardless of their pre-acquisition reputation) as "careful about sourcing?"
In many legislations you are supposed to cycle against the motortraffic, especially if there is a bikepath.
But consumers value up-front price over TCO. Why else would most people finance their phones with their plans instead of buying them directly?
If you account for waste disposal it becomes prohibitively expensive. In 2016 the largest German utilities agreed to pay €23.6bln so that it would be the government's problem to deal with the waste:

https://www.dw.com/en/german-government-does-nuclear-waste-d...

Decommissioning all the (23) plants still active in 2016 will eventually cost another €24bln.

All in all €2bln per plant. And this is just the lower bound. It's hard to tell how much safely storing this waste will cost over the next several decades.

I remember this from my German lessons in school. Managing radioactive waste is simply too troublesome.
Is there such a thing as a straight key or paddle (iambic?) key that connects to a USB interface? The amount of bandwidth required to conduct a CW QSO via the internet would be far less than a VoIP call. A Morse code chat program would make for an interesting Show HN project.
I can now confirm that this works. So no more compiling the plugin required.
Exactly! Translation is tricky business.
Only if there are more people like you than there are people who purchase Apple products because of the "Genius Bar".

Which seems unlikely to me, although I wouldn't be surprised either way.
Show HN: Dtmf.io – virtual phone numbers from 50 countries, and SIMs in the UK
I'd been asking this question myself for the last week. This graph from the NY Times on Friday finally helped me understand:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/asia/china-co...

But I think you're right: a big part of the panic right now seems to be the uncertainty.
>Maybe I am being one of those dastardly, snobbish, grating coastal elites. But if you don't like me and my solutions, what else is there? There is literally nothing I could suggest to help the lower class which can't be construed as "just be more like me".

I'd bet money you're not in a trade union.
Has anyone tried using Maps? I don't think it solves the left turn problem, but I am extremly unhappy with google maps interface and pushing of ads. After a bit of searching I have found Maps and never turned back. Well, I hope it comes handy to someone else too...

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.maps/
I went back and noticed that the first character of menu names is highlighted. It's useless TBH since you can't alt select the menu items. Overall the site is pretty clean though. Should probably set max-size on article, it's hard to read on widescreen because of long lines.
> even though all national coal mines have closed

If only. It's just hard coal mines that were closed. Lignite is still being open-pit mined.
5$ per month is more what I think. Or per year, or sometimes even one time fee. Like buying a mobile app for the price of a cup of coffee. I see it as, I can just skip the next cup of coffee and I've already recouped the money.
My main issue is with your use of the phrase "basic manners". This isn't a question of manners. It's like speaking Spanish in a French bakery: it's not rude, it's just not the right context. Similarly if you start vouvoyer your child, it's not "bad manners" it's just not done.
I've recently switched to using apple maps exclusively as much as possible, and TBH its gotten quite comparable to Google maps.
There are still remote places (e.g an address in a small town) which apple maps struggles to find, but for the most part within cities I find myself reaching more often for apple maps.

I'm also one of those people who struggles to translate navigation instructions on a map to real world turns.
So features such as highlighting and Stop signs & Traffic signals go a long way in helping me navigate safely.
Thailand sees apparent success treating Coronavirus with drug cocktail
To doing business? Doesn't seem absurd at all. Do you think business should just land in your lap for free without having to spend anything for it? That what seems absurd to me.
Use create-react-app to setup an empty project. It will have 36,000 dependencies.
I've only ever heard is as chèm, so that's how I'd write it.
Yes, with Firefox 72 on Linux. It is really subtle and it seems to happen once on page load.
They are uninsurable, which means if someone actually had to pay for the insurance their price would be astronomical.
Sleep, health, and human capital: Evidence from daylight saving time
It has meant both at different times. Once true 3D games became mainstream, fake 3D games were retroactively re-labeled 2.5D
out of curiousity what did you use to make the site? Reminds me of Rust's mdbook.
You should try project brutality. It pretty much brings it on the same level as newer DOOMs. The graphics are still oldschool, but you won't notice that while ripping intestines at 17 m/s.

You might have to enable performace mode if it lags.
Wouldn't that normally include drinks, tips, possible desert and service. With all that, 50$ to 100$ is common in big cities.
Sadly no one is perfect, building roads that allow misstakes to safely be made is vital. See the road design vision of zero fatality. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Zero
I still have some of my stuff from this era up on the web. The source has all kinds of CSS hacks called out.

* A two-column layout http://dionidium.com/design/leftbar/leftbar.html

* A valid XHTML 1.1 version of that layout http://dionidium.com/design/leftbar/xhtml11/

* Two-column layout with equal heights http://dionidium.com/design/column/

* My old "default styles" stylesheet http://dionidium.com/design/default.css

This was a fun read!
Neanderthal Genes Hint at Much Earlier Human Migration from Africa
Is this like a commercial or someone's actual opinion?
Playing Doom today needs to be approached like any other nostalgia trip — you need to go into it with a mindset of what things were like at the time (like watching the original Star Wars movies). You really won’t get much out of it if you compare it to some game you’re playing today on your Xbox, and it’s somewhat disingenuous to try to do so.

Everything has a context, and learning to understand where something came from is a skill that is not just useful in appreciating old video games, but is broadly applicable in pretty much any human interaction.
Windows 95 only got USB support in a series of "supplement packs" in 1997. Win98 had that out of the box, but it was still missing some things that we take for granted now, such as generic UMS drivers. It wasn't until 2K that things were generally working well, and not until XP for most consumers.

But PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports persisted for a long time. I remember it was still pretty common in late 00s, and the keyboard port specifically is still found today on some mainboards.

It's not just a compatibility thing, though. For one thing, there was the N-key rollover issue with USB keyboards for a while. For another, enterprises like to lock out USB ports to prevent use of flash drives.
The New Yorker (owned by Conde Nast, which is effectively 100% text publishing) doesn't really compete with NPR (which is effectively 100% radio publishing). The New Yorker also specializes in long-form written pieces, for which NPR interviews act as a sort of promotional piece. On the other hand, even a deep NYT or Wapo investigative report can probably be covered comprehensively enough for most people in 20 mins.
I understand the uptick in Index sales because of that. But there are 4 other headsets listed, and somehow none of them are of the Windows Mixed Reality family. I am not even sure Oculus is in any way better than Odyssey. And the later does not come with its own stupid store.
Also, for marginal prices to approach 0, you need a true commodity.

Even if this happens for most other needs / products, housing isn't a commodity, and I expect won't ever be. It will generally be demand driven in terms of relative housing costs, and if you're of the mindset that inequality in and of itself is the problem, the lowest tier housing will never be enough, no matter how sufficient.

Which will just lead to a larger part of newly disposable income being spent on housing.

We already know people pay based on what they can afford.
I'd guess a bunch of platformers and arcade-y games probably qualify for many.
Well it would disrupt lives. For a month. Then alternatives would pop up and the life of EU would just continue. The reason for using google is that they have monopoly. If they would remove themself from equation, it would mean making space for someone else and believe me, a lot of EU and USA companies would work afterhours to get into 500 milion people market, and even now there are alternatives for every single google service, for years search was the only one really annoying to not have. Now even search has become terrible while ddg and qwant are becoming better and better. Actually qwant is becoming better (more relevant results) than even ddg or google,

(And you can trust me, I am not using anything of google, that is not forced on me like their cloud hosting, where sites I am using are using it, for over 10 years, and I am not missing anything. But to understand that you have to try. Take a google break for 1 month, take Maps instead of G Maps, take microg lineage, take qwant/ddg instead of gsearch, take protonmail instead of gmail. Amazon/azure instead of gcloud. You will be suprised how overblown google is, how worthless the android apps are. Just take into account, that you are currently, probably, vendor locked in, you need more than a month to get out. Like a heavy drug addiction. On the other side, if dealer forces you to go "cold turkey", you would heal very fast. You don't need to say anything, just try. For your own sake.)
Simple, easy, wrong
> There's no way to optimize for minimizing left turns, especially onto busy streets.

I use Google Maps for cycling directions, and I get frustrated that I can't tell it to avoid big roads.
Intesting. Hubei provincial and Wuhan city governments are being bashed hard for covering up and ineffectiveness in handling the crisis and China’s central government is being praised.
So, the demand for entertainment such as streaming TV increases, and provides a larger marketplace for the actual content producers.
Also related to the dangers to health of Daylight Saving Time: A Chronobiological Evaluation of the Acute Effects of Daylight Saving Time on Traffic Accident Risk

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)...
Startup idea: A service that seeds the Internet with only a fake, G-rated version of yourself that shows you liking pictures of kittens, automatically posting inspirational quotes, completely politically correct.
Games absolutely age. I recently went back to try and play the original Deus Ex game that came out in 2000, and it feels super clunky compared to modern games. The original Doom is definitely a classic, but that doesn't mean it can't feel dated. For example, it's pretty common in Doom for walls to open up behind you, surrounding you with demons, even though there was no indication that the wall would open. Designers have learned that killing the player with no warning is usually more frustrating than fun, so they try not to do it any more.
Firefox + ublock origin here, no captcha.
The earliest and cheapest we will get new nuclear at low-gigawatt scale, according to the people building it, is in 10 years at which time if everything goes right the cost will have fallen to $65/MWh. Today we can deploy on-shore wind and solar at ~$30/MWh, and generate hydrogen with surplus per the article. Here is a thread citing nuclear industry advocates for building new nuclear power on the state of the efforts:

[$65/MWh, end of thread] https://twitter.com/sampenrose/status/1224019148562321408
[start, focusing on China's nuclear buildout] https://twitter.com/sampenrose/status/1162772916125126656
80s Strategy games and others that are more obscure aged well.

“Command HQ” and “Pirates” from MicroProse, Zaxxon on Colecovision, Starflight on PC are fabulous games.

I used to love adventure games, but most of them aged terribly.
Could you recommend any other tool that would generate more sensible PostgreSQL configuration values given similar input?

In other words: here is my PostgreSQL version, use case, OS, number of CPUs, available memory size, and storage type. What's the most optimal configuration?
It's not a rendering artifact; it's an actual div moving with JS.

<div id="cursor386" style="right: 643px; bottom: 346px;">(box glyph stripped out by HN)</div>

Search for "cursor386" in bootstrap.min.js, there's a setInterval loop that moves it around.

Appears to be from https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386
The year startups took over the Super Bowl
> Germany would probably not have to buy uranium at first.

The mines are closed.

Germany is currently investing billions to clean up the Uranium mines. Wismut might have cost then around 8 billion Euro. The technical and environmental standards of the USSR and the GDR were rather poor. Left is some Uranium, which too costly to mine and not competitive in any way with the world market.
Corollary to this is when a business is so mature that they decide to no longer take risks (or higher risk) by designing a new product, or go after a new market or go for the next disruptive change that is valid. Instead they go after reliability based on exploiting a current product or resource or asset and optimize the product or process to extract out yet even more value. The latter is always viewed as safer and more predictable than the former. The truth is to recognize that that is what is happening and accepting that in the long run, the latter will not produce sustainable growth.
I took it to mean they were scared to be treated like they don’t fit in. That is a real thing. One example: There is a chain that sells “goth” and other pop culture lifestyle goods to mostly teens call Hot Topic, mostly in malls. They improved their business prospects by being friendly and professional to would-be goths’ parents and kids with parents and other “outsiders”. I’m sure they take biz from a lot of independent outlets that way. I.e., don’t be scary.
Reminds me of this site: http://fabiensanglard.net/
I'll await some benchmarks before installing these. The last ones caused a 14% performance hit.
And all the new bugs introduced in the process.