skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The market you speak about is itself artificial, created by the copyright regime that we have, and its specific rules. Who decides the rules?
I like how you can tell that the HTML was done by hand. There's a parallel here, something like: handmade furniture is to hand written html as mass produced furniture is to generated html. There's a quality to it.
It is always a balance with risk management. People should wear heavy duty motorcycle gear and a helmet when riding motorbikes, but with cars the same gear is seen as a bit excessive as there are a 30x difference in risk for the two mode of transportation (per distance traveled) and the small but possible risk of a false sense of security might result in worse driver behavior.

If you are near someone in a risk group it seems very good advice to use or even mandate the usage of masks. Same for being around high risk areas such as using any mass transportation. For low risk areas the benefits are less clear and the potential downsides seems to have about as much evidence as the benefits.
There is an active and growing group of hackers trying to make CLOSOS a reality. The current progress can be viewed at https://github.com/robert-strandh/sicl (SICL is the Common Lisp implementation that will be used for CLOSOS)

I am one of the contributors, so please don't hesitate to ask questions or discuss ideas.
Much more. Even under the CPSU public opinion could change and you could be ousted. If you're an oligarch unless you die what you control, you control.
What crash?

The article linked above never explains that part, it only assumes that it will happen. From the code it sounds as if the crash can happen in the OS itself (but then the entire kernel will crash). At that point things are completely outside your control and you might as well running on broken hardware.
Tok FM was the only station that was listened to in my household exactly because of those reasons.

Small, regional stations in Poland are much better in this regard than the big ones with national coverage.

Still, barely anybody invests in licensing the latest songs so there's a more or less stable list which is repeated over and over.
Your prediction was spot-on ufmace. Thanks for a powerful counterpoint to consider. My core value-add should be good content and if I get that right, the list will probably sort itself out.

Also it's reassuring to remember that the people I'm losing were probably never gonna be customers to begin with.
I idolized Torvalds growing up and respect him to this day (I still sometimes randomly say to myself "Hello, this is Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce Linux as Linux!"). I also applaud the strides he's made to improve how he treats kernel contributors.

That said, this is a non-answer and it irks me. The truth is most kernel contributes are likely CHWMs. Instead of this "I can't see color... no literally because of the computers" non-answer he gave, it would mean a lot if he acknowledge that likelihood and outlined what might be done to change it.

I get that convincing people to work on free software is sort of hard to begin with. Also I get that when companies pay full time employees to work on the kernel its usually a boon for the whole community. That said, it would be cool (and free!) if the kernel leadership signaled to those companies that they should take diversity more seriously when they are hiring individuals to work on the kernel.
Never expected that from the last of us part II
This entire article is an ad, clearly it worked.
Hm that's pretty weird. I have had both a technical and a billing support request, both have been answered within a day. Including a technical analysis on what likely caused a bug. No support contract or payment either.
How can a game developer ethically justify a $4500 price tag for a game?

Yes, we can put in limits on spending, but let’s say we didn’t, does that mean a game could be worth that much money? Ever?
This appears to be more accurate than DLSS according to Fig. 11 in the paper, and has the 16x mode as well as 4x.
Those views are idiotic, but also irrelevant to my post.
Because the problem is the technology everyone else is using

The issue isn't bloated websites as much as the web itself.
Last time I checked (almost 2 years ago) OpenLayers did not support webgl backend for vector graphics. That's why it was slower.
Pedantry because it's important: This is not an opt-in policy, it's an opt-out policy.
A simple approach is to apply the "intellectual property" analogy consistently - and that means taxing it like we tax real estate.

You could have a short grace period - say, a couple of years - with no tax at all, to accommodate individuals and startups exploring a market etc. After that require explicit registration for continued protection, or else the work automatically falls into public domain. And anything on the registry is taxed.

Furthermore, said tax could be made progressive, to discourage copyright hoarding, and impose a natural term limit. More valuable works would have longer-lasting copyrights with such an arrangement, but there'd always be some point past which it's simply no longer profitable. No abandonware, either - if the tax isn't paid, it becomes PD.
Probably because topology isn't concerned with absolute coordinates. It's all about local connectivity.
> I don’t know if this program halts.

Be cool if you did ;)
While that's a good idea it will never happen, since it's diametral to the interest of the app stores, which is to make as much money as possible.

Of course, if the abuse gets too bad there will be regulatory backlash.
No mention of JS; not even a Gemini server in Node[0]. Finally a sane place to hang out! Kidding, but only half. The 'everything must be done in JS' is fairly annoying imho.

[0]https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/softw...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_directories ? Especially DMOZ
Ask HN: If there are 7.59B people in the world and each had
If there are 7.59 billion people in the world and each had a random number generator going from 1 - 7.59 billion that they all used at exactly the same time, what would the likelihood of two or more people getting the same number?
It also provides a fatal error when you try to access to the “saved” section: http://photorequestsfromsolitary.org/saved-requests/
I don't think this would be any better then a static site generator, or even something like Mastodon (assuming it has markdown support).
> WeChat (The Chinese equivalent of Medium)

TIL
> Could you publish how you are inspecting an unknown program to determine if it exhibits a specific behavior? There are a lot of computer scientists interested in your solution to the halting problem.

This has nothing to do with the halting problem because that is concerned about for all possible programs not some programs.

We obviously know if some programs halt.

while true: nop

Is an infinite loop.

X = 1
Y = X + 2

Halts.

More complex behaviours can be easier. Neither of my programs there make network calls.
No it's not.

I think you might have misunderstood the latter, which just refers to the Gopher model having no transfer resume functionality, such as HTTP Ranges, meaning an interrupted transfer must restart.
This isn’t a Covid-19 wave – it’s a tsunami
IANA expert in social interactions but...

To me it seems like people with a high-quality knowledge can definitely still get into low-quality interactions, even when it's about a subject they know inside and out.

Lets say we have two hypothetical mathematicians who both know more math than the average person. They are both _very_ proud about the amount of math they know. They happen to bump into each other in a discussion about $INTERESTING_THEORY (I don't know enough math to know what this would be). They each pick opposing sides in this discussion, and each become more and more nonplussed with the others opinion, eventually derailing the conversation and devolving into a flame war.

Maybe the average person is nicer/more focused on maintaining a useful conversation than I think, but I have observed this pattern to many times to think it doesn't show up. That being said, I haven't seen it very often on HN, so there's evidence for your point still.
I started using Joplin but found myself trying to use it like a personal wiki, when it really isn't meant for that. I want a fast way to link my notes together. Zettlr looks like it has exactly that in mind, so I'll probbaly switch to Zettlr, and push for cloud sync/encryption to be added.
Analogue radio in the UK given 10-year stay of execution
That's a projection based on assumptions on the efficacy of masks. The point is that we don't have a number for that efficacy. We just don't know.
They literally discouraged people to use a potentially beneficial treatment just because Trump endorsed it. It's insane.
Ha that's funny. I'd been copying my notation from the parent post, and I assumed 'd' was just their notation. I didn't realise they meant to say

*d*

(apparently HN doesn't let you escape asterisks).
A Gemini implementation in JS:
https://github.com/derhuerst/gemini
Perhaps there are some good reasons for that.
Which is not an evidence based criticism nor reasonable. The virus was already in Europe by December, maybe even November.
Great, doesn't disappoint; includes horrible emoji's :]
Ask HN: What does your failure resume look like?
I truly believe that success is a culmination of a lot of failures. Serial Hustlers/Entrepreneurs tend to have done a lot of things before they struck gold. A lot of them believe these failures are what made them what they are today.

While I have not struck Gold yet, here is how my failure resume looks like -

2011 - Conceptualized a T-shirt printing business. Got samples, got first order. Partner bolted before we could service the order

2013 - Built an intersection of Twitter and Rotten tomatoes. Shipped it but couldn't monetise.Had big plans..had to shut down

2017 - Helped a few friends build web version of a quizzing app. Policies got in the way. Lost momentum

2019 - Built a landing page to validate an idea about highlights of favourite topics. Got close to 80 subscribers..mostly friends and family..Never launched.

2020 - Hustle continues....

What does your failure resume look like?
Perhaps they instead see the “solution” to be problematic.
Ask HN: Why FTP, SMTP, LDAP are not advertised as deprecated as HTTP?
Does all theses protocols support TLS with Forward Secrecy [1]?

Is it linked with the HTTPS services simplier monetization?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_secrecy
Looks like they're still accepting pre-orders on their site: https://www.wearerewind.fr/product-page
Yes, I've deleted my Airbnb account a few months ago and had to go through their confirmation process. I've never booked anything, I've never provided any ID etc., and yet I had to provide a copy of my ID to prove that I'm the owner.
I find it odd that even now, after all that's happened in recent months, and with the reserves of cash that some of the elite establishments (in the US at least) are not taking advantage of online degrees.

To give you an example. I am planning on starting a degree in October. I'm 45. It will be through the Open University. It will cost about £6000 to complete the degree.

I looked at a ton of Universities in the UK and their online offerings are abysmal. there are some in Europe that look ok but the US ones are in the $30k+ price range...

If I thought that Yale, Harvard etc. would do an online degree for a fraction of what an actual degree currently costs in person, I would jump at the chance... who wouldn't want that on their CV?

With the resources they have they could easily extend their degree programme to the rest of the world via online learning. Same lecturers, same material.

Instead, they're sitting on their hands while their entire foundation burns...

I agree with one of the other comments that this could be the beginning of the end for the bricks and mortar universities
If you use the Chrome sync phrase, Google cannot access your passwords and thus they are not visible in the online password manager. Furthermore, if you delete passwords client side, i.e. from the password manager in Chrome, you are also deleting the passwords server side. This allows you to delete all passwords at the same time using the classic Ctrl-Shift-Canc.
Grg
I wish saw this when i was preparing one of the apps to huge traffic spikes.
Did almost all of the changes described. But took some time to search and understand each of them.
End result was pretty good.
I've long thought that the problem with Twitter and Facebook is that there's no downvote button. This article is about something different though. What if we had a platform like these but posts had a metric of likes or shares per view displayed on them rather than absolute numbers. I really want to see how that goes actually. Simply displaying views might give a totally different interaction as well.
A big part of the brand/prestige of Yale and Harvard is the exclusivity.
Can you elucidate what you'd consider a "bad" internet connection?

I live Out In The Styx, in a Shithole country, at the end of an allegedly 2MB/s piece of wet string masquerading as an internet connection that seldom lives up to its adverted performance. AMP has never once made any significant difference to my web experience.
It is evidence based, given the suppression of known information by china, and therefore reasonable.

China screwing up was really not a big point here but in trying to cover for them you're just going to provoke people into posting more about china's screwup and attract more attention to it, sort of streisand effect.
That's a good point. Initially I would only include big-name stores. If you searched for filing drawers you may see results from Office Depot, Staples, or directly from whoever makes filing drawers. When you order from those websites, you know you're getting a product shipped directly from them. When you order from Amazon, you don't know who is selling you the product (more often than not it's from a third-party seller).
The LIGO concept was thought to be impossible for decades because of how small the signals are, and some would say it's still incredible that it works at all.

Whereas we've had a lot of success with optical detection and they're inexpensive experiments.

Also, there's a few naysayers continually making public comments, so it's good to have something else to point to for confirmation.
Managing latency is a problem, as you can only encrypt fairly short packets at a time and send each one out, rather than the whole message, and the structure of the data being different can lead to information leakage
Finding other smart and well-meaning people and coordinating with them to meet at the same place is not trivial though.
Do you mean the Americans who were in the German American Bund? Or the Americans who went to Britain to join the Royal Air Force? Or the American's who campaigned for years to stay out of the war? Or the Americans who campaigned to provide aid to Britain and Russia when the Russians were doing most of the fighting and the dying? Or the Americans who spied for the Russians? Or the Americans who island hopped across the Pacific killing and being killed? Or the Americans who treated returning black servicemen as subhuman? Or the Americans who landed in France and fought their way to Berlin?

America is a big place, with a lot of people, and a lot of opinions. Some of them are kind and generous and thoughtful. Some of them are mean-spirited and bigoted and hateful. And sometimes (and this is the bit I find most difficult to handle, though I think I'm learning) one person can be a little of any of these at different times in the same day, or different years in the same lifetime.

Put it another way. I think you applied emphasis to one part of the GPs posting without giving equal weight to their other words. Do your future self a favor. Treat the GP with the same generosity that you'd like everyone else to treat you.
Amp was a reaction to Apple News and Facebook News: using those applications to read the news was a much better experience than using the web. Why? Mainly for two reasons:

1/ Apple and Facebook were hosting all the content.

2/ The content did not come with megabytes of JS and other unnecessary crap.

Amp is an attempt at saving the web, and Google is interested in that for the reason that you gave: they make their money from the web.
If you're starting from scratch, why not design a new Lisp? CL has never struck me as a particularly inspired language, and neither has the kind of code people write with it.

Or, if the idea is to leverage existing CL code, I'm sure with a little bit of effort SBCL could run as a unikernel and provide a good base for the system.

Awhile ago there was a standalone Lisp implementation called Movitz. What are your thoughts on that?
Valid point but there are hundreds of other institutions that don't have that exclusivity that have very little to offer when it comes to online learning.

From what I can see, the OU is miles ahead.
the surprise is that to make an accretion disk which would make any detectable emission, there had to be a lot of matter around a black hole.

the accretion disks are commonly seen around binaries consisting of a stellar mass black hole and a regular star. stars feeds the disk in this case.

another possibility is to have a supermassive back hole in the galaxy center, which feeds on the surrounding gas, making much larger and slowed disk.

what has never been seen before a stellar mass black hole (or pair of black holes) feeding on the interstellar medium. This should happen of course, but the expected luminosity is way below anything detectable.

binary black hole, i.e. a system without any addition mass to accrete, would have to be in some very unusually dense medium, and the medium would need to be disrupted by merger.

interestingly, such medium can occur around another back hole - a supermassive one.
I have just moved my personal website to WordPress because I got tired of fighting markdown and the SSG I was using. I share your sentiments on the syntax.
FWIW my impression is not that Google News is bandwidth heavy, but that it is JavaScript heavy. It works fine on the computer but it's hard to use on the phone, even on the same connection.
This seems to be RSS with extra server setup but no images.
Absurdly terrible reporting.

Headline: Germany is first major economy to phase out coal and nuclear

Present tense. It's already happened.

Reality:

Bills approved by both houses of parliament Friday envision shutting down the last coal-fired power plant by 2038

Target of 2038.

Also reality:

http://www.powerstations.uk/coal-countdown/

UK on track to shut down last coal power station by 2025, more than a decade earlier than Germany's target and only five years from now. There are only 4 left today so that's a shutdown of about one per year. This is not a legislative goal but rather an engineering reality of those plants reaching their max lifetime.

The UK already goes long periods without burning any coal at all:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/28/britain-bre...

But sure, Germany is the first major economy. Whatever, ABC News.
I remember DMOZ, but this site wouldn't just be a directory of online stores. It would search a set of reputable online stores and show you results from them. Unless I'm missing your point?
It’s not the same. The article goes to that in the second visualisation, and shows that the loop/curl strategy produces a singularity of sorts, making the process non-continuous (two points for the circle, for the sphere it’s a whole circle). Once that is shown it goes on to show it going continuously, even though matter passes through other matter.
Answer: your car won’t work in space :)
I personally don’t get the appeal of hiring someone that did a DS degree. Most of the data scientists I know are phds or former post docs in math, physics, statistics, or neuroscience. I feel like as long as these fields keep producing too many graduates then it will be hard to get into the field.
Butter is labelled in tablespoons on the package. You just slice it at the about the right spot. Do an image search for a "stick of butter".
I feel similar. Projects like gemini work, because they are niche, not despite it. If it became mainstream similar forces that drive the web to what it is woule take hold.
I agree.

Would be cool if "downvote"(for relevance)and "disagree" would be mutually exclusive (either/or).

You either decide this post is not relevant to the discussion at all or you disagree with the argument.

"Upvote" for relevance and "disagree" could be combined.

You decide this post is relevant to the discussion but you disagree with the argument.

Of course everything depends on users using the tools in good faith. But it would be an interesting approach to decouple "downvoting" from "disagreement".
>It generated $15 billion last year not including 20 million Premium subscribers.

To clarify, that $15 billion is revenue and not net income/profit. Since Alphabet Inc didn't reveal the internal costs for Youtube, it means we still don't know if Youtube is losing money, or breaking even, or making a profit. So the gp's question of "how do we know it's making money?" is still unanswered.

Another example to help differentiate revenue vs profit: Tesla "generated" $24 billion in revenue last year but it didn't "make money" because they still lost $862 million.[1] No profits.

It doesn't help that the journalist of your The Verge article further confuses readers by incorrectly using the phrase "bottom line" instead of the "top line".[2] Revenue is actually the "top line". Net income/profit is the "bottom line":

>, that the company has revealed how much money YouTube-hosted ads contribute to the search giant’s _bottom line_. On an annual basis, Google says YouTube generated $15 billion last year and contributed roughly 10 percent to all Google revenue.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=tesla+revenue+2019+loss

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_statement
I worked for five years in one of the 'super billionaire' hang out spots. While I can't give details, I can answer some questions. It's a strange experience to see people regularly drop 30,000 on a bottle of wine and leave half the bottle at the table when they're done.
"Corona-19 is 1/10th of a micron across, which is smaller."

People seem to have a huge misunderstanding about how viruses travel through air (which is how you get stupid memes like this[1]). There aren't isolated viruses floating around passing through spaces 1/10th of a micron or larger.
They need a medium of which to travel upon (such as saliva droplets) that are much larger than the virus itself[2] (usually 5-10 microns)

1. https://starecat.com/content/wp-content/uploads/im-wearing-t...

2. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/03/8256393...
If you’re talking about the old synchronous model. The name of the game today is how to pipeline the shit out of everything. You’re frame can end up taking nearly 100ms to get to you’re eye from whatever starting point you want to talk about. As long as you’re delivering a frame every ~11ms then it’s fine. I wouldn’t be surprised to see future GPU architectures that end up driving individual sections of the display as content becomes available. Then even if it takes 50ms to update the entire screen, you’ve got a rolling shutter effect giving the illusion of a higher FPS (eg if each individual section is updating at 90fps and you have intelligent combination of the tiles to minimize graphical artifacts).