skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just reread Lolita at 45, for the first time since I was 14.

I slogged through it the first time, and didn't particularly enjoy it. All I remember from the first reading is that HH seemed kind of icky. I was barely older than Delores was in the first half of the novel, and I didn't really understand all the implications. I probably skimmed a great deal of the book without paying attention to it. Much of the subtlety of the story and all of the brilliant writing went right over my head.

Then I happened to pick up The Fued, about the friendship and subsequent falling out between Nabakov and Edmund Wilson. It mentioned several times that Lolita was a runaway success, and it made Nabakov famous.

I thought there must be something more to Lolita than I remembered, so I picked up a copy at the library. It was a whole different book. This time, I found the story both riveting and disturbing. On the first read, I knew that what he was doing would be called abuse, but I didn't really understand how he took advantage of her trust and naivety and adolescent rebelliousness. Or how awful it is to dehumanize pre teen girls and characterize them as sexual objects called nymphets.

HH claims to know that he took something irreplaceable from her and ruined her childhood. But - and I think this is why they say he is an unreliable narrator - it's not clear if he really believes what he's saying, or if it's a calculated ploy to garner sympathy.

The writing is incredible. The story is troubling and fascinating, and stayed in my mind a long time after. RIP Delores Schiller.
> Just don't browse the internet on your 2FA device.

I can’t tell if this is supposed to be a joke
It wasn't technically rolled back, a hard fork moved funds out of contract.
There was a big push to make another recovery via a hardfork in 2018 (Parity multisig hack) and it failed, so most likely no hack is ever going to be big enough again
I mean, market manipulation can't be illegal on crypto is it?

I thought the whole point of crypto was anarchy and decentralization? Maybe it's time for Reddit to hype up some coin so that the fines can be covered?
Wow, the Julia cult seems to be really welcoming to new prospects.
You could try flipping over to reading a book about Kubernetes. I dare you to stay awake more than 10 minutes.
How is it unfair if the loan came with higher interest rates to account for that?

That’s exactly the point of how debt markets are supposed to work. Higher risk borrowers are more likely to default, so pay higher interest rates to cover the % that do. If as a borrower you’re willing to pay more for your debt to give you that option (and quite frankly, all debt should be this way. There’s no debt an LLC can’t write off, why is there debt individuals can’t write off?), why is this bad?
I like to think that the ads help me moderate my Youtube usage. When someone sends me a Youtube link and I open it instinctively, I now have approximately half a minute to decide if I really want to waste my time and attention on it. A lot of the time I decide I don't, and so the ads turn out to be useful for me.
They have nothing else to do with he donation money they get.

If I cared I'd know where to complain on my own. Of course the whole concept is nothing but a bunch of nonsense.
“All companies should surround themselves with good advisors from the start”
M1 Jackshit ahahhaha
Not everyone can share text using their very own pastebin. That's neat. Cheers.
I agree, because I've become picky about what I install. I tend to use only open source apps, especially from F-Droid.

However I routinely deny notification requests in Firefox so this is not a problem. I also routinely deny the permission to use canvas image data. Firefox warns it can be used to fingerprint browsers https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-agai...

Sadly Apple does its best to make more money. If they allow other browser engines they'd end up selling less apps. IMHO they'll care about privacy only until it positively correlates with making money. If it will ever cost them more than it gains, they'll find a way to weaken privacy without losing face.

An example, Apple ruthlessly enforcing in app payments for small companies but bowing to Netflix, Amazon and the like. They know they would sell less phones if those apps won't run on iOS.

And that's expected. Why would a company care about you and me in this age? No more than what you and me would care about ants.
Yeah, it's an old "feature" that makes me immediately close the site and never come back. The culprit is usually a random newspaper.
Promising European deeptech startups leading us into the future
Is flying that drone like that legal? I guess maybe if there was another observer?
Show HN: Look&Feel Configurator for Presentations
Hello HN!

Here a mini-configurator that let you permute possible look&feel combinations of my open-source presentation library, PRESENTA Lib.

Open to any feedback!

Have fun:
https://presenta-styles-plugin.netlify.app/
Will definitely give 1blocker a try. I hadn't thought of going with the route of tampering with DNS but that's a good idea, same basic idea as pihole.
Useful JavaScript Patterns: Revealing Module Pattern
> Human driving tests are hilariously easy. I bet it would pass with flying colors.

Driving tests are indeed way too easy, however, the level of driving seen in these Tesla videos would get any human driver a fail on the test. Just the constant indecisive jerking of the wheel would be a fail, let alone all the near crashes.
>It's mind boggling that this would happen at one of the most regulated exchanges in the world.

I think you're misinterpreting what you are reading.

This is not coinbase doing anything, this is an employee taking action on their own, likely not even on company time or on company property.

That said, the company is still responsible for the employees' actions, especially because it relates directly to their job.
Epiphany uses WebKit...
This does not work for me in Safari.
The Swift Array Design (2014)
> because there was no advance warning or discussion.

As a manager I learned to keep my senior engineer pre-informed the hard way. Personally, when I was an IC, I was totally fine not being kept in the loop because I was impervious to such news or changes. So I just assumed that’s how it’s with everyone. Clearly I was wrong.

That said, it is important to release that pre-information in an informal fashion lest they start acting on it before it’s formally announced. Especially ones that impact the immediate peer teams such as re-org.
They don't work for me.

> disable some cookies

No, f*k "some cookies". I block ALL cookies except for a few sites I need to log into. That means, ironically, the godawful popups can't set a cookie to remember that I don't want cookies, and they keep popping up every time I go back to that site.

The popups are a horrible experience, as are "please sign up for the newsletter" popups. I don't read any newsletters. I use uBlock Origin which gets rid of most popups, Intercom chat boxes, and other annoyances.
It should be named Open Kubernetes Application Model. If I'm understanding correctly, it should be "portable" to other orchestrators or even bare metal. However, it seems to be quite leaky of the underlying Kubernetes stuff.
Musk denies Teslas used for spying after China's military bans cars from bases
WhatsApp down? We've got you covered
Is Google overrated? Tapped out? Due for a fall? Two experts take sides (2007)
That's also its advantage - the press can't selectivity edit it to push their viewpoint.
> European studios (usually east Europe), with grand ideas, but missing some of the polish
One benefit that comes to mind is that open source tools tend to have better code quality, documentation and less technical debt - if only just because people feel embarrassed to release things that are hacked together haphazardly. This is a good thing because it makes onboarding people easier.
That's true for the users you've seen. My users all open emails with no problem.

Now do you see why "the average user" isn't useful to determine how to build something? Even if most people suck at using email, in my app it works well.
Twitter confirms it's testing an 'undo tweet' feature
Holy shit! This is worse than I would have expected! This is shockingly bad, real people are going to die if this is allowed to the masses. The fact that is beta is terrifying.
Web Bluetooth and Web USB, along with other useless things like Web Battery that Google loves don't make the web more powerful. It only serves to make the web more bloated and user hostile. And making new browsers that much harder to implement while taking the time of existing competitors.

As a user I have never needed or wanted web bluetooth or web usb, and I have never seen a person in real life that uses these either. For all I know, it's just mythical users mentioned in HN comments that want those.
I mean I’m not that much of a prude but I think a blowjob out in public is a bit much for a family attraction.
> There already exists mechanisms to take assets from the institution that caused the harm, liquidate and compensate those who have been harmed.

Those people will already have leveraged debt, and purchased services and depreciated goods with the cash gained by the fraud, making the people they purchased those things from secondary beneficiaries of that fraud. The people who made the loans to the students are also secondary beneficiaries of the fraud (if those loans are paid back with interest.)

The real question is whether you want to put the onus of evaluating the risk that something may be a fraud on the sellers of goods, or on people making loans. I would argue from a lot of different directions that it was obviously put in the right place in this case.

To begin with, you can buy a candy bar with fraudulently obtained funds, and if every candy bar seller was required to evaluate the risk that the funds used to buy the candy bar were obtained fraudulently, the economy would grind to a halt. Since this is a pragmatic argument, it obviously becomes less valid when someone sells 10,000 candy bars; we may not mind if they have to do some minor checking, like obtaining your full name, or maybe where you work.

Another is that assessing (and taking) risk is literally the only job of someone making a loan, and assessing the risk of a school being a fraud seems an obvious part of that when you're making a loan specifically for attending that school. If someone making a loan isn't doing that, they aren't doing anything. It's just a rent being collected, a concession granted by the state (as the state is expected to expend effort to enforce the debt.) This isn't a proper function for a state, this is corruption.

You think you're endorsing personal responsibility here, but you're really endorsing bailouts for investors.

There's a business plan here (which I think is really common in the world if you look for it) where you create a fraud, loan money to the victims of that fraud, fold up and liquidate the fraud, then use the state to pursue the victims for the loan. If you also manage to be the beneficiary of the fraud - lets say that the fraud sells all of its buildings which are then leased back to them, resulting in the fraud having a negative worth when it is liquidated, and you pay yourself large consulting fees for creating that arrangement - you've double-dipped.

In the closed system of 1) the fraud, 2) the victims, 3) vendors supplying the fraud, and 4) lenders to the victim, a loan for $10,000 can't be turned into $20,000 of benefit, all ultimately sourced from the victim. This only happens if the state steps in and chooses the benefit of the lender and the vendors above the victim. This would be the state officially designating the fraud to be a currency issuer.

Lastly, it doesn't set a precedent because debt forgiveness, especially in cases like this, happens all the time. It's a sign of corruption if it doesn't happen.
When people are chronically malnourished and undernourished, they succumb to one of the many diseases swirling around. Infectious diseases or deficiency diseases or parasites.

Periods labelled "famines" were not all that common, but much of the population was living in a sub-acute famine much the time, primarily for political reasons (power imbalances, unelightened decision-makers).

> how does that model explains why eastern Asian [rice-growing areas] ... where able to achieve and sustain far higher population density [than the Eurocentric examples in OP].

The average densities were higher, but until the 20th century, with Beijing* as the primary exception, big cities were in Western Asia, North Africa, and Europe.[1] Many infectious diseases probably need "point" (small area) population sizes greater than those of the villages prevalent in rice-growing areas to take hold.

Rice rulers could afford to burn a village to the ground if there were reports of spreading sickness in it. They'd only lose a small fraction of their tax base, which would soon be replaced. Rulers of large cities, not so much.

Why did rice-growing areas have villages while wheat areas developed cities? I don't know. Possibly something to do with wheat being being grown in drier areas so it could be stored for years without rotting, making large centralised granaries possible.

* And a few other North China cities. I know very little about Beijing, but I don't think the climate there is suitable for rice.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities_through...
Continuing to say it doesn't make it true. They deorbit the satellites that stop working and their reliability thus far has been high other than the first two or three launches which had a higher failure rate. Even if they do fail completely and become uncontrollable, they're designed to deorbit within 5 years from operational altitude. They're relatively low mass and have very large solar panels for their size.
The lack of real consequences really robs credibility from the next big internet cause (that might really need it).

What has happened has played out on a really small scale and it's effect is mildly frustrating to meh. Attributing the lackluster 5G rollout to the repeal net neutrality seems really tenuous. I am not deeply familiar but it seems like their are other confounding factors such as the China/us relationship, the weird 5g paranoia, covid, and the overall sickly state of telcom that has existed since the payphone era.

All in all I and many other citizens have bigger fish to fry. Jabbering my friends about net neutrality was a big waste of time and energy. I feel burned and embarrassed.
New coating is a breakthrough for hydrogen fuel
Wipr is really good.

https://giorgiocalderolla.com/wipr.html
Ask HN: What kind of challenges are you facing?
With all these bright minds on HN, I was wondering what kind of projects and challenges you are working on. What is your balance between innovation and day to day recurring activities? What do you usually do if you feel bored of repetitive tasks in your job? I think many would be intrigued to read about your experiences.
>to possibly well-meaning

If only...
> Edit: add into the mix, crazy, Mediterranean style driving on streets where exam takes place

The test must not screen people well enough if there are that many "crazy, Mediterranean style drivers" on the streets who already passed.
Similar ideas in his 21 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism. That book was really influencing on how I think about economic rhetoric.
> "how much better is it than human drivers?"

If you watch the videos in the thread, the answer is it is far worse than the worst human driver you've ever seen.
But often writing them natively does do this.
Can you give an example of a processor whose microcode was publicly documented?

(Barely-public documents like patent filings don't count.)
Another problem was the lack of standards at the time. The standard VGA was 640x480 in 16 colors, anything above that you had to program the specific VGA chipset directly.

Then there was VESA, which was standard for high-res, but slow.

Then Windows 95 came and with it came drivers and DirectX, and the driver wars moved on to 3D accelerator territory...
It's partially inspired by Linq, so the similarity you see is expected.

It's not really arbitrary structures so much, though you're mostly free in what record type you use in a relation (structs and tagged enums are typical, though).

The incremental part is that you can feed it changes to the input (additions/retractions of facts) and get changes to the outputs back with low latency (you can alternatively just use it to keep an index up-to-date, where you can quickly look up based on a key (like a materialized view in SQL)).

This [0] section in the readme of the underlying incremental dataflow framework may help get the concept across, but feel free to follow up if you're still not seeing the incrementality.

[0]: https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/differential-dataflow#an-e...
I assume the desire is to stay within WTO rules, and halting trade entirely is allowed? The traditional strategy for this sort of thing is tariffs or forming a producer cartel that limits supply.
> and many people would simply be unaware of cookies without these popups

They are still unaware. Do you honestly think anybody even reads what is on the popup? They just click accept or ok to make it go away immediately.
We did this at my previous job. We tried with docker-sync and that was already a good improvement (~5x faster web app load speed). But the real improvement was moving to running the app natively, another 10x improvement. I’m talking about ~5s load times (default docker setup) to <100ms.

I like the simplicity of setting up a docker project vs. having to figure all the bits and config for your machine. But the slow fs is unbearable.
We do this all the time already when we write various interface services to access a common data store. Each service provides whatever interface is appropriate and performs any desired transformations.

It's not clear to me what the real benefits of Object Lambda provides. Indeed it could move your transformation code closer to its data, but the cost of doing that is the management and complexity of the lambdas. I am curious what a best use case example would be for this.
You sidestep the security aspect.

Plenty of nations around the world are bullied. The US and the banana republics (which sounds a lot like arrogant victim blaming from the Americans!), Eastern Europe and Russia/the Soviets, Afghanistan and everyone, etc.

US states don't have that problem. When was the last time Idaho had to defend itself from foreign interference, invasion, trade embargoes, etc?
Yes. Almost exactly what you're describing exists [0] already.

[0]: https://materialize.com/
4K YouTube to MP3 3.15.1.4190 with License Key
I'm married and have pets :shrug:

Use your free time post-covid to build up something worthwhile. A cat is a good start!

Love for its own sake is more than enough. But it takes a suspension of disbelief that modernity may have beat out of you.
I Cloned the Facebook App
The CO2 content of the athmosphere is actually not that high, nor will it be at the end of the century even if we don't reduce global emissions. The problem is that it is quite enough already to cause climate change. Which would also not be such a big deal if not coupled with large-scale destruction of ecosystems and our dependence on non-renewable resources.
It will eventually happen. In my opinion, in the medium term, from China pressure and them outcompeting Europe in Africa. Chinese are having more boots on the ground all across Africa compared to 20 years ago and one of their main focus is resource extraction. I don't think Europe will be able to dictate to the Chinese in 5 - 10 years in how to conduct their business there. Not that they can do that now either. One of the things to watch your for is the loss of control of west and central african currencies by the French
That exists[0] already, but with Postgres-compatible SQL.

But the idea of SaaS-ing the datalog variant is interesting.

[0]: https://materialize.com/
It’s great to see you are here and listening to feedback.

While we have you ear can I repeat a long-standing request.

Set price multi currency support.

We built an Ecommerce site for a leading global brand with thousands of SKUs.

The lack of a method to set a fixed price for multiple currencies on a single product in a store has created significant complexity for us.

We have to create a store with around a thousand SKU’s for each local currency just to set the price.

The software and process gymnastics required to synchronise product information, images, inventory data, fulfillments and tracking could be avoided with local currency pricing.

Having multiple stores makes it mostly impossible to make use of third party apps that would otherwise enable the client to do more with shopify.
Speculating here, we could call the checbox "Do Not Track", and make it a browser setting.

HN would probably love this. Oh, wait...
Meh, the US is still kind of odd. European cities tend to be wealthy in the center and less wealthy as you go out.

US cities, at least the ones where downtown has turned around, have a donut-shaped wealth distribution; rich downtown, blighted inner-city and inner-ring, outer wealthy suburbs.
when a story stays with you like this, you know there's something to it.

all my favorite films and books had me thinking about them months after the fact. even if it was just one part.
Relevant: https://twitter.com/EstelMP/status/1369936040702730241

The new E-Privacy Directive (if it doesn't get watered down) might help with the cookie wall problem.
The latest state of the art convolution networks can fully handle occlusions as well as reflections. FaceApp needs to upgrade their tech.
they are not allowed to use their engine on iOS, they are just a customized skin over safari/webkit (and I honestly think that’s the right way, as google has no interest in saving iPhone battery).
How Safe Is Zig?
For my use-cases, this would be a huge benefit:

> Resizing and watermarking images on the fly using caller-specific details, such as the user who requested the object.

Now we need to either do rescale directly after storing or need to use another service (on EC2) to do the resize. With Object Lamda, we could do it on-the-fly as the user calls the image. This is operational a lot easier.
This! Boil the frog slowly and it'll never even know it's boiling.

Businesses and politicians are nothing if not methodical, patient, and incremental. Bit by bit they'll rip away competitional freedoms.
Design Roundup February 2021
The on-ramp to monero is usually through bitcoin.
A bit off-topic, but any idea how much it costs to get an experimental treatment like this?
5066 pages does say nothing about completeness. It's undisputed that many aspects of the CPU are undocumented, considered a business secret.
Best UI Interaction’s of the month – Feb 2021
Soon, we'll have practical plastic recycling, practical fusion reactors and widespread secure C codebases :-)
The problem with cookie popups is that it trains people to just click Yes and OK without thinking and reading. At the end we get blind to them and we click and accept things which are much more important, download viruses, click bad links or whatever.

What's needed is better default protection by the law to stop companies collecting and using data.
"Signal's devs are strongly opposed to anyone creating third-party Signal clients."

Hmm, that might have been the case. There was that famous blog post from 2016 about no third-party clients. That has never been retracted, but they got so much flac over it that they seemingly changed their mind. What I hear from the developers of Whisperfish for Sailfish OS is that the people from Signal are quite helpfull in bringing that app towards a good functioning client.

Also, there are laws being worked on in Europe that popular platforms will have to allow third-party clients, not much different from the web and its browsers. The Digital Markets Act: https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/euro...