skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your colleagues might be amused by Europanto[1], a creole created for amusement by professional translators.

My modest proposal is this: it used to annoy the brits that european english differs[2] to their dialect. On the other side, we should incite the possibility to embrace[3] our dialect for international use. Finally, this would paradoxically be a gift to EN-GB speakers, because EN-US speakers might then experience being separated by a common language.

[1] http://www.europanto.be/cabillot1.html

[2] https://www.eca.europa.eu/Other%20publications/EN_TERMINOLOG...

[3] as in s'pore, lah?
It's a simple model - make a genetically engineered S. mutans that slightly out-competes the existing, but without generating the lactic acid waste products that softens tooth enamel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caries_vaccine#Attempts_using_...

Dr. Jeffrey D. Hillman invented it in the 1970s-1980s at Harvard under NIH grants (https://grantome.com/grant/NIH/R01-DE004529-10). Swab inoculation and you're done. It worked perfectly in animals and humans.

In the 1990s, he founded Oragenics, to try to commercialize it. The FDA gave them the runaround for about 20 years before they finally mysteriously gave up. In 2016, he got a 17-year patent, so I guess it'll be shelved until 2033 at least.

There's something fundamentally wrong with this picture. Why should a simple application of genetic engineering from the 1980s take 50+ years to make it to market? It's either a complete scam or a conspiracy.
Sure, but that's them having a competent
(well, less incompetent) ISA and microarchitecture

Hasn't x86 been basically RISC-like internally since the pentium-pro/amd k6? Is the translation layer that big of a hindrance?
Even that kind of "marketing" takes time :) But thanks for helping out.
We should also change all of these doubleplus ungood words:
Black market
Black magic
Black Sabbath
Black widow
Black soul
Black sheep
Black eye
Black mark
Black rider
Black out
Black box
Black book

I was triggered twice just typing this up.
If you've only recently picked up this interest in History, hold on to your seat. You're in for a surprise.
In the age of sound recording, maybe not? I get the impression that spelling has drifted much less since the invention of the printing press.
I have made absolutely zero claim that I am taking every group under the sun into account for my opinions. I have even told you the exact line I am drawing. Once again:

Does everyone know that SSL is a street gang in Arizona? No, they fucking don't.

Does everyone know that master/slave are terms relating to literal ownership of human beings? Yes, they fucking do.

Does this require a consideration of the cultural zeitgeist? No, it doesn't, because everyone knows slavery is bad.

All of this bullshit you are tacking on is literally not what I believe.
> At least Kindles do track what the user is reading even if it wasn't purchased on Amazon so having a good, high quality, open source e-ink device would be of great benifit.

How do they do that without any account, registration and internet connection? I use my kindle entirely for offline reading of books I copy over cable.
> ISO 216 defines the A series of paper sizes based on these simple principles:

> - The height divided by the width of all formats is the square root of two (1.4142).

> - Format A0 has an area of one square meter.

When we look on A0 papers on the market mostly it's size is 841 mm × 1189 mm, that is not correspond to this standard:

- Length Ratio: 1189/841 = 1.41379310345 (should be 1.4142)

- Area: 0.999949 m² (should be 1.0 m²)

P.S. There are few websites which are useful for retrieving various paper formats sizes.[0,1]

[0] https://www.papersize.org/a-paper-sizes.htm

[1] https://papersizes.io/a/
One can actually support oppressed people around them.

Why does someone want to show support to people who do not need that support after all?
The ability to report dangerous things to the proper authorities is one of the ways you know you live in a functional society.

That said, this whole topic brings up the question of "At what cost?" We won't see the macroeffects these have on our communities for quite a while. Our base insticts when it comes to how we should react when we see something off, are slowly changing.
For anyone who hasn’t seen it I also recommend JO 7110, it’s the document that governs all of the behavior of Air Traffic Control. I know many pilots who had no idea they could see exactly how decisions were made on the other side of the radio: https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Order/7110.65Y_Bas...
All those costs are written off as expenses when the company files taxes. Perhaps we should double the tax instead to cover unemployment for the american that didn’t get a job?
There are not enough such teachers to teach 1:1. There are not enough people who could be drafted to be such teachers either. It would require a lot of altruism to work as a teacher whereas there are much higher paying positions in the private sector.

We have the technology to amplify a great teacher's lecture to millions. However, the education system relies on the model of interactive lectures given to a class of people of whom many are not acutely interested in the subject. Following that lecture, parents are drafted as involuntary teachers to help their kids with homework. If the student's parents have sufficient background, this works. Else, we end up with the situation where students continue to fall behind as their parents are unable to teach them.

We need to bootstrap our students' learning to the minimally accepted level that sustains self-directed learning. I would define that as mastery of arithmetics as first phase and algebra as second phase. However, we are talking about mastery that does not require a review, which means spending more time on in-depth training without jumping ahead.

Such classes should be separate from mainstream math classes so as to not to bore those of us who already have achieved that mastery.

I am working on this.
I'd argue that the International Standard Paper Sizes system is a case where a clever idea has been promoted beyond what is beneficial. There are a lot of use cases where the standard sizes are not optimal. I personally find the US Letter size handier than the A4, and 3x5 inch is vastly more convenient than A6 for index cards and pocket memo books. In Japan, most "B5" notebooks I see are actually considerably off standard in the measurements.
Correct Handling of Dates and Times
Why do humans collectively have an obligation to lift poor countries out of poverty?
I find mixing Catholicism and Sci-Fi a quirky but heady mix. Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow is another, where Jesuits pilot an interplanetary mission.
One thing I wish people knew more about is SBE, it seems to be super fast by design:

https://speice.io/2019/09/binary-format-shootout.html
That's exactly when motorola dropped the ball (as the article mentions) - a year before they were still more or less head to head, but once amd & intel started reaching for the 1 ghz barrier they left motorola & ibm behind.

Somehow the various RISC vendors managed to remain competitive for a bit longer at the top end[0] - maybe it was easier to compete at the high workstation/server/supercomputer end than at consumer hardware?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer#/media/File:Proc... - x86 only started dominating well into the 2000s.
«$10-$20 set of as many different security screw bits»

The one I own: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0023QTESS And I have used almost 1/3rd of the bits. I don't think I have ever seen a set more complete than this one.
It clears the mind of problematic thoughts. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak#Vocabulary
I was just going to say this. Working in many countries (especially non-Western), I've found that even in countries that have been "metric" for generations, the traditional measurements still dominate in everyday use.
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I remember my time studying Freud's sex theory in literature class and how there are symbols that signified the sexual desire scatter around the story we've read, say, the male character took his pen(phallic symbol) and pierce some hole in the pink clothes(symbolizing female), and you can see this everywhere in the text if you look for it (though Freud humorously said that sometimes cigar is just a cigar, not everything has to be about sex)

At the end of the day, I cannot help but think that half of the interpretation is just what my professor just made up because she really engrossed in Freud's theory.

That being said, you will see anything you really want to see, if you look for it hard enough. If you think it's there, it will be there...
Almost the entire world still uses nautical miles, knots (speed), and feet for aircraft altitude. I'm pretty sure most airplanes all use AN hydraulic fittings, which are based on Imperial sizes (correct me if I'm wrong there).

Also, people always say that the US is the only country that uses feet, pounds, miles, etc. But there are a lot of other countries that still use those units, or at least understand them, even if it's not an official unit. I even work with engineers from China who use and understand Imperial units. I also visited a friend in Ireland who had a (pre-digital) scale that measured weight in stones.
Contrary to what people love to say, the police dont work for the tax payer. They work for the tax collector.
The course is from Techstars and Kauffman Fellows. The instructors are Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson.
The huge success of Nigerian-Americans is proof that "systemic racism" no longer exists.

Yes, the problem of racism is that easy to explain away. Sheesh. Have you not been paying attention the last few weeks?

EDIT: and the fact that they came from a completely different culture from American Blacks... one where their ancestors were not enslaved (in this country) by the majority Whites... that plays no part, eh?
If companies like Facebook and Amazon had such a hard time hiring engineers, they wouldn't be cutting 10% of the workforce every year based on mostly political yearly reviews. That's why they are always constantly "hiring". Having visa workers that can be easily overworked is a huge bonus to try and force 80 hour work weeks and a toxic rat race.

The average engineer at these companies is not all that competent, the interview process is very noisy. I know many people barely able to write basic stuff like fizzbuzz, lots of them slither their way into middle or upper management.
Note it contains this commit with the message "Fix whitespace." That is hilarious.

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/12089/commits/b7d2ec...
Datahike with Firebase as Data Storage
There is a big difference to me. I haven't used any of those systems but I have written plenty of console games where the artists and designers want to fill memory. That means I don't have memory for 2 representations, unparsed and parsed. I also want fast loading so loading say 4k at a time into some temp buffer and parsing into memory is also out. I load the file directly into memory, fix up the pointers, and use it in place.
Instead of HTML, can’t JavaScript just be used to paint the browser canvas?

You can create your text boxes, your drop downs, buttons, etc., everything that makes it a GUI application.

Then you fetch your data, per the page you display, via JSON, and fill in the fields.

The initial JavaScript download is heavy, but the normal usage of the web application should be quicker, as you’re only fetching the relevant data to fill each of the required widgets.

This does sound resource intensive, for computers back in the 1990s, but today’s iPad, iPhone, and modern laptop computers should be powerful enough to handle it.

Or did I just describe some already popular JavaScript framework?
It sounds like "a penis" to Anglos unaccustomed to hearing the French language rhythm, plus the unpronounced H.
Has Apple commented on the ”swollen battery syndrome”? Are these batteries just expected to behave like this when they get old? This seems to be very common problem with old MacBooks.
Rotating DH groups periodically is difficult. SSHv2, for example, has support for this. It takes a lot of computation to generate new groups, but then how do the client and server agree on a group? Well, the server tells the client, and the client has to like it -- i.e., the client has to trust the server's group. This isn't better than just having a bigger nothing-up-my-sleeves group to begin with.

That, ultimately, has been the solution the community landed at: nothing-up-my-sleeve curves for ECDH and EdDSA.

The nothing-up-my-sleeve part is all about setting / agreeing to obvious and hard guidelines for generating and selecting curves before doing the selection, then you can see that a curve was generated and selected without any hidden agendas. We have several of these now that are generally thought to be secure, though, of course, it's hard to say for sure. It's a pretty good outcome.
> This also prevents people from unscrewing their Macbook and messing something up then coming into the store and complaining.

Right. Because this happens all the time with laptops that use regular screws, and there is no way to tell if the damage has been caused by someone opening up the machine and destroying something.

There is no good reason for keeping people away from the insides of the computer they paid (a fortune) for, and yet Apple gets away with it.
For every X NSA might know something that we don't about X.

That does not mean the probability is the same. Whatever X they develop and push has much greater probability than other X-es.
Google „high sierra patcher“. You can run High Sierra on a 2008 Macbook and still get security updates. For now.
Minerva: The curse of ECDSA nonces (cryptography) [pdf]
That's just FUD.

Recommending ignorance while quoting religious text is so over the top that it makes me wonder if you're just trolling.
I searched for "msgpack extension types" and "msgpack custom types" and nothing conclusive came up, so you'll have to explain what you mean.

FlexBuffers is a schemaless format much like JSON, so is naturally extensible, and typeless, so I don't see how it would need any such thing.
They're all recreations. Look up Foley if you want to be disappointed in almost everything you've heard on a TV show or movie. For example, elephants don't make loud thudding noises when they walk -- that's all made up.
Show HN: A web-browser to web-browser file sharing app (uses WebSockets, no DB)
If someone proposing using a better term than 'blacklist' makes you take an all-or-nothing reaction, it might be a case where if you have a hammer, everything you see is a nail.
Meditation itself is great and I'm a practitioner myself. But my experience watching the growth of Mindfullness has been observing a series of over reaching claims, each being addressed by some book, seminar, or class "solving" the issue for a price. Some higher anxiety, over worked friends have been sucked into these social circles and milked for all kinds of expensive books, seminars, lectures, sessions, and what ever other made up term for that specialized form of theater that costs far more than a movie ticket.
"Honestly I don't give a fuck what you believe. The fact is that it offends someone somewhere in Arizona and I will not stand for this."

This is what I would say if I were in the league of those trying to censor everything I, or anyone somewhere don't like. You cannot win against these people vore. One day they will come for something that you may hold very dear to your heart or person. And they will cry in pain as they strike you. Because you're the evil one getting in the way of their change and progressive activism.
ha, i just went through this today, querySelectorAll returns a NodeList, which is static rather than live, requiring you to iterate through the list rather than acting on the elements directly.

but it's nice that jquery (as convenient as it is) is no longer a must-have library for dom manipulation.
I like to compare CS to medicine.

Most topics of it aren't difficult to understand, but overall it's just a lot of information. If you want to get a comprehensive CS-education, you have to accept that it takes years of studying, learning and practise.
I hate to see another vendor lock in by file format like PSD to keep competitors out.

It better be fixed before they become big enough not to care.
Would you mind explaining what this does?
Apache licensed, comes from Google.

Related blog post: https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/06/tsunami-extensible...
Where would one go if they had money but minimal time to get a formal online education in CS? Syllabus, other students to discuss ideas with, etc?
JFK Jr.’s crash[0] clearly shows the accident chain beginning on the ground. He’d injured his ankle in a snowboarding accident a few weeks prior and was wearing a boot that may have interfered with operating the rudder. His magazine was in rough shape, and his marriage wasn’t much better. They’d intended to leave during the day, but his wife and sister-in-law didn’t arrive at the airport until close to dark. His instructor had offered to fly with him, but Kennedy turned him down. Flying at night over open water, especially on a moonless night, can create the black hole effect. Although it’s technically VMC, you’re really flying by instruments. The accident airplane had a working autopilot that he knew how to use, but it wasn’t engaged. Kennedy had some instrument training but not the rating. He passed tens of airports on his way where he could have stopped. He’s a Kennedy and could have summoned transportation.

The common belief is he became spatially disoriented and entered a graveyard spiral without realizing it. Without outside visual reference, our senses can play nasty tricks on us and that instrument pilots train to ignore.

The sad part is it was all preventable: he had so many opportunities to break the accident chain that was forming.

[0]: https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2010/july/pilot...
Before 9/11 we could easily tour an ATC facility with a group of pilots - tower, center, tracon - under Project Raincheck. Not sure if they've started that back up again or not, but it was definitely eye opening.

Edit: Just read the section under "Line Up And Wait" and lol'ed to myself when I saw this:

"Do not authorize an aircraft to LUAW if an aircraft has been cleared to land, touch−and−go,stop−and–go, option, or unrestricted low approach on the same runway."

I'm pretty sure SFO lines up aircraft on the 28's and simultaneously clears someone before the San Mateo bridge to land, while waiting for a landing aircraft to clear the runway.
He link to his personal website in his HN profile, and in his personal website he prominently links to the blog we're talking about. I thought about it and it really didn't feel like doxxing.
> if it is at all conceivable that "ghoti" could be sounded out as "fish", just what the fuck is going on here?

"It isn't true, but if it could be, wouldn't that be a scandal?"

There's a name for thoughts like that, I just know it.

> Could it not be improved?

Yes, it can be improved. It can be improved multiple ways along multiple axes, whether you wish to emphasize etymology (to help foreign learners) or phonemic fidelity or phonetic fidelity or don't know the difference between phonemic and phonetic and just want words to be spelled like you say them, and those buffoons from across the ocean can suck eggs if the spelling gets all fouled up for them and their silly accents.

It's impossible to satisfy everyone. Once you propose any kind of improvement, therefore, everyone comes out of the woodwork to improve the improvement, leading to something which satisfies no one, because no one feels perfectly well-served. "Utopia Or Bust!" sounds good until you realize other people apparently want to lead you to perdition.
This is not a replacement.

I love my Kobo but tend to use my phone because I can buy books using the Amazon android app. I hate the UI (both navigation and the suggestions on which are never what I want to read next) but it works ok for buying books.

A replacement would be a book market place where I can buy DRM free books and use clients on any ebook reader to download them to native format supported by the reader. Wirelessly and without fear of someone keeping track of what I read.

Kobos can be hacked to some extent, but no replacement firmware exists to my knowledge. Their readers already run Linux but I'm sure that they don't release drivers for their display or UI source code.
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Can't you empathise with people who identify as black and have to see phrases like "black magic" meaning evil while "white magic" is good? Why not start here? Are we only changing open ssl because it's easy?
I would like to add this related question to the discussion: what resources/courses/learning techniques do you and others like you who have had an undergraduate Computer Science degree for a few years and are interested in academia but not sure what steps to take next use to continue your study? At some point I would also like to return for a PhD or Master's degree and I would like to keep myself mentally trained, but there are so few resources for higher-level study. All of the online resources I've tried are almost exclusively introductory and don't provide the challenge I crave.

Does anyone taken higher-level courses at a local university in their free time just for the experience and to be surrounded by like-minded individuals while having a professional career?
> No one talked about the KKK or Nazis.

You're very much mistaken. You weren't talking about the KKK or Nazis:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-i...
If the client doesn't trust the server, the crypto protocol is a little irrelevant.

I otherwise agree that we (ostensibly) are in a better place now with pre-defined curves.
I just finished the distributed systems section of teachyourselfcs and I now have a solid understanding of a lot of concepts I previously only shallowly understood.

When I started learning, the recommended textbook was Distributed systems: Principles and Paradigms (the new recommendation is Designing Data-Intensive Applications) and the recommended course was MIT 6.824.

6.824 is the first online course that I have completed fully and it was well worth it. I read, took notes, and summarized all required course readings (around 20 papers) and completed the labs, which involved creating a raft-based key-value store. The labs were especially useful because they forced me to really understand the details of the topics I had learned (e.g., MapReduce, Raft, Raft’s log compaction) in order for my code to pass all the tests.

I’m very happy with the results of following the course and I now plan to put the same amount of effort into other topics.
I think you just described the browser. While there are some efforts to do canvas-only rendering in JS, they aren't mature and are meant for specific use-cases like game boards and stock charts. For a typical website, this approach would likely have negative implications for your site's accessibility and usability; the site would also be harder to index.
Aside from libgen, you can also buy your books from amazon or Kobo and use calibre with the dedrm plugin to free your books. You can then load books from any platform to any reader and keep a copy of them yourself. Even if they delete the ebook from your device, the one you dedrmed will still be there.
This "new trend" is at least 17 years old - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/masterslave/ .

You'll note the text:

> In May 2003, a black employee of the county’s Probation Department filed a discrimination complaint with the Office of Affirmative Action Compliance after spotting “master” and “slave” labels on a videotape machine,

which suggest your "for the sake of making a few white guys" might not be the only purpose.

Other examples have made it to HN, like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7801646 on "Replaced occurrences of master/slave terminology with leader/follower " for Django, from 6 years ago.