skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just your parents.

I was sitting down with a very experienced C++ engineer a few months ago to work on a problem. There was something we needed to do a web search on.

He opened Chrome, clicked in the address bar (which already had the keyboard focus, but never mind that), and typed "google". This did a Google search for Google, and the first search result was www.google.com. Then he clicked www.google.com which took him to the Google home page, and there he typed in the search terms.

Yes, he Googled Google to do a Google search.
Did you invest in getting a MBA degree ?
I get that. So bold, italics and half-tone could be good enough for many/most use cases, and icons are just eye candy, right?
That's not what I'm talking about. Suppose your router receives a packet whose destination is that internal IP address. Then it's going to send it there, unless it's configured to block that traffic.

What router is set up by default to route traffic from the internet to a private IP address unless the traffic initiated from the private IP address? Someone would have to purposefully configure their router to do it.

Of course someone can purposefully configure an insecure system.
DDG USED to be Yahoo (which... Is just Bing results too. Yup I’m serious). There’s a bunch of alternative search engines that are UI’s on top of Yahoo/Bing. Ecosia is one of them too.
The helmet is a light mass, which can move relative to the head, and experience drastically higher g-forces for very short times. Sampling an accelerometer at kHz rates as a helmet is vibrating (without translating all of the vibrational energy into the head), will measure larger peak G's than the head experiences.

For this reason, when studying head impact for football players, they mount the accelerometers in the mouth guard. This more accurately reflects the real g-forces, as the teeth (ideally) don't move much relative to the brain during an impact, and have the appropriate reference frame.

The differences can be extremely large. The peaks reflected in this graph are absolutely not real and should not be taken literally.
Having recently played around with sam, I could see some interesting possibilities based on the title of this post, But from the link, it doesn't seem like there are any examples of what this is meant to look like.
The integral of the force of time would be the same, but one can reduce the spikes in force.

That's essentially what happens when a car is designed to crush, saving the occupants. The deceleration of the occupants is reduced and spread out over a longer period of time, but the total deceleration is the same.
https://commoncrawl.org/

Obviously, not at the same level as google and there are other parts. But I believe we can do this together if we try to. People were talking about building their own search engine on elixir forums a while ago and many seemed interested.
I don't think that was his point. His point is that it's hard to build relationships when no one ever sees each other. Relationships are extremely important in the business setting and it's something the Aspergers inclined tech crowd has a little bit of a difficult time grasping.
Make the helmet bigger, and put a liner filled with gel in it.
It would be neat if we could sandbox specific mobile apps.
Could the iPhone depth sensor be used for this purpose? Could an app be made?
I'm not sure what your country's going rates are but for the US, a small business might budget a few thousand dollars total for their website. A minimal security audit that would catch missing or stupid security would basically double their expenses. Unless they truly needed some custom feature they'd take one look at a security auditor's quotes and then go sign up for Wix or Squarespace immediately. It's not that the services don't exist, its just that they're expensive and typical non-technology business websites don't really need that much put into them.
I’ll check him out, thanks in kind! The name threw me at first, because the David Mitchell I’m familiar with is a British comedian who I’m already fond of.

And I’ve just learned that he wrote Cloud Atlas, a film that I started watching in the wrong headspace so didn’t get far, but I remember being intrigued by the synopsis I read beforehand. Ghostwritten is where to start, yes? Or are there short stories that I should seek out first?

Your timing is perfect: I’m waiting for 3 (!) unfinished series to release their next volumes, so a writer who will keep me busy for a month or two is most welcome!

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For (in)completeness’ sake, because I can’t help sharing my excitement about these, even though they are strictly off topic at this point and this post will be too damn long, the unfinished series I’m waiting for are:

NK Jemisin (an author in OP’s list) - Great Cities series (One book complete). What if cities can become (once they grow complex enough) living beings? What if there are extra-dimensional forces arrayed against them, and the cities raise humans as avatars to help themselves? Only one book is finished, and it’s a good one. Self-aware Lovecraft for the modern world, focused on NYC. Her complete Broken Earth trilogy is also good.

Robert Jackson Bennett - The Founders Trilogy (two books complete). In this world, “scribing” is a way to make physical objects behave as if their physical constants were altered, much like variables in programming. A thief who can “see” these scribings gets in touch with a “talking” key who has a much greater understanding of them. But what kind of graybeard made the key ages ago? What’s their long game? Why can the thief even see this stuff? Being a programmer probably adds a lot to this one, but it’s not a requirement. Reminds me some of Stephenson’s wit with a lot less of his expository narrative (no slight there—he’s easily in my top 5, and some narrative asides are some of his best bits.)

Peter Newman - The Deathless (Two books complete). This one really surprised me. Royals with flying armor live in floating castles and cultivate “heirs” who will host their consciousnesses when they die, while commoners scrabble near The Wild that grows just outside the influence of the royals’ magical roads. I‘m sorry to say that I read a preview out of incredulity, with the intent of hating on the premise. Turns out it intrigued me enough to buy the first book, and then I was hooked because the world and its inhabitants are super interesting. “Don’t judge a book by its synopsis,” etc.

Bonus, ‘cause why not: James A. Corey - The Expanse. Read your own summary for this one =)
This is how the world is shaping up -- winner take all, but so much competition to be that winner that the winner's life isn't worth it either.
In a collision, the helmet gets hit and, subject to some degree of padding and such, transfers the impact to the head. If you’re sitting in a sled and the sled accelerated rapidly, your head and your helmet must accelerate with it, although you may not perfectly track its path. Unless the helmet is also secured to your torso, all the forces on the helmet come from your head. You would need tremendous acceleration of your head to meaningfully deform any but the softest padding.
Given the information available to the user there is simply no way to understand what is being done. You might be able to guess or use insider knowledge to film in the blanks but someone who is not a Google employee in a privileged position can’t put those pieces together.

Plus there is an element of duress since Google is changing the rules for access to a service that the user has come to rely on.
Well, you get to pay for the privilege. That seems to be the difference.
If you have Docker then make sure you have a firewall on top of it, otherwise it will expose pretty much what any docker user wants !
I taught myself how to pick locks when I was a kid and I've saved the day on numerous occasions in my adult life where people were locked out at inopportune moments and I was able to get us in.
J.K. Rowling hasn’t been cancelled. She’s been told that her words are hurtful to a vulnerable group of people and that she’s repeating some well-refuted lies. She keeps doubling down on those lies and her hurtful comments.

But she’s still worth a stupid amount of money and she still has her publishing contracts. She’s received some pretty disgusting hateful comments _back_ (which is inexcusable), but most objections are specifically because she’s repeating toxic hate speech.

Compare this with the 22 transgender people murdered in America so far this year: 22 transgender people have been killed so far this year — almost the total toll for 2019 (https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/diversity-inclu...).

Being told that one’s words are hurtful is not the equivalent of being purged in the early USSR (such purges were quite often literal with use of bullets).
Again, I come back to the Apple: imagine someone claiming the original Iphone wasn't ready for primetime because it didn't zoom very well when trying to use a recently merged, reverse-engineered driver with FreeBSD. Plus that same reviewer didn't even bother to check usability on default iOS installed with the system.

That's the level of serious we're talking about here. In no way is Pinebook's hardware so underpowered that it takes 1 second to switch tasks.

It's an especially egregious oversight because mainline support in the kernel and Debian has happened and continues to be worked on since I purchased the thing. But since I actually took the time to try out the default install, you won't hear me misrepresent the state of the hardware if I happen to flash a newer distro/kernel and run into problems that I don't understand.
Check out dotbot[1] and the brewfile[2] plugin

1: https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot
2: https://github.com/sobolevn/dotbot-brewfile
matz should not be downvoted. Humans do lots of objectively pointless self-destruction like things as a hobby with increasing risks. Things like human powered flight, aerogliding and sky diving, parkour, climbing steep things with and without gear, driving at high speeds around bends, 'explore' the wild, many of which we celebrate, reward and encourage.
It doesn't matter. You don't have to measure something perfectly and exactly to decide if it's an avenue of research worth exploring. If turns are designed to limit G-forces to 5G, and you put sensors on your helmet and they're reading 55G when your head hits the ice, that's probably an indication that further research is required.
> A free speech service that is serverless and unable to be shut down. That will truly give power to individual people.

When speech is free, speech becomes worthless. Worthy things cost.
Garth Wilson here. Self-proclaimed Forth guru, um...no; enthusiast and user, definitely. The 6502 Forth I'm using is one that was modified from fig-Forth to Forth-83, and then I further modified it and added a lot to it, including zero-overhead interrupt service in high-level Forth, as described in one of the first articles I ever wrote, at http://wilsonminesco.com/0-overhead_Forth_interrupts/ .

My 65816 Forth however is something I did pretty much from scratch in the mid-1990's and has sat collecting dust most of the time since then, but I have recently pulled it out and implemented a the major upgrade of easy installation and management of low-overhead prioritized interrupts in both assembly language and high-level Forth. This was quite a challenge to debug, because until the new interrupt system was working, there wasn't the interactiveness that makes Forth so quick to develop in.

There's so much optimizing that can be done on the '816 compared to the '02, since its ability to handle 16 bits at a gulp takes the memory penalty out of turning secondaries into primitives. It's actually easier to write for the '816, and my '816 Forth runs two to three times as fast as my '02 Forth at a given clock rate. I hope to eventually it ready for publication.
Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air
Lack of integer type is really suck but that's inherited failure from JavaScript.
I had an amazing few happy hours virtually last few months. Some great technical discussions with some young engineers, and they had more opportunity to ask questions, get context on the broader company, etc than they would normally.
I'm not arguing that our understanding hasn't advanced, only that our models are constrained by our internal conceptual and external verbal/written vocabulary. It's possible that brains are doing things that we have no thoughts or words for because they don't resemble any system we've ever dealt with.
The research I've seen in popular media says a lot of the carbon from old trees comes from an era before microbes could digest them - so dead trees just piled up for a long time and got buried. That doesn't happen anymore.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2016/01...

"Ward and Kirschvink say that 90 percent—yup, 90 percent!—of the coal we burn today (and the coal dust we see flying about Beijing and New Delhi) comes from that single geological period, the Carboniferous period."
Did you reach La Quadrature Du Net ?

https://www.laquadrature.net/

Also check other CCC co-organizers & the political activist sphere.
The research papers on manual memory management for .NET looked interesting. I wonder if anything ever came of it?
I would expect a SQL dump of a database to be safe, as long as the schema only contains standard data types and no BLOBs. Once you start throwing BLOBs in there, anything goes.
Putting kids in cages as policy is objectively bad (it’s also immoral and against international law, but if there’s anything that the Republicans and Trump have proven over the last four years/decades…they don’t actually care about obeying the law, just other people obeying _their_ laws).

It’s pretty damned easy to argue objectively bad. It’s lazy to argue that “bad” is merely an opinion when there’s some pretty clear examples that prove you wrong.

Would you prefer that we call Trump’s policies “evil” (which I believe that they are, but usually avoid that term because it typically has a metaphysical meaning people associate with it that I don’t mean as someone who doesn’t _do_ metaphysics of any sort)?
It’s so interesting to see what didn’t quite make it into such culturally important works. It’s a shame that for most classic games, the source code will never be released. I wish that after a while, and things were no longer commercially viable, code would be released. I get that’s kinda how copyright was meant to work with books and similar, but the code is never published, so nobody has it to preserve it for posterity...
I guess the first positive outcome of this would be that everybody working at a university would be immediately promoted to be a professor. ;-)
Back when I did my degree, Haskell still wasn't a thing, like it was giving its first steps.

So the choice would be Lisp, Prolog, Caml Light, or the recently released Objective Caml.

The year before I took compilers design project, the TA responsible for it used to disallow them from the implementation language option list, as it would make the assignment too easy.
It'll be a nice tradition if everybody who turns 100 publish a short letter for the next generation documenting lessons they've learned and advice they would give. RIP Havilland.
> A hack might be only letting people who want children and want to take care of children have kids, and have multiple kids.

How? We can not even achieve that for pets. Can you come up with any valid qualification process for this?
> but if you need it to determine important information then something's amiss.

Not untrue, but define "need"; as eg [0] points out, distinctive colors make it much easier to notice things. (On the other hand, TFA seems to be advocating precisely the kind of syntax-based ice-cream-sprinkle-soup coloring that makes it harder to notice things, so not exactly the most convincing presentation there.)

0: https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/syntax-highligh...
0 dicussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23902124
They’d get acquired by google before they get google scale.
So, some years ago, Temple Grandin wrote a set of standards and McDonald's adopted it and they buy so much beef that it became the de facto new standard for the beef industry. And it's a set of standards that helps beef producers succeed rather than a "gotcha" trying to find who is guilty.

And that's the way you make the world a better place. Not by looking for new and creative ways to nail "bad guys" to the wall after you started from an assumption of guilt.

I don't like this article. I don't like it at all. My feeling is that it was written as an emotional response to the pandemic and it is getting traction on HN for the exact same reason.

People are stressed out and they are looking for a villain to go after. It won't fix the real problem -- the pandemic -- but that's how people tend to behave in a crisis.

And it's a slippery slope towards a more draconian world. It doesn't make things better.
That's not really true. You're using a third party to send out messages, and if you don't like it, you can switch pretty painlessly. You could even use you're own local MTA at the same time, if you really wanted to.

The IMAP/POP3 server is yours, and all the email is stored on something you control.
I appreciate your willingness to reason carefully about this problem. I may not understand your point, so please walk me through it, if you have the time and energy to teach a young man. At the very least, would you agree it is possible to have a context where anyone can say what they want (perhaps something we all infrastructurally support and protect) while also having other contexts in which each user controls who their moderators and search/feed signalers will be? Isn't it worthwhile to work for both?
> ... and even raise money for organizations whose stated goal is to destroy American way of life ...

Curious. Examples?
Very interesting. It was around the same time as the discovery of penicillin. Were there other fungal medicines discover around that time? I believe statins and Cyclosporine were discovered much later.

A chemical from the fungus needed to react with a chemical from the clover. Either we got lucky (and the cows unlucky) that the fungus grew on the clover, instead of some plant with negligible amounts of coumarin, or else there are lots of other medically interesting combinations just out there in the environment that we haven't noticed because the necessary organisms don't interact often. Given the unimaginable numbers of naturally occurring biological chemicals out there, I'm guessing it wasn't luck, and the combinatorics made it inevitable.

It's also interesting how an attempted suicide by rat poison led to demonstration of an effective treatment for overdose that eventually led to its use as a medicine.

Though, minor nit about the second paragraph: a cow is a mature female bovine. I doubt any of the investigated deaths were cows that had undergone castration.
Ummm, WOW do I owe you big time for that info about Utopia... can't wait :)
> then the engraving on the front would need to take the kerf of the saw cut into account, or else it would show.

Or just engrave the pieces after they're cut while they're clamped together.
The note next to the picture with the wooden sign says, "Our venerable curator has gone nearly blind with a magnifying glass but has failed to find any sign of breaks or glue in this plank."
Jeremy Clarkson did a pretty good piece on how scary bobsleighs are 10 years ago on Top Gear. Worth taking a peak to see what all the fuss is about.

https://youtu.be/xsac2agog48

And for those interested in what a skeleton looks and feels like. Here's a more recent video.

https://youtu.be/BzxS-3vO6Gw
Remember, it doesn't have to be a padlock, it just has to look like a padlock. The internals of it could be heavily modified to facilitate its assembly inside the bottle.
At that point, it's state violence against state violence and what practically happens depends on who brings a bigger gun.

... but the spectacle of CBP officers (and hired mercenaries) and Philadelphia D.A. officers shooting it out might clue some people into precisely how off-the-rails this federal administration has become.
Ask HN: Where can I find quality, free scientific articles and research papers?
Hey HN! Is there anywhere that I can find open-sourced, free papers or articles discussing science and research? From actual published research papers to more opinionated articles, it doesn't matter, but it's difficult for me to find any sources with a reliable level of consistency.
It is really aggravating when acronyms are used without a definition.

Yes, I can do a google search. I'm just sick of it. Please define the acronym before using it! Thanks :)
HHMI does fund some of the most enormously successful work in biomedical science, but they start with the very best of the best. It's not clear how much of these labs success is the result of the precise funding structure, although it's obviously helpful to spend less time writing grants (or just have additional resources).

These labs are up for renewal from HHMI every 5 years, and as such, do face the same pressure to continue publishing high-impact work.