skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is "modern devs" the modern "No true Scotsman"? Plenty of developers and organizations get by without managed databases. Although in "7-day sprints on loop forever" world of startups, any effort to require less knowledge to run the stack is probably welcome, hence it seems "most devs can't live without" for a lot of things, like managed databases, containerization and yadda yadda.
I was surprised to learn that Bukowski submitted poems and stories to The Atlantic in his early, hungry years. In my lifetime, I've only known it as an outlet for partisan opinion pieces.

On the occasions that I do visit the site, I wonder what he would say about what The Atlantic has become. Not in terms of how it would suit his political biases, but in the agenda first, logic last, unimaginative partisan hackery. I imagine him ranting at length or condemning them eloquently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDiLfQUBnyA
This was an entertaining read. It's also a lesson on how important it is for global trade and commerce to have a reserve currency.
So it is just my own experience, but it actually does affect the way you think somehow.

I speak 4 languages (including 3 fluently that I use everyday) and I very often come across ideas or subtleties that just does not exist in one of those languages. When I started learning Japanese, I clearly remember understanding naturally some concepts in it that just cannot be expressed that precisely in English or French.

One example that I come across often is the word "fluent" that just does not exists in French (there are equivalent translations, but no way to convey the very same idea).

Once you speak if fluently, some words in Japanese have a very deep meaning that just cannot be translated while keeping the same exact meaning, like the words yabai or sugoi (to take very easy examples).

You can even tell that Esperanto is very Western-centric just by looking at it structure anyway. It is written from the left to the right, has spaces between words, the same 3 different sets of characters (caps, non-caps and hand-written) with similar rules, same punctuation...
Social media platforms are mature enough that half hearted efforts like Google’s won’t work.

But tiktok and Snapchat work. You know: real sustained efforts. Instagram launched 9 months before google plus. That should give you an idea of the landscape that google operated in. Instagram— with 13 employees at acquisition in 2012– works.

Google isn’t a determiner of what works. They’re one of the laziest implementers of new services/startups.. they literally throw something out there and try to coast off their name. In markets where the customers are mostly satisfied, lazy stuff like that doesn’t create a winning product.
Eureka! It is effectively where their experiment was conducted!

Here is the picture of the room: https://i1.wp.com/museo.freaknet.org/wp-content/uploads/2015...
If the 4 dollars I spent on ebay lasts a couple of years (it already has) its easily worth it. I really don't want to spend 200$ on a pro license.
> I always saw America as superior and something to aspire to as a kid.

That was propaganda from CIA's radio stations: Voice of America and Radio Free Europe.

This is America: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/05/hookworm-low...
DARPA is a R&D organization, not an industrial powerhouse.
Congratulations and good luck!
You have gone beyond the all of those "wanna be" (including myself) and put yourself out there and for this I commend you!

I love the design, didn't really sent a lot of time reading the copy but by the design I got the impression of "this looks like something I can trust" as opposed to "this looks like some random dude wrote made something and now want my money for it..."

:D
ΗMatrix is a fork of the μMatrix browser extension
I guess their motto is now "Be evil".
Screenshots are not completely made up. At least the `usg` HMAC seems to be valid, and timestamps are recent enough, so the redirector URLs are legit. Of course it's possible to generate the valid redirector URLs in other ways.

So if this is a scam it's not a completely stupid scam.

Anyway, A/B testing or gradual deoployment is a thing. I'll not turn against a fellow hacker and call him shady, just because a potential A/B gaslighing practice from some megacorp. ;) I'll just wait.
Except, by definition, you are. We, as a society, have determined that certain freedoms are given up for certain benefits. Is it age discrimination to prevent having a driver’s license before age 16? Yup! Is a freedom taken from you by having a law preventing arson? Yep, and we mostly all agree that is good.

The important part of a new rule or law is that we accept the trade offs. I’m not convinced we’ve reached consensus that we all need to be wearing masks but most are obliging.
When You Hear _______, Pay Attention – johncutlefish's blog
I was following pretty heavy at the time, and unfortunately "made an effort" looked pretty poor to me. You are right network effects are difficult and if google wanted to throw it's full weight behind the problem instead of just dipping their toes they had the capital to shift opinion. I think this is far more likely google didn't have the will to make that a fully focused problem.
Show HN: Check whether your symptoms were likely COVID-19
John Cutler's list is excellent, as it points to potential "org smells" or "process smells" that should catch your attention. As programmers, we are taught to look for "code smells" (things you should try to avoid or pay extra attention to). It helps to raise awareness and then figure out what is the best approach given different constraints. What would be possible answers to each situation? How would you know what to use when? Use it as a question to ask candidates who apply for managerial or technical leadership positions.
Oo, I've not come across this one before. Looks useful! In a similar vein of CSV tools that seem to be underrated, I recently came across Daff which does excellent tabular diffs.

https://github.com/paulfitz/daff
Deep dive into the world of DIP IC counterfeiting, recycling and remarking
The Premonition: Signs of a second mortgage crisis as spreads hit '08 levels
Came here to post the same. I think this site will struggle in selling written content when it does not feel like it was written in “native” English. Unless this is aimed at a different primary geography (not UK/US/CA/AU/NZ), in which case maybe that needs to be front and center?
We use a fan, it does a pretty good job of covering up the random noises that wake me up, except for low-frequency idling cars (which make the entire house vibrate).
> Despite including thirty-eight articles, a systematic review was opted for over a meta-analysis due to heterogeneity in research methods, including the population of interest, study design, noise characteristics, sleep measurement methodology, sleep outcomes, and statistical analyses, if any. As such, effect size calculations could not be conducted.

Is it normal to not do any kind of statistics? Can you even draw any conclusions by just counting the number or studies as if they were all created equal?
Thanks for such a great advice.
How about if I stated it in terms of quality adjusted years of life and net health care system costs?
Too bad that poll on healthcare didn't break it down by whether or not you pay for it yourself.

I was quite pleased with my costs when I got it through my employer and so didn't actually see the cost of insurance. I'd indirectly see it when every few years my employer would change providers, and then I'd have to worry about whether or not my doctor was in the new provider's network.

Co-workers who wanted to add spouses to their plan did have to pay for it themselves on some of the plans, and they grumbled about the cost.

Now that I buy insurance myself on my state's health insurance exchange, cost is one of my top complaints.
haven't tried 'sleep buds' in particular, but had tried a different product ($399!) and... the 'white noise' sound they had had some noticeable ... frequency that my brain locked in to. After about 3 days it was impossible to use them - my brain actively stayed awake with them in, trying to find the sounds it 'knew' were there.

Switched to bose QC20 and... they're generally great ... except... don't sleep in them! They'll break. Often. I've switched to cheap earbuds from the dollar store tied to a white noise app. The $5 earbuds may break every 1-3 months, I just get more.

The 'sleep buds' look nice, but would be hard to justify another ~$300 at this point.
Over the last few months I have had ~30,0000 visits to my website, almost entirely from HN, and I was disheartened to find that 52% of visitors were using Chrome[1].

Given the pro-open-web and anti-FAANG sentiments that's shared on HN I had expected slightly different results.

[1]: https://simpleanalytics.com/vishnu.tech?start=2019-10-18&end...
Paper on which the code is based: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0916-2

The RIVM, the Dutch public health agency, referred me to this paper after I asked about combinations of symptoms (their website[1] only lists individual symptom occurrence percentages for seropositive and seronegative cases). Given that most people will not read a scientific paper and calculate that formula, I thought this might be helpful to others.

Disclaimer, as is also written on the site in bold and red: this is NOT validated or endorsed by the authors of that paper and this is NOT a replacement for a real COVID-19 test! The point is to give a rough indication using the same phrasing and exact model from the paper.

[1] https://www.rivm.nl/pienter-corona-studie/resultaten (Dutch, see "Tabel 1")
Yes, it's true... for redhat the worst rpm cve I could see from a quick google was back in 2012.

The CVE you mention is about the transport part, it's not easy to get right and everything that goes on the network is at some risk of that. Still that seems a different kind of implication than nobody checked if packages could be tampered successfully for 3 years and afterwards nobody changed the infrastructure.
I thought Ctrl-Shift-V did indeed do that?

Might be app-specific.
Latency fundamentally limited by the model processing single frame, all-in-all, probably somewhere around 10 to 15ms depends on your input size (assuming VGA type of input). This is a great article talks about system-engineering for the vision pipeline, but to solve the latency issue, you need either a beefier processor (or more specialized processor) or a better tuned algorithm.
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Shooting down drown swarms.
Though I've been a rust fanboy for quite a while (and I just switched jobs and since Thursday, I work in a company and more specifically team where rust is a primary language), I'm missing the point here. Happy days and all but... I don't think that C++ isn't cutting it here. I'll grossly oversimplify it but tl;dr you can achieve roughly the same results with C++ but it will take more effort. But that has more to do with the nature and the design of both languages(and their respective standard libraries) more than anything.
Sure, tyranny of the minority is one of the reasons to be cautious about listening to loud voices and saying "Well, it's democracy, what can you do?" - you want to make sure the mechanisms you've chosen for implementing democracy actually do represent the will of all the people.

However, the loudest voices against lockdowns, masks, and other measures in the US seem to be associated with the minority-but-ruling party in this country.

It is true that the US is a federation of states, and it's a majority party in several states. In those ones, sure, I agree that a respect for the principles of democracy means that the people could choose differently. But if you've come to the point of arguing, "The real problem here is that anti-democratic policy X is being enacted with the support of the people," it's worth taking a moment to ask if policy X actually is democratic, and if saying "We should avoid policy X even if the people support it" is the actual tyranny of the minority.
Also, if a page doesn't work, and it's not essential to you (like, 99% of news sites) simply close the tab. And leave a ranty comment on the HN thread for bonus points :P
You create tamper-proof node software. Seriously, I have been working on this for years and have thought long and hard about the how to deal with the unique security context problem of a permissionless (i.e. open) P2P network overlay forming a single computer abstraction. And then I implemented it. Too much to get into here but I assure you I address it at length in the whitepapers. Take a look at the UnoSys paper on the website for the gory details. Here's the link: https://worldcomputer.org/whitepapers
this would be useful for sorting cells at high speed.
https://www.sinobiological.com/category/fcm-facs-facs
It's mostly because Germany dominates the discourse, and the impression of outsiders towards the EU. Sure, Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, Netherlands and Belgium are miles ahead of the rest of the EU, but the rot begins once you go south. France, Italy, Spain, etc. are so much worse places with the rest of the EU following in the slow decline. Meanwhile, other places such as Poland and Hungary with rising living standards are turning into ultra-conservative shit holes (to speak broadly. Of course, the story in the cities is usually different).
I still kind of miss the CD releases. I bought every release from 2.3 to somewhere in the 4.x series, and had them all in a closet until a few years ago. Unfortunately I got rid of them in a fit of cleaning.

I regret it now. Since then I’ve gotten back into OpenBSD as an occasional user on a random server here and there, and a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 6. I bought it specifically for OpenBSD and it works great.

Those old CD sets were cool. Many included extra art work, song lyrics, install instructions and would boot and install for several architectures.

These days I mostly just run current snapshots, so a release has little impact for me personally. But it’s always fun to see OpenBSD still moving forward after 25 years.
This sort of large and noisy canary is exactly what the world needs more of. How many more people will scream and protest if their phone stops working due to China's actions, vs the vague and abstract cause of "Privacy"? It will also direct their wraith at the correct target.
there is failure and there is lack of trying properly. Google with billions couldn't commit to single chat app properly... that's not some genius move to me.
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That was one of the cases yes.

Just so you understand the context:

To prevent a dictator abusing executive powers to prevent protests and whatnot, the constitution allow quarantines and lockdowns only under very specific conditions:

1. Only the president can call for a lockdown, curfew or quarantine.

2. Only because of war or another very serious emergency.

3. After the president calls for it, the congress must approve or deny in 24 hours.

4. After congress approval, it must be approved by the Republic Council (it has people like the vice president, senate leader, minister of justice, etc...) And the Defense Council (it has in it ministers and commanders relates to military).

The supreme court decision is extremely dangerous, because the way it works is that now mayors and governors can literally suspend a citizen basic rights (free movement, free speech, right to assembly, etc...)
On mobile; pardon the link format.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=43BNFcOdBlY

In an afternoon, you can learn enough to be more than dangerous.

The presenter drafted up a set of (easy, yet practical) companion exercises and a pt2 video with his own answers. I cannot recommend this talk enough.

Although I hadn't the opportunity to put the knowledge to use and have since forgotten it (i don't work in tech), i find comfort in knowing i can reacquire the power of awk even sooner than the already-short first time around.
Correct I value basic usability (the ability to use many plug-ins in this case) over privacy. This is why I don't use proton, cause I can't actually get anything done with it.
Surprise !!
NXT Editor is a NeXT generation application for editing .txt files
I'm surprised that it was so low. I work in tech and I don't know anyone who uses anything other than Chrome.
Great explanation. I've had this conversation about production systems multiple times before, and my experience that people are willing to throw quite a lot of money at magical thinking before realizing that there isn't really any "emergent" phenomena.
It seems that people read my comment as sarcastic. It wasn't. I was trying to make the point you're making.
My apologies if I got that wrong. Can you provide any references though? I understand from my own research that the ability to speak a foreign language is not mandatory for a posting. Wikipedia only mentions knowledge of a foreign language as influencing an applicant's chances of getting the posting he or she requested, not as a requirement.
Agreed, good to call them out, if this is intentional, but about the only way to stop this stuff is to stop using their browser.

I switched back to Firefox a few years ago. I know they've had their issues recently but still probably the least evil browser.
Yeah... whenever I consume news I get anxious and realize I should spend my time on things I have influence over.
not sarcastic.
both of them are great but both are non consumer products more like technical tools though
I'm, sadly, not so sure that straw will come any time soon. Major tech companies have been under fire for years now and nothing managed to break them. Not saying it'll never happen but monumental shifts like that can take decades to pass.
Actually it doesn’t strictly need a constitutional amendment for the president to be elected differently, as every state is allowed to decide how it appoints its electors. Maine and Nebraska come closer to proportional now simply by allocating their electors individually. Any state could choose to go one step farther and allocate its electors by proportional representation.

However, there is only one president, so for this to really matter it needs to happen in Congress, which would require an amendment. The rationale that it could happen is simply that it has happened before: women’s suffrage, the direct election of senators, and the conversion from multi-member districts to single member districts, are all examples of major reform in the US process that were all “impossible” until they happened.
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Brown noise is much nicer than white, especially if you apply an exponential smoothing to it (there are examples on youtube, look for smoothed brown noise). I attached a speaker to a raspberry pi and use its hardware random number generator to make that sort of noise. It's a pleasant, smooth rumble that I leave on all night. I certainly find it helps a lot (I'm prone to insomnia) and I'd be astonished if it's having any negative physiological effect.
I have gigabit up and down in my house in Michigan for $49/month. Fiber, a new ISP. We got lucky in my town because the city owns the phone poles and is very open to leasing space.
This 100%, well put.

Within businesses, people have evolved far past market definitions where widget x¹ competes with widget x². Our political savvy as consumers would improve if we could see that as well.

For example, why would Google approve a product like Stadia? What does it compete with? Nintendo, yes but not really, since so many Stadia players have a Switch also... just like most of us have Facebook and Twitter accounts. But maybe they're true competition is Netflix? Social media? Users are giving Google their time = data = insights = further monopolistic advertising power.
> It was a developmental spec and they adapted it based on feedback.

I wonder what they've actually addressed. It looks like this was just lip service:

> Additionally, we are currently planning to change the rule limit from maximum of 30k rules per extension to a global maximum of 150k rules.

Source: https://blog.chromium.org/2019/06/web-request-and-declarativ...

16 months later the limit is still 30,000.

Source: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/declarativeNetReques...

To give some context, it looks a clean installation of uBlock Origin would require nearly 80,000 rules.

> 79,972 network filters ＋ 39,856 cosmetic filters
Is this process reversible?

That is, given an image generated this way, can you get the original binary back?

If so, it could be useful in glitching audio in interesting ways, using image editing tools.

It would also be interesting to hear particular executable binaries sound when converted to audio from this representation. Would differences in different types of binaries be distinguishable by human audio pattern recognition?

Also useful for this would be maximally permissive image representation requirements for the trip back to binary. Of course, this would be difficult for binaries meant to be executed as code, as arbitrary binaries are unlikely to be executable, but for transformation of images to audio it should be much simpler to ensure that any image makes a valid, playable audio file.
From an ecosystem p.o.v Rust has a big advantage. The strictness is built into the compiler and the entire ecosystem is subjected to same high standards. One has to fix the errors.

The same strictness in C++ can arguably be availed by using static linters.
This has 3 problems:

1. Static linter errors are inherently optional to fix. One has to have some CI rules to block check-ins if linter flags something

2. Your project might follow best practices but not your dependencies.

3. Static linters are not foolproof (last I checked back 4-5 years)
Google is the one that made the changes in response to feedback. If you're rejecting them as a source of those changes, then you're setting impossible goal posts.

The changes included greatly increasing the rule list size, allowing dynamic rules, not requiring the list be included in the manifest (for independent updates), and the ability to adjust some network headers.

As I said, they addressed all the major concerns that I saw raised.
Here is the full text of the ACCESS Act of 2019 bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/265...

I highly recommend that everyone reads it - it is extremely short, well written, and probably the single most important piece of legislation to HN folks in the past decade.

As the bill is right now, it require communications platforms with 100M monthly active users in the US to make their services interoperable with other platforms. The bill presumes that platforms using open protocols already (like email) are fine. Facebook and it’s messenger platform is likely to be the only one meeting the threshold.

I'm not American, but if you are and you care, I would suggest you to call your representative and explain why you support (or not) this bill. Remember that as it goes through congress, it can, and most likely will, be heavily edited or gutted to fit the many competing interests whispering in their ears. If you think the bill is good as is, tell them that! Personally, I think the bill is perfect, except for the 100M user threshold to start demand compatibility, which I think should be lowered to 10M.
Interesting: Added wg(4), an in-kernel driver for WireGuard VPN communication.
I think they're claiming that it's important to have a real, credible, well communicated threat of consequences for not following the mandate.
If you ever go in France again, look for "demi-sel" on the package, this is the term used to indicate butter is salty. I think it’s available in most big supermarket.
It's a BOOLEAN NOT NULL. I don't recall off the top of my head whether TRUE means production or TRUE means testing.
Note that Zram and ML are not best friends, for a number of reasons.