skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In 1939, Janet Flanner, The New Yorker's correspondent in Paris, wrote a profile of Marthe Hanau, a notorious con woman who defrauded the French financial markets during the nineteen-twenties and thirties. Hanau, Flanner observed, 'was the greatest, brainiest, most convincing and comical confidence woman France ever produced.' Her outlandish actions helped make Hanau a cause célèbre, even after it was revealed that she had defrauded investors of a hundred and fifty-five million francs (more than seventy million contemporary dollars). Her exploits were so egregious, Flanner notes, that they helped spur the rise of the Popular Front and its attendant socialist reforms in France."
> This does not have to be true in order to translate languages.

I'm unclear on what doesn't have to be true?

I intended to observe that a system capable of recognizing idioms in multiple languages, built on the large training sets of those languages' existing code, suggests the possibility of idiom-level combinational synthesis of a novel language. Most easily as a course-grain polyglot (combining large chunks of such code), and increasingly speculatively as grain size decreases (eg different languages in the same file, or function, or expression), or as language options are pruned (a manticore - representational redundancy is removed as a feature present in multiple languages becomes only available in some/one of its forms).
> There is no "emergent" phenomenon currently in AI.

This is a very interesting claim!

Are you making this claim on a purely empirical basis, as in:

(1) "no AI has ever 'discovered' anything notably new/important/useful/interesting/valuable

or are you instead claiming/suspecting that:

(2) AI could not 'in principle' discover/generate anything falling into the positive categories above?
Worship (cultus) is a part of the etemology in most places I’ve read, but yes cultivation is primary. Either way, the main point stands. A central part of nearly all cultures throughout space and time is some sort of local cult. And that was not respected by the Russians. It’s rarely been respected by modern empires.
> After controlling for household income, education, age, gender, race, marital status, and political views, I found that people who were “very interested in politics” were about 8 percentage points more likely to be “not very happy” about life than people who were “not very interested” in politics.

If we could locate these philosopher-kings from Aristotle and put them in charge, then ignoring politics might be safe.

But your disdain for bossing others around isn't reciprocated by the Chads and Karens seeking office.

This, detachment from the swamp is a sin of omission. You and your wallet will be punished.
Do the crashes occur without any addons enabled?
Oh. Take it from me, go see a dentist, and ask them to look for cracks in your teeth, and receding gums. If they do a panorex x ray they can also look for bone growth in your jaw.

I clench, didn’t know about it for years and so didn’t have a mouth guard. Have a bunch of cracks in my molars now. My dentist always used to say these sort of cracks were the biggest problem in adult dentistry.

The solution is to get a mouth guard. Bottom guard type seems preferable. This will prevent future cracks, protect your gums, and protect the jaw joint. Unfortunately it doesn’t solve the problem, but no one seems to have figured that out yet.

You can also use a Sleepguard device to measure clenching activity. A bit clunky, but it has been very useful for me in figuring out triggers for worse clenching and confirming I do it.

My clenching started after that same jaw injury, I think. Or wisdom teeth extraction.

Someone else recommended off the shelf guards. I would suggest a custom splint from a dentist. If the splint is misaligned you can clench unevenly and cause jaw structure changes.
Looks nice! I am the maintainer of https://roadmap.sh which is a similar list of roadmaps and learning plans. I am currently in the process of making the roadmaps interactive and this gave me some ideas for improving the format that I was preparing. Thank you for sharing!
OnWorks-free hosting provider that allows to run workstations only using browser
has oculus been released? yes.

are people using it? no.

i think ppl don't use it because beside some demos there isn't much content to use it with. maybe should have partnered up with consoles and make money on game sales that use VR, chicken/eg problem would have been fixed.
Sometimes a narrow lane is found in social media in general, but I would argue the competition is still minimal or non existent for crossing lanes. For instance Twitter and snapchat and Tiktok are very different. I view the social media landscape as an oligopoly rather than monopolistic and they rarely cross into each others territory. Also the rate of new meaningful competitors just is not occurring fast enough when a democracy like the US has elections every 4 years. Theres a mismatch in competitor lane crossing and the rate at which democracy operates. Theres been what...2 or 3 major new social networks with limited scope that dont really compete with each other in 20 years on the western side? Its just not enough to make an impact and give people choice especially as we see them act in tandum.
W is equivalent to join, yes. M can't be typed in Haskell (without newtypes), so there's no real equivalent.

Of course they're not really useful for programming; they're more interesting as a compilation target, formal reasoning, and some fun puzzles.
Lots of us do. Firefox is my browser on all my devices. I do use Chrome when visiting Google Docs which I assume is deliberately sabotaged on Firefox though.
Why on Earth would we want to create GAFA sized, privacy violating, information power concentrating and privatizing molochs? The current pluralist landscape suits me and demicracy just fine!
Doesn't look like it's working as expected, but it seems like a leap too far for the author to make the assumption that Google sites are somehow specifically excluded from that small of a trial. Several others have posted chromium bugs that indicate it's an issue with the file system more generally affecting many sites.
You’re supposed to keep them somewhat together. If you clench them together that is Bruxism and it cracks teeth over the long run.
In France in 2012, there was also Numergy and Cloudwatt, funded by state money and associated to existing large groups (Orange, the largest telco, Thales, military, SFR, other large telco, Bull, a prehistoric computer company). Now there are dead. Such projects were weird because back then OVH was already the largest European hosting company. Maybe the owner was not a good friend of the politicians or he wanted to keep full control…
There are 2 key things you can do to reduce regulatory burden:

* Have a time limit for responding to licensing requests. Eg. 14 days. If the government can't accept or reject a request in that time period, it is auto accepted. If it is rejected, a resubmitted request must be accepted if it addresses the rejection reason.

* Allow a business to operate for 30 days before, during, and after submitting a license request, and with no penalty if 'in good faith' they believed it was reasonably likely their request would be accepted.
That would explain why I once spent a week in Amsterdam with excessively long fingernails---I'd forgotten to bring some and I don't like shears (they give worse results and less control).
Alan Turing – In Our Time
Have you tried using ear plugs? I've found they work well for me outside of when I need to use an alarm.
On the other part of E.U., in Romania, no matter what kind of business you want to start you need to battle with the bureaucracy.

Out of high-tech domain, I was thinking that my grandma could sell the jam she makes - but she can't sell it legally if it's produced in her own house - no matter how low is the production. Maybe just at some kind of farmers market, but that is iffy.

If I want to invoice some custom development for software, I can not do it as an individual. I either need a BS in Compute Science or setup a SRL.

The romantic view of starting out in the garage is quite illegal in these parts.

You need to spend a lot just to test a business idea. And what yous spend is not actually investing in the business, but just wasting time and resources with the bureaucracy.
What? Taiwan is supposed to be a blue team nation aren’t they?
If archive.openwrt.org is like any other *nix package management software, it's likely that it doesn't need dnssec or tls. The signature of the packages get verified based on predefined public keys. If the packages aren't signed by openwrt's private keys, the software will reject it.

You'll notice many other package management software do the exact same thing.

In any case, this is based on what other package management software does. I don't know if this is indeed the case.
GardaWorld lost track of millions
ATAK, incl. CivTAK, is an Android geospatial infrastr/situation awareness app
European butter is 82% butterfat; most American brands are 80%.

American milk can't be sold in Europe because of how adulterated it is with hormones and antibiotics. Meanwhile, European dairy products intended for export to the states still have to satisfy European dairy standards.

I bake a lot and I can taste the difference.
> They ended up building it for 150k, with 250k more to operate it until the end of next year.

Do you have any source for that?

If true that is indeed impressive, but I am sceptical, given that your claim that "Half the population downloaded it" seems to be extremely exaggerated (https://qz.com/1898960/whats-behind-finlands-contact-tracing...)

One way in which the German app was clearly superior is that it was released a full month and a half earlier.
I was hoping to see something about how this affects babies in there ️
> Added support for set -o pipefail to ksh(1), potentially
helping error checking.

I thought that that was a POSIX feature, and it was weird of
OpenBSD's ksh to not have it, but apparently "-o pipefail" is
not in POSIX[1]. Interesting!

Either way, congratulations to the OpenBSD team!

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...
I don't suppose they let you pick the Norwegian dub? May have to get a VPN :)

In Norway, C-more (via TV2) only has the stop motion one from the 70's/80's ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moomins_(TV_series) – there's also a really strange 2013 version in the same style with music by Björk, fun for grown-ups but kids wanted the 90's version =P)
Empirically Measuring, & Reducing, C++’s Accidental Complexity, Sutter, Cpp2020
We need to start lobby governments to make this data collection and processing business illegal. I think all the platforms like Google, Facebook, Instagram and so on should be forbidden to collect the data they don't need to conduct business. That is they should not be allowed to package the data and sell or develop new products using this data.
Otherwise we should consider whether people using their products could be considered their employees and had to be paid appropriate wages? In the end entering data to their systems is a job.
Sorting by optical recognition and air guns to separate a falling curtain of product into two output streams is already a product. The development of these machines are the reason that 10 or 15 years ago you stopped seeing bad beans in bulk bean bags. I am involved in the tea industry where they are used to sort tea by grade - stems, bad leaves, broken leaves, full leaves.

Here is a diagram: https://www.satake-usa.com/what-is-optical-sorting.html
I think in the US, there's often a bit of an attitude too about people doing things for you that you're perfectly capable of doing yourself. In this case, I justify it on the grounds that I usually travel a lot and, especially in the spring, the lawn does need to get cut regularly. But I just get it done every two weeks. That's on the long side in the spring but it works for me.

More of a luxury for me is having a housekeeper once a month although it's nice to have someone give the house a good cleaning now and then. It's totally unnecessary with me not traveling at the moment but I wouldn't feel right about canceling them.
75% of Americans believe there's an invisible man in the sky that grants you wishes if you pray hard enough.

Not a good test for policy decisions....what about science instead?

-"Not wearing a mask in crowded places causes harm to others.

Not happening in Sweden. Maybe the people in Sweden have troll blood so they don't need masks. or maybe the jury is still out on that statement.

- "Zero enforcement?" Half of the museums in the U.S. are shutting down permanently. 50% of restaurants in New York City are shuttering. 40 million additional Americans are jobless.

The level of critical thought in America is just so sad.
> Through the 80s it was the other way around. You counted as having a language with a spec, even if there was no implementation, but an implementation without a spec was a "toy"

Not to my recollection. I don’t recall anyone at uni discussing a C standard until 1989, and even by 2000 few compilers were fully compliant with that C89 spec.

There were so many incompatible dialects of FORTRAN 77 that most code had to be modified at least a bit for a new compiler or hardware platform.

All of the BASIC and Pascal variants were incompatible with each other. They were defined by “what this implementation does” and not a formal specification.
Since I see some agreeing comments, I'll throw out a bit about why I disagree.

Like shopping on Amazon, or buying from China, I'm going to do what's best for me as an individual. It's government's job to step in and tweak the playing field to keep it competitive, and I'll happily vote to regulate the very things that serve me today, whether that's breaking businesses up, preventing mergers in the first place, having businesses pay for their externalities, etc.
Gah, I just noticed that since I posted from mobile, the source here reads 'twitter.com/i' instead of '../BBCArchive' (to which it redirects). That's a nice (new, I think? Noticed it for GitHub earlier) feature though.
What's the over/under on having it still 60 years from today?
That twitter “censorship” is them finally applying their user acceptance policy to even the most powerful.
The author posted elsewhere in this thread that they were signed out of Google entirely. So sync was disabled.

>Mozilla is just as guilty as Google.

Since Mozilla doesn't do anything similar when not signed into their sync service, this is plainly false.

>If you want to fix things, then build your own tools to abstract syncing, bookmarks, and other features from the browser. They exist, whether you've ever taken the time to look or not.

If you're not highly technical, you're not entitled to privacy?

>Somehow it is easier though for people to simply say... The government will fix it for me, rather than fixing things yourself.

It's simple. Some of us believe that a base level of privacy is a human right. And the only entities capable of facilitating those human rights are governments.
Ah, you were not talking about income tax alone. Fair enough.

Well, "this BS" is an insignificant part of what those taxes cover. Germany pays about 1/3 of the EU budget, so its share of these 10 Billion is less than a tenth of this year's federal coronavirus relief budget.
I know you said Hands Free.

My solution is a shortcut on my homescreen to my address, or somewhere close.

One click is worth it and for someone who pays more attention than most to the windscreen, safe enough for me.
1. Performance. It is incredibly slow without customization.

2. Editing is a clunky process. Not only is the UX subpar, it never loads all the possible widgets you can insert, making dynamic content a pain.

3. Awful search. It always manages to find internal process documents from 2014 and not the service pages I actually want.

4. Tough to reorganize content. Moving a page around is just hard enough that people tend not to do it, resulting in really poorly organized content.

Honestly, I’d be happier using notion or just GitHub wikis. But the main benefit of putting our docs at wiki.$COMPANY.com is that I can guarantee discoverability for other teams, so we’re kinda stuck with it.
And both posted by the same user!

I'm into PDP-11 programming currently. I'm not alone apparently.
How much storage do you get?
Well “best” is defined as an outcome of a value order.
If it's a FSA can someone at least convert it to a regular expression or some other more readable format?
It seems like the board no longer represents the shareholders.
Interestingly enough, Plato's proposal for creating an ideal city-state had specific instructions for how to breed philosopher-kings.

He advocated eugenics, and he also recommended lying to the citizens about how it was decided who would be paired up with who.

So...I'm not sure we should go down that road?
I think this empirical approach is a really good idea, and I think that I agree that it could ultimately result in large simplifications of the language, with no loss of expressive power.

On the other hand, Rust and Go already exist…
Worth remembering is that the commenters on the site are the minority. There are a lot or lurkers on HN (possibly orders of magnitude more lurkers than commenters), so "the pro-open-web and anti-FAANG sentiments that's shared on HN" may be a vocal minority.
Nocaps
Thank you for your feedback!

Seems like the landing page should be improved in order to communicate clearly (and visually) the "HOW/WHAT" part without pushing the visitors to sign up.
> You win Risk by starting in Australia.

That depends. If there are two parties who are going for Australia let them eat each other while you go for LatAm. Closer to the end of the game the 2 Australian armies count for very little against the number of armies you get for winning at least some battle every turn. Pro-tip: hold off on exchanging any sets as long as you can. Have fun!
Lives in Japan since 2 years ago
Two points should be considered.

First, trivial: what's exactly mediocre in the Rust example? I don't think it's mediocre at all.

Now, the second, which is significant: what constitutes a "mediocre" C++ program? The author is the engineer who built the Meson build system - his code is representing the output of an experienced engineer.

This brings to the usual C/++ criticism: it makes it easy to make certain class of mistakes even for experienced programmers.
You skipped over without mentioning the gist of the comment you replied too, which was the large amount of additional services that those other companies offer, but Hetzner does not.
Newly discovered tardigrade is resistant to UV rays
Do you truly feel that the standard library is not part of cpp?

In general, i think a lot of valid criticism of cpp is dismissed with ”But you could do it correctly with X”

Perhapse, but if everything is a special case, what does that say about cpp?
Bitcoin Is the Proof That Market Fit and Timing Are More Important Than Money
But you said in another comment that you couldn't reproduce the OP's accusation "including on webmail." Gmail has been rewriting links in the web interface for all users using JavaScript for years now.
I am very interested in policy, but I do not watch the news.

Why? Because it contains no actionable information that changes my decisions: I'm still going to vote in every election, I'm still going to research the candidates when the time comes, I'm still going to volunteer at the polls...

The news is trivia, generally speaking. When I have a more active life in politics I'll take the Chomskian approach to news, but for now I'll vote with my ideals (which don't change with the passing tides of the news cycles)
No one would bother, because:

1. In Europe salaries are not worth personal sacrifices

2. No compay aims for IPO, few are public

Maybe, if you'd hire only desperate people from Spain, Italy, Poland, Greece, and Romania, AND they all had a mortgage... then squeeze like this would work.
"Ah okay, thanks for the clarification. Sounds like that doesn't apply to the internet then, because I'm just loading websites in a browser, I'm not talking to anyone. Thanks again for clearing that up!"

defining privacy in a contextually relevant and concise manner is hard.
I strongly agree with you, most of the time I feel that non-Google browsers including Safari is somehow blocked or slowed down.
As a hypothetical, can you imagine a scenario where nobody voted or put faith in the political class?

From this perspective, participation only validates the farce.
It is not as bad as Google, but mozilla also does some shady stuff that I find annoying and eroded my trust in them.

When I go to the extension store (as a developer) and click on "Manage or submit extensions", they automatically get my email and credentials from my Firefox sync account (the one registered in my browser). I understood that by trying to use this store with multiple accounts in multiple containers, but it is impossible. You cannot get the normal and neutral connection screen to login to any account, they grab your credentials without your consent anyway.

https://addons.mozilla.org/developers/
Thanks for addressing this issue. I have fixed it.
Are you on Windows by any chance? I experience that with Firefox only when I use Windows (i.e. almost never, fortunately). I switched to Firefox on my main computer (Linux) a year ago and I could not be happier. It consumes much less memory than Chrome, it's way faster (that's my impression, I haven't measured that in any way) and it is a lot more customizable. I removed a lot of stuff from the context menu for example.

As a bonus, it isn't made by Google. I was a hardcore Google fan a few years ago, but after seeing what they are doing with Chrome and the internet, I just could not keep using Chrome any longer.
The Lua benchmarks are a bit funny because many of them were tuned for LuaJIT, including tricks such as eval-based metaprogramming which work well in a JIT.
Does anyone know if the simpleaudio driver means there's now support for sound over HDMI?
Fun fact: Within Facebook’s task-tracking system there is/was a “wishlist”-priority task with planned details for how to change Messenger’s MQTT protocol to break third-party clients if need be. As far as I know this was never acted upon because Pidgin-like third-party clients never became popular for Messenger MQTT like they were for the old now-deprecated XMPP Messenger gateway.
Ask HN: Any way to stop spam phone calls?
Yesterday I received a spam phone call from a different number every 10-20 minutes over a 4 hour period. The calls are now starting again today over the same period. I have a pixel phone and it starts to automatically screen the call. During the screening it is a recorded messages saying there is issues with my icloud account. Is there any way to stop these calls? The numbers are all different but do have the same area code and first 3 digits of my phone number so there is a pattern.
I found Firefox to work fine on google docs tbh. It used to be slower, but haven’t had an issue in probably a year
HN? No it’s not....
This just gives me a "Wordfence" 503 for no apparent reason. Here's an archive.org link for the benefit of anyone else who might want to read the product information despite the site owner's arbitrary restrictions: http://web.archive.org/web/20180829042526/http://soasecure.c...
> In order to exploit this vulnerability, a malicious actor needs to pose as MITM, serving a valid and signed package index - e.g. one obtained from downloads.openwrt.org - and one or more forged .ipk packages having the same size as specified in the repository index while an `opkg install` command is invoked on the victim system.

You switched systems for this? Sure, they could have done defense in depth (not unlike Debian, which also relies on signatures), but this was a bug in signature verification and... Honestly, how would someone even exploit this?
If there was one wouldn't it be nearly the same as OpenWRT? Are we not really considering what OpenWRT is here?