skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [...]it's fairly safe to assume it takes up less than a percent of overall European science funding.

No it's not. We're in a thread where the cost of the LHC and its successors is being contrasted against funding for other comparable fundamental research, such as gravitational wave or neutrino detectors etc. Or other projects anyone might reasonably classify as fundamental research.

You're conflating that with R&D budgets. Let's take your example of Norway. 50% of its R&D budget is goes to industry, and 50% of that to the service industry. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that nobody in Norway's service industry is going to be getting a Nobel any time soon.

Due to how state subsidies are regulated in the EU's single market (and Norway, Iceland etc. count here too, they're in it through the EEA) R&D has become a backdoor for state subsidies. A supermarket paying a consultant to improve their billing system can be doing "research" and get a tax write-off or a state grant.

So you really shouldn't assume that you can conflate R&D in the EU's twisted definition with what is commonly understood to be R&D.

Now, back to Norway's numbers. In [1] you can see that around 20% of that $6bn goes to institutes, and around page 20 or so in [2] you can see where all this money goes.

Without going into a lot of detail I think it's fair to say the overall budget is mostly irrelevant to what we're discussing here. I'll let the fact that as [2] shows the industrial sector gets 50% of the funding but produces 2% of the scientific publications speak for itself.

Once you tease all this apart you'll find that by any sane definition the LHC and its successor project eat up a huge amount of the money that's spend on fundamental research of the sort that might yield a Nobel price any other measure you might use as a proxy for a fundamental new discovery in science.

And of course even the LHC/FCC blurs the line between the two. If CERN could spend that same money on more whiteboards and chalk for physicists and get the same results it would never be funded. The real purpose of the project includes being a subsidy for Europe's high-tech industries.

Once you peel back the curtains on how any of these projects are run you'll find that member states that kick in some % of funding expect and mandate that approximately that % works its way back to them in one way or another. In "The Large Hadron Collider: A Marvel of Technology" by Lyndon R. Evans it's mentioned that the initial construction plan for the LHC was rejected by member states since it didn't do a good enough job of spreading the pork around.

1. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YRYPqQ...

2. https://www.forskningsradet.no/contentassets/8f25adbfd4cb437...
I wrote a lot of popular web apps in Perl, some that appeared in NY Times and Time mag. I quit around 2010 and went over to php which is easier. Wrote a great app and built a successful software biz around it. I think 2010 may have been when Perl 6 felt hopeless and there was no clear leadership or direction in the community.

Mod_perl was the sh*t back in the late 90s for super high performance web apps on Apache. Then Perl stalled and everything else didn’t.

Perl could have been where Python is today if they didn’t take 20 years to waffle about a release that was supposed to do everything and ended up doing nothing because everyone left.
3.1. Get a sane link to a build artifact (something like latest `master`). This can be worked around if you just publish them on Gitlab Pages, a nice solution now that they even have authentication.
I grow sprouts on my kitchen counter. Mostly they require lavage. For the last day or two they require light to turn green and possibly develop flavor; they don't need much.
Ah, interesting. My assumption is that "just give it back to people" would entirely sidestep the question of how to spend the funds, but I suppose it suffers from the https://xkcd.com/927/ problem ;)
I think shells did $ for vars first, then Perl added @ and % for arrays and hashes (and then $ was refs)
> Telegram is by far a superior product to WhatsApp.

For one simple reason: bots.

One of my Raspberry Pi projects is a bot to delete from the family group any post containing the name of politicians. This wiped out political flame-wars and fake news.

It is very easy to make Telegram bots. You basically create a website, register it in a dynamic dns, add an ssh certificate (letsencrypt or your own) and add it to your group.
I am saying it is better to let the market along with people using their free will decide.

Yes MS still has 90% market share with the desktop - but it doesn’t matter. People’s attention and all of the energy and money moved to the web and mobile making alternate platforms viable. Apple alone sells more iOS devices than all personal computers combined. It’s only 15% of the market.

It wasn’t the government that allowed Apple and Google define the current era of computing.

When it comes to office, Google’s offerings and Apple’s offerings are good enough and they are free. Office 365 is an excellent deal compared to paying $600 for Office like you did in 2000.

Most people can get by with an iPad or a Chromebook and Macs are a viable alternative.

As far as Google, outside of Sheets and Maps, I find most of Google’s products second rate. I use alternatives I used Google search for the first time in ages without an ad blocker and I found it to be an abomination.
The big issue with this type of thing is that there is no moat. As long as it is small not to attract attention, you are fine.

However, if it becomes big, or a larger company sees it as strategic, then it is hard for you, especially for Enterprise software. Suppose Microsoft or Amazon uses the same Guacamole components to create a solution. Then they send their sales people to the CTO of the Enterprise. "We heard you are using this Guacamole software in your enterprise. Why don't you buy our solution instead. It has the same features (actually, even the same code), but it is supported by Microsoft (or Amazon) instead of Glyptodon, Inc."
JavaScript Works
Pro is still primarily targeted towards individual users, albeit as a "productivity-focused" version. Businesses are mostly targeted by Enterprise, and they (along with educators) are the only customers for whom MS generally avoids mucking with established configs.
Tell HN: Google Search is Getting Stupid
Yes, in the grand scheme of things this is not really that big of a deal, but I am getting unreasonably frustrated with not being able to find stuff that I know exists.

https://www.google.com/search?q=repo+to+docker

https://www.google.com/search?q=repo+2+docker

And to save you time, no the desired results doesn't exist anywhere in the first 4+ pages.
For fucks sake even "repo two docker" doesn't work.
Possibly - there is functionality to expose an authenticator over bluetooth or NFC, both of which would work for an iPhone or watch to act for an authenticator even into a windows laptop.

There are UX issues there that have to be solved yet. Also, while I haven't gotten my hands deep in what Apple has done yet I suspect this is a browser-level feature and not a platform-level feature, where say your phone would pop up a "do you want to authenticate" screen when held near another computer with BLE the same way you get "do you want to use Apple Pay" today.

Platform level support would allow me to use this directly within other applications and browsers, rather than just from Safari and the SFSafariViewController/ASWebAuthenticationSession Safari-managed views.
> Here's a fun exercise, write a dictionary of arrays.

Umm … ok:

my %dict = (
foo => [ 1, 2, 3 ],
bar => [ 4, 5, 6 ],
);

> Now write a dictionary of 2d arrays.

my %dict2d = (
foo => [ [1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6] ],
bar => [],
);

It’s pretty much identical to JS. Not sure how that’s supposed to exemplify how hard it is to write Perl.
Not everything is a technical problem. No technical solution is going to make the cheapest way to get animal parts in our fridges involve the animals living fulfilling lives.
> That is true. And yet, Microsoft also made many of those employees into millionaires. Is your objection that they should have become multi-millionaires instead? (Yes, I know, not all became millionaires either.)

Microsoft is not a single entity, it is the combined efforts of thousands of talented and not-so talented devs. The success of the company should yield financial reward for all employees at a uniform rate.

> And what is your proposed solution? That business owners not be allowed to keep the profits of their business? That owners of large businesses not be allowed to keep the profits? Or... what?

That they pay their taxes, and that the pay ratios between highest and lowest paid employees in the company are capped to something that is less than 500:1.
Lol you realize this used to be true of iOS too? I know after a few years my 3GS definitely wouldn't be able to handle the next iOS version.
The developer can fix it by either (1) querying "is there clipboard content?" instead of copying it every few keystrokes or (2) stop altogether if there is no legit purpose.

It sounds like this feature is working as intended - closing was was a silent security risk.
It seems to me that technical literacy is irrelevant for this purpose -- even a judge who knows next to nothing about computers should be capable of thinking: search is search.

Unless they thought of computers/phones as equivalent to a garbage can, I don't see how the mistake would be made
Do you have evidence that this is happening? In the moonlighting, IP theft, noncompete etc. stories
you posted higher in the thread, I didn’t see any mention of a stingray. I think it would have been mentioned because a company would have to disclose where they got the data during discovery in litigation, and it would be newsworthy if they used a stingray.

I can believe some companies would use a stringray, but I don’t think the average line manager would be brought into the loop on this. It would be reserved to intelligence operations that never see the light of day, and therefore couldn’t inform low level operations like performance management of the average employee.
Some of anti trust historically has included too much higher of a barrier to effective entry which is how vertical monopolies are coherent as a concept. The issue isn't that owning a chain of iron mines, steel refineries, and factories using the steel stop anyone from running one or their own chains of those things but that to be a competitor a massive amount of capital is required. Effectively creating say an effective hundred million dollar moat to be competitive. In which case the investment might not even be worth the revenue earned as returns diminish as it is either duplicate the production of the leader to match economies of scale or lose by produce more expensive commodities.

I don't quite agree with it philosophically (vertical intergration done right boosts efficency for everyone and done wrong only hurts themselves making it ironically procompetitive for those who don't make the same mistakes) but I can see the logic behind it.
Sure but should all these be part of browsers UX not the website itself?

Maybe we should be pushing browsers to have better UX on-boarding and teaching people that home button will scroll you up to the top of the page etc.
Don't know why you're being down voted. There is absolutely nothing that Windows 10 can do to its users' privacy or nonconsent that will surprise me.
I wish more people would hop on board the info train, which is what the "up / next / previous" style of hypertext comes from (thanks again, Richard Stallman).

People love to shit on info because its default viewer uses emacs keybindings and the documentation "isn't geared for professionals" which is another way of saying providing minimum-viable knowledge (AKA non-OpenBSD man pages).

I happen to love info for those very reasons. Software freedom and usability used to mean that non-developers could understand how to use software. Want to learn how to code in Emacs Lisp? An info book on it comes with Emacs. Want to learn the ins and outs of the coreutils? Bash? gawk? Documentation the size of a book comes with all of them as well, formatted and designed to be friendly to people who have no idea what they're doing.
I'm in a similar boat to the author and have also recently deleted my Facebook and Instagram account - although I'll note that the sneaky "to be deleted" state is now 30 days instead of just 7.

But, similar to the author, I'm having more difficulty getting rid of WhatsApp. This is my primary means of communicating with friends and family all over the world. And for some of them I know it's just not an option to try get them to switch to another platform, especially since I'm not sure which is the better platform. In my opinion, WhatsApp strikes the perfect balance of security and usability. Telegram makes me nervous due to the Russian roots and the numerous security concerns I've read online. Signal is overly secure to the point that usability for regular folk suffers (I've personally had terrible experience with their support after losing a bunch of SMS messages.) Matrix, Riot, MatterMost, and many other opensource apps all look good but not overly user-friendly for novices.

What else is there?
The Alternative is going back to eCommerce where individual shops put up their own web site, market their own website and are liable for their own website (and have control over their supply chain)

Today since the build of consumers are on Amazon if you are a retailer you need to be one Amazon, and if you want access to Prime Customer you need to use Fulfillment by amazon, Where now you loose control over your supply chain due to co-mingled inventory

So even if I have a stellar reputation as A+AcmeMerchant, and customers look for my store on amazon they are not guaranteed to get the product that I sent to amazon, no they could get JoeBobScammers Product even though it was sold "by me" and fulfilled by amazon

So I will not go as far as to say amazon should be liable for ALL sales, but I do agree that any Sale that is shipped from an Amazon Warehouse they should be liable for. They choose to comingle all of their inventory they should face the liability
I have to disagree with you there. Previously, I had to click on the tiny strip before I could see the languages. Now it is available right away.

For a new visitor, this is infinitely better because it is clearly labeled. For returning users, the only hurdle is getting used to the new location (which is made easy by the clear heading).

You could argue that project languages are more important than the contributors and should be placed above that content. Regardless, it is clearly a step forward.
I'm sure someone here has a better explanation for a connection I've been thinking about (and saw on twitter, for what it's worth), so I figured I'd ask here.

I've never looked that much into knitting, but the instructions seem remarkably similar to assembly language instructions. Beyond that, I did a little bit of research into a jacquard loom works the other day, and realized it operated using punch cards. This really fascinates me, because it seems to precede Babbage's machine and yet I never have read particularly much treatment of it in history of computing type treatises.

I wonder if, given some of the conventionally more feminine stereotyped gender roles pertaining to knitting and clothmaking, any of this played into what early conceptions of what a "programmer" was? Was there a point where people reasonably made the inference that the closest analog for what early punch card programming was would be jacquard loom operation and knitting? It is fascinating how it the idea of the vocation of writing software flipped the other way in terms of gender stereotypes.
To be pedantic, version 1 and 2 of iPhone OS did not have a clipboard at all …
Check out the fountain pen thread from last week.
Nobody called them “knowledge workers” outside of Page Mill Dr. when StarOffice was made and Sun didn’t compete in that space as much though Microsoft was starting to eat their lunch in other areas, like academia, government, military, and high end computation.

I worked on a Sun at NOAA in the 90s in Hawaii and the computer we used for bathymetry imaging was a Sun and the ships used Suns.

Most of that equipment was replaced with a little Linux and Windows Servers.
Doesn't help much when the OS itself contains a million first party privacy violations, unfortunately.

Both systems have extreme downfalls with the strategy they have taken, Apple's walled garden, and Google's necessity to use tracking because they are an ad company and this is how they make money.

Overall, Apple's certainly the lesser of two evils, but I think I'll be considering a PinePhone next, once the software ecosystem has matured a bit. I'm going to start speaking with my wallet and not conceding to settling.
Huh, I always assumed it was due to minimum temp laws, where it was cheaper to just heat everything full blast and never have to worry about a 1st floor or basement apartment not getting enough heat, and cheaper than installing valves or thermostats in every unit.

Every apartment I've lived in around NY and North NJ was like this. All had steam radiator heaters, and the heating was so hot, especially in the fall and spring, that you controlled the temp by opening or closing the window over the radiator. All but one also had single pipe radiators[0], so you couldn't turn them down with the valve or you'd end up filling the radiator with water and breaking the system.

However parts of NYC do still have steam heating powered by a central plant (mostly ConEd iirc) so in the end it might actually end up more efficient with the windows open than having a per unit heater.

Edit: Wikipedia link on NYC's system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system

I guess it's just Manhattan that has central steam, but it also provides cooling via absorption chillers and steam for disinfection. Also much of this steam is basically a waste product of electricity generation, so the actual efficiency may be even higher.

Edit 2: I also found and article in NY Times that supports the spanish flu as the reason for this, and also describes 1 vs 2 pipe systems.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/realestate/radiators-stea...
What is VDI in this context?
You're missing the point tough, less functionality is not an "inferior experience" here. It avoids the need to fight the urge for a dopamine fix.
Templating Accessible Components in React Part 3: Buttons
How Hegemony Ends: The Unraveling of American Power
Mesmerising. Our own star, up close. Feels like we would learn a lot about other stars and planets by studying sun.
The Lean Mathematical Library
It didn't happen to end with a '\' did it? :)
It's tough for me to get rid of facebook these days, purely because of FB marketplace. It has almost completely eliminated craigslist in my area for a lot of used items and is significantly nicer to buy/sell things in your area.

I got rid of the timeline by unfollowing _everyone_. Timeline is completely empty. It's bliss
A metric ton of money sitting in a bank is invested when the bank makes loans.
Perl5 was the first language in which I actually did some substantial projects. It was also heavily used in scientific computing (esp. genetics) until python came along.
But when you're done with it, you can just dump it in your Mr. Fusion and get it right back.
Perhaps it's time to legislate that pi = 3 again.

This bullshit has happened more recently elsewhere:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-laws-of-australia-will-tru...

And why does it appear to be conservative politicians, more often than not, who have no idea when it comes to science?
why not just do

gcc main.c && ./a.out
Genius. How large and active is that group chat?
Having WebAuthn work synchronized across devices with iCloud would be technically feasible, but it would not be FIDO certifiable which requires the private keys to stay on device.

Typically deploying WebAuthn means that you have to put more thought into your account recovery flows - you don't want to deploy strong authentication to fall back to email or KBA-based recovery, for example. Then, this recovery may be used both to recover from a lost device as well as to just add a second device.
That doesn't solve dTal's complaint. Bill Gates got rich as an owner, not primarily as an employee.
Maybe look at something where the technical skills are there, but take a second row to the business side of things - something like an RPA (robotic process automation) where the important part is working through the problem with the customer, a bit of process improvement, then automating what's left (with what's essentially easy-mode programming tools). Direct business value that's easy to measure as it's directly impacting customer processes and saving them time, rather than more nebulous improvements.
Nahh, I just run hot. I've lived in a shared place where I don't control the thermostat and the person who does was loathe to let it go above 77 degrees. After months on end, I'd still get uncomfortably warm in such a temperature. On the other hand, I can sit comfortably in 55 degrees in short sleeves with wind. I also have very low body fat, so that's not the culprit either. Believe it or not, people have different preferences and optimal temperatures. I just wish everyone would err far to the side of cold: you can always put on a jacket; I can't keep taking clothing off.
Web Authentication does support being the only authentication mechanism, since it is in itself multi factor (in this case, physical possession of the phone and biometric confirmation)
I wonder what this sort of spam does to your battery life. This really should be a permission configuration.
For reference what is the desired result?
Whats the point of having an App Store as the gatekeeper for installing apps if you aren’t going to catch this shit?
For sure. I am not in a position to determine whether TikTok is looking at clipboard contents for good or evil. I simply wanted to point out that there exist innocent reasons for looking at the clipboard.
Yeah, it's not text/plain. The list has also strayed a bit from what I originally intended, which wasn't so much about loading quickly but more about primarily sticking with marked up, hyperlinked text.

I do intend to reorganise the list to focus on those kinds of sites, but this HN submission caught me by surprise so for now it's just a list of sites the sort of match an aesthetic I like. "totally insane" is a bit harsh maybe.
The locality features are huge. Being able to do database operations near where your users are is a big win for latency in global environments.

Pairing that with edge compute like fly.io is a killer combination. That you can use most of your normal Postgres libraries with it make it an easy transition.
"I use Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, and I feel fine!"

-- most of the planet, but you'd never know it by reading HN
I've said many times that Apple deserves a serious competition lawsuit like Google has been dealing with.

If preloading Chrome on Android is anti-competitive, the way Apple uses its market power to give preferential treatment to its own services vs spotify, onedrive, etc is definitely anticompetetive.
I immediately thought of the Netherlands as well. As I understand it, they began vertical farming more crops thinking that they would be the R&D department for world agriculture, because they could get results faster, and then it would go into "production" in conventional farms, but were surprised to discover that they could (in some cases) compete for the production as well.

It makes total sense to me that this would not be the case for every crop (probably not corn, wheat, or soy for example). But I would also be surprised if vertical farming made sense for NO crops.
They actually have this, and I think its intentionally very creepy: https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare...