skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think of the overhead which could be saved if services could be "spun up" in chrooted environments or even just as members of traditional Unix-style user-private groups! I know, I know, this is a newish concept which seems crazy. But it could work.
I would love to see the help article that references this image. Hot-linking the image is interesting but without the context of the help page I don't know what to think. Anyone have a link, screenshot or wayback machine?
I'm somewhat shocked by the number of people not wearing them in San Francisco at this point (after so many government and private demands that they do so). A minority, but not at all an uncommon sight.
Link to the Nature study:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0965-6
"Think about how, if the cost of our projects is 2-3x what it "should be", we are doing without 2/3-1/2 of the improvements to our physical world that we could otherwise achieve."

This is far, far underestimating how many projects we lose.

If things were 3x cheaper, one could justify many more than 3x the projects, as there would be more return on investment and more willingness to fund additional projects.
The Pope has not changed the Church's position in any way on homosexual behavior or masturbation. He may have made progressive moves on other issues. But not those, because they are core to the Catholic faith's understanding of natural law and sexuality.

Granted, few catholics actually stick with the faith on sexual issues. But that doesn't affect the church's position. In fact, very few catholics keep to any of the church's important teachings: the true presence, confession, weekly mass attendance, abstinence before marriage, divorce and re-marriage, and the list goes on and on.
> content for content's sake

I think there's some truth to this. Some junior developers make it a goal to be seen as a respected blogger, so they feel the need to write something, even if they have nothing to say.
What about military contractors that dont manufacture arms, such as the firm which assembles and disassembles the monitoring system for army training exercises? Firms that perform mass surveillance, construction, pentesting. What about all the fastfood chains which operate on base? At what point in the kill chain, does participation become un-catholic?
Results could be better filtered. SEO spam isn't very nuanced, it all reads the same and frequently plagiarized. I wonder if you can crudely use something like turnitin to filter for original content.

Maybe you could try and make a model SEO article for your own search engine, just taking your existing SEO results and figuring out which parameters are contributing the most to their ranking, then filtering out results that contain these parameters that worked well in your model. Rinse and repeat as SEO writers try and step up their arms race, but they should always end up being foiled by your changes to the search engine after optimizing your own perfect SEO model regularly.
HR reports to me and my HR person is very good and uses Kaiser a lot for expensive meds. She's never found a way to do what you want, either for herself or for our employees.
Intel Powers on Sapphire Rapids Processors, Scheduled for 2021 – Tom's Hardware
Is their "slave wage labor" really any worse than being a construction worker in the US, in relative terms?
It's not just a car detour issue. When a city shuts down a street for months to do construction that is likely to destroy any adjacent restaurants and retail businesses. When customers can't easily drive to business and park nearby then they stop coming. Naturally business owners strongly object to this and advocate for slower, less disruptive construction techniques.
That's definitely not true. It's not uncommon for articles, especially on specialized topics, to sit on the front page without comments. That can actually be a good thing, because it can take a while for relevant comments on a lesser-known topic to appear.
>Can the US actually prevent ASML from selling equipment to China? ASML is not American.

Netherlands / ASML is subject to Wassenaar Arrangement which US can ultimately trigger to ban dual use tech sales.
China seems to be gaining strength at the moment, yes. But let not forget their weaknesses, while not ignoring our strength and weakness.

Remember, Taiwan and South Korea performed well during the pandemic, and they're both democracies.
"indeed, these were some of the darkest/harshest time in our recorded history"

I'm still inclined to believe that this is just nowadays optics. The life was very harsh in general for pretty much all but recent history. There were a lot of life risk vectors all around and the capacity to do something about that was modest at most. For us looking back only the major events stand out -- the pandemics like the black death, the major depopulating military campaigns like that of the Mongols, or the climate altering events. People died of diseases, wars, famine, or whatnot all the time though. Not just a few here and there like we see nowadays, but community-wide wipe-outs, with survivors having no-one-they-knew left alive. I doubt that for them it made much difference that the faced calamities were limited only to their region or were world spanning, or that the cause for the latest bane was this or that out-of-control event.
Intel Cooper Lake-SP '3rd Gen Xeon Scalable' CPU Family Official
Germany and Japan had nuclear plants back when global warming was nobody's priority. It was competitive with fossil fuels then.

Now that nuclear power is fallen out of favor, they went back to fossil fuels, instead of renewables, because it's cheaper for them.

So apparently the advances in renewables didn't just make renewables cheaper: it also made nuclear more expensive than fossil fuels!

Or, maybe, nuclear is now considered "more expensive" largely thanks to the huge negative PR.
Does anyone have a link to the actual document (‘Journeying Towards Care For Our Common Home’)? I haven't been able to find it, via the Reuter's piece or on the Vatican website
It looks like we edit on windows where I work, but we're actually using proxmox. Shhhhhhhh it's a secret.
Datasette: A Developer, a Shower and a Data-Inspired Moment
Which is absolutely, positively, pathologically insane behavior.

Apple is a DISTRIBUTION platform, it is NOT analogous to the building where a business is housed.

They have NO RIGHT to claim 30% of a company's business. If the app is not moving money, Apple has no right to claim a piece of it.
Well that is just offloading costs onto the public as tax is it not? At a $15/hr min wage, adding 15 minutes to a round trip commute for 20'000 people/day M-F costs after 7 months $10.5 million dollars too.
I have to say, right now, it looks like some kind of parody site. Every single senator and representative has 3 red X's next to them, and there's nothing to represent any of their opponents, or any third party candidates. I think I would have left that part off entirely at this point, since those pages have effectively zero information content.

OTOH, https://everytwoyears.org/mission.html is great.
Regulation. Environmental impact surveys, union fees, product compliance, safety regulations and temporary signage all cost money. They increase man hours and require increased materials. You could get rid of all of this but you wouldn’t like the result.
>The Apple fee is 30% on the first payment (so 42% more expensive)

"so"

But that doesn't necessarily follow, unless it actually is a 42% higher number than a known reference number for the price of the same subscription service and period on another platform.
Most users care about privacy in the sense that they don't want random people to see their communications. Most people don't care about privacy in the sense that they are concerned about the service provider divulging their communications.

Gmail does not use end to end encryption. Yet it's overwhelmingly popular, and perceived to be secure. Google has a huge incentive to keep Gmail secure, and that's enough for most people.

With respect to Zoom, I am fully convinced that if the PRC (or the USA for that matter) wants Zoom to compromise a given account they'll do it. But that's irrelevant to the overwhelming majority of people. Sure, companies like Google and Microsoft should not use Zoom nor should activists or other people that might attract the ire of governments that have leverage over Zoom. But that is a substantial minority of use cases.
Why do you think mobsters or human traffickers are driven by malice? Those occupations, if you can call them that, have clear economic and political incentives supporting their existence. If you want to stop people from becoming mobsters or human traffickers, I think it would make sense to create a political and economic system that reduces or eliminates those incentives.

People calling for restorative justice generally aren’t looking to simply reproduce the status quo without prisons.
architecture doesn't contain patterns? architectures don't follow certain patterns?

you've never seen certain architectures that smell because they're not following an established pattern?
US Now Has Stockpile of 66M Anti-Malaria Pills That Can't Be Used for Covid-19
Google-java-format for Java and ktfmt for Kotlin.

https://github.com/google/google-java-format

https://github.com/facebookincubator/ktfmt
Astronomers Detect Powerful Signal from Space Repeating in a 16-Day Cycle
> I shouldn't have to use iOS to manage my Netflix subscript just because I downloaded the iOS first.

Or EVER.
If Telegram crypto actually worked, they'd make far more money licensing the crypto than just running a chat app.
Interesting. I wasn’t aware of that. I’m confused why this is downvoted.
How long would such a burst be expected to last? Because at least momentarily, one half of the earth will remain pretty safe.
Pokémon GO Fest 2020 (July 25-26)
Key points:

Ticket necessary to participate is USD $14.99 (or local equivalent)

10am - 8pm each day (local time)

GO Fest microsite coming

More news in-app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nianticlab...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pokemon-go/id1094591345

Original title lacked context. It was:

Pokémon GO Fest 2020 brings summer adventure to you!
Microsoft charges 30% for Xbox games. The link also mentions Windows store fees that are a lot cheaper.

https://9to5mac.com/2019/03/06/microsoft-store-revenue-share...

As far as physical stores, the publisher gets $27 out of the $60 for a typical game. The console maker gets $7 out of the $60. I’ve seen this sane chart other places.

https://www.quora.com/How-much-do-game-companies-make-from-e...
The Power of Crossed Brain Wires – Issue 86: Energy
Adaptive Query Execution: Speeding Up Spark SQL at Runtime
Is a "policy" is a "contract"? What does the user agree to by reading a policy? Why is the privacy stuff separated out into a "policy" instead of being part of the Terms of Service? How does the user (cf. the company) "enforce the policy"? Do companies ever violate their own policies? Do they announce this to the public when it happens? How do we determine when a company has violated their own policy?

These are meant to be rhetorical questions but I am curious how people would answer.
I used to be bullish on linting around 2014-2017. Now I avoid them as much as possible.

Bad linters are expensive. They add complexity to workflows and pipelines, slow down iteration speed, and create a nitpicky culture where most discussions miss the point. Multiply this by a whole engineering team, yikes.

Yet there are some good (parts of) linters, such as catching actual issues rather than preferences. If we bet on linters, they should increase our value multifold to be worth it.
When was the American form of representative democracy ever great? You do remember from your history classes that initially, only white, male, landowners could vote, right?
Installing Kinto.sh (Mac shortcuts) for Windows 10
The less stuff on the server the better imo. Whenever I can get away with it I use a static site generator or I use vuejs with a json file containing all the data for the site. Being able to just drop a static set of files in to a webserver without any risk of security issues in my code is great. I also hate the tools for backend rendering since if you need any kind of interactivity it becomes so much easier if you had just built it all in vue/react with no downsides other than not running in someones cli web browser.
Show HN: Vehicle Recommendation Engine for Car Dealer Websites
Why Aliens and Volcanoes Go Together – Issue 86: Energy
Does the linter check all or only newly pushed code? Is this configurable at all?
Why Should We Care About the Red Light District of Amsterdam?
>I remember reading the same when the war broke out and was used by Russian as justification to invade.

Small nitpick: has US invaded Syria in your opinion?

Yes, Russia obviously supports Donbas republics, but most of those republics military consists of Ukrainian citizens. In a way it's similar to how US supports Kurds and "moderate opposition". Such situation is really common for civil wars, but I don't think "invasion" is a correct word to use here.
I'm sure there are countries where malaria is endemic that could benefit from them. Malaria is a major scourge in the world.
Wow, those sites are blazingly fast and usable compared to most that I see these days. (With the possible exception of the third not making it visually obvious that the list items are links and having to figure it out from the context.)
Web Monetization API
I thought I did? The condescending attitude is unnecessary. Happy to clarify my point if my initial comment was confusing:

Websites such as http://panopticlick.eff.org/ showcase how fingerprinting works. They tell you how many bits of information they can extract from various datapoints they get out of you when visiting their site, such as User-Agent.

Panopticlick does not use your IP address as a datapoint, but actual trackers most likely do. If not your IP directly, then a prefix thereof (such as your /24), to account for ISPs w/ dynamic IP allocation.

If you have a static IP, there's a lot of bits of entropy in it, i.e. it's great for fingerprinting. It's basically sufficient, by itself, to uniquely identify your home. The handful of devices in your home can then likely be distinguished by the User-Agent.

If you're part of your ISP's small dynamic IP pool (e.g. a /24), there's probably still a lot of entropy in there. How many people in your neighborhood are also on Linux and have the same set of fonts installed? Probably just you.

Your VPN's dynamic IP subnets, OTOH, can be a lot larger, and the members of the pool are not geographically close to one another, so there's probably a lot less fingerprinting entropy in your IP in that case.
Show HN: Real Build Pro – Construction Management Software
Use a feed reader to access sites like HN instead of the front page, that way you get to see all content which has been posted in the order it has been posted - there is no ranking nor any direct censoring.
How many AWS services do you need to host a static webpage? (1/2)
Apple's app store on iOS is more of a monopoly than Google's app store on Android because Android allows third-party installed apps and even other app stores (like F-Droid, and Amazon).
Here's my hot take: systemd actually embodies the so-called "UNIX philosophy" better than any of the other alternatives.

The UNIX philosophy is theoretically "do one thing and do it well", but in practice means "create small, composable pieces which can be used together or separately to accomplish what you need."

"systemd" the project is certainly huge and all-encompassing, but you could say the same thing about GNOME, the GNU project, or even GCC itself. The systemd project, however, is divided up into a ton of smaller components, all of which are relatively easy to understand in isolation and which almost universally have clear interoperations with each other.

Case in point: systemd ships two components, systemd-networkd and systemd-resolved. I typically reconfigure my systems to use these, as I find the documentation simple to understand and the config file easy to write by hand, even from memory. Compare this to, say, netplan, which I've never actually googled a full list of options for.

That said, both of them are optional, and Ubuntu 16.04 for example used systemd in what was apparently as few places as possible, notably not using systemd-networkd or systemd-resolved. They were easy to enable and use, but they were by no means necessary.

LIkewise, systemd ships systemd-machined, a framework for creating "machines", which are containerized systems which operate like virtualized systems, with their own copy of (probably) systemd running inside.

The systemd tools, like systemctl and journalctl, can interact directly with these machines, meaning that you can use the same tools on the same command-lines to access what is effectively a "containerized" system's logs in the same way that you would locally. Likewise, systemd-networkd has configuration to automatically bring up their network configs as soon as they're created, without having to do anything manually. Again, it's not shipped by default and definitely not enabled by default.

In this way, I would say that systemd actually embodies the so-called "UNIX philosophy", by creating a bunch of separate daemons and systems, all of which can work well together but few of which are inherently required by each other. It also adds a ton of functionality which is effectively impossible to add to existing init.d systems in any maintainable way (like spawning processes in their own cgroups and namespaces, creating ephemeral users with arbitrary UIDs for those processes, creating private /tmp directories for individual services, adding bind mounts, restricting syscalls, mounting the root filesystem read only, and so on.

In essence, systemd gives you all the tools you need to build up whatever system management you want, but if you just want "execute this binary, which will not fork, and keep it running" then you can do that too, without any of those extra features getting in the way.
What we also really need is an open antibody database, with links to buying antibodies and info like affinity, gene sequence and epitope binding. I know measuring affinity and epitope mapping can be hard but this is really necessary for for example COVID-19 diagnostics and vaccines.
Yes, it would be possible.
And a phone isn’t “specially packaged” and is used for “video production, writing and homework”?

Software would be better for the average user if PCs (and Macs) had tighter permission models - no viruses, spyware, adware, ransomware, surreptitiously reading your contacts without your permission, etc.
Note that EFF is a 501(c)(3) and can't support or oppose candidates in elections.
> They are running a reverse wayback machine in that anything not changed in the last year gets removed.

Sometimes I wish that were true! Try Googling for, say, PostgreSQL documentation and the top result will often be for a 10-year-old version of the software.
SEO is exactly as sophisticated as it needs to be to get to the top of your rankings.
i remember that most of the early internet was under construction. The noise to signal ratio wasn't very high - but that might have been due to some universal constant of physics.
Evolving Distributed Tracing at Uber Engineering (2017)
Sure that happens to some products but it's not inevitable. The current Microsoft Word code base has been actively maintained and enhanced for over 25 years. Customers aren't walking away yet.
I used to think this about HN, but then I went over to /. after being absent for about 15 years. If you had any questions about the job that mods do here, just spend some time there and you'll appreciate it here more. For example, see their discussion about this topic: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/06/18/207204/facebook-tak...
Agreed. The headline and article had me believe that this was some language-agnostic linter framework. Which I guess it is in a sense, but it's only the dispatching part that's language-agnostic.
Assuming that money is what they’re after. Are you reading Durov’s channel on Telegram? Also, having invented the Russian Facebook and forcefully selling it to the Kreml - I don’t think he needs any more money. He’s playing a totally different game. I don’t know which one though.
Recall Gavin Newsom!

https://recallgavin2020.com/
I find this curious as a civilian exposed to PQS and gundecking
And yet, my Ubuntu does the right thing in both cases:

- When the lid is closed and there are no external monitors, the laptop goes to sleep.
- When there is an external monitor, it switches to it entirely.

And when the external is disconnected after that (the laptop is still closed), it goes to sleep fine.
Or sign up for EulaAdvisor.com's service to translate EULA's into simple terms and recommendations, and use that to guide software usage decisions.
Good thing I wasn't alive in 536 then.
You're effectively taking the position of "fuck the business for trying to survive". Amazon makes billions, why didn't they just pay the 30%? Because their margins are 5% at best. Survival. Not even wealth.

And the argument you're making can ONLY be used to support the position that "well then why isn't Apple just the only company in the world and everyone is forced by law to use them?" Because that's the long-term outcome of the thinking you are describing.

People have options, people want options. One of the things Apple does is refuse to allow developers to use specific banks to receive payments! So now they get to tell people what bank to use? And the bigger they get, the bigger they will bully themselves into literally every market decision on the planet. Oh but it's all OK because it's a closed platform.

Bully for you that your experience with Apple/In-App payments has turned out well, but the companies I work with ABSOLUTELY HATE THEM. Customer service, when it is necessary, is absolutely impossible. Refunding pro-rated amounts is also impossible, which means they're forced to refund all or nothing - and Apple still keeps its cut.

Mobile devices are used now more than websites, so mobile presence is REQUIRED for survival. This has given the two monopolies, Apple and Google, alot more power than frankly they deserve.
Controlling Japanese Barberry Helps Stop Spread of Tick-Borne Diseases
Excellent, and something of an HN perennial favourite:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=581255 (2009, w/ "sblank" commenting).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17600305 (2018) 43 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8980498 (2015) 45 comments.

Numerous others: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Police foundations shouldn’t be allowed to buy military equipment. They shouldn’t be able to buy anything without oversight.
FPBase: The Fluorescent Protein Database
I was just using it today for a quick calculation!
Copyright is a totally different dimension from what ToS/EULAs cover.
> than was possible by several orders of magnitude.

Nitpicking here, but it clearly couldn't have been by "several orders of magnitude" since they were using tape that was 1/4th of that for the actual recording.
You might find this useful - Fermi problems: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem

You could make a rough model based on educated guesses and perhaps not even be that far off the actual number.