skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually I'm thinking about complexity of implementation and security consequences. I'm not sure that JavaScript interpreters are so common and bundling V8 just kind of defeats the whole purpose... Implementing JavaScript is not an easy task, it also requires implementing plenty of APIs like DOM access, XHR, complex event system, to be any useful. And ability to evaluate a Turing-complete code poses just another level of security issues.

Whether it makes HTML less like a document is up to author to decide, IMO. Some JS snippets are pretty useful, some are not. You can use JS to implement an interactive learning system or you can use JS to spy on users.

Wasm probably is easier to implement that JavaScript. But it still carries other issues mentioned above.
> "If the purpose of teaching the humanities is to teach kids sound reasoning, good writing, and effective persuasion, then why is so little of that evident today when more kids than ever go to college?"

The answer is simple: "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink." Even here on HN, we have a large number of people saying that going to college is merely to get a credential and that they didn't learn (or, more accurately, didn't bother to learn) anything of importance there.
This was a good read about an area of computing I’ve only heard about in passing (specifically crypto miner design). But it was definitely over my head as someone who has never had to work with FPGAs.

Can anyone suggest a good online course, textbook, or article to get started understanding and working (via some simulation software so it’s cheap!) on FPGAs?
The terminal emulation in Windows 10 isn't great. Mostly I use PuTTY instead.
It's a subculture. I think the key is in the definition of 'everyone'; I doubt anybody imagines everybody in the world switching to Gemini from the web. So 'everyone' in this context means all the people who have collectively agreed to stick to minimal text format.

You could try the same thing with a community dedicated to minimal HTML--heck, you could say that's what HN itself is, almost--but it would have no effective border. You'd keep falling back into the bad old web. This makes the border explicit, instead.
OTF has underpinned so many important open source tools - from Signal and Tor to training human rights defenders and journalists all over the world. It helps lower the barrier to entry for new projects and ideas. There is no chance we would have been able to build Umbrella App without it being there. At present there is no way traditional NGO funders can or will fund the gap. Most NGO funders don't understand or support tech.

Silicon Valley philantrophy essentially is too risk adverse to take up the slack when it comes to human rights and privacy issues. Some small domestic stuff in the US and a few bits and pieces here and there but very few have the guts to fund on a major scale human rights and privacy related stuff like training human rights defenders in China, journalists in Russia, researching privacy in Africa, privacy/encryption tools in XYZ etc.

It's vital that it's well continues independently without interference. The central role of underfunded open source projects that we all realised after SSL Heartbleed is an example of the risks of not having funders in this space.
Won't work. As soon as it gains any traction hackers/crackers will figure out how to exploit people. Marketers will figure out how to optimise it to sell you crap you don't need. Left wing/ Right wing censors and moderators will silence at least a portion of the users if not the whole project because "reasons". Oh yeah, the government will also be there to ensure that you can't do anything without them knowing about it.

Honestly the web could be great with the technologies that are out now. At this very moment. But it isn't.
I really like the mathematical impressions from Fomenko

http://chronologia.org/en/math_impressions/images.html

For programmable graphics, I like Penrose https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/Penrose/Penrose_SIG...

And finally the same author as Penrose (Keenan Crane) has a challenge for creating beautiful visualisation of abstract and difficult math concepts, but at the moment I'm unable to find the link
I use volumetric measures for dry goods all the time. I'm not saying it doesn't work, I'm just saying that it's not as precise as a weight would be. Whether or not that matters is a different story. I would say "not really".
How would you define encryption? I would say it's encoding of information so that unauthorized people are less likely to have access to the information .

Like I said in my original post, you can look into encryption in the amatuer bands. This article is one example. If you've taken encryption courses then you know that XOR can be a cipher, it's just not secure. The same way a lock on your shed is only going to keep curious people out and not real criminals, the same can be said for lesser forms of encryption.

Please look into Kenwood AES/DES models that operate in the VHF/UHF amatuer bands if you still have any doubts about the use of encryption. There are various 40, 56, etc bit encryption schemes as well.
You can check https://maxxinteractive.com/ for more information.
Full professorships, irrespective of institution eliteness, are a tough job to get. If I were the provost, I'd just sack the folks who refuse to show up to work this fail. Most of them would be very easy replace (certainly if you value teaching skills over research skills).

Furthermore, the health risk to professors is much lower than it is to primary school teachers. 20 year olds can wear* masks for 45-90 minutes at a clip, 2nd graders won't be able to do that for six hours straight.

* or legally forced to, as they are adults.
Oh thanks to both comments - I learned something !
Not a critique, just pointing out discussion of his ideas is not possible in the States due to irrational elevation of Hayek by Conservatives.
Something something Manifest Destiny. Also, the Great Land Robbery (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/this-la...). The Western model of land ownership is perhaps necessary for our way of life, but is certainly at the root of any number of atrocities.
Your browser would have a secure tunnel to CloudFlare which is encrypted with their key. But then that tunnel would deliver a bundle of resources verified your browser differently that CF doesn’t have the key for.
I use both functions, the latter more than the first one. Both are pretty useful.
If I want a filing drawer from Office Depot, I can just go to the Office Depot website. And if I want an oven mitt from Walmart, I can just go to Walmart. By which I mean that there's not much curation going on because at the scale of everything from filing mitts to oven drawers there can't be.

Curation of oven-mitt offerings means that there's someone who is obsessed with oven-mitts sorting through all the different offerings. If it scales it isn't curation.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1760020035814/

This one has the original english voices.
List of current longest-ruling non-royal national leaders
I'm not from the US and I'm very confused about how strong the reactions are. I certainly wasn't trying to start a revolt against a random poor guy here.

It may be shocking to people but I judge people according to what they do and say. They judge me too. We don't try to "cancel" each other. I'm an immigrant living in Germany, coming from a Muslim family, and I've been to the stands of AfD, and I judged them, yes, because what they are trying to accomplish is offending to me. I didn't call the police, no. Not because they'd laugh me off anyways, I'd not try silencing them even if I had power to do so.
Actually that can't work, the cup of quinoa has air between balls as well. It does have less air because the volume of the balls increases, but the math has to be done from scratch.
It's not "slightly" more risky than the flu, nice try. And I'm not sure what revolution you are talking about.
There are a lot of people IRL who blabber on, usually people ignore them/consider them obnoxious. Somehow they haven't developed this ability online
YouTube so big that every time they decide to upgrade facilities and buy new space they drive the prices of hard drives up for about a year quite substantially.
No... no, it would not. It would centralize web hosting and make it less censorship resistant.

Sure, you could move it somewhere else and have it show up in the address bar the same, but the actual URL has changed and you need to somehow get the new URL into people's hands. And ultimately you've centralized a lot of websites under a smaller number of service providers which, before, would have been on their own domains.
By the way, I was referring to a common English aphorism about punctuality on 20th century Italian railways:

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/11/03/...
"Does google rig the system to squash its rivals and hurt us?"

Well, this is one kind of modern skepticism I particularly like: Does gravity kill if one jumps off a cliff? Is a sphere round? Is it really bad if we give up our freedom? Who are we to think for ourselves?

When questions like this are asked, the damage is already done. And it seems like it's already beyond repair.
You might not expect them, but the Spanish Inquisition did also have witch trials https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition#Witchcraft.... And if you see witch trails as a way to get ride of and blame someone you could label as "different" then the difference become even smaller.
Fire cake is made with water so soldiers who went that route would get more than a pound of cake for their pound of flour.
Most of Europe Is a Lot Poorer Than Most of the United States (2016)
This is activist art. The intended response is anger, not complacency.

See http://photorequestsfromsolitary.org/information
Looks pretty cool. There is interest in CDE as well lately, it seems (NsCDE as well as CDE proper).

Beyond aesthetic reasons, it's hard to understand when one would really use these for daily driving. Anyone using this or CDE able to offer insight?
A deeper issue is the cultural shift to an overly judgemental culture which has been built thoughout the decades. The media always, always has thrived on creating moral panics, but the public wasn't always so gullible to them.

There's a noticeable shift towards conservativism and a constant preoccupation with their public image among younger generations. It's even noticeable in statistics , e.g. disapproval of nudism.
that sounds about right. from my own usage experience i found that i'd be wiling to pay about $1 per movie, and half for a tv episode.

i could also live with a system that costs $30 per month but caps the hours i can watch to say, 60. that's 2 hours per day. that would be enough.

now of course with that in mind, i should be willing to pay more for each family member, and then $60/month don't look so bad anymore. however, i'd still want to get all available tv channels for that, and not just a selection
I wonder how competitive GPU's would be with FPGA's on this type of problem.

FPGA's have the advantage that the circuit architecture can be designed specifically for the algorithm but as far as I know they have much lower gate density and clock speeds compared to top of the line GPU's.

In the case of bitcoin mining as far as I know GPU's passed the hat directly to ASIC's. I never heard that FPGA's were competitive for that.
I wonder what the working conditions were like.
I have my own proxy filtering all my desktop and mobile traffic, anything 'AMP' is filtered spot on. Sometimes nothing shows up, sometimes the original server responds after a few seconds. I'd rather not see the page at all than play this game.
You basically just invented WAP 2.0.
I’ve never been to Yamato, but pedestrian congestion is a problem on some crowded sidewalks in the US. If 6% of users are blocking the sidewalk, it can create slow downs for 94% of everyone else who are trying to get somewhere.
Building a Lego-powered Submarine 2.0 – magnetic couplings
> Bees make hexagonal combs.

I can't speak to the birds or spiders, but hexagon packing in combs can be explained without endowing bees with mathematical reasoning. It's a geometrically efficient structure that they've likely happened upon as a result of collective behavior (large numbers of bees constructing adjacent cells simultaneously). Check out Philip Ball's Shapes for a detailed account of the "accidental" emergence of many complex natural structures.
Why is it not great? I just opened session from cmd.exe to a Linux host and checked few things. Colors work, vim works, tmux works, arrow keys work, delete and backspace works. From a quick test the only issue I've found is input with cyrillic layout, but that's definitely not something to be concerned about.
That's funny! I just did an image search to see if anyone had ever drawn a picture of her. The first three images on google for floz were a shot glass measuring out 2 ozs of bourbon, Cetaphil, and a container of clear edible glue!
I 'd really like to see some research on this. Is there any studies from reddit etc to show whether positive or negative reinforcement works better?
from Wikipedia:
The classic example of rent-seeking, according to Robert Shiller, is that of a feudal lord who installs a chain across a river that flows through his land and then hires a collector to charge passing boats a fee to lower the chain. There is nothing productive about the chain or the collector. The lord has made no improvements to the river and is not adding value in any way, directly or indirectly, except for himself. All he is doing is finding a way to make money from something that used to be free.
The mumble protocol
is a nicely documented example for using encrypted Opus (OCB-AES128) over UDP:
http://mumble-protocol.readthedocs.io/en/latest/voice_data.h...
My NGINX webserver configuration on AWS behind an ALB is:

/etc/sysctl.conf:

net.core.wmem_max = 12582912
net.core.rmem_max = 12582912
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 10240 87380 12582912
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 10240 87380 12582912
fs.file-max = 1000000
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65535
net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 262144
net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 0
net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 3
net.ipv4.tcp_syn_retries = 2
net.ipv4.tcp_synack_retries = 2
net.ipv4.tcp_no_metrics_save = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_max_orphans = 262144
net.core.somaxconn = 1000000

nginx.conf (just the relevant directives):

worker_rlimit_nofile 102400;

events {
worker_connections 102400;
multi_accept on;
}

http {
server {
listen 80 default_server reuseport backlog=102400;
...
}
}

As you can see, the socket and backlog-related values have been cranked way up. I've never had any problems with this configuration. Because these servers are behind and ALB I don't know how relevant they are since the SYN and SYN-ACK relation to RTT is between the server and the load balancer, not the remote clients. But I could be wrong. Maybe there's something I'm missing. But I've never had a problem, and I've never had any performance problems related to TCP connections in the kernel or NGINX.
Counterpoint: The butter we often buy comes in tubs. So we measure by weight when possible, and approximate the volumetric conversions.
Thanks for providing some references, if nothing else it shows a little effort to validate your points. And I wasn't claiming you yourself are visceral or impulsive, simply your referenceless/dataless claim-making comment appeared that way. Apologies for the misunderstanding, I just get frustrated at the ever-increasing amount of (usually) politically motivated counterpoints made on anything today without the slightest piece of data to support such claims.
It might be easier to select online courses that have a community component built into their structure because identifying and onboarding other students into a third party platform has all the problems of any other platform plus very low density of potential customers (at the scale of a single course).
Sounds a bit like: "By locking your door, you only encourage thieves to break your window, which can actually increase the damage they cause you."
Witch hunts were largely a Northern European/Protestant phenomenon. The article doesn't say this explicitly, but in a roundabout way acknowledges this citing examples of how the Church largely saw witchcraft as superstition (which itself is a grave sin if done with full knowledge):

"Superstition of any description is a transgression of the First Commandment: "I am the Lord thy God,-- thou shalt not have strange gods before me. Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath . . . thou shalt not adore them nor serve them" (Exodus 20:2-5). It is also against the positive law of the Church, which visits the worst kinds of superstitions with severe punishments, and against the natural law inasmuch as it runs counter to the dictates of reason in the matter of man's relations to God. Such objective sinfulness is inherent in all superstitious practices from idolatry down to the vainest of vain observances, of course in very different degrees of gravity. With regard to the subjective guilt attaching to them it must be borne in mind that no sin is mortal unless committed with full knowledge of its grievous wickedness and with full deliberation and consent. Of these essential factors the first is often wanting entirely, and the second is only imperfectly present. The numerous cases in which the event seemed to justify the superstitious practice, and the universality of such incongruous beliefs and performances, though they may not always induce inculpable ignorance, may possibly obscure the knowledge and weaken the will to a point incompatible with mortal sin. As a matter of fact, many superstitions of our own day have been acts of genuine piety at other times, and may be so still in the hearts of simple folk." [1]

Aquinas also devotes question 92 of the Second Part of the Second Part of the Summa to supersition [0]. However, none of this denies the reality of the demonic.

[0] https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3092.htm

[1] https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14339a.htm

[2] http://jimmyakin.com/2020/06/thomas-aquinas-on-the-occult.ht...
I had a purple one and a green one! I’d play Doom (which didn’t use the 3D hardware), played around with a few of the OpenGL demos, barely surged the internet with the ancient version of Netscape, then didn’t do much else because I didn’t have the CD’s that came with it or the knowledge to try and build anything else.
IIRC, that happened w/ Ebola in a VA monkey lab. The strain just happened to be Marburg, rather than the more infectious, deadlier Zaire strain.

Good read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Zone
if i sign up for any streaming service now i still have to pay for channels i don't want. same problem really. we don't have a la carte choices yet
Depending on the source, we may or may not expect photon's to accompany the gravity waves. The most note worthy one so far was a gravity wave signal that we associate with a neutron star merger[1] that we also managed to catch a lot of photon signals which also matched what we think should come out of such a collision. Most black hole mergers that I know of would be dark. I imagine if they had a large accretion disks associated with them they might generate some light as well as gravity waves? But I'm not sure, I get most of my astronomy over lunch with colleagues.

[1] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/merging-neutron-star...
Do you also use GNU/Hurd?

/s
From a modern point of view it's not a challenge.

Historically voice encryption was politically only meant for state use, with strict controls, and us plebs not getting any voice encryption or very weak encryption only. Compared to encryption on the internet, this state has persisted for longer in communications. Even in new communication standards the options for encryption generally offer weak/irrelevant security for modern standards (end-to-end encryption).
Anyone else find it ironic the official announcement on twitter about a major programming change about inclusivity was posted in a non-accessible way?
I'm a big fan of WASM. And I imagine that a naive but functional implementation is easy to make. However, as the web becomes increasingly heavy over time, there will be pressure on the dominant browsers to accelerate WASM, and they might resort to the same complex tricks that modern JS interpreters must do to stay competitive.
> but let's stick to what's actually happening with SXG

No, Signed HTTP exchanges are something that Google dreamed up so people don't have to see their hegemony over the modern web (or as the article you linked calls it, a shakedown). It's not a browser standard so far, because of Apple and Mozilla's resistance.

There are legitimate ways for NYTimes to allow Google to serve content on behalf of them, like so many other CDNs around the world (it usually involves the CDN generating the certificate for your site as well). Why should people create new standards for HTTPS and URLs simply for Google's benefit?

I don't deny that there's a way to make "nytimes.com" work where everything is served by "google.com". What I'm questioning is why we need a completely new web standard for doing so that affects the URL, something that has been standard for decades.
I think most of my downvoted posts are bad jokes, which is pretty similar to real life for me! I used to take it hard when I had a bad reaction but now I realize that you sometimes take a swing and miss, and that's ok!

I do appreciate that HN is definitely not like reddit where the most of the top comments are one-liner jokes or puns.
Even better, WSL isn’t required these days. There is a full version of ssh in the standard cmd terminal.

They didn’t launch it with a big splash or anything, but it has saved my butt before.
Can Gemini be used for something like HN? e.g. nested threads? (or that’s basically Usenet?)
There are tools like Powerbroker which do this, and also privileged access management more generally - popular at banks and the like. Also SSH (the company)
Interesting idea but when I try submitting commands to translate it doesn't seem to work? It simply refreshes the page but my question disappears
An underwater surveying class that was practising mapping out a cave finding an unmapped passage doesn't really fall into the concept of "accidental discovery" to me.

For sure it was a lucky discovery because they weren't especially looking for new passages, but it can't really be said to be accidental in the sense of the vela satellites detecting GRBs for instance.
Another non-year of Linux on the desktop
Japanese has lots of these. One of the most confusing is "consent", which means "electrical socket".
Can you cite the exact quote where he said that?
I would miss my music apps (I really am happy I don’t have to download music anymore), automatic backup of photos and files with cloud providers and last, the ability to read and listen to books (same reason as to why I like music apps)
What a coincidence, 3 days ago I ordered two pieces of yubikey 5, today arrived a package and today I read a post on how to use them in an interesting way for emergency access to my server via SSH.

I'd like to add that the way it's described really works.

But... Now I don't know to leave one yubikey in case I need to use it for emergency access to ssh? I have a server since 2011 and I have never problems with access through ssh, I use the same keys to this day and everything works.

I think this way with yubikey to emergency access is overkill.

It's just an interesting way to use yubikey.
I'm reading "Rise and fall of the dodo" and the plot is mostly what you described.
> if I feel the need to make a potentially controversial point, couch it in thoughtful and reasoned terms

Did that save Stallman?
Do you maybe have any viable excuses to say hello to that particular client again?
You were downvoted because you referenced the wrong game. ;P