skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should be able to digest information without epistemological hand holding.

I've found that most fact check sites have an agenda of their own. A common technique is to misattribute or deliberately misinterpret a claim and then debunk the strawman.

https://www.factcheck.org/2016/09/trump-pence-acid-wash-fact...

>"Donald Trump falsely claimed Clinton “acid washed” 33,000 personal emails ... Clinton’s tech team used BleachBit, which is a free software program. It does not use chemicals."
It would be useful to make a comparison with, say, the top 100 Android apps. This whole issues has become politisized and I don't know who to believe.
> That is 2.5M tickets/support requests a quarter. ~28M tickets a day *

What happened to the math here? I'm not following this step?
In fact, I discovered Django News when they included a package I created (https://django-news.com/issues/30 − at the bottom of the page) :D

Now, I subscribed to their newsletter (and to their dev.to account too).
This is the image direct from the satellite rather than a rebroadcast. You see what the satellite sees as it passes over in realtime.

WEFAX is still a thing from what I can tell, but I haven't been able to pick anything up yet as I suspect my "random wire" antenna doesn't have enough random wire yet.
It's not the cult of the free. It's the cult of the profit that must go.
Herd immunity is a thing, but as I heard one scientist describe it: It's not a question of achieving herd immunity or not, it's a question of how. Mass vaccination also leads to herd immunity, it's achieved by creating immunity in individuals through a vaccine instead of by contracting the virus naturally.
Mozilla should have a pretty good idea, if they don't that's a serious problem. The ones made redundant now might be the lucky ones if Google haven't yet indicated their general intentions.
How may writers contact you?
I think most URL shorteners have an abuse reporting facility (with bitly, add a + to the end of the URL to see more info)
The difference between what an aircraft fuselage and what the hyperloop tube needs to do actually seem to be quite massive (caution, back of napkin understanding from somebody who is casually interested but by no means an engineer).

The hyperloop is apparently to be pressurised at around 1/1000th of the pressure of the atmosphere (around 0.015psi). An airplane cabin is apparently pressurised to around 11-12 psi and at an altitude of 36,000 feet apparently the atmospheric pressure is about 3.3 psi so actually the plane fuselage only has to manage a pressure difference of about 3.6 times. So it's like building a 100km long airplane fuselage that has to deal with pressure differences that are something like 280 times greater (please excuse/correct me if this is not the relevant comparison) - although you probably claw back a lot of the difference from a generalised perspective of engineering difficulty from not having to put the thing in the air to begin with.

Edit: I suppose it's more like building 100km of space craft cabin, which probably underscores my understanding of the difficulty a bit better.
Just a reminder, from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVH#Email_spam):

As of November 2019, OVH is listed by The Spamhaus Project as the world's
second worst Internet service provider for the proliferation of unsolicited bulk E-Mail

https://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings/ovh.net

Looking at the same list now, it recently seems to have added fraud, and many malware distribution entries too.
>Are you annoyed your friend is making money?

Not at all, the problem is as others have mentioned is a very big cut he is taking. While I am the one delivering a lot of value to the client.
Even upwork takes lesser cut (max 20%) than his.
I do like to use a linter to make it easier readable. But yeah, most of the architecture actually is based on how you store/structure your data. Code is just a result of how you implement the data.
Ask HN: Yearly developer tooling spend studies?
Hi all,
I'm curious as to whether anyone is aware of any trade studies or articles published regarding industry trends for how much money companies spend on a yearly basis for developer tooling. Any pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Even though I (from my position of very little knowledge) have doubts that the current executive team are providing the right kind of value for a company in Mozilla's position, 'parasites' is strong language for a bunch of people who I'm sure are genuinely just trying to do a good job in a difficult suituation.
This is false immunity is strong and long-lasting otherwise they wouldn't be sinking billions into a vaccine which operates the same way that infectious immunity operates.
Gecko is completely fine, it is superior to V8 in many cases. There are already many products like this.
I think if you look at Chrome from Google's pov originally, the last thing they wanted was someone putting out a browser where the default search engine of whatever you typed into the address bar couldn't be changed to google. A competitor could attack google by owning the browser, perhaps what they thought microsoft would do.
Hopefully part 2 will contain a section about how Vitamin D regulates cytokine production in your lungs. Without enough vitamin d, your body over reacts to a respiratory illness by over producing cytokines, and then the patient has a much higher chance of dying.

There has to be additional evidence showing a decline in vitamin D levels over the past 20 years or so as we all got addicted to our devices, became narcissistic and anti social as a result of social media addiction, and largely stayed inside more than we used to. So we cut off our main source of vitamin D over time, and here we are...
It's generally against both C and C++, because the reason applies to both of them. That reason being that using these languages expose users and the world to huge negative externalities in the form of security vulnerabilities, or alternatively (but resulting in the same conclusion) that the speaker just likes writing correct code.

> And it doesn't make sense to use C when Rust does the job.

There are few jobs left where C can do it and Rust can't, those jobs are generally "well there exists a C compiler for this architecture and not a rust/llvm backend". Rust is generally just as capable as C is at writing low level code. If you're willing to put up with translating macros by hand (or using wrapper functions), it's even capable of integrating with existing C code bases.

Lots of people still prefer C over Rust in various situations where you could use Rust, so I don't think it's a generally accepted fact that "it doesn't make sense to use C when Rust does the job".
There is a definition in certain stock market indexes of a "small cap company" that actually means "big company". Mozilla is one of those.
> But why should a CEO accept “a lot of money”, if elsewhere they can get 5x as much?

Why should their CEO get any money and not a pink slip? Their mismanagement and financial games caused the company to have to lay off 250 people.
There's valid criticism of Rust and then there's what you are doing, which feels distinctly like flat-earthism of computer science. You pick arbitrary goal posts (like, pretending that "unsafe" isn't a keyword in "real rust") and try use that to discredit a language that a lot of people have found super useful and superior in their work.
I think you misread an article. I saw one mention that 20% decline the infection rate. That's entirely different than herd immunity. I don't see any article saying that the mentioned countries have hit herd immunity. Especially New Zealand seems questionable, they've gone to a full lockdown, not for herd immunity.
Keeping it up with Viagra, huh...
With their given timeline of 12 months, I think this project will complete after the horse has bolted (the horse being a metaphorical Pandemic/crisis)
Absolutely! My plan is to proclaim a version 1.0 once the basic workflow of clone-commit-push can be performed, which should be enough for many to start using it. From that point on, the API should remain stable, following semantic versioning as usual.

It is my hope that the quality and stability will be high enough to convince people [in the Rust ecosystem] to move away from libgit2 and instead contribute to the maintenance and development of gitoxide, rewarding everyone with better performance and improved usability.
I was looking on the Auto-save section. Thank you very much :)
> Yeah, right.

In Lisp, the programmer never frees memory themselves, so use-after-free and double-free are not triggerable by the user. Bound checks for all array types are in effect, so overflows are impossible. Strong typing and a lack of casting prevent type confusion.

Do you have any arguments other than the unsubstantial "yeah, right"?
it's been a long time since I've been excited by an XMPP implementation, but Dino made me feel that old zing. I would like to see some monetization strategy than just donations though. I'm old and paranoid.
When you're picking up a radio-facsimile transmission, you're picking it up from a ground-station that's transmitting a weather forecast product that's generated by the National Weather Service and intended for reception with consumer-level technology.

What's described in the article is receiving raw imagery directly from the satellite; so it's not really the same thing.
This is like saying Google is the search engine with the most links to malware pages. 36 IPs is nothing given how big ovh is.
> Let's say: hey engineers, how about cutting your salary to $60k?

You can't make this comparison, as $60k are not even enough to survive in many areas of the US, while $500k would still be enough to live in luxury no matter where you live.
Don’t worry, we’ll use serverless! So we can support an unlimited amount of transactions per second!
> Decent high school grades are not that hard to get.

"Decent" high school grades are seldom adequate to even meet acceptance requirements for "good" colleges, let alone actually compete with the straight-A students also applying to said colleges.

Not that this really does anything to address the broader point: that "get into college because you'll make more money" is one of many extrinsic motivators American schools seem to push in order to strangle intrinsic motivators.
What is your rough setup then?
This is great! Keep up the good work:)
This is great! Keep up the good work!
Probably not. From a logistical standpoint, animal skin glues dry in a matter of hours in this type of use. Boiled linseed oil might take several days.

From a materials standpoint, animal skin glues dry to a hard, brittle substance. Linseed oil "dries" to a fairly gummy, flexible substance.

I'm willing to bet that the hardness of the glue combined with the strength of the fibers throughout the armor is what makes it effective. I'd be willing to bet that the linseed oil wouldn't bind the fibers of the linen tightly enough together to prevent them being pierced by an arrow.

That said, it's hard to make a direct comparison between historical and modern boiled linseed oils[0]. Historic BLO was literally boiled with white lead. I believe what you buy at the hardware store today as BLO is typically stand oil or linseed oil with some other metallic driers added, as the use of lead in all forms has fallen out of style :-)

OBLIGATORY WARNING: When people talk about oily rags spontaneously combusting, they're talking about linseed oil and a few others. If you do anything with linseed oil, boiled or otherwise, please take a few minutes to understand how to dispose of your rags safely so you don't burn your place down.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linseed_oil#Modified_linseed_o...
So we know that Microsoft had a multi-billion dollar incentive from the NSA to buy Skype and remove its P2P encryption. And then we know that Microsoft removed P2P encryption as soon as it bought Skype, and then it joined the PRISM program revealed by Snowden.

https://www.theregister.com/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_f...

I wonder if GitHub was bought for the same reason (the NSA could silently add backdoors to software code hosted on GitHub without the UX revealing anything of the kind).

Now that we're openly seeing how the US freaks about about "national security" because other countries might own these highly popular chip platforms or social media companies, I wonder what other events played in the same way in the past - like what other companies did the US "had to have" for the purpose of enabling much easier spying on rivals, and then "suddenly" some American company offered to buy out those companies.

Now I'm not necessarily saying this is the one and only reason these companies made these acquisition - most likely, in most cases, NSA approached the companies that would be open to the idea because it could also prove strategic for their business in some way.

So it would be a "win-win" for these companies to both acquire a possibly useful technology, as well as get paid later on by the US government through various "unrelated contracts" that would pay for these deals.
Ask HN: What are good resources to learn Java?
Hello Everyone,

I have recently joined a Company and we are going through a boot camp to learn Java. Even though we have a great teacher. I find it easy to learn from online resources e.g Blogs, Books etc. and then experiment by building a project, I wanted to know if there are any resources which you find interesting that could help for in-depth understanding of Java?
Libre Office, or just see how you get on with Pages, Numbers, Keynote. I like them
No handshakes. A bad economy. These car salesmen shifted tactics– and succeeded
Ask HN: What's it like sifting through remote opportunity applicants?
How do you filter through the hundreds of applicants? Is the approach different at all than non-remote jobs? How do you deal with international applicants?
This merely changes the target.
Awesome. Great to know. This is really encouraging.
come on, have you forgot VW recent scandal ? CO2 emission was solved partially by cheating, not making EVs
> I am not pursuing a PhD in pure math so I certainly have both interest and ability in doing academic stuff

I don't see how the second half of the sentence follows from the first half. Did that "not" slip in by accident? Or do you consider a PhD in pure maths to be evidence of not having academic ability?

-- Yours, offended holder of PhD in pure maths :)
I’m not really that concerned about inflation from people moving money from their savings to expenditures in the future. For one, deflation is way worse than inflation. For two, inflation isn’t as bad as widely assumed. If anything we’re seeing in real time how awful completely stable ie 0 rates can be on society as it’s pushed people into investments purely because There Is No Alternative (TINA).

The oddball hoarding is pretty scary-though seems to have been confined to the short term across all the things people hoarded.

Back to savings, people increasing their savings is a rational choice right now. For all they know they may need that to survive in the future. Those savings will probably sit on the sidelines until we reach herd immunity. Being that could be a year away and lots of time without meaningful work the savings are likely to be spent at non-inflationary rates. It’s much more likely people need further stimulus to avoid huge booms in homeless populations through rent and mortgage shortcomings.
Hi, I'm also a woodworker, and I'd love to see pictures of the material you're describing!
>if you negotiate you could increase your rate to $12-$13 an hour

That makes it 80-85% of the original pay. I will keep this in mind but try to pitch my least acceptable offer be 13.5 (i.e 90%)
This is completely out of touch with the reality of life. 500k is enough to live in luxury anywhere, 60k won't be enough to survive in most tech areas.
Likewise. On 10.14 here - what are the issues?
Right now it loads for me.
If you'd check your errno when write returns -1 on standard in or standard out, SIGPIPE would not be necessary.
Just don't go public and people can't take over the company as easily. They would have to go to each investor and buy them out.
No, but it's fun when it does. :)
I typically use the time to write - my thoughts, ideas and notes of all sorts - which are directly or indirectly relevant to whatever it is I'm working on at the time. That's how I find problems worth solving. There are opportunities hiding in everything we do every day. All it takes is a portion of our time dedicated to thinking and synthesis of information from various sources.
Problem with a no plugin version is that I bet the user numbers would drop severely and the ecosystem would die as a result.
Exactly, we don't know the best play. So chess is uncertain. Whether there is a theoretical best move or not does not make playing chess any more certain if the move is unknown.
Exponential growth bias: The numerical error behind Covid-19 – BBC Future
Micropayments are used somewhere? Anywhere? And they work? Examples, please.
Compound and longbows are both known for being able to pierce the armour of the time when linothorax might have been used. It was insanely stupid to test it with someone living inside it.

However, from what I can see from the video (there's a second or two at 2:16), they were using a modern recurve bow (usually less powerful than compound/longbow), the kind often used at school which tend to sit around 20-25 ft/lb.

And it very nearly pierced the armour under those conditions.
But identical arguments to the suicide-logic can be made about a lack of intrinsic motivation - someone without intrinsic motivation but who is easily externally motivated could be a great asset to a group with more plans than people to enact them. I could imagine plenty of situations where strong intrinsic motivation relative to external motivation could be detrimental to either the individual or the group.
If you're messing with criminals using an IP traceable to you then the police might be the least of your problems.
Reduce feedback cycles
I do have to run a non-distribution supported mainline kernel (with some DMKS config changes and some drivers installed from the distro's dev branch) for my relatively recent AMD GPU (RX5500, released at the end of last year) not to freeze seconds after I start chromium, or at least twice a day if I avoid it. That's tolerable for a technical user, but definitely not "absolutely fine".
Programming Anxiety
If they really took “every chance to annoy their users” I think I would probably know it?

People in HN are specially sensitive to some issues that others don't care much about. Past year we had a series of news about Firefox sending data of some "experiments" and similar. It was difficult to disable. Two or three things like that, you don't need more to lose trust here.

Perception is Mozilla is not ran as an open source organization, but as an advertisement company with similar tricks to make users "engage with the product".
I am surprised that not every large project uses this technique. If you are running on a 64bit system, the use of
32bit handles instead of pointer results in huge memory savings. You can also put the start addressed of the arrays (the handles are indexing into) anywhere in virtual memory and grow them as needed.
Finally you can stripe the data for one object into multiple arrays and use the same handle to index each of them which can improve locality.
OP here:
Guys what would be the best medium for negotiation
Call, Face to Face or messaging?
Coffee chat: Easy way to install Kubernetes Apps - arkade (ark)
O think weinzierl suggests that the criminals behind this might be more eager to punish you than law enforcement. But of course for that it doesn't really matter whether or not this is legal.
I've long wondered how to side step the "conspiracy theorist" pejorative. Personal interest. A local newspaper called me a "sweaty paranoid kook". All true. But also a distraction from the lede.

There must be a Luntzian phrase for believing in proven conspiracies.
I'm not using Kubernetes and I don't feel like using it at all. I want less abstraction layers, not more of them.
It's called an API. I'd say an operating system that doesn't have that, is not much of an operating system. You don't sound like you have ever developed any kind of software. Do you really think that a missing API is fixed by some distro maintainer packaging your app properly? No.
> We should care about arguments from people who have done substantial work.

OK, we can drop the HN comments. Since Stefan Hajnoczi is a substantial QEMU contributor, how would you respond to the arguments linked in http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/08/why-qemu-should-move-from-c...?
> "Competition is becoming more difficult. Why to try to make another deployment manager if there's Kubernetes?"

Open source projects are there as common heritage of mankind that addresses a major need. To me they are similar to roads ans railways. Where is competition to a road? Is there real competition to tcp/ip?
Across the strait. What we're discussing - the article.
Anyone tested how E-Mail clients display those tags?
You "found"? Stats, research notes, facts, data? ... opinions are not facts.

About your selective and misleading choice of fact checked, you know very well it's about the "acid wash" claim, and not about what the republicans did. You don't need a fact checker to know what Trump said about Hilary and the mail server, nor why it was used and perused so relentlessnesly.
I don't think either of those links say what you think they say.
Lifetimes and the borrow checker.
Starlink, Telesat?
Social robots are here to manage our emotions
Donations to Wikipedia more than pay for the technical infrastructure, they do have lots of money to waste. Mozilla obviously doesn't. So as a donor, Mozilla wasting money is more of a problem, because as a donor I see it is actually not keeping Mozilla running and if I stop donating it will hurt far worse.
Lol get over yourself
I happen to be staying with a non-technical man of around retiring age at present. Yesterday he had his laptop returned from a service which included an OS reinstall. After that, Firefox was installed and Chrome was not; he knows of Firefox, but has been a Chrome user for whatever reason. He observed: “Firefox? But no Google. I suppose they’ve installed Firefox and didn’t reinstall Google. Hmm. Firefox. Is it any good?” I responded: “well, I use Firefox”. So now he’s using Firefox and having no difficulty. (I then watched him hunt-and-peck “www.google.com” into the address bar. I told him that he didn’t need to do that, he could just type his search term straight away. In this case, he wanted to access Gmail. I despair sometimes, really I do. But this all matched what he’d been doing in Chrome, it wasn’t anything specific to Firefox.)

The observations here:

1. Most casual users don’t actually care which browser they use. (Citation needed, to be sure, but among casual users, I suspect it’s the substantial majority.)

2. Corollary: often I have seen cases where a different browser is installed, and the user just accepts it and keeps going. This has been used most parasitically by Google, bundling their browser with other things (an obnoxious practice in the industry at large that is I think not as common as it used to be, but is still widespread in certain niches). A great many users that have Chrome don’t even know how it ended up on their computer; it just… became their default browser at some point.

3. Google as a whole has been extremely underhanded in its marketing and positioning of Chrome, abusing their position of strength in one industry in order to dominate another. There has been some grumbling about this in legal circles, but not a great deal of action; yet if current trends continue, antitrust lawsuits will assuredly come. He wasn’t calling it “Chrome”, he was calling it “Google”. Google search, Google mail, Google browser, Google horizontals.
They were forced in to a rebrand a week ago due to legal threats on using the 007 licence. Dev work is still continuing though.