skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How is a network protocol proof against being used to transport CSS files? Does the network stack inspect what you're shipping and ensure you're only sending 100% Pure Plain Text?

The Gemini specification includes its own format for pages, which is a text-based scheme inspired by Markdown and Gopher menus. You can use the Gemini protocol to transmit things other than Gemini pages, sort of like how you can use HTTP to transmit PDFs and Word documents, but you wouldn't build your whole site out of them. (At least that's my impression, I haven't gotten around to actually visiting many Gemini sites yet.)
Is there a particular reason the Linux kernel favors names like `somaxconn` instead of `socket_max_connections`? It seems like a rather straightforward improvement for readability; so, why are shorter, compressed names preferred?
The linked site is perfectly fine on the Web.
As long as employers require a degree, universities will not die.
Hotels and hostels are still a thing.
UK government to acquire cutting-edge satellite network
Aside from instant noodles or soup, I would be hard pressed to think of a food-related use for kettles in Japan that isn’t making tea. Maybe you were using the wrong setting? Lots of Japanese tea isn’t meant to be made with boiling water, so it'll warm the water to ~just below boiling.
Yep, it does exactly that right now. It doesn't show anything SEO related although with enough demand I can make that work too.

Checkout this preview here:
https://linkpreview.io
that was entertaining
Reading other comments, it seems to be US-only for now.
>English and German have very similar vocabulary and syntactic structure

Hm, the sentences are structured in a parallel way, but is that really proper German? I don't remember anything from high school German class, but people make jokes about putting the verb way at the end. Or is that an obsolete style?
Linus Torvalds on Diversity, Longevity, Rust, and ARM Chips
You're right. The way to explain it intuitively is that at the quantum scale all particles are wavelike.

In order for electrons to achieve stability (such as within an atom), they must create a standing wave. Similar to the notes on a guitar string, each electron orbital is simply a harmonic.

The complication comes from the fact that atoms are 3d, so instead you need to use spherical harmonics, but it's the same principle, just standing waves in 3d space. These should look familiar if you've seen rendered images of electron clouds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_harmonics

It is quite surprising that this intuition is basically never taught in classrooms.
The thing about the last two is we are in the middle of them rather than being history. Every moral panic that descended into darkness started out in the light.
Witch trials were virtually non existent in post-reformation Catholic countries (e.h. Spain, Italy and France). I have never seen any source indicating that women were more free in these countries.
Online version of the interpreter here: https://blissful-bose-ff8542.netlify.app/
> the library can be inspected

Really? 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.

Joking aside, we already know from the halting problem[1] that it you cannot determine if a program will execute the simplest behavior: halting. Inspecting a program for more complex behaviors is almost always undecidable[2].

In this particular situation where Google is serving an unknown Javascript program, a look at the company's history and business model suggests that the probability they are using that Javascript to track use behavior is very high.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undecidable_problem
Seconding Kvass.

Note: I found that most of the varieties sold in the US are much sweeter than those in Eastern Europe. That's killing the taste of it.
They have the log files.
I've had two over the years at share houses, both found on the side of the road. Worked generally OK, but sometimes burnt the toast. I'm wondering if they were tuned to a specific type of bread, and didn't really handle sourdough. Still see them from time to time in second-hand shops.
He's suspected to have checked for interpol warrants by faking travel to the philipines
AMP is of course not P2P.
Historians are record-keepers of history, they are not arbiters of ethics, spirituality, and guidance. Statues of people are not meant to teach us about those people per se, but rather hold to us an example of exceptional attributes of those people that should be considered timeless so that we can follow them into the future. The determination of relevance in this context is not something that should be ceded to historians in any capacity other than to simply confirm or reject that the specific attribute that we appreciate in a figure is based on a historical accuracy. Did Lincoln free the slaves? Yes. Did Washington help lead a revolution? Yes. These are easy questions. The distinction between history and historical memory is not lost; based on an accurate history, we can highlight good attributes use them to reinforce timeless principles that we'd like to continue to carry through time.
Those higher priced business flights or enterprise tier purchases help subsidize the lower cost options, making it possible to sell a base version and a deluxe and get enough revenue to make the economics attractive.

The purpose isn't to subsidise poorer customers though. Rather it's to maximise revenue.
I believe the US is fully standardized on 120V and 60Hz for quite some time.

> In the US the weird way they get 110V

As a US resident I'm genuinely curious - what do you find weird about how we do the conversion from three phase? Doesn't the UK use three phase for transmission as well? Or is it three pole single phase itself that you find weird?

> uses less common sockets

Three pole single phase outlets are fully standardized in the national codes the same as 15 and 20 amp outlets are (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector). NEMA 5 and 14 (previously 10, deprecated for 15+ years depending on jurisdiction) are the only outlet types I've ever encountered in a home.
So what's the online-SJW approved newspeak equivalent then?

I'm sure you would also refrain from using the term "dog-whistle" for equal measure as it comes across as a "simple dismissal" too.
Why do these values default so low? Seems like you could have a few hundred or 1k instead of 128 with relatively little memory overhead.
Thanks for this educative post
Read history, and see what humans do over and over and over again.
Probably, cranky old fart :)

Damn, now I remember the tubes.

Once a day or so a tube came back because one or more EPROMs where faulty which meant they all had to be verified.
Sure, but how do you distinguish that situation from the other one without discussing it?
Piracy is cheap, and that is appealing, granted. But first and foremost, it's easy and has the best availability/catalogue bar none. I decide what I want, I go to a torrent site, between a few minutes and an hour later I have it. Done. This workflow hasnt changed in 20 years either. For me, that is the appeal.
That's exactly it! I'm sure there are extremely talented 'visual' thinkers who just can't grasp standard mathematical symbology. But is their mathematical ability in any way diminished by this?

Bees make hexagonal combs. Bower birds weave elaborate, decorative structures to attract mates. And spiders and their webs!

Now that we have the tools, it's time to attract those visual/tactile thinkers who don't even realize that they're natural mathematicians...
North Korea Refuses to Negotiate with the United States
Yes, I mentioned it doesn't describe our 3+1 dimensional reality. It's more than just the algebra/geometry though - it kills the locality and unitarity principles. So it has quite a few implications on how we think about underlying physics.
I wonder if that couldn't be possible with colored gaz or liquid (magnetic "liquids" that hold together).
That would be quite fascinating to see IRL.
The dead comments. I think you can activate them somehow.
> safrole, is 1. a direct precursor of MDMA, and 2. has most of the same effects, though less powerfully.

I don't believe this (edit: point 2) is true.

As for its carcogenicity, that seemed to be 'discovered' just about the time that the US government wanted to clamp down on it's availability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safrole#Toxicity "Despite this, the effects in humans [of safrole] were estimated by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to be similar to risks posed by breathing indoor air or drinking municipally supplied water"

If you want an entertaining but most of all informative idea of how the US gov't gets its policy-based evidence, this https://thedea.org/mdma-risks-science-and-statistics-technic... is interesting.

If you want a shorter summary, look for "shit-storm" and read from there, of one scientist destroying another 'scientists' findings.
I'm left wondering wtf was the point of this article. It was a rich tapestry of emotions reading it, and to be fair many of them were positive.
Check out Sapolsky's human behavior lectures on YouTube.
The policemen can talk about what they saw, the jury can talk about what they saw, the violation of privacy happens the moment that the police walk into your house. If something is not private enough for a group of random people to review then it is not private enough for the wider public either.

> By this logic ...

No, not really. The point of this is to establish a form of full disclosure - this is also my position about disclosing vulnerabilities. It should be public and uncensored so that the public knows about the full extend of data leakage and can act accordingly. I do not see how what you said follows from what I said.

> while 'not on duty'

They can just use normal cameras then.
How is network consensus achieved on the difficulty adjustment?
Show HN: Assess your chances of being hired before writing a proposal on Upwork
Yes, really. There have been countless cases where the police "accidently" "lost" footage critical to a case.
Yeah they do kill birds.
1 Turbine kills the same amount of birds as 1 cat.

Highways kill way more birds than turbines.

Lived near one, was dead silent.

Stop spreading fud.
It's not even that rational. We know what the cost is and can decide if it's worth it or not. But you can see from this discussion people get quite emotional about it.
It actually is, well in university it is. Not sure about college.
> It's simply amazing how the American mainstream media has chosen to report on hydrochloriquine as a bad, dangerous, potentially harmful drug prematurely, before any real testing has been completed.

You got it entirely backwards.

The drug has been pushed hard politically as a covid19 silver bullet although there were zero evidence and zero scientific studies on the subject.

In response the scientific community responded by pointing the elephant in the room, and warning the public of the dangers of swallowing an unknown drug with known dangerous side-effects without any knowledge of its effectiveness other than political propaganda by an anti-intellectual political group.

Let's not forget that so far there have been scientific studies that demonstrate that hydroxichloroquine has no observable effect on covid19 death rates. Yet, the drug keeps being pushed as political propaganda, this time around to also fuel conspiracy theories.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/three-big-studies-di...
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It depends on the types of programming, math, etc. For example, if you can explain a math concept through an application to a video game, then maybe Gamedev.net and Gamasutra would be good places. If it's an implementation or solution to a particular programming problem, then post it pn a blog and cite it in a StackOverflow answer if there's a relevant question out there (though you may want to find the question first in this case before writing the post).
Leaking the footage to the buyer as in the link is the same as making it public.
> ... we have a small favour to ask. Millions are flocking to the Guardian for quality news every day.
What domain names do the unicorn companies use?
Essential highlights from things every software architect should know
McGurk Effect – Auditory Illusion – BBC Horizon Clip
I've seen a clever way to derive QM out of GR equations by making a single assumption: ds2exp(Cexp(-iwt)) = c2*dt2 - dx2 - dy2 - dz2. This extra exp() factor modulates the ds2 slightly, and when mixed with GR equations, it makes the time-dependent Schrodinger equation. Whether this math corresponds to any physics is a question, but if this idea is right, then the psi-function isn't some abstract "probabilities cloud", but rather a standing wave on top of the spacetime field governed by the GR equations.
Its even more dumb of you to think that i created a throwaway account just to reply to you!
Clever. Cute for a simple little program.

But will quickly devolve into a morass if you need to do anything beyond a simple grid.
How is it not weird that I see a domain name in the URL bar that has nothing to do with the domain I actually requested content from?
Many versions of string theory not only add a single additional dimension, but 11 dimensions.

One problem is defining the shape of those dimensions. Each shape would result in a different universe and different predictions.
That is one of the most artistic expositions of mathematics I have ever seen.
It's called Frontrunning, and they've been doing it for a long time.
>Being a theory and not a hypothesis, it is a proven scientific fact

A theory is distinct from a hypothesis, but surely it isn't itself a fact either.

Wouldn't it be better to say that the theory of evolution explains a lot of facts, which we may also call (observed) evolution? Really, aren't we just calling two related concepts "evolution"?
Yeah as a miner you add the fee and the earned coins to the single coinbase transaction, so it’s a single mining action to get both.
URLs haven't been associated with legitimate content for a long time now, since most of the things come from giant CDN companies like CloudFlare anyway. What you're seeing in URL bar has very little to do with where the JS code executed on your computer is coming from.
I need surprisingly different sized containers to store the same weight of wheat and rye flour. That shows how off volumetric measurement is.
Not really. HN just loves to hate on AMP.
end-to-end encryption makes it immune to surveillance

This is absolutely, 100% false. Encryption is fallible. Even if the encryption scheme is unbreakable, end-to-end encryption is no more secure than its weaker end.

Not to mention that many people use Google to back up all of their WhatsApp messages, and we know that Google has given the federal government a great amount of access to its data in the past.
How does the end user know now that a file from cdn.cloudflare.com is actually coming from NYTimes when it loads and runs code on their browser?
In the UK a lot of people buy their cars on personal contract plans. It's not a full lease but not really that far away either. The direction of travel seems clear.
Hi. I'm the author of GitJournal - do you have any suggestions on a different monetization model? I'm not too keen on ads.

Maybe a yearly or 3 years subscription?
How is self-intersection allowed in the math? Isn't that inconsistent with maintaining the topology?
And if you’re old enough, you may have experienced a SW transistor radio With a single mono earpiece giving you that feeling of being real time personally connected to the world far, far away from home. A precursor to the feeling of connecting to a far away BBS (bulletin board systems) and eventually the Internet.
> How large are the classes you are teaching live?

My own classes are not very large: I am teaching two undergraduate classes with about 17 students each, and one graduate seminar with nine students.

The graduate seminar feels closest to an in-person class; it helps that most of the students leave their cameras on and that I have taught most of them before. For undergraduate classes, we have been asked to let the students leave their cameras off (out of privacy considerations, and because some students have metered Internet access). It's frustrating for me not being able to see the students' faces. I've adapted by having them submit questions and comments through an online form, which I then respond to through Zoom. It's less conversational, but the exchanges seem more deliberate and focused. I hope that next semester, if we are still teaching online, we will be able to ask undergraduates to turn on their cameras most of the time.

We don't yet have comprehensive data on students' reactions to online classes. That should be available in a few months. A preliminary survey suggests that most, though not all, prefer live online classes to prerecorded lectures, and that a significant minority prefers online lectures to in-person classes. The ability to ask questions more easily in large online classes is one reported advantage for students, as is the convenience of being able to participate from home without having to commute to campus. (My university is in central Tokyo and not many students live near campus; most would normally be commuting by train, often an hour or more.)

The biggest complaint we've heard from students—and it's been heard at other universities in Japan, too—is that the students are feeling overwhelmed by the amount of schoolwork. One reason seems to be that teachers are assigning more homework than usual, perhaps as a way of getting more feedback from students. Another may be that the students, because they cannot see how seriously the other students in the class are studying, are working harder than normal out of fear of being outcompeted. Lockdown fatigue is no doubt another factor. As a result, the administration has asked teachers to be less demanding.

There's a lot of trial and error going on with online classes, and I'm sure many improvements still need to be made. But considering how inexperienced we were with online education a few months ago and how little time we had to prepare, things are, as I noted above, going much better than expected.
Is the accurate model that complex, though? An electron is a standing wave: one could show the first two standing waves on a drum and say these are the lowest two electron energy levels. Higher levels create more sophisticated waves, and non-flat potential adds more complexity, but the idea remains the same.
The Great Plague of London
I'm assuming the first step up is a small private jet. I took a small business jet from Omaha to I can't remember anymore South Dakota and 1980's business class from Oakland to Omaha was a lot nicer.
It's completely moving away from the client/server model to something else.

Perhaps that's a great thing to do, but it's not something to do quietly.
Signed up for reddit in 2007 and last week finally decided to run "shreddit" and delete my entire post and comment history from the website

If only HN offered that option for people who signed up under identities that could be linked to their real identity back in the day when the Internet was sane(r).

It will live on in archive.org indefinitely anyway.
Thanks for this info Monokh. Just want to raise a minor typo, which is the first line of code in "Signed transactions". I think it's missing two of the map keys.
Google News is far from being the only one using AMP and there's a massive difference in loading times and rendering speed for most news sites between AMP and non-AMP versions even on my 1GBit internet connection.
I guess the problem would be if I ended up with some leadership/management position and a subordinate saw it?

Like this guy fired over an article written 33 years ago?

https://nypost.com/2020/07/03/boeing-communications-boss-nie...
Sure, but that's just another layer on a steaming pile of shit. The webpage is still super large, it still takes up ram, it still takes up cpu to decompress and compress, etc etc. It's the kind of solution one comes up with when they recognize that nothing can actually be done to solve the real problem.
That would make it too easy to understand.
I always think about the complaints Adobe got when they switched to subscription only. People were saying it was the end of Adobe and they wouldn't survive. In reality their revenues have increased, from their perspective it was a good decision.
There's no such thing as "reverse" racism. It's just racism, which is discrimination by race.

We should only judge people on merits. Even if it's not perfect today, we should progress towards it through better procedures, training and evolution; not regress backwards into more racial-based policies. And it's definitely achievable, just like plenty of non-white minorities have achieved the highest posts in every level of society, including the presidency.

You will never solve racial issues by introducing more dependence on race. As a foreign-born immigrant minority who is now a proud US citizen, I don't need or want your racial affirmative action. I'm fine letting my work and actions speak for themselves.
Yeah. Measuring by volume is a nightmare. 3tbsp of unmelted butter? How am I supposed to measure that? 3tbsp of melted butter? So I just have to guess and then melt too much? A cup of brown sugar? Is it packed? To what extent? And now I have to clean that cup because I need it again for flour?

So many deficiencies.
Java.util.LinkedList Class
Their security upgrades only worked over 300 baud acoustic-coupler modems.
Gemini's creator solderpunk wrote about this here [1].

[1] gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/solderpunk/cornedbeef/why-not-just-use-a-subset-of-http-and-html.gmi
Especially decades ago, how many people lived in an apartment over a grocery store or something in a small town?
Ray Dalio on the Economy, Pandemic, China's Rise
This guy will teach people that fiat money (USD, YEN, CHF, EUR...) are trash. And that we should be looking for store of wealth type of assets.

And then people will find what Bitcoin is ;)
I like that the author is going into how insecurity has caused this problem. I really wish they went into more depth on this issue. If we look back, neoliberalism (trickle down economics) has stoked the fires that have led to this issue. When Regan came into office, he set the stage for deregulation, privatization and tax breaks for the rich. This has caused the average American to sink into a role that is defined by economic insecurity. Of course this economic idiocy has been embraced by both political parties over the past forty years. So what we see today is a compounding of all of the issues created by bad policy. This is why we see people doubling down on in group identity and focusing on what I've come to call the brand self.

This has noting and everything to do with Marx, Edward Said, the Frankfurt School, or critical theory. They are simply a way to justify an in group narrative. I'm not saying that these narratives aren't just, but often times they are create a black and white us vs them mentality that is there to reinforce limited self beliefs. So when we are talking to someone that has taken on this role of insecurity, we are talking to their anxiety that they've justified using sound social theory. That's why all rational thought seems to disappear and subjects often can't be changed.

I, for one, am tired of biting my tongue because I know one wrong word can turn a great night out into a three hour conversation about x, y, or z social issue without much back and forth. often times I'll be out and know that, by simply saying the word vaccine, my night can be ruined. These conversations don't live in the rational world. They live deep down in a state of anxious insecurity.