skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That certainly is a case of at least tribalism.

I used to be Everton fan when I was a child, then for a long time Werder Bremen, but for the last few years I was a Liverpool fan. Now I might switch again :-D It helps that I have nothing to do with Merseyside.
How confident are we that Tor is compromised?
Israel: The most common form used to be 100g slabs wrapped in paper (with lines printed for 25g blocks) for locally produced butter. Recently I'm seeing more of the 200g slabs, which are the same size except double the height. Also more varieties of imported butter.
Prismo is an example of the first: https://fediverse.blog/~/Prismo/on-prismo-data-loss

The project never recovered.
"Able to install packages"

Hmmm no that don't look as good on my resume as "autodidact docker wizard"

There's something to be said for the cool-new-tech driven approach, when it comes to resume building.
Bootstrappable
Note that ambulance ride (depending on insurance) may cost an order or 2 of magnitude more than the taxi. Well worth it in some circumstances - but not always the best option.
Silverdog – An Audio Firewall for Chrome
World War II has been over for a while and Germany has a scientist as the leader of the country.

Human rights in Germany improved as a result of WWII because Germany - unlike any other country - has seen first hand what will happen when you let human rights slide.
Its funny that you mentioned games as an example of parallel computation because I'd argue they're some of the hardest programs to parallelize effectively since they don't generally involve that much bulk-processing of read-only data.

Parellism in C++ is most often used for scientific applications and other forms of mass number crunching. It's really easy to just throw a "#pragma omp parallel for" on a loop and call it a day but of course that would also apply to C and Fortran and is somewhat limited. Parallelism libraries like Intel TBB which I'm most familiar with are very easy to use and performant. I think there's a large problem in the reluctance of educators to use libraries to teach parallelism and people always dive straight into locks, threads and atomics which are really not the way to approach parallel computing if you're looking to do parallel computing and not looking to implement parallel primitives yourself (i.e DIY tasking-system or lock-free queue)

Focusing on TBB, it facilitates efficient parallelism by providing high-level canned algorithms such as parallel_invoke, parallel_reduce, parallel_for and parallel_do which anybody who claims to know C++ should be able to use easily. It also provides a task-graph which is great for more complex processing pipelines (things like join/split, fan-in/out and queueing). If you need more low level control you operate at the task level and TBB provides customization points for that. There's other libraries out there which provide similar functionality and even the STL in C++17 provides basic parallel algorithms such as transform (equivalent of map in other langs), reduce and many others.
With regards to air pressure and isobars, if you want to do some basic forecasting as well, then the 500-millibar chart is something that should be examined. Historically (pre-satellite downloading via Iridium and Predict Wind) sailors/mariners would use them to help see what's coming for voyage planning:

* https://www.vos.noaa.gov/MWL/dec_08/milibar_chart.shtml

* https://www.oceannavigator.com/basics-of-the-500-millibar-ch...

* http://familygonesailing.com/2018/01/18/using-500mb-charts-o...

* PDF: https://ocean.weather.gov/articles/mariners_guide_500mb_char...

* https://www.amazon.com/Weather-Avoidance-Concepts-Applicatio...
Non-Chrome user here - does clearing Google cookies on exit sign you out of the browser-level account? If so, I could see some world where they wanted to avoid that UX. Of course, there are more honest ways to present this: e.g., a toggle in the same settings screen that gives you enough context to be able to opt in/out.
The demo seems to be built on top of three.js - I can spot lots of THREE tags in the bundled javascript file.
You have a point.

I think comments > 10 especially nested ones are discussions benefitting mostly the folks in the discussion. Its difficult to get a summary out it.

I like to think about nested comments as joining an hour long class in the last 10 minutes.
It’s become the cheapest source of energy in the world?

And anyways fossil fuels have received and continue to receive far greater subsidies.
Xmake v2.3.8 Released, Add Intel C++/Fortran Compiler Support
A great opportunity for Siemens to collect money for their abysmal Mindsphere IIoT platform...
I get a feeling the EU is on a very bad trajectory into a more and more planned, copycat economy.
Someone develops some product / service (e.g. flexible infrastructure as a service aka "cloud") market decides if it is good. EU falls behind in that category. EU commission throws money at pet projects that in best case will come close to the original offering but will just burn money (/ flood money in certain pockets) in most cases. Farewell market economy (or what is left of it)
You just compared C++ to the slowest popular language out there. It would be a much more fair comparison if you used pretty much any other high-level language.

Since you can get within about 2x of C++ speed which still using a high-level language, that makes the argument that the times you really need C++ for performance reasons are quite limited. I'm not saying they don't exist, but they are rare.
Scraping it off the slab works well enough but then spreading cold butter on a slice of bread still sucks.
As an EU citizen, I don't believe for a second that this will result in anything useful, ever. There's too much vested interest that's quietly making the politicians do what the big business wants. Has been the case for a long time now.

The only thing that's going to happen is that those big and old companies will get their hands on that funding while fulfilling exactly zero of their promises.
A weird question, but since there's another article on HN right now about programming language energy efficiency https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24816733 any idea whether going from 9fps to 1840fps consumes the same power, 200x the power, or somewhere in between?
I considered this piece as sort of a loose validation that the Automunge library is filling an unmet need for data scientists. Intended for tabular data preprocessing in the steps immediately preceding the application of machine learning.
No I’m saying the exact opposite. The inflation schedule can be any arbitrary algorithm. It can be a fixed amount like Bitcoin, or a continually increasing one like your 2% example.

Zk-snarks don’t change that. It’s still a choice by the developers based on the economic objectives they’re trying to achieve, and snarks don’t prevent that.

But problem is that in a fully-shielded, 100% private, snark-based blockchain, it’s difficult or impossible to verify that the actual coin supply is what the whitepaper says it should be. Since all the tx’s are hidden, you can’t inspect the blockchain data and just count all the coins in UTXOs or account holdings to see what the total money supply is at any given time and reconcile it with what the issuance algorithm says it should be.
I haven’t really understood the certain praise the EU has received by the USA media. The EU as a whole is similar to the USA and has done just as good/bad as the USA. Similar number of deaths. The USA has more cases but I suspect the EU has just not tested as much previously. There’s no reason to suspect the EU would have a higher death rate (USA has more confirmed cases but fewer deaths$. But today EU case totals are higher (much higher recently but I suspect the USA is just lagging a bit) or about the same as the USA which makes sense since both places are doing massive amounts of testing.
Somehow, when I search for comparisons, I never want such an automated site, but an human written article.
Yup that’s it.
Not even that, those companies have already been investing in their services for years if not decades. And have decades of institutional knowledge build up to scale their compute resources. Seeing those low key IT effort and the failing of corona containment im really thinking of emigrating to either Asia or north america once corona stuff has been settled.
It's not sticking the head in the sand. As mentioned above the info has to be actionable to be useful.

Endless discussing in circles with persons of different opinion in your peer group is a waste of energy. Either they come to similar, or at least less controversial opinions as time passes, because of their own experience(es), or they don't. If they, or in reverse you in their position just agree to be left alone, nothing is won.
People have been predicting a second wave in Sweden for months now but average daily deaths continue to be only about 2. They must be doing something right.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
Ridiculous. You just can't buy innovation. You have to set up the right environment for it
Not on macos when this happened, Linux mint cinnamon... it definitely prioritizes my phone above the wifi
Self-Hosting
Answering my own question. Possibly industrial applications like detecting objects on a fast conveyor belt. A recycling facility for instance.
Intelligence X is a search engine and data archive
Intelligence X differentiates itself from other search engines in these unique ways:

1. The search works with selectors, i.e. specific search terms such as email addresses, domains, URLs, IPs, CIDRs, Bitcoin addresses, IPFS hashes, etc.

2. It searches in places such as the darknet, document sharing platforms, whois data, public data leaks and others.

3. It keeps a historical data archive of results, similar to how the Wayback Machine from archive.org stores historical copies of websites.
I dunnot if you are old enough, but generally getting PCs games working at that time was a nightmare.

I suspect that it is because it is using ancient version of DirectX/Direct3D. Same thing happens with the classic Resident Evil games.
Canada has little population density outside it’s local hubs. The virus isn’t going to spread so easily there outside of localities. The USA has more metro areas that are drivable to each other. It’s easier to spread in the USA. Look at the massive EU numbers and consider their density.
No worries, I'm happy to see the discussion here and the ideas that other people already had ^_^

Thanks much for the recognition :)
SSL alone is not enough to protect data.

Any proxy could act as a MIM, so someone using a malicious fork of Stealth may cause problems.

But, the net is like this already. One site may send you to another site that tricks you into stealing your data. And, a relatively recent vulnerability subverted any WebKit-based browser from stating whether the site’s URL was using the correct server, so you’d have no visible way of knowing a site using HTTPS was legitimate.

Using a VPN could be better, but it’s sometimes worse, because you change who is trusted more (the VPN provider), as they know one of the addresses you’re coming from and everything you’re doing, and can record and sell that data.
Linux Weekly Roundup: KDE Plasma 5.20, Kernel 5.9 and More – Oct 18 2020
What makes you think the small-dollar donations are from in state? Graham only raised $11 million during his last election. Raising over $85 million for a South Carolina race is nuts. No doubt the vast majority of that is from out of state.
The sort of scientific nihilism you are advocating there is obviously unworkable. Decisions have to be made based on SOMETHING. Science encodes the condensed wisdom of experience, so if you say don't use what we know, what process do you propose to use to decide what is worthy of investigation?

Cold Fusion requires not just one "miracle", but a stack of multiple miracles, all in contravention of existing knowledge. It requires that fusion can occur when QM calculations show it can't. It requires that excited nuclei not emit gamma radiation. It requires that energy go not into energetic charged particles (which would produce detectable secondary radiation) but somehow immediately go into the lattice of a solid, spread over large numbers of atoms.

Stack on top of that another coincidence: that despite P&F's initial results being shown to be shit, that somehow there was a pony in there somewhere anyway.

The simplest and cleanest explanation for all this LENR work is that it's nonsense driven by some combination of almost pathologic wishful thinking, incompetence, and even outright fraud.
> It was good - not terribly faster than what I get here, or at least ... not faster such that I'd notice

That's more about proximity than about bandwidth. Whenever I'm SF, I'm surprised at how quickly everything loads, mainly because the datacenter is next to me rather than on the other side of the world.
BTW Hetzner is a top notch EU cloud with an excellent proposal to finally learn Linux and deploy whatever you want on their industrial grade networking and storage. Instead of feeding an exploding complexities and costs of AWS, Google and Alibaba.
I hope they will come to other continents soon.
I was referring to the guy who said "Societies with largely rational, educated populace are weathering COVID just fine, wrt. democracy and respect for human rights."

My conclusion was that education does not equal to rationality with regards to human rights and that democracy is not good but it is the best system we had so far.
> I don't even know how people can say this stuff with a straight face.

It's not too difficult to do so, when there are examples of courts banning satirical poems of a foreign leader from being uttered:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38934027

Would something like this ever happen in the US? Could you provide an example?
Show HN: Plainee – A tool that makes your meetings productive and efficient
It's amazing the amount of crap people put up with in exchange for some comforts and conveniences these days (google, apple, amazon). Sad that so very few people put values first
I never heard good things about scrum. Just people saying "that's not how scrum is done!" all the time.

Edit: I don't mean to say scrum proponents are wrong, but if so many people get it wrong there seem to be a fundamental problem with scrum.
Excellent example with the app. It's an app that could have been designed and made with 100k, less people and better quality. And quicker.

The current app is a nightmare. It shows that i had already 2 low risk encounters - but it doesn't show me when and where! I NEED this info to adapt my behavior! very bad app.
HA HA!
Smart missiles and weapons i guess
Show HN: macOS app that puts Bitwarden in your menu bar
> How confident are we that Tor is compromised?

Large scale actors (read: ISPs and government agencies) have a huge amount of entry and exit nodes. They can simply measure timestamps and stream bytesizes, which allows them to trace your IP and geolocation.

They do not have to decrypt HTTPS traffic for that, because the order of those streams is pretty unique when it comes to target IPs and timestamps.
> A second wave is starting in Sweden.

This. For all the debate about the Swedish approach, Sweden isn't really any better -- or worse -- off than comparable countries.

The one thing that could improve the situation is social distancing for an extended period of time, in combination with contact tracing and compulsory quarantining of contagious individuals. In that regard, Sweden dropped the ball completely along with the rest of the EU, when the EU decided tourism was more important than containing the pandemic.
Basically the same situation here in Greece. I remember the first time I got (256k) DSL. It was magical that I could be online and still make phonecalls from the landline!
Yeah, if one has to regularly interact directly with prod, some sort of visual indicator is super helpful.
probably less healthy than real butter. "Vegetable oil" is almost always canola oil, which is more appropriate in your automobile crankcase than in your body. Temperate oils in general aren't good for you: they evolved to have their nutrients available at colder temperatures for a germinating seed to grow in the spring. They rancidify readily as it gets warmer.
So, does non-China android regularly ping google.com, and could that have privacy implications?

My first thought is this could be a non-malicious but perhaps not fully thought out bugfix: wi-fi connection status detection sporadically fails behind the GFW when queries to google don't resolve, let's pick a similarly dominant site on the other side of the firewall as an alternative. Apparently someone at Samsung then noticed and decided to use a Samsung .cn site instead in the latest patch.
Name an unambiguous language.
This good quote can be interpreted better by realizing that those two groups are not mutually exclusive. There is sufficient poetry, beauty, romance, and love in medicine, law, business, and engineering.

I just finished watching Manolis Kellis explain [0] how computational biology is transforming our understanding of the human genome and changing how we treat diseases. Who will argue that this is not a gripping story of how humanity has risen in it's ability to understand how the world works and consequently to control it. This exciting adventure has both passion in the seekers and beauty in what they have found. And of course there are endless songs (e.g., [1][2]) already written about this noble pursuit.

[0] "Decoding a Genomic Revolution: Manolis Kellis at TEDxCambridge" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlVZ0ORtpPM
[1] "The Molecular Shape of You (Ed Sheeran Parody)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8FAJXPBdOg
[2] "A Capella Science - Rolling in the Higgs (Adele Parody)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtItBX1l1VY
Hi everyone!

Today I've finished the MVP for the side project I was developing for the last 3 months.

The motivation

Working in different companies - I've noticed some patterns on the way the meetings are held.

Sometimes the agenda is missing or does not have timeframes.
The meeting starts with someone doing the "google set timer" part which is repeated for each topic.
The meeting agenda and notes are usually stored in a google doc.
Once the notes are filled up and the agenda is moving up - it's easy to lose the focus and go off topic.
Also I've noticed that is hard to track the time at the same time you are trying to note something.

All the above-mentioned points drag the productivity below the optimal level.
To address those problems - I started a small fun project which turned in a full sized MVP which I decided to share with you.

The project

- WHY does Plainee exist:
Plainee helps you to organize and lead efficient and productive meetings in a simple and intuitive way.

- HOW does it work:
It offers you the possibility to bring all needed tools in one place and focus on the process itself.

- WHAT does it do:
It gives you a simple way to create meetings, invite participants and lead the meeting in real time.

Project status

Currently the project is in an MVP with a simple landing page, and under the hood is an app with the possibility to create meetings/templates, launch meetings and invite others to join (yet in readonly mode).
The meetings are saved in your account and they can be reviewed and downloaded as docx or pdf.

Here I want to ask you a few questions:

1. Does the problem, I'm trying to solve really existing?

2. Is my MVP on the right way of fixing this problem?

3. Would you or your employer buy a subscription in order to use this product?

4. What feedback can you give me on the current MVP?

Thank you!
With just the difference that in Germany that app works, in Italy the correct infrastructure/process was not built, sick data information was never uploaded so the app is useless
Given Conway's Law, I wonder what sort of structure this cluster will have. The companies which recieve this funding will have to report according to some standard, which becomes the metric which becomes the target. If the project does not succeed it really should spell the end of the EU's organizational structure...

Does anyone know examples of EU-wide mega-engineering projects like this?
What afraids me is, that here in Germany nobody seems to care anymore. The big numbers are just thrown around and everyone (especially the younger generation) has lost any sense as the media is just cheering along.
A lot of them might just be better liars; E.g., here in Iran the gov has managed quite a good marketing, but the reality on the ground makes it clear that the hospitals have been severely out of capacity, and infection is very widespread. Still most people are so stupid that they trust official stats to be order-of-magnitude accurate (my guess is the official stat is logarithmic) and think our situation is better than, e.g., the USA.
Sure. But China, arguably not much of a democracy did just fine.

So the whole link between the pandemic and political systems is mostly nonsense, the countries where the impact is least are simply the ones that reacted fastest and most decisive. Everybody else is playing catch-up and they may have to substantially pause their 'freedoms' and 'democratic rights' to get through to the other side.

This is a simple result of early incompetence and refusal to assign sufficient gravity to the situation.
It's been a while since I read a good book about Lisp. The last one was Let Over Lambda which I thoroughly enjoyed. I'll be ordering this one for sure.
uk covid policies were anything but defensive (“herd immunity”, “save the economy”)
If you use Windows, take a look at Jutoh.com. It's commercial but not very expensive and excellent for creating .mobi and epub books. It's strength include support for images, tables and source code listings and it has excellent compatibility checking.

The author Julian Smart is also the creator of WxWidgets and Jutoh is very fast at compiling Ebooks. He is also very good at support; I suggested a feature and he had it implemented in a couple of days. I created a 350 page non-fiction ebook.
The OP made an economic argument about 100% taxes and "slavery" not political freedoms, so your point is orthogonal. That said, while I agree that equality and freedom lie on different axes, I disagree with your point that one can be a rich slave, being a slave implies that you have neither economic nor political power (which are almost impossible to separate anyway).
I don't understand why such a system needs to look at every data point. Are the failures so rare that you can't get away with sampling?
I find it hilarious that my comment got flagged by - supposedly - the proponents of free speech.
Great question, now I wish I'd recorded power consumption for all these experiments.
Judging from cumulative hours of watching the output of nvidia-smi I've definitely seen a linearish relationship between utilization and power draw (with a non-zero floor of 30-40W).
That reminds me of the time during the rise of the PC when windows would do something wrong, from a confusing interface all the way up to a blue screen of death.

What happened is that users started blaming themselves for what was going wrong, or start thinking they needed a new PC because problems would become more frequent.

From the perspective of a software guy, it was obvious that windows was the culprit but people would assign blame elsewhere and frequently point the finger at themselves.

so yes - an FAA investigation would end up unraveling the nonsense and point to windows.

That said, aviation level of safety is reliable and dependable and few single points of failure and... there are no private kit jets darnit!

There is a continuum from nothing changes & everything works to everything changes & nothing works. You have to choose the appropriate place on the dial for the task. Sounds like this is a one-man band.
I didn't mean to imply they were in state. My split up wasn't orthogonal: I just wanted to note the interesting parts were small-money donations (as you note from in and out of state) as well as money from the national committees and PACs.