skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When you know the date of an event, you can locate others events that are not in a direct relationship with it.

No you cant. Because at that point, you know nothing about the other events you are supposed to locate and have no reason to care.

> You can then situate the evolution of distant lines of events without needing to memorize too many dependency graphs.

I am not even sure what that is supposed to mean in the context of high school history. You drew events you know about into lines or graph and still know nothing about how they relate to each other.
(I am wondering if the parenthetical I added a minute after I left my original comment wasn't there when you left this reply, but I go into detail on this topic in the linked comment: it already is the case that on every operating system you can do this and in fact people already have... as an example, if you want to use Cloudflare DoH, install their app!)
I agree with you but I just... gave up. The web ate the net, the browser is the new OS. It's silly, it's lazy, it's inefficient, it's everything I dislike about software engineering but at this point it feels like preaching in the wind. I just try to ignore it, keep writing low level code and if someday I can't find a programming job outside of web technologies anymore I'll just become a shepherd in the mountains or something. I'll make cheese.
He was targeted, and beheaded, for showing Mohammed drawings on class (above it sounds like “a victim”, not the victim).
"It's not that Steve was magical. It's that he was f*ing terrifying."
It boggles my mind how broken the model of rote memorization to pass written tests is. School should teach you the fundamentals of how to acquire knowledge and then get out of your way. Reading, writing, speaking, logic, geometry, mathematics, and programming along with a whirlwind tour of all the good and bad ideas throughout history then pack it up. Instead we have a public babysitting service that pretends to add value when it’s probably no better than dropping your kid off at a library for the day (whether they choose to stay and read or not).
> The acronym TAI refers to International Atomic Time.

Good one. Wikipedia[0] is more helpful and states it comes from "temps atomique international" which is french.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time
For those momentarily confused as I was, in English the title would be Notepad++ 7.9.1 – for (in memory of) Samuel Paty
For some reason scroll is broken on that site. Using a mouse it barely moves at all. Using a trackpad it is usable but way slower than any other websites. (I'm using FF on macOS if that matters)

Just don't mess with scrolling!

Edit: Fixed on reload.
Wafer Scale Compute: Setting Records in Computational Fluid Dynamics
You are incorrect.

The reason those subjects are largely not discussed here is because this is not the place for discussions such as those.

It's like going to a bird watching event and complaining that they don't respond when you try to argue political points. It's just not an appropriate discussion.
> In the textbooks, astonishing facts were presented without astonishment. Someone probably told me that every cell in my body has the same DNA. But no one shook me by the shoulders, saying how crazy that was.

The key thought of the article comes right at the top. The distance between the astonishing nature of reality and the dry tedious way it's taught to people is present in all subjects, but seems greatest in biology. What seems to always be missing is what Chomsky calls a 'willingness to be puzzled'.

In fact I think this ability to be puzzled or amazed is there to begin with, but is beaten out of us by the educational system.
I wouldn't attribute laziness or even negligence to what could be purposeful malfeasance in the case of any corporate entity. From my experience it's usually the latter over the former.
> I should have loved biology but I found it to be a lifeless recitation of names: the Golgi apparatus and the Krebs cycle; mitosis, meiosis; DNA, RNA, mRNA, tRNA.

This opening sentence resonated hard with me.

For reasons now too obscure to go into I decided to study biochemistry at university and whilst, at the time, it sounded like it should be exciting, what I found instead was that it was substantially an uninspiring exercise in memorization from beginning to end. No interesting general principles or profound insights.

I hated it. Not exactly from the beginning, but certainly after the first year novelty wore off, and I despised it ever more as time went on. In the end - surprise, surprise - I didn't do that brilliantly. A total waste of time but sometimes you only learn by making quite expensive mistakes.

I probably would have been a lot happier had I studied physics, or even maths, or - as I ended up converting into with a post-grad masters, and thankfully I at least managed to do well enough to qualify for that course - computer science.
There’s hope yet: “The reduction in child poverty would be larger still, from 13.7 percent to 3.6 percent. Only about a quarter as many children would remain in poverty after the policy package’s adoption.”

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/21456242/joe-biden-povert...
Practice makes perfect. Release early, release often.
Given that Notepad++ has several extension mechanisms, what features are you actually missing?
Goodbye.Domains: A graveyard for good domains you let expire
You made me feel a lot better, actually (I'm serious). <3 Maybe one day I will open the sandwich shop I sometimes threaten to leave software for, and I can buy your cheese. (I know that is a horrible business, but there was a great article I read 15 or so years ago about a developer quitting software to open a hot dog stand, and he seemed so happy about it.)
> In Germany a "legal notice" is enforced by law and this is a good thing.

You are free to ignore sites without a legal notice if you have a problem with them, but there are plenty of legitimate reasons to stay anonymous.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=zfs+red...
Atlantic City educators reimagine after-school learning to lift a community
By what metric was Samuel not the victim? Is it against the law in France to share offensive religious imagery? Is the legal punishment beheading by vigilante?
Lots of F35 teething issues affecting procurement decision 10 years ago. People unironically comparing F35 with Gripen. It's a great piece of kit worth locking in now. But last few years of US commitment uncertainty meant countries are now refocusing on indigenous defense industries, military goals are important now. Every previous billion that goes into F35 from foreign purchases improves F35 competitiveness while depriving competitors and foreign indigenous efforts, which was fine if US is dependable, i.e. Japan complained about how little US provided tech transfers and cooperation in the joint F2 program. I imagine it's in US interest to kill these upstart efforts or SAAB and Dessault when it comes to European procurement hence need for espionage. EU market size + existing industrial base could be a viable competitor to US MIC.
Cerebras' wafer-size chip is 10k times faster than a GPU
Agreed. I've got VSCode and Textmate installed on my Mac but I guess my earlier years of Windows experience and Notepad++ being ubiquitous on all my machines and servers have set it as the baseline for my text editing experience. Only thing I found it wasn't great at was really big files - had to find specialized tools for those but other than that it was great (nice to see lots of active development still!)
Yes, Hacker News is censored by the owner. There is no question about that. If you are anti-censorship, this is not the place for you.
Personally I'd use this as a backup target that I could stream ZFS snapshots to.

Zpools with the correct level of redundancy protects against bit rot, occasional hardrive failure and the like(as you correctly point out), but not against total machine loss.

Its probably helpful to think of it as an offsite backup more than anything else.
1. This seems very, very cheap per-TB compared to other hosted storage. Are you making any compromises here that your users should know about? How do you explain the price difference between this and, for example, a Hetzner storage box or rsync.net?

2. Do you intend or allow these VMs to be used as web servers or any other kind of server?
His lectures on Youtube are incredible. It was one of my favorite courses to watch---on par with Donald Sadoway, Anant Agarwal, David Malan and Walter Lewin.

I'd also note, when he gave his lectures, he was clear that the neurons in our brain are like those of most other creatures, and there were simply more with better specialization through complex arrangements. With the recent discovery of the rosehip neuron, this idea might not be entirely true.

A handful of his other thoughts are also on the border of truth (such as bringing up the study with some outrageous percentage of misattributed paternity in Europe). Still, almost everything he describes is insightful and captivating, and he seems to convey that science is full of nuance and there's so much undiscovered in the world.
Mm, there's a world of difference between, say, 7g of Cyanescens and the same dry weight of a Cubensis.
macOS 11 and iOS 14 already added support for DoT and DoH.

See https://github.com/paulmillr/encrypted-dns.
Didn't vim use to have a message too? i dont see it now
Britain’s £40bn space race boom: Shetland spaceport to launch in 2022
I have purchased 25 Acer Swift 3 laptops this year for my staff. They cost about $650. They come preinstalled with unnecessary Norton antivirus software (which defaults the installation of a lighter version in its standard uninstall flow), Dropbox, Firefox, ads for Netflix and Amazon on the desktop, and a persistent “Would you like to use Skype?” popup program separate from Skype itself. Consumers have a clear choice to tolerate this bloat, or to pay more to Apple to avoid it and ensure only high quality software runs on their computers.
> If you can get by with a rack, you will pay more for the people to support it than the incremental cost of the cloud.

Probably a whole lot less.

At larger scale - I would guess it's the same thing. If an organization needs more than a rack during peak use, it can probably benefit from setting up its own infrastructure. Only in the uncommon case of short extreme peak use and almost no use most of the time does such elasticity make a could solution attractive. IMHO.
The founder of the project even said once that he didn't want anyone voting for the National Front to use his piece of software.
>They tried nuclear at McMurdo, way back when, and ended up with 10,000m3 of contaminated rock they had to export, as the aptly named nukey poo was a bit... poo. Poor reliability, not much power, lots of contamination. All that’s there now is a plaque and an NSF rad monitor a little bit up Obs hill

How did they F that up? The Russians manage to successfully use nuclear power for similarly remote stuff and it works well until locals decide they want to steal parts to sell for money (which is a problem you don't have in Antartcia).
from a European point of view, the market belongs to the people, not Apple and thus they must play by the rules the State set, for and on the behalf of the people.
> Nobody will benefit from this in the long run

Even if you think it is only a short term benefit, that is still a good thing that the benefit would exist in the short term. Great. Glad you agree that there would be at the very least, a short term benefit.

> More app stores won't benefit the consumer or the developers in the long run

Even a short term benefit is still a benefit and is still a very good thing! Glad you agree that there is a short term benefit.
I can't speak to how different parts of society will interact in hundreds of years, but if today there were going to be a leap hour and programmers requested that we start considering London to be in +01:00, the chances of politicians or public agreeing with that request is nil.
> ...and having batteries with 500 Wh/kg could...

This seems to be the big if, but I don't speak battery. How close are we to such things?
This resonates with me on a spiritual level.
There isn't and never has been a limitation on installing mac apps from the internet.
I think you misunderstood what you replied to, in at least two ways.
> The explicit nil in the original implementation implies that the method is being called for its return value

This kind of insight into the dev mind/process is interesting b/c it shows how code is actually consumed. It also reveals where the implicit logic exists, so we can consider if it should be more explicit - in this case if functions should declare return types.
my kids love gcompris. well done!
The problem is that with a real-world project like V8, with its 2 million lines of code, it is impossible to tackle and discuss it in detail. What you really need is a model, i.e. a simplified version of reality that you can discuss, i.e. using Ockham's razor blade. Looking at V8 to understand OO is a bit like taking a balloon ride over a city to understand quantum physics.
As far as I'm aware Wine doesn't run on Catalina.

EDIT: Had no idea Crossover was so cheap. Purchased!
Sounds like the right approach. Hasn’t there been anything like this up till now?
Notepad++ is written by an immigrant (non-french native) . In https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/a-propos-du-tweet-contre-... , the photo says: "Please uninstall Notepad++ if you voted for the National Front" (he was assuming the xenophobic party)

Each release has a message on what he believes in: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news
As did Windows (I saw this as I read over the last six months of changelogs a few days ago)... so why exactly is this a thing Firefox is doing again? :/
> It's about separating concerns to allow extensibility of one aspect of the component without having to worry about the other parts of the system.

Right, and I don't see the HTML and the CSS as separate concerns when the HTML describes a GUI, not a document. There being two languages in play is a historical detail that as developers we have to tackle in the best way. I don't believe that it's some sort of holy spirit we have to respect.

For my money, separation of concerns is things like where do I put my mutable state, which part of the application talks to the network, etc.

> but what if I'd like to have multiple styles

I have to say that's not a thing I've ever needed to worry about. I'm worried about things turning into a big pile of goop. The old approach too often devolved into making a separate class for each tag. Starting with repetition and noticing patterns that then get factored out is a better approach for me.

I will say, though, that in Tailwind it absolutely would be workable to give e.g. colours a semantic name - like primary and secondary - and then map those to whatever you want, including CSS custom properties. So you absolutely can implement both build-time and runtime theming at that level if you want, where you just need to change configuration options or a set of properties.

> What do I have to gain from Tailwind if I am using already SASS as the preprocessor and a good library of "utility classes" that can be @imported/@use'd/@apply'd to the document without touching the HTML?

Again, I'm not afraid of touching the HTML, that's not a goal for me. In my work, any change of any consequence is going to involve both HTML, CSS, and JS anyway. I am much more afraid of accumulating cruft in poorly-maintained CSS files.

Tailwind's utility classes are pretty fantastic - for instance, you can define a colour palette and they also become usable in gradients - so they're a good place to start. I also like that it's basically real CSS because that forces developers to learn, which will lead to better layouts. And yes, it will in some cases lead to the same set of classes as a semantic approach, because sometimes that classes are what makes sense. But the thing is, how do you arrive at that set of classes, and what do you do with the edges and boundaries and all the glue you need. Tailwind provides an extremely usable starting point and a good thought pattern for building the type of apps I do.
Saying 'it wasn't even a question' disrespects the fact that it certainly is a question. The decision seems to have come before the reasons.

Reading through it bears that out. The actual reasons given are not convincing, and a lot of them can be discounted if you start with create-react-app rather than DIY React.
He wasn't a victim, he was The victim, that's what the commentor above tried to say, he was specifically targeted
It’s not a loophole. It’s people lending money to people who can’t pay it back. That’s capitalism. You make a mistake and lose money. It’s the exact same kind of mistake as lending to a wannabe restaurateur whose restaurant fails. You lent money to someone who couldn’t abide by the terms of the loan. As the lender that is your problem.
It's worth noting that the MNT Reform runs on the exact same SoC the Librem 5 does.
I remember notepad++ from way back in the day. Haven't used it since my shift to Linux in 2006, but it used to be the only editor worth talking about for Windows.

I was blown when I discovered column mode. I think I learnt to think about editing as an operation through it. It's carried forward to my vim usage now as well. I've seen Devs not make maximum use of these features and while I do respect their choices, I have to (embarrassingly) admit, it annoys me. I don't show it of course, but whenever a junior comes to me and asks me how I type fast or how I use so many shortcuts I make sure I take the time to teach them.

I owe that paradigm largely to Notepad++. Owe the dev a lot.
Have they announced that it’s temporary or is this an assumption? Obviously it goes away eventually, but going away in year 3 of a transition is a different beast than going away in year 10.
China's Rise, Near Perfect Cryptography,Peter Turchin and Ethiopia's Civil War
The figure shows full-availability S3 at multiple price tiers depending on volume. The article discusses that price reductions were biggest for high volume -- in other words, AWS reduced price for exactly the customers who are most equipped to build-not-buy. Smaller use-cases won't see prices go down as much -- but they also won't get paid back as quickly for rolling their own.
Do you not remmember when it automatically typed "Je suis charlie"?

That was an interesting version, because afterwards the dev was hacked by people who disagreed with his message. He then had to face the fact people who endorsed what he saw as terrorism used his open-source product.

"I will always find a way to distribute Notepad++ “Je suis Charlie” edition - that’s my freedom of expression which I claim as my right."

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/npp-site-hacked-cos-je-su...
The blog post says that the breach was notified to users, but as some comments here and the post itself are complaining, it doesn't contain any actionable info.

The official message is that "if you had been doing things right, you don't have to worry". No sh_t Sherlock! But I also worry about my dark past when I was young and ignorant and used weak passwords, before starting to do things "right"... (on the other hand, given the amount of money I paid for HIBP, this is of course just unwarranted entitlement on my side, so I'm just talking half-seriously).

I tried to do a trivial grep match on my list of sites, but the regex ended up being a bit long given that hostnames can have lots of variations and it's not so trivial to match them with the format used in the breach. So I've put it all in a Gist in case it is useful for other people:

https://gist.github.com/j1elo/50088d6f4587c09fea07b1ccf94ad7...
I agree with you that I find it more readable. However, I've spent a long time living with this exact RoboCop setting so I am probably very used to looking at this style. The author mentioned scanning by indentation which is likely something that I do not employ in the same way that someone who has not lived with similar robocut settings does.
This is very cool. Too bad I don't have a need for it, currently.
If you are doing anything that matters security wise on a shared host, you are doing it incorrectly, would be a thought
Websites can also block address ranges on their side.
Idk biochemistry? Cell, molecular, structural bio? Genetic engineering?

These are all so abstract to me but I wanna head down a path to better understand autoimmune diseases, research being done, viable options...

Idk but how can I leverage modern day understanding and tech to have an end goal of creating a biologic that makes it so people don’t have to live with their body fighting themselves everyday or give a mother at risk of miscarriages another chance?

It’s all such a big messy abstract sound storm in my mind and I wish I could focus it more to ask the right question but unfortunately I can not
Startup Cerebras benchmarked its pint-sized computer against 16,000 Xeon cores
When it comes to biology applied to agriculture, I prefer eco systemic research to genetics, as a personal taste but I don’t even think those are mutually exclusive.

Maybe an example is appropriate.
Monocrop cultures are efficient short term, easy to control ... but also simplistic and brutal. In this system, gmo can help reduce the nefarious intrants (fertilizers, pesticides ...). This sounds like optimization.

Alternative cultural models, multicrops for instance, are saner but implies many technical and economical issues that still have to be dealt with. This is more like an architectural change.
That particular case sees Apple setting the rules of the market, not acting anti-competitively.

All the browser-makers successfully compete on features, as proved by the continued existence of multiple browsers on the App Store. Hell, Firefox can even afford to cannibalise its own market with two versions of Firefox (FF, and FF Focus).

Furthermore all the big name browser makers sell their offering at "free". In my view, this makes browsers an outlier in any discussion of Apple's anti-competitive behaviour. It doesn't shut down the conversation, just takes browsers out of it.
Handy bash alias:

alias 'karen'="rubocop"
The problem is not that changing the code is complicated. Changing code to accommodate four-digit years wasn't complicated. The problem is that you have to change every single piece of software which uses time. What you're proposing is exactly what I think needs to be avoided.
Sounds like SpaceX light. San Francisco to LA in 5 minutes. Neat.
Why isn't this post removed for meta discussion?
I always felt uneasy about the "separation of concerns" with HTML/CSS/JS.

I felt it was at the wrong level - a technical one. HTML and CSS are different technologies, but the domains we should be separating are logic and presentation. These don't always map, e.g. there is such as presentation logic.
Millennials, the Dying Children
Symbiotic bacteria tell ant embryos how to develop
Currently isn't... but Apple is moving toward AppStore on OS/X...
https://notepadqq.com/s/ on Linux is an excellent alternative, but it lacks the plugin system and some of the tools from N++, which is a bummer.
I still keep N++ installed via Wine, but use NotepadQQ most of the time since it starts up faster.

Notepad++ is a superb program.