skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How long the rocket fuel could offset the force of gravity upon itself, thus suspending itself in-place.

In the real world, you'd need the rocket itself (which in turn contains the rocket fuel) which adds weight, and you'd have a difficult time controlling power output so the rocket doesn't drift and lengthen/reduce the burn time -- but that's not the point.

The idea is that we want a unit that relates the mass of the fuel with its total energy, and one way to approach that is to consider how long the fuel could offset the force of gravity on that fuel, which gives you a cute unit of measure in terms of time.
The “Buy Box”: the reason you see hundreds of massage guns on Amazon
In clock speed perhaps, but in instructions per cycle absolutely not (not even close). So for the vast vast majority of workloads a newer processor will be much better than even an higher clocked but old (E8400 is from 2008) processor.
Sounds like there's a flag in Chrome for the moment. After that, yeah some sort of container or sandbox seems like a good idea (TBH I'd argue that it's a good idea regardless of this change). I named some options at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24421622
Why your business needs GPT-3?
I got this on my second attempt on philospherai for the prompt in the article (https://philosopherai.com/philosopher/please-write-a-short-o...):

(Prompt)

Please write a short op-ed around 500 words. Keep the language
simple and concise. Focus on why humans have nothing to fear from
AI.

(Response)

What is it that humans fear from AI? At a philosophical level, the
question comes down to: what are human beings afraid of losing as
machines take over more and more jobs previously performed by
humans. The first answer that may come to mind for many people would
be 'nothing', since they believe in the idea of technological
progress having no limits, which means that there is literally
nothing we can do to stop it.

If you look at history however, you'll find this attitude not
entirely justified. For instance when carriages were invented and
took away most of horse-drawn carriage business their owners
resisted vigorously against them claiming that they were unsafe and
unreliable just like now with self-driving cars or trucks.

So it appears that some human beings really fear the loss of jobs
caused by AI, and they are also afraid that machines might take over
other tasks like driving or even writing in case a new computer
system is invented.

What is it exactly that makes them so afraid? I think the answer
lies in a very deep level of human psychology, which those who are
afraid would probably not be ready to hear.

It isn't just about jobs and income for most people. It's about
identity and self-esteem when they no longer have something
important they are doing like driving or writing.

There is also the fear that new and better machines will make them
look inferior, even emasculated because they no longer have to do
anything. They are afraid of being made redundant by AI.

So what humans are afraid of losing is their jobs, income, identity
and self-esteem. This might seem like a very strange thing to fear
because it's happening with all technological progress.

But in the past it was a natural process based on evolution and
survival of the fittest. Now however humans are no longer driven by
those evolutionary drivers but mostly by things like social status,
self-esteem etc.

Not bad!
I always liked being able to Reveal Codes in WordPerfect to clean up formatting. I'm young tho, I was using WP8
Do you have a source for this? I don't see how that could be possible, unless they created a new share class for these long term investors.

The price of the share has to be adjusted at the dividend ex date to reflect the drop of value induced by the dividend payout. If not every holder of the share class benefited from it, then this is obviously unfair.

Now if you are talking about different share classes, then they would have to either be issued to current shareholders (e.g as rights issuance, in which case every shareholder could have them, long term or not), or publicly traded (same thing basically, everyone could have them, long term or not), or privately traded. In that last case, I would not really say this is "for long term investors", it's more a matter of private equity / politics / governance. Don't expect to enter that kind of deal unless you are a _big_ institutional investor.
Hundreds of Americans planted 'Chinese mystery seeds'
> when i go for a hike i bring a trash bag and often come out with it full.

David Sedaris did this so much they named a garbage truck after him.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/shortcuts/2014/jul/31/davi...
Would be nice to have a linter or something that you know is best practice. Eg if you check your yaml and its more complex than it could be.
Been there, done that.... even to hack an old ciscos into a bodged-up production/testing enviroment (take config from production, change two addresses from production to testing values, and apply the whole config to a testing cisco).

The good thing with ciscos and most of the old technology is, that once you write that script, it works for years... commands never change, outputs never change, some perl, a regex or five, and you're done.

Doing the same with a webpage, where it's "pride month" today, "womens day" tomorrow, "day against aids" the day after, and each means a new div, a new popup, a new redirect, a backend update inbetween, to make the new banner possible, etc., is a pain in the ass.
> and no big screen for maps

One of the reasons I haven't bought a new car is because I pretty actively don't want a touch screen in my car. It just screams unsafe to me, and all the research I've seen coming out recently agrees with me.

I don't want to have to stare at my console just to change the radio channel, to turn up the A/C, etc. It's insane to me that people think this is a pro instead of a negative.
There’s a difference between thinking that any media that doesn’t agree with my political views is disgraceful, and thinking that the entire media industry is profiting from fostering division and controversy.
No-Code vs. Pro-Code: A New Hope
The fact that there is no actual methodology published for how this index of popularity is actually generated makes me highly sceptical of the whole idea.

All Tiobe (who make these ratings) say is: "Popular search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings."

What does this mean? What algorithm is used? If they expect these ratings to be taken seriously they should open source the methodology and data-sets and put their reasonings for why this data plus this algorithm gives a meaningful result.
Isn't that the case with any tool or service of some complexity? I'd probably have to look at docs or examples for most config files i write.

There's trade-off between a tool being too specific to a usecase vs being too generic with the associated "boilerplate". But I don't know how much simpler Kubernetes could be made while still covering the intended scope?
If you strongly believe this, then you should probably put your money where your mouth is, like this guy:

http://www.williammacaskill.com/

It's noble, but I guess it's up to you to chose your standard of living.

Empathy means you feel what impoverished people feel, but do you have to impoverish yourself also?

Also, as a whole, the world is better than it ever has been at any point in time. I think it might have Bill Gates that did an interesting talk about this, but I'm having trouble finding it.

It's a glass half full or half empty scenario I guess.
Appearing on Infowars does however make you alt-right, which is what I said to begin with. As does hosting an alt-right show. If you want to contend that fraternizing with racists in public doesn't make you a racist yourself, that's an argument you can have with yourself because I won't be a part.

There is nothing vague about what I said. He espouses alt-right positions and the conspiracy theories that are hallmarks of that movement, where does he do it? On his show. Where should you go to hear it, should you want to? His show.

Just as an aside, flagging a post works without announcing it ahead of time. That isn't in the FAQ so I thought I'd let you know.
with his level of fame, he would easily make that at one of the top tech firms though.
I have some experience with Blazor WebAssembly, and in my opinion, the technology is promising but imature. Whenever a complex page is rendered (a table with hundreds of entries, ...), you can definitely notice how slow and memory consuming it is.
> Should we take down Egyptian pyramids too, since slaves built them

I'm pretty sure that's not true.

> I feel sad for the Americans of yesterday, though, I can't imagine such disrespect to their work here in Europe.

The white Americans of yesterday used to get upset when a black person used their water fountain, or got a better seat on a bus, so it's not like they refrained from weaponized outrage.
Fuzzing JavaScript Engines with Fuzzilli
I'm working on a video course for all things browser automation, whether it's testing, scraping, auditing, deploying etc.

I'm keeping the codebase open on GitHub: https://github.com/umaar/learn-browser-testing/ so anyone who wants to follow along can do so for free.

In the 2-scraping folder, there's a bunch of scraping examples such as bypassing captchas, building an Amazon price checker, blocking CSS and JavaScript resources during scraping to make the process much quicker, and a few others. Hope it's useful.
Magic Python Objects – Defining and Encoding Strict Types Using BARE
I've thought your general point was based on the fact that they were connected?
Pretty neat that it supports the Koalapad. Worked well in Safari though it didn't track my system's mouse pointer perfectly.

I am amused that the POWER light works as a power button. Early Apple 2s had a plastic dome over the light which people mistook for a power switch, and most of them are broken as a result.
State of Self-Serve Website Building in 2020
Yesterday we had "Ask HN: What did you do to improve your company?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24398077

"Ask not what your company can do for you, ask what you can do for your company."

This forum is a bit strange at times since it feels like it's trying to make you a good worker bee rather than a good hacker.
This is just waiting to be abused. No software or firmware (or even silicon!) is 100% secure; if at any point someone figures out a way to flip a fuse (maybe something like creating a short by overloading two adjacent fuses or abusing reads via power supply gliching) and then make the CPU unusable for everyone...

Hell, next step might be ransomware that fuses your CPU and unless you pay them they will reboot them so you can't use them any more until you buy their signing key.
I think it's common on several distributions for egrep, fgrep, zgrep, etc to all link to (or have small shell wrappers for) grep, which is gnu grep.

I would guess the various BSD distros have traditional separate greps.
Wasn't LEWP a Multimate clone? And wasn't Multimate itself a Wang word processor clone?
I personally haven't had the same experience as you (I personally find the Haskell community quite pleasant, especially in the functional-programming slack server), but I'll try and answer (probably in an incomplete way) your question about updates.

Haskell can, in fact, update variables. Mostly through 2 mechanisms:

- ST (a computation containing local, mutable state, that cannot escape its scope) [1]

- IORef (mutable, thread-safe variables that only work in IO). [2]

The other (and usually more common way) of doing "mutable" state in Haskell is through State, which technically doesn't update the variable in-place, but simply modifies the variable and passes a copy to the rest of the computation (although, as far as I'm aware, a lot of the time this step gets optimized away).

That said, if your main field of expertise is simulation programs where performance and space efficiency are very important, then Haskell is probably not a great fit (cause not only is it based on a GC, it's also lazy, which can sometimes mess with the performance of your code, not speed-wise but memory usage-wise). Hopefully this could be mitigated in some way in the coming years when Linear types become viable for efficient resource usage (Linear types ideally could grant us some sort of Rust-like resource management)

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.14.0.0/docs/Contr...

[2] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.14.0.0/docs/Data-...
If you're going to have the car for 10+ years, why in the world would it be a problem to learn the system in it?
Are any companies currently applying to be listed?
Right, and that's just as easily an argument in favor of loosening the existing restrictions, not tightening them even further.

Epistemologically, where you come out on this all depends on which axiom you start from.

Also, there's a subtle difference between the existing guidelines and what you're proposing: the existing guidelines exist to maintain a positive experience directly for those consuming the platform (eg I don't want to see ISIS beheadings on FB). The new guidelines you're proposing exist solely to indirectly prevent others from seeing things you think they should not be seeing (eg I don't want my aunt to see this post). It's a very important distinction.
What are your thoughts on listing foreign companies? Asking from the UK.
The Innovator’s Fire
R gives you the ability to capture un-evaluated expressions, manipulate them, and then evaluate the manipulated versions. This ability lets you construct some fairly powerful DSLs and language extensions.
a better approach is dynamically generated css, absolute positions and randomized html output. In my SEO days, I wrote a tool to do this exact thing for a different reason.

We had a network of sites, and they all looked the exact same to the user, but to google, each site had a completely different structure, and it kept the network safe for years before a google employee (or we assumed google employee - @google.com email) signed up for the service without us knowing, and discovered the entire network by placing a large order which gave him links across the entire network. Within 1 week of them signing up, our entire network of 10k domains was dead, and everything they linked to was delisted from google. We had to shut down the network, and refund all unused credits from our customers.
Seriously. We have >8% of the world population living in poverty. If these supposed self-less "I did it for the good of the species!" procreators really wanted to help humanity, we'd see a lot more adoption.
> I expected something along the lines of, "no shorting allowed", [...]

That would at least be an attempt. Though to be honest, (other people doing the) shorting is actually very good for the long term shareholder.

> The problem with short term thinking isn't from companies or company leadership, they are reacting to the natural short term fluctuations in their value because of the short term thinking of investors.

It's not that investors are short-termist. Far from it. See eg how shareholders react to Amazon or Tesla.

The problem is the principle-agent conflict: shareholders in general have a very hard time monitoring management. It is neigh impossible to tell a manager with a grand vision that will pay off in 20 years from a manager who burns capital on harebrained schemes for 20 years. Especially impossible to tell before those 20 years are up.

That's why investors are so keen on early and hard to fake signals. Returning cold hard cash to investors is one of those signals.
I've put an example here, for doing it in Node.js: https://github.com/umaar/learn-browser-testing/tree/master/2...
The use of "on hold" in the guardian headline clearly conveys a temporary pause or an interruption.

The use of "halted" in the NYT headline commonly means stop or end.

halted; halting; halts
Definition of halt

(Entry 1 of 4)

intransitive verb

1 : to cease marching or journeying

2 : discontinue, terminate the project halted for lack of funds

transitive verb

1 : to bring to a stop the strike halted subways and buses

2 : to cause the discontinuance of : end halt hostilities

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/halt

on hold in American English

1. in a period or state of interruption or delay the countdown was on hold

2. in a state of interruption in a telephone call, as during a transfer to another line I was on hold for five minutes

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/on-h...
Not exactly what you're asking, but some thoughts:

* There is, for the moment, a flag to disable it, right?

* You could probably just have noscript/umatrix block JS outright (yes, I know this is overkill)

* Sibling comment is probably right in that Firefox is likely to not implement this immediately, if at all.

* You could also do it from the outside by sandboxing the whole browser; this is a somewhat poor mitigation (ex. leaves your Downloads directory wide open), but it could help.
No, I'm saying that in order to believe in any facts, you have to exercise some level of human judgement and conclude/assume that the entire world has not conspired to deceive you.

It is wise to exercise judgement in that direction for the same reason it is wise to round 0.9999999999999999999 up to 1

It is often wise to round 0.999 up to 1.

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I'm not saying '2+2=5'.

I am saying '2+2=4'. You are saying '2+1.99999999999999999=4'.
It says you’re open for business. What business is now open? Can I buy a share of a company on LTSE today? Can I list a company on LTSE? (I can’t find a way to do either of those things on your website.)
I suppose this is possible if it was an amortized loan against personal liability like a mortgage. Clearly there is more volatility in the asset, so the risk would have to come down by insurance. I think it would get quite expensive to service these loans.
I don't use Facebook but my understanding was that in general it's tougher to do broad searches like that as they want you to be connected via social graph first. could be wrong here though.

At any rate, what's wrong with censorship in online media? It's been my experience that basically every platform lacking censorship turns into a cesspool of bigotry and misinformation.
Will those corporate governance guidelines be publicly available? Are shareholders able to influence these guidelines at all?
kubesail has really nice UI for an hosted option. Another alternative I found is https://kalm.dev/, which is open sourced and geared towards configuring a heroku on top of a k8s cluster.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGL:

"WebGL is fully integrated with other web standards, allowing GPU-accelerated usage of physics and image processing and effects as part of the web page canvas"

So I would guess that when your graphics chip is faster than mine you get a higher performance.
Is this anti-vaxx in general, or specific concerns about a coronavirus vaccine?

Because there's a world of difference between repeating a debunked claim about vaccines causing autism or the idea that all vaccines are unsafe and saying you had a bad reaction to a specific vaccine or have concerns about an unproven vaccines development process.
I'm seeing mixed information too, now that I've started looking deeper. I suppose it was a tangential point in the first place, but now I'm really curious.
Google doesn't reveal their search methodology and everybody is using it and taking it seriously...
What do you define as long term? At some point, the best answer for longevity is for a company not to exist at all, given that the purpose of most companies is extraction, or some sort.
The public markets aren't just designed to maximise shareholders value. Maximising shareholder value is supposed to be a means to maximising societal value. If the shareholder model isn't doing that then it isn't fit for purpose.
I can understand the effort to weigh firm's incentives towards longer-term incentives, and I can see how the suggested changes to companies' structure would achieve that.

But why do those changes need to be coupled to the exchange a company assigns as its primary listing venue?
Not to mention that this entire discussion is taking place on a web app...
Oh my! thank you for enlightening me!
They can't, it makes no sense to add such encryption to SMS. The end user would have to manually manage keys. It didn't make sense on WhatsApp or iMessage either of course but for different reasons - there the problem is the apps are a monopoly for that service. They can update at any time and alter the encryption as they see fit. They already did this to stop people forwarding messages on WhatsApp, which makes a mockery of the concept of e2e encryption.
It always gets a groan out of me. They come across as self-serving, like big corporations that run commercials to talk about how great they are ('we here at widget company X care about Y').

In comparison, the charity-ware of vim is fine to me. It does what it's supposed to without all the backpatting.
the default is pvp [1] and I think most packages use that and not SemVer? or, at least, I can't remember off the top of my head of specifically pinning a package with SemVer.

[1] https://pvp.haskell.org/
You are being overly defensive of vaccines. They are a great and effective treatment for many diseases and I get the sense you are trying to make zuckerburg's comments seem more demonstrable then they really are. Considering Facebook's diligence in cutting off speech on their platform that is racisst, climate change denying, etc. I find it hard to believe that they will refuse to crack down on antivax advertisers and dedicated facebook pages.

Tbh I have not done the research but I have no doubt there have been faulty or problematic vaccines at one time or another. Just like any other medical treatment there is a chance rhat they have defects, cause side effects, followed bad quality control protocol. Elevating vaccines to this status of being not allowed to be critisized for fear of our society being damaged seems like an almost equally dangerous alternative to what we have now. If people are legitimately hurt by a vaccine, they have a right to have a voice, and we have a responsibility as a society to hold those at fault accountable. That can't happen if we treat every person on facebook with even the slightest grievance about a vaccine like they are insane.

And to address your point on practicality; the fact of the matter is, anti-vax movements have never been normalized. There is enough pressure from employers, schools, government, and scientists that most people will get vaccinated if it is found to be of personal or public benefit. Hardcore antivaxers are generally looked down upon by the public.
One of the main positive effects for me is not having to attempt to function in an oxygen-deprived office.
This index has a lot of noise. C++ is only up because Sep 2019 was a low point. Its popularity is lower than in June 2019 for example. I wouldn't put much stock in this and I like C++. Does anybody really believe that C actually fell from 17.15% in Nov 2015 to 6.5% in Aug 2017 and then went back up to 15.45% in Sep 2018? (https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/)
And neither one is “obscure”, by a long shot.
I always liked that dd story but it's probably not true -- it's based on the DD command in IBM JCL, which stood for "data definition".
The same question was said about Japan in the 1980's. There was much hand-wringing over our trade deficit with Japan. (Though I had an econ professor back then who I thought put it best: "We're getting cars and they're getting pieces of paper, and somehow we're the ones getting screwed?")
Also related, most people have a negative emotional association with microphones. Marketers don't want people having mental associations to public speaking.
where are the VCs that share this vision? when I tried to raise capital on a long term vision for our hardware startup I got laughed at.