skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! It’s semi-fully-automatic; right now the generator is running off my laptop as I make tweaks but I plan to set up a cron job shortly. The page will stick around as long as the domain is still up, and I intend to keep it updating, but as it’s something I knocked together over a weekend I make no guarantees.
The CAP is not just subsidies, it's regulation too - even under its arrangements, because of modern efficiency there is simply too much milk being produced at the European level. In some years, farmers are literally paid to throw it away.

This is because Europeans believe our agricultural peculiarities are worth protecting from the disruption of unbridled economic influences. Countries like France, Spain, or Italy, protect their milk so they can protect their cheese, so they can protect their recipes, so they can protect their food culture (and revenues) at large - a differentiator in the long term.
Then people will create their own root CA and use it to sign the existing root CAs. Whatever it takes. Corporate users need internal certificates.
Fantastic.
Surprised to find myself with cataracts at my age, HN is so much more readable as presented here, comparable in improvement to viewing it under dark mode.

More importantly, by providing the lead/lede, I've found a few more pieces to read that I didn't know I wanted to read just from the headline.
Infinity feed from Hacker News and others providers (YouTube, Twitter, etc.)
Not just documentaries, but films too. Fitzcarraldo, Cobra Verde, and Aguirre Wrath of God are some of the best films ever made.
This will work much better as an online spreadsheet. Thank you for the effort though!
I remember hand tuning the boot sequence on my A5000. I could make it appear to boot and be ready in a few seconds.

In reality it was still loading all its OS patches from disc.

That along with clever use of 16 colours (8 greyscale) and antialiased fonts really gave the impression of a much more advanced machine for the time.

Really loved that machine. :D
Welcome to my life, it pays well but the rewards aren’t in the work of writing software, I like mentoring though so it’s not all negative.
Wow! Six of eight domestic cheeses won at a 'world cheese' competition sponsored by the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association. Colour me surprised! I am sure the fix was not in on that particular contest...

There actually are some good US cheeses, although oddly enough not a single one of them comes from Wisconsin to the best of my knowledge. (Vermont, Iowa, and California in case you were wondering.)
I can't say where, but there is still a RISC OS based real-time radar processing and target tracking system running, providing live data feeds for safety critical systems.

It was a joy to program, but it got killed (in my industry) because customers had been screwed over by vendors locking them into specific hardware, then raising prices once the customer had no way out. So the contracts always specified COTS hardware ... "Commercial Off-the-Shelf". This was always, always interpreted as meaning PC hardware.

We transitioned because we had to, but the lamented the loss of the elegant, simple, clean designs we could use on RISC OS.

I still do.
Really?

I always assumed HN just operate on user voting. And the first batch showing on front-page is handed picked, which I think it's necessary...
YC and HN use the same account system, so you still apply with your HN username. But it's not used as a screening mechanism and, as far as I know, no one involved in YC applications is in the habit of looking at HN posts. Certainly not systematically.
>Ask HN: Why do browsers include developer tools?

For killing poorly-implemented modal overlays on paywalls, of course.
Having worked in print newspaper production, this looks cool, but of course no real newspaper would ever have that much white space.
I would say yes, as long as certificates are unique per-device. The harm of my light bulb's cert being compromised is less than the harm of my light bulb no longer working if the manufacturer's CA goes offline and it can't renew its cert.
Don't forget plastic sneakers, which create microplastic every time you take a step.
> Classes are only a fraction of the in-person university experience in the USA today.

I guess it really depends on the type of student. If I were a college student now, classes alone indeed are a fraction of the in-person university experience. Besides classes, I'd also need:

- Challenging homework and rigorous scoring and feedback -- this would be critical to my future success. Standard tests won't cut it as I need my professors and tutors give me feedbacks on my proofs, my homework, my assignments, and detailed and usually lengthy and overly verbose reports.
- Opportunities to work on a research project with my professors and senior students.
- Office hour with professors.
- Seminar-like classes that students and professors dive deep together on a subject.

Luckily, remote learning can enable all such requirements. The only inconvenience I can think of is that it will be hard to work on a math-intensive problem on a whiteboard, but even that is solvable with something like an iPad and a stylus.

Things I'll miss: libraries. I used to check out 10 to 20 books a time, and spend hours and hours in my college libraries reading them and doing assignments. Classmates turn to friends. There's so much fond memories of hanging out with friends I made in college. We can probably make it up by hanging out online, but the experience will be different from face-to-face interactions.

What I don't need and will be glad to see them gone: all kinds of crazy sports programs. Yeah, football or basketball or whatever. They're nice, but I'm not sure if they are multi-million-dollar nice, at least not to me. I don't give a rat's butt if Caltech didn't win collegiate basketball for 37 years. So what? For all I know, Caltech will be the best college as long it provides the best STEM courses and produces the best research results in the world.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23661780
It's common in large European stores to relegate cheeses to their own sections. While for most anglos, cheddar is synonymous with cheese, this is not the case across the channel.
> Universities that rely heavily on large sums of money from student fees

Is that really normal? As I understand it, most major universities’ revenue is driven largely by research, and the total student fees barely cover the costs of dealing with students; it's true that students paying full sticker price provide surplus revenue, but that surplus revenue largely goes to subsidize the costs of students paying below cost fees.
>Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Would ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ work?
How did you typically launch apps? Through the file manager kind of like classic Mac OS?
What?!?

Cobol has had its last revision in 2014, supports modules, OOP, and even has .NET and JVM backends.

MicroFocus and Fujistsu also have frameworks for cloud deployments and writing microservices in Cobol.

Almost no one cares about C on mainframes beyond porting some POSIX stuff, or running Aix/Linux on an hypervisor.
On DNA/genetics:
Life's Greatest Secret, Matthew Cobb
Siddhartha Mukherjee's books: 'The Emperor of All Maladies' + The Gene are very good as an introduction (start off by watching the PBS documentary)

Jim Baggott's books are good on physics e.g. 'Mass'.
Also Jim Holt, though he was trained as a philosopher.
Penrose 'The Emperor's New Mind' etc are very good but not new.
Bruh I've got tabs open from years ago. Hundreds across multiple VMs. I have tabs open that I migrated from my last computer. Someone please help.
If you're in a context where you can personally install it on phones of friends and relatives, that will work, I agree.

I'm thinking of an example to illustrate what I mean. (Sorry if this appears to be moving the goalposts)

Imagine some small business is selling a home surveillance camera, or a network printer or whatever else. The thing is that it's a product intended for perivate, layman consumers and intended for LAN use.

With HTTP, you could add a local web server as a simple way to manage the device pretty easily: Just open a server, communicate the IP address to the user, done. No internet connection required, no continuing support from the company required. Even if the company went bust, the existing units continued to work and the web interface stayed accessible.

There seems to be no good way to replicate this with HTTPS. The closest seems indeed to be a custom root CA - however, then you need to communicate to your users how to install the CA certificate on their own devices, clicking through all kinds of scary warnings and dismissing "this section is for admins only" notices. I predict that not a lot of people would do that.

This also leaves you with the challange to safely get the certificate to your users. You could serve the certificate from the device over HTTP - however, then you'll require that your customers download a root certificate, over an unencrypted connection without any integrity checks and install it on their device. This seems like ripping open a mojor security hole.

Meanwhile, even if the company purchases a domain and attempts to get a certificate from a public CA, deployment will be difficult as described in all the other branches of this thread.

In short, I think you can pick any three of the following four conditions, but I see no way to archieve all four at the same time.

(1) use modern web features (all recently added and all future features require https)

(2) have your site usable on a client device that does not belong to you

(3) present a non-confusing user experience (no cert warnings, etc)

(4) have the device stay accessible even after you stop actively supporting it (by purchasing domains, running cloud services, having deals with CAs, etc etc)
I love stuff like this so here are my contributions:

1 - the economist audio edition. I always found it incredibly exhausting and impossible to keep up on current events in a moderately objective way (nothing is perfect). The economist audio edition ate up all my podcast time but allowed me to feel well informed across various topics. I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys following geo-politics, economics and other topics. They allow download to mp3 and stream via an app (I use musicolet on Android).

2 - RM Williams Chelsea boots. These are perfect chelsea boots for those who are in the market. I will buy many more pairs in my lifetime. Comfortable from day 1.

3 - a reusable water bottle that brings you Joy for the office or work setting. Drink water!!
Show HN: 8-bit CPU simulator in C
It's not quite done. I'm still working on the memory components and the instruction set. Feel free to uncomment the testing functions in test.c to see the other components. Also feel free to give advice on ALU and instruction set design.
It would be helpful to understand what numbers you're using to make these claims.

For e.g., White non-hispanics make up ~62% of the US population. At Google they make up 65.9% of leadership representation.

Black non-hispanics make up ~12% of US population and only 2.6% of Google leadership representation.
Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
Blessedly, in the complex analytic setting, these coincide, to they not? [Attempting to sanity-check my own understanding here]
I remember seeing the specs on the Itsy and wondering how it had more MHz than a Pentium Pro. I was developing for the Palm Pilot at the time. (16MHz Motorola 68328)
"...bridges and civil engineering projects are designed to last, why can we also design software for it to last?"

Some software has lasted for many decades. This isn't necessarily a good thing. [1]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/ibm-scrambles-to...
I left reddit for hacker news, because it doesn’t have much politics. Please remove this garbage, it doesn’t add any value to readers.
Absolutely. The UX was wonderful - pervasive scalable elements, lovely font hinting, and everything just felt "right"; the problem was that, like Windows 3.x and System 7, it was a co-operative façade laid over a single-tasking kernel.

If AmigaOS had the UX of RiscOS, or RiscOS had the multitasking of AmigaOS, it would have been a beautiful thing.

[on edit] Other people have mentioned the Basic implementation, and it was very impressive - far and beyond most versions, and very much a useful programming language with an accessible syntax.
Racket Programming the Fun Way by James Stelly
Great comment.

I agree that companies would much rather do the exploiting and leave exploration to the government.
That’s why self-signed and "local signed" should be distinct concepts, IMHO. The .local domain is already special cased, and could provide a different UI path more akin to how SSH works. AFAICT, you can’t get a https cert for a .local domain, so it’d not break existing https security model. It’d provide a more secure way for apps like syncthing to provide a secure local UI as well. Getting browsers to accept my self-signed certificate is a pain and makes people just use http.
I’m not assuming anything. I’m merely pointing out that both scenarios described had the same desired outcome.
Once again I suffer from time-zone-ism, where someone on the internet announces it on "28 June", but it's actually already 29 June and it's too late for me to fully enjoy Tau Day.
John Cochrane, over at Hoover wrote about university finances in light of Covid19 a few months back. Worth a read.

https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2020/04/university-financ...
Great! One thing I've heard that at that scale, a lot of the professor's time is taken by student logistics type issues.
Very good article! Thanks!
If you're interested in more detail:
https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/SysCall/linux...
I "solve" that by preferring to post without connecting the posts to my identity. I noticed that this has allowed me to still get my voice heard, without tying my ego to it or risk problems or degradation of my pulblic personae.

Be it pure cowardice or something else even when I was much younger I understood that having something published under my name can bring me harm. In today's climate this is even more so even though my thoughts are far from the current topics.

As mentioned above it also helps to divorce it from your ego as much as it can be done, since as all the blame goes so does all the praise, and it allows you to both satisfy your need to vocalize your thoughts or ideas but also to see it just as one dimension of yourself that many readers ( including myself) fail go do when they generate opinion about the totality just by the excerpt or your thought in that time.

Also letting something sit for a while will help you immensely in seeing if this writing represents the you in the spur of the moment or is it something of more importance, maybe even bigger than you.

At the end of the day from me is more important that an idea or thought is made manifest than that there was a specific person that created that thought. Once "on the paper" for me the ownership of that is no longer mine its its own, as much as that can make sense.
I guess I could see that for a small subset of the arguments presented, but that leaves all the rest. Honestly, "There's nothing sensitive on my site anyway." covers 90% of arguments I've seen against HTTPS and that answer is strong. The presence of weak arguments doesn't undermine the strong arguments.
To clarify, this is hires (as per the thread "Viewpoint: 'I feel like I was accidentally hired'").
Kind of a dumb choice since it is one of the few world-class US products that you can actually depend upon. If you are choosing something decent it is likely to come from the west coast of the US where the food production and environmental regulations are as good as and often superior to the EU. Unlike products produced in bulk and sold as undifferentiated commodities wine, wine is tied directly to the specific vintner and their reputation.
It’ll keep running as long as the cron job doesn’t break. It might even keep running after that, if I get around to doing maintenance, but I’d like to keep expectations low. Worst-case scenario someone can always fork it and leave an issue on the repository explaining where to find the new one.
Self driving cars will fit in well with Amazon's quest for last-mile delivery.

Take a look at how long it takes to deliver a package today. The driver drives up, parks. Gets out, goes to the back and finds your package. Grabs it, walks over to your door, drops it off (and takes a pic), then walks back, closes the door, straps on the seat belt, looks up directions to the next stop, and then drives off.

With an automated truck, you wouldn't have a driver; you'd just have a delivery person. While the truck is driving, the delivery person (DP) would grab the next package. As soon as the truck stops, s/he hops out with the package and drops it off. Then, the moment s/he climbs back on and and sits down, the truck is off to the next stop.

By my estimate, it would cut down the delivery time to half of what it is currently. IOW, a DP + truck could deliver 2x as many packages. You can expect the tech to pay for itself in just a few years.
Totally agree. The current situation with the complexity of browsers is crazy. Its implications are spoiling all around other technologies and causing all sorts of issues, like this one.
>I wish I could build general purpose apps with it.

Why can't you?

I mentioned this in the previous thread about this, people build general purpose apps in Unity all the time. And Godot's own UI is a Godot application. There may be some edge cases where it doesn't work, but considering the current standard for native applications is to wrap webapps in individual Chrome instances, I can't see Godot being subpar.
I guess you live at least 3𝛕/8 radians east of me.
About 6 months ago I applied for a job at Chicago Botanic Gardens, which was hiring on the basis of a 10 million dollar grant from the "Negaunee Foundation." After doing a little digging, I discovered that the Foundation was run by a Koch-type billionaire family. It cannot be a coincidence that the majority of the money seemed to be earmarked for eliminating invasive species. Literal NIMBYs

A contrapuntal perspective, which I haven't gotten around to reading yet, is "Beyond Invasive Species" by Tao Orion. Not an expert, but I would imagine that as in most things, the first rule of permaculture/ecology should be "first do no harm."

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_W._Colburn
https://www.chicagobotanic.org/research
https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/beyond-the-war-on-invas...
Just pay COBOL developers an obscene salary.

You'll have tons of eager applicants claiming to have years COBOL experience at your door in no time.
You don't ask the first meal for free when you go to the restaurant, do you?
This post itself being on the front page gives a sweet Droste effect
A few minutes ago I added some extra space because people were complaining and excessively narrow margins have always been a bugbear of mine. Sounds like I may have overdone it a little; I’ve just changed the text to justified (which helps each section look a bit more like a cohesive solid block) and bumped the margins back down a bit.
The Wirecard stack so far:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23662704

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23638624

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23611347

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23573386

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23598824

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23438323

This, from a year ago, reads interestingly now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19737344
News flash, opposing opinion may have caused doubt in The One Truth, lol.

Writing stories like this is a great way to kill the free press. Just better hope whatever party or ideology you prefer is in power when the censorship comes.
Pretty URLs do not contradict hypermedia designs. They may leak abstraction, but they can be a convenient implementation detail, decoupling access management and routing from processing the request.
User would still be stuck learning git in order to contribute to almost anything or for the majority of jobs. It might make sense to learn in addition to git I'm not sure its as good an idea instead of.
Right, if you want a bottle of wine that stands some chance of containing mainly grapes, you're shelling out $30/bottle for estate-bottled wines of reputable viticultural areas. It's just too expensive.

On the other hand this is why I only buy California olive oil. You never know what's in European olive oil.
Xbox Series X: We’re Not Interested in Tflops Numbers
I'm half black. I think my story started pretty bad but become much better so sharing hoping someone else may feel more hopeful.

I grew up in a south european racist country and I had some fun times.
Nothing serious, kids making fun of me, cops stopping me to check if I was dealing drugs, if I had a passport or a knife.
I started working when I was 14 as a developer online, mainly because I wanted to get out of there and stop being surrounded by idiots. That country was terrible for jobs anyway and by 16 I was getting a decent pay for the country, just by making a few ad supported website and by freelancing with the rest of the world.
At 22, after getting my dose of almost free university, I ran to London, where I never experienced any form of racism.
I raised some money for my startup (which failed) without particular problems and after that I started contracting.
Given my provable experience, I got senior level jobs pretty much immediately and got a nice pay for Europe at 23-24 (90k+£) which increased and become a remote half eng half manager job in the following years. All those racist kids back in my home country are still stuck in jobs paying less than a barista in the UK.

It doesn't matter what other people think. Your perceived "race" doesn't matter, it's just one of the characteristics that define you and some people will react positively and give you free scholarships or quota jobs. Some people will react negatively and think you're a criminal, some won't give you a job. That's life.
Probably something similar happens to you because of your height, because you're attractive / ugly, because of your gender, because you dress well / bad. If you were to think of all the possible positive and negative characteristics that influence how someone is perceived, you could partition people in so many different groups, you wouldn't even know who you should "positively discriminate" which means negatively discriminate everyone else.
But there are so many other things you can do to improve yourself and compensate with words and skills whatever bias may someone else hold.

I had some insecurities linked to my skin color and to some physical defects but, as part of training to become a better leader, I learned to embrace them and to use them to to surround yourself with people who can be positive for you.

I don't like how this issue has been politicised recently and I think it reflects incredibly poorly on us. One of the stigma I have to fight is that of scaring someone if we're walking in the same street at night. I hope the situation will not get worse and that we won't raise a generation of kids that think that black people = violent riots to steal tv and get money.
The 360 DVD drive hack didn't do anything at all to enable unsigned code. It was only for piracy. The King Kong shader exploit would be a more appropriate example :)
how does this affect a private enterprise CA. assume that all clients trust the internal CA infrastructure. will Chrome complain about internal certificates longer than 398 days after the change?
Maryland offshore wind farm could become stop-over for migrating sturgeon, bass