skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DHT makes trackers simply an aggregation and redundancy measure.
How much real research, as opposed to early-stage product development, has ever happened at corporations? We can easily name a few specific examples (Bell Labs, Xerox PARC) presumably because they weren't the norm. (And there were doubtless some others at companies that weren't as aligned with what's thought of as today's tech industry such as DuPont.)
"... can't install alternate operating systems or software of our choice."

That choice should include more than just "Linux".

Many, nearly all "Raspberry Pi competitors", fail to offer that choice.

Consider this one from a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24378758

For me, the single most attractive aspect of the RPi was booting from SD card, no user data or user programs stored on the "device" (computer). Hence, I can run Linux, and/or BSD, and/or Plan9, etc. I can have a selection of different SD cards, each with a different OS. This is how I built systems for myself before RPi. Boot from USB, everything running in RAM, nothing necessary stored on HDD.

However, when RPi alternatives are "advertised" and discussed on HN, the focus usually is solely on (non-bootloader) specifications and price. The option to run multiple OS is seemingly not a concern for any commenter and not a "target" in the manufacturer's marketing.

The best computers for me have been development boards. The reason for this is simple. In most cases they are less biased toward one OS, namely Linux. I probably would feel differently if Linux was favourite OS and had no desire to run anything else. However, I do desire to run other OS, in addition to Linux. Need to have that choice.

This "bias toward less choice" does not stop at the OS-level. Often I see bias toward certain high-level programming languages. This includes the example above from a few days ago. "WebAssembly and Javascript."

When the RPi was first announced there was mention of "running Linux" and was suggested the device would geared toward Python programming. I feared the worst. Thankfully, things turned out differently.
Yeah, I don't know. I just think about the bandwidth we all use sometimes and it seems extremely wasteful and it bothers me for some reason. I use around ~200-300 GB/month, which I thought was a lot until I saw how much other people use :D
How would this work when substantial equity is involved? It makes sense that if you drop your hours, your salary would drop in proportion. But if a substantial amount of your total comp is from unvested equity, it doesn't makes as much sense. Your employer can't take away unvested equity, right? If so it seems like your employer would have much less incentive to want to do something like this - you may be working half as much, but your total comp only drops by like 25% or something.
Personal anecdote: Started in a developer position a couple years ago to work on an internal corporate app on an isolated network.

Week 1: Get to the desk; meet my neighbors; submit request for necessary network account; and start on mandatory security training for the systems.

Week 2: Finish the mandatory training; ping the network owners a few times about the account request; start reading up on unfamiliar parts of the stack.

Week 3: Continue pinging network owners about the account request; ping my own manager about the account request; stare at the workstation that I cannot log in to; ask around, "Is this normal?" "Yes."

Week 4: Do some more newly assigned mandatory training; ping network owners and manager again.

Week 5: Finally get the network account!
A modern timber harvester run by a skilled operator is beautifully terrifying.
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It's actually the reverse that bothers me in that case! I have more RAM and CPU time than I can possibly use :D

Unless that's what you meant...
Fast inverse square root in Go (and JavaScript) for fun
Moral of that story: these things are weak to cable tripping.
>I'm unable to have a meaningful discussion here as long as you are putting words in my mouth.

You didn't expect someone to actually put in effort, I understand. Look for some lower hanging fruit then. Good luck.
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This is neat, does anyone know what font this is?
Content is one thing but engineering is really important to properly deliver that content, no one wants to buffer videos, have bad UX ect ...
Talk to the American people who will not vote on a candidate that insists on cutting funding to the military industrial complex (of which DARPA gets a very small percentage anyway) and the American people who hate the "welfare state" and "socialism," both of which would make it possible for your uncle to get assistance from the government via taxes.

Data: DARPA's 2019 funding was $3.556 Billion dollars. DoD budget for 2019 was $616.2 Billion dollars.

Lastly, a lot of DARPA's research actually gets used for projects that benefit the public. Other people already listed a ton of projects like GPS, so I wont do that here.
> It's a tool that doesn't pitch that it's a P2P tool - it doesn't try to convince you with sob stories in how using P2P helps fight against the big bad evil web. Instead, you use it because it's genuinely the best at what it does: it being P2P is not a selling point, it's just how it happens to work, and that is exactly what it should be.

This should be something that every creator who markets or sells products should learn. Consumers don't care how it works, it just has to be better than the solution before it. Appealing to how things ought to be moralistically doesn't work (for the vast majority of consumers). They just don't care, they want a solution to their problem.
For anyone interested in learning more I recommend the 99% Invisible episode on it: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-eliza-effect/
It would have been nice if GP had actually noted the word, and no they do not need to be 80 years old to have possibly meant "neger", it depends I guess on their intentions...

Edit: Frankly I am not sure why they would have meant "svart" while blaming specifically "American migrants". It seems "neger" would be much more immediately offensive to someone coming from the US.
The moment when I first wrote my cgi/perl thingy and deployed my first website.
wow so many languages being researched/developed at microsoft. There's this one too: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/bosque-prog...
Bash is one of my favorite programming languages. Not for production. Writing significant production Bash that others have to use and maintain is more of a struggle than it is worth.

But for personal use? Hitting APIs, organizing data, writing to files... Bash has been enjoyable because it requires much more creativity than almost any other language. At some point it's just you and the coreutils against the world.
Yes, that's the downfall on all of these sort of things. Nobody seems to make a good mini keyboard these days. Back in the late 1980s there was the Poqet PC and it had a very nice typable keyboard. I don't know why we can't have something similar in terms of small keyboards, but as far as I can tell, nobody makes a keyboard like that now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poqet_PC
Committing code on day 2....I guess the author had never worked for a Fortune 500 company. It usually takes at least two weeks before you get a level of access that allows you to commit code.
Thanks! I guess in the designing of the accompanying software then, the people writing it probably spend equal (or more) time in writing what happens if the expected/desired behavior fails, than if it succeeds?
> More often to protestors who don't have as much protection and attention. What, if any, technologies exist to safe guard against this sort of thing?

Weapon.
routing ( be careful ) :

https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=graphhopper_...
From just Hacker News traffic? How is that possible, even a (properly configured) Wordpress installation on a Nanode can handle a spike of 10,000+ connections :/
BitTorrent was one of the few things that once I understood how it worked, I realized I was looking at the product of true genius.
"My uncle is starving while defence projects get lots of money" and "Some defence projects have led to good outcomes for society".

Without aiming to insult here¹, is it interesting to anyone that the same things we say when we're 14-15 years old are the same things we say decades later? I remember having had this argument when I was a kid (and very space-obsessed) and it was almost exactly like this. I remember my classroom, even, and it was between Physics and English and the teacher hadn't come in yet.

It's like some number of people have to be thrown into the war of the ideas periodically to preserve the battle lines exactly as they are. Stop and you lose ground.

¹ like not saying I'm better than you guys, I could just as well do what you're doing.
It should, but in practice it doesn't. I've had torrents that I left sitting for weeks not being able to complete, until I added a list of trackers to them and found some seeders with 100% of the torrent.
>I use around ~200-300 GB/month

Pretty sure I use more than that in a day.
> What's the larger cause here?

Delivering high-quality entertainment people enjoy watching, and doing it in a way that "just works?"

I don't know if that's the larger cause as they pitch it to engineers but as a Netflix subscriber, it sure seems like they care a lot about that cause; and as a cinephile I think it's definitely doing something special for society. Not unique, but special: these production-and-streaming companies are revolutionizing film art, and happen to also employ a lot of my friends.

But... I probably wouldn't work there as a techie.
in my estimation, political opposition against nuclear is so strong in the west that it will be next to impossible to build new reactors. I'd be really surprised if there a net gain in fission reactors in Europe or the US.

The ongoing shift away from coal is powerful - environmentalists push hard and some cities close to coal plants became too dirty to be livable. "Coal-to-gas" is a central piece of China's energy policy.

Energy storage, transportation and space for on-shore wind puts some limit on the renewable-build up; Germany's number of active wind turbines might actually decrease in the coming years.

Take the above three aspects together and combine it with an ever richer and energy-hungry humanity and I believe gas and oil demand will be higher than most want to believe.

Even if passenger cars are shifted to electric: air planes, ships, freight trains and most importantly, trucks still run on oil. Consider how most passenger cars spend most of their lives being parked, in contrast, commercial trucks move as much as possible,
Hacking around distributed hash table open source software gave me the utmost respect for the people who came up with this stuff.

Crypto currencies owe a lot of their successes to the pioneers behind technologies that also power bit torrent.
About the timber harvester: I assume better here is meant from a economical perspective, because from a ecological perspective the walkers are superior, as they do not devestate the ground so much. But that is sadly not really a issue for most wood production, but I could imagine, with rising awareness for the forests, market demand for not so intrusive wood harvesting(along with advances in the field in general) could bring the walking timber harvester back.

I would very much welcome it. I really hate, having all the forests paths messed up in the wood cutting season.
Maybe, most likely true. But either way I think it's pretty noteworthy that a big hosting provider like Heroku can't give them a heads up. I don't agree with most stuff that is being posted there, but the same goes with Reddit or Twitter. It is true that there are a lot of communities there that came there because they were banned from Reddit but that doesn't really make all of the communities bad even if there is a lot of shitty stuff up voted to the front page.

This can happen with any app even if it's more unlikely.
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The two fitness apps I use are $60/year and $30/year.

Headspace is ~$55/year and they have a ton of subscribers.

Plenty of language learning apps are over $100/year.

If the value is there, and especially if there is a direct comparable to a non-app based service, people will pay.
This type of brigading is pretty clearly against twitters terms.
The Wikipedia article states "fuzzing can be considered to be a special case of mutation testing." I'm not sure I agree with that. Regardless, that does not mean "mutation testing is a generalized form of fuzzing."

Normally, fuzzing is done from outside an interface to verify that the interface works and the code behind it doesn't fail horribly. Normally, mutation testing is done from behind an interface to verify that the tests are doing something. Compared with typical unit tests, they may seem similar with their use of randomness or ASTs as machines determine what to test and in that they are not functional tests, but they are very different things.
Everything could be avoided if the democrats did not muddly the term "freedom" and simply let the definition be the same as liberty.

Through if we really want to find out whom to blame for ruining the word, it would be Thomas Hobbes and John Locke combined for not finding an agreement on the words definition.
With the exception of prosthetic limbs, so far those technologies have proven to be net negatives for humanity, only accelerating our suicide:

GPS: Nuclear missile guidance system

Internet: distributed nuclear missile command and control system

Computer mice: windows

Onion routing: fbi honeypot, enabled multiple violent insurgencies in northern africa and southwest asia.

And the list of actual successful darpa projects is longer than the one you provided, and the omissions are not nearly as benign as the ones you have cherry-picked.

And that's just what made it out of the lab. How many full ride college scholarships have they left on the cutting room floor? How many insulin shots? How many pounds of fresh food? C'mon man. DARPA makes war, not life.
Shades of the 1940s, when the US cut off Japan's oil. Pearl Harbor happened very quickly after that.

But the US of 2020 is no longer the manufacturing giant of 1941.
I've been fiddling with games a lot lately and one of the things that makes my life easier is the possibility to quick mock up and design tile maps for my games. I've been working on this tool for a while now, there's still a lot to do but I'm getting there

Here's a quick video showing the creation of a simple tile map: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeTRE9vaS6I
It's basically malware.
In some places I've worked, HR has a hidden target total compensation for each employee. When they make compensation adjustments, they try to bring you slightly closer to that goal. In this case, they might drop just your salary proportionally since that appears fair, but future adjustments will be lower or zero until your target compensation is above your actual compensation.
“What about bicycle insurance? It's fairly expensive here in the UK, usually 10-15% of the bicycle's value annually and insurers typically only pay out when the whole bicycle is taken (so if if your front wheel is nicked, you're on your own) and when you can demonstrate that it was locked to their standards. Often these standards require that it is locked up indoors which means you're chancing it whenever you park away from your home or office.”

None of that is true. I founded a UK bicycle insurer (not your usual one though).

Our price is locked in max at 10% per year but it’s less if people claim less in our collective. On average people have been paying 6.5%.

We settle partial and full theft claims. Stolen handlebars are more common than stolen wheels.

It makes no sense to have customer prove to you as an insurer that the bike was properly locked beyond asking “was it locked to an immovable object?” and “did you own a lock of a certain standard at the time of theft?”. It’s almost impossible to prove and by that you could always reject a claim.

I haven’t heard of a specialist bicycle insurer which requires you to lock a bike inside all the time. Why would you buy theft insurance? A lock of certain rating is enough, depending on insurer between 24h-48h - after that you abandoned your bike in the eyes of many insurance contracts.

Last note.. of course this article focuses on theft but you’d also be covered for damage which can be the bigger risk depending on your use case (e.g road cycling or mountain biking).
Please don't do this. There's nothing new to say, so the discussions are tedious and therefore off topic. Also, the question has been decided on HN for many years and is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

No one likes the current solution, it's just that the alternatives would suck worse.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
I used to go to school by a Panera (St. Louis Bread Company where I'm from), and my schedule made it so I was often in there after some sports activity grabbing a light dinner around closing time.

I found out they often had a trash bag full of bagels they'd throw away if they didn't have a charity to give them to that day.

Since I was a frequent customer, I asked for a bag a few times over the course of four years. I froze about 50 bagels and gave the rest to friends, and I often had a nice toasted bagel free each morning :)
>It takes roughly 2 weeks to form a habit; it takes roughly two weeks to get comfortable in a new environment. A common mistake is to treat a new report’s first couple weeks like college orientation - social, light hearted, get-to-know-you stuff. If your report spends the first two weeks reading C# documentation and having lunch out on the town with the team, guess what, they’ve just normalized that behavior as what the role is.

Humans are not dogs. I've worked at companies with both styles of on-boarding (two weeks of doing nothing vs jumping right in). The output in a month was realistically no different.
Sure, I believe I remember an avionics design win but can’t find the reference right now. Those design wins wouldn’t be affected by any such purchases (chips are fabbed by a third party and any procurement contract wouldn’t permit any mask change — quite the opposite).

But any new design would pick a new part anyway, and MIPS could simply be dropped from the candidate list — except there would be no reason to: this deal is China-specific and any US supplier would be buying a license from imagination — or from a merchant chip supplier.
Maybe have concentric rings with gates that open at 1, 10, 100 and 1000 year intervals to keep things simple?
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Working remotely for years and I’ve never found it to be as good of an experience is a flexible office job.

One of the things I hate the most of the fact people just disappear and things then take way longer to get done.

The best jobs I’ve had is probably what Reed is describing in terms of attendance.

3-4 days in the office, flexible hours and some work from home options.

It’s a good balance and I don’t have to sacrifice some part of my house to being an office.
That's not what I'm getting at. Sorry for not being clear.

It's more like using ML to make something up. The something being the details. Like colorizing black and white photographs or writing news articles. It doesn't so much extract information as add it.
It's a great trip, but you need to time your visit to the tides or you'll regret it. My wife studied Old Germanic languages, so a visit to Holy Isle was a must-do. We stayed in a nearby inn so we could leave when the tide was running out.

If you're in the north-east of England it's absolutely a wonderful thing to do.
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Disclosure (since Colab is a Google product): I work at Google, but everything I say is my personal opinion and experience.

I really dig the overall idea of cloud notebooks. Back when I did fast.ai part 1, I used Paperspace Gradient. It was a pretty good experience, but moving files around was a bit of a hassle. For example, getting the images for the Planet Labs exercise took a round trip of downloading from Kaggle to my computer and re-uploading into Jupyter to do analysis.

Because of all those moving parts, I decided to give a try running things locally. To my surprise, setup was super easy and I was quickly productive! I really dig how customizable a local Jupyter server is, too.

I do use Colab, it's particularly great for collaboration/sharing notebooks, but my past experience has me hooked on the idea of a capable ML machine at home.

Plus: I can pitch it to myself and my spouse as an investment in personal development that happens to be able to game :D
Why not BLAKE3? I am really curious. I mean, since it exists, why not that over SHA256? Because it is relatively new?
This reminds one of this old joke about two people running away from a bear. One of the guys says to the other: why are you running? You'll never outrun a bear! And the other says: I don't need to be faster than the bear. I only need to be faster than you.
Apparently particularly energetic soccer cheers are also easily detected by seismometers. Here is one example:

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/fans-cheering-world-cup-...
My insurance policy (renters or homeowners) covers bike theft. Yes, there is a $1k deductible, but my bikes range from $3-5k each. Is this not a thing in the UK/EU?
>Working through the nand2tetris project

Done various sections of this and would heartily agree with how illuminating working through the project's been
I once camped wild with a friend in the middle of a forest. The next morning there was sawing in the distance, no worries. Got closer and closer ... so we hurried to pack our things .. just in time to have our camping place vanished as it was in the path of destruction. I was not aware before how fast they could be.

(and I don't know, if we just had bad luck, or he had fun messing us, but we were quite hidden)
... it's almost like their server knows you're a person and not a crawler
How is Wikipedia biased?
Maybe I'm just missing it, but I don't see in this description any explanation of how to handle hash collisions - ie, when two keys map to the same hash value. Do you iterate through an infinite series of secondary hash functions when you run out of distinguishing bits? Or do you bottom out at a table that you linearly scan?

Overall, it seems like the algorithm is "maintain a trie on the hash values, using an auxiliary bitmap and popcnt to determine the index within any trie node." Does that miss anything?
Was using that for a very long time as it's the last version without ads. Unfortunately there were multiple vulnerabilities disclosed in 2018 and some private trackers started blacklisting it (workarounds for the vulns were discussed but not sure if any are confirmed as working).

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=15...
It's pretty satisfying to just convert the entire universe to paperclips and call it a day (having beat it twice). I really like having to make the last twenty or something by hand after disassembling the paperclip making machine back into paperclips.
I can’t believe it took me seven hours to realise there was an immutable values jest to be made. Damnit.

Leaving this as a memo to my future self.
This have changed at my first job (a long time a go) the second day I got an hours crash course in RT/11 (a DEC OS)

I was told to learn FORTRAN IV from McCracken (A Guide to Fortran Programming)
It’s not currently - collisions are very expensive and only in limited contexts. If you wanted to distribute malware via torrents your efforts are better spent elsewhere.
I think everyone aspires to this. They just fall short.
That timber harvester is pretty unbelievable for 20+ years ago. I wonder what Boston Dynamics would be able to do with it today.