skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A cache corruption bug? Of exactly this guy, and nobody else in that carousel, at exactly that time? At a company that has decades of experience of serving data from huge datasets without corruption?

There are really only two plausible explanations here.

The first is that some employee with KG access went rogue and blacked out Churchill because they're an idiot.

The second is that the process for selecting the image of such people is entirely automated - probably pulling from Wikipedia - and the mass orgy of USSR-style history erasure has affected one of the input data sources in such a way that the algorithm bailed out or didn't know what to do.

Given Danny Sullivan's apparently sincere answer that they don't currently know what happened, my guess is it's probably the latter. If it was an employee deleting it then an audit trail would probably have been left or said employee would have admitted to it and they'd know already.

But sorry, to believe that this is caused by anything other than BLM hard-left historical revisionism is very naive. That's not how computers work.
A question from the [dead]: will "undo close tab" ever come back? Iirc it was kind of promised originally, but never happened. Does anyone have any insigt?
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Yep. Inversion of control has always been the norm with whatever server/framework you choose.

If you have a /myroute handler defined in express or flask or even form.php or form.cgi in Apache,you never had to write the code to make user requests trigger your handler anyway even in the old days. That's the entire point of using a server instead of listening to a socket yourself

With serverless the same thing still happens with someone else managing the path from a request to a handler and back.

In fact, if you ever used a cpanel host with PHP like in the good old days (110mb.com anyone?), you already used 'serverless'. You just uploaded .php files to a directory and your website just 'magically' worked.
Not to mention having that 500k tied up for around 6-8+ years...
Corollary: time machines are a strict subset of teleporters.
Sure it seemed more capable, but it was also designed for propaganda. For example the version of Buran that actually flew sacrificed the spacecrafts engines to get more stuff into orbit. The shuttle on the other hand returned with them. If you want a space truck, the Buran failed a primary design goal.

Now NASA did end up spending a lot of time refurbishing those engines, but if they wanted more frequent launches they could have simply built more engines. The program dramatically misunderstood how much they would be flying resulting in vastly higher costs over time.

Which was the major design flaw of both systems. Dig into things more and Buran was simply an even worse fit for either program than the Shuttle ended up being.
Blink is the most common browser engine. Firefox has some nice developer tools but if you don't test in blink throughout the day then you're just asking for problems.
You're right. The problem are the number of people who have post modernism at the core of their thinking - the idea that there is no objective truth.
The new engine is still a WIP which you can download and play with on MDN. But I’ve read that parts of FF proper are now using rust. Situation is murky to me.
That has everything to do with backwards compatibility. You have one piece of software made for an old linux target that does not run anymore on modern Linux. Heck, most of the Feral games don't run on my Linux because they rely on shared libs that my system does not have, and those aren't even old!

And it's only Linux that has that problem in that dimension. Windows just kept everything around. Other systems don't evolve as much as Linux has, and they do not have the distribution differences that kill compatibility on Linux.

AppImage is great and solves that problem. It should be used more.
Do you know whether your retirement or pension fund hold shares of Hertz? Would you have cared 6months ago?
It didn't fail. People don't want others scraping to protect their businesses. And that's how we've ended up with highly obfuscated HTML. If it failed, it wouldn't work at all. HTML was designed to display documents, not for scraping purposes. You know what is designed to be scraped? An actual application programming interface.
It's not unimaginable to me that there will be no knowledge anyway, regardless of whether the URL is shown or not.
This analogy would work if Google was deliberately holding back new features on the web to favor its proprietary operating system but in fact the situation is pretty much the opposite.

I also don't understand why everyone is up with pitchforks at Google on this when Apple did the same thing to URLs a while ago. I guess engineers are just as susceptible to groupthink as anyone else.
Nice story, although something about the clean distinction of the third type of bubble seems imperfect to me.

The difference being that in the other two types of bubble there are still many people (not a majority) who are trading on the predicted behaviour of other traders (rather than a prediction about the future being the same or better).
In the benchmarks provided on Flow’s site webrender was still 5x slower, and about 2x faster than FF regular.
Interesting, can you give a bit more details what exactly his path was?
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Thank you for sharing! I'm one of the FastNetMon authors and I will be happy to answer any questions about it.
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and they never will - apple is not interested in vpX codecs. AV1 is different story.
I have a teacher friend named Mike Pence.

He tells me that it's impossible for students to snoop on him because he is "google-proofed."
Good intentions never had a role in decision making in hierarchical organizations, there is no known history of that. Plenty of the opposite, with subordinates only caring what their bosses think, giving up on moral principles they had, etc. Imagining good intentions is just bullshit, basically a way to avoid dissent, to trick or force obedience. Which seems to be exactly what are you trying to do here. Even if the post is wrong in details and uses terminology not the way you'd like, it's still way more right than this "good intentions" idea.
Please mention they were coworkers with a beef. Stop the race baiting.
Show HN: Is this headline fake or not?
We live in crazy times - but can you tell how crazy?

Hello HN,
A friend and I made this to show two things:
- Neural networks have become incredibly good at producing grammatically correct but completely nonsensical text
- There are so many nonsensical headlines nowadays, it's hard to distinguish fake from real

Have fun!

Happy for all feedback.
GitHub at https://github.com/TristanMenzinger/IsThisHeadlineFakeOrNot (frontend only).
Ask HN: What the are most undervalued companies you know?
Hello,

I am wondering what are the most undervalued companies you know currently and why? I can't personally name any of such company.

Best,
Wiktor
Some more data points on this one: https://www.google.com/search?q=sadhguru+cult
I'm also puzzled by the SJW non-sequitur.

That being said, let's not get into literal guilt-by-association accusations. If someone carries water for proto-fascists or otherwise has a negative worldview, just say that.

Being "adjacent" is often a good thing. A diplomat to a totalitarian country is voluntarily "tyrant adjacent" to pick an arbitrary example. Legitimate journalists (as opposed to propagandists) on the alt-right reporting beat would be likewise.
Honestly though. Every third party framework or component you use is going to have an opinion. Your only choice is if that opinion aligns with yours or not.
Ok, so it's fun and games, but how much money exactly is being thrown at that game?
> I also don't think it's really how we do everything

Good point, and I agree. It was probably a rather "generalized" statement, on my part. I really meant "clumped-together opaque modules."

Yeah, COM worked (sort of), but CORBA has always struggled, and that was probably the real methodology that expressed the concept.

What I was thinking, was the "dependencyshere" that pretty much describes software development, these days; often linked through communications networks (as opposed to binary APIs). A bit like the distributed nature that was a big part of CORBA, but without the common data link layer.

There's an entire generation of engineers that can create marvelous applications, but barely understand what's going on in the components they use (which is not necessarily a bad thing. I don't know what's going on inside my calculator).

BTW: Thanks for the excellent article.

For what it's worth, I use frameworks a lot. I have always believed in modular development, with modules being atomic, standalone entities with independent lifecycles.

Not all of these are "frameworks," per se. For example, my RVS_Spinner project, which implements a powerful "prize wheel spinner" in UIKit, is actually just a single source file, and not really worth importing as an opaque framework: https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_Spinner

Same with my persistent prefs project, which is just a single, 300-line file: https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_PersistentPrefs

Most of the code in these projects is testing code (I like testing. It's a good thing).

Modern package managers help that along.
Shkreli is a complete memelord. Absolutely him.
Ramana's experience with a near death incident reminds me of Wittgenstein enrolling in the army for the war so that he can have a near death experience himself
I actually wouldn't mind if the URL bar was replaced with a breadcrumb bar on some sites, like news and forums. Imagine something like

Example.com > Worldnews > 2020 > 06 > 14 > Big aquatic monster spotted outside of Tokyo

or

forum.example.com > Sport > Football > Spain > Real Madrid

It could then work like in Explorer in Windows 10, where you can press one of the breadcrumb separators and see a menu with siblings, or go straight to all news this month. It could use some manifest file in a standard format on the server for the directory information.

Of course, this should never replace the URL completely, you should always be able to get to it easily. But URLs aren't necessarily always the best solution for navigation. We tokenize code and apply different colors, mouse over pop-ups, and links, why should the URL bar be a long raw text string when it's really contains structured data?

This Google nonses of hiding everything except the domain is not a good solution IMO, it doesn't solve a problem and makes it harder to navigate, not easier.
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Mozilla donated to riseup.net some years ago, after they shunned Brendan Eich from his own creation. Riseup.net is a encrypted mail service for OSF agitprop groups.
Any plans to add support for math notation? (Latex, MathJax, ...)
Contracting on higher value shorter term projects had crossed my mind. Care to elaborate?
Any regret ?
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What kind of strategies do you use to detect false positives? What advice would you give to avoid them?
I'm not sure it was the mindset or just no real mechanism for making isolated components.
But sleep apnea doesn't wake you up enough to get out of bed and start eating like pulling all-nighters or insomnia do and going to sleep with a full belly won't prevent flesh/muscle collapsing that causes sleep apnea although I can see how the body burning energy to digest + endorphin from a good meal might help falling asleep faster.

> IF, paired with lots of exercise, was working for me before the current crisis.

You mean the pandemic/lockdown ?
Same here. I was actually hoping to see lots of outdated dreams, like "look what they thought would be cool, but turned out to be completely impractical".

Also, all such posts miss location. What good is a cool house, if the next supermarket is 50 miles away?
Sadly, yes I realize that.
The white:black :: good:evil dichotomy has been open to criticism since one group of people labeled themselves white and another group of people black. That was when the colors became politicized.
I stand by exactly what I said. Context is important and words in isolation mean nothing, and that paragraph was explicitly designed to protect the outcome of what he’s really calling for.

Consider another example. Tough on crime laws were not explicitly designed to incarcerate large number of POCs by the the letter. But the difference in how different communities are policed meant that POCs communities often ended up being targeted more anyways. Lawmakers who created such laws would say “ Its meant to target hardened drug criminals, just the bad apples” but in practice it doesn’t really matter.

In this case, the op ed explicitly paints an incredibly biased picture of the situation on the ground and uses that to justify a heavy handed response. There is absolutely no way for a militarized response to differentiate between peaceful and non peaceful responses and Cotton knows that. When the military is involved, it means one thing only: curfews, rigidly enforced. All protests shut down regardless of their nature. One line saying “ please not the peaceful protestors” means absolutely nothing.

> If we can't agree on things said in a single straight forward op ed, how are we (humanity) ever going to have any real conversation? Is this the Great Filter of Fermi's Paradox?

I’m not sure what that is so I can’t address that directly. It’s not a black and white argument as you seem to imply though. Context is extremely important and words in isolation mean absolutely nothing.
CVPR 2020 (starting today!) has a lot of papers on the topic for interested people.

Here is PiFuHD: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.00452
OK sure. If you remove one predicate and change it with something completely different, you can invalidate any assertion. gg
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You bring to mind memories of Sean “King” Kelly aggressively descending the Poggio, overcoming a 15 second deficit to win Milan Sanremo in 1992:

https://www.eurosport.com/cycling/re-cycle-when-sean-kelly-s...
Putting client projects on a platform that doesnt pay its fair share of taxes and acts monopolistic is not my idea of good advice. Kiss Bezos ass or we kick you off aws. No thanks.
Exciting development! ZBrush has just released a stripped-down free version of their app: ZBrush Core

https://zbrushcore.com/mini/

For any young person interested in digital clay, this is tops! ZBrush is the market leader in digital sculpting.
Under heading: "Four conclusions" and as part of conlusion "1. Froome did not win because his descent position was aerodynamically superior" it says: ". . . When you have a lead when you start descending while others are still climbing at lower speed, your lead only increases until the others start descending."

Your lead in meters would increase, but not necessarily in time difference?
More than a million people according to phone data:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-...

Out of a population of 10 million so "most" is incorrect however it is a surprisingly large number.
It's not actually a prefix. It's a subdomain, and there is no requirement for actually having it. It's just a convention that a lot of sites follow.
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> Why would anyone be offended by blacklist?

Because of its etymology and history [1] for starters:

n.

also black-list, black list, “list of persons who have incurred suspicion,” 1610s, from black (adj.), here indicative of disgrace, censure, punishment (attested from 1590s, in black book) + list (n.). Specifically of employers’ list of workers considered troublesome (usually for union activity) is from 1888. As a verb, from 1718. Related: Blacklisted; blacklisting. [32]

"It is notable that the first recorded use of the term occurs at the time of mass enslavement and forced deportation of Africans to work in European-held colonies in the Americas."

> Or maybe dark mode

Dark mode is not used in a negative way like "blacklist" or "blackballed". And it accurately describes exactly what happens. Unlike "blacklist" which is an inaccurate idiom that relies on "black" being used to mean "bad". So no, I doubt "dark mode" would offend anyone.

> Why would anyone be offended

You could start by learning about microagressions [2]. This one covers "blacklist" specifically. And was presented by a black man if that helps you with credibility.

> This is getting ridiculous

I agree that systemic racism has gone on for far too long. Even conservative four star US generals are starting to say we need big changes in society.

> What is even more funny is the fact that those changes are proposed by white guys without any complains from the black folks.

You are wrong. Just as one small counter-example the presentation I already cited that discusses "blacklist" was made by a black man. Anecdotal, but my black friends have sent me many resources recently about how to become a better anti-racist. Our diversity initiative at my current client is being lead by a black employee. This is coming from oppressed black people who have been very visibly protesting injustice for over two weeks now for the most recent injustice. And for decades actually for anyone who has been listening.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6148600/

[2] https://www.appic.org/Portals/0/2018%20Conference/APPIC%2020...
There is a qualitative difference between your examples and “blacklist”. Dark mode is about color. The color black is a color. Light mode is a color’s brightness. A widely used white background is a color. I don’t think any reasonable person objects to using terms about color to refer to colors. Black objects are black, red objects are red, etc.

But “blacklist” is entirely different. “Blacklist” uses a color term to describe the acceptability of something. It relates a value judgment to a color. I don’t know the history of the term, but I can easily see how it could be at least somewhat offensive.

None of this is to say that the term “blacklist” is problematic or should be discouraged, but your argument about it doesn’t hold water.
It feels like a long time ago people were talking of computing in context of educating and empowering users rather than accessing commercial services.
I pondered on the same subject recently as I was implementing the same algorithm (i.e. Mandelbrot set) on the CPU (scalar vs SIMD) and GPU compute using fixed-point and floating-point for comparisons (if interested: https://tayfunkayhan.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/mandelbrot-in-...).

It bothers me how little progress has been done on "shading" languages front compared to overall many-core computation models and capabilities over the years. And, that is despite the fact that shaders are very often where the most time is spent in modern workloads.

Compute with Vulkan is another story. It offers some nice abstractions, but it shows that it's mostly intended for async-compute/work-offloading for rendering, IMO. Too much fruction.
Ponzi only works when there are greater fools.
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Ultimately the end of any pyramid scheme is a large number of people losing money , often money they can't afford to lose.

It doesn't seem likely to be in the interests of most governments to actively encourage straight Ponzi schemes as when the people at the bottom of the pyramid lose their money, they may end up requiring state assistance, transferring the risk to taxpayers.
Oh come on. None of these are collecting user data in real-time and leading the user down engagement rabbit holes they never would have gone down otherwise.

I watched a couple of amateur WW2 history videos on YouTube and almost immediately started getting suggestions for some very questionable alt right kinda stuff.
not saying you are 100% wrong but there was a MASSIVE influx of robinhood buyers into Hertz as the stock crashed

https://robintrack.net/symbol/HTZ?symbol=HTZ
> I was wondering where the boundary is

The only boundary is time as it will stop when they are able to seize power. Because these purges are a means to an end - and that end is POWER.
Multiple A records is fine on root domain, but root can't use CNAME, which is used by some people to implement their dns load balancing (I use cname so I forgot that you can still do it using A records). By using root domain instead of www, your options for load balancing is diminished.

Edit: another common use case is hosting your static website on S3 or github pages. Typically it's done by adding a cname entry to s3 or github.io (been a while so hopefully I remember it right). You can't do this on root, unless you're using another server as reverse proxy (e.g. cloudflare's cname flattening service). Again, it's benefits cloud vendors (cloudflare got more potential customers by offering this service for free) but ultimately hurt people that want to host their small websites.
I'm pretty sure it's the raises people tend to get jumping companies compared to what they get if they stay at a company.
I'm not a Mac fan, and I'll just say for the record that bad software (including shoddy websites) can bring any computer to a temperature that a silly fan spins up.

Fans spinning up isn't a sign of bad hardware, it's a sign of a cooling system doing what it's supposed to do.