skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone whose wikipedia page now reads: "Nowak played a role in substantiating Epstein's false claims to MIT administrators that he had given tens of millions of dollars to Harvard"

shouldn't be cited as an impartial authority on anonymous donations. It's relevant.
Not sure I follow. What's fixed?
> the SEC is one of the branches of government that I trust almost as much as the FDA

Hm. I made this comment elsewhere but:

The SEC has big structural problems. Way too close of ties with the people it is supposed to be regulating.

Take the example of this SEC investigator [0] whose boss got a call from one of those Wall Street hedge funds under investigation and suddenly he's fired! Mysteriously, that boss gets a job with the same firm a few months later. Oh, the kicker? The person who made that call from the hedge fund? Appointed to be the SEC chair in 2013.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_J._Aguirre
I think it is a stretch to claim ultrabooks provide the full desktop experience.

Also, for that predominant customer houses the device for consuming entertainment, I would think Apple TV + HomePod is more friction-free than a desktop could be.

Televisions have larger screens and are placed in better locations inside the house for that role.
This is similar to saying that instruments "hide the underlying physical objects". That's certainly true in a sense, but also not a helpful point -- we can't see stars or proteins or quarks without instruments. And we can't learn without metaphors.
Vimeo: It’s not legacy code – it’s PHP
Last I looked at benchmarks, only lz4 level 1 compression is faster than fastest zstd setting. At all other lz4 levels, zstd has a mode as fast but with significantly better compression.

But that is throughput. How latency (on small files/chunks) is affected I have no idea.
I've been told that in areas where lots of prototyping isgoing on, there is lots of scope for manual rework. (a pcb design only 95% correct needs modifications to figure out the right design)
Because this particular job does require a certain independence to do it properly

Does it also require a certain intellectual integrity to do properly?

Because claiming that you were "immediately fired" online, then later having to "clarify" that you actually submitted your resignation because some demands weren't met sounds pretty dishonest to me.
If an absolute beginner were to use K&R as a start they'd be learning C from 35 or so years ago. It's well written, but not helpful as a reference. Even something as simple as how a function is organized has changed.

C Programming: a Modern Approach teaches C89 and C99, pointing out the differences in features when appropriate. Having used it myself this year, I found it much more helpful than K&R
Uber is the canonical one.
I'm using Vornado fan with 2 16x20x1 merv 11 filters from lowes (2 to make triangle). And in lowest speed it's very quiet. I have commercial air cleaner and my diy is way cheaper to run and as quiet.
https://tombuildsstuff.blogspot.com/2013/06/better-box-fan-a... - like this.
Philosophy of the GNU Project (2018)
This is probably going to go somewhere, and it's good to see Netlify get some more competition, but this announcement kind of lost me at:

> There are no great solutions.

Therea are plenty of existing solutions here that do pretty much the same thing, including Netlify, Vercel, and going all the way back to Heroku.

Cloudflare is expanding their product line, which is fine, but lets not pretend that this is some brand new ground-breaking deployment methodology.
I thought tanks and infantry were already basically done against equiv-tech opponents. They are not sufficiently mobile to dodge the various smart weaponry we have available today.
Meh, the marginal cost vs marginal benefit is so low that you might as well upgrade whenever you feel like it.

iPhone 12 mini is awesome. Cameras are great, performance is smooth, battery is good, screen is good. 5G is a gimmick imo, but nice to have in the city or in crowded spaces.

If you spend most of your day on your phone, might as well get the best.
I have lecture notes for the intro programming course I taught a few years ago: https://a-nikolaev.github.io/cpp-spring-2015/

It is actually in C++, but the goal was to cover C features first as the foundation, before going into objects, strings, and similar more advanced concepts. (It still uses C++ I/O from the very beginning, since it's was a C++ course.)
It’s a bad day for Netlify. I had issues with them before and I’m already fronting some sites with CloudFlare, so… I guess I know what I’m doing next week.
I'm glad she was fired.
She gave a set of conditions and stated that if they couldn't be met, that she would work with Google to schedule a resignation date. Google then cut off her corporate access and terminated her employment immediately, ergo, firing.

If someone says, do this or I'll jump, and the other person pushes them, that's not the same thing as the person taking the leap on their own. The result might be the same, but the way the result was reached was different.
This post isn't about eating the food, it's about cooking it! And sure, you get to spend time in the kitchen as the server or even the owner, but ultimately only the cook does the work.
I'd like to see a source for that.
Asking the courts to set aside decisions seems to be en vogue this month! Microsoft has had a long-standing relationship with the DoD (and the NSA especially) and their Azure-on-prem offering has been around for almost a decade. AWS-on-prem is still new and even if it can be pulled off flawlessly there's not the track record of managing issues without calling in AWS employees. The content on JEDI will be far more highly classified than whatever is on AWS' us-gov regions... sufficiently classified that "mere AWS employees" won't be allowed to touch the systems once they go online.

One nice "feature" of JEDI is that it's not a ten year lock-in for the Pentagon. It's certainly possible that five years in the bean counters in the five-sized puzzle palace could conclude that they made the wrong decision and pivot at that time... and that AWS will eventually be the winner even if they don't get the contract for now.
Stripe's beautiful API design and documentation, along with their highly reliable service have had a profound impact on my life :)
I think the only reason I pay for GitHub is to have a custom domain. Is Cloudflare offering this for free?
If I'm in Efficiency Mode after my first coffee of the morning, I try to line up productive coding or investigation tasks.

If it's later in the day and i'm basically clocked out, I might go for a run or chill or nap or something.
> Aren't tiling window managers the traditional ones?

No, why should they? Traditional mainly means what is established custom, not just what comes first or later. Floating Window Managment is around for decades, since the earliest generations of GUIs and everyone is using them today by default. Tilling back in the early days was a neccesarity, not a choice, and it was replaced fast, making it the loser of development. Later development made it a viable alternative to floating, but at this point floating was already dominating.

> The ability for one window to float over another was a later innovation

Kinda questionable. It seems MacOS had floating from the beginning. Windows was missing it in the first version, but added it in the second. But nur sure how widley used Windows was used at that time.
I can hack some python, but I am not really a SWE. I came up just short in a Stripe interview a couple months ago- the whole thing was really pleasant and I'm going to try again in the spring.

I didn't really realize what it meant to build the product around the APIs until I looked at similar companies and their API guides... yikes. Stripe really is in a class of their own :)
MIT shouldn't stop taking anonymous donations, anonymous donations are great. It sounds like you are, or were, at MIT. Remember that being able to refuse free money is indicative of being in a position of great privilege relative to other universities. And that position of privilege is built on lots of money, much of it anonymous. Most people at most institutions would jump at free, anonymous cash to do science. And rightly so.
Short -> fun/interesting stuff in it condensed -> stronger and more dopamine hits in a shorter time -> low attention dopamine addicts (most of the population) love it -> use the product more -> more ad revenue -> profit
Because the entire reason for hiring someone like this is to find issues with what you're doing and stop them. The entire position is a pre-emptive move to stop government from stepping in to regulate the company. If you fire the person the second they talk about something they feel you're doing wrong, it kind of defeats the entire purpose (IMO).

You literally hired this person to the e-brake on your AI program and then fire them when they tell you it's time to stop.

I'm not saying I agree or disagree with this particular firing, but there's a very good reason for the company to employ someone who publicly disagrees with the way a particular department is being run or a decision they've made.

Candidly: this would be another example of why unions exist. Just because you publicly disagree with the company doesn't mean they should have carte blanche to fire you.
If you give someone money in exchange for something, that's called a purchase, not a donation. Zuckerberg did not make a donation, he bought the naming rights to the hospital.
That's a strange way of looking at things. The other 199988 employees aren't on her team. If they had circulated their letter widely and then only got 12 signees then we could say only 6 thousandths of a percent supported the letter.
It's not that surprising: this is a person that went far into astronomy to start with, that's not something you do chasing riches.
6.9% vs 5.6%. Still a big increase and that's just the deaths. I would imagine that errors follow a similar curve.
Werner Herzog Is Right About This Terrifying Apocalypse Scenario
OHP Mega Demo 9000 is one of the greatest things to come out of the scene.

Fun fact: In the famous HBO "spinning chrome logo" intro ( https://youtu.be/i1NKoMNy5bY ), the sole use of a computer in generating visual effects was to control a servomotor that slid one patterned transparency over another, much like this demo, to create a "starburst" effect (seen just before the logo itself appears).
I have frequent musical interludes in my own life, so I don't really see this as a problem. Music is important to a lot of people, particularly at difficult times in their lives, so I often find I can empathise with these moments.

I watched Birds of Prey a few days after seeing the finale opera house scene at the end of Season 1 of Umbrella, and I'm a big fan or Heart but both used Barracuda and I'm sure I came across it somewhere else recently as well. Oh well, great song.
Why not in doubles? They round?
That is not what the OP said. He said it is a religious idea. And it is. Look, you are even using the word "sacred".

For some reason the word "religion" means something bad to you and so you are attacking the idea of something good ("human rights") being in the same sentence as "religion".

The actual definition of religion is broader and can mean simply a set of shared ethics, which human rights clearly are.
I had a really good habit last year where I went to Starbucks most mornings and wrote, and ended up writing 130,000 words last year. It dropped precipitously this year as my routine and motivation got shattered thanks to Covid-19, but I still managed about 60,000 words so far this year, most of it was me being really good about it from July through September (dropped the ball again the last couple of months).

I didn't make a concerted effort to start doing this regularly until 2017, where I was writing it by hand, not just typing (I tried writing by hand a bit this year too, but it just takes so much time and gets so hard to keep up with). Before 2017, my total word count from all journals from 1998-2014 was just over 100,000 words, so it's a bit crazy how much more well-documented my recent past couple of years have been.

They used to be very private, but when I started it back up again in 2017, it was with the idea that I wouldn't be totally embarrassed if someone came across them, so there's some self-censorship in there, and also an attempt to add context that others beside myself might need to understand things. In 2017 it was 95% to record game design ideas and things I was doing in regards to games, but by 2019 I started including more what was going on that I might want to remember that was not just game design, so it's probably about 65-70% game design now, and the rest what's going on in my life. And this year has pandemic stuff mixed in.

Just the past two months I haven't recorded I've come up with like six more game ideas, developed each of them a bit, and made significant changes to some other game ideas, as well as some programming on two of my video games, so there's a lot of catching up to do, probably at least 6,000 words worth (probably would have been >15,000 words if I wrote them as it happened).
They definitely are, because each jar/dll doesn't have the whole world inside itself.

Docker is like shipping EAR + Websphere + OS in one package.
Not quite. I use C to interact with scientific libraries and to do some image processing. I
would like to learn and use Rust but is still lacking in the scientific libraries department. I avoid C++ because it's a nightmare of complexity.
Late to the thread - but was thinking about when I woke up. I think that compelling (eg non FPS games) content will have to wait for a mainstream device. My prediction is that Apple will make a compelling headset within two years. It'll wirelessly tether to the next generation (M2-M3) Macbook. It'll sell for about $1000. And the developer community will jump on board.
Google's $2.1B Fitbit acquisition wins conditional EU approval
Synthetic aperture radar.

As an EE, I consider it important to understand that nothing at any level in your technology stack from silicon to SAAS to smartphones is black magic. This is just an application of the physics of high frequency
electromagnetic signals.

I haven't personally done work with SAR, but I imagine it's much the same as dealing with EMI/EMC in PCB development: extend Maxwell's equations from a simple case to the general principle, simulate, test, and tune. I'd have to go back to my textbook and review to figure out the exact mechanisms and the limiting factors for resolution and power, I think I have Johnson's "High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic" on a shelf around here somewhere...
Tawcclub+health+and+skincare+(Presell+Page)
Latch the laser beam on, aim it across the room, and go thump your hand on the couch cushions a few times.
was the interview similar to how its documented on their website?
Guide to Whether a Machine Will Be Doing Your Job by 2025
Empty States – Building SaaS #83 · Matt Layman
Paycheck to Paycheck
If you don't have the specs to handle Gentoo and all of it's emerge's, you may like Void as well.

I've been using it a bit at work recently, and am probably going to move a personal machine or two over to it soon.
In the cars, not the engines. People often conflate the two.

A reasonably maintained Mazda rotary engine will have a similar lifespan to similar cars of the same era with piston engines.
But seriously, can somebody ELI5 this project. If Centos is just 1:1 RHEL with removed branding then what new bugs will show up in Centos that are result of that rebranding and will not be fixed by RHEL devs? Is there a code in RHEL that is also copy writed which had to replaced and maintained by Centos devs? What am I missing?
Pedro Domingos has the same childish mentality as the worst people he attacks.

Petro is "Twitter trash".
I wonder if bad laws might be part of the problem.

If the war on drugs, civil forfeiture or even a low speed limit makes everyone resent the police, is that a root cause?

I wonder if there could be a way that the police are viewed like firemen or postal workers.
Did the UK policemen that didn't carry guns have better acceptance in that respect?
There was a thread posted on the rust forum titled "Call for help implementing an independent Rust frontend for GCC" [0]:

> A friend of mine has been talking about the need for a Rust frontend for GCC to allow Rust to replace C in more places, such as system software. To allow some types of safety-critical software to be written in Rust, the GCC frontend would need to be an independent implementation of Rust, since the relevant specs require multiple independent implementations (so just attaching GCC as a new backend for rustc wouldn't work).

> The goal is definitely not to have a compiler written in rust that compiles rust code [edit: unless there is an acceptable bootstrap process, and the final compiler produces GNU assembly output that compiles with GNU gas]

> The goal is definitely not to have a hard critical dependence on LLVM.

> The goal is to have code added, written in c, to the GNU Compiler Collection, which may be found here https://gcc.gnu.org 20 such that developers who are used to gcc may compile rust programs and link them against object files using binutils ld.

0: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/call-for-help-implementing-an-...
I remember laughing my head off at a dinner party in 1994 when someone told the story.
Moreover, the SEC charges and investigation are likely to have material impact on any such civil cases.
https://smartairfilters.com/en/sqair/

It’s a fan + a HEPA filter and it’s kinda pretty
Shocker.. A lot of people I know who are using docker images, just follow old tutorials and are not sure what they are doing, nor know what docker itself is. This is the old trope of copy pasta.
> governments [...] could easily inspect "their" people

Governments can now spy on their people via old fashioned surveillance: wire-tapping, informants, social media analysis, etc. If a nation has the checks and balances to prevent that, then it's very likely they'll be able to prevent satellites peeking into your home. If not, it could potentially be another tool in their oppression toolkit, but not terribly efficient compared to the mountains of tools they already have, like traffic light CCTV cameras, highway tollbooths, tracking of credit card payments, tracking of internet-connected personal devices, etc, etc.
Also from Valparaiso here, great to see others on HN from the area. If you're looking for a local meetup, we have a group that meets regularly -> https://valpohacks.com/. Would love to learn more about your air quality site!
This NPR article perfectly describes the problems I'm trying to solve. I'm sure it's a problem many people have.
I wish the SEC would force companies to plead guilty instead of weasel out and pay a fine without admitting guilt. It doesn’t help anyone. If Robinhood is engaged in fraud or lying to their customers they should be forced to admit guilt and all the consequences from this. All this is is a slap on the wrist and political theater and I’m sick of it. I want some real teeth even if it results in less fine being paid. Or have them pay a crippling fine, one that takes away most of their cash. Something with meaning, not a meaningless fine
As decided by a very small, but vocal minority that obviously represents the way it should be.
You have all of that inside the container, too: apt-get upgrade doesn’t magically stop working because it’s in a Dockerfile. The difference is that you have a trivial way to confirm deployments and be confident that there isn’t other mutable state preventing an upgrade.
They prevent you from starting a new stack. I had automation that spun up new stacks for automated testing. That all broke.
This, basically. Ethics is, at times, incompatible with capitalism, so conflicts like these are essentially inevitable. Would anybody expect it to end well if Google hired Richard Stallman to the Free Software Ethics team? Of course not, he would be appalled by the decisions Google has made in the name of earning money, and every single publication coming from him would be a PR nightmare.

In all honesty, the most reasonable way to do corporate ethics is to give funding to external nonprofit organizations whose mission is the actual ethics, and then separately turn that organization's work into actionable KPIs for your engineers - if ethics org says "we need racial parity in facial detection", then you make that a KPI for your team of non-ethicist engineers and hopefully your organization becomes more ethical in the process without an endless deluge of PR nightmares.
... any changes in our way of life are so panic-inducing and unbearable that we really prefer to collectively kill ourselves and half of the planet's species in fire
Perhaps I misunderstood OP's tone.
"PHP doesn’t have to be terrible"

I agree. Many of the usual complaints about PHP stem from the old versions, which are indeed far from perfect. I'm not going to tell anyone it's better than something else, but saying it's bad because it used to be bad or that a lot of people write awful code in it is disingenuous. I've seen more bad code than good and in all possible languages.
IBM Prepares Clients for Next Generation Encryption Technology
Speaking of Chinese propaganda... The Tanks stopped, but the man was dissappeared.
There really need to be rules about this kind of crap. It's nasty business.
There's actually video of it.
CS is a bit weird in that, partly for historical reasons, it straddles science and engineering more than most university majors. So at some schools, it's closely tied to the math department while at others it's associated with electrical engineering. Which unsurprisingly affects the curriculum in various ways.

(And, of course, there's also the matter of how applied the curriculum is--i.e. software development vs. underlying theory.)
This was all achingly true well before Docker, though. (That's why Docker got popular, after all!)

Docker isn't the disease, its use in such manner is just a symptom.
Great analysis! Would love to see a similar post for Docker Swarm vs. Kuberbetes orchestrators.
> I'm an opponent of nuclear power

Perhaps I am being pedantic, but this strikes me as a strange position to announce. Nuclear power is a broad category of things which includes fission, decay and fusion, all of the above can be used to generate heat.
Hello World !

I showcased Pyrustic four months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23930255

TLDR: you warmly welcomed the project + you made great feedback !

Thanks you again !

The recommended way to get Pyrustic was:

- go to the project's Github;

- click on Releases;

- download the zip archive;

- unpack it where you want;

- install then run;

- (and good luck remembering the pathname the next time you want to play with Pyrustic).

Today, I'm proud to announce that the new recommended way is:

- pip install pyrustic

- python3 -m pyrustic

This is how much a project can improve between two HackerNews Show HN.

P.S: Pyrustic in this current version makes exclusive use of the Python Standard Library. But that could change in the next versions ! I am not into reinventing the wheel. PyPI is full of great packages. It's amazing to create something useful from scratch and then include stuff from people.
Flux, practice, flux, good tools, flux, good lighting, flux.

Really, learning how to braze and weld steel helped me a lot. Heat control is extremely important. Heat flows, and you learn how to position your iron to get the heat where you need it. You can also tell how hot something is by how the puddle looks.