skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you are saying that some people choose to be gay when they are younger and then let it become so much a part of themselves that they can not change it later in life

I was ten or eleven when I first noticed that I was attracted to my male friends. I had no idea what "gay" was, but I knew that I didn't want to be it and I hid it. I felt so much shame over my attraction that I dated women, tried to force myself to be "normal", and was generally in denial for basically the next decade. I was in my twenties when I finally started to be OK with who I am.

I am also not stereotypically gay and if you met me, you'd probably never guess that I have a boyfriend. Most of the gay guys I know are like me in that regard. The reason people still associate gay people with stereotypes is that when you have been taught that gay people look and act a certain way, you'll never register that people like me are gay.

My point is that I never built an identity around my big secret. I never made a choice and then wanted to back out of it. I just started to be attracted to men instead of women and I was taught to hate myself for it. This is something that has been echoed to me by effectively all of my friends.
what about human augmented ai? that is what successful ai companies use
I'm not sure I'd be happy pedaling all that mass of a boat/camper/bike/stuff up hill even with a bunch of granny gears. It's hard enough getting myself up hill.
>Entanglement-based secure quantum cryptography over 1,120 kilometres

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2401-y
Ask HN: How does creating bots on consoles work?
A friend was recently complaining about a botting problem in the Xbox version of Elder Scrolls Online [0]. Trying to Google information on approximately how this is done for Xbox and PlayStation turns up, surprisingly, almost nothing.

On PC, you have tools like MMOViper [1] and ISBoxer [2].
For console...all I could really find is this blog post on intercepting PS4 remote play and simulating controller inputs [3].

I imagine console hackers are remiss to give up their secrets, for fear of quick patching, but I'm just interested in the basic concept of console modding/botting/scripting.

[0]: https://youtu.be/SOYWLQdl6Fw

[1]: http://www.mmoviper.com

[2]: https://isboxer.com

[3]: http://blog.komefai.com/2017/08/15/Creating-a-PS4-bot-in-C-Part-1/
I'm a minority and have experienced racism in the past. I still think this is a silly gesture, devoid of any real value.
i've been pretty happy with foxit mobile pdf on android. on linux evince seems to do just about everything i want.
The article says they've been building these at the Fremont factory since January.
Well, to be honest, it sounds like you are more interested in you than us or our customers, as that is where your language is focused.

Besides that, understanding my customers, their needs and goals, and doing whatever it takes to make them most successful (which can mean telling them you will not sell them your product). These would be deep concerns of mine.

It just sounds like you don't care what you sell or who you sell it to
Edge browser.
I'm not sure why you'd refer to this as an EV when the manufacturer doesn't.

As far as I'm concerned it's not an EV unless I can plug it into a solar panel and charge it.
1960s technology did a great job managing the complete Apollo supply chain, which was about the same order of scale as the Chilean economy of the time.
I believe that giving final say to computers is the only way to ensure survival of humans on large timescales (tens to hundreds of thousands of years).

Since we've built up large storage of nuclear weapons, the clock is ticking. Even if the chance of one crazy guy coming to power in one of the governments that can nuke the planet is 0.01% per year, after a few thousand years it will approach dangerous levels...

And I'm not just talking about nukes, but about other potentially mankind ending threats like superviruses, hauling large asteroids onto earth, etc. The more technology we discover, the more methods to end each other's existence. Also, as technological progress continues, so does the spread of these technologies over the world. Smaller and smaller groups get access to them and with the larger number of groups, the likelihood that one of them wants to end all life on earth increases.

Preventing us from inventing these things would require halting and reversing progress in most scientific domains, a pretty sad idea. You can't have nuclear reactors without the danger that someone uses the knowledge of the people who built it to build nukes (I know the two are not the same but so often you hear countries claiming their nuclear program is civilian while in reality it isn't). You can't build rockets without the danger that they might be converted into ICBMs. You can't do advanced biology without understanding infection well enough to know which changes might make an infectious agent more easy to spread, more deadly, etc. You can't do asteroid mining without giving the mining company the power to misdirect the asteroid from an assigned target area to inhabited areas.

So one should rather manage the existence of these technologies instead. No organization ran by humans can reduce the chance of one of these fermi filters from going off well enough to stop them being a threat over extremely long time scales. Only computers can achieve that. I imagine building a computer that is tasked to prevent humans from intentionally destroying large subpopulations of their own. One would have to give it absolute power so that it can ensure this, but one should instruct it to otherwise let humans figure out their governance on their own.

Structures where humans are involved are simply too fragile over the long term.
For today was scheduled first migration of chunk of Sprint users to TMobile.
Probably something got "misconfigured" at mobile core that causes failures.
Developers decided that catering to text editor users was the only way forward, which killed most prospects of good authoring tools.
Don't a large portion of IT projects fail?
You don't see a lot of purple web sites. Worth visiting just for that experience.
I bought the EV3 when it was launched. I found it relatively complex even for adults. When I say complex I mean that you need to spend days or months to try yourbown designs. This is not a Lego where you just fit the pieces, even wheb the pieces (e.g. gear) fit together there are details you jeed to deal to have firm mechanics.
Not a mathematician. Used Sage for engineering purposes.

But I think one example would be: you're investigating something and get a large linear system, a polynomial, etc. Sage can solve equations with symbols. It saves a lot of manual labor. Various expressions can be manipulated, simplified, etc. It can readily verify equality of huge expressions (which can be error prone by hand), and so on. More specific fields have more specific tools that could be used to assist, so it would depend on the field I guess.

See here:

https://ask.sagemath.org/question/24866/how-to-simplify-with...

Edit: I also think it should be fairly common to need to perform an actual numerical calculation in mathematical work? I think it's quite better than a simple calculator for that too, since it gives exact e.g. rational results, and approximations would be unfit for a proof (unless extensive precautions are made).

I remember I got an expression for an eigenvalue of a matrix (as a function of some parameters) that would be very laborious to get by hand.
Yes, exactly; "Dz" and "ll" (and "fi" at U+FB01) are single characters to exactly the same extent as "th" is, ie not.
Record DDoS Attack Hits AWS: 2.3 Tbps Assault Lasted Days
Regarding your second link, I cannot comment on the linked item as it has been archived by HN but as an additional reference for others and possibly a fun read for you: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754596

I like your TerminalCapabilities project.
Messenger? Bloomberg? MSN? BlackBerry? ICQ?
This is great feedback - thank you! Looks like the links to the sample workouts are missing. Here's one https://www.workoutdaily.io/vanessa. It sounds like we need to also provide links on the signup flow soon after we ask for an email. This could explain why so many people are dropping out! Right now the workouts are intended for people between the ages of 20-60 and in good health. Soon we would like to make it so the user can customize based on health condition and age group. We'd love to know more about how you'd like to customize and what you're looking for.
Ouch!

That seems both tempting, because the buts are right there, unused.

...and a bad idea, because at that time people had to know the address space was going to expand.
> Everyone already hated and was avoiding flash at that point.

Which point do you mean? 2007 or 2010? Flash was more popular than it had ever been when the iPhone was released, and the iPhone had been without Flash for three years when Jobs wrote his letter.

Apple might not have aimed the gun, but they pulled the trigger.
Netlify/Vercel for static site hosting, intercom for chat, SendGrid for mail sending, Ably for pub/sub real-time messaging (yes I’m from ably.com!), paddle for subscriptions as opposed to stripe...
If you like keyboard centred applications I can't recommend zathura enough, visually it's very minimal with no buttons, definitely not everyone's style.

It supports vim like marks, and powerful movements to manage a lot of pages in a reasonably sane way. My favourite feature is it maintains a jump list so pressing ctrl-o after following a link takes you back to the link.

https://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/
In terms of engineering, I can't see how steering this beam would be remotely viable: it appears you've got to line up the long axes of the 1000 km circumference muon ring to point exactly in the direction of the weapon to be targeted. So to have it steerable at all it appears necessary to make it space-based. Having done that, it seems the energy, reaction mass and and time required to steer the thing would be pretty crazy.

From a basic physics viewpoint this seems surprisingly within grasp though in terms of energy scales. Greatly entertaining!
Around town, for sure, but on a road trip with the fam I just set turn on autopilot at 70 and leave it. My wife & kids are not nearly as appreciative of the performance as I am :).

But, even at mild temperatures cruising at steady speed on mostly level terrain, I generally see 325 Wh/mi. If I cruise at 75, it's 350 Wh/mi. The rated range can only be achieved by hitting about 250 Wh/mi.
another view:

https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1272678168638500864
You work in a fortune 100 company, welcome to bureaucracy.

Those middle managers do not give a shit because they are middle management! Big companies have tons of people like who's only motivation is to simply not get fired (this is one point the movie Office Space nailed by the way.)

A fish rots from the head. If your executive leadership is not obsessed with its customers, nobody else will be. And you guys will continue to be rudderless which is demoralizing.

Big, fat, companies get lazy and that sucks for a guy who wants to make a difference. Go work somewhere that encourages logical (black/white) thinking and values engineers who want to turn customers into raging fans.

Or just work each day enough to not get fired, and build your own product on the side.
In order:
1. Print
2. Desktop monitor
3. e-ink reader

No other options work for me.
Don’t Design for Mobile
You can turn that around just as easily. As an Asian, I’m always a bit unsettled by the degree to which liberals are willing to absolutely set the social fabric on fire to accommodate individuals. Like, a school in small town Iowa where everyone is Christian can’t use their public institutions that they pay for to perform one of the most fundamental functions of human societies: socializing children in the community’s religion. I see why it’s that way through the view of western individualism, but I can’t say your average person in Bangladesh would see that as rooted in a consideration for the “larger social context.”
The projects you've mentioned are attempts to address stream processing needs with a SQL-like language. That is fundamentally different from providing incremental view maintenance of actual SQL using streaming techniques (what Materialize does).

If you want to maintain the results of a SQL query with a correlated subquery, StreamSQL in Aurora did not do that (full query decorrelation is relatively recent, afaiu). I have no idea what TIBCO's current implementation does.

If you want to maintain the results of a SQL query containing a WITH RECURSIVE fragment, you can do this in differential dataflow today (and in time, Materialize). I'm pretty sure you have no chance of doing this in StreamSQL or CCL or CQL or BEAM or ...

The important difference is that lots of people do actually want to maintain their SQL queries, and are not satisfied with "SQL inspired" languages that are insert-only (Aurora), or require windows on joins, or only cover the easy cases.
> Any time someone replaces their Flask web app with a go or rust version, qed

Wait... are you suggesting that replacing a flask web app with a go or rust version is in support of or against second system syndrome? That sounds like a textbook example to me - I've seen so many second versions get built mainly for the sake of a new technology that miss a lot of the original requirements that the first version solved just fine.
Foxit or ReadEra
Government range and emissions tests can be gamed. As VW, and Tesla.
Wouldn't you still have to have surface rights because you need an entrance to the bunker? The headline seems quite misleading then, a guy named Craig will only have control over the mineral rights of the land. Can oil companies drill without also having surface rights? Generally they need to build a structure to collect the oil.
I didn't realise Hutter was on leave from ANU at DeepMind.
either way, it is very suspicious
I wouldn't be surprised by a ~10% loss in range, which could be enough to make the EPA numbers look bogus to some drivers.

Presumably there's also a subjective element, like if the driver tends to tailgate and brake late, which isn't exactly uncommon. You're not recovering any energy put into heating the brake rotors.

There are also plenty of locales where you're repeatedly braking heavily for hairpin turns like winding roads on the side of a mountain. Teslas aren't exactly light vehicles...
Looking forward to the CyberTruck! Hopefully they'll be able to meet their announced specifications.
Unfortunately I may not have enough garage space, and I'm torn over which vehicle to get rid of. Definitely not my new AMG.
I haven't used it in a while, but I remember having good experiences with Sumatra.

https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/
I actually agree it isn't that useful. At least for me. My attitude is that high quality sources are worth more than low quality ones.
Man do I love Hackernews.

Everyone is pro-innovation, pro-future, pro-forward thinking until literally anything new happens, in which case everyone shows up with a "well, ackshually", to tell you why the new idea is dumb.

It's amazing to me that Tesla continues to increase State Of The Art range and EV efficiency, at scale, for cars that already smoke the competition. I hope their fervor to improve the technology never stops, and I'm glad they're dragging the industry, kicking and screaming, into the future.
The reason I suggested not to use that script was to prevent people from becoming victims of scapegoating and crucifixion, the same way I would suggest a North Korean dissident use Tor Browser instead of Microsoft Edge.

I am probably not quitting Github just because it's convenient and I'm forced to use it often. But I think it's stupid to pressure someone to be a user of some corporation's proprietary SaaS product or else they're evil and bad. Give me a break. For example, I bought Pepsi today--should I be attacked because I'm not drinking Coca-Cola even though the CEO of Coca-Cola endorsed $CONSENSUS_WORLDVIEW.

We wouldn't even be having this discussion if the majority of individuals and software companies hosted their own git servers and web clients. If I were using the GPLv2-licensed git and self-hosting my own FOSS web client for git, I could change the default branch name to "main" without having to beg some corporation because I could edit and run the code.
On the other side you could have this pretty good AI, which can be made amazing just by adding a human step to it.
Major ddos attack
If you look at the range of the vehicles on the /trips page, the Long Range plus version (~400 miles) has not been included.

Even though it doesn’t matter now for your personal needs, it’s likely the newest Model S Long Range Plus could meet your 295 mile “one way without a charge” commute requirement, with a comfortable margin for unexpected or excess consumption.
I use Polar Bookshelf (getpolarized.io). It has nice, exportable, annotations as well as incremental reading and spaced repetition (via Anki) support. It's still a bit rough around the edges, but it has a very active pace of development and is open source.

It's not perfect yet, but it's the closest thing I've seen that has a chance of getting there.
Six former eBay employees charged with cyberstalking Massachusetts couple
I actually live in a condo complex with 300 units and I get by. I just charge at the local library for free like once a week or at work.
I think the hyper politicization of just about everything definitely contributes to polarization, and particularly the “cancel culture” approach to politicization is a blunt instrument that seems very likely to push people to take sides against each other, and see differing beliefs more as opponents that must be defeated rather than neighbors with different priorities.
I often like to know how long a page is when I'm not scrolling too.
6 minutes should be enough: https://abetterrouteplanner.com/?plan_uuid=74209e16-8452-461...

For a 4h30 trip, that seems reasonable don't you think?
The story would probably make little sense to most HN readers, since it's very old and what was very non-obvious back then, became very obvious 5 years later.

Around 1994/95 client/server was unassailable in board rooms (much like AI is now). And after initially speaking up against it, I ended up shutting up about my criticism of that architectural approach, since it would have just gotten me fired.

So I ended up sneaking some early Internet technologies into a big client/server project I managed. Doing that ended up benefiting those developers in future jobs, and the company, because they didn't have to re-write that part so quickly. :-)
Thank MS Bob for that...
So we are really getting passwords from remote hosted websites? Are people really about to copy, paste and use these right out of the browser?
It could be worse... you could be at a company where using such technology is banned... because marketing and sales are scared of the blowback.
Had same experience with a Honda Accord. ICE/drivetrain efficiency is extremely complex with very little linearity across a number of variables.
I came here from the DDOS thread on the HN frontpage because Messenger was down (and instagram DM's), which i haven't tried before here in Scandinavia in my 10 years of FB. Same for my colleagues.

I see at least 3 other people mentioning it in this thread, and lots on Reddit and on Twitter in connection to these articles.

That for me was at least was at little interesting when the overall theme of this new "incident" has been "something large scale going on".
Even with 100% efficiency of the powertrain you'll end up with less charge than you started with. Yes, with 100% you get the energy used to overcome gravity back, but you still have frictional (tyres have friction!) and aerodynamic (we have an atmosphere!) losses that need to be accounted for both uphill and downhill.

But yes, powertrain loses exacerbate the power consumption.
There are some reviews of the Porsche Taycan where the car lost most of its range very quickly when the driver was accelerating quickly.

The Tesla Model S is one of the fastest-accelerating cars available at any price. If you drive it like a normal person and obey the speed limit (approximately), you will get close to the EPA rating depending on weather etc. If you actually use all the power it has (and you manage not to get pulled over), you will have lower range and you'll need to buy new tires every 6 months.
I always say the best workout is the one you look forward to. If you are currently doing 30min 3-4x a week - and you change the exercises every 2 weeks (so you don't plateau0 - then you are following what most trainers would say is the ideal protocol for strength training. You're also hitting the CDC guidelines. Ideally you would also be getting 120-150min of vigorous cardio in there as well.

Definitely going to check Mark Lauren out. Thanks for the tip! The 7-min workouts tend to work best for people who are too busy for 30-min workouts, or they are looking for something to "mix it up." For instance, they've been doing the same ab workout forever. Our 30-day ab program delivers a new 7-min ab workout every day, so you learn a lot of new moves!
https://abetterrouteplanner.com is better in every aspect.
> I'm still rather baffled about how people look back fondly on XP

Imho that's probably based on Windows Vista setting the bar so low that, in contrast, XP looked like something rather good.
Don't want this to turn into a big politics tangent, but I've thought that one use case for a tech workers union is to be able to push back against questionable business decisions from management.

I've seen places where engineers and other ICs, some team leads and managers, those with far more experience and clout at me, voice skepticism against questionable product decisions coming from upper management, only to receive nothing in response. Even when these decisions involve infeasible engineering forecasts, leadership stay the course. The worst they might get is some uncomfortable questions from the most bold, outspoken senior or staff engineers during all-hands. And the response is usually some stock party line about staying the course and everything will work out. Sometimes, this is coupled with toxic cultures that prevent people from truly speaking out.

Beyond fighting for better labor conditions, an intracompany tech worker organization should be able to push back against bad management decisions. Imagine if your engineering guild had power not just to determine the tech stack or coordinate between teams, but also to check the power of management on product and technical decisions, or even question strategic business decisions.

People imagine tech unions will just be a rehash of Industrial Era blue collar unions, but they have the potential to be something more- a way for the rank and file to finally have the clout to push back against bad engineering decisions from poor leadership.

Sure, you can say disgruntled engineers can just leave, or companies with bad management cultures should deserve to fail. But that just seems like defeatism. It seems like a form of capitalism that promotes throwaway, wasteful behavior. If employees have valid concerns, but management ignores them, doesn't it seem like a shame for an organization to decline and the product to die because of no one could oppose management's mistakes? What about the customers?
So bar, line, pie, scatter, etc. would be good names. Hehe.