skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
60 years ago racism caused a class divide and people now wash their hands clean by being classists instead of racists.
Yeah, overall not a big deal. Difference is, these financing vehicles can default.
National slur? That's a pretty big accusation. It was a half-joking, self-depreciating comment. Sheesh. I know you're a reasonable guy, dang, but I really don't appreciate my comment being labeled that way.

In any case, message received.
(Theoretically)
Firefox's default scrolling behaviour didn't feel as responsive as Chrome. I changed a few settings below in about:config and now Firefox is a pleasure to use again. With the uBlock Origin, Cookie Autodelete and ClearURLs add-ons, it's better for privacy too.

general.smoothScroll: false
mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_y: 300
Evidence of brand new physics at CERN? Why we’re cautiously optimistic
The Future of Perl apparently resides on a JavaScript only site. What a weird world.
Interesting, I was never able to motivate myself to do much walking until I started putting podcasts on. With them though it's become a daily habit.
Isn't this why new ships are starting to have multiple 360 degree electrical drivers instead of one big propeller? I think they are called iso-pods.
Good point! I guess !g is just a old habit that I should upgrade now.
Well, there is a precedent of graphic cards with modded bios being sold.
I still use a NUC5i3RYH every day. It has been remarkably stable, haven't had to replace a single part or have any issues since building it in 2015, and makes an outstanding Hackintosh to boot.

Either I got lucky with the two I own, or your environment was to harsh for them?
That's not what the article says.
It's about that the user can opt-out of Apple personalized advertising instead of opt-in.
https://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a10139

Says 1924, and that she was already toying with the idea of martyrdom.
They won't, because the manufacturers aren't bothered about it.
Hey, I am in Boston, which park is that? Looks great to have a walk.
What is annoying is the original open letter failed to go into depth about all this. I'd heard rumblings about this around the original time he was removed from various positions, but the hard transcripts here really solidify the opinion RMS is a bit of a creep. Like, "pleasure cards"? Come on dude.
Because he is an icon of free software and a permanent lead of the community
Price per request is the most obvious one.

If you had a widget solver, you could charge per widget solved. This way a one widget solve request or a csv upload of a million widgets are priced accordingly.

You can also charge per mb, if your service is some sort of data piping. Or if it's a ML translation service, you charge per word.

That kinda thing.
Is there any smarter scheme - legit or not - hidden behind?
I stand corrected, however 2009 is already past the time I was paying attention to Plan 9.
Arena commits $47m to Queensland pumped hydro plant
Anything mindless, when I’m stuck on a problem I often go and wash the dishes.
Ask HN: Returning to SW development after a 15-year break?
Hi HN,

First some background: I started my "career" with an IT apprenticeship, worked two years as a web dev (until I got fired during the dotcom crash), and afterwards I studied to get a CS bachelor. Despite a good job market (and good grades) I was unable to find a job. Probably because I'm an Asperger and/or because I looked unhealthy (back then I had a severe skin problem on my face with large pieces of skin falling off plus I've always been underweight). At some point I gave up the job search. For a while I struggled with depression until I discovered investing, and started to actively invest my savings on the stock market.

Fast forward to today, and the savings will be gone soon and I'm back looking for a job. As I live far away from any finance center, I'm trying to return to software development. It's probably a mission impossible, given my age and the lack of experience (my only recent dev experience is doing Advent of Code challenges in the last few years). I'm unsure what's the best way to approach this mission, how to catch up, and what a software developer has to know nowadays. I found "Teach Yourself CS" and that looks great, only it probably takes too long to go through all the stuff to refresh things and to fill gaps (I'm currently reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications). I also considered doing a project, but so far I have no idea what I could do, it feels like I'm stuck in a kind of analysis paralysis.

Are there any resources for people returning to the field? Any advice or suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Part of Wright brothers' first airplane on NASA's Mars chopper
If it is for AWS resources it is not equivalent.
I know [edit: guessing] you're not being serious, but until there are laws mandating this in given markets, the security risks will ALWAYS be unknowingly carried by the consumer. In a hypothetical world where a manufacturer differentiates by advertising a product as "Now with security updates guarenteed for 10 years!" consumers will suddenly realise they've been sold garbage until that point. It just won't happen.
Ironically, a reduction in sulfur emitted from these ships may actually accelerate global warming: https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/01/22/67402/were-about...
It seems far fetched to imagine any country would intimidate a power like US flying their easily recognisable drones. Just the risk of an accident causing a crash into the ship, and igniting a bigger conflict is sufficient enough for any country to not attempt such a thing. There are better ways to test your tech than doing something like this to a super power.

Also not sure how they were confident enough to deduce it was a drone. Clearly it was like 1000-1500 feet above them in dark.

We just chose to call a UFO a UAV. That's what I learned from the article.

Or.

May be it was just a test. They wanted to see how people would handle a situation like that.
Wonder where they went…

Based on this report (which is somewhat anecdotal), the EU exported ~10m vaccine doses to the UK - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-18/europe-wi...

The majority of these doses will be Pfizer, as there's no production in the UK and the UK's MHRA reported ~10m people had a first Pfizer dose by end of Feb

Everyone I know (me included) is currently being given AZ vaccine and I presume the Pfizer is being retained for second shots for those who've already had it.

Of course there's politics in play, as well as the challenges of scaling up vaccine production but IMV biggest thing Britain could do is give enough Ireland enough doses to speedup the vaccination of their population
You mean this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azipod

I think the biggest issue is complexity and resulting unreliability. On a ship that has to be in constant use for decades you want things that are simple and reliable.

"The latest design, the Azipod X, incorporates these improvements, with a view to a service interval of five years, and features bearings that can be taken apart and repaired from inside the pod while the ship is harbored normally"

Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. They are working on it:)

Also an important factor on large vessel is fuel efficiency. You don't want anything sticking out unless absolutely necessary, so these would have to be meant for propulsion. But because of complex construction I can expect they are less efficient than just straight through axle and a huge propeller on it.

I expect things like this to be useful on utility vessels of small to medium size where you don't necessarily need so much efficiency but the utility comes from being able to maneuver quickly and in various conditions.
> Netflix would never have its customer service people advocating to download custom firmware for smart TV's from "some Russian website" for instance

They wouldn't tell that to people directly, but they could tell you to go to a repair man. Who then, would proceed to download that same firmware from the Russian website and apply it, and the TV now works. Netflix gets to keep their reputation, and the customer is happy with the TV.
One of the main roads near where I live is a Roman road. It's fascinating that the new buildings being built along it have their design constrained, in some way, by a decision made 2000 years ago.
He can decorate his walls with printouts of the articles for all I care. The point I made is that the magazine is not longer a high-level general scientific magazine (what OP thinks about that publication), it has become a new Scientific American.
Blockchain CEO Shells Out Millions for Dorsey’s First Tweet
Even if Apple was fined every day for an entire year, they get around >200x the amount in a single day.

Looks as if they are probably scared of Apple.
The actual DNS server still needs to implement DNSSEC, the registrar won't do that by themselves. Still, as an end user, I don't care who implements it, all I know is that the records I received are intact and have not been tampered with by any intermediary parties. This makes it a lot easier to trust my DNS provider.

Yes, DNS becomes a CA in schemes such as DANE, but a CA that the domain administrator controls. I don't see any problem with that. We've been spoiled by Let's Encrypt by now, but free, easy TLS certificates and management for even small businesses are a very recent thing.

I much prefer the decentralised nature of DANE over current CAs, even from parties like Let's Encrypt. LE is still an American company and the USA has been proven to be all but transparent and friendly to its allies when it comes to using their power over digital infrastructure for their gains. I am 100% sure that if LE receives a red security letter instructing them to generate a certificate for a certain domain, they will, just like any CA would, before that CA would collapse as soon as anyone finds out. My bank's website security depends on nobody on the other side of the Atlantic getting any funky ideas.

The decentralised nature of DANE makes it a nice system because worst case scenario, some TLDs do not get signatures during the next key rollover. This would be immediately obvious to any observer, so actions like these cannot be done in secret.
It would be ironic if this spiralled into a global crisis, that spiraled into something else, until, finally, we're all cave people again. I think conspiracy theorists are having a field day.
That comment was joking. Please watch the video :)
For ships that have turbo-electric drive trains rather than big shafts, I wonder if it would be possible to vector the propellers somewhat for better maneuverability, the same way that rockets use gimballing engines? Probably not worth the maintenance though, with sealant and salt water considerations.
I once loved Perl, it was the first language I learned, but reading through the comments and link I don’t see how you turn it into a modern, well loved and well used language (or even stop the decline) through small improvements but no grand vision, or by stepping away from the past in a meaningful and painful way.

I wish them nothing but success, and sincerely hope their plan works, but I personally didn’t read anything there that made me think “oh wow, I’ll have to give Perl a try again when they deliver on their vision.”
Agreed. I always assumed the term “cancel culture” was a partisan broad brush created and wielded by right-leaning media to tar young people with honestly-held but perhaps loudly and annoyingly-expressed convictions about the appalling state of the world and our toxic public discourse in the age of Trump and Twitter.

Seeing Rupert Murdoch come out against it all pretty much settled the question for me: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-25/fox-mogul....

I think if someone starts talking to you about “cancel culture” like you’re supposed to know what that means, it’s a fair bet that they’re leading into a partisan political position.

EDIT: Haha, I’m being cancelled
And you can actually modify that whitelist to be whatever you'd like — e.g. I've added hundreds of addons that aren't by default listed.
love the Ui its pretty intuitive
"an overall reduction of infections, including asymptomatic cases detected by testing, of 75%"

It's right there.
The End of Tesla’s Dominance May Be Closer Than It Appears
This means that I have to install this extension as well.
Perl is nothing if not pragmatic.
At some point some companies have become too big to disrupt. I think the best way is to partition companies that grew too big, that could be called disruption if you will. I'd like to see Alphabet holding to be dismantled and all products moved into separate independent companies.
Its a genuine question. Back in the day (90s) there were actual wars being fought between Emacs and VIM where the strongest argument against Emacs was that its somewhat bloated taking up a lot more disk space than Vim. That argument is no longer (as) valid since disk-space is so cheap, so I just figured VIM was either dead or dying.
Azure has absolutely the worst interface in my opinion, but I’ve found that for a lot of my clients them already having an azure account (via AD) outweighs pretty much anything else.

I think Microsoft know this and know they come a long way without having to compete.
Managing GPU infra plays a huge role in Deep Learning projects. To use the current cloud providers special skills are required which individuals and startups may not posses. As a result of this DL researchers waste their precious time and money. After burning a lot of money on my credit cards for months and spending frustating nights, I wanted to solve this problem for the community and my future.

With Jarvislabs.ai any one who wants to do DL can create, pause, resume and scale GPUs(post creation) in few clicks, by automating several steps in mangaing DL infra. Some of the key features are

- 1 Click Jupyter Lab < [30 seconds]
- Pause the instance and Resume from where you left.
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The X.Org Foundation is joining calls for RMS to be removed
The certbot client is pretty awful (it does not cooperate well with automization) but otherwise I agree 100%. HTTPS everywhere and Letsencrypt have been huge boons to security.
HN is mostly full of FOSS and Web development culture.

Coming from the demoscene and having had a foot on game development, I am fully aware that stuff like monetizing IP and getting a game published no matter what and how, are much more relevant in the game development communities than whatever gets discussed over here.

Just look at e.g. the general opinion about Flash around here, and how it was embraced by the game development comunities.

On Reddit there are gamedevelopment forums where you will have more luck finding more real life experience.

Then there is IGDA, Gamedev, Gamasutra, Making Games, PAX, IGF and similar forums.

Fact is, not every game engine needs to be used for a Far Cry clone, and there are many ways to make money.
How do the hosts on your local LAN find each other?

If via Multicast DNS, what stops you from publishing TLSA records as well?
In 2016 John Willis was with Docker and he gave a talk where he casually recommended a book called The Box [1] about how shipping containers have shaped the modern world. When I was reading it there was a part where they talk about how the logistics optimization problem caused the major shippers to be some of the earliest adopters of computers. Interesting book.

[1] - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/316767.The_Box
We need a regulation that will automatically deal with such monopolies by ordering companies to split after reaching certain thresholds. This way we would never get companies too big to fail.
Wow - 5 times the size of Emacs. I never would have thought.
I like this human forum, I mean, forum.
> I'm on the "author list" for many hundreds of papers that I contributed nothing to and never read.

Are you asked for permission to be added as an author?

What if the research was 'bogus' or at least parts of it were incompetently/poorly done and the paper is discredited.
Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the auction in the first place? That would simply become "the ticket goes to whoever writes the largest number on this piece of paper", right?

I believe to reach your intended goal (i.e. the seller doesn't want to profit from the auction), you would have to redistribute the price increase among all participants. A way to do this would be as follows (needless to say, completely unpractical fantasy land experiment, I'm only doing this for the sake of argument):

- Have people freely register. Let's say you have M tickets, N people registered, the interesting case is when N >> M.

- Assign to each registered participant M/N of a ticket (assume tickets are infinitely divisible), and collect from them M/N * P where P is the intended price of a single ticket.

- Have people trade fractions of tickets.

The seller collects exactly M * P, and under usual assumptions the price of a ticket would converge to its 'true' value.
This is common on cruise ships. They spend so much of their time going in and out of port the extra manoeuvrability is worth it in requiring fewer tugs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azimuth_thruster
You can create a collection on AMO and set that instead of the whitelist. It's been enabled on Firefox Nightly since october.

It does happen to break some addons, e.g. Greasemonkey, but most work just fine.
My guess: general software multiplication is usually costlier than addition: it will pay off if you go for divide-and-conquer and your items are themselves matrices, or if they are arbitrary precision integers, or fractions, or elements of any ring really.
Haven't transplanted many trees at all, and there are probably a million factors.

A little rule I follow is;

If the plant already looks quite unhealthy, I prefer to just put it as is straight into the ground, feed it and water it. It will take longer to recover but I believe it minimises the risk of outright killing it.

If I get a very healthy plant, I will play around with it more, slice its roots, rinse it out, make a soil mix for the new roots etc

This is completely speculative but the best results I've had so far.
Tesla can now be bought for Bitcoin, Elon Musk says
> IIRC, both (well, CPython and MRI) internally use distinct “small integer” and “big integer" representations, but that is transparent to the user.

This seems to be correct for MRI. Before Ruby 2.4, both `Fixnum` and `Bignum` were exposed to the programmer. In 2016 these were unified into `Integer` from the programmer's point of view, but with "no internal representation change" [0].

> "Normal" ints in Python are certainly native. You don't get bignums until you need them.

However, I don't think this is true for current versions of Python. As part of the 2.x => 3.0 transition, Python underwent a similar unification of integer types. Python 2.x exposes both `int` and `long`, and Python 3.x has only `int`. However, internally, 3.x's `int` is represented by `PyLongObject` and the old `PyIntObject` has been removed. Even the small integer cache (which holds the values -5 to 256) was changed from holding `PyIntObject`s in 2.x [1] to hold `PyLongObject`s [2].

So it looks like in Python 3.x, all integers are arbitrary-precision. I believe this was a significant contributor to early versions of Python 3.x being slower than 2.x.

[0] https://rubykaigi.org/2016/presentations/tanaka_akr.html

[1] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/8d21aa21f2cbc6d50aab3...

[2] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/39f643614d03748a5fad4...
> data structures

Spending too much time upfront thinking about the perfect data structure is a bad idea.

Long walks on the beach and fasting is not going to deliver your perfect data structure.

People (other than yourself) using your product and observing evolving requirements over time will reveal an optimal data structure.

Rapid iteration and real-world usage is the key. I can’t count the number of times I thought I had the perfect design only to implement it and not find it useful to myself - after having thought so long about it.

> node

Node is great. And it’s great at iterating quickly which should be the goal of any project.

The post comes off very naive and a classic grass is always greener vibe.

> And it sounds like the exact kind of algorithmic kludge a programmer would introduce if her underlying foundation had a few flaws.

Why use a gendered pronoun here? It’s a bit unfair that the only non-specific gendered pronoun relates to a bad programming practice.
By original do you mean Hovav's? Then no, it's 2008.

But I'd argue that Borrowed Code Chunks exploitation technique paper by stealth from 2005 is the original. But maybe I'm just too old.
Now that you mention it, this is a pretty evil strategy. It may seem that developers and businesses have all freedom to create and run their sides and apps as they wish but if they don't comply to Google's view how the web and apps should be they...
... rank very low on search results and are therefore displaced by competitors that play along the rules of Google
... don't get into the Play Store or get kicked out
... can't express an opinion on any Google platform that goes against their (vaguely formulated) terms of use, otherwise their account gets blocked in no time.
Static binaries were invented when Fortran happened.
thanks google for bringing this handy looking extension to my attention!
3D printing tour of handgun history
Y’all really afraid of women speaking out against abusers huh? Speaks volumes
Anything else than straight shaft with a propeller on it is a loss of efficiency and reliability.

When the fuel efficiency and reliability drive your competitiveness that is a huge issue.
Playing with Java Records
Have you noticed that the quality of Google Search results deteriorated dramatically lately?
Sometimes when I google something I don't even get any results at all. As if they no longer indexed any more obscure sites.
On the other hand I know some sites completely disabled robots and are not being scanned, to degoogle themselves.
We've already changed our description and the new app update has been approved by Apple. However, the point is that this description has actually been on the ProtonVPN app for a long time - but Apple only blocked the update now. Apple forced us to censor the fact that ProtonVPN can be used to circumvent internet blocks in Myanmar, preventing users there from finding ways to bypass internet blocks, and hampering the defense of human rights at a critical time.
> Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the auction in the first place? That would simply become "the ticket goes to whoever writes the largest number on this piece of paper", right?

People who are bidding more will still pay more. The main weirdness introduced by that approach is that low bidders that win a ticket may get more money back than they paid.
Have they tried to follow recommendations and edit the description?
I think most people familiar with the field would rather classify Computer Science as a branch of mathematics instead. Its really an unfortunate name.
How does it look like normally? I guess full of ships anyway?
What about "addWithCarry", ie. ADC? Getting the carry bit seems only half the battle. I'd not seen this compiler tool before so had a quick play around with it. It's very cool! But I couldn't get a compiler to recognise it could use ADC.