skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Science shouldn’t be a zero sum game. As a physicist I love that we get a huge chunk of science funding for all kinds of stuff. Generally speaking developing a new accelerator leads to excellent technical advances at all levels of the stack. Web browsers and HTML were invented at CERN. Super conducting magnets at scale were pioneered for LHC. The detectors with custom radiation hard ASICs for particle detection and the data processing pipeline they feed into are at the pinacle of human engineering. The software infrastructure supports analysis of petabytes of data distributed across 100s of clusters around the world. This is because physicists working on colliders and particle physics are extremely passionate and intelligent people. Isn’t it nice that a fraction of the smartest people on the world are not working on getting you to click Ads and are using machine learning to advance our understanding of the fundamental forces of nature?

Tremendous value has been created by their work and an institution like CERN is hard to replicate because it is hard to get brilliant people to a agree what to do for the next 30 years of their lives. I’ve been taught by professors that did precisely that. Whatever theorists predict is not the only reason for them to do it, higher energies are a technical challenge, a data processing challenge, something to focus your attention and creativity on. There is no question we should try to build better telescopes, a 100 TeV collider is a better microscope for High Energy Physics.

This is personal to me, some of my friends work at CERN. I can’t help but feel it is personal to her. I actually met her once, she seemed nice enough, I just don’t understand why she focuses her time on work that is adversarial as opposed to constructive.
BongoCatOrchestra!
> And the worst being the attribute #[] syntax... why?! Almost every other language uses @attribute, and it is successful: simple to write, easy to read, why on earth a new and such complicated solution?

Simple, it was already taken up [1]. Also `@attribute` syntax is by no way universal (and semantics wildly vary even with the same syntax): `#[]` in particular might have been inspired by Rust.

[1] https://www.php.net/language.operators.errorcontrol
I almost liked the discussion, but then somebody tries to transform it in a huge social debate https://twitter.com/MarkStosberg/status/1319363954385297411
from that link there is only one "verified" case, and that is with PIA, all others are audits from private firms, or seizure of one particular server that is assuming just a dumb node.
even with PIA it's not sure what exactly was asked because its not a USA company, so if i ask you to give me logs for a server in USA, but you don't keep the logs on that server, can you say we dont keep logs on that server.

and do you have time to verify every source of information.
Do you believe it is because of the toxic environment that CIS males don't participate in synchronized swimming.
It is not very well paid. Most people don't get rich of even completely fail. Starting a startup is a risky venture. Women are on average more risk-averse than men.
There are many languages that work similarly, and often it's more the orthography than the grammar that's problematic. E.g. English and German form compund nouns in the same way, but the constituent parts are usually separated by spaces in English orthography, while they're run together as one long string in German.

That doesn't mean it's impossible to work with other languages, just that "words separated by spaces" is the wrong abstraction for processing them. It just happens to be a heuristic that works well enough for English, so a lot of functionality (like autocomplete) assumes that it works the same for other languages. It would be perfectly feasible to offer partial completions of long words in languages like Finnish or German, if only the space key were treated as less special. (Just compare to Chinese and Japanese, where autocomplete works despite no spaces at all.)

Not having a static form might create some redundancy in the lexicon, but that's not more of a problem than the vowel mutation in English "sing", "sang", "sung", "song". Treating different surface realizations of the same underlying base form as independent might actually be beneficial for getting accurate results that take into account how the base form is modified.
People keep saying “PHP in ${current_year} is actually great, it only sucked in ${current_year-5}!” - I feel like it still sucks[1] today, but it’ll take 5 more years for the fans to realise it, when they have the PHP from ${current_year+5} to compare against :P

[1] Being slightly hyperbolic - I won’t deny that you can do good things with PHP, as you can do good things with any tool; and AFAIK it’s still unmatched when it comes to low barrier of entry and shallow learning curve.

(I’m coming from the perspective of someone who mostly uses rust, python, and PHP7.3, with odd bits of Hack - in the past week, PHP7.3 has frustrated me with lack of typed arrays, lack of typed properties [fixed in 7.4! Only took 5 years between the introduction of type declarations and consistent support for type declarations...], and dictionary keys being automatically cast from string to int if they look vaguely numeric. It’s a shame Hack never took off in the open source world, as it’s basically “What if we could reimagine PHP without the legacy baggage?”)
I completely agree, but at some point you do have to make an economic risk/benefit calculation. Almost any person or organization can truly say that they might do something really amazing and important if given lots of money and resources.
What are your must-have features?
It's Official: Solar Is the Cheapest Electricity in History
People use VPNs at the router level, pushing all network traffic through it. They're also commonly used for torrenting. Both of those require speed.

Additionally, there are still benefits to using a VPN in addition to tor: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorPlusVPN...
What do you mean by "Bitcoin showing no greater volatility than any of the world's fiat currencies"?
I pulled up BTC/USD and EUR/USD
https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=XBT&to=USD&view=2Y
https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=EUR&to=USD&view=2Y
In the last 1 year, I see BTC low of 5000 and high of 12000, a 40% difference. And EUR at 1.06 to 1.20, about 12% difference. The year before was worse for BTC and better for EUR. 3x the volatility is quite considerable.
Sometime the “business” conspires against that though: in fact depending on the business model it might be a threat
I still remember the procedure for installing them always included putting several "127.0.0.1" lines into hosts file. So i think, it only concerns users who want to do it legally.
You're absolutely right! I meant it the other way around:

As x approaches 0, log(x) goes to minus infinity.

I think that's what he means (the next sentence about "visualiz[ing] very small values of a function by expanding their range" makes sense in that context), but I agree it is not very clear.
> Lack of control by recognised "authorities"

Ding, ding, ding!
And when ingesting srt files in ffmpeg. Ffmpeg expects the srt file to be utf8 encoded, but it is sometimes encoded in Windows-1252 which is the original format. So you might need to transcode it first.
You are my favorite human for today.
Yeah it's a terrible article. I mapped the few sentences there were to the pie chart at the top...

"all men 93%" = "All male teams made up 83% of the startups but they raised 93% of total funding".

"all women 1%" = "On top of the female-founded startups finding it difficult to raise any money at all, the 6% of startups that did, only received 1.3% of the funding"

"mixed 6%" = the remainder, which maps nicely to 5.7% rounded.

The linked report doesn't even conform to the posted article lol: https://my.visme.co/view/01070kx3-unconventional-ventures-no...

In the report:

"all men = 85.00%"

"all women = 6.35%"

"mix = 8.66%"
First because you don't really have completion or templating over its content: you mostly do copy/pasting or guessing what you have to put in there.

Second because they are using all kind of tricks to add variables into it (ENV, ...): the configuration is often dynamic by nature or by re-use.

Third because it's only strings, which is prone to mistakes: they are having a huge lot of code to check those configurations.
Maybe include the name of the startup in the title?
At the point where people are trying to argue that the venture capital industry is working class to try and prove that sexism doesn't exist might be a time to reevaluate what you are arguing for and why.
Knowing that they will stop working in a couple of years also devalues them. Seriously, a patch to remove DRM for those who are unable or unwilling to upgrade.

A company that can be trusted to deliver that patch will have a more valuable product because customers know they will not lose access to it.
> democracy under capitalism

Left wing systems also have powerful special interests.
I loved to develop websites in Fireworks and Dreamweaver. Man, those were good programs. This was during Macromedia times, though. I don't know how it changed with Adobe.

Obviously, nowadays web development is more complex than just throwing together some HTML, CSS and some PHP inserts. But the workflow these programs had was really thought out and pleasant.

Also, I highly suggest this video tutorial of building a modern website with truly modern techniques using Dreamweaver:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R64vGpluA3s
The sounds don't seem well balanced. The cow bell is very loud and when I turn down overall volume I can't even hear the bongos. I bet they are normalised rather than balanced for perceived loudness.
gimp + krita = photoshop
Inkscape = illustrator

There are free, opensource alternatives that are 95% the same as greedobe.

Use them.
as always, there's xkcd: https://xkcd.com/552/
TOR exit nodes are more likely to be flagged than VPN servers.

Though even for accessing TOR, using a VPN is a good idea. If you're planning of doing stupid things like mailing in a bomb threat to delay your exams because you haven't studied enough and you're using TOR, the usage itself will point at you if you're the only person using it. Had they used a VPN to access TOR, they wouldn't have been caught that easily.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/runasandvik/2013/12/18/harvard-...
Also, the article makes the weird jump from the fact that it's possible a VPN provider might log you, and possible a government or similarly powerful entity might request those logs, and possible that they might then get them - to the idea that you therefore must assume that will happen.

Jumping through all kinds of administrative hurdles is still a hurdle, even for a government (in fact, in many ways - especially for a government!). A court may not force a VPN provider to hand over logs, and a a VPN provider may have little legal exposure in a country anyhow.

Even if a government somehow managed to get permission to see them, if a VPN provider doesn't have any (or none sufficiently detailed) it's pretty likely it will not suffer much for not having logs (especially given that various privacy laws might even make it illegal to keep unnecessary privacy-sensitive data floating around), and courts tend not to punish even illegal court-order violating behavior when the party was required to engage in that behavior (e.g. by law). If anything, that's a modicum of risk with a high potential reward (publicity here we come!)

And even if a VPN service maintains logs - what kind of logs? There are a lot packets floating around on a VPN, and storing metadata for every single one strikes me as a pretty excessive expense if there's no really good business case for it. Tying various incomplete logs together doesn't always reconstruct the whole story, so it's pretty plausible some logs may still contain less data than would be retrievable if you didn't use a VPN.

All in all it strikes me as invalid reasoning to assume that merely because it's possible a VPN might not keep traffic private that it will in practice leak said traffic. That does not appear to be the path of least resistance. So even if some UK government agency were to have the intent to track some of your traffic - a VPN might well prevent that or at least make it much more expensive (in both time and effort) for said agency to achieve that.
Is whatsapp blocked? If not, the question is why since that is supposed to be end to end encrypted.
> "6% get 1.3% => 5x too little. I think we can cry a little."

Surely there's more to it than just percentages and genders?

First, how many companies are we actually talking about here? The Nordics are a smaller market - I don't expect it to be in the orders of thousands of companies - maybe several tens or several hundreds, at most. We shouldn't extrapolate if the sampling group is small.

Then, what about the other factors associated with investments? How are the investments spread across different sectors and industries? Locations? Growth prospects? Revenue/Operating Costs?

It's a very shallow comparison otherwise, without this data.
The article raises a few very good concerns about using VPN services, however, the headline is completely misguided. There are valid reasons to use VPN, some even mentioned in the article. One just should not consider is a silver bullet which magically protects you in all aspects. And it is good to warn about non-obvious weaknesses of the concept, especially as most readers are not security experts.

It is however important to tell users, where using a VPN can greatly enhance safety. It does protect your traffic up to the VPN provider. This protects from unsafe local networks and also from any state actor in the country you are in. It doesn't protect from state actors in the country where the VPN exit point is, but depending on which states both are in, can make quite a difference.
Is it that a separate subtitle file is not supported or subtitles are not supported at all? Otherwise you can use ffmpeg to merge the srt file and the mp4 file into either a single mp4 or mkv file without re-encoding the video (using the -c copy flag). Many players support subtitles embedded into a .mp4 file.
Companies usually have budget for setting up remote workers and IME are happy to pay for work spaces.
Thank you, Lorenz. It is mysterious. I read about similar cases and it seems that there is nobody you can contact in such a case. I wrote a tweet and got a response from Youtube, but it only say I should to recovery, which I had already tried.
Reminds me of "PHP Hammer"

I can’t even say what’s wrong with PHP, because— okay. Imagine you have uh, a toolbox. A set of tools. Looks okay, standard stuff in there.

You pull out a screwdriver, and you see it’s one of those weird tri-headed things. Okay, well, that’s not very useful to you, but you guess it comes in handy sometimes.

You pull out the hammer, but to your dismay, it has the claw part on both sides. Still serviceable though, I mean, you can hit nails with the middle of the head holding it sideways.

You pull out the pliers, but they don’t have those serrated surfaces; it’s flat and smooth. That’s less useful, but it still turns bolts well enough, so whatever.

And on you go. Everything in the box is kind of weird and quirky, but maybe not enough to make it completely worthless. And there’s no clear problem with the set as a whole; it still has all the tools.

Now imagine you meet millions of carpenters using this toolbox who tell you “well hey what’s the problem with these tools? They’re all I’ve ever used and they work fine!” And the carpenters show you the houses they’ve built, where every room is a pentagon and the roof is upside-down. And you knock on the front door and it just collapses inwards and they all yell at you for breaking their door.

That’s what’s wrong with PHP.

https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

edit: Flickr user @raindrift made an actual PHP hammer, famously https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicoletbn/6949293600

2012 discussion of hammer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3866488

TechCrunch defence of the hammer https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/28/not-that-kind-of-filthy-ge...
Then cry «investigate», at least. 5x is a fairly large X.
Thanks, first time I'd heard of it. Looks a good match.
What happens if the device shakes itself apart while rotating? This is not something that I would like to have in my backyard without any secure way of preventing parts of it from hitting people or my house (perhaps some kind of net).

If I was living in a rural area away from people and had a lot of space I would set one or more up as an experiment ~150 m fra the house.
> She didn’t cut it and now is in a non-tenured position at a second rate institution.

What an awful reply to legitimate criticism. I infer that some of your friends at CERN talk about her (quite successful) book this way?
Will try on my Pi4, thanks!
True, but I don't agree with what he said here @ 8:00

https://youtu.be/ZxYOEwM6Wbk?t=481

Is this really the case? I checked Wikipedia and MathWorld and nobody makes a distinction between e^x and exp(x).

Even if it's a "white lie" for didactic reasons, I don't buy it, it will be much more confusing down the line for students.

Math is about finding structures governed by some rules and then generalizing them. To me the e^x defined as repeated multiplication conceptually is the same thing as the exponential function, just over broader domain. Why? You can interpolate between integer-valued X's using geometric mean. e^3 = sqrt(e^2 * e^4). What stops you from interpolating this recursively to achieve in the limit the exponential function over real numbers?
But that's just like your opinion man (quoting the Big Lebowski). I like seeing the $ sign. Does that mean I am not a good developer ?
It's fun and game, but there is too much latency between my keyboard and the output sound. It is impossible to overdub something.
well, on the other hand, if you are starting from scratch as a new developer, trying out go or rust is not too risky as large orgs backing it up. Also, for me, hosting go is much easier than php, as I am not from that era.
11 PM in New Zealand! Yes, this is how I enjoy spending a Friday night.
When are you going to accept that these topics themselves are the flamebait? Stop accepting these stupid articles on a tech news site, and you'll stop the flamewars.
Wind turbines can be incredibly dangerous, I'd be worried if this was anywhere near my home. jacquesm wrote up his experiences making a wind turbine from scratch here: https://jacquesmattheij.com/how-to-build-a-windmill/
That's true, until a stupid non-rate limited web spider takes most of your resources.
Mouse clicks also play the bongos, and other mouse buttons meow.
or Vue
$600 a year is cheap for professional full-time use. But if you use it professionally and full-time, then you're going to want the latest stable version anyway. The people using CS2 and 3 are not that target audience. They are the people for whom $600 is a lot of money and who will not give their money to Adobe ever again after this.
> "very well paid prestigious industry"

The risk-adjusted expected return for being a startup founder doesn't seem high.

Or rather, it's a bimodal distribution, with a tiny number of incredibly rich (and also widely despised) people at one end, and the vast majority at the other end, making effectively nothing.

It's not surprising that fewer women would take those odds.

That said, two of Australia's leading startup founders are women, one of whom IPO'd her company today. (Incidentally, she never raised VC.)

This is a great thing that should be celebrated.

I can accept that there are things about the startup/VC world that make it more hostile for women. But the skew of VC funding isn't the smoking gun.
For one thing, it was a (perhaps fanciful) new cold-war weapon intended to give the upper hand in a full-scale invasion of the U.S., so it didn't need to be particularly economical.

For another, only (IIRC) two of the engines are used during cruise. The other six are only used to build up enough speed to break free of the water, and accumulate hours at a much lower rate.
Good boy.
Where's the bad part of this statistic?
You drive on summer tyres during the winter? In that case, yes, being on the right tyre will make a bigger difference than having AWD. Where I live you will actually be fined if your tyres are not "suitable for the conditions" - which essentially means that if you are on summer tyres during winter, you are going to get a pretty hefty fine.
it is web audio api thing. Apple mute the Web Audio Api when it is on vibration mode.
The article manages to use "just receive 1.3% of VC funding" without stating what amount would warrant no usage of "just". It would help if these kind of equity driven articles made the effort of not counting on the naive heart of the reader to understand what is being said.

Sure, a value is less than another value and a sex difference is mentioned, so the reader is put on the spot to immediately understand that the values should be different. But how different?

Might as well count if there's an imbalance on north-south vs east-west crossings by sex on a city center, and then hope someone feels the need to conclude "but of course, they should be the same!".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore_financial_centre
The rfcs have a lot of discussion on those subjects indeed, but I still disagree with the choice!

Also, the current use of @ is before a function call or some get, not before a method/class/... declaration, so a change in that direction would probably be possible. (plus the @ to suppress errors should probably be removed from the language anyway!)
There is certainly systematic inequality between particular sports for sure.

There is a difference though of course, being excluded from a sport can on an individual level be sad it certainly doesnt have the same impact as an entire gender being exluded from wealth and power.
I assume the parent means "to crash on it", not to sink it with a missile.

I will also say that at 5m from surface, good luck "seeing" it with on a radar. Also, at night and/or with mist.. you don't even see it coming.
It's not a new trend. People in latin countries like to look at what is happening on the street. https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/paris-cafe-1950s.html
Not enough instruments to play Steve Reich's Drumming!
Great question :)

1. Impeccable Word to PDF conversion
2. Combining, rearranging pages and documents
3. Editing: add/edit/delete text, images from PDFs
4. Form creation (not something we use now, but plan to)
5. Protect PDFs (as much as you can)

That is the majority of what I can remember using in the last 12 months. I have occasionally used:

6. Compare files
7. Redact - though usually I edit the PDF and delete the text directly
8. OCR
9. Comment. But I HATE the PDF commenting experience, as does everyone in the team when we try and pass comments around.
IS a matter of time befores someone uploads a video playing Is The Final Countdown on this.
That is why one should use DNS over https, so to track your DNS queries they would have to track your requests at the DNS server.
Both are glorious books - I didn't like The Children of the Sky though.
I think the subtle point is as long as it’s safe, practicing a lot will make you better than being a beginner trying to be an expert.

In the blog analogy he could write 100k words and throw them away. They were for getting good. Then write 200 words for a blog post that gets published. Don’t publish the first 100k.

Or poker for example, play 100k hands at tiny stakes before moving up to higher stakes.

The weightlifter example is a good point. Some disciplines need education in addition to just practicing.