skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was 17 I worked [production] in a sofa factory that made huge profit. They hired every highly specialized consultant available. I asked one of the consultants and some office folk for an explanation (I was paid 3 guilders or so per hours ($1.5)) To my surprise both the consultant and the office folk thought it was a fascinating question and explained elaborately how [to them] it was worth every penny to have written proof for every business process. Investors could point at anything and get a pile of reports explaining exactly why the chosen method was the right one.

(When I left they continued to pay me for months. It struck me just now that cheap employees probably looked great on paper.)
That's why you have management to listen, decide direction and argue about it. Seems like engineering management wasn't doing it's job so someone hired a Data Scientist outside their hierarchy to actually get things done.
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> DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials reduces the CPU time of the article page from 31s to just 1.6s. All other tested extensions also bring CPU time down to at most 10s.

It doesn't even slow down the pages, the opposite is true here.
The article doesn't say that all black people aren't in STEM. So your statement is completely wrong. Additionally drug bans are often completely arbitrary and therefore they can carefully chosen to impact certain races more than others. Cigarettes are equally popular among all ethnics but something like cannabis might be especially popular in black communities. So cannabis gets banned but cigarettes can stay. The public doesn't care because they think junkies are bad people and should go to jail even if going to jail doesn't actually result in decreased drug usage.
The same author also made a "Descent of DNS RFCs", already posted here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16722727) but apparently gone unnoticed
Funny to see sales/marketing lingo in the title of a scientific article, but with an unexpected meaning.
Way back when I worked at a bank we stored the TMK for the ATM's in the clear in Cobol source ... needless to say after an audit finding from Visa we soon got a HSM.
I also find it shocking that internment policies didn't fix all long term racial issues.
Isn't housing in the major EU cities (London / Paris / Berlin ) all very expensive and comparable to SF / NY in terms of multiples of average programmer salary? The healthcare is definitely a big advantage though.
TIL Flash still exists on other platforms.

Flash was dropped around 10 years ago for Linux, and never existed on iOS.

I'd no idea it was still a thing on other platforms.

I do feel bad in that we've lost the ability to run lots of games, but most of them were to trivial to download/redistribute anyway, regrettably. Their fate was kinda already sealed.
This is not answering the question beyond "it would require some effort to do so". It is not unusual to have a different binary published, than what's in a public repo.

The following points you go on about are mostly irrelevant.
Did anyone here work on implementing Bing web search into the Windows 10 start menu?

I'm curious to know the decisions that led to an operating system file search prompt ignoring exact file, directory and app names in favor of trying (and generally still failing) to show irrelevant web results.
Not at all surprising that the worst two extensions by a long way are both from Avira.

Yesterday I opened Chrome and received a warning that the Avira extension had been installed.

I certainly did not install it willingly. I'm pretty sure I didn't install any other software that sneakily bundled it recently, either - I mean, I'm 99.9% sure that I haven't installed _any_ software in the past week. So how why did it suddenly show up? I reported it to Chrome from the web extensions store. Highly unlikely that they'll do anything about it though.
As a Canadian looking at how the UK government is willing to work with smaller, domestic firms for government services and how much is being spent to help with the startup ecosystem, it's no wonder Canada doesn't really have the same ecosystem. For Canadian businesses to be successful, they generally have to look elsewhere. Speaking to a Canadian AI startup, their business comes from Europe.
so what you're saying is...

you either swallow the CRUD app red pill,
or you live long enough to become the "AI a la carte" manager
Well, then don't use the app from the app store and compile it yourself ...
For a moment I thought this is about some combination of Apache Avro and Apache Arrow for data serialization purposes.
I knew someone would be here clutching pearls over this. Thanks for making sure I wasn't disappointed.
https://github.com/DP-3T/documents

Here is the protocol it is based on.
Well, no. SMR is not fine. What this debacle showed, very clearly, is that SMR collapses under some workloads. RAID rebuilds failed. Some took a week, but some just failed.

Will my hard drive's workload ever resemble that of a NAS RAID rebuild? Or will there be another workload which breaks SMR drives?

Key here is that workloads change, and weird issues like this one lead to compounding failures in emergencies. A system might have an SMR-friendly workload during it's normal operations, but during a cyberattack? When debugging an outage? It's impossible to predict what I'll be doing when the unexpected comes up.

Above all else, I want my storage medium to be reliable and to not have issues like this. It's clear SMR drives aren't there yet.

Yes, if there was a sufficiently advanced translation layer, or the right abstractions to the OS, SMR might be fine. But the present state-of-the-art of SMR technology is very obviously unsuitable for any application where you care about your data.

I'll mention early SSDs were in a similar state many years ago, with wear leveling algorithms. But there was a difference in the level of transparency there.
I think the article points out a useful fallacy: that polyphasic sleep means you can get away with less sleep. We should probably move away from trying to get less sleep, and move toward getting better sleep. This may reduce our waking hours, but would make those hours more productive. Having 18 hours a day available isn't much help if you're a tired confused angry mess.

> Polyphasic sleep purportedly had famous practitioners such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Napoleon, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Edison, but there is scant evidence to prove such claims. Buckminster Fuller appears to be one of the first documented polyphasic sleepers

Roger Ekirch did some work around historical accounts of sleep and found "the second sleep" referred to biphasic sleep, and that this was common and well known.

https://www.history.vt.edu/Ekirch/sleepcommentary.html

And some reporting of his work:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783

https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-used-to-sleep-in-two-shi...
Why? For which cities?

I live in the historic city center of a large European city and own a car. It's very comfortable, safe (especially during pandemics) and useful (for transporting things) and it's almost essential for me because I pick up the kids from their mother almost every weekend and that's a 40 Km drive one way, which takes about 3 times as long with public transport (and would force me to bring them back earlier, make it a real hassle to visit any sort of outdoor activity with them etc.).

I have yet to see anyone argue their condescending views about owning cars in cities with actual arguments, all I typically get is veiled hate for car owners from young, childless egoists who want more space for themselves. But let's hear why you think it's dumb!
"Actually, I didn't pay Mubashar as he is my friend. He did all for free and he always does project stuff with people."

Yikes
I‘ve seen larger amounts spent on startups with no significant userbase nor exceptionally well made products.
I don't know why people immediately assume that when I say "buy a house" I mean "buy a house in the middle of London/Berlin/Paris". Can your average SF programmer afford to buy a house in the middle of SF?

I know people working for instance in Stuttgart - buying a house in the smaller towns nearby is not an issue at all according to them. I personally live in the UK and sure, London prices are insane - but we don't live in London. Me and my wife bought a house after saving just for a few months[0], the prices are very achievable for an average programmer.

[0]mortgaged, obviously. But since the prices are lower it was "easy" to save for a deposit and get a mortgage. We're literally paying £600/month on a mortgage for a 3-bed house with a large garden and double driveway. That's an almost insignificant part of my salary.
They measure cloud bases directly, with a laser-based sensor.
Interestingly the cessation of Arrow development presented a huge opportunity for the Apollo program which actively recruited these highly trained engineers for the moon landings (this is discussed in detail in Charles Murray's fascinating history of the Apollo program).
In a more perfect world, browsers would require websites to ask permission before allowing access to the copy/paste buffer.
>But all these anecdotes counteract what Wikipedia says, which is that Coq was named for one of its authors, Thierry Coquand, and for his "calculus of constructions" (CoC).

It being named after Coquand is unsourced and even states something that is outright wrong (Coquand is not Coq's "principal author", the best fit would be Huet and Christine Paulin, but even then it was developed by a team, they just lead it. Source: Coq's history page).
Berlin is a lot cheaper than any of Australian cities, from what I saw. There are a lot more expensive cities in Europe though, like even Münich if you want a German example.
When you live next to a giant, you do what the giant says.
Check out Blame! if you haven't already.
If you're salary in Canada, you're probably paying that 20% (at least) in taxes.
Hahaha, I literally just addressed exactly this point in my other comment - sure, London is insanely expensive, as is SF. There is more to any of these countries outside of the capitals, just like there is more to US outside of SF.
well then Sword of the Stranger (Stranger: Mukô hadan) must have a honorary mention too for those kickass main characters
makes sense. thanks.

models I have used seem to have their usefulness greatly outweighed by performance demands.

scaling and economics are another question entirely.

Perhaps we were spoiled with democratized web tech and it's wishful thinking to want everything to be that.
This is clearly false considering the crimes Russia and China are committing against their own people and against the world at large. And for USA's war adventures, if anything it uses one of the most restrained (and confused) deployment of force against its enemies - trying to minimize civilian casualties even at a cost of american lives stands in stark contradiction to Russian deployment of force in chechnya and chinese ethnic cleansing war against the uighers. Has America made mistakes? Yes, ofcourse. But we tend to learn from them and try to take corrective actions (like closing gitmo and even withdrawing from conflict zones once it becomes clear that the well intentioned intervention has back fired. Almost universally though, upon such a departure, chaos prevails. In fact, even when we don't intervene, chaos prevails - examples include china's economic games in africa, russian war games in syria and the ethnic cleansing of muslims in burma. I believe (and you can believe what you want), that outside of the iraqi and afghan adventures, American forces are usually deployed for morally justifiable reasons and even the most heinous of atrocities committed as part of such deployments pale in comparison to historic and contemporary use of force by any dominant or super power. And we continue to learn from our mistakes.
I do not think "pouring jet fuel on something", meaning to make it go faster, is a legitimate English idiom.
I don't think most small countries are as pressured towards an arms race, compared to Israel! Doesn't detract from their achievement, of course.
Will this app work without permanent Internet connection? (Will it buffer its data until one has working connection again and then upload data?)
Upwork is giving $1M to businesses that combat the effects of Covid-19
A grandmaster who got Twitch hooked on chess
How to know if you're ready to switch from Mac to Linux
use a free trial of an asr api?
> In a move which shocked Canada, the cutting up of the Arrow prototypes took place in front of the silent factory. The moment was captured in a grainy black-and-white photograph which continues to haunt Canada.

Is it just me or was this photo not included in the article? I tried a quick search but didn't see anything obviously it, either.
> It was already a top visited site when its development team consisted of a single person, Brion Vibber. There have been very little significant development since then […].

The second member of the development team was hired in 2006 [0].

In these ~14 years, quite a few things happened.

Three projects joined the Wikimedia galaxy: Wikiversity in 2006, Wikivoyage adopted in 2012, and frickin’ Wikidata [1] in 2012 − which has deeply reshaped many aspects of the other projects, particularly Wikipedias and Commons.

On the multimedia side of things, we got InstantCommons in 2008 [3], thumbnailing infrastructure changes in 2013, various file format support (TIFF in 2010, FLAC and WAV in 2013, WebM, 3D formats in 2018 [4]) new upload wizard in 2011 [5]. The Graph extension [6] and Wikimedia Maps [7] in 2015. Structured Data on Commons in 2019 [8]. New default skin (Vector) in 2010 [9]. Unified login in 2008 [10]. 2013 brought OAuth [11], Echo notifications [12], Lua scripting [13], VisualEditor [14]. iOS and Android apps [15]. The Wikimedia Cloud Services starting 2012 [2].

(And in terms of size: article count went from ~5M to ~50M [16] ; Commons went from 1M files to 50M files [17])

And that’s just what I’m putting together in a few minutes (Besides my own memory, I’m indebted to [18], a curated timeline up until 2013).

Of course, these may or may not justify the staff size in your book ; but I’d say discounting all of that (and the rest) as “very little significant development” is a bit pushing it. :-)

(And fairly sure that “you’d probably notice” if Wikipedia was still using good’old Monobook skin ;-þ).

[0] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Additional_...
[1] https://www.wikidata.org/
[2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/InstantCommons
[4] https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2018/02/20/three-dimens...
[5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload_Wizard
[6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph
[7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps
[8] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
[9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vector
[10] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Unified_login
[11] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:OAuth
[12] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Echo_(Notifications)
[13] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lua
[14] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor
[15] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps
[16] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias/Table
[17] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Milestones
[18] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gpaumier/wikipedia-infogra...
Hey.com Invites on eBay (Just Like Gmail in 2005)
I saw it in a conference talk, looking...

edit: https://medium.com/@calebmer, https://github.com/calebmer, https://calebmer.com/

I misspoke, not a founder of the company but an engineering hire there after he left Facebook, and the creator of PostGraphile. The gist of what I was getting at is there is a lot of activity swirling around putting business logic back on databases, it seems.

We might look back at these days as the high water mark of "peak javascript."
Why do you assume that the hordes of Canadians who migate to the US for work are stupid? There are about three times as many Canadians living in the US than Americans living in Canada. The US has about nine times as many people as Canada, so a Canadian is about 27 times more likely to move to the US than an American is to move to Canada. Are they all unable to calculate correctly whether doing so benefits them?
It uses this under the hood https://www.macrumors.com/guide/exposure-notification/ So I believe it does work without internet connection
I'm curious, how do Nintendo justify such an anti-consumer protection? It seems like it only really has upside for them.
> why should they attempt to divert their efforts to a new lower-margin car?

why not?
> Does your government have much of an open source culture?

I'd say no, but it's a bit surprising, because it does have a pretty decent open data culture. The weather [1] and mapping [2] data services are world-class, for example.

[1] https://hjelp.yr.no/hc/en-us/articles/360009342833-XML-weath...

[2] https://kartverket.no/en/data/Open-and-Free-geospatial-data-...
All the tests were done on an n2-standard-2 gcp instance... That doesn't have a GPU. Rendering a webpage without a GPU uses a lot of different codepaths and isn't awfully representative of performance with a GPU.
Disclosure: Throwaway as I am a former employee. No inside knowledge in this case.

> This guy deserves what was coming to him,

I agree.

And on the scale of users FB has, he is most assuredly not the only one like him on Facebook.

I wonder how many there are that the company has no idea about, that perhaps are in countries that are not so well connected that they will get a dedicated FB employee to look into, who frankly FB does not and will not give a shit about.

I am therefore having some trouble believing they did this entirely in good faith. How many others are there that they will do absolutely nothing about?
As in games I hope we one day come up with an Energy bar.

With teams or family it feels like a question of regenerating Energy in Others whose tanks are drained or not that large in the first place.
If you use Visual Studio, typing the word (with quotes) “nguid” in the code IDE generates one for you.
I thought about it but it’s a bit too involved for me. I prefer to make soda bread, flat bread or traditional loaf. I’m not cheffy at all btw, just corona bordem
There are still fools around that believe in evolutionism? In 2020? Really?

If 6000 years is enough to explain everything (and it is enough), why desperately reaching out for "billions" of years, a shear infinite amount of time, escaping any imagination...

Come on, use your brain, it's 2020!
Building a Minimum Viable Laptop Sticker Business
While this is true, I was essentially saying that you don't have to remain on an older firmware as long as you're careful about how you move around between versions. I'm on 10.0 but I could go back to 3.1.0 anytime, and then move somewhere in between those versions if we got a coldboot exploit for example (which according to notable members of the Switch homebrew community is not likely).
What is the risk exactly?

Even if the site knew for certain that you had used one of the passwords, they would have no idea where you used the password, and they wouldn't know your username or other credentials.

They might not even have any way of accessing the system you're putting the password into.

I'm sure a lot of people will use these sorts of sites to generate a whole bunch of passwords, and not even use any of them.
On the other hand, I'd wager that the set of words that you can recognize is vastly larger than the set of words that you're likely to come up with on the spot. Hence, using a generator would still result in higher entropy then trying to come up with a password yourself.

Random numbers picked by humans are notoriously biased. I'm guessing it's even worse when you ask them to come up with random words.
No disrespect, but houses in Germany are a lot more expensive than in the UK. If you own a 3 bedroom house and two driveways in Germany you're basically a millionaire.

And by "nice house" I didn't mean a house in the center of a major city but a house in the suburbs in a quiet, green area with good schools.
Which is in turn, derivated from .NETs 'Guid.NewGuid()'
> that braille whitespace is not classified [correctly]

I did! That was the first thing I said.

> > characters that render as whitespace but aren't, for example U+2800 (BRAILLE PATTERN BLANK).

> in actual braille, that is a whitespace character
QI doesn't contradict that law - it merely transfers liability from the individual to the state, which CAN still be sued. ...as we've seen many people sue police departments (rather than specific cops) for Civil Rights violations.

Also, QI is also in various State statutes of Tort law that protects workers from litigation when acting as employees of any corporation.
Yeah agreed, it's quite an odd use of language.
and it's called 'url' in the code snippet but the article called it a 'website'. it's not all that hard to figure out what they are referring to.
I remember our high school history teacher taking us to an aviation museum in Toronto. They had a section of the plane out on display and it was a beautiful piece of work.

But I'll never forget the way the tour guide described the story of the arrow and the hurt in his voice as he recanted the decision to scrap the plane.

For that generation of Canadian aviation geeks, it was truly a gut punch.
I am doubtful of some of the numbers here... I mean I know browsing the web without an ad blocker is bad, but it isn't 'takes 35 seconds to load an article on gigabit ethernet' bad....
Completely OT and just out of curiosity: Is there a point to posting the source as a redirect via Google? Or is it simply the link copied from the search results page?
What I find far more unbelievable is that countries – at least European countries that through the EU have a common legal framework – did not get together and share the bill for the development of a common open source app. Perhaps each country would have to do some minor local customization, but surely the vast majority of the code could be shared?

I frequently find myself pondering this whenever my government announces yet another contract for (the admittedly decent) IT services for interacting with state entities.
More like you get paid 1.5-3x more in the US and most things are cheaper, except for housing in SF. Unfortunately, it's not close to parity. Maybe for some jobs.

There are also career issues - there are just very, very few places in Canada where you can go on to earn 'mid/late career big bucks' in tech.
Something that I have found when using graphical programming (by connecting nodes) (My experience with this is with Houdini for VFX) is that some developers do take to it and are comfortable either wayq (hence able to share setups with less-technical peers) but others will immediately swap to the (usually available) write-code context, and it's very hard to fault them for it.
It's an interesting thing to expect developers to be able to cope with! Maybe even more of an ask than learning a new language?
Alas this doesn't answer my question in any way.
Complete Pharo video course in English
How much would you budget for this?

I am actually curious, because on the other hand you would have all the constraints like development in less than 3 months, need for the app to be waterproof in a legal sense (data protection), additional backend development and also development for both iOS and Android.
Huh, I had no idea, thanks.

I guess that goes some way to explaining the announcement last year that Sweden might join UK/Italy to develop a 'sixth Generation' fighter, the so-called 'Tempest'.

Not knowing any better, I simply assumed it was Brexit-related and we in the UK expected to burn bridges with our French and German industrial partners.