skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back in BBS days I downloaded a utility that doubled connection speed. Skeptical but highly board, I tried it.

And to my astonishment it worked!

A few minutes later, “the clock seems to be running really slow”

Clever program. Half speed clock makes all download speeds show double speed.
Seems like a common bug where the macOS GUI isn't in "sync" with the system - https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/409748/why-does-ma...
slightly off topic but do you have some resources that explain maths in simple language, or using visualisation and code samples? Although I had calculus, linear algebra, probability theory, and discrete maths at uni, I have forgotten most of it. This sucks especially because from time to time I bump into a problem that could easily be modelled elegantly using math.
This may be connected to the Dominion audit.

Last time I mentioned this rumor that I didn't see addressed in the comments, I got silently downvoted. Perhaps because I didn't provide links. So I'll now provide links, because this deserves a closer look.

A skeptical layman contacted the Facebook post author and confirmed that it wasn't a fabricated post:

https://twitter.com/kr3at/status/1342673196470964225

The author set the post to private because his phone was blowing up.

https://twitter.com/kr3at/status/1342680906381799424

Human remains were found at the bombing scene, which suggests a body in the RV, possibly a suicide bomber babysitting the payload to prevent heroics, or a murder victim. Suicide bombing would fit the Stephen Paddock pattern.

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/authorities-recover-human-rema...

This matters because as motohagiography observed, we're missing a motive. Right-wing terrorists targeting infrastructure is a possibility, but they archetypically target electrical, not Internet, since they regard the Internet as their propaganda equalizer against the MSM and means of decentralized cohesion. Shutting down the Internet during the Presidential transition would seem contrary to their interests. (Targeting electrical also interdicts Internet, but the benefit of the havoc caused in Democrat cities outweighs this in their eyes.)

My original downvoted lazy comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25542746
The disadvantage is a consequence of Intel having a de facto monopoly for a decade. But that isn't necessary to have industry standards, as exemplified by what came before it -- there was plenty of competition and advancement in the 90s and early 2000s. For that matter, it's what's happening now. The current Zen line has world-class performance but they're still in systems using ACPI and ATX and PCIe.
There are quite a few urban areas with single occupant houses but without driveways. Most people wouldn’t want to install a charger out in their parking strip, on general principle - too exposed. Running high current wires out into the front yard and under the sidewalk would also be a mess.

And that’s all ignoring the fact that the city owns the parking strip, not you, and I don’t think they’re going to be interested in having that kind of equipment in their space.
Real Time Data Changed Everything
Totally agree with you. Bureaucracy/red tape at its worst.

It also seems to go against disability/accessibility laws. There must be more people that don't have fingerprints, like people with missing limbs.
If the data can't be validated on your end easily.

I'd suggest paying 3x people to do the same job and see if you can get the same output at least twice. Don't trust, verify.
> Conservative would be one thing. Stubbornly out of date would be another.

Indeed. Also often impractical.

A way to solve this is to support both a regular mode of operation and a FIPS mode of operation. I've worked on multiple enterprise products at different companies that take this approach. The full-on FIPS compliant mode is there to check all the boxes for customers who need that for their auditors. Even withing the set of those customers, a majority don't actually run the product in FIPS mode because it's too limited.
Hey, I remember you from the Scratch forums back in the early '10s. It's great to see that you're still producing excellent content!
This is a point that needs to driven home.

Yes, filling up gasoline delivers energy at an insanely high rate due to its density but the vast majority of that is wasted and not converted to miles driven.

The real comparison is miles of range delivered per minute of fueling. And a Tesla supercharger is already competitive with gasoline by this metric. If hydrogen takes longer than gas to fill up a tank for a similar range then its already behind just charging directly.
I’ve owned three Teslas and I can tell you that road tripping isn’t at all as convenient in a Tesla as an ICE.
same here. also the app remembers my orders well and the wings taste amazing. does the job I hire it for every time.
Are “hipster place” burgers, once you account for the miscellaneous accoutrements factually and measurably healthier than say a McChicken per serving? (Arguably if your diet includes a lot of McDonalds regularly that answer is “probably lot not” but I mean 1:1 meals)

Or is there a place where one could see some approximations? I’m curious as someone who loves the McChicken but knowingly keeps his consumption of them to a minimum.
Thank you so much for linking to this. I knew about many of the concepts in an abstract sense but this cemented them all together for me in an intuitive way.
I got my start at [redacted] working in their photocopier "QA" department. I say "QA" because it was more a factory setup than quality assurance office. Anyway we had test cases in folders with instructions on the front to configure the copier. Just the usual things like two-page scan to offset or collated with staples and a cover sheet, etc.

Every now and then a "strange" case would be sent down of a certain job type that would cause the copier to break and hit "UM" or "unscheduled maintenance" exactly like this story.

Had some interesting things pop up such as very creative ways people managed to bypass the currency detection to prevent printing (totally crap) currency copies or causing the printer to fail correctly printing the Machine Identification Code, even one scan to email job that caused a crash in the SMTP client so it would endlessly loop sending the same scan to the same email address every 5 minutes (300 second timeout) until you rebooted the machine.

Fun times! This was actually how I got started with software development. I was interested in the copiers ESS (Electronic Sub System) which was a very basic Intel system running LynxOS essentially bolted to the back of the copier. I was chatting to some of the OS devs about RTOS and how it differed from a "normal" OS so learnt C with books they gave me and answered many of my questions.

From there I managed to get a job up in the "real" QA department testing the printer drivers for Windows 9x, NT4, 2000 and the "soon to be released" Windows XP (or Whistler as it was known during development). I learnt how to use the Windows Debugger and about printer driver development which almost made me want to leave humanity and live in a cave somewhere in South America (:

Luckily I got to move into the "nicer" world of C++/MFC and then .NET (anyone remember Managed Extensions for C++ aka C++/CLI?!). Like I said, Fun Times!
I think they’ll need to replace more in the top management than just the CEO.
> The older one with that alias is now "Windows PowerShell", and is legacy and no longer developed.

It's still distributed by default with all versions of Windows where it is labelled “Powershell” with no qualifier.

Microsoft’s branding isn’t particularly internally consistent, so being ultrapedantic about one particular presentation of it, and one that itself conflicts with the one pushed most immediately in front of the largest set of customers by Microsoft, isn't necessarily a great approach.
Rechargeable N95 mask with 3D-printable silicon-cast mask mold
Tangentially related to graph dbs, but if you're looking for more hierarchical support, SQLite does has a transitive closure extension[0] that might be of some assistance. I leveraged this back in 2014 to write our framework-agnostic result storage on AWS Device Farm.

[0] - https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/artifact/636024302cde41b2bf0c...

[1] - https://charlesleifer.com/blog/querying-tree-structures-in-s...
The implementation that mostly works well in Canada and Alaska is a partial loser-pays system. The areas of the judiciary where it’s not strictly applied are the areas that have the most problems, namely Family Courts.
It depends on how the graph is stored in the database. In this project the nodes ids are TEXT so it will likely not scale very well. I know because I use a similar implementation with GUID as string in Sqlite in a project since a couple of years and while it works fine for the graph I have (<1 million nodes, few edges per nodes) it won’t perform too well past that.
rearranging deck chairs didn't help save the Titanic. that said I've seen turnaround CEOs do their thing before and this is a huge setup for someone if I ever saw it
Yes and a good driver can get you killed from good reaction time. Driving is a game of russian roulette that involves a lot of intelligences with poor senses doing random things.
My Advent of Code Story
QCOM doesn't care about performance. They are a licensing company that makes chips. Even if someone else was to make a faster chip they would still need to get a radio from qcom which would make it more expensive. With apple's margins they can afford to put qcom radio + their processor.
Skippy-XD: a full-screen, expose-style, task-switcher for X11
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25541329

still on front page and more comments
The solution is to DOWNGRADE to macOS Mojave - the last good Intel macOS where no app is discriminated based on their bits, and everything just works fine. :)
They're going to want to be able to export it. Also, the primary advantage of x86 is that it runs all the legacy Windows software, but China wouldn't want to use something that the US controls the updates for, nor would they want to use something that isn't getting updates, nor would they want to maintain their own Windows fork. And if they're going to use Linux then the architecture doesn't really matter and they might as well use one that they can export if they feel like it.
I think your analogy misses the most important benefit: you must use the government's library. If people were allowed to choose other libraries, then they might choose wrong. And since the government protects companies from the consequences of making bad choices, the government can't let them make those choices.

The great failing of so many here is that they don't recognize that uniformity and centralization are more important than innovation. If those innovations really are better, then you can vote to elect representatives to nominate regulators to eventually change the requirements. This is how things work in a civilized society.
I reverse engineered Google Docs to play back any document's keystrokes (2014)
> But those strike me as much more cases of people "holding it wrong" than rails being the problem.

My idea exactly.

To stretch that analogy: Rails has guides, books and neat API documentation explaining how you should "hold it properly" (and when not to etc.). But it also lacks "notches", "crossbeams" or "ridges" that help people "hold it properly" on a daily basis.
A more recent effort: https://cgsql.dev/
Same here.

Having tried TypeScript and Kotlin, TypeScript is like a half-assed type system that gives you cryptic error messages in compile time and mindfuck stack traces in run time.

Using assert(value, message?) function ends up being more useful and ergonomic.
Having lived in a country with very real political bombings, I have little time for false flag discourse without evidence.
WSL is good for for running Linux on top of Windows with convenient but not always efficient interop, but if you just want Zshell for Windows, you can do that too:

https://medium.com/@borekb/zsh-via-msys2-on-windows-3964a943...
It's amazing how different are names to call German people across europe: german, deutsch, allemand, vācietis
It's most likely for personnel training. It would probably have been shown on a small projector in a classroom setting, much like is still done today.
yes, and it does not include significant buyback https://ycharts.com/companies/DPZ/stock_buyback
It’s possible that the sample set of anecdotes I base this on is a bit skewed, as I teach undergraduate maths. In my limited experience I had to put a lot more effort into keeping basic differential calculus in the required freshman curriculum than my colleagues from the English department had to keep the %#^* five-paragraph essay. (Full disclosure, I’ve also taught our “Communications” course because of a misspent youth in an Arts program and work as a technical writer, and my colleagues from the English department supported me in killing the Essay Writing part of the course—-the fight was with government and industry reps who’d swallowed the “soft-skills” pill.)
Hanford predates commercial nuclear power this is manhatten project era site. they made the plutonium for trinnity Nagasaki and they really didn't know much about how to handle radio active materials back in the early 40's. Hanford the idea was hey this stuff is dangerous lets through it in the vat of other dangerous stuff* we need to get rid of.

* other dangerous stuff being fun things like mustard gas and nerve agents

This was supposed to be cleaned up purified put into safe modern radioactive waste containment vessels and stored deep in Yucca mountain until the NIMBY folks got involved.
Is this going to be a relatively quick fix for herpes simplex variants and HIV?
One more vote against “nobody orders because of the app”, back in college ordering Dominoes (or Daaahhmmss, as we were more likely to refer to it at the time), was the go-to purely because of the app. It saved each of our favorite orders, our payment methods, and our locations. Thus it was trivial to make complicated purchases even N drinks into the night. No other pizza provider came close to that level of simplicity. Hell, barely any software in general receives the esteemed “can you use this while totally blasted” UX certification.
"lefties" is a much broader category than anti-government militias. Other than that, no argument from me
This is entirely false. It's called the long tailpipe theory.

Every study that suggests this conclusion was published by Oil companies in the 90s to shut down California's effort to switch to electric cars by the year 2000.

No actual study has ever found this conclusion and in fact all find the opposite. Even with the worse polluting power generating plants, charging an EV directly off of the massive grid power generation is far more efficient in terms of pollution than burning gas inside your car.
I notice that compilers are often singled out (unfairly imo) in these discussions. I found the language theory + compilers sequence to be one of the most practically useful parts of the entire major. in two semesters, I went from helpless googling to actually understanding compiler errors. I'll concede that the typical "toy compiler" projects are maybe not the best use of time for someone who wants to be a software engineer, but understanding PDAs and context-free languages is super helpful when you don't have the luxury of using a friendly compiler. most of the value is front-loaded in language theory, but a compilers course really drives the concepts home.
Although every country does have factions that want to screw everyone else the moment they get the chance, thankfully every country also has people, often in substantial positions, with longer ranging foresight than that. Though of course the proportions varies with time, culture, level of development, norms, history, dogma, politics, etc., across the globe.

In China’s case where there are thousands of people in positions of substantial authority due to its size, with hundreds joining those ranks every year, it is credible that a few would seek short term advantages over all other considerations. The variability of human nature all but guarantees it. Hopefully the proportion will decline in the future, at the very least the long term self interest of the other folks will be a countervailing force.
It is a generalization to assert "Suburbia means that every trip out of the house will require a car", when it is easy to show there are counterexamples where this is not true.

One could say "There are suburban areas where every trip requires a car" and that's a true statement. The generalization is not a true statement.
OP's story and the article's author are kind of missing the point. These are both simple stories of a vendor failing to meet a [presumably] written requirement: The customer, or regulator, required X, and vendor decided instead to provide Y, and then were dumbfounded when that was deemed unacceptable. OP's vendor went farther, offering Z instead, and the customer again reminded them that X was required. It doesn't really matter if there are better alternatives than X. Those alternatives are not part of the requirement.

Whether Y=X-1 or Z=X+1 is irrelevant. Customer requires X, you provide X or they'll find another software vendor.
It's often mixed with opiates that people abuse. I'm thinking of percocet (oxycodone + paracetamol). While interaction with alcohol is best avoided, the reality is that people aren't ending up in ER's because they took two 500mg's and had half a bottle of wine with dinner.
What’s the protocol for someone with no fingers?

Knew a girl that had fingers but no arms.
I live in New Mexico. I found 3 or 4 dead songbirds outside my house this fall. This was happening in ~October. The die-off has halted since then, I'd estimate it lasted about 3 weeks.
You may find Tiddlywiki [0] useful as it can be synced with github and provides very flexible and easy organization of that kind of information. Or look at Drift [1] for a nice setup

[0] https://tiddlywiki.com/

[1] https://akhater.github.io/drift/
I’ve even tried filing Feedback bug reports on lack of progress or inadequate progress displays and it always comes back as “working to spec” or “as designed” or some similarly-insulting thing.

Frankly, “designers” have way too much power at Apple. There seems to be no way to convince them that these things are ranging from poorly-designed to just plain broken.
Every Norwegian owns this much of Apple, Google and so on
I hate it that other people can lock you out of your own account. I am pretty sure someone attempting to log in many times to my account was the reason Twitter switched to phone verification due to "suspicious activity". It happened after I had a seemingly calm debate over some IT stuff. So now I have to verify via phone to log in to my account, which I will not do. I can, however, create a new account that uses e-mail verification, until it switches to phone-only again. Terrible.

Oh, and I just made a new account today. It already started bothering me: "We've temporarily limited some of your account features". Come on. This time it is about "Pass a Google reCAPTCHA challenge". Next time it will be phone verification. I will not bother with Twitter if it happens.
Amazon union leader passes away
If you give it Location access it wakes up as you move around and does a little backing up until the OS puts it back to sleep.

I hardly ever open the Dropbox app manually but I see my photos from my phone appearing in Dropbox when I check on other devices. Slightly delayed (a day maybe) but that’s fine. It’s just for backup.

You can check that Dropbox is trying to do this by looking for the ‘Improve Background Uploading’ setting in the app’s settings page, and enable Location access in the OS settings for the app, if that makes sense!
Cheaper is not always better.
> so instead of advancing a few lines to the next page, it would try to advance thousands or millions of lines. This particular terminal model was a new, high speed one, so it would try to advance the paper really fast. [...] causing some bits of paper to shred and get kicked up as dust. Along with a spark [...] causing the terminal to catch fire.

Great story! It really gives a new interpretation to the classic phase "halt and catch fire." The original interpretation was the apocalyptic myth that the CPU starts switching the bus really fast, overheats the bus drivers, and eventually ignites the electronics, which doesn't make much sense. Now we have a more realistic one. To be precise, not "halt and catch fire", but "CRLF and catch fire"?

BTW, legends also say that the flammability of early printers was the origin of Unix's "lp0 on fire!" joke error message, which can still be seen in Linux for USB printers.

/*
* Get and print printer errors.
*/

static const char *usblp_messages[] =
{ "ok", "out of paper", "off-line", "on fire" };
People without a cryptographic background may not be aware that this is even worse than how it sounds.

SHA-256 is a cryptographic hash function. It's a good cryptographic hash function. But it's not a password hash function. They have different goals. Particularly a cryptographic hash is trying to be fast, while a password hash is trying to be slow.

You can use a cryptographic hash function as a password hash, it's better than nothing. But it's a really poor choice. If this story happened as it's told, it not only means that compliance is making wrong decisions, it also means the auditor didn't know what he was talking about.

There are FIPS-approved password hashes, even ones building upon SHA256 (PBKDF2-SHA2-256). It would've been less bad to propose to move from bcrypt to such a function. (Still not really justified, as bcrypt is a fine password hash function.)
why is everyone forgetting suitability? maybe i'm just not a good behavioral fit for chartered accountancy, or virologist or civil engineer.

impact aside there are some jobs that i'll be better at and will enjoy more.
I don't think hydrogen powered vehicles are viable. But what if solar-splitting of water followed by electricity generation with a fuel cell turned out the be more efficient than the best solar cells? I doubt it, but it seems like a maybe.
I think I know the logic behind this, but could you clarify/confirm it?
We'll see how well this comment ages.

The slow approval process is because side effects can take a long time to show up. I very much hope there aren't any but we've been there before.
I stayed up late looking at network maps/etc trying to figure out any special features of the location, this was the only thing I could find. Likely coincidence, possibly not, but very high chance many people at 3-letter orgs have had a busy 24 hours as they also need to rule out some of the more exotic motives.
You might not accept Wikipedia as a source but anyways: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk_hypothesis

> Professors Andrew W. Lo and Archie Craig MacKinlay, professors of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively, have also presented evidence that they believe shows the random walk hypothesis to be wrong. Their book A Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street, presents a number of tests and studies that reportedly support the view that there are trends in the stock market and that the stock market is somewhat predictable.

It's an open question/debate in academia whether the random walk hypothesis is true or false.