skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think giving up on the web is doubly wrong, because these days, the web is constantly changing. Just this week we've seen how QUIC/HTTP3 is a big thing, and it's a leap from HTTP2, and a huge leap from 1.1. We've seen small revolutions all over the place. Yeah, it's not clear which ones will "stick" but I think there's still time for meaningful change that doesn't require boiling the ocean.
Agreed; -30C is not really that bad if you dress for it. I find it a lot more pleasant than +30C with humidity.
Of course, you can't compare those directly with epyc/xeon because of the architectural/instruction set differences.

EDIT: meaning that a larger sized cache wouldn't necessarily deliver better performance (though I think in this case the architectural differences do favor Graviton making better use of cache)
Crafting Link Underlines on Medium
After watching some of gamozolabs fuzz week a few months ago I've been wondering how well it would work to write a simple RISC-V emulator on a GPU for parallelized fuzzing. It sounds like a fun learning project that I hope I can get to eventually.

It's very interesting seeing just how much performance can be squeezed out like this.
AWS CloudFormation now supports increased limits on five service quotas
I don't want to rehash that whole thing, but I totally agree with Gruber in that case.

The "Standard Markdown" name really implied a degree of canonicity and authority over Markdown, even though it was neither created by or endorsed by Markdown's creator.

CommonMark also only changed the name from "Standard Flavored Markdown" to "Standard Markdown" after sending a copy to Gruber, so I'm sure it at least felt very dishonest.

The new name is clearer, and it's been a settled issue for the last 6 years. I'm not sure why the article would have gone into more detail about it.
I mentioned in the original comment, open heart surgery at the time that it was a novel technique. The statistical hypothesis is "this new surgical intervention is better than the current standard of care."

Instructions in a single paper publishing the results of the pilot cases will not be sufficient for another surgeon to try to replicate. A replication would take perhaps years of training and a massive budget to achieve, meanwhile the field is in the dark about the development because this is all pre-publication. If the heart surgery example isn't working for you just imagine something else that takes years of training and millions of dollars to set up, plenty of those things exist in medicine and elsewhere in science.

What I am getting at is that many innovations can not be readily replicated by many or any others (in the early days after it is discovered or invented) or it would be massively expensive to do so and hard to justify when no results have been published and publicly discussed. Meanwhile simple, unambitious interventions are very easy to replicate. This proposed standard increases the burden on researchers in proportion to how truly innovative their research is, thereby incentivizing simple, easy to replicate research.

It's possible it would be a good standard in some fields, but would be counterproductive in others. I believe the author should consider this and be more specific about where it should be applied.
I don't know. I don't have detailed plans describing how to bring about global peace by disrupting multinational corporations. Mostly because I don't think that's actually going to bring about global peace. I just wish people would chill out about McDonald's because it is kind of a monster. McDonald's specifically. If you want to generalize that to all meat companies, that's your choice. What really matters is what you value. What do you care about? What are your goals? How are you gonna do that? Don't get distracted trying to build up McDonald's because it's already "successful". There's really nothing you can do for it.
The McDonald’s app for iOS does aggressive jailbreak detection, probably for the exact reason we’re seeing here: their API has terrible security. I wonder what’s the worst one could do with it, like order things for the price of $0.00?
Maybe because most end users are also consumers of other products (e.g., foods, housing, electronics) who eventually pay for ads via purchases?
If all you intend to do is get in, nothing else, then it is probably not a crime. The CFAA prohibits "knowingly and with intent to defraud, accesses a protected computer without authorization". There's also a clause about not accessing govt computers (but this was Twitter's server) and not forwarding any secrets you find.

All this guy did was get in and then called the authorities, so he probably didn't 'intend to defraud'. If he tweeted something, which he alludes to in some articles, that might be a felony.

IANAL, get a lawyer if you are into hacking
It's the same file being delivered, they don't switch to just audio.

Even if they did, the ad revenue without video playback is 0. Advertisers are paying for impressions and views, not sound only.
Thankfully my team is making the switch from gorm to vanilla SQL. I joined the company a little over one year ago on another team that also uses it, and using gorm turned out to be a really pain. It was the first time I had to use an ORM, and I really disliked the experience & constant source of issues.
QAnon/mark-of-the-beast folks will run hard with this one.
Or even zero 9s (80%) to one 9 (90%).
The Now-Defunct Firms Behind 8chan, QAnon
A list of all the CSS selectors for all of FF's context menus
Yup, I have seen on forums that you can even hook a trailer up to a Nissan Leaf. That would get you light and local towing (no big loads, no big hills).
> Actually, a good anecdote from today. We have an internal app within our company

That's not a good anecdote. The user is an employee of the company and not the owner of the app.

I paid thousands of dollars for my Mac. I legally own it. I expect to be able to use it as I please.
Wow, this "article" could've been condensed down into maybe four sentences?

Can we laugh at that?
I think it is probably just another revenue grab. Most people who care enough are willing to pay $50 (I have a free newsletter about product management and willingly paid the $50).

The alternative is a self-hosted or SaaS subscription to something like Ghost or Mailchimp. $50 seems like a better deal to me.
Establish a global death penalty for this crime.
The upside is that snark doesn't change anything as long as the remarks are sourced and verifiable. Neither does the volunteers age.

They might be snarky about someone eating babies, but as long as you can verify whether the person ate a baby, you can just either agree or not agree that baby-eating is bad.
While you may be right in that allowing for gay marriage is a good thing, I think talking about it in this manner is really divisive.

I mean, in one comment your bundling together a group of people, assuming that one belief begets another, then comparing that belief with other popular less divisive beliefs. It feels like an attempt at shaming, which I personally don't think is productive.
The presentation though does a backhanded attack on the science by clickbait headlining implying the matter is more dubious and promoting doubt while fearmongering the masks as ineffective. Publishing a high visibility "Did the Holocaust really happen?" headline in the New York Times would rightfully anger people even if the article answer is "yes, duh".
That was my first thought as well. Google uses it for their camera app [0], so it's definitely related.

[0] https://www.blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-visual-core-ima...
I don't know if your use of AWD is for winter driving, but I've learned that snow tires make more of a difference during the winter than AWD. You can get a set of snow tires, mounted on rims, balanced, and inflated, delivered to your doorstep by TireRack for what seems like a reasonable price.
Agree. $50 is totally reasonable for a custom domain and free email sending. You'd pay that in 2-3 months using hosted Ghost, Mailchimp, ConvertKit, Wordpress, etc.
Just to poke at that idea a bit what's the difference between that and a normal classroom?

Is Khan Academy that much better at teaching Long Division than the average schoolteacher?
Yeah their constant revisions to the UI lately has made me start reaching for Bitwarden more and more. There was once a time I could run it on Windows, Linux, Mac, at home or at work, and it all looked the same. Now I'm always guessing where things moved to or how to copy additional attributes...
But it does open links in a new tab, most of the time - because I choose to use my browser's "open in new tab" feature when I click on its links. I appreciate the fact that Hacker News lets me do what I want, instead of trying to override my preferences with some excessively clever bit of scripting.
You need a bootstrap process. That requires some ingenuity, and you are going to be hard pressed to have people drop their solutions in a public forum. :)
But users should be able to override and specify that certain shortcuts can’t be hijacked.
> I found Wikipedia's source on the matter.

And where exactly is whewell coining the term scientist for somerville?

> In any case I think you're a little weird for turning this into a soapbox for your views on a so-called culture war.

Did you even read the article? The article is rife with culture war rhetoric.

> I invite people to examine the primary source and come to their own conclusions.

Why don't you tell us what you found? Or are you saying historian/philosopher Laura Synder is lying/wrong?

Or better yet, since you found "the source", why not point us to where whewell says, in somerville's honor, I coin the term scientist. Just because whewell wrote " An English man of science who called himself a philosopher now did so rather self-consciously" in a review of somerville's book doesn't mean that he coined it for her. After all, somerville isn't an english man of science is she?
Mac OS too, if your mouse has a middle button - I use it all the time.
What is equally, and how would this be determined?

A top percentile salary in Romania would likely result in not even being able to rent a microstudio or afford food in San Francisco.
The two things are not mutually exclusive.
Passive income means you do no work, other than put money somewhere. Bank interest would count. Real estate does not. SaaS does not count either. If you have to do anything that requires your time then it’s not passive.
Doc Searls: On KERI, a way not to reveal more personal info than you need to
I remember using that a few years ago! Was a great little tool, thanks for making it!
gods > people
Doesn't mention org, rst, or any of the other simplified ASCII markup mini-languages. Missed opportunity.
A backup won't protect you from full data disclosure.
My former employer wraps battery packs in flexible fiberglass sheet before potting them in epoxy; it makes them shatter-resistant.
> It looks like the content on that page was just moved to other pages under the about tab and the wording refined over time, but the message appears the same.

The truth goes more like 'removal' than 'moved to other pages under the about tab'.

The "About" page you mentioned was almost left unedited (except for the renaming of the organisation) and no new additions, deletions or refinements were made to any of the sentences on the About page at the time BLM removed the page I found.

Or is the archives incorrect? [0] [1]

> What "actual core political principles" specifically do you believe BLM is trying to hide?

I think obfuscation is a fitting word here. Maybe you know why they 'removed' the page since it was misleading for you to say that it was just 'moved to other pages under the about tab' which given the archives it is clearly not the case.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20200916200404/https://blacklive...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200917194804/https://blacklive...
I've been using KeepassX for about a decade, I forgot that Keepass was a separate application until just now.
yet another brick into the cloud wall that removes the programmer away from the code and hardware. oh how i hate cloud. just more and more tech and shite.
But if it's one part of those strongly held beliefs that are simply wrong because they range from intolerance to bigotry, there's nothing non-partisan to make a stand.
i use kypass – not fancy, but supports touch id and serves me well. one-time payment of 7$.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kypass-keepass-in-sync/id12587...
email is slowly being fucked up by the abomination that's called html e-mail. An increasing number of services sends only crap in their non html versions of stuff. Recently I had to enable thunderbird's feature to use stripped down html so that I could interact with some of those services.
Astronauts Vote in Space
I think an employer wanting to make decisions about how employees can interact with internal software isn't a good stand-in for OS vendors dictating terms to third parties.

But even given that example, we can learn from how Windows protects it's critical system files. They're hidden unless the user goes out of their way looking for them. But if you think you know what you're doing, MS lets you take control, for good or ill.

Even assuming OS vendors are truly benelolent, I'm not sure that makes it okay for them to make themselves the sole arbiters of how we use our computers.
New: How to enable iOS 14 Software Updates over 5G Cellular Data
Depends a lot on local conditions. In my locale, cars and bikes tend to follow different routes. Cars follow the usual fast congested main roads, while bikes thread their way through the neighborhood streets, bike paths, etc. I commute by bike to my workplace amidst very little traffic. In the downtown area, there are some bike paths and lanes that bypass the worst of the car traffic, thanks to abandoned rail lines.
So Mozilla has been / is badly run and implementing a web browser is incredibly complex and Google is too dominant.....

So we should abandon the web in favour of something much more limited which will never be more than a niche standard.

Sorry this is a complete non-sequitur. Maybe it makes a small minority of people happy but it does nothing for the vast majority of users who will have to deal (whether they know it or not) with the web issues described. I don't have answers to these issues but giving up isn't the answer.
RDS is ridiculously overpriced, I just cut my bill from $1,000 to $50 per month by switching back to EC2 for my database server.
it's poor form (and against site guidelines) to question whether someone read an article. like many other npr stories, it insinuates a lot and provides a wholly and intentionally incomplete narrative to construct a solid argument in hopes that you miss the missing pieces and just nod along. it's entirely plausible that the filtration system did all the work and masking was merely performative. as others have pointed out, they completely skipped comparisons with other flights where people weren't all rigorously masked (just pick another airline in hong kong). it's hysterical, and it only distracts from the primary community transmission risk, the private social gathering, because it's uncomfortable and harder to tackle that issue instead.
It takes a programmer like half a day to automate a let's encrypt process, maybe a couple if you want to make it really robust.

For example, these days most wordpress hosts do this for you for free.

Not that I think it's unreasonable to charge for this, just saying it's probably not the reason.
What's wrong with putting a strong brand on VPN? What's wrong with giving some credibility with a chainlink fence around addons?

I get the complexity argument, but the rest... meh
> People on this site - technical people with the ability to make a difference - seem to be getting to the point where they care.

Apple's moves to interfere with what users can do on their own computers, plus the keyboard issues and that stupid touch bar, are why I went straight Linux for my latest dev machine, instead of buying another MacBook. There have been a handful of issues to iron out, but it is really nice having control over my own machine and not having to spend tons of time fighting with Apple.

I don't know how representative I am, but I'm hopeful more and more devs get motivated enough to stop putting up with these kinds of changes from Apple. Given the direction things have been heading with them, I'd guess that the dev experience on MacBooks is going to get increasingly worse.
Plex feels so incredibly over-monetised that I don't treat it as similar to Kodi or XBMC at all.
I'm interested in hearing what your setup was like that cost $1,000 that you could replicate on your own for just $50.
Why are you unwilling or unable to directly state the principles you believe BLM is trying to "obfuscate?"

Your attempt to talk around your point and cast vague aspersions is getting tedious. Get to it and maybe we can have a conversation.
Couldn't agree more, and Gemini sounds very interesting. Even if it probably won't be a huge thing, it's nice to know that there are people who haven't just decided to roll over and accept the current state and direction of the web. I'm a pretty novice programmer, so I think I'll try and implement a client to try and evaluate for myself how simple it is.
Show HN: A New Stock Market Dashboard with AI Tooling
why use self-hosted when it can just run on MY computer? From over 10 years in development and lived all over the world, it taught me to NOT trust the internet. Keep password and really files local whenever possible. Put not so important files on hosting! USB drive are big now.
Ask HN: Could Hawaii, Maui in particular, support a thriving tech sector?
Just curious to hear your thoughts. I live here and work remotely. I am working on some projects but my mind is drifting to bigger questions as I look at world events and how it's affecting life on Maui.
> If this change means that you can use the same account for the Java Edition and the Bedrock Edition, that would be great

JE and BE are coded differently and have inherent differences in many gameplay mechanics. MS already owns Mojang so already there's nothing stopping them theoretically to make the two versions compatible. Requiring users to have a MS account won't change that.
I think of Firefox the same way I think of Ubuntu. Both are technically FOSS but you can tell that their goals aren’t aligned with the end user’s. They certainly aren’t developed in the spirit of free software, just look at the crap they pull trying to monetise their “open source” products.
googling for 'man date' to read the manual page on date always gives me a second thought.
It runs nicely on Mac!
WhiteHat Jr and the curious case of disappearing dissent
> I would maybe not trust the internal MiniDisk charger

Why wouldn't you? It has same voltage and even same capacity (weird considering evolution, but maybe choice was deliberate). I dunno, but maybe MiniDisk charger even has temperature sensor.
Consider how your meta-views apply to the issue of abortion. How do you recommend the pro-life people treat the pro-choice people?
Here's a very interesting podcast episode about a (sort of) related stunt with domino's: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/z3hgd2

tl;dl: Domino's receives a HUGE number of online orders for a $2 coke to be picked up in person. Reasons are unclear.
Immutable collections and objects for Flutter and Dart
All right, let me offer a different phrasing: Aaron Swartz created atx, and John Gruber created Markdown. The syntax between the two is similar, but not identical, as can be said for several other "plain text markup" formats that are, you know, not Markdown. (Like Textile, which was also not created by Aaron Swartz.) Not insignificantly, the original Perl script that implements Markdown was John Gruber's. It functions as a plugin for the Perl-based Movable Type blog engine because that's what Daring Fireball uses. Swartz wrote atx, by contrast, in his preferred programming language of Python.

So, to be factual: John Gruber created Markdown.
>I expect to be able to use it as I please.

This is your problem.

Apple doesn't sell the product: "computer devices at which you can do whatever you want with". They sell "computer device which does lots of things easily. To ensure these things work properly, the nitty bits are secured away from you"
Take Back Your Digital Reputation
Would a completely inert vape bring health benefits?
We do have an idea of what intelligence agencies do. They collect intelligence. The FBI investigates domestic federal crimes, mostly child porn, domestic terrorism, and white collar crimes, among a lot of other things. The NSA has a more foreign directive and focuses on national security. The DEA focuses on the war on drugs.

A big problem I'm noticing everywhere is that, while we have access to all of this information on how the government works, no one exercises their access to that information before commenting on internet forums and spreading misinformation and doubt about our DEMOCRATIC institutions. Even if you don't elect the person who heads these agencies, you do elect the person who appoints those heads.
Posts like this always make me feel like I’m doing psychedelics wrong somehow because I can never relate to them. I’ve done mushrooms 3 times, LSD once, and I’ve never felt that way. I recently did 3.5g of mushrooms and yeah, there were fractals covering most of my vision, but overall I felt pretty normal. I was definitely more relaxed, emotionally open and introspective, but it wasn’t anything particularly special. Going outside for a walk with the leaves changing wasn’t a mystical experience and having the same police car pass by me twice within a few minutes wasn’t anything unusual. I feel less anxious and depressed in the aftermath, but everyone talks about the psychedelic experience being life-changing and ineffable. And there’s a part of me that wonders why I don’t get that :/
Apple's AirTags Revealed in Newly Published Patent Applications
Not just American CEOs. We just gave up 2/3rds of our office space and are entirely remote. We still have the office mostly as a place that 'anchors' the company in a legal sense but in the future that might just become a PO box at this rate. Ironically, in November last year we just expanded and then within two months that turned out to be a bad decision. Fortunately I always keep leases short even if that is a bit more expensive per month it gives more flexibility and that has been an asset several times over the last 35 years already.
Imagine investing years of effort to invent a new programming language to build a better browser in... and then when it's wildly successful, not using it. smh
Herbert L. Fred: Dishonesty in Medicine Revisited (2008)
Consumer VPNs are mostly snake oil. I'd prefer to see Mozilla educating people about why VPNs mostly aren't needed.
I realize the circumstances of the world have somewhat changed over the past several months, but its not implausible that the US President might travel.
Well done for signally failing to get a single point I made. Well up to HN commenter standards -- perhaps you'll make it on to https://twitter.com/hn_commenter

I am typing on Linux right now. I work for a Linux vendor. I like Linux and use it every day. I do not run Windows at all, anywhere, unless someone is paying me to.

As for Android, there is this thing called AOSP. Check it out.
You might also wish to contribute to Replicant, since you are so passionate:
https://replicant.us/

If you look hard enough on Google, you can probably find my (rather positive) reviews of Linspire from back when it was new. (It wasn't as good as Corel LinuxOS.) You'll also find me praising Ubuntu's efforts and bemoaning their cancellation.

Linux is anything but small; it is huge. It is what allows me to keep the lights on and put food and drink on my family's table.

MS executing its hallmark embrace-and-extend on it is _disastrous_ news and is one of the biggest dangers Linux has ever faced.

Don't shoot the messenger.