skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're far older concentration processes, which is a factor ignored by other comments about why. The US is still filling in, settling, its vast territory. European territory is mostly settled, the cities are established, their process of forming major new cities is mostly over.

In 1940 the Las Vegas metro area had only a couple tens of thousands of people. Now it has 2.25 million - a metro larger than Slovenia, Latvia or Estonia. In 1940 the Austin Texas metro maybe had 100k people, now it's 2.1m. Texas of course has many examples of rapid population expansion metros, as new, large urban or semi-urban areas get created. Utah didn't exist as a state until 1896 and its population has increased over ten fold since then; its population has increased 300 fold in 150 years. In the late 19th century, Phoenix had only several thousand people, now the metro is approaching five million (equivalent to adding an Ireland, Norway, Finland or Denmark).

Paris by amusing contrast is of course over two millennia old. European populations have been concentrating into their cities, and emptying their surrounding lands, for far longer than the US has existed.
The name (“Tsunami”) and the description (“network scanner”) reminded me of the architecturally very innovative “Paketto Keiretsu[1]” from the very early 2000s. Very fond memories. I remember that the speed it achieved compared to (say) nmap was truly astounding.

[1] http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/paketto/
Well, most “crashes” in a plane are basically just a minor bad landing. Someone touched a wing or forgot to put their landing gear down.

Aircraft too are designed to be resilient in certain collisions. Not head on with the ground, but you’d be surprised how survivable crash landings are.
Gyms will claim you signed up for a 12 / 24 / whatever month subscription, and then the guarantee doesn't apply.

https://www.directdebit.co.uk/DirectDebitExplained/pages/dir...

"It cannot be used to address contractual disputes between you and the billing organisation. "
Yeah, I’m not sure this the mic-drop moment GP is implying it is.
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> On one hand you say browsers are to blame because they went too far too fast bypassing the OS DNS

Yup, they shouldn't have do this.

> On one hand you say browsers are to blame because they went too far too fast bypassing the OS DNS

No. I'm saying, that once they did what they did, they should have finish the job. They left it unifished.

> Again are your arguments actually about DoH causing centralization or are you just talking about browsers causing positioning centralization irrespective of the technology?

My point is that the way DoH was implemented is causing centralization. DoH could be implemented without causing this effect.
we need another scanner for that.
I had been sceptical about the Iraq adventure in part because my observations tell me the US attempted nation-building, in its own back yard, in 1866 and still hadn't fully managed it by 1966[1].

Looking for mid-nineteenth century civil wars, I find
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1848 and maybe I'm just too ignorant of domestic politics in these countries, but it doesn't seem that any of them still have divisions rooted in those conflicts, or even still had in the mid-twentieth century.

It's unclear how much geographic sectarian division there is in the current US. I would hope most yankees would agree that Sherman was an arsonist, and most southerners would agree that lynching is despicable (and most memes I run across on the internet to the contrary of either originate in a relatively small community of trolls?).

As to the original question, try a web search on "you know you're a southerner when". There are definitely cultural differences which can be, and usually are, celebrated without any reference to the Lost Cause.

(In some ways, southern culture may be more familiar to europeans. A german[2] colleague of mine once asked me "how do you confuse an american?". "How?", I replied. "Answer them, when they ask you how you're doing.")

[1] there is hope for 2066: compare George Wallace with his grandson
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23574675

[2] Wessi oder Ossi? mox nix.
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> The most secure messenger with Signal protocol is no arguably Signal Messenger, besides end-to-end encrypted messages, almost all metadata are also encrypted. whistleblowers, privacy advocates, journalists, and security technologists all recommend Signal as the most secure messenger.

The signal protocol and its implementation 'libsignal' are cryptographically secure compared to the alternatives mentioned in the authors blog post. The only problem I have is the client application.

Just like Telegram, phone number sign up in the default application is required which is still a gigantic turnoff, given that the phone numbers used for verification could be stored on a third-party SMS service, which is a shame for 'privacy'.
Maintaining Order with Apollo Query Hooks
Ten years after it was standardised, field reports showed ECN at 0.06% of all connections using ECN while almost 40% showed countermeasures preventing ECN or other failures (the remainder did not attempt ECN)

So what did they do? Well they adjusted ECN so that it tolerates the broken middleboxes. That's what you have today. Your systems go "Oh, ECN is broken, oh well" and press on without it. You see this as a feature added "successfully" and I call it what it is: Failure.
Side project I'm working on. Beta version with probably some bugs.

You upload a pdf
You get a share link
You get an analytics dashboard

Immediately which slides cause people to stop reading and which slides hold the most attention.

Looking for feedback johnny@tofugrowth.com
The real worrying part is that they think the creative wording makes them seem less dishonest than outright telling people that Facebook bought them.
Why is it so surprising that a retailer wants to make a profit when they sell something in their store?

A developer is free to offer subscriptions both in and out of the App Store and charge 43% more in the store to make up for the 30% cut.

The idea that it is almost the same flow is good for the consumer and developer. For none digital goods, this is already possible and allowed - to use Apple Pay within an app.

I do it with Uber.
I bought a wired Jabra headset for this pandemic times, but nobody actually cares - and we chat without video. Went back to the cheap BT headset - there are too many advantadges of this freedom: can make a coffee, get the baby... while "in the meeting".

But the real most important point: I want to bet on the wireless future because I hate wires.
I love seeing my table clean when I had a wireless Mac keyboard. And if Apple can make a keyboard that works reliably over BT for several months, then that should be our target...
> Sure, but that's them having a competent (well, less incompetent) ISA

Have you looked at the encoding of Thumb-2 (T32) and particularly A64 (their newly designed instruction set for 64 bit)? Their instruction encoding is in my opinion much more convoluted than x86.
I trust the server only after I verify its PK. SSH performs mutual authentication.
A Tutorial on VAEs: From Bayes' Rule to Lossless Compression
It's not totally crazy, and the limited data on human coronaviruses has shown there is a tendency for them to mutate into less potent forms.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-can-other-coronaviruses-...
This was back in 2015.

https://www.theverge.com/2015/7/8/8913105/spotify-apple-app-...
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It is actually quite easy to make Big Tech implode from within. Declare a moratorium on issuing green cards to all big tech employees for the next 25 years. Sweeten the deal further: expedited green card processing for employees who come forward as whistleblowers.
I could spend hours trying to explain to people why data harvesting is a bad thing, and most of them still wouldn’t care.
I thought that the issue about primes was concerning the elliptic curves rather than the DH groups.
I'd say that's the more sensible decision if you want to maintain syntax.

You can grep for {{{ without false positives matching {{. Conversely, it's harder to find places where == was used when === should have been used (although I'll concede it's not much harder). In general I'd prefer to go the extra mile to be unsafe than accidentally miss something out.
Not-Faster on what platform? In Borg, in Google3 code, deployed on a fast machine with a nice fast wide memory bus and a large cache?

What about in embedded code, or in a game? A place where memory bandwidth is scarce, or where we're trying desperately to reduce the number of syscalls and jumps back and forth between kernel and user space?

Having the entire payload memory mapped, and copies avoided, makes an absolutely huge difference once these kinds of concerns are real. Having something mmap'd in theory means it's nice and hot and fresh in the kernel's mind, and potentially kept in cache.

Some people in my team had gRPC foisted on them to run on an ARM Cortex class device running a real time OS. It boggled my mind they were even able to get it to ship. Using something like flatbuffers would have made a lot more sense.

At Google protobuf is the veritable "once I have a hammer everything looks like a nail", to the point where I've seen protobufs in JSON payloads, or vice versa, or even deeper... protobof in JSON inside a Chromium Mojo payload... because, well, how good could it be without protobuf?
> Multiplying 1024 bits by 1024 bits the naive way on a 32 bit processor involves 1024 multiply operations.

That's 1024 32-to-64-bit wide multiply operations. On x86, where regular mul is wide (it sets both edx and eax), that's the same as a regular operation. Some architectures that have just a MUL and a MULH instruction would make it two instructions. If you have neither, that would require 3 multiply instructions plus a few shifts.

> Even in 2003, they were typically pipelined with a throughput of one multiply per cycle[1], so you should be able to do that in ~1040 clock cycles.

The inner loop is much more than a wide multiply. You have to load the two words you're multiplying (although one of them should already be loaded in the outer loop). Then you need to two adds-with-carry, store the results back. Next you need to handle the extra carry bit, which in the most naïve case is another load, add-with-carry, store. And finally, you need the regular loop management instructions.

That's 4 loads, 3 stores, 3 adds, and 1 multiply, repeated 1024 times. I don't know the exact port availability and timing of Pentium 3 processors, but if there's only one load /store port, and it's a 4-cycle latency operation, you're looking at probably 25-ish cycles per inner loop iteration, or about 25,000 clock cycles.
What XSS vulnerability? Any user can set the innerHTML of any element at any time.
>For example they might forget to put quotes around a string

I wonder whether a "richer" editor/IDE, that flags such things immediately upon writing them, could greatly improve the learning experience.

Many tools even point out things such as non-existing variables in scope, which are not strictly "errors" in a dynamic language during edit time.
Would it though? They already had matching, smaller size, RAM modules. If they went this far, they could definitely get the proper tools as well.
If we burned this planet down and waited 700,000,000 years, would remnants of our civilisation remain? On the one hand, we have structures that are massive blocks of concrete and metal that I find hard to imagine fading away. We've got stuff in space and on the moon. On the other hand, there's weathering and erosion which would be amplified by chaotic weather patterns. And 700 million years is a long time.

I'm leaning towards us leaving some evidence behind, but it's such an inconceivable amount of time that I'm not really sure.
Or even schema-for-type, schema-for-value-validation

Just as an aside. The new version of OpenAPI (v3.1 RC) for REST interfaces now fully supports the json-schema validation mechanism so we may see an uptake in use of json schema.

Its not perfect and has some holes.
Testing isn’t solely about whether code works today - you’re unlikely to checkin something completely broken. In fact i advocate NO tests for throwaway code, move fast.

It’s whether it continues to work tomorrow after you’ve added or removed a behaviour. Tests are the secret sauce that keep the cost of change low.

Refactoring (a commit with zero changes to test code) is the other key pillar of long term codebase health.
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I agree. "Mesh node" with wire backhaul is good and usually solves the seamless roaming issue (YMMV, check before you buy).
> But in other places (USA and Brazil come to mind) it’s a whole different story. Seems dangerous to suggest it could just die out, while cases are on the rise.

Both things can be true, and general the less fatal a virus is, the more contagious it is. i.e. dead people can't infect live people. I mean, other than in 28 Days Later.
Many people dont realize, but WiFi chipset is very important. Get cheap/free stuff from your ISP, and it will give you trouble (especially under load/multiple clients). Buy expensive gear with Broadcomm/Qualcomm hardware in it, and you will be better off. ASUS with rt-merlin firmware is a solid choice.

Also, placement of router is very important. Most people have their wifi in the basement, where their cable/phone line comes in, spending some time, and running a physical wire somewhere to the center of the living space, setting up router on a shelf or a table will go a long way in propagation. I have mine setup in the center of my bungalow, and I have 5Ghz WiFI reaching from my driveway to the backyard, no issues, and never any hickups.

Also, if you pick a high end router (Like ASUS 86U with merlin) -> you get some proper Wifi diagnostic tools built in, like number of packet retransmits, bad FCS, etc, which will help you diagnose your issues.

Multiple people on the same band is not as big of an issue as many claim it is. 5Ghz (no B/G legacy frames), and 80MHz bandwidth ensures that most traffic is very short in actual airtime. Not perfect, but, it is orders of magnitude better than 2.4Ghz, despite there being really only 2 80MHz channels available.
There is also, channel 165, which is 20Mhz only, but rarely occupied.
Humans won't get it until they get their faces rubbed in it, and then it will be decades too late.

We are evolved to react incredibly well at about a 100ms threshold. Through agriculture, humans have taught themselves to plan in terms of a whole year. Beyond that people can't really understand.

If you offered most people this deal, "I'll give you $10 billion today but in exchange the whole world is destroyed 150 years from now," I think 90% of humans would take it.

"I'll be dead anyway."
All do have an artificial horizon. Your attitude indicator has that.

Making autopilot mandatory would make a huge amount of GA pilots unable to fly due to cost. And I’m not sure It would help. JFK JR’s plane had one. (level 5 is not even available for GA, though auto land just launched, but it would be six figures. )

The problem is you don’t know when you’re spinning in the first place without visual reference. Pilots get disoriented (the g force from the spin can feel a lot like normal gravity) and get overwhelmed.

That particular incident was an overly confident, poorly skilled pilot doing something risky that most pilots simply wouldn’t
I work at a company where a large and important part of the software stack sits on really old legacy infrastructure. Everyone is too scared to touch it. A feature that automatically converts the legacy code to a modern language/framework so that it can be transferred to newer infrastructure.
> the kind of letter the other party signs when receiving it

In England this isn't the recommended way to serve legal documents, because the person receiving can just refuse to sign and refuse to accept the letter.

You can send letters and get proof of posting without signed for delivery, and that's seen by the courts as good enough.
"...probably due to a genetic mutation in the virus which has not yet been demonstrated scientifically." -- you can stop reading once you get here. It's not that hard to find out if there was a mutation in the virus, you sequence it and compare it. If you didn't find any differences it means we probably got better at handling COVID19 - IE: earlier hospitalization, better care - rather than a weaker virus.
This is a later creation, not yet even finalized.
It also assumes, contrary to gathered data, that immunity lasts more than 3 months. There are now several studies that point to a short-lived immunity after fighting off this virus.

So far, the community of virologists and immunologists are warning that there will be a 2nd wave, possibly a 3rd and 4th wave as well, of this virus. The reasons are manifold and not at-all to do with governmental response.

No matter a government's response this is a novel virus, hey whaddoyaknow that's even what we're calling it, and it acts in manners that other viruses do not. Human bodies react to this virus differently than they do to other viruses.

To claim that governments are to blame is being disingenuous at best, and an outright lie at the worst.
In 2020, with our mature and cross browser compatible JavaScript, it surprises me that many people are still discovering vanilla JavaScript. Is something wrong here?
I would assume because Facebook was rejected by Apple, not Google.

But it's also not even at the same scale, as far as I understand Google Android limits background activity of side loaded apps. Android is open source and so handset makes can code exceptions in such as Samsung and the Samsung store, Amazon and the Amazon store or Huawei and the Huawei store. If you wanted to replace the preloaded Android with a custom ROM for your own store, you can (based on bootloader locking).

Apple says fuck you.
Do you have a reference? The British had already outlawed slavery. The only thing I found was Confederates going to Mexico and Brazil, and I think without their slaves:
Confederate colonies - Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_colonies

Here’s a picture of Jimmy Carter with Confederados in Brazil:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederados
It's much easier than that even, make a law that no one can use personal information for commercial reasons any longer.

All that tracking based web economy nonsense collapses overnight and you don't need to wait 25 years.
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Trump administration expected to suspend H-1B visas for the rest of the year
I agree that the slightly wider and shorter page of the US Letter format seems more convenient in practice.
And according to recently published data, immunity may not even last 6 months after fighting off the virus.

If immunity lasts no longer than a half-year, then there will be multiple new resurgences; it's a given.
> Using someone else's card without a signature would just be a breach of the T&C's, but not a crime.

Even without forging a signature, it would still constitute theft or fraud, no?
It really is an amazing national park. The vastness of it all is stunning--you have Batwater Basin at -282' elevation and Telescope peak at 11k. My partner and I hiked Wildrose Peak 9k (+2200) because Telescope had too much snow on it. The size of the park really hits home when you see that 2-inches on the NPS map takes you 1.5hrs by car.

Our rental car was punished pretty hard by the roads, but held up like a champ. There was no way we were getting to the roads that DVG were lost on. The morbid streak in me wanted to find the bush described in [1], but we had to give up after an hour or so. There is something about tying a place to a story. Will definitely be back to explore the park more.

If you are tenting, reserve your site early, because there are only a couple camp areas that aren't engulfed by pull-behinds and their generators running 24/7.

[1] https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/search...
Who said anything about paying more? This could all be changed with legislation at effectively zero cost to consumers. That seems like the only real option as I can’t directly stop my electric company etc from selling my information.
Misleading and clickbaitish titles, both the OP and Forbes. It is not Google Photos which is cancelled, it is the 'Photo Printing Service' used by Google Photos. This is a better source that gets to the point [0].

It's now on its way to the graveyard. [1]

[0] https://www.droid-life.com/2020/06/18/google-photos-ends-tri...

[1] https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle/pull/757
Living in the US, every day I wish I'd suddenly wake up to a government which places a greater degree of importance on science and the protection and benevolence of the greatest amount of human lives, both in the US and in the rest of the world. But right now, seems like science will continue to take a backseat to US corporate economic interests.
One of my favourite articles on the internet, fascinating read!

If you like The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans you probably like this one as well: https://www.outsideonline.com/1922711/raising-dead
The upcoming "Bluetooth Low Energy Audio" standard should improve call quality. I haven't seen any devices implementing it yet, though.

I'm not inclined to buy another pair of Bluetooth headphones with the microphone quality currently available.
> Person at conception vs Person at X weeks/months

Except that some pro-choice advocates admit that it is a human life being killed and still insist it is good and necessary. That and most of the rest of the pro-choice activists would never accept being forced into making a determination on when they believe life begins. They don't care when life begins. They care about not restricting abortion.

Edit: I should have read other comments here first. As you can see, many pro-choice people are perfectly willing to acknowledge that they are willing to allow abortion even though it is a person. In other words, actively killing your child if you don't want to support them.
With the other persons permission, I wouldn't think it would be theft or fraud.
I get the sense that there are a ton more beginner tutorials based on frameworks. And those type of tutorials are underrated ways that lots of people use to learn "js".
Callback function and function pointer in C programming
To windows 10 users with bad wifi experience: windows power management has become more agressive, it caused dropped VPN connections continuously until I put power management to High performance for all power profiles. It took me aLmost a year to figure out the cause.
"I want the (free) benefits without any of the downsides", this reads to me. Particularly as it gets into condemning "neoliberalism" in response to being reminded that Google Maps is not compulsory.
Depixelizing Video Game Characters Creates Monsters
This looks very cool. I'm gonna be using this soon!

I am curious why you'd create a new scripting language for this, how is JS limiting for building these visualizations?
Sounds good to me. Let somebody who wants to play ball fairly build the consoles.
Townscaper – grid based town generator
ditto.

Ubuntu Mono Bold is very compact horizontally, while not looking squished. Makes understand code with long variable names a bit easier.
The easy answer? Make some regulations depend on scale. We already do for much of legislation.
> This betrays a misunderstanding of what growth means in an economic context.

Nope, you're just ignoring the limits of optimization.