skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure but IE back then was also severely lacking in pretty much every regard and stopped any tangible development. At least every developer I know back then switched away from it primarly because of developer tooling available in other browsers
secondarly because of lack of other features.

With todays major browsers landscape the differences are much more subtle. From a developer productivity perspectice I don't think it matters that much anymore, none is really a 10x or even a 3x browser over the others.

So I don't see a huge developer exodus happing for Chrome as long as they don't completely cripple their web dev experience.
They're mostly concerned with Feds more than NG, but your point is spot on
Epidemic my ass. Clickbait.
I have to say this is generally horrible advice, especially in politics. Humans rarely are honest.
> Consider that your opinion on what is "universally hated" is mostly shaped by the sources of information that you consume. Yours happens to be wrong. Overall the country views ObamaCare ~50% favorably, with some specific parts close to 90% approval

I support the ACA, but when you implement the benefits in a law and repeal or ignore most of the new taxes and mandates, that will happen.
Have you read about how your example, VW, saw a massive increase in market cap In a similar way in the past? It’s a way that was easily repeatable with enough capital and some ability to influence the public with things like memes, controversy, and celebrities.

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSTRE49R3I920081028
CBC story[0] (The Nature of Things “The Salmon Forest” c. 2001) about the work of Dr. Tom Reimchen[1] documenting[2] salmon (unwittingly) supplying a rare nitrogen isotope to hemlock trees.

[0] https://curio.ca/en/video/the-salmon-forest-844/

[1] https://www.uvic.ca/science/biology/people/profiles/reimchen...

[2] http://web.uvic.ca/~reimlab/salmonforest.html
You mean those universally hated unemployement systems, the like one in Florida which was intentionally set up to fail and be as hard as possible to qualify for and interact with so that the real, hard-working Americans don't have to pay to support those deadbeat lowlifes who don't have a job?

The government is more than capable of accomplishing tasks. There is no inherent reason why government is incapable of doing anything but a corporation is capable of doing everything!

If you design a system to fail from the outset and it doesn't work, then they achieved the goal. So really, the government nailed it. And the better part is they nailed it for people who feel the way you do. It's literally a self-fulfilling prophecy of politically-motivated people who don't believe in the ability of the government to get anything done working as hard as possible to make sure that the government doesn't do a good job.
The FBI investigated Daniel Pearl’s beheading because the ransom email was routed through a US server. I thought it was weird that they didn’t claim jurisdiction based on Pearl’s citizenship, but I’ve given up on trying to figure out the reasoning behind a lot of legal actions.
Foreman too heavy for the use case?

https://www.theforeman.org/
Bittorrent wouldn't benefit much from TFO because that would require a cookie from a previous connection to that remote client, which is unlikely to happen among random peers. Plus connection setup is not really a limiting factor for current use-cases. Some low-latency applications of bittorrent might benefit, but that requires specialized clients tuned for low latency throughout the stack, a single change won't do it.
QUIC's encryption could be beneficial, but bittorrent-over-TLS would work equally well (not standardized, but libtorrent supports it). QUIC's stream multiplexing would not be all that useful either since bittorrent's maximum message size already is fairly small so clients can already interleave and prioritize control messages as needed.
Bittorrent clients usually don't run on roaming (mobile) devices due to bandwidth limits, so QUIC's path migration probably doesn't provide much of a benefit either. Being UDP-based might make NAT-traversal a bit easier, but so does µTP.

If you want QUIC's congestion controller benefits then you can also get that with TCP if you're on linux. Set BBR as congestion controller and set the TCP_NOTSENT_LOWAT socket option and bittorrent should work well over long fat pipes (i.e. international peers).

I'm not saying QUIC is terrible, but it's mostly designed to improve web traffic. Bulk transfers à la bittorrent benefit only marginally if you have a modern TCP stack and use it properly.
> They describe the effect of mountain areas on personality as "small but robust"

The article doesn't quantify anything, so I'm more prone to believe it's hyped noise than anything real. But this phrase is a strong indicator that any attempt to use the findings in widespread policy will have bad results.
"Adopting Ops has allowed Axial to immediately reduce their cloud spend, enable easier adoption of new technologies, and even open the door to empowering non-engineers to run operations." All via Slack workflows and the CTO.ai SlackOps capability. Bravo!
Ask HN: Neighbours are keylogging me, what should I do?
I live in an area where most people care about Computer Science/Technology.

We have a lot of CS-Students or people who work in the technology-industry. I pissed of my neighbours, they pissed me of. Now they are keylogging me electronics and inserted cameras in my house.

They have all my passwords & access to my E-Mails and can even get into my bank account.

They're also capable of reading what I'm typing in here and know whenever I make a new account anywhere and which password I use.

Any advice?
> It's not a trivial undertaking to compile OpenJDK from sources.

uh? assuming you already have a working C toolchain and JDK installed, you just hg^Wgit clone; bash configure; make.

edit: you may have more trouble compiling it on windows, but compiling anything on windows is a pain unless it uses the entire proprietary non-portable microsoft-specific project management tools.
The Rise of “Killer Robots” and the Race to Restrain Them
Titles don't actually translate across companies well, that is more true across industries. Also grads will see their peers get a new title at some other company 2 years after college. A new title with a good raise at another company is definitely a reason enough to leave the current one. With avg. stay of 2-3 years at a company it makes sense for a company to try to retain sw talent with a title change whether or not it changes the meaning of work.
If so, this could be expanded to other sports, maybe even team sports, where you can test set plays against the simulated defense.

I could see this potentially having some value.

The challenge is that in sports, the opponent you face on a given day isn't "the statistical average of their past performances" - they are facing you with a game plan tailored specifically for them versus you, and their game plan will evolve over the course of the contest depending on what's working and what isn't working.

For example, "Nadal likes to hit the ball to Federer's backhand" is, statistically, true. It's basic tennis strategy. But the on-court reality is more nuanced. Nadal is going to vary that approach on the fly based on his opponent and how well that strategy is working on a given day.

Modeling this for a simulation would have to be similarly nuanced, with the simulation not just replicating Nadal's overall statistical tendencies, but how those tendencies evolve over the course of a match based on various conditions and his success or lack of it.

Of course, some aspects of Nadal's game are more easily modeled than others. If an opponent was training to face Nadal on a clay surface, I could simulate that with a single line of code: "Game Over." =)
You are right. But it's just too much trouble to force the olds to change anything if you don't have a good enough reason.

It's very difficult to say something like this and has an effect: "Mom and Dad, there's much cooler and securer chat app out there, let's try it out." They will just say WeChat is good enough and they don't care about privacy because they don't anything to hide.

But it'd be much easier to ask them like this: "Mom and Dad, those asshole Americans and Europeans and Australians banned WeChat and I can't reach out to you anymore, can we please switch to that much cooler and securer chat app?" This will likely work.

But to friends I am not so nice. I force them to communicate with me either through iMessage or email (or Telegram, but it's banned in China). Some friends switch to iPhone and we still keep in touch (but probably not solely because of me), and others didn't and we lose touch ever since. It's just a choice we all have to make at some point.
A bit similar, but on JVM. The main focus of Titanoboa is however as follows:

- make rapid prototyping of new steps possible during runtime, without any need to restart/redeploy

- focus on distributed processing, where in master-less Titanoboa cluster you can have pretty much any number of nodes
Sort of, the runoff ends up in the ocean, which would be a global concern too.
Sure. Pets. We could perform tricks in exchange for slices of robot made pizza. Sentient robots may get bored too. Weird bipedal monkey creatures with delusions of grandeur should be good for a laugh at least.
Why do you barely go outside?
Probably this:

https://libnnc.org

https://github.com/liuliu/ccv/tree/unstable/lib/nnc
> Statistically non-violent rebellions are more successful than the violent ones.

Countries that are already mostly democratic don't need violent rebellions?
That seems unfair. When I've been backpacking, there is not much info about anything like a sudden fire that could move randomly around you. That could easily kill you. Even with help there were 200+ people who were surrounded by fire. There weren't a lot of extra resources to help a small group.
> Is there anything else to these confidential machines other than feel-good, security theater or certification checkmarks?

> Maybe I'm overly cynical, but I don't quite understand the target audience.

No, that sounds about right.

Google Cloud's confidential computing is essentially a wrapper for AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (along with auditing tools), which is meant to be a physical protection measure. It can potentially protect against an attack like Rowhammer or Meltdown, but beyond that, Confidential Computing is primarily a protection mechanism if your threat model includes Google's own admins, which it might if you're in a heavily-regulated industry and have to tick a bunch of audit check boxes.

More critically, this can make cloud hosting an option for industries that previously rejected it due having to outsource system management to a third party. I don't know of any off-hand, but I have no doubt that they exist.

That being said, the allure of AMD SEV is that it provides encryption-in-use without worrying about performance, redesigning your applications, or overall having to think about it too much. If it's just a toggle you can flip and move on to other things, does it matter if the security benefit is only theoretical?
The hate comes from anyone who understands intuit lobbying against the interest of the US taxpayer. Instead of the US government acting like every other 1st world government and giving us a pre-calculated tax bill since they already know what we owe we're forced to spend hours tracking down documents and hoping we didn't mess up and get audited.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/opinion/filing-taxes-in-j...
In France you can fill your tax form online since 1999

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9l%C3%A9d%C3%A9claration...

In the past years banks and companies give tax related information to the tax authority so for lots of people the online tax form is already 100% filled and correct.

For the past year tax filling I just had to add to the web form renting income, tax deducible donations, and that was it.
Decathlon is one of my favorite stores. I used to go there quite often when I lived in Europe/North Africa, and now that they came to Canada its quite handy.
This doesn't surprise me at all. The intersection of engineers and public speakers is pretty tiny. It's not recreational; it's high pressure. You need to find something fun and laidback. Something low stakes, like a semi-weekly video game competition.
I agree with the general conclusion about exploitation, but racist theories and justifications existed in different cultures long before the 16th century.
Sure, but this seems like something where the Americans have it right. Despite all the guns, Portland doesn't seem any more violent right now than, say, Paris during the yellow vest protests.
> Unfortunately very few people seem to understand that government, intrinsically, is inefficient and bad at everything it does.

This is a laughably false statement. It's easy to find stories of government projects that came in ahead of schedule and under budget, but you have to look for them because those stories don't get nearly as much attention as the inverse.

Take the Hoover Dam, for example. That was one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in American history, and came in years ahead of schedule, and millions under budget.[0] Google around infrastructure publications and you'll find dozens more stories like this.

To say that every thing a government does is bad is to fundamentally ignore reality, which is that no, not everything the government does is bad. You can never be taken seriously making sweeping generalizations like that.

0: https://www.marketplace.org/2010/05/28/why-we-might-not-have...
If this is the case then why does LI even have the "I find this ad annoying or not interesting". I thought the whole point of that option was to counteract a company that the user is explicitly not interested in from winning the ad auction.

If the option doesn't work than that seems like an issue on the part of LI, either dishonesty (pretending it does something when it doesn't) or incompetence. Given the company we're talking about, neither would surprise me.
That depends on the platform, the size of the input, and whether multithreading is used.

On Ice Lake, where BLAKE3 benefits from AVX-512 and SHA-256 benefits from the SHA extensions, BLAKE3 seems to do better on both long and short messages. But maybe surprisingly, SHA-256 does better in a medium-length regime, where SHA-256's poorer startup time* has been mostly amortized out, but BLAKE3's chunk parallelism hasn't yet kicked in. See for example the 1536-byte results here: https://bench.cr.yp.to/results-hash.html#amd64-icelake . Using multithreading would exaggerate BLAKE3's advantage for very long messages (usually about 1 MiB and above), but it wouldn't improve the results for any of the message lengths measured there.

* I don't actually know where SHA-256's startup overhead comes from. Maybe someone who knows more could jump in here?

On ARM chips, the performance benefits of NEON are less dramatic than AVX-512, and the performance advantage of SHA-256 hardware acceleration is comparatively larger. I think it's rare for BLAKE3 to beat accelerated SHA-256 on ARM without at least some multithreading, but I've only personally benchmarked a few Raspberry Pis, and I want to be careful not to overgeneralize.
Fair enough. I'd still argue that the risk/reward is still way off, but as you say, that's an individual assessment.
> The UK has never allowed rendition from the British isles

Rendition of residents of the British isles, at least.
In the scope of config state management across mutable systems, SaltStack is the closest.

When doing immutable infra, where managing desired state is only at deploy time, then Ansible is by far more popular. Beyond that you get into container scheduling-orchestration platforms.

Others mentioned Terraform and Pulumi, which manage cloud resources, where Chef manages mostly system resources. Once upon a time, there was an attempt with Chef Metal, and later rebranded as Chef Provisioning, which are drive by chef-solo (or chef-zero) and use fog driver. The end result was something that was so gawd awful terribad, unstable, and unpopular. Instead of Chef investing to improve it, Chef started promoting Hashicorp Terraform over their solution.
Soulful Deep House Vibes (2020)
Probably getting sick was a combination of exhaustion, breathing smoke and anxiety.
To be honest Prefect just got on my radar last week, so I will need to look at it more closely, I was not aware of them till then.

Obviously this is for JVM, plus I am not sure how Prefect addresses following two points I mainly focus on:

- make rapid prototyping of new steps possible during runtime, without any need to restart/redeploy

- focus on distributed processing, where in master-less Titanoboa cluster you can have pretty much any number of nodes
You could argue that the 200 people who got themselves stuck at a lake and survived via helicopter rescue didn't exactly make better choices, they largely got lucky.

I don't necessarily think their decisions were terrible, but as far as reading it for lessons/critique goes:

- I read a lack of knowledge with the roads making decisionmaking harder. More research on their intended route and their possible alternate routes would have made things easier. (And the "downed bridge" is a planned bridge replacement with a published detour. That shouldn't have been a surprise to begin with). Lots of people do tons of research on the trails, alternates, have detailed maps, and so on, but don't do the same amount with their access routes.

- They should have had someone on watch in shifts in the overnight. If it comes that way and you're going to have a chance, it isn't going to be when the first moment you realize something's gotten worse is by waking up choking, in an inferno, or by not waking up at all.

- They should have gotten moving earlier. A few hours rest to recover isn't entirely ridiculous if they were unable to continue/couldn't follow the trail at night, but you don't need 9 hours of sleep and a leisurely 2 hour morning after waking up. Especially not when when you say "The smoke felt closer than the day before" for conditions.
Probably because of quarantine.
> Planned obsolescence for most Google devices

I own 3 chromebooks. The first one was purchased well over 5 years ago it still gets updates. My 2 kids have school chromebooks that they were issued when they started elementary school that they are expected to keep until they move on to middleschool. My son is going to middle school next year.
There's some subtle irony in that the linked site is not in fact a WayBackMachine link, but instead a direct link to the site.
When a company like Microsoft buys a company like LinkedIn, they aren't after direct profits. They're buying eyeballs and personal information for ad targeting. Microsoft already got what they wanted out of the purchase. It's the same reason Facebook buys tons of companies that will never directly turn a profit.

I agree with your larger point, that LinkedIn isn't really accountable to anyone; the Microsoft shareholders don't care what LinkedIn does.
>Writing a fast CUDA kernel requires quite a bit of low level GPU knowledge

False. Not in Julia: https://juliagpu.gitlab.io/KernelAbstractions.jl/
https://github.com/mcabbott/Tullio.jl
Apparently, China is having no problem attracting foreign investment while conducting every kind of human rights abuse that exists including genocide. So, not sure, your point stands in practice.
The logo looks like a devil fruit.
One thing I found very interesting from the book (which is worth a read):

The notion humans might have rose to supremacy among the apes, not by brainpower alone, but by a combination of brainpower and mirroring, i.e. our almost magical ability/tendency to copy others.

This then, goes the hypothesis, allowed a thicker channel of intellectual transmission, and faster development of species technology, even though Neanderthals had 20% larger brain mass and appear to have made many of the hallmark human discoveries first.
With the Fed’s Actions Causing the Cantillon Effect, Bitcoin Is Your Last Hope
I would love to see this type of study on Florida.
Many Gnutella clients were also using Merkle Trees by about 2002.
How do you know that the anonymous online petition signers are all Chinese Americans?

And for WeChat becoming so ubiquitous, it's a case of network effect. China isn't the outlier, the West is. Try living in South America without Whatsapp.
Why Tesla was not included in the S&P 500
Utah is not West Coast. As rosseloh said, it's the West. (And I agree - I draw the line at Denver.)

I don't agree with "Midwest" where people place it on the east side, though. Take Pittsburgh, for instance. Look at a map, people. It's not "west", and it's not even "mid". It's East. "Mid" starts at Chicago.

(Pittsburgh was once midwest, but it's not 1870 any more.)
Reflections on looking through thousands of rental listings
yes, the naive way of bundling a wire into a coil strains the wire just like if you were to take both ends and twist them in opposite directions.
Winthrop is about as literally Wild West as Leavenworth, WA [0] is literally Bavarian.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leavenworth%2C_Washington

(As explanation, both towns decided to become a "theme town", for lack of a better phrase, around the same time in the 60s-70s. Winthrop was inspired by Leavenworth, which in turn was arguably inspired by Solvang, CA.)
Android 11
I believe limited AR experience can be achieved right now with any modern smartphone. For example overlaying wine online prices and ratings. Another great app would be augmented map that shows house numbers and street names.
I like Apple Stores, but those trees… yes, tacky.
There are as many ways to improve your org as there are people working there :). Focus on what gives you energy, focuses your positivity and piggyback on it to create impact.

I love tech communities, and started internal and external meetup groups, found ways to stream online, managed to get the tech blog running. All things that I love doing : making other tech people more brilliant than I am successful.

Keep doing it, be consistent.

After a while, it will be seen, recognized and you will be followed :). The cool thing is that because it's something you like, it doesn't sound like work!

Good luck and let us know what you've found in a while !
Given the "nice try module" is 3D printed, I'm sure someone could just order a job lot from JLC PCB or PCB Way and make them at home to sell.
I ran into the same thing. Until now I thought I was just a noob and couldn't figure out a way to exclude each country by painstakingly excluding each country manually. These exclusions did work for me though.

Note: I am not ruling out that I am just a noob.
I was unaware, so no reason.
Many of the developers I admire most, if they be rock stars at all, are rock stars in the Neil Peart mold: they're unassuming and don't take center stage, but are widely regarded as geniuses and masters of the craft, setting the vision and structure of the project. Good examples include John Carmack (who was perfectly willing to let Romero engage in rockstar theatrics while he hacked out the next Id engine) and Dan Ingalls (Alan Kay gets most of the glory for Smalltalk, but even he would say Ingalls did the lion's share of implementing the thing).
Just as many countries have government funded but independent judiciaries and central banks. It is known Khalesi.
Damn, I always felt like a failure for not going into medicine or lawyer and now I feel like I may have chosen the right path. I did well in school but didn't have the 13 years for medicine or the $300,000 for law school... instead I got my little Computer Science bachelors.

If you're early on in your career, I'd recommend the free only Computer Science degree (DIY route -> https://github.com/ossu/computer-science) and eventually getting a Master's if you want to go into management (or alternatively just load up on certs)