skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would expect most technologies to be capped at 56k otherwise using a phone line for transmissions would circumvent FCC rules on transmission power.
Indeed. Pretty much the first thing the CIA achieved was overthrowing a foreign government.
Efforts like this with GraalVM and the upcoming JIT in PHP 8
should lead to, I believe, that many of the existing C extensions of PHP to be converted to pure PHP implementations.

When you have a JIT based language you want as much to be executed in that language, jumping back and forth between PHP and C is a drawback from a JIT perspective.

However there exist many PHP C extensions that are just thin wrappers around large C libraries like cURL, it is not really feasible to implement that in pure PHP.

But with the introduction of a foreign function interface with PHP 7.4 that has made it possible to call C libraries with ease, as long the C library doesn't do too much macro magic, and to my understanding upcoming Java release ships with a much improved native bridge with better support for native types, these two thing could lead to, guessing here, that you only need to implement the bridge for each implementation but share the rest of the PHP wrapper code for that C library.

However the foreign function interface introduced in PHP 7.4 is signigfanctly slower that the old style C extension of Zend PHP, but to my understanding is that future evolution of the JIT could theoretically reduce that performance impact.
> Or is it actually speaking of "enlightenment" as it's understood in most spiritual practices, in which case none of the questions even make sense?

You'd think that (and I agree that the article doesn't make much sense) but as a matter of fact, quite a few people seem to think that they are enlightened in the spiritual sense you're talking about, and that this means that their view of enlightenment should definitely be turned into a quasi-cult, with them at the lead. Daniel Ingram (author of Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha - a surprisingly pragmatic take, all things considered!) has repeatedly expressed his frustration with this.
For me the main difference between (early) Windows and Linux is, Windows is quick to setup and quick to break. Linux is hard to setup and hard to break - I cannot tell how much time I spent tweaking my Linux desktop. Also I could for instance use an old SCSI scanner on Linux much longer unlike Windows where they eventually stopped developing drivers for new Windows releases.

But now things are of course a bit different, especially when choosing well supported hardware. On the other hand driver support tends to be more stable and long-term oriented on Linux since they tend to be maintained centrally in the Linux kernel. I agree that macOS is a bit mediocre in some sense, but somehow it unites the worlds of Linux and Windows.
Yeah I do think there is a performance bottleneck here with WASM being quite a bit slower than native performance. But I think the idea is that WASM performance is only going to get better as the technology keeps evolving, and that gap will be bridged.

I'd say the overall performance of the tool itself is a bit mixed. There are some task where it performances really well (trimming, converting photos to montage) but some where it is horrible(transcoding to VP9)
> yet he's ready to accept others' suggestions and stand corrected when needed.

I think this is fine and somebody who cant accept this needs to go outside and breathe. Sometimes you gotta put your foot down about something until you are convinced otherwise.
Yeah this is my experience too. Often there is a time or times associated with a date but they can be difficult/impossible to deduce and many intuitive answers are wrong or riddled with important exceptions.
It's a lot more entertaining than another presentation of the javascript framework in fashion this hour...
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> <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"><const>hintslight</const></edit>

Nor GTK, nor Qt do support "full" hinting as of few recent releases.

Pango, and Harfbuzz sacrificed that ability in exchange for subpixel letter positioning.
I think it's possible that people perceive sub pixellated fonts to be uglier in some cases, but I know early on Microsoft aggressively marketed the studies they'd done that reading speed and comprehension were definitely superior. Not sure if that research has been replicated recently.
This seems like a way for the doctor generate RVUs and show greater productivity.

RVUs as a concept for anyone interested: https://www.texmed.org/Template.aspx?id=32053#:~:text=An%20e....
At that time using XP was a very viable thing to do. You would pretty much never do it now. Think about it from a business perspective. Something goes wrong in the OS. At that time you would have had to have linux guru on staff to take care of it. OR you could pay 30 bucks for a OEM embedded copy. If something went kinda bonkers you could call microsoft and they would fix it. Their support on things like that is pretty good. At that time getting that sort of support for linux would have been basically nonexistant. Today you could get that kind of support for linux. Back in 2000-2004 it would have been tough. At this point no company is going to re-write the firmware on a machine they sold 20+ years ago unless they happen to be still selling that exact same model and you are paying for some awesome support contract.
See this video[1] for a demonstration of how hard it is to roll a tesla. In one of the tests it goes past 90 degrees before rolling back on its wheels.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L24xzJkCGdk
> What, and let the USA authoritarian regime to keep going to legitimize itself with its rigged voting system? To stop sponsoring the pro-democracy activists in USA? No, it's the USA who should simply cease their meddling with the elections in the Russia and the rest of the world, stop promoting the hatred, confusion, and intolerance in the rest of the worlds public, that's for the first step. Then the White house should actually allow the pro-democratic forces in the rest of the world to come to power, form the government that would be dedicated to democracy and liberty and protection of the human rights, and reform the stagnating economics, and cease foreign military escapades (and return the annexed territories to their rightful owners: Louisiana, California, Manhattan, Guantanamo, Puerto Rico, military base all around the world, the list goes on and on), that's for the second step. Only after that it would even start to make sense to demand from the Russia and the rest of the world to "not meddle" in USA elections. Until all that happens, demanding from the Russia to stop its support for democracy and human rights in on of the most illiberal modern authoritarian regimes is simply disgusting and cannot be met with anything more than scornful refusal.

FTFY
Many beautiful people are not content with just being beautiful. It even gives them some kind of inner unrest that they don't feel they deserve what they have and yet can't achieve what they urge.
Actually if they know the mechanism of action and receptor that it affects, they can run computer simulations of thousands of chemicals quickly. This method of simulating the 5-HT receptors was used to find 25i-NBOMe, an extremely powerful serotonin receptor agonist.
Well Hitler was known to co-opt and misappropriate esoteric teachings[0] for his own horrible acts. That's the problem with occult teachings; so often they are weaponized for evil deeds. As for enlightenment, it can only be understood by explaining it in paradoxes or riddles. My favorite is:

If you see the Buddha, kill the Buddha

Which is meant to explain how we should not be attached to Buddha as a personality, but rather understand the teachings instead.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occultism_in_Nazism
Regarding the last: always provide an interface!
Putin insinuates that the U.S. has ever meddled in the Russian elections?
> When you have a JIT based language you want as much to be executed in that language, jumping back and forth between PHP and C is a drawback from a JIT perspective.

The Truffle solution to this is to run the C extension in the same JIT, so that's it's not a barrier to optimisation anymore.
The result would be the San Francisco font... rendered terribly.
The Baby Formula Crime Ring (2018)
I also think there is a mismatch. I mean he was a free software advocate and an AppStore is a curated repository in the end. Whether that is free software or not is a different discussion. The sandbox and the walled garden is a different story. And there is the conflict.

However, I share the opinion that he generally buys into the Apple philosophy of things. And, he is a family father with a different perspective (they call that diversity).
What illegal acts are you referring to? There are a lot of allegations of things like implying he couldn’t decrypt something and encouraging a source to whistleblow about war crimes. It doesn’t seem obvious that these are illegal activities for a foreign journalist to engage in to me, but maybe I’m missing something?
I read the original poster's post as Graalphp needs to support both PDO, the C extension, AND Laravel, specifically every language construct that Laravel uses.
I've thrown away half a day trying to figure out how to get the scroll wheel to behave. No cigar. It still scrolls one line at a time in a terminal, and two pages at a time in firefox.
>It kind of paints this clear career trajectory path for engineers when I think the real world is infinitely more chaotic and random.

Whenever I read an article like this I wonder if such a workplace exists, or does the author hope it exists and is writing for this ideal environment where tasks can be put into a 4-box of high/low impact/visibility. I realize the author somewhat addresses this with "Many companies conflate high-visibility and high-impact," but it feels more like the vast majority of companies where most people will work conflate the two.

As you said, the real world is a mess and a lot of people (me included) make the decision to optimize to what keeps them employed. This is especially true because (IME) at a lot of companies impact and visibility are things that can suddenly change. One day the task you're working on is going to save the world, and the next nobody cares anymore.
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And if it were left open ended at the request of people like you...we'd still have compromised systems out there spread amongst normal people as well as within infrastructure and other more critical pieces of hardware.

People cannot be trusted to upgrade. It REALLY IS good to force people to upgrade.
Windows 7 STILL does this in fact.

I am currently using Windows 7 in my personal machine (and Linux in others).

The indexing service often gets disabled because it makes the machine slow down a lot.

Also I really miss Linux "swapyness", Windows Vista+ (10 included) are really aggressive in swapping, more than needed, often my machine ended trashing because of Swap while still having 20+ GB free, this is in part because of that stupid indexing and cache, Windows 7 has a habit of giving priority to the cache, putting files from the most accessed programs in the RAM, and not caring if your CURRENT program need RAM...
The way Arial (or "sans serif" in general) renders by default on Linux has always irked me. It's got annoying proportions, and just seems off.

What really sucks is that websites like Wikipedia use it, and you have to suffer reading this horrible font.

I'm super-thankful for this post. I'm definitely going to try this out.

Thank you again!
Good to know. Thank you!
I mean, there's a long track of the US meddling in other countries elections [1], so I wouldn't rule out attempts to countries like Russia.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
What about fission neutrons? Rather than having a pure fission device maybe one could boost the power output of a small nuclear reactor this way.
If it's so silly, then they should remove it from the Constitution

> No State shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws
It's the acceleration curve. MacOS is slightly exponential.
Assange did not help a rival state to gain an advantage...

Um, except of course Putin's Russia.
I have to say, given the quality of this article - high - it is so far from a clickbait title that I almost didn't even click it!
yes I did, what about it ?
That would require the capability to reliably and automatically push firmware updates out to existing devices, not something that I'd traditionally associate with home router manufacturers.

Also, at least in my experience, most private households just use the (usually horrible) ISP supplied CPE.
1. You always need people that understand the system. Not everyone and not all of it, but you want that overall, people are able to understand and figure out what is going on. You similarly hope to always have people who understand the customers, the environment you operate in, and so on. If you can afford to do your thing without having people understanding how it works, you probably can afford to do your thing without a an actually good solution (just scrape by, it's alright) and can go on with whatever.

I'd advance the theory that picking an off-the-shelf popular solution is going to be beneficial in that case because you externalize the costs of maintaining your expertise and knowledge to the rest of the ecosystem or industry, to other companies, and just never develop that fiber within your organization. It is, however, worthwhile to develop it for more things than just your tech stack. Everything having to do with on-boarding and dealing with legacy code is improved, along with broader dynamics if you try to be a learning organization that develops expertise in its people.

2. You always design your system in accordance to its deploy system, regardless of whether you realize it or not. If you ship binary artifacts and signed packages to customers who install them on their own devices, you will have a different development practice than if you do CI/CD with a single pipeline that always goes forwards. This will also be somewhat different if you work with open-source components that require paying attention to version schemes rather than just pushing a hash in a container image. If you use feature flags to help merging but also to control deployment, adopt A/B testing, and all these practices, you're intimately adapting your development approaches to deployment mechanisms that are available to you. It's not an extra cost, it's a cost you already pay today.
What's WIPO, and why should Wikipedia care about joining it?
In that election, it sounds like Clinton endorsed Yeltsin and pushed the IMF to lend the Russian government some money; is that about right, or was there something dirtier?

There's no comparing that to all the hacking, tampering, psy-ops on social media, and general sowing of public unrest the Russians are accused of in '16 and currently. About 2 orders of magnitude difference?

To the general point however, of the US interfering in other governments, yes absolutely, US has run assassinations, overthrows, insurgent support, and lots of other stuff we'll never learn of.
Thanks. Ideally I'd have liked if bootstrapping only required an assembler (and then successively more advanced versions could compiler the next in line), but this was enough of a challenge for a side project. Maybe later :)
Thank you. I think if you really want to own your links and personal organization you should look for a more general tool, like a wiki. I'm not sure people would want to self-host a tool like this. Since it only covers a small area. But I might be wrong.

One general solution could be an export feature. So you can always have direct access to your data.
Depends if you start the cult for personal enrichment or not.
More “both sides are the same” nonsense.

Last I checked, Bernie Sanders wasn’t poisoned. Last I checked, there was no constitutional amendment to allow Trump to stay in power until 2036.
Similarly, in Ted Chiang's story of a rivalry between two super-intelligences, the way that one ultimately prevails is by challenging the other to do just this. The idea is that the path to understanding anything is necessarily through developing the ability to forgive, (which is the seed and the foundation for many religions) is at the same time ridiculously difficult, yet within the grasp of literally every person in the world. It's a surprisingly deep insight.
The short weird life and potential afterlife of quantum radar
There are no security disadvantages that come with enabling Secure Boot. Doing so doesn't give anyone any additional control over your workstation.
if its water soluble, even better as you can put one drop in a glass of water and drink a quarter of that
Seems like a decent proposition. If you wanted to hack around with the idea invidious might be a good place to start.

That should cover your frontend, so you could focus on the recommendation scheme.

Edit: If you do decide to play around with it and decide to open source it, could you send me a link to your repo? I'd be interested to watch, and possibly contribute here and there. My email is in my bio.
Hopefully they censor you.
Ask HN: Best resources for (re)-learning modern JavaScript?
I'll be moving into a position that has significant JavaScript (Node and Angular) and I haven't touched JS in a few years. What are the best resources for relearning the language and ecosystem?

Thanks!
Yes, I have tried SanFransisco and the results were terrible. Also I didn't want to look at information rendered by a stolen font.
Political knowledge from Taiwan is still a part of the human knowledge. I cannot see why the Foundation's application should to be rejected by such a weak argument.
Whenever the US returns its annexed territories of California, Texas, Vermont, Hawaii (as well as the entirety of the Western US), you'll have a leg to stand on to ask for Russia to return annexed territories. Otherwise, I'm afraid that's some very strong hypocrisy.

As for democracy, if you wanted democracy in Russia it would have been good not to have a US-backed coup in Russia to prevent democracy and secure the power of Yeltsin. Or are dictators also fine as long as they do your bidding?

Stop fantasizing about ruining yet another nation. If democracy comes to Russia, it won't be by the hands of the US, it will be from the Russian people themselves. Meanwhile, if you want to help, keep your meddling hands out of there.
Why is this secure?
Uploading a file on a website gives that website full access to that file. It could be transferred to a server and give anyone access to it. So how can this be secure?
You need to go offline once this website is loaded and be in incognito mode.

Afterwards you can select your private files. The code in this website will then password protect your files using SHA-256 AES-CBC encryption and download them to your device.

During this time, your file can not be transferred anywhere, because you are offline. Your files stay on your device at all times.

But this website could still locally cache your private files and then transmit them at a later point to a server. Right?
No: This is why you have to use this website in incognito mode. After you have downloaded your password protected files, you have to close this browser tab. Like this, all local caches this website has of your files will be destroyed and this website can't access your private files anymore.

So is this secure?
If you trust that your browser incognito mode works and you are offline, this tool is as secure as SHA-256 AES-CBC encryption, which is damn secure. And your password. Choose a strong password.

How can I view my encrypted files?
Just open your downloaded file in an incognito browser window. Also make sure you are offline while viewing the file.

How can I recover my lost password?
You can't. There is no way. Else this tool would not be secure.

Are there some cool features I'm missing?
Yep, first of all, you can select multiple photos & videos in the files selection. Second of all, on mobile phones you can directly use the camera to upload a picture or video. If you do this, your picture or videos will never be in your phones gallery (and potentially backed up to the cloud).

Why did you create this tool? How are you making money?
If you have a private picture or video, it's really hard to store it securely. A simple search of pictures in your device will usually reveal them. There are tons of mobile apps that allow you to password protect your private files. But we have no idea what the developer of these apps do with your files and have no way of understanding if these files are not leaked to anyone who will then extort you. But we still want to be able to password protect files. So who can we trust? We trust that browser incognito mode is safe and that files can not be transferred when you are offline. So this was a very simple way to build a file encryption tool that we can trust. How do we make money? No money. It took us an afternoon to build this, we are in for the karma points.

Any last word?
Yes. Don't use this tool to do anything that harms someone. We won't be able to find you, but karma will.

Ok, let's go!
> The spacing between characters may not be pixel-perfect, if I remember correctly.

Behdad has since axed usage of hints from True/OpenType fonts. Though the rationality of "more precise positioning" is kind of irrelevant on modern HiDPI screens.
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JavaScript frameworks haven’t significantly changed market share for like three or four years, it’s React with niches of Vue and Angular exactly like it was in ~2017. Even the build systems haven’t changed.

“Minimalist” CSS frameworks eschewing JS though, whew.
You seem to be well informed. Do you know if there are any studies on: if one suffers from one autoimune condition is he more likely to suffer from others?
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> Kind of hard for them to back him now.

Weird how we've gone from expecting journalists to cover multiple sides of a story to this. And by weird I mean horrifying
Propaganda hits the front page of HN immediately, as usual.
Yeah, try searching for anything even mildly political, and see how much of "everything" there is to know you see about it.
> "The Guardian wants journalism as a closed club, one where journalists are once again treated as high priests by their flock of readers, who know only what the corporate media is willing to disclose to them."

This matches perfectly my experience when working with journalists and discussing both Assange and any kind of blogging with them.

Journalism (and journalists) would love to return to the pre-internet world where only they got to publish things and everyone had to listen to their version of events.

Newspapers still haven't found a viable business model: advertising is earning less and less each year. The Guardian's "wikipedia model" is probably the best new attempt, but even that is very flaky and unreliable compared to their pre-internet days.

Increasingly, I see the best journalism coming from independent bloggers.

And I see support for draconian measures in suppressing "fake news" from large media organisations that would benefit hugely from any government-imposed regulations on publishing.
And Russia is going to let go of Siberia and China is going to let Manchuria/Manchu guo become a foreign country again... (and Chiapas is independent as well as Yucatán) That boat done sailed a long time ago and ain’t coming back.
If he’s “not that bad” why is he dictator for life?

His methods are always questionable! E.g. poisoning opposition leaders.

(And by the way, the need or ability or justification to criticize Russia’s adversaries doesn’t excuse Russia from criticism: i.e. I’m aware that the western world does unfair things, but Russia is a pure dictatorship)