skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The great irony with these terminology changes is that those most tripped up will be learners with access to fewer up to date resources and autodidacts who lack access to the usual educational opportunities afforded to those pursuing a career in tech.

Isn't the sort of person most likely to be tripped up by this the sort of person it is nominally supposed to help? Isn't it much more likely that it proves a stumbling block to the black teenager teaching herself to code from resources a few years old than to the white undergraduate whose new edition textbook will include the change and who has a professor and peers to explain it just in case?

If you want marginalized outsiders to have an easier path into programming isn't a change that makes that just a little bit trickier in order to make those with established tech careers feel better about themselves the wrong sort of change?
I think the 10x means an immediate 10x over the competition rather than moores law doing its thing. For example the apple m1 might be this (I’m not an expert). 10x might mean in terms of perceived value not just raw metrics. The idea is that you kill the competitor immediately because it’s so good. It’s like why get a taxi when Uber is cheaper, comes quicker, doesn’t rip you off by going the long way and has an app (taxi companies had to catch up on the app part). Subjectively that’s 10x taxis!
This is incredible to read n many years later. I was a per-pubescent adolescent around the time of the publication of the "last great zines", and was only ever really exposed to a small subsection (HTP5, the MIT.edu and Linode incidents) through several mutual friends of mine who were, at the time, enthusiasts of and in the scene.

That era and community was without a doubt the foundation for who I am today as a young adult, and who I strive to be in all aspects of life. I have and no doubt will continue to consume all of this content I may have missed out on since then.

P.S. If I may call your attention to volume 0x0f, 0x45, part A of section 6 (Notes); wow. This, along with everything else, is enormously prophetic, profound, and intriguin:

"--[ 6 - Notes

A) In respect to social networks, while they are a valid community-building
mechanism in nature, selfishness prevails in common usage, by means of the
indulgent pleasure that fuels chronic "pluggedness", at times voyeur, at
times exhibitionist and needy."

- http://phrack.org/issues/69/6.html
I have an HAP AC2 and while I had few issues with it (I work in networking) it's absolutely not consumer-friendly nor consumer-ready.
Don't judge yourself - aspire.
Why is everybody betting on bitcoin for payments when there are faster and more stable alternatives in the crypto space?

I’m thinking that this is more about a proof of concept to get into the space.
Published in the second quarter issue of Complex Systems (2011). In case it slips past you, the second quarter begins on April 1st.
Wouldn't it be better and more consistent to adopt veganism to avoid the climate change, pandemic, resource intensity, and animal cruelty risks rather than "make internal combustion engines more efficient"? There are many other livelihoods.

I dont see how any of those things would be helped by veganism, except for animal cruelty. That is if you don't count pest animals, and humans. I would 100% get behind outlawing factory farming of animals, and maybe that would lead to more vegans if prices rise, but not the opposite.

I know the argument for vegans helping climate change, but I'm pretty sure it only holds up if you eat local plants that are grown and processed in a way that is safe for the environment. That is to say most common vegan diets are worse for the environment. This is because the food is traveling farther, weighs more per calorie, uses more pesticides, and in many cases more water and land. With shipping of the food being the worst part of the pipeline for any diet. So making engines more efficient, or finding a better mode of shipment, is a much better use of resources regarding climate change.
Show HN: Online notebook to improve the learning process
We’ve built an online note-taking platform capable of formatting itself as the user types (i.e. ordered lists, bolding dates, etc.), think Google Docs or OneNote but optimized for students to take notes in.

In addition, students have a way to automatically have their notes converted into different study formats, like flashcards, without extra effort on their end. This also helps the students organize all their study materials in one place instead of being across multiple products.

We recently launched our beta and signed on our first hundred users, however, we know HN could give us some more insights!

Check it out! I was also wondering, if you could make Docs or Word better for students, how would you?

Thoughts/suggestions jotlynotes@gmail.com
First fully cloud-native, distributed OLAP platform
Another layer 2 for BTC
Their heritage has already been erased except for the genetic record and one or two holidays a year.
Actually there is an internet permission.

To perform network operations in your application, your manifest must include the following permissions:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />

source: https://developer.android.com/training/basics/network-ops/co...
Cool, but IMO the chart style sort of looks like garbage?
good to know! thanks.

Then I don’t understand the delay to shipping an Apple Silicon build. Right now we still have to used Rosetta... it’s the only such piece of software I have that does.
Because they want to be at the bottom of the pyramid scheme and now that it's gained enough mainstream media attention it doesn't even cost ridicule.
Though not as extreme, this happens in the US as well, especially in Silicon Valley. My last few gigs in large enterprise software companies were like this.
Seems to me that the results of the article suggest that such a slider would help. But I wonder if it wouldn't lose its effect after a while as people get exposed to it and begin filtering it out, a la cigarette warning labels and cookie consent banners? Regardless, it seems like there's a lot of potential here for social media sites to make a significant and positive change without turning to stricter moderation which can in itself be problematic.

: Does anyone know if that's actually the case?
I grew up in that era, and maybe that's the problem, but it struck me as a poorly-done "Mad Men" for geeks. The nostalgia wasn't just tacked on, it was duct-taped and painted bright green to make sure you noticed. One scene that stands out in my mind was when the older business owner is ordering some US Robotics modems. As the scene cuts away from him with a phone in his hand: "Of course I want the V.32!!!11!"

I cringed so hard my shoulders ached for two days.
what consequences do you think you would encounter IRL, compared to a non-white person vocalizing that opinion IRL?

there is another comment talking about a black engineer not prioritizing this in their team and being told by the rainbow haired PMs that they were internalizing systemic racism.

do you think you would get unceremoniously cancelled instead instead of simply silenced like the black person thats assumed to be "the poor victim with no independent agency"? are you sure that is a valid fear?
> What's powerful about this name change is that it pushes us to alter a habit

Yes, a habit, but nothing that has to do with race or racism. So, is it a habit worth, or needing of being broken? What was bad about this habit? How does using it in a non-racial context aide in perpetuating racism?

Masters degree. Master recording. Master Chief. Master at Arms. Like Git, none of these things has anything to do with a master/slave paradigm, or even have a "slave" counterpart. There is no slave in git...there is clone and branch. There is no slave in audio recordings, you make a duplicate or copy of the master. Language is complex and nuanced. Not every word used in a race context has to do with the same word being used in another context, unless we make it so. There's nothing consciously or subconsciously racist about saying you have a masters degree, assuming you do. There are many definitions for master[1]. Only one of them deals with the disgusting practice of a person being owned as property, ie slavery, and it's not even the top definition. Should we just get rid of all of the other definitions of the word entirely because one of the definitions has some very disgusting history in the US, and historically the world at large going back thousands of years?

For the record, I'm white. My ancestors were serfs, ie slaves, in Europe. Unless you're of a royal bloodline that wasn't conquered by another royal bloodline, chances are everyone has a connection to relatives that were enslaved by someone, somewhere, at some point in time[2].

Now, I can agree we should get rid of master-slavery terminology. That is blatant, imho. But "master" on its own when there is no "slave" component unless we make one up in our heads? If we follow that logic, there are a LOT of words that we should get rid of, including the word "black" to describe a color. There are a lot of racists who also use that word in a negative context to spread their racism. Where will it end? Where is the line? How much thinner should we make the dictionary so that no one is offended or subconsciously reminded of something that didn't actually have to do with the subject at hand? And after we do that, will there be newly found things that people will get offended at? Count on it.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/master

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery
BMOW 1: Homemade CPU using TTLs described in 100 blog posts
Marketing pages always love to have big pretty bar charts to compare whizbang product with the old standbys. This would be great to make a big hero chart that looks good, doesn't need any javascript, and has amazing SEO (the raw table data is slurped down by google indexing).
A system of loaded dice is a good counter example to "disorder". 10 loaded Dice weighted to always roll 6 trends towards our definition of order because 6 is simply more likely to occur.

In this case rolling 10 dice increases order but that order represents increasing entropy.
There’s the Museum of Failure: https://museumoffailure.com/
> Just because the technology and practitioners are old it doesn't mean they don't know what they're doing.

I certainly didn't mean to imply that. It's more that many people now don't do a good job with that stuff, so I was curious if it would have been better then.
I wonder if cutting official hours allows people to drop some of that pretense.
Significant? There is a 2GW interlink with France, typical demand is 30-40GW. Its use generally reflects French over production of Nuclear power.

Large scale wind production? Maybe, but it's still less than the nuclear component.
Three bacterial strains discovered on space station may help grow plants on Mars
> That line moves all the time. Be careful what you start.

Yeah. It's probably easier and more efficient to just raise the clones with intact brains, and just indoctrinate them to believe that dying so their organs can be harvested is their purpose and is noble and right. Then the organs can take care of themselves while they grow, requiring less staff. Any moral qualms the rest of the world may have could be addressed with some lie about how the clones have had done to them to make them subhuman.

Seriously considering the idea of cloning people for organs is just inviting a nightmarish crime against humanity.
Wouldn't it be appropriate to post an URL where the actual job is described in detail?
Ask HN: Why are digital image sensors STILL named in reference to analog tubes?
I recently bought a DJI drone in order to get into the hobby of aerial photography. The image sensor in my drone is called a "1/2.3 inch" sensor but it's actually 6.17mm by 4.55mm in size, which makes no sense at all. After a couple hours Googling I found this explanation:

"Manufacturers of compact digital cameras have long used a rather ambiguous way to define the sizes of the sensors in their products. The system used dates back to video camera tubes used in the 1950s, with the 'inch' measurement referring to the outer diameter of the video tube. This system has no relationship to imager sizes and Photo Review endeavours to translate the 'type' measurement provided by camera manufacturers into millimetres to show readers just how small some digicam sensors are."[1]

So why are digital image sensors STILL being named in reference to semi-arbitrary sized analog tubes?

[1] http://www.photoreview.com.au/tips/buying/unravelling-sensor-sizes/
> SMS is not secure. Neither is email.

That's too much of a simplification. At an absolute level, true.

But security is relative and needs to be measured with the threat models you care about.

Intercepting an email from your bank (let's say) to your email server (whoever provides it) is in practice exceedingly difficult, requires the attacker is in control of a transit point between them.

Intercepting SMS, as described in the article, is trivial and can be done by just about anyone who cares to go for it.
1. FOMO

2. If everyone (read: the vocal but high profile minority) is talking about it, even though we don't understand it, there must be something to it. Everyone (read: the vocal but high profile minority) cannot be wrong.

3. There is no career downside of betting on this and it fails, since everyone else was betting on it.

4. There is a career downside to not betting on it and it is successful.
Is 50 hours that crazy? Does anyone else feel like these days they put in well above 40 hours a week doing WFH? Granted, during the day I can't stay 100% focused in my apartment, so I waste maybe an hour throughout the day online. Then I feel guilty and stay online well into the evening/weekends. I can't meet my deadlines otherwise.
What their personal beliefs are is irrelevant to the discussion. Their rhetoric and actions are what define them. Right now it's aligning with far left ideology. If you believe what you wrote then you should be even more upset with what they're doing because that means when the pendulum swings back right they're gonna be smacking you in the face with tea party politics in order to garner favor of whatever right wing politician is in office.

" banning of hate speech, fake news, and calls for violence, on Twitter and the de-platforming of Parler - but is that leftist or just doing the right thing"

Hard to argue it's doing the "right thing" when Twitter lets actual dictators post to their platform and Facebook was found to be the main gathering platform for the capitol insurrection.
Why didn't they try it in the USA?
Do you not see how ridiculous that is? Do you wince every time you kill a process? A program crashes? You slice a steak? chown a file?
Ironically, the solutions prescribed here are themselves virtue signaling: in that they do nothing to actually right the wrongs of the past.

As a practical way to help, I want to call out organizations like DonorsChoose. Find a Title I school or one with high economic need, and chances are high that a) more of the students are people of color; b) they don't have an effective or well-resourced PTA; c) their asks for resources are for basics that you'd assume would already be provided for. For those who want to make an actual difference, I'd highly encourage supporting an organization like this, and I'm pretty sure their communities would appreciate it more than tearing down the White House. https://www.donorschoose.org/donors/search.html?moderateHigh...
My SO is on a team on Microsoft where they are expected to not infrequently work weekends and work until 8 PM.

e: Thought this was outside of Azure, but I was wrong
Findings like these that suggest a fundamental shift in our work life dramatically makes things better for everyone(be it the schedule changed or basic universal income or remote work) keep appearing all the time but we don't see a mass adoption of any of it, maybe with the exception of remote working after being forced to do it due to Covid-19.

Are there any follow ups to the "Finland gave everyone living wage regardless of their employment and the productivity doubled" or "Denmark switched to 3 days a week and the profits actually increased" sort of stories?

The article is from 2019, did Microsoft actually recouped the returns that %40 increase from the 4-day workweek brings?

I'm getting numbed down to these stories, just like the ads about this one weird trick that makes you rich or helps you to be instantly liked by all the men/women.
Note that these images are made from many exposures that are then processed and combined, and the total exposure time is given. The individual exposure times were probably long, but I'm guessing on the order of minutes, not hours. (Actually, if you photograph stars with an exposure time that is too long, then you get star trails in the image.)
Yeah the whole thing is really becoming a meta-commentary on the entire US political system. If it weren't so bizarre and dangerous, it would be really fascinating to watch (speaking as an American). On some level, many are subconsciously realizing the majority of both parties represent essentially the same geopolitical worldview that neither left nor right really agree with anymore (for different reasons). If this were a different country I'd predict a major political realignment on the horizon, but given how ingrained the respective neo-con/liberal ideologies are in the political infrastructure here ... I just don't see it as likely without something catastrophic happening to force the issue.
It very well may not be sustainable. But I guess my point is that Spotify's business model might turn out to not be sustainable if artists decide it's not worth it to have their music on it.

If they don't decide that, then of course, maybe you just can't make a living selling music through Spotify.

You could probably make a living as a musician in other ways, though.
> If everyone (read: the vocal but high profile minority) is talking about it, even though we don't understand it, there must be something to it. Everyone (read: the vocal but high profile minority) cannot be wrong.

That sounds like the JS community.
It is much worse, if attacker can use the SMS to bypass the password entirely and own the account.
Bible scroll fragments among dazzling artifacts found in Dead Sea Cave of Horror
Funnily enough, "scrum master" has been renamed to "scrum facilitator" at my workplace...
> I think for the sake of conversation we would have to draw a dividing line between the operating system Apple makes and the apps Apple makes, even when that line can be very, very blurry. (Pre-installed apps, the App Store itself, etc.)

There is no meaningful difference when Apple uses "We already have an app for this" as a justification to remove third-party apps from their platform.
You can also set a special stylesheet just for printing:

<link rel="stylesheet" media="print" href="print.css">
None are as stable as Bitcoin. There are some that are faster right now because no one uses them, but are likely to fail if they get any serious adoption.

Ethereum is the only sensible alternative to Bitcoin but Ethereum has major scalability issues and much less infrastructure compared to Bitcoin to alleviate those issues.
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Why would it reduce the value? Off-chain transactions are something the core Bitcoin team are very much in favor of.
These transactions may not be on the chain transactions. You basically buy Bitcoin from Visa, visa pays bitcoin to Merchants (which remains in Visa's wallet) and you and merchant will settle your accounts with Visa in future at which point you may have to pay a fee.
Isn't Google a better place for WLB? I too have heard bad things about Microsoft.
Original story: https://tedium.co/2021/03/05/channel-37-radio-telescope-hist...
Wow! That's all I can muster to say. I always knew fonts and font rendering was tricky business....

(And you are making the rounds on gaming sites [0])

[0] https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/fontemon-is-a-pokemon-parod...
For historical context, this used to be regulated in the US under the Fairness Doctrine[0] until it was rolled back by the FCC as a violation of free speech. Reagan then vetoed a congressional attempt to bring it back.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
> "Full Desktop Experience"

> Now, write all these obscure commands on terminal, and edit all these cryptic text files.

:/

I love FreeBSD in many ways, but seeing bar for desktop experience that low saddens me.
Sorry to hear that, and I realize that what I said is as much of anecdata as what you said, but this sounds more like an exception. Those exceptions do happen.

For example, Amazon is known to be a brutal meatgrinder for engineers, and most of the experiences I've heard of from people I know irl support that assertion. That reputation isn't a secret to absolutely anyone. However, there are definitely those rare few teams at Amazon that are actually quite nice about work-life balance and are extremely functional, without any usual bs you would expect from an average Amazon team. But those teams are absolutely an exception.

Is your SO on Xbox by any chance? Not asking it to invalidate what you have said, I am just genuinely curious. Plus, it would be another good datapoint for me to be aware of in the future. I was guessing Xbox because anything gaming-related is the first thing that comes to mind when I hear about insane work hours.
This article focuses entirely on people regulating their own decisions to share an article, not any attempt by a "tool wielder" to selectively block any content.

To put their study into context, it suggests that if Facebook asked users to rate whether an unrelated article was accurate before allowing you to share their own, many people would pay attention to whether their own articles were accurate, and less misinformation would be shared. This could be applied universally to any news article, both for detecting people sharing it, and populating the pre-share accuracy judgement. Instead, Facebook streamlines the process to increase engagement, and people blitz through it without stopping to consider the article's accuracy at all, distracted by thinking of all the likes they'll get for posting it. According to the study, when users are already primed to judge the accuracy of an article, they are more likely to self-regulate their own misinformation.
There is no third party deciding these things. People who have experienced racism are offended when it continues to happen. They can then advocate for a change and hopefully broader awareness.

There's no hypocrisy involved.
The productivity claim has been removed from the Japanese report you link. An erratum at the bottom of the page dated November 8, 2019 says this:

"In the announcement dated October 31, one of the listed "improvements" from the 2019 Summer Work-Life Choice Challenge was an increase of 39.9% in labor productivity (sales revenue per employee) in August 2019 compared to August 2018, with a graph below.

While this number is factual, it is not solely the result of this challenge, and was achieved due to a number of different factors.

To avoid misunderstanding, we have removed that claim from the above summary of the direct effects of the challenge."

Edit to add:
>is this a sales office?

"Every Friday in August 2019 was designated an office holiday. Permanent employees received special leave for those days, and all of the offices were closed."
People want to spend what they hold, and most people who hold crypto hold Bitcoin.