skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> my subcompact car completely crunched in while the SUV bumper barely had a scratch.

SUV are objectively safer due to size and mass. This comes at the cost of efficiency (fuel, space), and damage to other "softer" traffic participants (pedestrians, cyclists, smaller cars).

This effect is exaggerated by the fact that when braking or hitting something all cars lean forward and the nose goes down. So a small car crashing into the back of a SUV when both are braking (or the SUV just impacted someone in front) will definitely slide under the SUV and see a lot of damage. Also the back of a car is not designed to crumple as much as the front so it will see a lot less damage.

And because I see a wave of downvotes without an actual counter-argument, I will leave this here [0] and quote the essential:

> Research by the Highway Loss Data Institute shows that drivers and passengers in a hybrid are 25% less likely to be injured than those in the same model with a standard gasoline engine. And the death rate for drivers in hybrid crashes also was lower. The hybrid advantage is all about weight, it turns out.

Putting 2 and 2 together, between cars built to the same safety standards and level of quality, the heavier one is safer. I though this would be obvious for the technical crowd, especially the ones willing to get past reading just the first half a sentence from a comment.

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/crash-test-hybrids-safer-than-o...
That's not what they are asking for. Well there is epsilon GC but rather than writing java that doesn't allocate, I'd rather write C++ or Go.

This is the problem with Java ecosystem. Horribly reinventing simpler things in complex ways, from frameworks to build systems, and selling them as next big thing ™.
You mind find Kate Raworth's proposal interesting - 'doughnut economics':

https://www.kateraworth.com/doughnut/

Amsterdam's cityhall (NL) is piloting an implementation, so perhaps there is hope that it can go beyond a theoretical framework proposal.
Hardware will be a huge part, yes, but algorithmic advances would be even better. Utilizing existing commodity hardware to full extent is where the money is at. Specialized hardware will probably remain just that, specialized and mostly too expensive.
It is very easy to convert HTML to ePub, you could create simple script that converts every newsletter into ePub and adds it to your library.
I don't know if it would work for Kindle devices, but you could always install custom firmware that has support for Dropbox synchronisation.
> The only problem is that here they are giving for free "paid newspapers".

Or the problem is that there are "paid newspapers" in the first place.

> Now, please do the same analogy for food.

No, because information is not a finite resources in the same way that food is: Food can't be cloned at negligible cost after it is produced. If food was replicable like in Star Trek, then at that point we could make the same argument for food. (We do waste a lot of food when people can't pay for it or its transporation and distribution though.)
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I mean he established the Sealand Rebel Government as Government in Exile in Germany. I feel for an unrecgonized nation’s unrecognized rebel government "describes himself as" is very fitting ;)
if you're on k8s, and you get access to secret objects via the Kubernetes API, you're getting the secrets in the clear, no hashing or encryption.

If you get it via an etcd database file from disk or via direct access to the etcd API, then the best approach is usually to have setup the `--encryption-provider-config` option on the API server so that secrets are encrypted with a secret not present on the etcd server.
I tried to use my nail to scratch it off, no luck.
We leverage partnerships with in-kind donors and shipping companies to get a lot of stuff for free. And of course there are tons of community groups gathering second-hand donations which we can send for free as well.

For example, there's a charitable factory making soap in Scotland. They give us a few hundred thousand bars of soap every 6 months or so, and we ship em out to 15+ refugee camps in Greece to ensure the hygiene of 100,000 people are met.

Our 2019 budget was $10,000...
> If this is a sponsored blog entry? Unfortunately not, but maybe in the future …

Still, somehow the article reads like a promo for that paste.

I was curious whether the original factory paste indeed gets older to such degree that it causes the overheating. Instead, the only mentioning was that the old paste came off easily.

I replaced the paste on a few old ThinkPads. Mostly because I was cleaning/replacing the fan. For paste I used some no-name white goo, the kind you get in those pill-sized squeeze pouches. Usual procedure, nothing special, just wiped off the old thin layer; nothing crusty or peeling old paste. Other as old ThinkPads hum along well without any re-pasting.

Perhaps, this story is just a case of reseating the fan and reapplying the paste, than ThinkPad paste got old.
That first line could mean several different things. Are you claiming that the excessive power of fringe elements in the EU is why the UK decided to leave?

From a global perspective, the UK and US are currently undergoing existential crises - arguably due to people feeling politically underrepresented - whilst many countries with a strong PR such as Finland or Switzerland seem to be functioning better.
Not so surprising. When I was still publishing (until about 10 years ago), I always made sure my papers were easy to find and download. Academic performance is basically measured through scientific references to your work. So basically, a smart scientist would want to do SEO to ensure people can actually find their articles. Even 20 years ago I avoided going to the library to request copies of articles that somehow weren't available online.

Nothing gets rid faster of a potentially interested reader than a paywall. I find it surprising, scientists aren't getting smarter about publicizing themselves. All that effort and you can't be bothered to blog about your findings, tweet a bit, engage with your peers online. etc.? There's this notion of spending months years on something and then expecting people to actually find it, pay for it, and then read it only to then consider referring to it. It doesn't work that way if you are just starting out.
If you don't visit the site explicitly, just have the site somewhere in a list/bookmark/whatever, that site now has your IP address and basic header info when it needs to go retrieve it. By going through DDG, the site has a bot hit.

To me it looks to be trying to uphold your anonimity until you commit (click) through to the site/link. But certainly other ways they can approach this if it really bothers people.. I'd prefer DDG doing the lookup.. or having no fav icons.. over my computer going and downloading all my bookmark or other source icons
Brilliant!

Historically, this was the start of an important process. That of turning a fully functional multimedia access and delivery network (the WWW) into a money-extraction system.

But Web 2.0 was just around the corner to solve that problem . . .
Japanese manufacturers at least have had similar if not higher costs on manufacturing in Japan( and Europe). And these factories still employ a large number of skilled and non-skilled workers.

I don't think a bump in salaries that puts a country in the same ballpark as existing manufacturing locations( not counting the extra costs of manufacturing in the States or in Europe) is going to be such a big push for more automation. After a certain point the versatility of human workers is still useful.
> CPython feels like a house of cards, burdened by a legacy of bad engineering decisions it cannot get rid of anymore

At PyBay last year, I ended up with a knot of Python core devs talking about this problem, and talking about building a better, more portable API for native modules. The transition would be nasty (the 2->3 transition was..scarring), but it would solve this problem at a stroke.

> I very much prefer Python over JavaScript for example, but even then it wouldn't cross my mind

I would encourage you to at least check out Anvil (https://anvil.works). It's more than a Python->JS compiler; it's a reimagining of what the web as a platform could look like.

FWIW, I agree with you that it's a bad idea to swap out JS for Python at one layer, while keeping the rest of the stack intact. It's extra complexity, and it doesn't solve the actual problem with the Web, which is the sprawling complexity of the stack and all the weird frameworks that work around it (while themselves making the problem worse).

The Big Idea of Anvil is to replace all those different layers of abstraction with one big, coherent abstraction. That's one reason why we deliberately chose Python rather than JS, so that users wouldn't reflexively reach out and break that abstraction every time they Googled how to do something.
> Didn't see anyone claim that this was on a google-level of bad

The point is that people are reacting as if it was.
Everyone stands on the shoulder of giants.

Some stands on the shoulders of TPUs that do 1 century worth of compute in a day. Other stands on the shoulders of C or Python libraries.

Also, is engineering "just a glorified wrapper around science"?, is physics "just a glorified wrapper around maths"?, and is litterature "just a glorified wrapper around words"?

What's with the condescension culture?
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This isn't just a mistake. They're saying it's not a problem. Do you agree with that? If not, you're arguing with the wrong person.
That isn't a salt. Salts are per user, high entropy random strings.
Ok i am a bit angry, first i was thinking that a fly shit is on my screen, then that my GPU has a problem, then i read the Title ;)

It's really crazy, looks completely different on my bsd-box compared to my linux-laptop LOVE IT!!
They don’t need an SDK if they’re using protocol-compliant OpenID Connect.

Any OpenID Connect (or OAUTH2) library of the devs choice is the SDK.

The Facebook/google SDKs are simply there to add trackers and bloat.
I'm working on a branching/merging authoring framework and application.

Git, specifically, is bad as a backing store - as merge conflict resolution is not something you want end users to do - it's not friendly. p2p sync (OT/CRDT) is what I'm betting and building on.

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Truffle is built around AST interpretation so that’s not going to happen any time soon.
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Thank you, I feel like Itch.io should be featured on the main thread on HN. I didn't know about its existence.
I'm a big fan of peppering. It strikes me as a defense in depth move. Say a programmer on your team accidentally pushes code that makes your salt a static value for all users going forward, the pepper might protect user passwords in that case.
> If you're accusing people of criminal acts, you should, you know, actually be certain that the acts are criminal.

Intention matters, and that is usually left to the interpretation of the events. A judge or jury is free to decide what is the probable intention behind an action, whatever is the reason given by the accused.

> If I feel unwelcome in my workplace, I am encouraged to report it to my management. Psychological safety is incredibly valuable and is something that a lot of companies don't do enough to foster.

It's true, but to claim that the politely expressed and abstract opinion of someone makes you feel unwelcome is a stretch. And then, what about the feeling of being welcome and psychological safety of all those who might have a similar opinion? Which opinions this applies to? Am I free to go to the management and say that all those who speak of "white privilege" make me feel unwelcome and I want them to be fired?

> if someone started posting swastikas around the office, I would be well within my rights to complain to the higher ups that those things made me feel unwelcome

I don't really get this "makes me feel unwelcome". Being welcome or not is something between you and the company, not a single one of your coworkers. What you mean is that someone is a jerk and is repeatedly posting highly objectionable content. He might be then admonished to stop. End of the issue.

> Google was free to not fire him. My understanding is that it was debated, and that eventually executives decided that ethically firing him was the right decision.

Of course one can ignore the political pressure, media articles, and very vocal minority who asked for him to be fired. But then it becomes a different story.

> the question isn't what you believe their goals to have been, it's what they believe their goals to have been. If the goal wasn't to harass, wasn't to get revenge, but instead to improve their workplace, it's not criminal

If my idea to improve the workplace is to have all those who express feminist ideas to be silenced or fired, because as a male they make me "feel unwelcome", what do you think? Is it all fine?

> if I complain about someone for the wrong reasons, I'm actually harassing the person that I'm complaining about ... Also I don't get to decide what the wrong reasons are.

If I complain about the communists or the Jehova's witnesses because I don't like them, and I try to pressure the management into firing them, I am the one to be fired, not them. And I don't get to decide what the right reasons are. Seems simple to me.
To be fair, is that really any different than any other government setup? They're all social institutions. Which is rather the point of micro-nations, I believe.
I don't understand how this is different from a wiki. I think that wikipedia already contains the collective knowledge from a vast amount of people and, dare I say it, is already the knowledge base of humanity.

Can you explain a bit more what the difference is?
Does thermal paste expire?

I've got a P51 that's 2 years old now I think.

The fan is always on max. And it's hot, like I wouldn't wear shorts and put it on my lap hot.

Or perhaps there's another cause?
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Yes this is a huge confound. Their methods state...

The first data set contained all articles (nE = 4,646) that were downloaded from Sci-hub between September 2015 and February 2016 [24, 25]. The second data set was extracted from the Scopus database and contained all articles published in the selected journals within the same time period. From this data set, we excluded articles already present in the first data set.

Their methods lend to circular reasoning since the conclusion could also be "papers of high interest (cited more often) are more likely to be downloaded from scihub"
[0] is a great comparison, are there other comparisons of this kind?
Trump as savior? People would be shocked.
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The independence of Hungary's largest news outlet is in danger
Most of the large independent news outlets have already been destroyed or transformed in the recent years (to be pro-government) [0,1]. Now, there are attempts to break the largest online-only news site, index.hu.

[0] https://apnews.com/39028d9c44b64e08a6609b60a8bf7a13
[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-orban-media-insig...
You're okay with them having data on what you're searching for, but them potentially having data on the domains you're visiting from those search pages is where you draw the line?

I mean, I agree with the principle of storing as little data as possible but this isn't a huge deal in my eyes.
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Well, it is true, specially if you follow my threads regarding games development, or paying for software. :)
So ... you're expecting them to log your searches for later analysis, or at least meta data about your searches.

That's what they promise to not do and the whole point behind many people's decision to use them.

And it might be obvious for some, but it still makes no sense :-) given the browser is capable of doing it.
The emails can definitely be a good thing for reminding someone about billing, but they're not entirely effective. Most people would ignore emails such as these or they would read them and forget the information as something else is more important, or just rarely check their emails (like weekly, fortnightly, etc).

So the default behaviour matters most in this situation, as evidenced by opt-in vs opt-out for things such as organ donation. When it takes action to opt in most people don't do it (even though it's a good thing), and when it's opt out then most people don't take the actions of removing themselves from being an organ donor.

In this case with all the emails that Apple sends having the default behaviour be opt-in would actually still work. People that want to continue using the application should take the necessary steps to subscribe. If not then they either didn't want the subscription, don't use the application, or they didn't read the messages and are relieved that they're not spending money unnecessarily.

Therefore having opt-out be the default for subscriptions means that Apple is doing it explicitly because it makes them more money than the reverse situation. It is actually user hostile but with the thin veneer (typical of T&C or Privacy Policy) that they "told you so".
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Well done, but I think this should be called "Web Design Dark Ages".

In a broader sense, I'd like to see sections on Altavista, Lycos, Geocities, the rise and decline of Myspace and how Paypal and IE sucked.
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Sounds like you had panic attacks. Those can definitely be triggered by excessive caffeine intake and poor sleep which is often a byproduct. But to the best of my knowledge, you cannot actually get a heart attack from drinking coffee. At least not if it is not something completely insane like 100 cups/day.
In Japan they use remote controlled helicopter for crop dusting.
Discrimination would be to treat those employees in a worse manner that others. Paying them the above the local rate salary is not treating them "worse". Not providing them with equal opportunities to grow on the company, that would be discrimination.

Apple is making products that the majority of the country that they operate in, simply cannot afford. Let alone the rest of the planet. Are we considering that to be discrimination?
Check your fans? Might need to clean them.
I don't know how the rules are here about getting personal, but aside from making other users be uncomfortable you're missing the point completely.

I don't personally feel a need for a high level of privacy, but I can understand other people who do.
And if they are using DuckDuckGo for that purpose, this issue would seem like a big thing.
If you served a dish for a vegan with 5 % meat in it, you wouldn't justify it by comparing to the amount of meat in non-vegan dishes.
See previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23708779
My Canon printer won’t join my SSID containing an emoji, helpfully throws generic E36 (or something like that). All Apple devices show and connect to the SSID just fine.
Apache (and mod_perl) was thread safe by being multi-process, single threaded. You were always limited by how many perl interpreters could fit in RAM simultaneously. Then came the era of the Java app server (Weblogic and WebSphere).

Everyone has mostly forgotten AOLserver (and TCL!). Almost everyone of that generation was influenced to use a RDBMS as a backend by Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing which came out in 1998.[0] Although I never actually met anyone who used AOLserver itself! Everyone took the idea and implemented it in ASP or perl, until the world succumbed to EJBs.

[0] https://philip.greenspun.com/panda/