skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Replace 'Guardian' with every other online news publisher and you will also get to my disclaimer on where I said 'nearly', especially on subscriptions.

The Guardian knows that they will eventually add paywalls and require subscriptions just like every other publisher as everyone knows 'donations' are not sustainable to fund their 'journalism'. It's all about subscriptions, paywalls, etc.

EDIT: To downvoters: Oh so donations 'are sustainable' for the likes of the Guardian, such that they are still asking their users for years to donate whilst ramping up the registrations and adding a soft pseudo-wall on their content, and the suggestion is to get Mozilla to also ask its users for donations?

What happens if Google decides NOT to renew that contract in the future due to Mozilla's declining market share?

Explain how surviving off of user's 'donations' is sustainable for Mozilla to survive, given that Google is its direct competitor and offers a browser for free (and a similar one without the Google stuff is also free).
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It's not clear that there is any causal relationship between the dentist appointment and the resulting events.

Possibly this event was bound to happen and it just so happened that the subject was visiting a dentist.

At least I hope people won't get even more scared of dentists after reading this... but I guess BBC succeeded in that.
Neovim and Rust
> There was a great paper in JBIS in April: Conceptual Design of a Crewed Platform in the Venusian Atmosphere (abstract only). It summarises two comprehensive studies of how to float crewed scientific missions in the clouds of Venus. The mock-ups look like a cross between dirigibles and the space station. Alien.

I don't see the point of a crewed scientific mission like these to Venus's atmosphere, except to claim the credit for just having sent humans there. It seems like accepting a lot of risk for very little gain, since, unlike Mars, it's not like there'd be any complex manipulation or interaction with the environment to do there.
Office has been the standard since at least 95. I don’t see anything replacing it in the next decade. Google attempted and is doing a pretty good job in education, but overall, it’s still not getting buy in from corporate America.
> It was more expensive, though

Exactly Intel's problem with these things. They are always too expensive compared to the competition. It's the #1 reason they failed in mobile, too. Their similar performance Atom chips cost 2x more than the highest-end Arm chip.
What is "common sense" for the Japanese may not be common sense in the west.

Understatement of the year :)
Sure, though that page you linked contains some tips on how to avoid performance issues with the directory substitution. My point was that some thought is required to do thousands of vhosts.
Hospitals are literally going out of business right now because they can’t do the things that make money (elective procedures) and are instead doing low pay/high risk pandemic work.
Yeah I'm surprised HTTPSEverywhere with EASE isn't a part of the Tor browser. Maybe a contributor on here can comment?
According to at least one person, not very promising.

https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/896-To...

About 13 years ago, another researcher identified some suspicious patterns on the network.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070618001928/http://jadeserpen...

Also, it just doesn't seem very likely that the US DoD would fund a network which defeats their own surveillance efforts.

Being "anonymous" online is more a question of being anonymous from who's perspective. Fooling a sysadmin is easy. Fooling an ISP is hard. Fooling an NSA contractor is probably near impossible. I think you can achieve reasonable plausible deniability with enough inconvenience, though. Get rid of your smartphone, compartmentalize your activity, never enable JS, use public wifi, spoof your MAC, make a tinfoil hat, etc.
Actually there is an "equal except for". Isn't that a pretty trivial concept for a software engineer?

Here's pseudocode that can be expressed in tons of languages:

func compare(a, b) {
if typeof(a) == "marriage" and typeof(b) == "marriage": return false;

return true;
}

Ironically, as we're speaking of Brendan, here's a trivial real-life example where this is the actual behavior: in JS all numbers are equal to themselves, except NaN.

> typeof 1
'number'
> 1 == 1
true
> typeof NaN
'number'
> NaN == NaN
false

In any case, it's quite possible for someone religiously motivated to think of marriage as some "holy" union that is only allowed between men and women because the Bible said so or whatever -- but otherwise have no issue with gay civil rights and would be ok with some civic contract with the same exact terms and rights, as long as it's not called "marriage". Marriage being one of the "sacred mysteries" in many versions of christianity and so on.
If that "fork" was to survive as an independent browser engine with competitive performance and features you'd need at least 10x that number of developers.
A lot of people know how to build or operate a mill well enough to do most tasks. My dad does, my grandfather did, most of my uncles do.

The particular fabric machine for N95 masks is very specialized, and building those machines has a failure rate - you may be producing fabric only sufficient for a N90 or N85 application - a lot of "dust" or "atv" masks are exactly that.

The machines are physically large enough and with specialized enough parts you can't build one out of a machine shop.

It'd be like demanding we mass produce Titan IVs tomorrow. America has built a Titan IV before, we've built a few - surely we could just crank out one a day right?
making holes in the walls and shattering displays isn't really "a bit odd"
Interesting...

I would argue JetBrains doesn't make most of their money from individual developers (consumers) but rather from businesses (who in some cases may be freelancers or solo founders).

Firefox offering a browser to companies, that's a better product for them from a security perspective or something, sounds possibly interesting.

But that being said, the competition from Chrome (which is free, integrated with GSuite, and already offers corporate security features) would be stiff.

And of course, Firefox's mission has always put humans at the center, not businesses. Moving from "Google Search $$" to "Business $$" might be a frying pan to fire move in terms of distracting from their core mission...

But still, interesting, and I appreciate your thoughts..
I'm sorry to hear about your experience (rather insensitive prof.) but if you tackled cold fusion for Masters, it's unlikely that you would have finished your degree in 2, 5 or even 10 years. This topic is not suited for a Masters level thesis, where the primary goal is to build research skills while giving you the taste of tackling a real problem in a defined, manageable form.
If my adversary was a state, I'd be seriously worried that the act of downloading Tor is monitored and would put me as a potential threat.
I've heard a similar technique: always picture the keys as "living on that shelf" or "sleeping in that bowl".
I have a pi 4 running in the closet that hosts pi hole, Plex, Medusa, transmission, and a few other media acquisition solutions. All running with a simple docker-compose script.

My test for these types of projects is incident rate of my wife complaining about it acting up. So far, I only get an occasional “how come this ad isn’t working on Instagram?” ( :) ) or “where is my show that was on last night” ( :( )

It’s pretty crazy how reliable these little machines are for what you can apply them to. My only issue right now is Medusa seems to stall after a few days and require a restart of the container, and I haven’t been bothered to write a cron job to restart the docket compose nightly or even better, diagnosing and fixing the real problem. So I instead just Remote Desktop in every few days and restart things.
Computing’s Gender Divide: Why Tech Is Stuck in the 1980s
I agree that the Atom brand has been sullied, but I've often wondered if they weren't "bad" per se but were used in the wrong kinds of products. I got the impression they were better suited for an ATM or a vending machine that Tweets or something -- but not great for a full Windows environment, even if the user is not doing anything resource heavy. Feel similarly toward Celeron. Marketing != practical use for these CPUs IMO
To piggyback off this - As a graphic designer, I've tried basically all publicly available upscaling tools, and Gigapixel AI is by far the best one.
An Engineering Exploration in Building a Coffee Machine, Part III
USA/Californian checking in. Embarrassed.
Yes, in Memento the main character leaves notes for himself, because he wakes up each day with no new memories since his "accident", but he is trying to solve a crime!

Whether the notes and the character's understanding of his situation are accurate is the main gist of the movie (and as its tagline says: "some memories are best forgotten"). I can't recommend it enough: it's a great movie with some excellent acting, and it manages to be both cerebral and emotional.
Free will, by definition, can be neither deterministic or random, which is very different.
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Handcraft lessons belong in a radical school curriculum
I've tried watching a few different US news channels over the years. I think the most insulting part was that you actually call it "News"

I'm not one to throw random, overused terms around the internet but your most popular channel (Fox) is literal propaganda and social conditioning.
The buttons on the page says “choose plan” for each of the alternatives, but these are one-time purchases right, not monthly recurring ones? I’d probably go with “order” instead for the text for anything that is a one-time purchase, as “choose plan” to me implies recurring billing.
While I know you are correct chronologically, it is 2020 now I think ‘network effects’ have come to dominate this perception (that Haskell is the language that gives the basis for breaking away from “practical languages). I think Haskell’s presence in the group consciousness of CS-minded developers is, at this point, due to the comparatively large web presence and semi-PR done on its behalf. Simon Peyton Jones almost single handedly pumps Haskell (and I love him for it) more than anyone pushes ADA, SML, and Modula put together.
I've been actively supporting Brave (and Firefox) exactly until moment I stumbled into very unexpected news about Brave. After that I support Firefox only.

"Brave browser is asking for donations on behalf of other people" (2018)

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/01/13/brave-web-br...

"Brave browser is hijacking links and inserting affiliate codes" (2020)

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2020/06/06/the-brave-we...

Link to Brave source code on the Github, inserting affiliate codes into URLs

https://github.com/brave/brave-core/blob/master/components/o...

There's no valid reason to use a product, adopting totally unethical and scammer techniques. One more lesson on topic "If you don't pay, you're the product".
I'll add that while PTSD is a very serious problem, it is not a guaranteed outcome of being involved in combat operations - even over extended time periods.
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Random Forest vs. Neural Network (classification, tabular data)
Your story gives out a quick and simple alternative: "with a high paying job", I would have expected you to have enough savings to take 12 months off without becoming homeless. Use the first six months to build the knowledge it would take you years on your "free time" instead, then try applying it and earning from it.

If it fails and you need to accumulate more savings, go back to what you know you are good at for another stint before you try again.

IOW, don't just let it happen, but just try doing it instead.

(I fully understand that not everybody is in a position to do this, but you sound like you are.)
about 20 years ago there were services like this for your newly created website. all these site they submitted to were low quality and never generated any traffic. history repeats
Machinery, and machine-making-machines was a bottleneck for all the war powers. The US least, but it was still an effect.

Hence things like the Allied bombing of the German ball-bearing factory to wreck the aircraft engine supply chain.
The UK has no monopoly on wanting to increase digital surveillance. Almost all other Eu nations are slowly treading in their footsteps.
That this happened from a local anesthetic is very, very strange. Before reading the story I wondered what combo of drugs they'd used to knock him out, because those can be risky. While I don't see any direct relation, this article makes me recall another discussing gum disease prevalence in Alzheimer patients.
Absolutely agree. I've wondered if Intel was just being lazy prioritizing improving their silicon process and got snuck up on by AMD, thinking they effectively had no competition.
Yeah, they have used it all over. Including the C2XXX and C3XXX for server platforms.
We regularly do ban ideas which we disagree with. For example....

The federal government will not fund research into the idea that women are sub human, and will certainly fire any manager who tries to include female inferiority training as a requirement for their employees.

Banning this sexist idea is a good thing. The idea itself is poison and has no place in common government.

If some people think it is merely controversial, then they should build credibility outside of government then ask for the rules to be relaxed.
“The government” isn’t a person. It can’t know things. It’s a complex, chaotic system of various people with competing interests who know things at different times and have power over different things.
The polar _atmosphere_ is colder than expected[1]. According to Wikipedia, the coldest point on the surface is 380 degrees C.

https://sci.esa.int/web/venus-express/-/57735-venus-express-...
Why do I get a “You are not authorized to access this page” when I click on the link?

Has anyone else experienced this?
I assume the atmosphere microorganisms on Earth started in a terrestrial tidal pool though and evolved from there. There’s the rub for thinking about atmosphere organisms existing on other planets.
I'm very partial to "Real Time Rendering"!
e2e is a heavily utilized must-have for any organized crime these days, and this is very frequently a wall that law enforcement hit and cannot get past.

I don't think banning encryption or something silly like that is therefore the solution, but minimizing the problem is not helpful in understanding why there's such a heavy push from all sorts governments, democratic and authoritarian alike, to "deal" with the problem. It's not always because they are Teh Evil Surveillance Statez who want to Take Your Freedom for the sake of Total Control. It's because they are faced with a serious actual real problem of criminals using a technology they barely understand and cannot get past, and so they instinctively reach for the trusty hammer they are so accustomed to using against all serious problems - the Legislative Ban.

They don't understand that using this hammer will have significant unintended consequences, but this isn't malevolence. It's fear and lack of competence.
Pretty impressive. These games have sold millions of copies.

Here's the GitHub the repo for Amnesia: The Dark Descent, https://github.com/FrictionalGames/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent — looks like a custom C++ engine called HPL using SDL for input, Newton Dynamics for 3d physics, and OpenGL for graphics? The engine also supports AngelScript for scriping in-game events & logic: https://www.angelcode.com/angelscript/
Oh, I didn't mind the length too much. You can benefit from each individual chapter.

> What books would you recommend instead?

'Think Python' is a good introduction to programming in general. https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-python-2e/

'How To Design Programs' is another good introduction. https://htdp.org/2020-8-1/Book/part_preface.html

For functional programming in general, Okasaki's 'Purely Functional Datastructures' is a real treat.

Paul Graham's 'On Lisp' is worth reading. It's a bit on the pragmatic side. http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html

Above all of them, the best book in general is 'The Pleasures of Counting'.
Less just assume that they go ahead, everyone complies... How long until you'd need to revert the law, because all legal traffic is now exploitable, while the criminals are still using good crypto?

How much damage does this need to cause before politicians will sit down and understand while their half-assed idea failed?
I don't think the parent means it is the norm for this to happen to most people, but rather that at-will employment[0] is the norm and this is a possibility, however remote, that most people have to reckon with.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
I always wonder why more people don't buy a reusable mask. Many use the surgical masks daily. Leads to a lot of waste.
Yes, true. I didn't understand it as well. that's why I deleted it.
Of the projects listed, the Pi-Hole "ad blocker" — it's actually a DNS proxy that blocks much more than ads, is very good.

Rarely mentioned: if you install the Raspbian OS, you get a full copy of Wolfram Mathematica, installed automatically.

Mathematica is deep, and amazing. That's a learning and exploration project in its own right.
You are effectively "saying no" to your manager. In your estimation helping your colleagues is more impactful to the company than doing your current task.

I don't think there's anything wrong with the attitude. The manager's intention is probably to help you shield yourself from unwanted help requests. But if you actually think you should help that team, then do it!
No, it's hard to get. Also tricky is what counts as "the engine" varies from project to project. E.g. Webkit doesn't cover as much functionality as Gecko or Chromium, e.g. the HTTP stack is separate.
Too bad there's no good examples in the blog post. With regards to the color of the bike shed, if any color is good enough (even though there might be some perfect color that is very visible yet also soothing and pretty), then picking a color at random is not doing a bad job, it's doing an adequate job.

Perhaps a better example would be a restaurant that half-asses their website because most customers find them on Facebook anyway. In that scenario, visitors to the website might think "ugh, this is useless crap" – ugly, hard to navigate, doesn't have up-to-date information – but it doesn't hurt the business enough for it to warrant paying attention to.
This comment needs to be upvoted. The title of the article is completely misleading.

How can a call to 'stimulate a discussion' somehow get characterized as declaring war?

This looks to me like the EU doing its typical thing of issuing memos to generate more memos, that will then generate more memos ...
As others have pointed out, while N95 is best it seems to be posssible to substantially reduce transmission with masks of other materials. The earlier SARS countries of Thailand and Vietnam have responded very effectively to the pandemic, and I don't think they have a magic N95 supply.
It’s not just theming. Java GUI apps just don’t “feel” right. It’s like the uncanny valley of interfaces.

It feels less native than Electron apps.

I pay for Resharper every month. JetBrains makes excellent products. But I tried IntelliJ, I quickly went back to VSCode.
I understand that it may satisfy the Off-topic requirement in that these natural disasters are typically covered on TV news, but I think (for me at least) that it does gratify one's intellectual curiosity. Climate change is based on complicated climate science and these articles that are written about it are describing all of the predictions of climate science coming true in front of our eyes. Its horrible to see, but intellectually, it is stimulating.
Proposed fix for 737 Max fails to satisfy UK pilots' union
And, IIRC, the Quark X chip in the Galileo board sold for like $5 in quantities.

I've been thinking of how to build educational clusters with chips like these (current candidate is the Octavo SoM that a TI Sitara core, RAM, some flash, an SD controller and two Ethernet ports) that could have a couple dozen nodes, connected by one or two Ethernet switches, all assembled on a single PCB. A bit like the Pine 64 Sopine clusters, but with more, simpler nodes. The built in Flash can be used to network boot the node, eliminating a large cost in external flash.
I can’t recall where I read that 40% number, unfortunately. And boiling such a wide range of social experiences down to a single number is eventually going to get me in a lot of trouble with anthropologists.

Here’s a decent breakdown of the evidence for various state and non-state ancient societies[0]. Obviously there is some significant overlap between state and non-state societies, but in general the violent death rate in ancient societies is really high compared to even the 1800s, an era we consider violent by modern standards.

0: https://ourworldindata.org/ethnographic-and-archaeological-e...
Isn’t it more of a slippery slope argument?
How long will it survive after the backdoor leaks? How long will credit card stay usable?

E-commerce has enough problems with security already. Adding digital security as another one will be a huge drag.
I agree. Early on, people were blaming Trump because the CDC was caught with their pants down on their one job--I argued that Trump (for all his incompetence) can't be blamed for this--CDC should have had plans for this after SARS and MURS (well before his presidency). But that defense no longer applies after 7 months. Trump has earned his criticism, as he is apparently determined to do (however, there are also many in the media who are determined to beclown themselves by using misleading metrics to exaggerate the impact of his incompetence, which of course doesn't constitute valid criticism).
What you are suggesting IS happening. Companies ARE investing in increasing American production of n95 masks in America. This was even reported by the wall street journal.

There are signs we are reaching the end of this pandemic. We've made a lot of progress. We are protecting nursing homes better. In most states death rates at the lowest they've been. NYC has shown that immunity is causing the virus to slow down. Hospitals have better treatments available to them. A vaccine is likely to be available by the end of the year and the systems are in place for fast administering to needed populations. Schools are back in session with minimal issues.

Your WW2 comparison would be tedious to even discuss. But in short, the economy did not switch overnight. And retooling and expanding is always easier than creating new production from nothing. Creating n95 masks isn't just an issue of "retooling".

We do not know if invoking DPA would have changed anything and this unsupported smug certainty is what ruins actuals discussion on this. You do not have any compelling reasons for HOW the DPA would have changed things.
One of my go-to examples of high-context is The Wire's "fuck" scene. Two professionals in perfect sync investigate a murder scene. The communications themselves are not very important because they are relying on a high level of context -- they already have familiarity with the case and with each other.

[nsfw] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lElf7D-An8

On the other side of the spectrum, think about any episode of CSI or NCIS where the characters narrate everything they do and think to each other. It's necessary exposition for the viewer, and perhaps in a real-life setting collaborating in this way keeps everybody on the same page. It isn't bad at all, it is just a lower context mode of communicating.
Thanks, changed from the eye-rattling https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/amp34096117/...