skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if a dependency is a perfectly sealed abstraction, where a complex function is reduced to a simple one with no leakage, then there's no reason not to use it.

Obviously, in the real world, this basically never happens. Performance is one thing that's basically always going to 'leak', so you still get people rewriting stuff in assembly, or making custom asics, because the abstractions that higher level languages offer are not perfect.

In a strongly typed language, with strong safety guarantees, I think there are less ways an abstraction can leak (for instance, by corrupting memory or whatever), so there's a correspondingly lower cost to pulling in a dependency than there would be if you were working in an unsafe language, or a dynamic one.

I also think if performance is the only way in which your dependency leaks implementation details, then it still makes sense to pull in a dependency first, profile, then swap out if necessary.
what about people with no limb? (wether genetical or accidental)
seems the law is way too rigid and exclude people by lazyness/stupidity
I feel kind of betrayed that this domain is not hosting a communist interest group.
Compliance is in fact not the same as security. Just like our non-technology laws are not equivalent to ethics. Laws exist for many reasons, and change over time as societies ideals and requirements change.

For example, just because we have laws against burglary, it doesn't mean that you can leave your door unlocked. Being "compliant" in no way means you are being secure. This is highly dangerous thinking that many many many organizations are guilty of.

As for the regulators, yes, they care about you being compliant not secure. Just like lawyers care about things being legal, not "right." It's their job to make sure you comply with the law, it's not their job to make sure the law is correct, or that you are doing things in your best interest outside of what the laws say.

Also, just like every law, security compliance regulations do become outdated, in some cases even being actively harmful. For instance, look at how password compliance has been overhauled in the last several years. Previous to this, many people knew based on technical data and research that old password compliance rules were not best practice, or even outright harmful. The auditors didn't care, it wasn't their job to evaluate whether the existing compliance rules were right. Eventually standards bodies caught up, but even today you have some compliance people who won't let go of the old ways.

So in my opinion, the author has a very good and correct point, compliance isn't about being secure. It's necessary to have, like many of our laws and regulations, but it's not the same as security. We should strive that our laws always match outcomes and current understanding of best practices, but there is never a 1:1 equivalence.
Performance issues are a very valid discussion.
But to me, the availability of a graph-oriented query language on top of this graph variant of SQLite is, imho, the very first step to investigate.
(RDF import/CSV import being next)
The headline falsely represents the content of the article. Lizzie Magie was in favor of free trade, and invented Monopoly to demonstrate the evils of landlordism because she was a georgist.
For fun, this is the ShowHN for FaunaDB back in March 2017, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13879475
This brings me back to night shift production support: My infrastructure buddy came to my desk at about 1 AM and said, 'Hey, I emailed you a Word doc, could you print it for me?'. I opened it and hit print and my computer immediately went to blue screen. He said 'Yea, that happened to me too, I wondered if it was just my computer'.

Nowadays, the suspicion meter is much more sensitive.
The height of nihilism. "I don't care what happens to humanity..."
> I think you're confusing me with someone else

You're right, but the similarity between your comment and the one from 11 days ago is uncanny: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25417481
Amazing work. The idea of grouping similar packages together makes this post way better and more useful than any similar analysis I've seen.
Tangentially-related:

So we were looking at smartwatches available, and we were deciding between the Apple Watch and fitbits. I was surprised to learn the fitbits give you incredibly detailed data on the quality of your sleep but Apple watch doesn't... and I was thinking huh, that's strange, certainly the Apple Watch has the sensors to be able to produce the data and Apple has the engineering talent to make sense of the data and present it to the end-user in a meaningfully appropriate manner.

I can't find the article now, but apparently it came out from Apple engineers that they ultimately chose not to disclose detailed data to the user because burdening the end-user with this information can cause a mental overload... so instead Apple opted to focus on developing habits (hence the 'go to sleep' notifications and the clever sleep-hour alarms).

I've had some time to reflect on this since I was having these conversations with my acquaintances... and I've gotta say, I think I agree with Apple's approach.
Taxes, delivery fees, and tips will add another $7 even without sides or extras.
Thread by Prof Joshua Landy on Glenn Greenwald
This is a disingenuous comparison.

The specific energy of gasoline does not matter unless put into context with the efficiency of the mechanism extracting it into useful work.

The mechanism in this case is an internal combustion engine and its efficiency is around 10%.

The mechanism for extracting useful work from a battery is an electric motor, and it achieves ~98% efficiency.

Which means gas is only ~4X more dense in terms of actual useful energy. So a battery pack weighing 4x more than full gas tank to get the same range is not unreasonable at all and is basically what a Tesla is.
It's not just North America.
The only example I can think of is the area around Chernobyl seeing a return of many species.

Which just goes to show that deadly radiation is better for the environment than the presence of humans.
Don't the drafts for NIST FIPS 186-5 and SP 800-186 both include Curve25519-based algorithms?
I think you're correct as far as you go, but hydrogen has other uses, as an input to chemicals such as Ammonia that are currently produced and/or used in ways that release CO2.

Just Ammonia for fertilizer alone generates 2% of annual CO2 emmisions, so that alone is a market worth targetting in both environmental and business sense. As soon as the inevitable policy response kicks in there will be a massive market for green ammonia (and therefore hydrogen).

Ammonia has a decent shot at being a shipping or aviation fuel too, but many of its alternatives need the same input of green hydrogen anyway so can share costs and scale with Ammonia production.

As for intermittent renewables, we're approaching the point where we shift from mostly underproduced and only occasionally overprovisioned to them being near permanently overprovisioned and needing to find uses for that electricity that can be rarely halted to help the grid a few times a year.

Hydrogen production fits the cost profile for long-term/seasonal storage that no lithium battery can hit, even if they drop in price even more than currebtly predicted.
Yeah, that’s dedication! Most bug report handlers today won’t even try to reproduce the bug on a weaker machine. Forget fire risk!
> You seem to have a problem with the standard that says SOC3 facilities should have encrypted hard drives, not the auditor who is actually trying to enforce that standard.

Isn't that exactly what the article says? That auditors are looking for compliance, not security?
You can happily set the autopilot speed to above the speed limit. There are a few gotchas and it won’t always let you, but in general, it is fine. I normally set it to 10% higher than the posted speed limit as an example.
I assume it was a pun, for the other kind of “heads up”. The surf report says that to me.
Then there is my eldest daughter.

“Dad, car has been a little bumpy for the past month”

I hop in go down to road.
Experience is best described as driving on square tires. https://youtu.be/QF7odK55gkI

Both front tires had massive bulges sticking out.

She had been driving like that for a month.
A valid suggestion, but the growing dust bowl might mean that general plant growth is down, less seed and insects = starvation mode. For decades the South west has been depleting all of it's aquifers, so wells are getting deeper and with more salt and other mineral intrusions. This is all tied to the global warming. The great lakes are getting wetter, so major canal works to direct some of the great lakes excess to the southern and western water table is the solution. Now the excess water drains unused into the Atlantic ocean - flooding many US/Canada riverine communities.
I wonder if there are ways, in SQLite, to build indices for s,p,o/s,p/p,o/ and maybe more subtle ones...
That would be uber nice, given the fact that most graph databases have their own indexing strategies, and you cannot craft your own.
Florida braced for unusually cold Christmas – and falling iguanas
uhoh. you're going to rattle the Tesla fanbois.
For years I've watched the rivers in Washington State receive consideration. Progress has been made and continues to be.

Saying humankind has done "nothing" is not only mistaken, but makes for poor conversation. Perhaps more people should take a page from Attenborough.

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/dec/17/for-the-first-...
@bigyikes' comment is, well.. a "big yikes" in the "I can't believe a human being is this entitled" way, but I will agree slightly with them that 2.5 miles is well within even the most restrictive delivery radii. I'm sure the sibling is correct that it's most likely due to COVID precautions.
You think it's regulation issue. I say it's because it's overtrust for an almost working system.

If something gets good enough you will rely on it more and more. It will work, until it doesn't.
This is great! Self-promotion or not, thanks for sharing.
> "It's still distributed by default with all versions of Windows where it is labelled “Powershell” with no qualifier."

No, it's called "Windows PowerShell", look: https://i.imgur.com/119yPbK.png

> "so being ultrapedantic about one particular presentation of it, isn't necessarily a great approach."

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/ - official documentation has sections for "PowerShell" and "Windows PowerShell 5.1".

You have outdated information. You can either update your information and use the current names, or you can pretend a tool from 4 years ago which has been deprecated and superceded at least twice, is the current one, the same way you can pretend that Windows 8 is the current desktop and be angry about the full screen start menu that "Windows has".
Snowden: “We Can Fix a Broken System”
Cephadm with Ceph 5 alpha 4
The McTrain: The Rise and Fall of McDonald's Plan to Conquer the Railroads
It's interesting you mention Pablo Escobar, because I don't know if you could say his bombing campaign was ideology-based; however it most certainly was intended to cause terror, e.g. (narco)terrorism.
Perhaps we'll see a move towards abstracting away the underlying architecture ...
They're inconsistent too. macOS updates have progress bars that give you an estimate for completion. iOS updates just show you a progress bar with no estimated time. And this is what I worry with macOS becoming more like iOS.
"Witnesses claim the man behind the wheel and his passenger were asleep with their seats fully reclined, as their Tesla travelled up to 150 km/h on the freeway near Ponoka..."

Given this and the man's other past incidents, the Tesla was only a minor contributing factor in the guy's global stupidity and danger that he inflicts on the world daily?

Edit: Btw, what would be the end accident scenario here? Presuming that the car wouldn't hit any other car on the road, would it lose control on a curve that was too tight for the speed, or fail at the end of the freeway or something? Would it alarm and then come to a gradual stop? Not a Tesla owner here.
I take a standard adult dose in the morning, 6-8 hours after I stop drinking and after plenty of water. I’m not worried about it. Also, to be fair, I usually take ibuprofen. Acetaminophen hits different though, sometimes it’s what you need.
Wow, thanks for the heads up!
> The same Greenwald who kept excoriating Democrats for believing Russiagate without sufficient evidence—this Greenwald believes possibly fake emails should be widely circulated.

> This is who Greenwald is. It’s really important to be clear about that. Don’t let him fool you.
Maybe, if you can find a place that will deliver you a more-or-less similar quality pizza without the delivery fee, tax, or tip. But you can't. Yeah you can pick up a $10 pizza from a mom & pop that will arguably be better pizza, but nobody orders Dominoes for good pizza, they order it for consistency and convenience.

If you compare apples to apples you're paying $8 for a reasonably acceptable pizza.
It's fine, they will update your car remotely and remove the bug. Eventually. By the end of a year.

Still want one though.
If you're in software, you probably know this, but your bug was likely ignored not because it couldn't be reproduced, but because the engineers on the project were prioritizing feature work for the next version of the scanner, and did not have any support from management for fixing bugs in an already-shipping product. Sadly, driver software quality tends to max out at the level where customers won't return the hardware for a refund, and then the company abandons it and works on the next shiny new device.
Also usually more expensive for less hardware features. Unfortunately they don’t make much sense as home appliances.
Bit confused by your comment—Costco is a big box store. I paid maybe $10 for the bottle. I’m not taking it daily, nor do I take more than a standard amount. I was just commenting that it’s sold in much larger quantities here, not that I’m abusing acetaminophen or alcohol.
Is there a place to propose a new propulsion method?
Who would listen to an outsider?
Yeah, I've had a variant of that, wherein the printer driver turned on fpes.
I really hated SmartTVs and would actively avoid them, but I recently got one of the Roku branded TVs and it's actually quite good. Roku has always been great for me in terms of software updates, availability of streaming services, and good-enough UI that everyone in the family can use it.
Someone that can take something confusing they've written and then refactor it into something easy to read and modify is better than most compsci skills. Because that person can usually suffer through hours of googling to find a math solution to a problem.
I don't see why they can't make a deal with Comcast to have access to their public Wi-Fi network so that their Smart TV's "just work".
Yes, you could have a digital twin of e.g. a tractor (which would relay commands to the actual tractor and fetch its state) and control that from a mobile phone (or something).
Not a bug. This is a weird but documented phenomenon. There are multiple published technical bulletins on similar issues caused by uneven tire wear/replacement. I must admit that I never came across traction control false activation due to 2 new tires. I have seen burnt transfer cases on AWD with this though. Were you advised by a shop to change just 2 or was it your independent decision?
i tried one of these fancy tricks on one of my Kindle earlier this year. then i threw all the Kindles away.
Programming is nothing more than a list of instructions. Understanding data structures doesn’t require math, just logic. Maybe some mathematical operations can be derived from observation but the numbers behind it don’t really need to be known.

I’ve never been able to grasp mathematics as numbers. My ability to work with numbers is severely compromised by my disability. This hasn’t hurt my ability to excel as a web developer. In fact, while I can’t visualize individual formulas or algorithms, I can visualize very complicated applications. And I likely know what types of algorithms and data structures would be likely be optimal.

Even if I don’t know the “correct” math, I know where to look for it.
Considering PostScript is Turing complete, it is still possible, and will always be possible, to make a PostScript file that takes 3 seconds to interpret, despite advances in CPU technology.

Have modern laser printers solved the problem mechanically?
This sounds interesting. I'm interested in your podcast. Link?
Does anyone remember SoftRAM? Basically it was fraud, but claimed to double your ram using software.
Can we add 2014 to title?
There were some discussions in the same spirit on previous smart TV threads on HN but I'm not fully sure if there was any real example, or was it just hypothetical discussion which became an urban legend. Any particular examples other than "people say"?
There are some applications where energy density is far more important than energy efficiency. Airplanes come to mind. You would accept the pumping losses when it comes to filling a 737 with hydrogen, because you literally can’t make that plane work with batteries at this point in time.
Partial order and non-Boolean logic
Fun read and clever hacking. It's fun to think about the insane resolution of the breadcrumbs we leave online.
> typically selectable but cannot be changed while in motion

Not true for a long time now. Manually locking hubs required egress while stopped but at some point 4wd tech progressed.
I would assume the people at NASA that deal with advanced propulsion concepts have a high barrier, but, if you have working hardware, I'd try them first.

How outlandish is it?
Even we translators have been targeted! A couple of my colleagues have sent manuscripts of translated Chinese fiction to bogus editors. If you thought unpublished original fiction was unlikely to be a profitable ripoff, unpublished translated foreign fiction is even more head-scratching.

I asked a friend to send me one of the emails so I could look at the headers. All I could get was that it appeared to be sent from an Italian-language webmail setup, no other clues I could find.
Right now the research is two parts, analyzing websites robots.txt files for bias and then talking with search engine operators and website operators to get their stories that validate these ideas. Right now I am the main person working on this research but I would like to get the robots.txt parsing and analysis code open sourced soon to allow people to start digging in. Getting people access to the data is trickier, but it feels doable as well. You'd be welcome to join in!
All those loopholes can easily be closed, but they're not.
I just don't understand. How can you be excited to silo off computing technology? Because you're impressed by benchmarks? Another comment mentions margins - 200 dollar ram upgrades. What's exciting about that?

We need competition and an open play field or I fear the barrier to entry for new hackers will grow too large.
Unfortunately, commercial displays are typically much more expensive and lack a lot of the modern picture-quality features most people would consider requirements at this point like 4K and HDR.
It's almost like arguing with any other fanboy on the internet. Maybe the brand doesn't really make a difference, maybe it's just the being of a fanboy.
Stumbled onto this explanation of how a Torsen differential works. I'm still trying to wrap my head around it, but it basically uses the one-way nature oh how a worm gear can turn a regular gear but not the other way around (due to the high gear ratio involved).

So in this differential, the housing can turn both wheels simultaneously, but if one wheel slips and becomes free, it can't direct the torque to the free wheel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEiSTzK-A2A

Maybe someone has a better explanation?
Why not use one of the large computer monitors on the market?
Anything dumb and oled? I'd like to upgrade my LG 1080p but not yet found a top quality image but with dumb internals. So far, I just don't connect to Wi-Fi.

Something I have noticed with my smart tv is that it takes a significant time to boot up before it's able to inputs... This is progress, I guess...
I had sort of thought this was by design, all the drives are sharing the same amount of free space. If you were to use some of that, it would then show less available space. I think it’s called space sharing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_File_System
A couple glasses of water before bed works at least as well as a pill the next morning, in my experience. Hangovers are one of the main ways I feel myself getting old! Haha
> 1. Keep your cat indoors.

I don't know. I've been considering pets for several months since I'm now spending so much time at home and, as for many people looking for some at home companionship, it comes down to dog or cat.

I've read a reasonable amount of material that suggests that if your cat is kept indoors it's a lot more likely to be unhappy. So if you must own a cat then keeping it indoors may not be the best strategy for the cat. On the other hand, the point about environmental impact of cats - killing of birds and other small animals - might be a really good argument against having cat full stop. If you can't keep it in a way that ensures its welfare whilst also ensuring that it doesn't cause havoc amongst the local wildlife, maybe don't get one at all.
The floating point control word is a register in the Intel 8087 FP coprocessor and in all later Intel/AMD/etc. processors that implement the 8087 instruction set.

That register contains bits that control various aspects of how the floating-point instructions must behave, e.g. rounding mode, precision and exception masks (also infinity type in coprocessors older than 80387).

For the later SSE/AVX instruction sets there is another register with similar control bits for the SSE/AVX instructions.
Washing dishes and some types of work may also erase fingerprints. Friend had troubles to enter US as a tourist.
I got a Roku device too, and just didn't connect it to the internet. Works fine for me. I'd still prefer an unconnected option, but this will do.
What doublespeak? Do you have a preferred authority?
I live in Iowa. It's about as "middle-of-the-country" as it gets. Lines at charger stations are really a California problem as of now. I have never encountered it driving throughout the midwest and I have gone on some long road-trips.

As for taking 30 minutes to charge, what people usually do is to make sure their charging stops line up with food/bathroom breaks. Realistically, if I drive 10-12 hours in a day, I would stop about 3-4 times for food/bathroom breaks, if not more. This lines up perfectly with the range in my Model 3 AWD. In many cases, I have ended up having to get up and go get my car to avoid idle-rates because it finished charging while we were still eating.

On these trips, I usually pick a hotel/B&B with destination charging so that I can get going in the morning the next day with a full battery.
Actually I think the companies that should be most worried are HP/Lenovo/Dell. They have been reliant on Microsoft and Intel for decades and have become complacent.

I never understood why HP in particular ceded so much to Microsoft.
I just choose not to connect any TV to the internet.

Any internet connected device goes through an HDMI switch.

Hopefully that continues to work for me.
...that contain “Django” in the package name.

AND file.project like '%django%'

How reliable is that? Are there any well-known packages that don’t contain literal “Django” in their package names?
It doesn't grill chicken, it keeps it warm.
I’m a huge fan of Elon Musk so take this with a grain of salt, but the company has totally misled and overhyped the self driving feature. It’s almost like a wink and a nod, giving people a false perception, and that’s wrong.
Yes, and powerfully indicators of which services are full of trash.

Nothing like that here on HN, and it's some of the best news/comments on the web.