skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is related to how it was built.

IMO, the main mistake was that it used a centralized authentication system to "bootstrap" the protocol - basically a fallback auth source back when nobody supported the protocol. In theory, after the protocol was adopted widely, they could shut down the Mozilla Persona servers. In practice, it ended up being perceived as "Mozilla Login" and the branding (dropping BrowserID) didn't help.

It didn't have to be this way, although I understand the reasons for it. The fallback auth system could have simply been a piece of software infrastructure that you (the site operator) were expected to run locally. It would have had two downsides: 1) it's a fairly complex piece of software that sends email and interacts with the website, so it would have been hard to make portable, and 2) it would mean doing the email auth dance separately on each site (like we do already).

The main advantage, though, would have been that it wouldn't depend on Mozilla running servers. The project could live on.

Honestly, if I had free time, this is one of the things I would be working on. The protocols are already written up, it just needs software.
NASA, Space Force partnership aims to make space exploration safe
It's nice that this is your preferred way to travel, but I live in Amsterdam and our city center is ravaged by tourists and the companies that profit off them. Enabling restrictions that limit overtourism, and that actively work to reverse the monoculture and disneyfication of our city are so incredibly important. Your ability to budget travel Europe with a family of five, due to your budget constrains, should not drastically raise rent and house prices. The center should belong to its residents.

Not only do short term rentals like airbnb drive up the prices for regular rent and ownership, but they negatively affect everyone who does manage to afford a spot. Living in an apartment block with one or several airbnbs is awful, destroys the fabric of neighborhoods, and especially introduces plenty of loud guests who don't care about the neighbors within the block.

Airbnb and similar platforms are exploitative of the environments that allow them. Your comfort to travel with a large family for cheap is not defendable against the negative impact on residents.
Upon close examination I think we would find the ALL schools do this.

This is just a symptom of the underlying problem with our education system in the US. It’s no longer about educating but about $. When the almighty dolla gets in the way judgment is clouded.

Come to think of it... maybe this happens in politics and medicine too? ;)
from their conclusion,

"the fundamental problem facing the 980 PRO and other high-end NVMe drives is... very few real-world consumer workloads... make good use of its full performance potential... 1M IOPS... sounds impressive, but that's only possible in fairly unrealistic conditions... the peak... performance of the drive simply does not matter to consumers today.

raid it up yo.
Linked is the PDF to the original paper. There is a Wikipedia link with a good summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrolled_linked_list

Given the nature of modern SIMD, super-scalar, and out-of-order processors, I imagine that this "unrolled list" is the most efficient form of Linked Lists today.
Fwiw, HSBC is a pretty "onshore bank" whatever that means.
HQ in London and $2.7 trillion in assets.
The US proletariat is anything but class conscious. It will self-sabotage any revolutionary movement long before it concerns itself with it's true oppressors. The propaganda machine that keeps 1/3 of the country simping for capital will deflate any organized opposition as it has largely been programmed to do.
One Change to Fix Tech (The Social Dilemma)
Not at all. You can open a directory, or a workspace. A workspace is just a collection of directories.

If you want a confusing workspace/project system try Eclipse!
I honestly don’t know.
For most top schools, getting in is much harder than graduating for a student who would remotely reasonably consider the school.

In this case, the students are alleged to have been less qualified which does not imply unqualified.
If the U.S. Post Office has an ally, it’s Duel2 and play-by-mail games
Nearly 90 Percent of NYC Restaurants and Bars Couldn't Pay Full Rent in August
This. I wasn't even aware I could use a single window, need to look it up.
"The commercial applicability of polyethylene is limited by its low melting point compared to other thermoplastics…The melting point for average, commercial, low-density polyethylene is typically 105 to 115 °C (221 to 239 °F)." -- so you could carefully get your tea steaming hot without melting polyethylene, but it doesn't sound like something I'd prefer to do. Metal vessels really have a lot going for them when it comes to heating foods over flames or coals!
This thread is discussing only "decent" and better SSDs. Yes, I'm sure you can find absolute garbage with an NVMe interface.
That's exactly the problem affirmative action is supposed to address. That's exactly why I support it, even though it wasn't in my own interest back then. So what's your point here? Do you support AA, or oppose it? The "point" that discrimination already exists was not in dispute.
> It took something like AirTable to wake the sleeping giants

My employer gives me Lists as part of Office 365. It's one of those things that sounds good as long as you're reading about it and not using it. It's just not a competitor to AirTable. Not that I use AT either, because I'm not going to pay that much for what I'd use it, but Lists is pretty bad. The look and feel makes me think Lists is a Perl CGI app from 2001.
I'm excited about new native interop api (function pointers, UnmanagedCallersOnlyAttribute, etc.). It removes "managed code tax" for calling into dynamically loaded OpenGL/Vulkan methods from c#.

I'm playing around with GLFW via PInvoke, which meant marshalling openGL function pointers into managed delegates. In net5.0 preview, I can simply cast IntPtr into a function pointer, and boy, a call to your average openGL method is literally an order of magnitude faster.

Similar optimizations might have been technically possible before, but it required some icky bytecode tinkering.
> Maybe because they want to stream that data to data mining servers in the US, possibly third-parties too?

Facebook could still make plenty of money without doing this.
The last time I opened VSCode was a few months ago. My work has shifted to other things, so I needed it a little less than before. I really hoped that VSCode could be an Emacs replacement, but I think that's a bigger job for me to pursue than I want to commit to.

For me, Emacs is not perfect, but it has always been the most versatile software I worked with. It's very much (and I want it to really be) the everything text editor. I got the interaction model (with a few good modes) burnt into my brain. I find it hard to get used to anything else (I usually also end up installing plugins to emulate Emacs in other editors/IDEs, but they never as good as Emacs itself.)

VSCode does get a lot of things right out-of-the-box: the interface is snappier when doing things like code completions and language plugins are rather consistent with little effort. But that's where it stops for me. At least I understand its popularity.
Pity that `void` is so special in .net, instead of being a proper unit type (would have avoided the Func/Action duplication as well)
Microsoft exclusively licenses OpenAIs groundbreaking GPT3 text generation model
He could have just detailed the existence of the broad data collection efforts that many suspected existed but we didn’t have confirmation of. Instead, he gave up so much “not potentially illegal” but just secret data, human sources, etc. the only reasonable assumption is that the exposure of the allegedly illegal activity was just cover for the later.
What % of your work day is spent starting up projects?
Just for some clarification: What percentage of Indians are "upper caste"? What exactly is the cut off for being lower caste vs upper? I know this article says 90% of Indian US tech workers are upper caste but what is their representation as a whole in Indian population?
Did your grandfather and father run mining companies, or did they work "at the coalface"?

My guess is that is was closer to the latter than the former.

The decision-makers make the decisions.
It's interesting that they didn't find the port 22 nor 80 or 443 I'm exposing among others, I just get a 404.
> This is controlling the discourse of everyday people.

I think you might be confused about the subject here.
Broadcast vs on-demand is crucial. There’s a huge difference between having a captive audience that has no choice and producing content people choose to consume.
Applicative : minimally complete definition: pure

Huh? Where's (<*>) or liftA2? It's nice having all those types and everything to work over but if the applicative instance is wrong then the monad instance is wrong and then there isn't really a point in using the library? The nice thing about haskell is that all of the laws can be covered by quickcheck. Would be cool if there was something similar here!
It’s possible that that System.Speech is using technology and patents licensed to Microsoft for use in Windows but not something they can sub-license.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6T9xIeZTds
> What if genetics goes awry (Jurassic Park)?

That was the movie, not the book. The book was "What if profit-motivated biotech startups go awry." In the book Hammond is an unsympathetic greedy asshole who causes a disaster by cutting corners and evading regulators/oversight, all to get filthy rich. His reward is being devoured alive by petty scavenger dinosaurs at the very end of the book when everybody is is being rescued. The book is more a critique of capitalism than it is science. A critique of the commercialization of science.

Predictably, these themes were diminished for the Hollywood adaptation. Hammond becomes a naive manchild who loves dinosaurs and is more a victim than a villain.
At no point do they say "Our company does not and did not allow discrimination against a person for being dalit". That is all they would have to say to take a clear stance- and they don't.

> "Cisco is committed to an inclusive workplace for all," the company said in a statement to online news site thewire.

> "We have robust processes to report and investigate concerns raised by employees which were followed in this case dating back to 2016, and have determined we were fully in compliance with all laws as well as our own policies. Cisco will vigorously defend itself against the allegations made in this complaint." (emphasis mine).

We're inclusive! You can tell, because nothing we did was strictly illegal! And nothing violated any of our policies, which don't cover discrimination by caste!
One of the most successful examples of bundling is Microsoft's enterprise plans. For instance, the top E5 plan includes so much enterprise software for so low price that it creates the perception of free software. MS Office? Free. Power BI? Free. Etc.

Tableau, which I believe is a more sophisticated data visualization application is getting squeezed out from enterprise accounts. Why? Because Power BI is "free".

Bundling is a huge power.
Transclusion destroys readability of the code. It's nice when you're a professor writing numeric heavy code and want it to flow like an academic paper. Not so nice when someone else has to understand the code and inner scopes are scattered on the wind for expository purposes.
Comment the justification for code the law....
That's what the US said in WWI and WWII. It then had to sacrifice a bigger number of people. A supremacist globalist empire will not stop at its neighbors. Its plan is to invade the whole world.
The funny thing is, I had a pitch by Azure to convince us to switch from GCP.

And they point blank said that Google is not investing into GCP and implied that it's on a death bed.

LOL
Wow. I wasn't really sure what to expect, but you're right. Whoever designed this did a GREAT job.
I thought this was common practice in US universities, in the form of so called 'legacy admissions' [1]?

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_preferences
So "too dangerous to release" really meant: Too commercially important to release it for free.
Meanwhile, the same California government is trying to legalize discriminatory race-based admissions.
This is just an argument for IQ selection; applies equally to each caste as to humanity as a whole. But why would higher castes be more IQ selective than lower castes?

Edit: anyone mind telling me why this comment is flagged? Did I say anything controversial?
Fair enough, removing that.
Ahem, Google calls that an "update"
Encoding doesn't count. Normality is a very specific mathematical concept:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number

Also, 1.01001000100001... is a good example of a number that is both irrational and transcendental but not normal.
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This is a basic combinations of words from the English language. You do not own it.
Here I think is the difference between a book and a live person:

The show’s producers say the program is meant as an educational tool to fight body shaming and encourage body positivity. And so first reluctantly, later enthusiastically, the children from the Orestad School in Copenhagen asked the adults questions like: “At what age did you grow hair on the lower part of your body?” “Do you consider removing your tattoos?” “Are you pleased with your private parts?”

One of the adults, Martin, answered that he had never had “negative thoughts” about his private parts. Another adult, also named Martin, admitted that when he was young he had worried about size. “But the relationship with myself has changed over time,” he said.

With serious looks on their faces, the children nodded.

You can't ask a book questions.
I used to run gitlab-runner locally to debug the CI pipeline but my team now uses a lot of gitlab features to make the pipelines more DRY and this means CI code is scattered over projects.

The easiest way I found to debug it, is to put set -x into the code to print the command with substituted variables.
I use VS Code every day and it's a great platform, but to claim it's the endgame of editors is one big hyperbole. It's a very opinionated piece of software that serves lots of popular niches well right now, but I haven't yet been able to find a mix of extensions that makes it a viable replacement for IntelliJ for Scala, to name one example.

I'd expect the next uber popular editor to be optimized towards completely different things, though. VS Code is a great all-purpose IDE for enthusiasts and professionals, who are willing and able to dig into pretty complex UIs and complicated concepts. Take the git integration – it frequently breaks (for me), and when it works, it's really very superficial and requires me to really understand what git is doing in the background.

Last year I've tried to teach my dad how to use git, so he can put his python robotics projects in GitHub. It's been eye-opening: All the idiosyncracies and complex ideas that I've grown accustomed to over the years, that's one Eiger North Face of a learning curve if all you want to do is get those Python files on GitHub and have some people collaborate with you there.

It's also pretty hard to discover functionality in VS Code. It wants to be everything to everyone, so it can't expose functionality in a way that specialized IDEs can – and even those tend to be either messy or sort of cryptic. It's really hard to be effective in any IDE without memorizing dozens of keyboard shortcuts, which isn't a problem for software people, because we either like this, or have grown accustomed to it. I guess that's why the Touchbar is wildly popular outside of software engineering and related disciplines – for apps that support it, it exposes functionality directly and in a context-sensitive manner.

Hundreds of millions of people around the world will start programming in this decade as the world is rushing into a future where code is the stuff that most of anything outside pristine wilderness that we ever experience, is at least partially made of or faciliated by, that all social, economic, political activity rests upon.

There is no tooling that would be appropriate for this kind of use case – whatever will end up filling that niche, the casual programmer who doesn't want to get deeply involved with software engineering, but get their semi-complex problems solved without tasking a team of SWEs, whatever will do this will have to be a lot cleverer, easier to use, more discoverable, more intuitive – make collaboration feel much more seamless – and still be very powerful. VS Code with its laser focus on the current developer crowd is probably not very well-suited for this.
> Extremism does not fester in “safe spaces”.

Disagree. "Safe spaces" are bubbles of like-thinkers, else they wouldn't be "safe". People in such bubbles tend to drift to extremes due to the lack of external constraint. Within the bubble any other opinions seem extreme.
Anyone own closedai.com maybe can get some decent money from them?
The "central authority" is the working group which authors the protocol specs, similar to how a federation of states' central authority would edict laws.

There is actually some debate as to whether it's really a federation if the central authority can override member states (as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation)
Interesting.

Different strokes for different folks, I suppose. For myself, I'd prefer the natural sounds... even the intrusive ones (like invasive squirrel species screaming at each other).
I think a counterpoint to this view is that Englishmen with Norman last names still make more money than average.[1] Despite the fact that the British regime hasn't discriminated along the Norman-Saxon divide since the 1300s.

I doubt if the average English person today is really even consciously aware of the Anglo-Normans being higher class. Certainly there's no easily visible divide or overt discrimination in modern times. Yet the legacy of the caste system left by William the Conqueror continues to shape society a thousand years later.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/842...
> Thats seems like a bad design no?

Yes, that socket is not standards-compliant. It should have been B-keyed.

> Sold by SSK Direct
> Business Name:Shenzhen Huajianli E-Commerce Co.,Ltd

No surprises here.
Amazingly so! Even HAM radio regulations are remarkably harmonized internationally thanks to the IARU[1].

[1]: https://www.iaru.org
Poppler looks great! But, I _just_ learned about it and I don't think that the majority of population, say, outside of HN knows about its existence, so it's good to have a fairly mainstream alternative available.

OK, Firefox is, sadly, far from being a mainstream browser nowadays, but still I suspect it has a larger user base than Poppler.
Plausible, though https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.media.speec... looks significantly simplified from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.speech.sy...

I'm not confident all the same functionality I've tapped into can be replicated with this.
Show HN: Display AWS CloudWatch Graphs Outside AWS
eh? They are generating revenue. They just spend it on customer acquisition or r&d.
This should not be surprising, especially considering that popular culture has portrayed this practice overtly for decades.

For example, how many movies or sitcoms have you heard a phrase a long the lines "My boy is going to ____ just like I did."
On the contrary, it’s outrageous that this industry doesn’t have any journalists willing to investigate the power these people have over our community and who they are affiliated with. Whenever you hear them interviewed on a podcast or anywhere else, the hosts seem to be fawning and giving out fist bumps.

And I’m not so sure Facebook representatives have any ground to stand on when it comes to expectations of privacy.
How much would the human population need to contract in order to provide everyone with the same wasteful quality-of-life that the average citizen from a western industrialized nation has?
As someone who grew up in a different culture (so I look at the system as an outsider - I grew up in the EU, I live in the US, and a lot of my coworkers are Indian), the influence of something like a caste system is quite visible in many people who grew up in India. It's vague and sometimes barely-there, but definitely there quite a lot.

It's a set of assumptions: that someone's pigeonhole in the social structure somehow strongly defines the limits of their abilities; that in the org chart, wisdom always flows top to bottom, never the other way around; that the org chart itself is (and indeed MUST BE) set in stone; etc.

The system feels very rigid, especially for someone who grew up in an individualistic culture.

This is not about conscious, deliberate actions, it's about unconscious attitudes and assumptions.

I do not see any of this in people of Indian descent who grew up here. It's also much less typical of young people with a progressive mindset who grew up in India. But older folks and/or more conservative - yeah, it's clearly there.

I could be wrong, but I feel - the moment India is able to jettison this pattern, the whole country will experience some sort of major renaissance.
Curious, what are the Silicon Valley companies and other tech companies using for frontend these days if not React?
Goverment-run universities presumably have slightly less ludicrously corruption-condoning rules in place.
I used it for my company at the time as part of a dual-auth system (Facebook / Persona). We were even featured as an example on the Persona dev website. The service worked great, even for my technically-not-literate audience. And it was reliable (we sold event tickets).
So is discussing things on HN a good way of consuming knowledge?
"Our thought bubble, via Axios Hans Nichols: These economist letters are often little more than veiled job applications from academics hoping for a Fed or White House position. But given that these laureates are éminence grises of American economics, they probably just want to be on the record supporting Biden."
Since Berkeley is public, there's an expectation of more fairness.

... I'm more surprised it was only 64 kids.
How does one see the video? The link seems just to take me to a page with links to Android and iOS app stores.
How is that related to this?
I was hoping the parent article would talk about other species of bird as onlookers, but that wasn't the case. Got my fix from your story. Thank you!
I don't think competition is the primary issue here. There are numerous examples of ISPs committing outright fraud with no punishment. Lying about speeds, stealing money from customers by adding fake charges, and so on.

Competition doesn't work in a market where you can't get information about the options because people are lying cheating and stealing.

This strikes me as a failure of the regulators and justice department on not stopping false advertising, punishing fraud, and generally enabling access to justice.
What sort of protections are you referring to?
At Google you get interviewed (usually only one round with multiple people in it) and then your interview feedback goes to a hiring committee and they make the decision.

Could the hiring committee identify you as UC? Quite likely based on surname, but I don't know if they see a surname.

Also, in the article, the discrimination happened after someone was hired. Promotions (Google again uses a committee system here), project assignments, etc can all be influenced in a way that is impossible for you to "hide" who you are.
Pretty easy to use and IDE to dev stuff and just run it on the command line. I used to do that all the time. You aren't forced to actually run the software through the IDE.
Could they have just called it the Windows Linux Subsystem?
emacs and vim are super efficient, nearly infinite in keybindings, and fully programmable and extensible.