skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many academics use Sci-Hub now as an essential service, otherwise they cannot access academic papers unless they are on arxiv or similar sites. Many universities can't afford Elsevier or Springer-Natures prices. If a university lacks access then a graduate student would have to pay $30-100 per article. It is insane. Unfortunately open access is still not sufficient because top journals are frequently not open or researchers cannot afford the price for hybrid open/paywall journals to make their paper open access ($1000-$6000 per paper).

Not a fan of Bitcoin though due to its inefficiency and environmental/energy costs.

Link to Elsevier open access publishing fees: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.elsevier.com/__data...
Indeed, sounds similar, though 2014 isn't quite ‘early years’ in my book, and MS doesn't seem to be involved here.

On my feeble attempts at searching, the results were instead filled with laments about high values of latency on touchscreens and modern PCs.
Yeah, I'm not convinced. Not in the slightest. JPMorgan has something like 250,000 employees. Just think of how many divisions and departments there are. It might be that someone ran a report at a high level over some major projects and said, "We're not using it." I guarantee it's still there in pockets still being used and still being maintained.
Yes, big lens means a lot. And today they have a nasty trend of using software enhancements and machine learning. I took an aerial photo from a small airplane using Sony smartphone built-in camera app. It postprocesed trees so badly that I never used this builtin app again. I am using OpenCamera and it is "ok enough for a smartphone". And funny thing is they are very proud of this postprocessing, saying you lose their secret keys after you unlock bootloader and this magic will stop working. Soon more and more of the photo will be fake, just computed/guessed by the software. Quite sad IMO.
Baseline pay is arbitrary, so if you're always working the same night hours it doesn't matter what part is called base salary and what part is additional payment for night work.
That seems odd to me. If there's any use of bytes, you would have to sprinkle in a lot of dodgy version checks and facades.
Six cores means nothing when the cores are slow.
I’ve had iPhones in our family since the 4 and have never had difficulty finding whatever parts I needed (several batteries and 1 screen). Most malls have a kiosk where iPhones are repairable if you don’t want to DIY.

While I wish by-Apple repairs were cheaper, I also wish car repairs were cheaper at the dealer.
There's a distinct whiff of "I hate Perl and must stomp it" in this guy's articles.
I know right. Banks are so risk adverse now, the biggest thing people are worried about is breaking things and downtime. Running on 10 year old platforms isn't a problem as long as there is no outage. No wonder they're getting killed by Citadel.
> Would rather have to trust one company than several,

What? Get the google pixel. One company. They don’t manufacture the phones but have complete control over them... and they are really good.
> We all knew Python 2.7 was going to be EOL on January 1st 2020.

Note that this just means that the Python people won't support Python 2.7 going forward. I think you will be able to get Python 2.7 support if you pay for it for perhaps literally the next hundred years.
Tools like Dwarf Therapist might give the impression that labor assignments actually matter a lot in the game, but really workers are really productive and a full-grown fortress of 200 dwarves can be easily run by under 10 workers. You could assign all your labors in the embarking screen, assign the first few arrivals as farmers and miners, and all the rest can be left to idle, or drafted into the military, or made scholars or priests or entertainers.

The likely reason for there not being food is underproduction. Causes of that could be not having enabled planting for every season, planting textile crops or crops that need to be processed before they are edible (if the textile crop fields are too large it might be fine on embark when you have only 5 seeds, but end up using up all planting time once the seed count is high), lacking seeds, perhaps from cooking the plants directly (cooking does not give back seeds), or being bottlenecked on field size or planter count. Food will rot if not in a food stockpile, but the rate is pretty slow and easy to outproduce, also if underground the rot will produce miasma making it easy to notice. The next likely reason is that a single dwarf might have become unable to path to food. In such a case the dwarf is likely walled off from the fortress in either the caverns or the surface, because anywhere else there wouldn't be water and they would die of dehydration first. Disabling web gathering at game start helps prevent dwarves being stranded in the caverns. It's also possible all food was forbidden or there was an active civilian alert.

It's a bit complex in that there are many ways to fail, but again the winning formula is simple. For me the learning curve was first giving up because I didn't even know what I was looking at or that z-levels existed, and then a year or two later watching a video tutorial that quickly laid down all the basics, and finding the game relaxing to play after that. Unfortunately I don't remember what the tutorial was and some tutorials out there are pretty mediocre, e.g. anything that recommends making a refuse stockpile outside is not adequately conveying that sealing off your fortress from the outside world is key, and IMO building an indoors well should be mentioned as something you need to do even if the process's not covered.
iMac Pro missing in that list?
Yes, it is. My understanding is that some people use bitcoin as a bridge for remitting funds into Venezuela.

But this is a niche usage. What locals really want are dollars. Something like 50-60% of all Venezuelan transactions are now being conducted with U.S. paper money and Zelle.
This. I remember the C64 BASIC mostly as a glorified loader for the machine code. I even typed in a monitor published in some magazine just so I could push the machine nearer its limits.
Not to mention doing a detailed study of the geography and history of medieval feudal Europe, including just what the heck agnatic-cognatic gavelkind succession is and that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire.

Some days I prefer a sickly in-bred imbecile devil-worshipping king, and some days I just want to deal with short sturdy creatures fond of drink and industry.
Instagram is not the place for these kinds of photos. They compress them to 100 kB JPEG garbage with the same width and height. And videos of 1000 mbps bandwidth are limiting like crazy. I still don't understand why people use Instagram. I never used it and never will.
Use the expand operation to put the operands in larger bitfields - you have 512 bits to play with, the input took 128, so you can expand each byte to a 32 bit value and use 32 bit multipliers.

Then you can use larger than byte operations and larger than byte multipliers if you need them.

Alternatively,

First pass you do all the 1,10,100 cases in one pass, using multipliers 1,10,100,0 (throw out last byte).

Then mask (or use the compression instructions as needed) and use the larger bit versions and do all the 1000 multiplier cases in one pass.

Then you merge them all in one pass.

It merges 4 at a time for the large pass and 3 at a time for the small pass instead of 2 at a time.

I'll write it up later today if I get time.
Was expecting more info on how repayment works thru the revenue sharing notes - not clear what percentage of revenue a business is agreeing to pay or how much teeth these notes actually have. I would expect most of these “investments” to end in a almost complete write downs. Could be a great funding alternative if the details / investor protections were fleshed out. I personally would not touch any of these until then.
> When apple device stops being supported, it’s just not getting any more updates

If effectively means it is absolutely unsafe to use anymore. Security bugs are found in browsers all the time.

>Also, the general consumer does not care if you can flash a rom from xda. They care about the official updates.

At least there is an option. Also this is exactly why I mentioned F-Droid, which is just an app.
Minimum Number of Settlers for Survival on Another Planet
Nothing against Python, but I'd have expected the choice of a little more (statically) typed language for such a critical application (also considering future maintenance). Any reasoning behind why?
Is there really no community around "freedom of knowledge"? Why not? How can we make it happen?
And 4KB page support is missing on A12X/Z too.
Tell HN: If you like stuff others make, tell them
We make a small VR game called Snap Blocks, and reviews (like this one: https://twitter.com/kosmosschool/status/1276476694237511689) keep us going.

If you enjoy something others make, be it a game, software, service, restaurant, coffee shop or something else, do let them know. Just a few kind and genuine words or a nice review will make all the difference to people, even if it doesn't seem like a big deal from your perspective.

That's all. Have a lovely rest of your day :-)
I think you’ll need something more than a feeling, to disagree with the person tasked with finding uses of Perl at JP Morgan on how much Perl is used at JP Morgan

Also it sounds like you didn’t read the piece as this comes right at the start:

> search covering repositories with 50M lines of code and thousands of servers
I know a lot of these legacy banks/financial institutions seem to operate in a time-shifted bubble a good few decades in the past, so maybe that explains it?

Decades maybe not necessarily, but years definitely. It boils down to the very real risk of being sued for damages if something's wrong with a payment.

I'm currently in a project which aims to re-write the front-end of a library of banking components - from AngularJS to Angular 9. The product is fairly simple to use, but still it's being delivered a year before AngularJS's end-of-life which will be after the 30th June 2021, because the time window for ensuring this thing works according to the banks' use cases must be as wide as possible.
I didn't know either! Searching for "wego weather" shows this CLI: https://github.com/schachmat/wego

Reading the readme for chubin/wttr.in also clarifies what "wego" is:

> wttr.in uses wego for visualization and various data sources for weather forecast information.

"wego" in that sentence is also linked to schachmat/wego so seems to confirm is that one.
Ask HN: What is it called when person attributes their opinion to some 3d party?
A manager in my company keeps using this trick where she would say "
I received some comments/questions about what you did/said, can you explain?". I am 100% sure it's coming from her but she has no guts to say it.

I would like to call her out on it but I don't know how this trick is called. Are there any names for it?
And the architectures are Cortex-A, Cortex-R and Cortex-M!
Financial Statements: A Beginner's Guide
I have a dev background and think that Ansible is much nicer to work with than Chef and Puppet.
I'm guessing Deutsche Bank is hiring Perl developers for fun then?

https://db.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/DBWebsite/job/New-Yor...

EDIT: since it was silently changed: This was originally titled and submitted as "Are banks still using Perl in 2020? The answer is no." (still visible in the URL slug)
The iMac Pro is officially supported.
Assuming you're not joking, which macOS version are you currently running?
Wasn't bitcoin the first true grassroots cypherpunk project? :)
Feels like a shrewd purchase. Build your own from scratch for 3 billion or take a stake in one already built for 500 million.

Interesting it's only 20% though
find -delete

Might be helpful.
Insisting Simplicity on the Fire Movement, Permaculture, and Simple Living
Acoording to ethics class during basic training in the Australian army, the key difference between soldiers and civilians is that military personnel are under a legal obligation to follow all lawful orders. The class highlighted that police are (by definition) civilian because police are only obligated to obey reasonable orders.

So a soldier refusing to carry out a lawful order that would result in near-certain death is guilty of a crime. A cop refusing to carry out the same order is entirely within their rights.

And then there was also a lot of discussion of the difference between lawful and unlawful orders, My Lai, Nazi Germany, etc.

Some Australian police recently refused to deal with people who had covid-19, because they argued it was unreasonably dangerous.

At least in theory, military personnel are held to a much higher ethical standard than civilian police.
Trump's audience when he talks about what he does for Black people are "moderate" whites that want to believe Trump isn't racist. He is though, he retweets white supremacist memes regularly and says them in speeches.

He also hires lots of white supremacists both in government and for his campaign work. Some of them have a lot more interest in the history than Trump does.

Look up Stephen Miller. Whether it was Miller specifically-- campaigns have a lot of staff. None of this stuff is conceived and directed by a single person.
Even the Indian software service companies are going remote which suggests remote work is going to be future https://www.news18.com/news/business/tcs-says-75-of-its-3-5-...
Many oldies don't have families.
> This has been driving me mad for the better part of a year

Also here - I quit using desktop Safari just for this reason.

I could write a full URL, press enter, and Safari would take me to a different page on a different website from my history.

It then seems almost impossible to reach the URL I wanted. I got into the habit of copying the URL to the clipboard in case I needed to re-try, or use another browser.

(This doesn't appear to be happening to me right now)
Stop using it.
so perl is not actively used and developed by the perl community? i would have sworn i saw a new release this year?!
> I know right. Banks are so risk adverse now, the biggest thing people are worried about is breaking things and downtime.

Yeah, it's funny though that the ones who've stuck to their aging mainframe systems and haven't invested in maintenance and reducing technical debt have the worst uptime.

https://github.com/openbankingspace/tpp-issues/issues?q=is%3...

https://twitter.com/nickrw/status/1141058572547215360

https://twitter.com/kieranmch/status/1188118150757224449

It's okay though, because they generally don't even tell the customers when it's broken.

I get status updates, good quality technical post-mortems and generally very good uptime from my modern bank.
The mixing of unfixed and fixed timesteps leads in my opinion to one of the greatest headaches in game development. Unity and Godot for that matter advice you to put all physic related scripts in a FixedUpdate method and game Logic scripts inside Update.

But it is never that simple. So you have to process your input in Update and forward actions to FixedUpdate yourself if physic objects are affected. And this alone leads to numerous tricky problems.

And then everything goes down quickly if you have physic related objects which also affect your gamelogic. What to do? Process everything in FixedUpdate always? Well, say goodbye to immediately processed input.

Additionaly, don't forget that you need to interpolate or extrapolate rigidbodies, otherwise you won't see them move smoothly if the physic world updates at 60HZ and your screen at 144Hz. And as soon as you do that, the representation on the screen does not always match the physic world, which is really bad for fast gameplay.

And if you do something wrong, your whole physic simulation can explode.

I haven't found a nice and simple solution to all of this, which works for all cases, even though I really tried [1] and I believe many games suffer from delayed input handling, micro-stuttering or unreliable physics due to mixing fixed and unfixed timesteps.

[1] https://www.zubspace.com/blog/smooth-movement-in-unity
Product Landing Page Design Inspiration and Examples
But there's a reason for this. No one wants to be unable to pay for something when they really need it (gas,.. ).

So downtime for banks is very bad for business and for people's lives.
So, we can't even buy a washing machine that actually cleans the clothes? I'm not looking forward to the future.
> But as a solution for the institutional failures it still is not a replacement

I don't think one can call PayPal an institution. As for an ability to transact - I don't see why shouldn't we replace institutions that prevent us from transacting.

Failing business models of Elsevier and likes are a problem of their shareholders. I, personally, want them crushed.
You'd be surprised at how popular Stalin seems to be in Russia and Central Asia countries. Forgot the link but I read that 45% of Russians have a positive opinion of him. Yes he did all those atrocities but more importantly he brought national pride. After all, he did win WW2 and turned the country into a world superpower that rivaled with the US for decades. As time passes the memories of the atrocities fade and the national pride grows. Just like the French praise Napoleon who led hundreds of thousands of young men to their deaths in ruinous wars, the British praise Churchill who orchestrated a famine that killed millions of Bengali people, Americans praise the slave-owning founding fathers, etc.
I use this to bring revert the ugly full width header:

.pagehead {
box-shadow: inset 0 -1px 0 #e1e4e8;
}

.pagehead > * {
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 1278px;
}
Agreed! It’s a pet peeve of mine too. Here’s some history on why it’s that way and on a better UX:

https://www.makebetterfood.com/about/
I mean, the Sci-Hub transactions are real criminal transactions and PayPal is 100% in the right to ban them. It isn’t about “enhancing their image,” it’s about protecting them from significant legal liability.

This isn’t to say that Sci-Hub should be illegal and I am very sympathetic to the argument that scientific research should not be copyrighted. But it is clearly breaking the law as written.
Because the trader was public that he was shorting and why, and filed complaints with the German regulators.
I'm still not sure I get the distinction.
Shure!!

http://9front.org/releases/

.386.iso 386 pc

.amd64.iso amd64 pc

.pi.img arm paspberry pi 1, 2 and 3

.pi3.img arm64 raspberry pi 3 and 4
I never worked at JPMorgan but a lot of the investment banks went towards a single platform for everything. JPMorgan had Athena, Bank of America had Quartz, and they both use Python. Goldman Sachs had something similar whose name I forget (slang?)

At least in 2011 when I last worked in the industry, this sort of infrastructure was replacing the ad-hoc data-munging scripts that people used. It was even slowly eroding some of the Excel-based workflows designed by less software-engineery teams. 10 years later, I'm guessing it's only doing more than it was back then.
Weekend Roundup: Apple's New iOS, Facebook Whacks VR Headset
I hadn't heard of Bain Capital previously, but this article certainly doesn't paint them in a good light: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/greed-an...
Technically impressive solutions to invented problems
See my comment in the neighbor thread
Conservative media misinformation may have intensified the pandemic: 3 Studies
I have an entrepreneur in my family. After watching him build businesses I have realised these two things when it comes to understanding what business to start:

- Trying out multiple projects(however small they may be) opens a lots of doors because people start talking to you about their own pain points! and

- Luck favours the bold; you need to take risks.

And one thing is very important, "Get out of the building and meet people".

So is there a luck factor in PMF? No, there isn't. You find PMF when you try different things while at the same time talk to people(past, present and prospective customers).

I will give you an example. The person I mentioned above initially started with a small business of supplying toiletries to businesses(big and small). One day one of his customers asked him whether he would be able to supply instant tea and coffee mix to the business. He agreed and started supplying tea and coffee. Went to other businesses and asked if they would be interested. Got sizeable amount of customers. One day, one of his tea and coffee customers, a defence establishment, asked him if he could arrange student visits to their facility for educational purpose. He agreed. Then went to lot of other schools and businesses and asked them if he could help them arrange student visits. He got success in that! Now he has recently started building a park(with space theme) for students.

So, if you look at the journey it is not some magic with which one finds a PMF. The entrepreneur has to go out and talk to people so that s/he receives the right signals. And then be bold enough to take the risk to start working on the problem.
It's not enough to have an equivalent capability - if you want a Hackintosh, you'll need to present those capabilities in a way that fools macOS into believing it's running on supported hardware. For now, ARM has been limited to the low-power desktop/mobile and high-end server niches. Apple Silicon will go for the space between as well.

OTOH, Apple is smart enough not to tightly marry its software to a given hardware architecture - they were compiling Rhapsody for Intel from day one and a lot of iOS is directly lifted from macOS. Its lineage started running on 68K, then HP-PA, SPARC, x86, then mostly PPC, then mostly x86 again, and now it'll switch to mostly ARM.
The point is to work towards mutualism. I language assumes you're both interested in moving forward together.

If you're not interested in moving forward together then I or you language doesn't really matter.
Pump your JavaScript and algorithmic skills
While I don't have any roles or opportunities available, when you say things like this:

contact us if you have any exciting
jr. dev roles/opportunities

... it would help if you had contact details in your HN profile.
This appears to be a sort of Magic Eye?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_eye_tube
I imagine Comcast would not sell DNS data; far better to simply use it internally with, for example:

- NBC

- Telemundo

- USA Network

- SyFy

- Universal Pictures

- Sky Group
You're probably right. I do remember hearing about 4 million colours at the time, and being wowed by the amazingly subtle colour, but 4 million does indeed sound very unlikely.
Bitcoin isn't so bad fees wise. https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/fee-calculator/ is showing 3c if you will wait 8 hrs or 72c for 40 min. It has other problems as a practical payment mechanism though - lots of people don't take it, it's always kind of slow, you have to have your passport scanned and pay fees to convert it to fiat etc. Some of those apply to other crypto too.
It means you get to work with issues that emerge from asymmetric multiple cores. It's more fun if you like to look to the metal from up close.
It is important to look at the axis and see there is no major growth right now it is floating around at 500 BTC per week which is about 4 million usd or approximately zero. This transaction volume is a rounding error for a country of that size
Germany Regulator Takes More Wirecard Heat as EU Seeks Probe
I have maintained a fork of LCS. The code is unspeakably horrible. It's like its been run through an obfuscator. It requires a hardened, dedicated developer who has developed life-long immunity to code cooties to hack it.
I'm willing to come out against anyone developing a fingerprint gun that allows them to take fingerprints from everyone attending a mass gathering, too.
Poor camera in the photo... They were built like tanks and it must have been quite a drop.