skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The stock market is not a direct reflection of how healthy the US economy is at large. As others have mentioned, gains in the stock market are being driven by a select group of companies that investors believe are poised to seize an advantage during these times.

This advantage can be a product that is well positioned for this situation (Zoom, Slack, Amazon), having large cash reserves to weather the storm and potentially buy competitors (Uber with UberEats + Grubhub), or a myriad of other reasons. Not many of which apply to companies in the wider economy.
I'm a French speaker, thanks. I'm not expecting someone who obviously lives in the US to care enough and input an é, unless the auto-correct does it for you maybe.
0.62% is pretty alarming, tbh. Our water systems are generally much less safe than people believe.
If TLS is broken, you lose all message authentication, rendering tampering entirely undetectable.

Passive sniffing requires the same attack vector, and the idea of an attacker only utilizing passive attacks makes no sense.

The point is that additional hashing designed for the premise of "broken TLS" fails the thread model test: It is pointless, as the only time it is applicable is when everything is fallen apart.
I don't respect what they're going for here since what they're actually doing is trying to put a shine on their decrepit corporate image by virtue signalling.
I've been unhappy with the direction of Ubuntu for awhile, but having said that it's still the best collection of packages that install with fairly sane defaults for desktop/laptop. I've adopted a model of starting with ubuntu-minimal installation and just installing the debs I want (disable recommended packages by default). This gives me a fairly reliable base from Ubuntu but a system assembled how I want (except systemd, can't avoid systemd).
The lie was, however, delicious.
It sounds like a WW-II air-raid siren.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgaCNEQzL1Q
This is a knockoff piece but it links to the paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PFCcP5WAE-64DlrRoZZE5NhC3cc...

The paper's URL is https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6495/eaam9744 but the text seems to be paywalled. We've put its title above.
There seems to have been an explosion of such articles within the past few years, despite things like Crenshaw's tutorial existing for several decades; I wonder why a large number of people have suddenly started thinking "I understand this, I should write an article about it".

My favourite demonstration of a "teeny tiny compiler" is still C4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8558822 Perhaps it inspired all these compiler articles?
I did this sophomore year because my French teacher wanted things handwritten. I spent a lot of time making it fit on the lined paper and getting the color just right but I'm sure she figured it out anyway.
I remember in the Windows 98 days, there was a program called GuitarFX that blew my mind. IIRC, it was only a couple MB in size, didn't use a lot of RAM, and was fairly low latency. I think I was running it on a PIII 500Mhz with 128MB of RAM.

Now we have apps that are like 40+ MB, eat RAM and CPU cycles to do fairly simple things.
Generally when I want to learn something new I'll build a new side project (or re-build an existing one) to support the learning process. This time I wanted to include my partner in the project so I built something that would require some manual moderation of content.

I built a 'hookup' website and have monetized it with a single affiliate offer/link.

It's made a few thousand in the last 18 months or so, with almost no promotion (posted something about it on reddit once).

Like someone else in this post commented, the way that the 'adult' industry is pushed out of the banking/credit card world makes it pretty tough to monetize sites of this nature.
As someone who despises emojis, I am more than happy that they are removed. There are other ways we could show the hypothetical example.
It's both the bridge and the location/environment, e.g. the fog banks.
Scalable Frontend Architecture – neo.mjs v1.2.5
We've gone over this with our lawyers many times, but if you do the majority of your business operations in CA and have an LLC in any state you'll be subject to $800/year minimum franchise tax in CA still.

https://www.lobbplewe.com/blog/2019/09/rules-for-out-of-stat...
Not quite - I use a wired Apple keyboard (otherwise a great keyboard, feels way better than the magic keyboard and the usb on the side connects to my mouse) that doesn’t work on my MacBook unless I use the extension cord, on another MacBook it works without. It might have to do with something with the NVRAM battery being weak but I didn’t have the time to explore further. [1]

In theory we should be able to get rid of cables, but that is also a messed up standard, I’d rather connect my keyboard that extends to the mouse than switch devices with Bluetooth.

Sounds like we need another standard: https://xkcd.com/927/

[1]: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5676379
It used to be even worse.
The super thin USB-C 2.0 cables are just ideal for charging. The thicker ones with the USB 3+ signaling are great for high data rates. Just pick the one you need for the job.
Or if you have ipython installed:

import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()

which gets you a slightly fancier pdb.
It means that you can basically levy tax on compatibility. Anyone, who wants to make device or application compatible with standard has to pay a fee to you.
> There seems to a precedent here and people are able to get around it by who they know or their reputation in the community.

Well, reputation matters.

Greg Kroah-Hartman let the Habana Labs stuff in over objections, but Habana actually open sourced its libraries later. Qualcomm has demonstrated repeatedly that they will never do that.

And, personally, I'm kinda glad GKH cut Habana some slack. A nice open-source library now exists for that and GKH cutting Habana slack may have contributed to the process.

GKH has also pointed out that he has changed his mind and wouldn't do that again.

People will often do something once because they see it as an exception. Now that this kind of thing is no longer an "exception", people are looking at it differently.
The issue is, most code only runs so few times that it doesn't really matter. Only when the code requires so much cloud resources that it's worth to spend an engineer's salary for a few hours/days to optimize it you should do it.
I think all these companies rely on /captive audiences/. ie people who have invested in their product already, and they can somehow "up sell" them the subscribtion for a while and it sounds like a GREAT plan.

However, any 'new' customer will not let themselves be trapped. It's happening with Adobe Photoshop and stuff, where they've been skinning their customer base for years, but quite frankly who would now as a new potiential customer decide to shackle themselves to that? I know quite a few people who will use inferior tools JUST so they don't have to hook up to Adobe blood-suck.

Say Adobe Lightroom. Super product, but updates started to slow down and slow down and WOW now look it's all ONLINE baby for a price. I bought all updates until LR6, but now I know it's a lot cheaper to archive my machine with LR6 in a corner and use it for my photo edit than switching to the 'super value online thingy' for $$$/year. I don't use it that much to want that, and next time I want to use it, it actually might be incompatible with /whatever is in my chain of hardware/ anyway.

I'm sad to say Sketchup is doing this, if they had a $100 upgrade price every year or so, I'd pay happily -- however here's lies the other main problem: these companies don't WANT to invest in R&D enough to have a 'valid' reason to have a new major version every 12-18 months, they actually think people will just keep paying.

Well guess what, perhaps some people will, but no NEW people will. In the case of sketchup, whatever the marketing blurbs have spattered about, NOTHING IS NEW for like 10 years, I mean, they try to add 'hooks' here and there, but the main program is exactly the same, same bugs for that long. I suspect the devs who know how to do matrix multiplication have long left after google dumped the product, and they are now left with a handful of webheads.

Do I want to pay for that?

Hmm wait until I clean the coffee off the front my t-shirt.
>and they are correcting it.

Only after getting caught. It's not like you can 'accidentally' write a bunch of code and push it out.
Corridor Digital: Google/Facebook profit by ignoring copyright violations in ads
Ask HN: Programming language design – does the size of the language matter?
I have always liked the philosophy of Niklaus Wirth, known best for creating Pascal, Modula-2 and Oberon, that programming languages should be small but powerful. However, it seems to me that few language designers consider the size of the language an important quality when they create a language. It seems many programmers don't see it as a problem either.

Generally, the trend seems to be for programming languages to grow in size. I don't mean the size of the standard library, but the actual features and syntax of the language. A lot of languages may have started out as relatively small but with every iteration of the language, the syntax and features grow. Of course, small languages can also include complexity too.

So does the size of the language matter? Does it follow (in general) that the larger the language, the greater the risk of complexity of the language?

And in case you are interested, here are some thoughts from Wirth on the subject [1]:

> "In order to do a good experience [learning a language], you have to have a clean language with a good structure concentrating on the essential concepts and not being snowed in. That is my primary objection to the commercial languages – they’re simply too huge, and they’re so huge that nobody can understand them in their entirety...I think the industry thinks it’s a big asset to have a complex thing that increases their reputation of being sophisticated"

[1] https://amturing.acm.org/pdf/WirthTuringTranscript.pdf
Most of the software that I use I would consider to be unacceptably slow on my top of the line workstation: emacs, webbrowsers, intellij; the list goes on and on. Something needs to be done, and fast. Pretty much everyone I know regularly complains about how slow and crappy the software they use is, especially my non-technical friends.

We need to start thinking about performance as a necessary and basic feature, not some nice to have that can be worked on later. A new program needs to designed from the ground up to be fast, from the language choice to the data structures.

And I think this shift is being made, except in web development circles. Most new and upcoming languages list performance as a basic feature: Rust, Julia, Nim, Zig, etc. Also, native compilation is often listed as a feature, as there's been a huge backlash against the vm cargo cult on the late 90s and 2000s.
I can say that people in Israel prefer facebook groups for many reasons:

1. It allows for "team search". My friends knew I'm looking, so they tagged me in relevant posts they saw. Can't do it anywhere else (including marketplace by facebook themselves)

2. It allows for group communication with the publisher of the post. One asks - everybody sees.

3. It gives a sense of power to those who seek to rent. Many posts with high prices have comments like "You are crazy", "You are a pig", "whoever pays this much is as sucker". It almost warms the heart, we fight the greedy landlords. It almost make it fun, like a witch hunt.
Can't speak much about the gaming aspect and I don't know if Mac fares much better.

> CS software is almost never optimized for OS OSs.

CS = Computer science, right? May I ask what kind of optimizations and which software you're talking about.

> Simple things like watching videos and listening to music requires proper OS configuration because of codecs not being free as in freedom.

That really depends on the distro. Ubuntu, Pop!OS and some others too come with non-open drivers and software installed or show a dialog on first use asking users whether they want to install those things. The barrier is low enough for my non-tech friends and mother to understand.
Your experience might be a little dated.

> nothing available for Linux that has a GUI is enticing to me

Hmm... that's a pity. They are quite simple and fast to use.

Thanks for the response
Assuming you trust that the negotiation is implemented correctly...
Both these things are listed pretty clearly up front.
> “We knew going into the handrail replacement that the bridge would sing during exceptionally high winds from the west, as we saw yesterday. We are pleased to see the new railing is allowing wind to flow more smoothly across the bridge.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/0...

> All in all, “we have an incredibly safe and reliable water supply” in the United States, said David Jones, professor of history of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
You're confusing the (French, I think?) word "fiancée" with the English word "fiancee" derived from it; English uses the 26-character latin alphabet for words. Compare "resume" versus "résumé" or "sushi" versus (IIRC) "すし" or "the" versus "þe" (showing that basic syntax words are not exempt from this).
Evidence for hot superconductivity well above room temperature
Thank you!! If you wanna try out watch.ly I can set you up. You can build the chat bot using a UI now. And yes - I didn't really market watch.ly yet even though I paid thousands for that domain. I switched to FastComments as a fun tool and then people started paying for it... :)

I love to build fast software! It's so hard to get that to be a high priority in a day job at most companies (in my experience).
I gave up on selling on eBay years ago when I listed an iPad, and twice in a row the auction was won by a scammer using a stolen eBay/PayPal account.

My recollection of how the scam worked was that they messaged me after the sale to say the iPad was a gift and could they send it to some other address than the PayPal confirmed address, and also not include any receipt info in the package that could spoil it as a gift.

It looked like the classic drop shipping eBay scam where I’d find out from PayPal that a stolen card was used, the charges would be reversed, and I’d be out the iPad and the money.
“Security by obscurity”

Hey no knocks, just saying there’s a name for this tactic.
Those challenges are everywhere in data science/engineering. It's enormously expensive to do things shoddily in those domains and the resource constraints are very much bottlenecking what's practically achievable.
I think the main problem with apt is that the traditional way of using it is to depend on other libraries installed by apt, so if two pieces of software want two different versions of something that are not forward/backward compatible then you have issues. However, I don't see why they can't statically compile OR containerize and still use apt. Just have the .deb install an appimage to /usr/bin and create the necessary .desktop files. The .deb would then have almost zero dependencies. Problem solved.
Here's a video from the company that built the new handrail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-XCbsyRENI

From your article:
"The wind retrofit project is designed to make the Bridge more aerodynamic under high wind conditions and is necessary to ensure the safety and structural integrity of the Bridge for generations to come,” Cosulich-Schwartz said."

This statement doesn't agree with the video's rationale for updating the railings. I'm guessing the new suicide net increased the wind loading, so the handrail had to be modified to reduce its wind loading. Without the suicide net project, I doubt the handrails would be changed. But the suicide net project is contentious politically, so they cannot admit this.

The new handrail uses long, unsupported plates. The old handrail was far more rigid:

https://www.bontena.com/contents/2018/12/Interview-with-Rick...
Yes definitely. Succinctly, its converted intangible social norms into concrete numbers that people can compare and fret over.

Before, popularity could be described as a general sense of "people enjoy being around you". You could conceivably say that one person was more popular than another but that would be pretty subjective. Now it can be quantified directly in terms of number of followers or likes on a message.

I doubt people used to worry so much about whether they had 97 acquaintances who valued what they say vs having 102. Now those are very real worries for some people who regularly engage with social media and web forums.
CA levies a (not insignificant) fee even for Delaware LLCs that operate in California.
Brave has to pay salaries - I suppose this is better than selling user data. Chrome is subsidized by search and Firefox gets money from Google.

The revenue model for browsers is fucked up.
It’s just not always like this. If this is all you’ve seen, or all you believe current police do, then you aren’t seeing it all.
Back before security fatigue set in, I would filter the lists through my own sanity checks for this sort of thing (never found a single one amiss after years)
then point my clients at my vetted lists.
nope, there are plenty of power only usb-c to usb-c cables.

Even more fun, many of them don't properly list what power they can handle and fry your device or catch fire if you put to much through them!
My backyard backs in to a strip mall with an auto mechanic shop. We hear a high pitch sound some times of the day and when we step outside to inspect, we only hear a different sound from the shop behind - a typical machine running, but not necessarily unpleasant. Turns out the walls are able to mask the lower pitch sound somehow and let in only the unpleasant higher pitch sound to the inside of the house. I am not sure how to explain it to the shop owner, but we are just going to ignore it for now. I guess I need to look into insulation options :)
Where I am, we use axe-core as part of our automated integration testing. Any change that regresses on accessibility (i.e. new severe a11y issue etc) is blocked from submission in the same way that it would be blocked from submission by causing tests to fail.

I find this useful as it prevents "accessibility rot" where people think "Oh we'll sort out the aria stuff later".

But yeah I agree that a human test is best. I think of axe et al as an equivalent of a "static analysis" that can pick out the obvious mistakes, but wont
understand the dynamic nature of the application - it is after all great for flagging the "easy" problems, allowing the human tester to focus on the major a11y issues without ending up raising hundreds of bugs for every button and link and colour combination that should have been sorted out way before any human testing is involved.
I like the framework. The idea that desire is a universal part of the human condition is a good one. In thinking about the three desires you've listed – possession, deliverance, and revenge – I can't help but wonder where internal desires fit. The listed desires seem external in nature; that is, something outside of the hero's inner world. Where does something like the pursuit of meaning, the hope that you will be remembered, or the desire to feel loved, fit? Those desires seem equally, if not more powerful as drivers of the human condition.
Agree. Not sure what else needs to happen to encourage Chromium users to finally give Firefox a try.
Everything (recently) old is new again.
Expectations for what software should be able to do were quite a bit lower in the 80s too :)

I started learning to code as a kid in the 80s on 8-bit machines. Seemed like there was rapid progress in the availability of CPU power, RAM, etc., up until the early 2000s and then things seemed to... slow down.

Which is about the time everybody started to focus hard on horizontal scalability.
I used Opera from 5 to 12, then Firefox till v37, and it's been Pale Moon ever since. Check out the latest release notes. I know I'm not the only one that likes things such as,

>Removed more telemetry code

>Removed the in-browser speech recognition engine and API

>Removed support for the obsolete and unmaintained NVidia 3DVision stereoscopic interface.

Palemoon is Firefox if it were still Firefox instead of feature-for-feature chrome copy for watching encrypted netflix.
Why would they? It’s the perfect way to reduce property values in the area!
I moved to Fedora several years ago after getting fed up with Canonical. While it hasn't been entirely pain-free, I experience a lot less pain than I used to. Even OS upgrades alone, always work on Fedora. Modern Fedora is the most "just works" distro there is IMHO (but I'm still mad at Canonical, so am probably biasing my opinion with emotion).
Is anyone aware analyses of how this affects a company, their employees, their products? I find it very difficult to reason about value with subscription services, especially when the costs are even more divorced from labor than normal.
I have personal experience where a uniformed, armed police officer came to a situation and did nothing but offer their presence in the face of tragedy.

The situation did not need a gun—or the ability to confront violence. It needed someone brave and empathetic and this person did that and I’ll never forget it.
Again, as mentioned in my previous comment Becker's scientific work with The Body Electric documented numerous instances of cellular mitosis being accelerated and other ill effects from electromagnetic fields much less powerful than what we are holding up to our ears these days.

These 5G picocells are phased antenna arrays that can perform beamforming with pinpoint directed energy. And they are coupled with Software Defined Radios that can be remotely upgraded with firmware updates.

Hitler almost took over the world, and we have significantly more advanced technology available to us these days since World War II. Depending on the RF front end of these picocells, what's to stop some potential next world dictator from turning all of these picocells into a global active denial system to prevent riots and civil unrest - because provably 95Ghz is already being used for ADS - especially if the picocell output power can be controlled via firmware update?

So here's your question back to you: how much output power are these picocells actually capable of?

And with active beamforming capability, what's to stop a government from turning these picocells into highly directional ADS nodes to prevent riots and protests?

These things are popping up next to tunnels and public transit ingress/egress in NYC, and public officials are refusing to comment on what they are being used for other than "it's something to do with Homeland Security":

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/09/27/mysterious-metal-tow...

All of this SDR-enabled 5G picocell gear from all vendors need to go through extensive teardown analysis from the technical community, to determine what amplifier components are being used. China wouldn't think for two seconds about rolling out that type of capability in their country to prevent civil unrest, and having remotely-upgradable amplifiers on every light pole that provably can interact with human tissue doesn't sound like a fun future to me.
Rich people don’t get rich paying taxes.
I would refund, keep the address of the buyer and perhaps send a not so nice gift this Christmas
Personally, I might start by reading up on some background literature but ideally I'd move into a phase of building out an initial system as soon as possible.

It's only when you really try to build something that you uncover assumptions you made and aspects of the task that you don't truly understand. From there you can read further on a topic or try watching a lecture or two on the specific issue you encountered. Otherwise you may spend hours/days/months just passively learning without gaining fundamental understanding.

Eventually, you scrap everything from your first couple of attempts and actually put together a working solution.