skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it was the steam generator, not the turbine. Or maybe both? The failed steam generator is an incredible story. And the litigation on with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is also interesting. But terrible for the industry.
I completely agree. It’s depressing to see the whole thing steadily come apart at the seams due to their own leadership (or lack thereof, one could argue).

Actually I realize what I wrote above is less true now as they have fired a good number of their incredibly skilled engineers, many of them of course Rust developers. So I suppose my post should be rephrased along the lines of “what Mozilla should or could have done”.

[edit]: Rephrased to be less dramatic.
Neither carelessness, stupidity, or malice (over a patch!) warrants personal attacks. I wouldn't ever compare these to being slapped in the face, unprovoked, on the street.

A code maintainer's job is to curate, coordinate, help, and sometimes (in this case, notably) also gatekeep. If you can't stand the occasional terrible code and have to resort to personal attacks in order to vent off, or to feel better (or because you feel personally insulted) - then that seems to me that you're bad at your job.

If we're going with parallels - seeing this sort of behavior and excuses reminds me of people excusing police abuse. If you can't be cool and deescalate the occasional problem - maybe this job's not for you.
Should be $500T instead
I had to dig through some fortran code for my thesis and still don't quite undedsta what exactly it is that makes it so appealing or faster than the same programs written in C/C++. The syntax seemed excruciatingly old and verbose. Is there actually a reason for its dominance except its Og status?
He's an assistant professor of climate communication at George Mason University, and has coauthored several textbooks on climate change. https://communication.gmu.edu/people/jcook20

I'm not able to find any source describing the extent of Greenland's ice sheet during the medieval warm period. If you have one, you should post it. All I can find are temperature records which indicate greenland has been hotter than in the medieval warm period since the 1930s.
>Quantum systems are not even deterministic in theory

one can say that non-determinism is where the butterfly effect is factored out into - as we don't have enough precision, nor in initial conditions, nor in the model description, to predict the deterministic behavior.
It can be both (and probably is)
The complexity of the web is not just unsustainable—as of this past week and the demise of Firefox it has officially become "unsustained".

I agree it must be challenged, and I think the way to go is to create a simpler web spec with a mantra that is totally oriented around simplicity. The web seems to have died this week, and I'm not sure how else it can be reborn.
Dillo and Netsurf both exist. Few use them.

https://www.dillo.org

https://www.netsurf-browser.org
I think the adoption issue could be managed by the fact that Current browsers are sufficiently monolithic that you could implement a version of the simple standard as a WASM host module. It makes the huge things a little more huge but the light weight things more light weight.

I don't think it would ever replace the browser but I can certainly see it finding a niche for things like small communities like single board computer enthusiasts where resources are at a premium.

I have plenty of ideas that I have doodled over the years of how things could be done in the browser space, and I'm fairly sure I'm not unique in that respect. There must be some pretty good ideas out there.
Plus, if some site were using length limits as a security check, would they be counting Unicode glyphs, Unicode codepoints, code units, or bytes? Cause the one thing TFA's domain doesn't do is take up 4 bytes even without the trailing period (which isn't needed for the XSS anyways). No, it takes 7 bytes using UTF-8 and, naturally, precomposition. So TFA's 15-character XSS is actually an 18-byte XSS (in UTF-8).

:)
> ...but the value add for the students is probably more than they made otherwise with no upfront cost.

I really don't want to set a precedence of charging students for something I don't think they should be paying for. I'd rather have them keep their money so they can help improve the world in their own way.

> The alternative of you no longer providing the service is worse.

Worse for who? Society? I don't believe it is my job to fix societal problems. I can help in a way that makes it fun and interesting for me and if any of the graduates want to continue providing the service and charge 5-20% of the students pay, they are free to launch their own service. Everything is open source.
some of us prefer to live relatively statelessly and don't need to seek counseling for tab-hoarderism
I find Firefox much, much, much less reliable than chrome.
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Isn't that what GNOME is doing but in C (and whatever Gtk+ binds to)? [1]

[1]. https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/Development
How many companies have you worked at that would start an investigation based on an employee arriving on Monday with a bruise resulting from an extracurricular activity over the weekend?
Im pretty sure i get tag suggestions for an image, isn't that source enuf?
Maybe it's time we create a new html rendering engine by training a ML model using w3c specs and tests as input.
Correct. The ASCII constraint is for hostnames and domainnames, but not for all labels.
I'm speaking strictly from the perspective of complexity. It's significantly more difficult to parse unbalanced tags.
We been having load shedding for a few years now in South Africa due to tender corruption , aging and badly maintained coal fired fleet and the late commissioning of new power stations.

Outages are at least planned and last about 2 and half hours every day for each area so we learned to cope plan our lives around it.

Solar power hot water/gas cooking appliance/DC battery backup system for the Fibre OTN box and Wireless router and wireless AP and I can continue to work.
How would it be better for the user if half the web sites didn't work?

I don't think it would have any observable effect on speed. As far as I know, the bottleneck is not parsing the the html syntax, it is rendering.
> Google + Chrome did more bad for the web than Microsoft + IE ever dreamt of doing.

I'm not sure that's really true. Do you remember the bad old IE days? Half the web was simply broken on non-Microsoft operating systems, because Microsoft refused to follow standards.

They built proprietary extensions to the web, which the rest of the world - and particularly the open source world - had to reverse engineer and spend ridiculous amounts of effort to implement. And despite all that effort, we often never managed to do it - cough _ActiveX_ cough.

The situation back then was much, much worse than today in terms of open standards and cross-browser (let alone cross-OS) compatibility. And that was pretty much Microsoft's fault.

Google and Chrome have lots of problems. But they build on top of Chromium, which is completely open source. It does not have 100% of the features of Chrome, but from a practical perspective that seems to be mostly a non-issue, at least for me.
I'm not sure if this is meant to be incendiary, but there's exactly zero supporting evidence to back your assertion beyond wishful thinking. And there's innumerable counterexamples where women have had their careers ruined by men who have had an unfair power dynamic over them, after making claims of sexual harassment or unprofessional behavior, and more. The suggestion that only HIS career is vulnerable ignores the actual claims of tens of thousands of women coming forward in the last few years as part of the #metoo movement.
You're probably using ntfs3g which is separately installed.
How does this compare to Dillo?
Then this would imply that selecting for people who want to work at Google, instead of the "best candidate" is a valid strategy because it leads to better outcomes.

Again I think this whole line of thinking is nonsense, but even if you take it at face value, it still doesn't make sense.
that feature doesn't even affect memory safety, and is purely for improved ergonomics. It can be removed without affecting the code.
I wonder if the climate control units in office buildings have even been switched off when not in use.

I know that nobody turned off the one in our office when we were away from it for 6 weeks during the NZ lockdown.

It’s not remotely managed and we are not allowed to touch it so someone from the company that owns the building would have had to go and do that, and then come back later to turn it on again. And maybe some of the other businesses in the building are essential and have workers? No idea.

Probably was never going to happen.
The price premiums for hardware with ray tracing hardware is still high and only when it becomes common place so as to not command a higher price will your average gamer care. There’s also always the next gen for Intel to add it.
Oh my god, this article is wrong on so many levels.
I agree that the striped IBM logo can be read in that way, but it’s worth noting that it too was designed by Paul Rand—so evidently those readings weren’t entirely intentional. The IBM website reports that Rands’s aim was “to suggest ‘speed and dynamism.’”

https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/logo/logo_8.html
Their share sales are scheduled many months in advance and cannot be canceled (10b5)
Technically it could be shorter still, if only either . had an A RRset, or if there were 1-character TLDs. Just cause those aren't true today, doesn't mean they can't ever be true.
NTFS is super slow on windows too. You get better performances with ext4 on WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux).
I don't know if I agree (just from personally knowing a case where two people in a relationship formed at work were sent to different stores, not any exhaustive data), but an official rule that is rarely and or selectively enforced doesn't exactly sound like due process in the at-will workplace as a counter argument to the level of due process in a university to a tenured employee.
"know each other and I think I can help"

Sorry for the missing characters.
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Could be SEO and linking? Each slide share page could have “related content on Scribd” links at the bottom and you’ve got millions of links to paid content all of a sudden and better ranking for that content on search engines.
Real life. Most of what we do online is something we can do offline locally as well, but we've moved to an online version because of the short-term conveniences. But as the long-term consequences begin to show, there's nothing preventing us returning to a primarily offline world.
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Yes, I am exaggerating, but only slightly. I have a NeXT box here and always thought the logo looked amateurish.
Some numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_Unit...
Please refresh once if you don't see the, `Join the beta List` button.

Wanted to do show HN, but the rules page shows that you can't post if the product is not ready to use for the users.

I am not sure if it can be directly used for now, but you can get the gist by clicking on `Join the beta List` button.

Please try it out and let me what do you think of the idea.
Ask web developers if they would like to loose flexbox and grid again.

The thing about balancing tags is a red herring. The HTML parsing logic is not the complex and slow part in a web browser.
> Even though they were all dismissed, these three cases implied a pattern of harassment on my part. The other possible interpretation—that this was an organized campaign to damage my reputation for reasons that had nothing to do with sexual harassment—was not considered.

He's missing the obvious "systems" answer -- the current culture is to investigate every suspicion, and human nature is to suspect that where is smoke there is fire. The drastically lower bar for investigation -- fine on its own, but then combined with the assumption that accusations likely have some merit (even if they are merely notifications, not accusations!), leads to "guilt by slippery slope".

It's the same thing that happens with "mandatory reporting" for child abuse, and the same thing that BLM and similar complain about with overstrict policing.
This tool takes a file that can be consumed both by machines and humans and converts it to something that is impossible to consume by machines and hard to consume by humans, also inflating the document size. What are you trying to achieve with this?
Speaking of a commitment device -> HN’s own noprocast feature. I’ll turn it on when I know I need to be doing something useful for an extended period of time or I just need to take a break. I can still read stories on my RSS feed and if I really want to see the comments I can open a private browsing window. But, I can’t respond.
The Apple “rainbow” logo is timeless. SGI cube logo was fantastic. NeXT logo? I never understood all the buzz around it, to me it is no better than original colorful Windows logo.
Given the initial testing people on the mailing list have done and the issues that have arisen I hope the kernel maintainers so f no and push back until said issues are fixed and code quality rises.
It is interesting that quillette chose to publish this piece.

The private machinations of rationally acting rational actors acting in accordance with the terms of their voluntary associations seems to be something that quillette would support.

For example, they wouldn't support the assertion that a manager at McDonalds conduct a trial where evidence, chain of custody, jurisprudence, and counsel for the defendant be guaranteed before firing an employee.

In fact I bet they have published numerous pieces asserting the exact opposite, consistently, in the past.

But here we are, criticizing a university for firing an employee.

I guess their internal logic is not consistent and freedom only apply to job creators, and not "THE LEFTIST ACADEMIC ELITE".
I'm hoping that JavaScript adds rust-style enums at some point. Seems like it would be a perfect fit.
Ask HN: Financial websites/communities other than Zerohedge or Wall Street Bets?
Financial markets are so volatile and so uncertain in 2020 that it can really pay to keep a pulse on financial communities like ZeroHedge or Reddit's WallStreetBets. However, the social commentary on ZH and the memes on WSB can leave a lot to be desired.

Are there any active, "professional" financial communities worth checking out?
how is this possible? isn't wsl 2 literally a virtual machine image on top of your ntfs drive?
> You're probably using ntfs3g which is separately installed.

Not sure about Linux Mint, but MX Linux & antiX has NTFS driver bundled into ISO-images.
Most of AGNB is great, but I wish the protest videos at least included resources from local jouranlists alongside it for context.

Especially the Minneapolis and Portland protest ones recently put up — they showed a narrow slice of what was happening to drive home some really salient points, but if you watch them and think "THAT'S what's it's like in there", it's off base by quite a bit compared to the less entertaining local journalists (or even just streamers with a camera on a pole) who've been out there livestreaming, interviewing, and documenting for months instead of weeks or days.

Context is important; I can't speak for Minneapolis, but the Portland protests weren't just (and aren't just, and for most of the nearly 70 straight days of them haven't ever been) about the federal courthouse or the federal officers. The BLM-led Justice Center protests weren't the chaotic courthouse protests, and the 2-3k who came out for a week of feds has been less than 500 for most of the other 2 months and change. The west-side downtown protests in a 4-block zone around the center and courthouse aren't the east-side precinct and police union HQ marches with local police chasing protesters and beating media into residential neighborhoods.

Or maybe I'm still just pissed about AGNB showing mayor Ted Wheeler in a sympathetic context, complete with his theatric tear gassing the one time he came out to a protest, without the other context of how the PPB he runs as police commissioner beats and gasses media and protesters as soon as cameras like AGNB's left the fed protest stage - literally, PPB went out threatening to gas the same crowd he stood with within 45 minutes of Wheeler leaving the protest.

I guess my feeling is, some things aren't simple or clear enough to be accurately served by pithy but entertaining 5- or 10-minute videos. It's one lens, and a good one, but I get real nervous when people say AGNB is the model for news.

Very few links of people on the ground:

https://twitter.com/MrOlmos

https://twitter.com/TheRealCoryElia

https://twitter.com/PDocumentarians

https://twitter.com/Clypian

https://twitter.com/IwriteOK

https://twitter.com/hungrybowtie
I'm making a population comparison, not explicitly an economic one.
Most people in the US work jobs where they can be fired at will without any cause.
Ask HN: How do you pay your utility bills?
Interested in learning how/where individuals or businesses pay their essential monthly bills such as, Utilities, Rent, and Insurance?

1. How? Credit Card, Debit Card, Cash or Check.
2. Where? Biller Website, Through your Bank Account or others?
3. What are your current pain points, and what improvements would you like to see?
4. Auto payments. Yay or Nay?

Especially interested in points 3 & 4.
Remove JS, reclaim the back button!
I'm thinking the opposite: lose floats. I definitely want to keep flex and grid.

A team at FB implemented flex to power React Native. I'm thinking that effort was made much easier given that they didn't have to account for floats, etc.
> The author wrote the RC communicated it via e-mail and also placed it on his calendar. From the article:

The calendar was full of events, majority of those being optional organized by other attendees. You had to click on this event to see any details about it.

So, no. Calendar does not count for proper communication.
Pidgin lets you log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously
Honestly, I think this is taking AGNB too seriously. It’s a hilarious channel where a guy finds the weirdest people possible and lets them spew insane stuff on camera. I love it, but I don’t get the sense that he’s doing it for journalistic purposes (which is obviously fine!).
Why should a decision about firing someone (a civil penalty) require criminal standard of evidence (reasonable doubt) instead of civil (preponderance)?

If anything, the Obama change made things more consistent. Civil hearings use preponderance, and criminal use a higher standard.
I have no idea what "assistant professor of climate communication" is supposed to mean, but it sounds like a journalism credential and not a scientific one. I'd wager it was granted in an honorary capacity on account of his website, not because of any scientific work.

I do find myself thinking though how would my intellectual heroes view that? What would Edsgar Dijkstra think of someone identifying as an "assistant professor of computing communication?" What would Richard Feynman think of someone identifying as an "assistant professor of physics communication?" While I can't be sure, abductive reasoning tells me their view would likely be dim to say the least.
Yes. Modern brick buildings generally have load bearing frames and then brick in place of vinyl, but they're still called brick houses :)

External walls being load bearing is generally not a thing anymore since the "invention" of sensible construction methods and steel re-inforced cement / concrete.
Save someone some googling if they don't know what AdoptOpenJDK is --> https://developer.ibm.com/technologies/java/blogs/adoptopenj...
Mosaic tried to be strict. Netscape was more SGML-like and so it was a slow slide as people said, “well it works in Netscape, so it must be a bug”.

The early authoring tools also generated pure garbage for markup. So if you weren’t forgiving, you lost users.

Pandering works.
Looks like it depends on the state:
https://www.rcfp.org/open-government-sections/i-election-rec...

Most common is allowing the inspection of the list of absentee requestors, like in North Carolina: The chief election judge of each precinct is required to post one copy of the precinct absentee ballot list “in a conspicuous location in the voting place.”

That said, there are other states that do not allow this, so it's less widespread than I originally thought, and when it is allowed, it's usually either just the absentee requestors, or the list is made available after the election, not during. Sorry.
> my data is still gone

How exactly is your data "gone"?
Postal Crisis Ripples Across Nation as Election Looms
Anyone who admits they had sock puppets to defend himself is kinda nuts.
The main problems are there have been no released versions since 2017, combined with an annoying "open core" development model where some nice to have features have been held back from the free version (although not ones we care about too much). For our use case (virt-v2v) speed is not an issue, but data integrity when reading, writing and modifying many dozens of files absolutely is, and ntfs-3g has been very reliable.

(Disclaimer: I've made occasional contributions to ntfs-3g upstream)
Agree the same thing started with Opera, previously they were known from inventing many features (some of them actually Chrome copied when it first appeared). Once Chrome started gaining traction they started be the ones that were copying Chrome. Ultimately dropping the Presto engine and becoming just another skin for Chrome. I didn't use Opera and later Firefox to get Chrome experience.
That's true, but these compensation packages are determined in advance. Every company takes a risk that it is hiring the right CEO. As Boeing's case illustrates, getting it wrong can be VERY expensive.

In fact, Boeing's case proves that a good CEO is worth 200x, because look what a bad one costs.
Cool so i can build a three node cockroach/tidb/tikv cluster that will have much higher reliability with the same performance characteristics for less money. Sounds like they still gouging you.
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Stability hasn't been an issue for us. Virt-v2v uses ntfs-3g intensively and we have migrated a large fraction of a million VMs, many (the Windows ones) all using ntfs-3g. We've not had problems with ntfs-3g at all.

I'm still interested to see if an in-kernel driver can be better.

(Disclaimer: I have contributed a few patches to ntfs-3g upstream)
Thanatos has bespoken.
I think AWS lambdas and Fargate are using firecracker[1].

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/firecracker-lightweight-vir...
I think the narrative of people using these subcultures as a way or fill the void left by the lack of traditional societal structures that people used to find meaning in life is spot on.

It's interesting how half of the people in these subcultures seem to be in on the absurdity of it and the other half aren't but it doesn't really seem to matter to a lot of them.
Nothing in the article suggests that you should not say no to your kids -- it just says that your kids will be upset about you saying no, which is probably beyond your control and therefore is a factor that will weigh in your decision. Your response seems to me like criticizing the whole article by saying "Even better, learn to have the willpower to just not eat the damn cookies".