skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At Berkeley, for instance, there were multiple Physics sequences: engineering + physics + chem majors took the 7 series ("Physics for Scientists and Engineers"), which used calculus; for most other majors (e.g. premed), the 8 series ("Introductory Physics") sufficed for degree requirements.

http://guide.berkeley.edu/courses/physics/

(Also, note that this is similar to the split between the AP Physics B and C courses that high school students might take. Physics B has apparently been replaced with Physics 1 / 2, both of which are algebra- rather than calculus-based.)

I think ultimately this is a function of where you went to school, more than anything.
> The utter ignorance in comments here is really depressing, what happened with HN?

I'm not sure but it seems worse this year. It feels like HN has a sizable audience that just wants to be outraged
I am trying to use Roblox to teach my kids to code - my middle daughter loves the idea (we are trying to figure out how to build Hogwarts). Basically the hype machine for roblox is doing half my job for me.

But boy do I wish there were decent tutorials on line. Learning Lua is fun I guess.

I suppose i need to open investment accounts for them to buy Roblox stock next :-)
Those are passive solutions. You'd be looking at them after you realize something doesn't look right.

iStat or similar can do a notification if a process is taking high CPU usage for a while.

Servers have their own solutions like monitoring daemons that sends out an alert if CPU usage had been too high for a while.
>Disaster recovery? Geographically separate redundant servers with failovers? Automated (and proven to work) backups? One-stop access control for infra maintenance? Audit controls for your database and storage objects? Tape backups?

These are our dev+test setups, and we're looking far more carefully at prod for the reasons you touch on. Those aren't necessary for every project too, eg hosting computer vision demos.

For our government projects, the government hosts it on their own OpenShift cluster that they maintain (including their own data centre), due to requirements for all data to be hosted within our boarders. The OpenShift cluster I setup is no-where near as well maintained as the governments, they have multiple FTE and it runs most of the open source gov't code. They have tape backups, rolling on-call staff, public developer chat for support, the whole deal.

What I setup is far more simple. We have daily/weekly/monthly rolling backups of postgres pods. We store some backups of those on digital ocean, but that's just a cheapo litttle linux server.

But now a team of 30 developers can easily spin up their own projects using a web-based GUI from basically just providing a Dockerfile or a link to a git repo. One of the oft-touted organizational benefits of "cloud" is that you don't have to wait a week for Ops to provision a VM. We get all that.

>I understand your use case, but your is very, very far from the sheer and absolute complexity and features that enterprise data centers have.

My point is that many things people host in AWS do not need enterprise quality. If you're a startup, then almost by definition you do not need enterprise quality (though, as always, it depends). We made a tonne of savings. I'm sure many others would by self-hosting and learning a moderate amount of Linux / Kubernetes.
If you can't think of a descriptive name for your tool or product, maybe you should pause, think on it, and resist the temptation to pick a completely irrelevant one-word noun.

Call me a codger. I don't care. This crap was old ten years ago. It's still old.
There's a lot of risky investments. Anyone over 18 can bet their life savings on roulette. That has nothing to do with this. "Well other investments are risky too!" does not apply here because "Investing in startups is super-risky!" is not the reason why accreditation requirements exist.
This. It infuriates me to no end.
Well it should be obvious for the reasonable people that if this line isn’t drawn the situation is going to be exploited by the unreasonable people. Or by the people who are willing to take advantage of this situation. You understand it of course, but it’s not important to you, just a collateral damage.
Yeah agree, I only mentioned it facetiously to make fun of the idea of a list ranked by download size.

CDN's, network speed, server load, page render time, all have a greater effect than the fractions of kilobytes that differentiate these sites...
Congrats on the launch! I've been wanting to do this forever, in fact still own 100kb.org which sits there unused in my cemetery of domains (working on other stuff!). As others say 1MB feels too generous.
well, I agree with the initial claim...

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GemCraft, Desktop Tower Defense, RoboKill, Line Rider, Crush the Castle, Kingdom Rush, Realm of the Mad God ... all classics, all significant, all worth preserving.

Trying valiantly like many to replace my current affairs media diet with something more substantive, and Internet Archive has proven invaluable. Currently enjoying a first edition pdf scan of an E M Forester novel from 1920s. And it's transporting to dive into the yellowed pages, modernist fonts, and random errata. Thanks for all your important work ;)
Yes. It is a model of clear concise technical writing and of programming. It is inspiring.
I'm looking for constructive feedback on how to improve my writing. This article was aimed at convincing businesses on a high level to consider their digital security. This is not a plug, and I'm just looking for feedback on how to improve my writing towards less technical people.
This is probably a really risky investment: Every parent I know has a "kid stole my credit card and bought hundreds of dollars of Robux on it" story. While I've reversed the ones that happened in my own family, it took my tech expertise and some research to figure out how to do so (via Google Play, where the refund request button is deliberately extremely obfuscated)... many parents probably just accept the money is gone and move on.

Roblox has no real way to know, but I'd guess a not insignificant amount of their revenue is unauthorized charges. Better protections on parents' cards may cause their revenue to dry up a fair bit...

And that's before we get into the problematic nature of pushing a monetized game on kids as young as five years old, who might be incentivized to steal from their parents now at an early age. I could see this company's business model getting nuked by future legislation.
Unfortunately it lacks Explorer integration although the command line client works well. SFTP integration in Explorer is one of the few big weak points remaining for Linux interoperability.
> 99% of the time it’s some dude who didn’t check the date on the thread and posts “omg me too!” on an 8 year old post.

Comments could be marked by mods (or voted on) to not bump a thread, making it a minor occasional annoyance rather than a real problem.

> I also think a technical reason due to the scale of reddit

Reddit also just stopped working on UI (other than to make it worse) a long time ago. Why not have an additional view to "new", "top" etc. that sorts threads as if new comments bumped them?

That one should only talk about what a lot of other people currently want to talk about, or only for a certain amount of time, is really a dead end to me.
I guess this is the link? ;)
https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/
>>Lotteries, mortgages, and public securities are heavily regulated to make it nearly impossible to get ripped off.

The poorest households in the US spend something like 11% of their income on lotteries. There isn't any way lotteries could rip them off any more.

In a hypothetically free market world, they would be dumping their disposable income in stocks sold over the counter in convenience stores, or directly through their phones, and perhaps traded without intermediaries on the blockchain, and would be developing some skills in investment analysis, along with an asset base, over time, instead of developing new lottery number picking techniques based on mathematical quackery and superstitions.
Do a lot of companies sit on their S-1's until the market swings up? Like how quickly is the turnaround on an S1 filing and actual listing to take advantage of short term market moves?
>Yours is very edge case though

Not using google chrome is itself an edge case. That's kinda part-and-parcel with monopolistic predatory behaviors.
Is google search there to provide the most accurate information or the fastest load information regardless of content? "The primary goal of Google is to provide users with the most relevant, highest quality results based on user search queries, i.e. their wants and needs when performing a search online."
Note: The comments go off on many tangents even more interesting and helpful than the article itself.
China-state-funded hack hits companies around the world
Thanks! Was about to implement OAuth (against Azure AD) at work and we didn't want to embed a browser, so this was really helpful.
> you just can't log in using an app they aren't sure is trusted, for user security

s/app/browser, though.

Effectively and strongly kneecapping any new browser competition.
Important to remember: 30% is an issue, but unilateral control to ban, censor, and "pull" entire businesses offline on a whim is even more scary and dangerous.
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To me, completely breaking down when I use the very normal browser feature "pinch to zoom" on iOS has always seemed wild. I have no idea how they get away with this.
The transmission capability is part of the reason Arecibo would be so difficult to fix. The platform is almost 900 tons.

China's FAST telescope was designed without transmit, mostly to save on suspended weight. Its focus cabin is only 30 tons.
> It does a poor job of handling long threads where people refine their hypothesis based on new data and questions the OP answers.

Exactly. I enjoy reading some homebrew game development forums for old computers, and some threads go on for 5 or 6 years. You can watch a community go from talking about an idea to slowly iterating it toward a finished product and then a long cycle of support and improvements.

You can't find that kind of attention span on Twitter or Facebook.
> function setVerticalAlignment(color: "top" | "middle" | "bottom

Why is alignment accepting a color? It doesn’t matter how good the type checking is if you are creating the wrong type to begin with.

That aside, congrats on the release!
Shot by a jealous husband at the age of 109.
Yes, they'll require this for authentication, not use. There are already ways to log into Google accounts using a trusted platform like a browser when the environment can't be confirmed. Google Cloud Shell has a mechanism like this, where it will generate a URL that you paste into a browser, and it will prompt for login if you aren't, then provide a token you can paste back into the shell utility, and then it's authenticated to perform actions on Google Compute Engine as you through shell commands.

This is essentially what the embedded browser context is doing in an automated way. My guess is there's a way to manually do this already, or there will be soon.

The main thing they are trying to do here is make sure the login process is secure as they can make it. I think there's a non-negligible increase in security by requiring somewhat trusted applications to make the request.
we should celebrate it - it gets us a bit back into the situation of fast hardware progress due to competition like it was back in 80-90ties. The x86/64 has been great (in no small part because it was the "natural selection" winner of that tough competition with RISCs/etc.), yet the last decade of lackluster progress is the direct result of its own unchallenged dominance and the resulting failure to adapt.

>losing our legacy

"legacy" is mostly a bad word in the tech, so shouldn't we celebrate losing it too ? :)
Yes, this currently exists in 4.1, unless I somehow misunderstand you. I’ve been making heavy use of it with the beta, it’s extremely useful.

Edit: see this SQL made out of the type system: https://github.com/codemix/ts-sql
Yeah been years since I used it and forgot about this. Very true. (and yep used it at several big corps)
I always do that, but people confuse 1 with 7 anyways, even when both are written in the same number.
> Master/slave has a technical meaning beyond the sense of one person enslaving another

It's not “beyond”, it's literally the use of human slavery as a metaphor for relations between technical components.
I gotta say I'm quite excited to the refinements to the literal string types.
I love typescript but its types are becoming so complicated it's turning into a dynamic language...

I mean one can't represent the all possibilities of JavaScript "types" without re-implementing JavaScript itself, only a subset. I wonder where Typescript will stop.

I'd like to see Typescript compiling to "native" as well.
> Also, having to ID yourself to Facebook just to read the content is terrible.

> Not being able to participate anonymously is a bad thing for society. It’s like we’ve all forgotten the necessity of anonymous publishing for maintaining a free society.

To an extent, I'm okay with it being a bit harder to publish anonymously than otherwise

I'm not okay with how difficult it has become to READ anonymously. That's REALLY double-plus-ungood. Consider the simple transaction of buying a copy of 2600 at a local newsstand. For a while, online advertising worked as a revenue stream for publications like that since ads were bought on a pay-per-impression, or even pay-per-click basis, without all the tracking infra surrounding it, but now, monetization only works to the extent that readers allow themselves to be identified and tracked.

The other way to monetize is using subscriptions and paywalls, which is even more explicitly identifying and tracking readers and subscribers. The same goes for practically every way of getting money from readers to publishers and writer's. Nothing comes close to the anonymity of paying cash for a book, newspaper, or magazine. Practically everything we read is tracked, and most means we have of preventing that tracking also circumvent the flow of money to publishers and writers.

It's a good thing that the costs and barriers of publishing and distribution have dropped, but the cost of writing hasn't.
Buildkite for work, GH Actions for personal.

I used Drone CI in the past and liked the focus on Docker containers for everything. It seemed to contain the sprawling monster of bash that seem to occur in enterprise pipelines.
Funny thing about that. From the article:

> Google says: "The browser must identify itself clearly in the User-Agent. The browser must not try to impersonate another browser like Chrome or Firefox." We cannot comply with this because user agent spoofing is required for compatibility with various Google websites.

The author is concerned that Google will become increasingly aggressive about detecting alternate browsers, since it's clearly against the rules and they certainly have the capability.
I understand the author's fears, but the things he is afraid of have absolutely nothing to do with Apple Silicon.
The only correct response by other web browsers is to spoof other browsers as hard as necessary to work around this bad behavior.
Absolutely brilliant! I'll be using this! Surely people have done this before, right?
A better way to visualize General Relativity / gravity
Just use a normal browser then. You aren’t blocked from the web.
Wow a seat belt violation from 2004!
And yet, all those forums manage to pay their bills with ads. Generally relevant ones, too. And vendors who have a good track record get a lot of word of mouth advertising for free.

I (mostly) lurk on the machinery forum, but I know who I'm going to call when I need new bearings for any of my equipment.

Is the problem that VCs only fund companies that go for broad but shallow appeal so they can make a huge exit with less effort compared to building a useful community, or am I missing something?
It's really really good, congrats!
Most likely attempting to prevent social gatherings. My neighbors love gathering all of their friends (sometimes 15+) in their tiny studio even though my building has a “no non-essential guest” policy. Do I think this will stop them? No.
The template literals living on the type side of the language looks immensely powerful and complex.

I hope I never have to use it but that its existence makes typed libraries more "correct".
Perse can't because

(a) Urbit isn't a company, it's a fee software project

(b) Tlon does hire women: https://matildepark.ca/about/
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Amusingly enough, I just watched a talk about this topic earlier today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbKGw8MQ0i8
Isn't that pretty much what Apple did?
> But for various arcane technical reasons, writing an emulator for x86–64 on ARM is a huge undertaking, something beyond what an open source project is likely to do. I honestly don’t see the open source community writing a Mac emulator that will run High Sierra on Apple Silicon. Emulating x86 on ARM is an enormous project, one that requires a well-resources company to do.

A company like Oracle or VMware? Lots of developers are going to not just want, but need Docker to run properly. Just be patient and pipe down.
Yeah I was a pretty heavy np++ user on windows until I went over to vim (I had been using pico/nano on unix). After I switched to linux and a month or so with vim I didn't look back and install it everywhere I work :) . I especially like spacevim distribution.
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My remark was not about floors in Japan. In Japan there are tatami mats and a cultural habit of putting away items not in use which is very different from the US where beds are often left out and unmade.

In the US carpet is not only common but is often required for noise reduction. In this environment not wearing shoes is not enough to keep floors clean and it is common for people who do not wear shoes in the house to have filthy floors that take extra effort to clean.

I have cleaned around ten thousand homes during my career as a cleaner. How many homes have you attended?
It seems that proprietary software and mindless dependence on it has been killed the legacy; not the change or evolution of hardware platform.
I have the same experience: unbelievably broken on iOS.

It just has to be better on android because somehow their own engineers have to use it day to day and ship it in good conscience at the same time, right?
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Just to be clear

⊢∀[Proposition Ψ] (⊢Ψ)⇒Ψ

is not jargon. Instead, it is standard mathematics.
They do, quote:

"SheepShaver and InDesign CS6 both won’t run on Apple Silicon."

That's the issue. But, how does he know that? They don't run now, maybe they will later.

Use the old silicon until then.
I had a recurrent error to add extra parenthesis at the end I think
> Google maps have the major hiking trails, for example - but when you see the same area in OSM, there's a lot more connecting trails etc

Same in Europe for the locations I've checked.
This article is entirely wrong about why it's called the Windows Subsystem for Linux and not the Linux Subsystem for Windows (not surprising, since his argument makes no sense). The real reason is that Microsoft can't name something leading with a trademark owned by someone else. Here it is straight from the horse's mouth, senior PM of WSL Rich Turner:
https://twitter.com/richturn_ms/status/1245481405947076610
The ultimate source would be if you could figure out how to archive the sites that TheFWA used to link to. That was the pinnacle of cutting edge Flash work.
Wow. Thank you for making that connection in my mind. I spent a lot of hours with Flash games growing up but have struggled to understand why teens like Roblox or mobile games so much.
This is a real shame because since currently half the country has decided it doesn't believe in science they probably won't replace it.
The same is largely true of GitHub Actions... so don't use any: wit you have Jenkin's doing anything other than task management and running shell scripts you maintain, I'd argue strongly you are doing it all wrong (as if nothing else you are buying into lock-in for no reason).
Yeah, my mind immediately went to eBPF too.

"But when BPF got extended, it allowed users to add code that is executed by the kernel in a safe manner in various points of its execution, not only in the network code."

Read more here:

https://thenewstack.io/how-io_uring-and-ebpf-will-revolution...
The problem being that "the YT deal" keeps being unilaterally changed by Google/YouTube.

First they adjusted the cut.

Then came the copyright strike system which stops the creator being paid and diverts all and revenue to the claimant automatically.

Followed by the adpocalypse whe your video will be demonitised for reasons only known to YT for being "advertiser unfriendly" with recourse taking so long you've missed the most profitable time for views (the first few days).

Then came the algorithm changes that decimated discovery which negates the huge benefit of publishing on YT (exposure).

Let's not forget just straight up not showing subscribers your channels videos (Remember to like and subscribe, and smash the notification bell!)

And each time YT reply with "I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it further"

I can't think why creators would look to monetize their content with external sources.
We’ve been running Gitlab on-prem for around 6 years. We run self-hosted Gitlab CI runners on an on-prem Kubernetes cluster. We’re a team of around 20 and collectively execute around 1000 Gitlab CI jobs every day across numerous client projects for web, mobile, cloud deployments, etc. It works amazingly well.
My 7 year old daughter has stopped asking for (very pricy) American Girl accessories, and now asks for Robux. The coding schools around us are advertising Roblox Studio classes for kids.

I'm not so pessimistic as you on the model, but those previous operating losses seem pretty big.
Well I don’t even know what’s going on here.
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> I consider the excerpt to be useless visual noise almost always

When searching for keywords (especially acronyms) with multiple distinct usages, excerpts provide context.

Additionally, they're a valuable tool to filter out junk.
It's a shame. I really like Nebula as a service and I pay for it, but it's missing some small features that I'm hoping they get to soon. (They're a small team.)

The content is great, though.
Wikipedia is contentious and often potentially libelous.

See the following for more up-to-date information:

https://professorhewitt.blogspot.com/
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> Most file types are not supported in browsers

And does Google index/show any of them in a search result? You usually have to get them indirectly from pages, but the search links themselves never directly link to any unsupported file type AFAIK
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Relativity Space (YC W16) is raising a $500M round at $2.3B valuation
quick tip: if you use the system share button to copy the url, you get the real one.

You can also take advantage of this with an app like Opener to navigate to the real page in the cases where the amp site is in such a broken state that you cannot get to the fake browser bar.
I would hardly call it irrelevant. The name means “Vodka helps you write creatively”, which is a sentiment Ernest Hemingway would have agreed with.