skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Dire Possibility of Cyberattacks on Weapons Systems
True, but it seems like they blamed it on MongoDB just being bad without justification and proposed Postgres as the solution.
But I am not seeing from the author an argument that his start-up idea is better then next person's who wants it too. Let's say you got it for $10 but then you sit on it and do little progress. But someone else has a better execution or idea than yours. How is it then fair or better overall? I think It's a perfect way to vote for your business idea: put up more money if you believe if it's worth it. If you were blocked to execute your idea because someone is squatting, then I'll agree but as others pointed out, you're not blocked. You might lose a little money if you really want that domain. Then again you should be able to make up if it's really good.
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Though uber.com wasn't "unsquatted". It used to belong to media&creatives startup before that: confused me initially when it pivoted to rideshares :)

https://web.archive.org/web/20070605175835/http://www.uber.c...
If it isn't my favorite website collector, Mr. Condor
For me personally, as an owner of an LG device who just yesterday had to accept new T&Cs for these ads, I'm very interested in the actual topic but I understand your point. That's why I'm theorizing about a function separating "general comments" from "topic-specific comments".
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I think there's lots of room for something interesting here.

Partly because google results aren't great at the moment and haven't been great for quite a while and partly because the internet is more balkanised than it was, and often I'd be happy to keep my queries within one of the partitions.

For example, search targetting just the websites that don't sell my data to 300 third parties, or that are available worldwide (not just outside the eu) or search that targets just a curated set of websites that are making an effort to provide authoritative content (e.g. wikipedia, stack overflow, respected news sources, actual academic papers). For searching for things I've recently discovered, search that spiders from aggregators and social media (reddit, hackernews, twitter, facebook) would be most valuable. Search inside audio (podcasts), video and images could also be much better.

If I could bring myself to trust them, I'd want something where every site I visited was spidered and I could do full text search within my own history.

The long tail stuff is hard, but I think it'd be OK to delegate that stuff to currently existing engines, you could provide massive value just by doing a better job of the basics.

Point being, I think the space has quite a lot of potential for disruption despite the challenges.
> Probably one of the reasons that startups tend to have nonsense made up words for names?

Yes

> Having said that really good names are probably taken by legitimate businesses.

And No. Very no. There are lots of really good names out there that are being sat on, doing nothing. Anyone who's started a business can tell you of the infuriating days or weeks spent coming up with good names and then finding they're all being squatted, before settling for some nonsense made up name because "ffs I don't care any more, just hammer something into the keyboard that's available and we'll have that and get on with it"
What is this? Alt-right cooking?
Yup. In fact, about a decade ago, I “brought” a domain from a squatter, only to have them refuse to turn over full authority.

Apparently, I was just “leasing” it. There was no contract; just a simple payment.

I started raising a stink. They made some attempts at barratry, I said “bring it on,” so they rather sourly tossed me the keys, and told me to get out.

The idea is that you “lease” a domain to someone, who imbues it with value, and becomes dependent on it, then you raise the price on lease end.

If they had actually spent a few dollars, getting a lawyer to draft a contract, I would have been screwed.
The trouble is the people who will spend money to remove ads are exactly the people who the advertisers want to target.
That cannot possibly be true.

Do you imagine the fallout if it came out ( and how would in not, thousands of people would have passed through, one disgruntled employee is enough) ? AWS would lose most customers within a few years, Amazon.com as well ( disgusted buyers and sellers), there'd be lawsuit everywhere. I really don't think anyone in Amazon is stupid enough to risk a trillion dollar business for some potential competitive advantage on whatever sold on Amazon.com
Is this US-only thing? I have an LG and a Samsung TV, both less than 4 years old. Neither do this. I'm inside the EU, so I wonder if GDPR is protecting me from the misbehavior.

Failing that, I guess, there's always the PiHole DNS shenanigans. But you shouldn't have to be the IT guy/gal just to help your next-door neighbor watch their damn TV.
Their privacy policy:

https://neeva.co/privacy

They still plan to collect a lot of data, and share it with:

IT and related services
Payment processors
Analytics providers
Customer service providers
Vendors to support the provision of the Services

Microsoft is one such provider where we may share limited personal information in order to make the Services available. You can read about their use of data in Microsoft's privacy policy.

So, Microsoft's frequently-changing (last updated: January 2021) privacy policy effectively applies:

https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement

While more competition is always good news, I can't see this as a privacy-conscious choice.

Edit: You can even connect your Google account, and they will collect the data about you and your contacts from it. I wouldn't be surprised if they end up getting blocked for this by Google on, ironically, privacy grounds (Google has no interest in assisting an emerging competitor like this if they can get away with it, and they probably can).

Then, there's this gem:

We may aggregate or de-identify the information we collect. Aggregated or de-identified data is not subject to this Privacy Policy.

It's been demonstrated before that this is also a privacy risk. AOL's "de-identified" release of search-engine data turned out to be a privacy disaster:

https://www.cnet.com/news/aols-disturbing-glimpse-into-users...

https://www.cnet.com/news/aol-apologizes-for-release-of-user...

A privacy-respecting search engine should just not collect all this data in the first place.
Nice, I hadn't heard of this project before!

In particular BOOTSTRA [1] looks really fun. I have also toyed with the idea of using MS-DOS 3.30 as a guaranteed-ubiquitous build environment.

It comes with a filesystem, a text editor (EDLIN.EXE), an object file linker (yup!), a debugger/assembler (DEBUG.EXE is an amazing tool), a programming language with decent string handling (GWBASIC.EXE), and a command interpreter with batch file scripting to glue it all together.

Not sure I would write the assembler as batch files though, that is really hardcore. :)

That entire build environment would fit on a single 360KB floppy.

[1] https://github.com/mniip/BOOTSTRA
Less wind in the winter is surely not true for countries in Europe.
You don't understand? We have used legible and understandable words for companies through the ages. Making up a new word and hoping people to remember it is much harder than associating it with something they already know - such as "New York Times" or "Facebook". I'm much more confused if I don't understand a name of the company than the one that I understand.
The civilization in decline is the one that destroys the environment in order to build spaceships.

Not that so-called renewables will actually solve that, cutting energy usage on the other hand definitely would help.
Float doesn't make sense either. What is floating?

(I know it's floating point, but it's the same as long/double).
The idea is that it would be similar to the way that photons mediate the effect of the electromagnetic field. Though I've personally always thought that this description wasn't too good at explaining large gradual changes in the electromagnetic field, similar to how gravitons are a bit of weird model for the large gradual curvature of spacetime (it's not that it can be done but it is a bit awkward).

Anyway the most straightforward way to implement gravitons in this sense doesn't pan out mathematically so we're not even sure if this model is at all accurate.
Any FizzBuzz example almost feels too silly to deserve a serious comment. But here goes.

As you noticed, the FizzBuzz pattern has a period of 15. So if you want to go fast, just go directly to a 15x vectorized unroll with unaligned stores.

Assuming 32-byte vectors like with AVX2, you initialize two vector registers v0, v1 to hold the pattern of 15 4-byte values (the 16th value doesn't matter) corresponding to 0 through 15. You also have corresponding delta vector registers d0, d1 whose entries are +15 for the "pass-through" values and 0 for the -1/-2/-3 sentinel values. The loop kernel is just this:

store_unaligned(p, v0)
store_unaligned(p + 8, v1)
v0 += d0
v1 += d1
p += 15

And of course you still need the remainder loop.

You could remove the unaligned stores with a monstrous lcm(15, 16) = 240x unroll (16 shifted instances of the above kernel) but you wouldn't be able to keep all the necessary loop state in registers.
Too bad the article wasn't able to give any examples or add anything new other to what the headline says.
Why nightmarish? A reviewer may explain that it is prone for other human to overlook the end of conditional and go sleep as usual. I never understood the emotional component of blaming someone’s personal code styles, as if it were a religion with sacrifices and blasphemy instead of just a practical way of coding in a heterogeneous team.

This triggers me because many people jump on “bad c0de” in the forums, but then you read some practical code on github, and it is (a) not as perfectly beautiful as they imagine at all and (b) is still readable without nightmares they promised and (c) the algorithms and structure itself requires programmer’s perception and understanding levels far beyond the “it’s monday morning so i feel like missing an end of statement in a hand-written scanner” anyway.
> If I am building a financial product which directly handles money or money instruments (bank, stock trading) I would definitely not use mongo for that.

My friend used to work for citi bank, his team managed high value transactions (in billions). I was _stunned_ to hear that they were storing all their data in MongoDB.
e.g. a secret bank account that can be accessed by presenting a token. It's like a transferrable password: once it's given to someone, the previous owner forgets it.
Huh, I would have guessed that "kosher" had something to do with that blood was sometimes used in the boiling pans to clean the salt back when salt was produced by evaporating sea water. But apparently not.
Yes, I assumed as such as soon as I read "personalized" in this article. Companies don't tend to do all that in-house, so they'll try to figure out your personal life and send it off as usual. I find this ethically questionable practice a bit strange when filter bubbles are not necessarily even good for your search experience. You'd think it would make more business sense out of both technical reasons and PR to steer clear of it. I mean, I see many complaints about Google results lately and they're the experts at this. I'd stick with DuckDuckGo if what you're looking for is something other than Google that is also more privacy concious.
This is exactly how Google Ads conflicts with Google Search.

Google needs to show you results in order to be able to show ads as much as possible.

And so they make it difficult to restrict your query even if that's what you want to do.
Why can't we mimic a dog's ability to smell Covid?
Why do you consider sharding to be marketing fluff? If your dataset was big enough wouldn't that be a requirement for your database?
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> Serving richly spiced stews was no longer a status symbol for Europe's wealthiest families — even the middle classes could afford to spice up their grub. "So the elite recoiled from the increasing popularity of spices," Ray says. "They moved on to an aesthetic theory of taste. Rather than infusing food with spice, they said things should taste like themselves. Meat should taste like meat, and anything you add only serves to intensify the existing flavors."

One of the main points in the article.
The amount of power that Nim has is absolutely obscene. I don't really have a good use-case for it right now, but it's a language that I know I'd enjoy if I got into it.
Technically yes, but usually this statement is assumed at the quantum level/distances.
Base indexes the metadata only I believe.
> If you want to replace gas peaker plants with nuclear then you need to build up enough nuclear capacity to replace all other intermittent electricity producers.

Why even build all those intermittent electricity producers in the first place then? It sounds like problem searching for a solution.
It's not. I'm in The Netherlands and last year my fairly new Samsung TV started serving me ads. I was so pissed off, if the TV had still been under warranty I would have returned it. I have now pi-holed my entire network. My next TV will be a dumb screen.
Yeah, I remember that discussion after Fukushima. We had an agreement and a plan to get out of nuclear power. Back than, climate change was less of issue (at least as far as policy was concerned). Then we got a conservative government, and one of the first things they did was to cancel the nuclear power exit. Only to reverse that basically immediatly after Fukushima due to public pressure. This time so, without any long term plan.

As a result, Germany is now pushing coal instead of nuclear while limiting wind and solar due to legal restrictions.
> "'I'm strictly dickly … I love sex and I love men'. Former presidential candidate's daughter Meghan McCain opens up for Playboy interview." -- Quoted in the Daily Mail

I welcome a service that tells me which celebrities are hollow. I call it "news", give it a try.

Telling you where to buy their clothes is part of the schtick - "Paul is [an idiot], dressed in Gucci pants - $35.000 at ..."
That's a really bad advice to give beginners. If you're lucky, you'll guess right the first time, and end up with a good dish. And then you'll use that.

If you're unlucky — and the more inexperienced you are the more unlucky you are — then you'll guess wrong, and your dish will be at best okay, and at worst inedible.

A few failed experiments like this, and you'll hate cooking, or approach cooking with fear. Recipes have to be very precise, because recipes are aimed at people who are new: new to cooking or new to the dish.
Ask HN: Should I learn C++ in 2021?
Hello there,

I‘m in a bit of a pinch. I‘m currently part of a team that needs help with C++ development.

My background is around 9 years of iOS / macOS development using ObjC / Swift and a few projects using C#.

In the recent months / years I tried to hone my software-craftsmanship and stay up-to-date on stuff like TDD, functional programming, protocol-oriented-programming, moving away from objects, and so on.

I could help out my team and my employer by diving into C++. However I have some prejudices which I want to sort out:

- I’m hesitant towards C++ as it seems an ancient programming language and I don’t know for how long it will be around.

- I‘m hesistant on investing time into C++ as I don’t know how much acquiring this language as a skill will help me advance my career as a software-developer.

Could you provide some pro/contra arguments?

Best wishes from Southern Germany
This is what I find interesting. Assuming two quantum particles exert forces on each other. Now they both have mass but the forces they exert on each other are so much more powerful that the gravitational force would be impossible to experiment. Sort of like a man at a distance exerting gravitational force on the Milky Way with instruments the size of galaxy clusters to measure that man or force. Beyond mathematics there would be no experimental way. But my question is if mathematics itself says quantum particles do not have gravity or is that just a limitation of current understanding.
> The story begins in April 2019 with 89476f8cb5 in which David Crawshaw, aware of all these problems, created an IP type like:

It's in a PR here: https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-go/pull/11/files

Which mentions:

> Typically throughout WireGuard, we've used [4]byte for v4 and [16]byte for v6, considering the Go standard library's choice of v6-mapped-v4 to be a mistake.

It actually looks useful, there's something similar in wgtypes, and I wanted to use it recently [0] but that package unfortunately doesn't expose a way to write it out to a string/buffer, so I ended up almost replicating it.

[0] https://github.com/OJFord/terraform-provider-wireguard/blob/...

(There's a lot of ways of presenting/parsing/constructing the same config options there! I'm sure if I were more fluent in Go there's some more succinct way.)
What are you talking about? Where does he "suck up" all Justfiles?
I will stick with DuckDuckGo for now.
Are there any good papers (with code even) you know of demonstrating these kind of practical applications?
That depends whether one can identify the how and why you've had your ass bitten.
Selling an $8 ebook is a financial conflict of interest, but having tens of thousands of dollars riding on the fluctations of cryptoassets is having "skin in the game", which is totally different.
Fortunately domains don't really matter that much anymore. Address bars in pretty much all browsers are now search bars, and if you type a product name it will typically be the first result (as long as there aren't multiple products with the same name).

Sure, programmers like sweet and short domains, but customers don't care if your domain is widget.com, widget.net, widgetapp.com or companyname.xy/widget

Spending 5000 on a domain name is probably not worth it for the vast majority of startups.

There are some exceptions. If you are an email provider and your customers will use the domain in their email address it probably is a good idea to get a good domain.

But I really don't think that domain matters as much as founders think they do.
There can't be too much or too less electricity in the grid. So it's normal that the power operators can shut off larger producers, as they can also shut off large consumers.

This has nothing to do with corruption.
You're living in the 70s, modern plants cannot be repurposed for military use and also have no physical way to blow up.
The answer was all the shiny new TLD's we got. Well, big companies got because they cost 100K each (iirc). But in principle we all got.

And to some extent that worked - if "yourfavouritename.com" is taken (it is) then you can have "yourfavouritename.tech" or whatever.

But there's this superstition about ".com" names in the business, that they're just more authoritative and people won't trust a ".tech" domain. And it does leave you open to someone else buying the ".com" later and giving you a problem.

But at least you can get a domain and launch the business, which is something.
Yes. But how does that work for app names?
To be fair, I don't think the Sierra Club are the only ones who think building a nuclear power plant two miles from the San Andreas Fault isn't a particularly good idea...
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26401568
Yeah, from my brief perusal of the contents, you are correct.

Normally, books like R for Psychologists/Geologists/Whatever are just textbooks with examples and verbiage from the particular domain (in this case, psychology).

It's a little depressing that it doesn't talk about experimental design, which tends to be the strongest data science area for most people with a psychology qualification.
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Best offer on the table right away or hold some $ back for negotiation?
when was it different?
What financial systems are you designing?
We think we know a lot, but we ignore a lot to get those certainties ;)
“

As a user

I want to see relevant partner content on the home screen

So that my content is more targeted to my needs

”
Top definition on Urban Dictionary:

"The quality of having an opinion without regard for what other people think, often a controversial opinion but not always."

In this context, not having ads or unnecesary javascript is based.
Citibank is a leading expert in losing your money, MongoDB is a perfect fit for their business model.
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I have heard air humidity cited as one relevant factor, which was also recently brought up as one of the reasons masks may have a protective effect (humidity from breathing collects in there). Something about keeping membranes being healthier in warm, humid air than in cold, dry air?
why does it matter that response length isn't included? Gemini aims to be a small protocol that doesn't need to handle all types of content. if another protocol is more appropriate for whatever thing you want to link just use that.

I'm really confused by how vehemently against Gemini you seem to be and by the claim that the Gopherspace has no politics.
So in essence you're performing encrypted operations on a remote and potentially untrusted encrypted database, but these operations are very expensive? So when would this be valuable?
Update : few other answers clarify this.
None of my TVs are connected to the Wifi... or at least that's how it used to be.

One of my TVs, a Samsung, will pop up a huge window complaining it doesn't have internet access, and it will keep it on screen until it gets internet access, which happens fairly quickly after my wife starts complaining. Ironically the thing it complains about is wanting to update it's antivirus, which is only needed because it is connected to the internet.

I will vote (and have) with my vallet next time, and that includes never buying Samsung again. I will also "try it out" in the shop before buying another brand.
I feel like during graduate school I was somewhat like the author, but this line really is the answer to this:

> Rajeev, I believe, just liked doing the math. The thing was a puzzle he could solve, so he solved it. For him that was enough.

I started my grad school career also wanting to go into particle theory, I ended up doing plasma physics honestly because it was the opportunity I could find. I didn't really dislike math or theory or anything. I also sort of wanted to chase the grail or whatever, although I moved on after being disillusioned by HEP in general because of some of the things the author mentioned. That said, I think it wasn't until my the first year out of grad school in first post-doc (probably current, even though the grant names have changed it's the same group even though it's been a few years) that I realized no, I love doing, that is, the actual doing. I love getting on a computer, running simulations, writing code, analyzing data, closing my eyes and imagining electrons in a plasma. I mean I care about the "grail" which I'd assume would be fusion ultimately, and understanding some of the plasma physics more immediately, but the reason I'm in it isn't really the problem, I love the work itself.

I think it's valuable to be chase after lofty goals and such but really doing science, with all its warts (which are legion), you have to enjoy actually doing the work, whether it's in the lab, doing calculations, or running simulations like myself. Money and stability is another issue, but if I could get paid to do this with no hicups, I would literally stay here my entire life.
My four year old Panasonic shows ads in the apps screen.
Russia’s Pursuit of Internet Sovereignty Backfires