skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reason all such articles bring the last soldier killed in a war to mind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Gunther

Jimmy Carter started the modern Afghanistan war by creating and arming the terrorists to attack the then Soviet Union.

https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/how-jimmy-carter-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/07/history-tr...

He definitely left a legacy on Afghanistan in the modern era.

For those who are into history do look up The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Game_(Hopkirk_book)
They definitely won’t use most of the capacity because they can’t deliver/return even a tiny percentage of it using star liner!
If it doesn't work for most people, then most people can work from an office. It doesn't justify a blanket ban.
Let's be honest. This was a gentleman's agreement that happened on a golf course, nothing else. Tax payers are lining the pockets of musk instead of investing in our own government services.
Backdoored developer tool that stole credentials escaped notice for 3 months
I refuse to accept that my life must fulfill some utilitarianism of nebulous “value,” I would sooner ascribe to a Calvinist predestination than accept that framework for living.

This suffers from a fundamental problem. If the creation of value is the ultimate good, and we are obligated to maximize that good, we could do a lot better job at it than smiling some dopamine into our neighbor as you suggest. We’re all irredeemably evil for not doing so.
I really miss tomboy (not the new ng version). I used it for years and it was amazing. Rich text without having to use markdown. Razor fast responsiveness when searching. Instant hyperlinks just by typing the name of another note. Excellent keyboard shortcuts too.

I really miss it but it was no longer maintained and falling into disrepair on newer OSes due to lacking support for DPI scaling and dark modes.

I use onenote now as it comes with O365 anyway but like most things microsoft it's bloated and slow. It offers a lot more features (tomboy couldn't even do inline pictures!) But fast responsiveness means more to me.

I'd consider standard notes but there's so many of these apps around and most are not WYSIWYG editors but instead markdown with a separate preview window. I hate that. And they tend to be slow electron stuff which makes them no better than onenote.

Not sure if this one is an exception but if so I might try it.
Which is same for Squarespace. Shopify said they’d work on fulfillment to tackle Amazon years ago. How’s that effort going? Isn’t Shopify hailed as the next Amazon? Do they actually own any IP?
Or they could just you know, increase the price until quantity demanded = quantity supplied
This isn't even close to what will be the all time high. I know HN has a significant aversion to cryptocurrency (which absolutely befuddles me for the foundational societal concepts it modernizes) but love it or hate it if you think this is close to the peak you've been in a cave the last decade.

*Edit: speaking about crypto as a whole not specifically doge coin. BTC and ETH first to market with digital solutions to antiquated economic problems. But I'm not joking when I say the cut of Musk's jib puts a significant non-zero chance that he announces Doge will be the official martian currency. PT Barnum or not, I wouldn't completely discard the idea.
SpaceX is asking the EPA for permission to build a second orbital pad and tower in Boca Chica, and I'd assume that we might hear something soon about the mothballed 39A Starship launch mount
> Sounds like FloC is definitely more anonymous than third party cookies that are already in use today.

Not at all.

My browser deletes cookies from any website (by default) as soon as I close the last tab for a given open site.

If the browser itself starts tracking me, my privacy is reduced, not enhanced.
It's going to make things work slightly less well from the corporate office than they do at home on your cheap setup.

That's a continuing trend, and you might recognise it from other aspects of life. Paying more while deliberately choosing a worse service is pretty much life-as-usual for corporations.

One of my previous employers had a deal to get train tickets. In my country train tickets for actual consumers, even ordered online, don't have a service fee. After all in choosing to order online you're actually saving them money, why would it cost extra? But the corporation paid about 5% fees to get train tickets from a company which also provides those zero fee services to individuals.

Or think about all the companies where Windows XP desktops were still being used years after they were obviously the wrong choice.

Monday to Friday the world IPv6 utilisation goes down, but every weekend it's back up. Because at home people have IPv6 (even if they've never thought about it) while at work somebody explicitly turned that off.

One of the nice things about working from home is that my network works very well, whereas whether I worked for a startup or a billion dollar corporation it was always one problem or another when I was in the office. Which reminds me, I should really look for a new job as this pandemic begins to slacken off.
I work at a quant firm and we use Python because of how painful it is to build things in C++. Our framework is built in C++ but we then expose all of it to Python using pybind11 (amazing library).

Most quants do not want to learn complex build systems that have quirky behavior on different platforms, wait for very long compile times when making small changes to the code, dense and incomprehensible error messages, and a host of painful problems that one has to consider when writing C++.

Python just works really well on almost all platforms.

The biggest downside of Python is its parallelism, which means there is a lot of hackyness around writing parallel code. In most cases we can break things down and run different tests independently of one another, but in many other cases we have to make use of awkward workarounds, use multiprocessing, and other tricks.
Exactly this. I have no desire to develop against the most bleeding edge target. Thanks for explaining this better than I could.
What I did last month.

Build a vm and install opnsense. Build a base config. If using vlans or multiple interfaces note the order your create them.

Backup config.

Install opnsense on your router. Install backup config. Recreate-adding interfaces in order created.

And nuts web interface for usb-hids it borked. But it works via ssh.

Suricata is a little different. You can get et pro for free with a telemetry agreement. If using vlans only use the physical interface for listening and set the cidr nets in home networks under advanced.
What do you disagree with?

Your comment, as it stands, says nothing substantive.
Money only works because we all agree to believe in it.

The book Money by Jacob Goldstein is the best thing I have read on this. It covers the useful fiction that is money and how it has has shaped societies.

From the inception of coins in ancient Greece, the first stock market to current day cryptocurrencies. When people first came up with coins and paper money, don't you think people questioned their value?

"At the heart of the story are the fringe thinkers and world leaders who reimagined money. Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor, created paper money backed by nothing, centuries before it appeared in the west. John Law, a professional gambler and convicted murderer, brought modern money to France (and destroyed the country's economy). The cypherpunks, a group of radical libertarian computer programmers, paved the way for bitcoin.

One thing they all realized: what counts as money (and what doesn't) is the result of choices we make, and those choices have a profound effect on who gets more stuff and who gets less, who gets to take risks when times are good, and who gets screwed when things go bad."

For the record I am in on crypto including Dogecoin, just as I am in on FAANG, just as I am in on index funds, just as I am in on property. I honestly people not diversifying would be hubris.
South Korea and Germany was a bombed out hellscape at the end of the Korean War and it’s rich now. Singapore and Hong Kong were also lacking in capital per capita. More importantly it’s been over 70 years. At the end of the war Silicon Valley was at best in embryo. Taiwan’s semiconductor industry did not exist.

“Historical reasons” is weaksauce if you can’t actually say what they are.
Why don't they link the actual report? Presumably it is a matter of public record?
Wireguard traffic is easy to identify and therefore easy to block.
What are you talking about? These two publications are not remotely comparable.

Nature is a prestigious academic journal full of peer-reviewed science papers written by scientists (in various fields, including evolutionary biology).

The Economist is a weekly news magazine written by young journalists with no special expertise. It is not an academic publication and its authors are not economists.
That's not really correct. They don't have any stock by they have promised new stock to retailers.

In fact, it's coming back with a new SKU (again): https://www.frontendaudio.com/blog/sony-announces-the-c800gp...
ARM VMs only from what I understand. Unfortunately.
I assumed we were thinking more generally if it was a strategy to revitalize flagging towns.
I could see ad agencies start to buy well-known https endpoints per client domain that makes 3rd party cookies into 1st party cookies. This whole problem isn't going way -- it is just going to shift.
I wonder how far away from Earth could have been detected the atmospherical nukes blowed in the XX century.

And if those nuke produced some currently undiscovered very far (light years), detectable energy / event? Yeah, most close neighbors could have already spotted us in 1950.
I prefer socializing with my family and friends over my coworkers. I don't like commuting to an office. I hate fluorescent lights and windows I cannot open for fresh air. If that makes me an introvert/nomad/misanthropist/sociopath, then so be it.
1000mAh to 120000mAh: What's the Best Capacity for a Power Bank?
I believe in ten years this comment will be laughable, but as it stands right now we’ll have to agree to disagree.
Then it will be the great arbitrage if they don’t adjust prices quickly
The more people that are thinking "UFO!", the less people are thinking "what's that aircraft?"
So, the ascent of U.S. universities to high status on a worldwide scale, happened in the first half of the 20th century really. Why? Well, because Europe was tearing itself apart in two world wars, and the U.S. sat out the first half of both of those, while receiving a lot of talent fleeing those wars. If you have the money, and the former top-of-the-heap has bombed their wealth into rubble, it doesn't require any magic formula to use that money to get top notch research talent. I don't think any of the rest of what he discusses is necessary to explain this.
I'd have been upset if it was a pain au chocolat and demanded fire rescue.
That seems pretty unlikely. "We did it twice, want to buy a few more landings?" vs "give us a cost plus contract, we haven't done it once, also like commerical crew, give us significantly more than the people that already did it". I'd bet on spacex. Who wouldn't?
I'm not saying that this is necessarily a correct interpretation of events (simply because I'm not qualified to make such a pronouncement), but I think the parent post tried to explain this by referencing the "bullwhip effect" [1], which is when relatively small changes in demand in one point of the supply chain lead to large systemic changes in resource allocation because the perception of the change is magnified at each upstream supplier.

[1] https://sloanreview.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/1997/04/633ec...
> Find your pride in your accomplishments, not in a property like skin color or nationality.

And if I don't care about pride, but preserving my kin? Should I keep my mouth shut while the media claims my country was always diverse*, there is nothing to preserve?

Do you know I am not British? That my country was at one point divided among several others, that even forbade us from using our language in the territory they took? It was rallying around our ethnicity that allowed us to present a united front, and survive as a people. Without what you hastily call racism, we would have been absorbed into neighboring countries with hostile regimes. In many nearby places, these exact conditions led to genocides.

*Please spare me the argument that, because ethnicity is fuzzy at the edges, it means people are completely interchangeable, and there is no difference between a Britain with 10% or 50% ethnic Indians.
QUIC connection IDs are transport level IDs, and are valid for as long as the connection is established. They will survive network path switches (by design to enable migration), but e.g. are not related any sessions on application level.

QUIC connection IDs can also change while the connection is active, so there no 1:1 relation between connection ID and connection either.
tried to use it recently but saw the fees in the $25-$30 range and thought, ok we're definitely not there yet. Beyond that tho I was super impressed.
Very good news. It might even hurt Chrome's monopoly.
Also a Conagra Foods Slim Jim cross promotion announcement.
You can load a custom extension repo, and get access to all of the extensions for free - https://github.com/kylejbrk/standard-notes-open-extended
This is something that has been over-hyped for the sake of dramatization. Paul Morphy[1] and Bobby Fischer[2] are great examples of people who most likely were already psychologically 'at risk', and 'went over the edge' because of their obsessive chess playing. Certain potentially self destructive traits, largely obsessiveness and paranoia, can be of great use when playing chess if they are moderated.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Morphy#Abandonment_of_che...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer#Speculation_on_p...
Silver is quite useful as wire. It's a better conductor than copper, but because of cost is only used rarely. It was used in WW2 for making magnets for uranium processing.
You have a high opinion about sapiens-sapiens capability to make reasonable actions. but most probably having surviving nuclear extintion till now was just a matter of survival instintc. Something happening almost entirely out of the neo-cortex.
> DRM made its way into browsers only barely, and in that case they at least had something people wanted.

What did DRM have that people wanted?
There could be substantial benefits in the long term, if we can get a self-sufficient colony going. In the short term, it's mostly working out the technology and being able to learn more about planetary science by studying something up close that isn't the Earth.

In the long term, Mars is a great refueling station because it has carbon dioxide and water that can be used to make methane, and it has much weaker gravity than Earth. That would make it much easier to access the asteroid belt, which may have a lot of valuable minerals.

There may also be some not-so-obvious benefits to living on Mars. For instance, people with mobility issues may be stuck in a wheelchair on Earth but be able to walk on Mars. (The optics of shipping all our old people to Mars isn't great, but it might actually be a pretty awesome spot for an old folks home.)

Another reason people have for going to Mars is the same as people who migrated from Europe to the Americas: to get away from a political situation they don't like and start a new life. If the optics of sending old people to Mars is bad, the optics of sending, say, Syrian refugees to Mars is even worse, but if someone wants a fresh start that's one way to do it. At least until Mars becomes as dysfunctionally political and tribal as Earth.

In the very short term, sending people to Mars may have a big impact on children being interested in science. I don't know if it's still the case that if you ask an elementary-aged child what they want to be when they grow up, it'll probably either be "an astronaut" or "president of the United States", but I think it was when I was that age.
It's really the other way around. Major browsers have decided to phase out 3rd party cookies (with some pressure from outside forces), so now advertisers are scrambling to find alternatives. Whether or not FLoC catches on is related to whether or not it's a good alternative -- there are others out there. It's not driving the demise of 3rd party cookies, but if 3rd party cookies become useless for targeted ads, then FLoC is one of the contenders to fill the space.
> application-focused (something that EU is not very good at)

Probably because of the investor climate, and applied research is a good fit for companies.
To Buffalo with Love
It's been 80 years. No other great scientists were born in Europe in the past 80 years?
Nope, you don't get any of the extras with the free version.
The author of the article called one of the commentors a "duckling." so.. that's interesting.
I wasn't required to take foreign language classes but my engineering degree did have a significant liberal arts core. This is pretty standard in the US from what I've seen.
Standard Notes is a phenomenal note taking app and one of the first to bring encryption in note taking. They take security very seriously and have multiple third party audits.

With that said, the bad outweigh the good. I don't mean to be a pessimist here (SN is inspirational) but:

1. Their free plan is extremely lacking. You can't even try out many of their editors.

2. Their pro plan mostly only offers editors. I am not sure how having 3 kinds of rich text editors is helpful but they have them.

3. They don't allow any form of account recovery. Which sounds really epic on paper but once you forget your password, you lose all your data.

4. The feature parity between their different apps across platforms is abysmal. The android app is notoriously feature lacking compared to the Web version. (They did put out an update which hopefully changes things).

5. In my extensive usage of the app, conflicts are very normal. I have no issue with that but there's no way to resolve them without creating duplicate copies of the note which clutters up the UI.

5. the UX is poor. No right click on notes, no distraction free mode, no way to collapse the huge notes list.

6. Search and organization seems like an after thought. The only way to organize is via tags. Tags are nice and all but there's not much you can do with them.

7. Their pricing seems absurd.

8. The development seems to be going no where. They are active but many of the above issues are still not addressed.

But as I said, it's not all bad. Most people won't notice the above in their initial usage. They have a solid app with okay features.

If you are a new user looking for encrypted notes and all that hosh posh or just an alternative to SN, you should also give Notesnook[1][2] a try; it solves all of the above issues in a sensible way. Do note that I am the dev so I am obviously biased. It's not perfect but I think it is a better alternative.

[1]https://notesnook.com/

[2]https://github.com/streetwriters/notesnook/ (it's not open source but the repo has some good FAQ that you might be interested in reading).
In the west, at least, Bobby Fischer went down what some might consider a pretty dark path. Fugitive status from the US for violating cold war sanctions, choice words about 9/11, and remaining on the run from the US for the rest of his life in Iceland.

That said, I grew up as a chess nerd and although I knew vaguely that Bobby Fischer was a tragic figure (largely thanks to "In Search of Bobby Fischer", despite the movie having almost nothing to do with the titular character), I'd never heard of that association with chess in general.
Costs don’t seem to be much better in the rest of the world either.

Nuclear plants opening on time and on budget are pretty rare.
I don't know if we're there yet or not, but I remember last peak I started to here about crypto in my non crypto media feeds, aka comedy podcasts. I just saw my disc golf feeds talk about crypto. I think that's a strong signal.
If you're writing this statement, you're modern. If you're reading this statement I may no longer be modern.
> Jimmy Carter started the modern Afghanistan war by creating and arming the terrorists to attack the then Soviet Union.

I’m pretty sure that the USSR started the war with its decapitation strike and invasion of what was already a Soviet client state.
Yup. Instead of adcookies.adco.com, it will become adcocookies.<populardomain>.com. Also there are lots of other ways to fingerprint a person. I'm 99.95% sure google wouldn't commit to supporting the end of 3rd party targeting cookies if they didn't have a plan for sustaining their ad revenue.
Ex energy worker here.

In the US, nuclear power plant projects live or die based on i) regulatory approval (social and technical approval) and ii) insurance. Insurance makes or breaks the project, and currently, there is essentially no way to move forward but in a limited number of circumstances.
Lol at my state school a cs course counted towards the foreign language credit for engineering majors... that said i did feel there was enough liberal arts requirements overall.
AmazingRibs.com, mentioned in the article, upped my game.
> And they tend to be slow electron stuff

I've read this a couple of times on HN. Can someone fill me in here? Is the claim that electron apps are slow justified? If so why, technically, are they slow?

The main one I use is Slack and it is perfectly fine on my machine.
Somehat misleading to put uxdesign.cc as the domain when this redirects to medium.com

A DNS lookup for uxdesign.cc produces IP adddresses for medium.com
QUIC is purpose-built to circumvent middleboxes. Enterprise networking benefits greatly from providing security and accountability via such middleboxes. The effort required to properly secure a network trying to circumvent your network security is costly and more complex.
They quote the price in USD, so it's likely just charged through some gateway which does conversion at current price.
Yes even the advertisers don't care. It's the networks themselves that build value worth big data that keep the myth alive that tracking is necessary for advertising.
not working on firefox, keeps loading forever, ad blocker disabled
Sure, possibly that means the article should viewed a bit skeptically, but ideally that would be done with any source. Here's a parallel article from the BBC a day earlier: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56720589

At a glance I didn't see any discrepancies between them. Do you? If there are actual problems with the article (beyond the reputation of the source) you can email hn@ycombinator.com and probably convince Dan to change the URL.
It used to be easier to do this via rolling at the big tables in Macau.
Yeah, just bow your head down like a good boy.
Totally unrelated to this great project, but I'm curious: do people really use content-aware resizing feature in practice?

I use Photoshop frequently, and I use content-aware removal A LOT (super handy). But it never occured to me, not even once, that I need to use the content-aware resizing despite it's there for years. If I really need to change the ratio of an image/photo I usually just crop.
there are several ways. ETags for one, another is to have all the various sites that use an ad network to send the relevant visitor fingerprint data to a central broker that correlates the information and attempts to determine that entity A and entity B are really the same person because a bunch of attributes match.
The author is correct, I _am_ wondering what they are smoking.
What was the cut off difficulty level at which point it became impossible?
The reddit one you quoted is exactly what the parent is talking about:

> publishes private or identifying information