skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I can gather at least 20,000 children were sexually abused in those grooming gangs over the last couple of decades from multiple cities and towns in the UK. If you're working class you probably know a child this happened to in my experience.

What's weird and upset me as someone who knows a victim of these grooming gangs wasn't that the police didn't do anything, but that to public didn't care and all the protests against the cover up were branded as far-right.

Nothing will change because whenever the BBC, the police or our politicians are reviled to have been covering up a child rape story the media seem to defend our institutions and the public don't seem to care much either way.

I know this is mostly irrelevant to the story posted here, but you're touching on is very true imo. The UK does seem to turn a blind eye to the problem of pedophilia.
I don't disagree with what you're saying, but I feel HTTPS everywhere does not belong in that list.
Secure by default doesn't sound evil to me, and Let's Encrypt made it easy enough to get free HTTPS certificates (and for non technical people, almost all hosting services I've seen offer it out of the box)
I'm just getting in to Node, coming from only having used PHP and then Laravel. Is it a bad time? Using Sails.js for rapid prototyping.
Do you get the option to disable it? When you look it up in the apps list?

I don't know about how it is in the latest phones.
But at least for older phones apps which are bundled as part of the OS have a version of the program in the read-only system partition which is used to do factory resets.

So disabling deletes the latest version of the software, and stops it from running on the phone.
On Firefox Android the same button for install this site as an app is right there?

It's called Add to Home Screen
> Your god was invented thousands of years ago so someone could claim to speak for him and attain status within his or her tribe without hunting more animals a trick that amazingly still works NOW.

Another fallacy and incorrect assumption that's clouding the discussion. Don't group all religions together then toss them all out as equally invalid.
And, if i'm reading their site correctly, requires you to have a gaming PC with good networking. It's not even in the same ballpark as Stadia!

What you should be comparing Stadia to is GeForce Now, Amazon Luna, Shadow, which provide the computing power as a service. Stadia eschews Windows to run the games, making it cheaper ( their free tier gives you 1080p/60fps for free, you just have to buy the games on the Stadia Store) but limits what games they can run ( they have to be made for Vulkan). The downside is that you have to buy the games for it, but it supports ubisoft+ ( with an addon on the Ubisoft side). But you don't complain when you have to buy games anew when you buy a new platform ( be it a PS, Xbox or PC), and the same logic applies here.

GeForce Now and Amazon Luna are still a Windows server box behind the scenes, with the associated slowness and a bit clunky integrations ( e.g. GeForce Now requires you to re-login to Uplay or Epic or Steam every so often, which is painful with a random password and MFA, and no copy-paste available).

Shadow provide you full access to a Windows box, with the associated issues ( game updates and downloads are up to you, disk space is limited, etc.).

Stadia has some downsides, but IMHO fares very decently against the competition. I have both it and GeForce Now, for different games, and IMHO Stadia's UX is slightly better.
Mothra and Abaco.

>but I'm not aware of anything a normal person would recognize as a web browser.

Same could be said about hackernews (no facebook or twitter look...not even hashtag's), so be happy you are not "normal".
Does it matter when they're keylogging my Android phone anyway?
I wish you were right, I truly do
It's a scam, and the best predictor of success as an economist is being politically useful as a scientific fig leaf for one interest group or another, sadly.
Why go through the trouble of using drone, just use a barrage conventional missiles, hypothetical country is unlikely to have anti-rocket system like iron dome
You can use !s instead of !g and you get the google results through startpage without going to google directly.
This is exactly my point. When assessing research, the evaluation of a researcher should always be far, far secondary to the evaluation of the research itself.

In the contrary case, which is a separate issue - that of hiring a scientist, in every other arena, employees are hired based on interviews and testing, with some consideration given to past experience - but this is more and more, especially on the cutting edge, the least pertinent concern.

In science however, employees are hired sometimes entirely based upon their "experience", with little to no consideration given to their presently-assessable ability.

If I were to hire a research scientist, I would far prefer to test potential suitors by having them walk through the conducting of research in front of me. Many, however, would balk - indignant, and stand proud on their legacy of papers instead.

This gives me no idea of their actual ability, and taken on face-value - ignoring tradition and dogma - is actually a red-flag.
First time would be a coincidence, third time is a broken (or working well, depending on your PoV) process/culture.
Independence on its own, would not be a competitive advantage. In reality, for the most part, people do not care enough about minor privacy violations. The outrage you see online rarely bleeds into the average user's day-to-day decisions.

I wonder how the next disruptive innovation is going to look in the search engine market?
There was a very interesting Omega Tau podcast about this very subject a while back. They go into a lot of detail about the optimization problem and how they address it.

http://traffic.libsyn.com/omegataupodcast/omegatau-146-conta...

Also: a plug for Omega Tau, one of my favorite podcasts.
https://omegataupodcast.net

Edited to add: go to the Archive page and scroll down. About half the episodes are in English and half in German.
Ye, I literally picked up my home-office chair for free, it was surplus at a school and destined to be thrown out. Sure, it's pretty worn, but the stuffing hasn't even STARTED to crumble to the floor yet, many good years left in this baby :)
This is a major problem many events are facing right now. See: Burning Man, DefCon, Chaos Communication Congress (CCC), HOPE, etc. There really isn't any good way to "solve" it.
The monitor mounts are so useful. They make a cheap monitor much more ergonomic.
Glad that I have been using Firefox as my main web browser for the last 6 years.
That's been thoroughly debunked.
An invasion of Taiwan might be fast becoming a favorite of wargamers (both professional and hobbyist).
Don't think personal LAN, think e.g. industrial automation: Many sensible companies want modern sensor systems that provide REST APIs and so on, but don't want those to access the internet. The hosts in this case often are appliance-like devices from third parties.
Well, maybe. I'm looking at the "Official US Gold Reserves" chart about half-way down, and it looks like the US was accumulating gold 1900-1935, then bleeding gold 1955-1970, then couldn't cope with the losses so bumped the economic malaise to other parts of the economy.

Cutting back on luxury spending, like sending people to the moon, could be connected to a general belt-tightening, in line with a sudden curtailment of per-capita energy growth (World per Capita Energy Consumption, 3/4 of the way to the bottom of the page).

It would be a bit suspcious if in 1972 there are astronauts were on the moon, then after 50 years of exponential real economic growth there is nothing going on, even to show off.
Um, so? The question was "[in which way does] Chrome has better security?" Not "Can anyone name a random Chrome feature?"

Firefox's Sync appears to be just as secure if not more secure (there's no option to NOT have end to end encryption):
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/firefox-sync-privacy/

I think sync is a pretty niche feature anyway.
Clicking the URL for me loads the post and then redirects me to a weird anti-LGBT propaganda anime video

Copying the URL into a new tab doesn't trigger the redirect.

Video is probably NSFW and LOUD: https://f0ck.me/b/c7aceabf.webm
Astra May Hold 29M Vaccine Doses in Italy, La Stampa Says
I've started using rsync.net with the borg client (replacing b2 and rclone) and loving it so far. I'm also surprisingly finding borg/rsync.net is suiting my usecase (personal backups) better than b2 did which is a nice bonus. I am paying more but can't complain as the value I'm getting is still good.
‘no charger’ fine will cost Apple just 0.00007% of its 2020 revenue
Maybe a tangentially related question, what happens if you form a system very much like our solar system, but the central body never actually ignites and it just remains a dark ball of hydrogen. Would the system still be called a solar system?
This paper [0] discusses similar ideas from a neuroscience perspective of feature extraction in deeper layers and argues the possible significance of minimizing the representation decision space in one-shot learning paradigm

[0] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.21.436284v1....
Guess the country

https://dronemadness.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Gas-Powe...

And the secon possible is the Unihawk family from Efy Tech

https://www.efy-tech.com/en/file/upload/2019/06/11/156040236...
The only way to achieve perfect linear scaling is to run N threads that never talk to each other, because a single thread program doesn't communicate with other threads.

Whether you run processes or threads shouldn't matter. As soon as you do communication, expect your program to get slower than what is theoretically possible. Multiprocess tends to have higher communication overhead (not always).
The site seems to be loading https://yin.neocities.org/main.js which checks the referrer and redirects the user to that video if they are coming from hn/reddit/twitter.

JS contains the following comment:

// much of the tech community is the kind of person that spent time infront of the computer instead of learning social competence.

// not all of you are arrogant pricks, but the soup is poisoned now.
Why cant this author just use X11? Arch will do that. Gentoo is their fallback, which will certainly do that.

Im certain there's a Debian derivative for that. There's at least two Debian derivatives for every use case (so long as that usecase doesnt involve major rewrites and/or ports).

This is Linux, and we do Freedom here. Even with a few too many snobs.
Posture has nothing to do with your chair, and everything to do with how you sit on it. I've literally sat in front of my computer since I was 9 years old, on anything from old kitchen chairs to the cheapest, crappiest big-box store models.. Actually, the only place I've ever sat on an expensive chair has been in the office, and it was not that much better.. It's all about how you sit..

I sit in many weird positions throughout the day.. lean back, feet on a box. straight up and down, legs crossed, lotus, and yes, I squat on it too.. sometimes on my knees, sometimes the chair reversed.. pretty much anything that keeps my head above the table.. totally privileged, I know :)

Hell, the last chair was thrown out after it literally broke apart, it and before it did, it was crooked to one side for a few years. I'm 35 now, my back is perfectly fine. It's not about the stuff you've got, it's about you.
Amazing! These times with Mac OS X 10.0 and Windows NT/2000 have been so exciting. It is kind of a shame that we don't have similar thrilling advantages in OS development nowadays. The Mac ecosystem got a walled garden and the spiritful ideas of the past (such as incorporating a modern GUI for a BSD Unix) are going more and more to history books.
I think everyone gets to where you are at some point. If they do not, then they are not trying new things. Nothing wrong with deciding you hate the current and want to return to what you enjoy.

I am in the same boat, and cannot wait to return to the job you are doing.

Remember, if you love your work, are you really working?
If your failure mode is execution, it's best not to count on it unless you understand what you're doing.
I really wish the sections on password hashing included info on what parameters should be considered secure. Recommending Argon without explaining how to configure it properly is not great.
Before recent versions, in the Postgres implementation CTEs were a wall to predicate push-down which can make them much less efficient than in other DBMSs. Worth noting if you need to support older versions for any reason.
It's very high vs comp sci. 50+ in comp sci is amazing.
Show HN: Grid – turn existing spreadsheets into interactive web documents
Found that it's available for Firefox. Happy that I switched my main browser to Firefox a couple of months back.
The CXX Debate (2020)
It's not accurate to blame this on upper management. Someone, somewhere, pressed a button - either a human reviewer (yes, takedowns are often issued by a human) or someone who set up whatever botched ML algorithm decided to nuke this extension. It sounds to me like this was definitely humans.

Humans also handle disputes, and Google's staff that handle them are borderline incompetent and don't respect developers or end-users.

You can say "upper management sets the policies" but I think that's giving people with some degree of control a pass. A highly-compensated SWE definitely has the option to not just go with the flow.
GRID is a productivity tool that enables spreadsheet users to transform their data and models into interactive, visually dynamic web documents. GRID syncs seamlessly with existing spreadsheets and leverages spreadsheet users' existing skills allowing them to add a narrative to their spreadsheets, decide which parts are shown to their audience and how the audience can interact with the underlying models.

You can take a look at this product-led growth calculator I built as an example: https://grid.is/@hjalli/product-led-growth-calculator-C3tbTt...

In order to deliver this product we have built:

- An Excel-compatible spreadsheet engine that runs entirely in the browser, allowing for super fast interaction and calculations.

- A WYSIWYG editor to build anything from interactive reports to embedded calculators

- Cloud monitoring that picks up on any changes to files stored in OneDrive, Dropbox or Google Drive (for Google Sheets) and syncs seamlessly with GRID.

The enduring power of legacy spreadsheet software is undeniable (or as Not Boring put it the other day “Excel Never Dies” - https://www.notboring.co/p/excel-never-dies ), but that also means that the world’s estimated 1 billion spreadsheet users encounter the same challenges when it comes to sharing and presenting data from spreadsheets. Formatting, emailing, updating, and trying to communicate insights from spreadsheets are well-known headaches in this regard.

GRID documents - on the other hand - are easily shareable on the web and allow anyone to view and interact with data and models at their own pace and on their device of choice, while allowing the authors to reamin in full control of exposure and distribution.

We’d love to hear your feedback and look forward to engaging in some interesting and constructive dialogue.
in oracle, this can be done using heirarchical queries:

select dbms_random.value from dual connect by level < 1000001;

edit: 1,000,001 as level starts with 1
> For a start, many of the Chinese factories making low-quality, cheap goods are instructed by Western IP holders to do so. You see the same thing in many industries no matter where they're manufactured - textiles is the biggest example that springs to mind, but fast food would be another.

Exactly this. It's not the Chinese factories that choose the quality level of the product - it's the companies that design and order them. Yes, the factories can and will cheat if they think they can get away with it, but roughly - they'll produce things at the quality level they're ordered to and paid to produce. The deluge of crap on the West is and always has been the fault of the Western companies that commission their production.

(And as a somewhat obvious proof of that point: all the high-quality stuff we buy and use? Almost all of it is made in China too.)
The classic use case for generics is when creating Abstract Data Types. Implementing stacks, queues, dynamic arrays etc of differing Types is made relatively simple using generics.
I believe the cause of the incident here was a blackout [1].

[1] https://gcaptain.com/grounded-mega-ship-blocking-suez-canal-...
> but the results are good for the size

Phrasing!
So they succeeded at attempting?
How do you uninstall Safari from iPhone though?

On Android he has a free choice to use and support Firefox (with Addons), which on iOS he can't do by the decree of the platform holder.

(The platform holder which told us, developers, that writing the complaint that's linked in this very article would cause us to be removed from the AppStore.)
If you can think about work while running, you're jogging at best. Every plateau I hit with my running is the result of distraction and is broken through by being present, focusing on form and deliberately running. I've gained weight and haven't realized the full benefits of exercise because I've thought about work. It's at odds with achieving healthful living..
Ask HN: Modern Continuous Delivery on Kubernetes
Today I published an article about modern continuous delivery where you create a CI/CD workflow that deploys a working Kubernetes deployment with a complete continuous delivery workflow—all without having to write a single line of pipeline code.

Here's the link: https://dev.to/gabrieltanner/modern-continuous-delivery-on-kubernetes-for-developers-5chf

What do you think about this kind of CI/CD workflow and deployment? Do you think that it has advantages over pipelines written in Jenkins or Travis? Any feedback on the article or deployment is highly appreciated.
Myself I was thinking it’d make sense with some variation of Dutch auction in rounds, where all participants in a round get the same price. What would you say the upside of VCG is? Dutch seems simpler and fair to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction
There is this recurring joke (to put it nicely) in pop culture where some clueless person will spell out a URL as "H T T P COLON SLASH SLASH W W W DOT...".

Part of me now always goes "but we use https now..."
If that is the case, then it follows that the expected price increase would be approximately the same in a Vickrey auction (barring extreme cases where the bids have sharp discontinuities).
"Chickens will also hunt mice, lizards and other critters small enough for them to catch and devour."

Your comment reminded me that chickens (and indeed, birds) have descended from dinosaurs (many of who were carnivores).
To kill the leaders of democracies would be genocide.
Tidal locking is the normal condition for solid planets. Literally all large and all close-in moons, and most of the distant ones, are tidally locked to the parent planet. Pluto and Charon orbit a common center, locked.

Mars and Ceres get a pass being far from the sun and close to Jupiter. Earth gets a pass because it has a massive moon keeping things stirred up. Venus, like Mercury, is not quite locked. As your rotation period gets close to your orbital period, tidal forces are much reduced. Venus could be oscillating around a resonant point, not yet settled into it.

Temperature difference between day and night cannot be large with a 250 mph global wind keeping the atmosphere well-stirred. Under an ocean, life would be further protected from temperature extremes, with high wind performing evaporative cooling on the day side, and surface ice insulating on the night side.
How do you self-host? In a VM? Container? Do you prefer to host data on your own sql database? Or would you prefer an embedded sqlite or pgsql server?
I did found that the codebase does not seem to be using any `browser.clipboard` API, so `clipboardWrite` permission seems to be unnecessary. According to [MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...), `browser.clipboard` API mainly exists to enable extensions to write image contents to clipboards, and all the ClearURL needs is writing texts. Also, [another MDN page on clipboard interactions](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...) states that extensions do not need `clipboardWrite` permissions to write to clipboards, e.g. by using `document.execCommand('copy')`.

Hopefully, removing this permission could help getting the extension restored.
I work in video games, large AAA game with absolutely crazy amount of templating, the compilation time is about 10-15 minutes, and that's with Fastbuild and hundreds of workstations participating in the build process. Once it's built it's a bit quicker, about 60 seconds from pressing build to the game starting, the linking is killer, it takes soo long every time.
Do you think there could be more landings on Venus like the Russian one in the 1960s?

How did the Russian probe even land and take a photo if the surface temperature is enough to melt metal?!

Could you build a small rover to withstand the elements for a few hours?
Could you elaborate further on why you think there is no relationship between decoupling the US dollar from gold and inflation?

Perhaps it’s obvious to you, but I actually found the parent’s suggestion to be thought provoking. If you’ve got a strong justification to back up your strong opinion, I would be interested to learn more.

Admittedly it’s not something I know much about, but it certainly seems plausible that allowing the Fed to print unlimited amounts of money could lead to inflation. And, as that website suggests, that inflation could disproportionately benefit people who own things that retain value (real estate, stocks, etc) or who have good credit ratings and are able to borrow during inflationary periods.
This is a much better headline than Newsweek who said

BERNIE: TWITTER TRUMP BAN HUGE MISTAKE
Different politics = different agenda.
At the T.J. Watson research center (headquarters of IBM Research which I had only a few occasions to visit), a number of my colleagues would always go for a stroll on the attractive grounds after lunch, and my favorite professor in grad school did the same thing.

When I was younger I was amoung a group of engineers that would go running during our lunch hour—though it was so hot in Texas during the summer that most of my thinking was about whether I was going to survive.
Tips for Beginner Maintainers of Open Source Projects
Just to add my own data point: I have some extensions in the Chrome Web Store and, from time to time, Google send me a notice that they violate privacy policies (but they don't collect any data) or some permissions are not used (but yes, they are).

So, after explaining and linking to the source code, they usually reply with another canned response:

Thank you for reaching out to us. We took a closer look at your item again and found it to be compliant with our policies. Your item has been reinstated and will be available in the store shortly. We apologise for the inconvenience caused to you in this matter. We value your contributions to the Chrome Web Store and look forward to working with you.

So maybe there is some Hanlon's razor at play here, too.
Omega Tau Podcast-Science and Engineering
Build an async flight notification service with AsyncAPI, MQTT, Amadeus, Twilio
I think this could possibly be the black swan event.
If the universe is infinite, you could compute all of the digits of Pi in finite time by using an infinite amount of parallel computers, true. But computing a percentage of an infinite number (total energy in the universe) doesn't make sense.