skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adding some new NNTP features to Thunderbird was my introduction to open-source software and ultimately led me to being one of the primary maintainers.

NNTP is a wonderful protocol, arguably the simplest of the 4 mailnews protocols (IMAP, POP, SMTP, and NNTP). While it seems to share the same basic format as RFC822 messages, it actually tends to avoid some of the more inane issues with the RFC822 formatting (generally prohibiting comments and whitespace folding).

Unfortunately, the internet by the early 2000s started turning more and more into an HTTP(S)-only zone. Usenet itself hemorrhaged its population base, especially as ISPs shut down their instances (e.g., because someone found one child porn instance somewhere in alt.binaries.*).
What happens when you reach your limit online
Then you should get mad, because there are better alternatives to google translate (deepl).
I am absolutely interested in real-world security, which is why when someone declares snake-oil, "Holding Bitcoin is literally free," I think it's worth debunking it.
Well, that's the problem with the whole internet. Remember those pages created in the 90s/early 2000s? People thought they were sharing information to the whole world. It turns out that most pages created in the 90s are now inaccessible or have been siloed by big corporations. The fact that we allowed corporations to take over the internet made it an inhospitable place for everyone else without corporate backing.
The fact you don't understand a simple statistic isn't WHO's fault.

> "Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died.

REPORTED.

From that speech

> There is now a total of 90,893 reported cases of COVID-19 globally, and 3110 deaths.

3110 as a percentage of 90,893 is 3.42%

> By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected"

Why are you quoting this? How many people do you think die of seasonal flu each year?
Lived through it. Microsoft had a 9. Anything list on the dmoz had a 4.

Page Rank doesn't work if the seeded values are all set to 0. If everyone started at 0 they pass on nothing. Google needed a way to seed. They assigned the highest value to themselves scaling down to other giants, universities, dmoz sites, etc.

Pagerank is a reputation calculator. You still need to define at least one cool person. Much better with thousands to varying degrees.
And a significant number of financial and airline systems run on COBOL. Active usage doesn't make something more or less 'legacy'.
It's not really so much incompetence on the developers' part. The US has an overlapping patchwork of jurisdictions and regulatory authority at the federal, state, county/parish, city, and often other levels (township, flood control district, sometimes a converged health department...). The number of permits, regulations, inspections, and taxes on top of any project often costs as much as the materials and sometimes as much as the labor.
Do you actually think Democrats want to "shut down the economy and destroy these people's livelihoods" just because they are mean and bad at governing? Really think about what you just typed. The point of lockdown is beating the virus, as other countries have done - but no, we can't do that here because of obstinate REPUBLICANs refusing to wear masks because "muh freedoms" - I haven't seen one logical or good thing come from Republican leadership during initial few months of this global pandemic. It's just more head-in-the-sand and blame-democrats, just like usual. If you're on the side of Republicans, you are on the wrong side of history, it's really as simple as that at this point.
It's also tied to a single, very large country. This gives USD a significant boost over EUR in many ways.
Indeed but what you’re describing there is just more examples of metonymies like I’d already discussed in my previous post.

Microsoft obviously need a descriptive term (“software” and “program” does not work as a drop in replacement in all instances) and “application” is well suited. But that doesn’t mean that APIs (“application programming interface”) can’t be used by systems software, for example. It’s just “application” is a broad enough term to be the clearest term in most instances.

I should add, we are talking about the Win 3.x and possible very early 9x era. As time went on “application” did lose its specificity. An example of this is how progman.exe grouped software vs how the Start menu group software.
The work is nicely done.

But each time I see a website presenting a book content or catalog in pages like that, like if it was a real book, it really pisses me off.

It is a design move that goes against ergonomy.

Harder/slower to browser, harder/slower to seek, you have to do a mental break while pages are changing with effect that does not get the same efficiency feeling than a real book.
These are the kind of breakdowns I'd like on every phone out there. If they were to publicly release a standardized battery testing procedure with a list of all hardware used for testing, the would make it much easier to compare battery life across phones on the market.

Good job.
The real value proposition of a bodega/corner store is that it it's on your corner, or the one 1/2 a block away. They used to have longer hours too, less so now that grocery stores open late or 24hr. So it isn't the place you went for a big grocery shop, but the place you dropped by when you forgot something or ran out of milk.

They've always been more expensive than grocery stores, doesn't matter if they are local independents or big chains.
Awesome! I think about this almost on a daily basis, and could very well be wrong, but from my perspective think the killer feature is integrating the querying with the financial data providers I mentioned above so they could sell the whole thing as the final product to end users. (EDIT: from a reply to another comment, it seems like some people are onto the concept: https://factset.quantopian.com)

If you ever install FactSet for a trial period and try querying time series with even ~10,000+ data points, you'd be amazed at how long it takes, how sluggish it is and how often Excel crashes.

My real perspective is Microsoft should roll something similar out as part of Excel and also get in the business of providing the financial data as they continue the transition into services over products
"We've smashed more bugs and tidied up a few things to make this release even more awesome. Update to the latest to enjoy the best Blablah!"

Actual updates: Version number bump. In my experience outside of the Big Tech releases the most egregious offenders seem to be Credit and Banking Apps with auto expiration. I loathe that feature, it's bitten me in low connectivity areas.
"How easy is it to buy and sell other currencies in China compared to the United States?" is a good start to answering this question.
Researchers develop method for easy Covid-19 testing at home
"Secret scanning for private repositories"[1] - Microsoft will scan your private repositories for any secret keys that can be exploited. Then those will probably be shown to some low-paid outsourced workers who will resell them to attackers.

[1] https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/106
But, but .. we did that in 1997-2005 for Spanish flu and nothing (?) happened.

https://www.nature.com/articles/437794a

> It is thought to have killed 50 million people, and yet scientists have brought it back to life … Working out how it arose and why it was so deadly could help experts to spot the next pandemic strain and to design appropriate drugs and vaccines in time, they say. But others have raised concerns that the dangers of resurrecting the virus are just too great. One biosecurity expert told Nature that the risk that the recreated strain might escape is so high, it is almost a certainty.

Grave digging: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/reconstruction-19...
It's becoming clear to me that Google has become a far, far worse monopoly than Microsoft ever was. Microsoft just controlled our computers; Google controls our access to history.
I would personally very much appreciate it if the ada recources could be placed or archived again on the internet. Lately I had the feeling even books where a better option for finding information about the language.
This is the distinction between the platform for which the work is being done and the platform the work is being done on. You can develop for Linux servers from other platforms.
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We don't even have to look to hypothetical aliens for an example. All the bronze-age Aegean scripts, except for Linear B, remain undeciphered.
This John McPhee article about lacrosse is wonderful, for anyone who's interested: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/03/23/spin-right-and...
As someone who isn't that familiar with app store guidelines. Is it acceptable to link to the change log on the website?
It is possible to scavenge the NFC antenna/chip from an Oyster card or indeed any other card, which the author alludes to in their video. There are details floating around on how to do it, by dissolving the card in acetone.

However, the relevant authorities might take a dim view of repurposing the transit card in this manner and probably have certain restrictions in place, to deter people from defacing their property. On another note, the author is using a NTAG213 on the watches sold via the shop and Oyster is Mifare, from what I can remember. There might be issues with response times regarding the proximity to the reader, if you wanted to experiment.
World Games? Never heard of this. Olympic qualifying requirements?

The real Lacrosse world championship is World Lacrosse Championship ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Lacrosse_Championship#20... ) where Iroquois punch above their weight.
The Postman Always Pings Twice: a postman tutorial, with pinball
If you're done insulting people maybe you'll actually read and understand.
Trademarking Infocom, again, part one
Trump’s call for crackdown on Twitter and Facebook now on Ajit Pai’s desk
Russia's oil reserves are a drop in the bucket compared to middle east, and more expensive to extract. Saudi Arabia could simply ramp up production to drive prices down globally and make it not worth the effort. Also, US has leverage over China bc they buy all China's cheap crap.

The headaches and downsides aren't worth it, and any "talks" are likely just game-theory pokes at the US.
While I do read wccftech from time to time, one must realise they are not a reputable site. You need to read everything with the largest grain of salt.

If we could also stop posting or upvoting anything from wccftech would also be great.
Yikes is right. Seems like they said the quiet part out loud.
You're asking good questions about raising capital but the outcome was a rare circumstance where all cofounders, previous investors, new investors, current employees, and the exec team are thrilled. There's a lot to do but the round was right-sized as it was the same amount we planned to raise pre-pandemic.
This is complicated. Housing doubles as a bet on the local property values as well as a good that needs to be repaired and maintained. It's also subject to property tax, so the more you have the more tax you pay. At least here in Toronto.

Between investing in other assets like stocks (or, more realistically holding cash until the stock market stops acting crazy) I think housing is overvalued where I live right now and the maintenance is more of a hassle than I'm willing to put up with right now.

But you're not fully wrong. If I lived somewhere in the sticks I'd build a lot more house. Less property tax, less alternatives like plays or parks. Also, in the country more of your investments can earn or save money, like gardens or vineyards or workshops. In the city it's usually just a waste of space.
Mechanically, CDO's get review of every new hire in a company and can veto candidates. They also exfiltrate corporate money by scheduling periodic diversity training with third party political organizations that bill in the tens to hundreds of thousands per session.
Now imagine making the software open source
The concept around evergreen communication is interesting. However, I do think chat gets impersonal fast. And it's hard to make the team feel connected.

There are tools like vlokit [0] which is a video-first chat platform. By letting people express ideas and give feedback through video/audio, it makes it easier to connect with the group. Without the constant need to get into a meeting for it.

It's also great to discuss off-work topics your team might be interested in.

[0] https://vlokit.com
I don't make dark mode part of my choice of whether to use something or not, but given I am using something, I always choose dark mode.

On OLED screens like my phones, black reduces energy use. On regular screens, dark mode subjectively seems to make things easier on my eyes. I also use f.lux and related technologies. I also sometimes use yellow-tinting screen glasses. I have no idea if any of this is scientifically valid, but at this point I can feel my eyes decline significantly as I age. My particular vision is 20/20 but one of my eyes is much worse and this contributes to a lot of eye strain. I also have pretty chronic headaches.

Since my entire ability to make money hinges on computer screens, I will take whatever nonsense option seems, subjectively, to make things easier on myself or preserve my longevity.

GitHub and HN are probably the two things I use most that do not support dark mode natively. My sense is that as far as feature requests go, dark mode typically does not tie up resources that otherwise would be allocated to more functionality-based features. GitHub doesn't need to provision more servers, for instance, in order to implement dark mode. HN already has colour customization, we need only to be able to customize a few other colours to allow dark mode natively.
This is basically segments. It would work as long as your implementation doesn't have Meltdown-like vulnerabilities, i.e. speculation past hardware enforcend protection. We know it can be done because there are high performance CPUs which are not vulnerable to Meltdown.
The US couldn't consume goods from other countries based on cheap debt anymore, but would have to increase their own exports to match up their deficit.

That's because if other countries aren't forced to purchase USD, there's a much smaller market for the US currency. This means the US's ability to print money without causing domestic inflation would be much more limited.

It would have to consume less and produce more.
Sorry to say this out loud, but this article is poorly written and has many misconceptions about DoH, DoT and browsers. Feel free to chide and correct my comments below.

> DNS-over-HTTPS isn’t used by Firefox and Google because it’s superior to DoT. It’s used because browsers operate at the HTTPS layer by default, so DNS-over-TLS doesn’t make sense (as things stand now) for a browser to implement.

Umm, browsers need to handle TLS in order to support HTTPS. I don’t know where this idea popped up that browsers only know about HTTPS and don’t care for or don’t handle TLS. They actually care so much about TLS that they can warn users about deprecated versions of TLS (like TLS 1.0) used by websites and also push web servers and server operators to plan and move to TLS 1.2.

> Google can’t use DNS-over-TLS in their browser because they can’t modify the code on Windows or MacOS operating systems (which only support DoT at the moment) in order to encrypt DNS requests done outside of the browser. And that works for Google and Firefox, because they only need to encrypt DNS requests inside of their browsers.

The latter part is true, that browsers care primarily about their web related DNS requests, but the former part is a big misunderstanding. They could’ve adopted DoT within the browser, but they chose not to for a few reasons that are explained in their FAQs. I’ve seen at least Firefox’s FAQ on why Mozilla chose DoH and not DoT, and that has nothing to do with OS support.

> Meanwhile at DNSFilter, we need to operate DNS encryption not just in the browser, but at the operating system level. That’s why we use DNS-over-TLS:

Well, there are others who provide DoH (yes, DNS Over HTTPS) at the OS level. NextDNS is one example.
Also agree that's a good thing. AWS has public roadmaps for a few products, it helps me a lot to make decisions as an architect.
This is probably about politics, not consistency.
What would make you prefer a Remington 870 over a Mossberg 500? For me, the two were equal — similar in price, reliability, and customizability — except that the Mossberg was a better physical fit for me. I haven't had reason to regret my choice.
I think GP meant to say lived in the US, as his last sentence implies that he currently lives in the EU.
Thought experiments probably go back as far as thinking.

Plato's Cave and Zeno's paradoxes are famous ancient ones; the article is rather misleading in its association of them with recent times.
More than half of the US population doesn't even have a passport [1]. And I suspect the half that does has a majority of people who read religiously the NYT and have no plan to travel during this pandemic anyway.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/804627/us-passports-in-c...
JoVE: 10k videos of laboratory methods and science concepts
How do you mean bulky? BuzzOff is 14mm thick, sits under your Echo and doesn't require a separate power plug. Rather than blasting ultrasonic noise, BuzzOff shares power with, and controls the power flow to, your Echo.

We could make BuzzOff quite a bit thinner, but the Echo power plugs are the limiting factor, they are almost 10mm diameter.
Two things:

a) There is no way this list is even slightly close to comprehensive.

b) What is the purpose of this?
GitHub publishes OpenAPI specs for its 12 year old REST APIs
Sounds like you need a time-seres database for those sorts of narrow and deep queries :)

What's difficult is to find a database that has good performance on both narrow and deep queries (e.g Price of stock X for past 5 years) as well as shallow and wide queries (e.g Price of all stocks in past 15mins)
Scaling Computer Vision Models with Dataflow
This was posted elsewhere in this thread:

https://github.com/hjacobs/kubernetes-failure-stories

To me the biggest problem is the hype and massive salesmanship used to sells extreme complexity to gullible companies / individuals. K8s really is the J2EE application server of last century on steriods.
Ctrl+a is the keyboard shortcut.
Do they give you tuition discount as foreign student when it's all online?
Am working in the online casino industry and was always told that porn sites are at the forefront of technology but based on this interview it seems that pornhub are clearly not
So far everything you've said, in any thread, about covid-19 has been provably incorrect.
Absentee Ownership: How Amazon, Facebook, and Google Ruin Commerce
I come from an embedded perspective, but 50MB+ to me says either "assets are bundled in" or "more complexity than a full operating system + userspace". I can think of a few products that might hit the latter, but not many. Can you help me understand if there's some massive hidden complexity here that I'm simply unaware of or if this a pretty rare limit to approach?
How does the accuracy of your system compare to ARKit’s people/skeleton tracking with the LiDAR Scanner in the new iPad Pro?
Ah I see, I'm not more curious that you say it's really simple, I haven't read the spec much personally. I loved the concept of the D forums so much I intended to attempt to setup my own NNTP daemon from scratch, but it's in a bucket list of projects I want to try out, the only resource I could think of reading are the RFCs not sure if anybody else has documented Usenet otherwise.
Why put another layer of complexity (and dependencies) on top of a solid and battle-tested library like React? Chances are that Next.js will be obsolete in 1-2 years while React will be even better and maintained (probably React will die in 5 to 10 years, just like any other lib/framework).
Yeah I'm the OP. It's funny, I bought the jackhammer for a single job after doing the math that it would cost me just as much as renting a more expensive one. That was over a decade ago. Since then it's been used countless times for all sorts of random jobs where we otherwise would have used a pickaxe or a chisel or an axe. We even split logs with it out at my parents house, haha.
It's weird though, because they are roughly about as effective at lowering Disney's status as they are at voting the politicians out because collective action problems are hard.
I would use vanilla JS rather than jQuery now that most browser compatibility issues are sorted. But most of my work doesn't need to support versions of IE older than 11.
In China, Email Addresses Are Irrelevant
Competitors have a hard time getting off the ground because the dominant player is promoting its own products. Classic monopoly. Competition won't be good if nobody uses them.

Google maps might be a good example, MapQuest and Terraserver used to be better for navigation and satellite photos. Did they fail because of business reasons or self promotion? Hard to know, but Google pulled the same shit as MS got antitrust for. Bundling their own maps app pre-installed on their dominant mobile OS
And what are all the oil barons doing with their USD?

If I buy US dollars so I can go buy oil, and then the oil producers go and exchange those dollars in to other currencies, then the whole process is neutral for the greenback.
In the center?
Yep, this is precisely why I refuse to use GPL or AGPL, but am completely comfortable with BSD.

If I'm going to be bound by T's and C's, I need to be able to understand the implications - there is just too much ambiguity and room for bad actors (e.g. Oracle) with GPL and AGPL.
(disclosure: I work at Google on side-channel stuff and https://github.com/google/safeside)

I'm really excited to read that post!

I agree that the best we can claim right now is that we've made Spectre and other speculative attacks "expensive enough" that they're unlikely to be the most profitable area for attack.

That said, I'd be a bit worried about the assertion we haven't seen Spectre attacks "in the wild". It is incredibly difficult to put together a set of metrics that would convincingly detect attempts at even a straightforward speculative information disclosure.

(haha, two branches, I get it)
There are laws for book publishers, requiring that they send copies to your local government's central library. In the US it's the library of congress. Some of the books they don't keep, but they do filter them by which books are important and which aren't. Maybe the same should be done for "viral" posts, such arial scans, and other data deemed important.
Except that's not "all it is". Trump only said it should be taken based on research that had been done showing it may be effective, research which has been replicated in numerous studies in numerous countries.

Subsequent poorly designed studies got bad results precisely because they were poorly designed, yet they continue to influence attitudes on HCQ treatment.
I read the article and I read the threads here, and maybe I missed it—but why did these groups disappear? Were they banned due to bad words or a mistaken spam filter?
Interesting that "slithy" passes spellcheck but "toves" doesn't.
thanks, already am pretty skilled with it :) looking for something more niche for fun and ideas :)
This - unfortunately Google rarely lands there - but I use it exclusively when I need to lookup JS stuff.
Are there any indications to you why your accounts got shut down? Any pattern you noticed?

I - as most of us - have a personal google account, and our company uses a google business account. While I'm following news regarding google cancelling accounts at will, I fail to notice a reliable pattern: (alleged) fraud and other illegal stuff seems to comprise a good part of it, but at most 30-50%.