skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a much better argument than all the overheated comments about how I'm a misogynist pig. But still. Here's a comparison. This person:

* Discussed refraction with the brilliant philosopher Thomas Hobbes

* Computed the first table of antilogarithms

* Wrote manuscripts on the circulation of the blood - and may have anticipated Harvey

* Also wrote on psychology, and the size of the universe

* Conducted some of the first experimental research on medicine

This is Walter Warner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Warner). Probably way more distinguished than you or I will ever be, but not quite an unknown genius - just the first name I saw on the Wikipedia list of 17th century scientists. So, in terms of actual achievements, is this less than Lady Ranelagh?

To be clear, I have zero problem with people writing books on unknown female thinkers. I'm sure I'd find this an interesting book! What I think is bad is the overclaiming that sometimes goes along with it - giving inflated importance to historical figures based on what they might have done, if only society had been fairer. I think this comes from two reasons: a sense of historical injustice, and a desire to have historical female role models for scientists today. (OK, and maybe a third, the desire to sell one's book.) But however laudable those reasons are, we should not distort history in their service.
The biggest risk issue to me is it takes a lot of real cash to flow into crypto mining to sustain current prices. I saw $200m a day across all crypto mentioned and I can believe that! So crazy money to sustain prices, making it susceptible to popping.
And since people buy because it goes up and vice versa, a crash will have a vicious cycle effect. So mathematically speaking a crash is coming the question is when. After the crash another bubble will build up again of course!

Very long term it could be future money (a lot of issues need to be ironed out!) or looked on as a weird thing of the past or maybe it’ll be around forever and bubble up every now and then.
I would say this is a privacy concern, but they are already echo customers.
I wouldn't mind opening up even higher b/w wifi. I've got way more than needed so seed linux distros all day long anyway

...however if someone does something illegal with it that'll still trace back to my IP and police will kick down my door, correct?
Did they ever get anything right?

I can't recall single instance.
> dealing with issues and PRs

According to the original tweets by @sebmck there were only 25 comments in PRs by said contributor in the last year, so even that didn't happen, apparently.
I have an even more naive question: if EU wants a secure and well-overseen root services operator, why don't they spin up their own one? They can do whatever they fancy for their own money.
SVG is a minefield so massive it's hard to give an exhaustive list of everything that could go wrong. Especially when these kinds of assets might be hosted on user content domains and where webmail clients might allow access to the SVG content with inline disposition but outside of an IMG tag (most browsers enable/disable various SVG features such as JS or an app cache manifest according to context). There are also a ton of weird rendering modes that can be triggered for SVG (or MathML) and these can be used to bypass XSS sanitizers by means of mXSS which exploits differences in browser renderings when roundtripping content.

And sites with strong CSPs are often especially vulnerable to scriptless attacks, perhaps because they feel more protected. For example, in 2019, there was a bug bounty disclosure to Fastmail about a way to intercept and proxy all email attachment downloads, completely client-side, and yet without involving any JavaScript, simply using HTML5 AppCache. This also affected a whole lot of other providers, but the Fastmail team patched this within 24 hours, a pretty amazing response, and the quickest by far.

Here's a fantastic paper from Mario Heiderich (of Cure53) from 2012 on various kinds of scriptless attacks: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.46...
I would be fine if my client would neatly format a limited markdown format and other clients supported entering it in a WYSIWYG fashion, as long as all the displayed content is part of the transmitted message (no further connection to the net) and the client is guaranteed not to execute any sender-supplied code or transmit any data when links or images are displayed.
> 20 years ago, I'd put the CS degree higher up, but today Universities have lowered standards significantly and are minting lots of CS graduates with dollar signs in their eyes.

In addition I’ve heard of an seen a number of things in CS programs to make me question their quality. I can’t speak to the other degrees.
I would guess plenty of climate activists would cheer about those hacks.
That doesn't seem to mean much nowadays. (Or maybe ever.) It's an old popular complex project, there are a lot of ongoing discussions. For example the TypeScript repo has 5K issues. And it's a flagship MS project, so it's not about funding, quality, etc.
Minimum Viable Product – the concept, examples, and the rationale
My main concern with sharing like this isn't the bandwidth usage, but what happens when someone abuses the connection (downloading/sharing child porn as an example).

I don't want anything to do with it if there's even the slightest chance I'd end up on the hook for someone else's crimes.
M1 and Rosetta shows that it is possible to emulate x86 and still run that faster than Intel for some workloads. Nothing prevents Samsung and Microsoft from doing that with Windows on Arm. And they do not need to match Apple efficiency, stuff like CPU 50% slowdown should be OK for most business and education oriented software as long as for native applications the performance will match roughly the latest Intel CPU.
Please don’t support Amazon from creating another network-effect product that creates vendor lock-in, and privacy issues. Convenience should not be the end-all goal, as the ad blatantly states, but instead interoperability and open-protocols.
Not necessarily, I need a _proper_ benchmark against AMD 5xxx to belive that.

Edit: proper means not using one M1 big core for single threaded performance benchmark, only the little cores in a battery test and then combine those two numbers for a performance/watt comparison.

You can't compare big-little with all-big in this fashion.
Powerline is your friend
Open source projects funded by donations need accountability. Regular reports about how much money is available, how it's being spent, and what the results are. If I saw that this guy, getting a full-time salary, creating fewer PRs in a year than me in a week, I'd be pissed, and the project certainly wouldn't get my donations.
They won't be.

Governments taxation may distort the prices so that it looks that way.
Definitely it is very surprising that they continued to pay despite there being close to zero output. If I tried this in my company I'd have a PIP in 2 months and probably get fired in another 2.
Randballs – A SFML and EnTT Playground
Why is it necessary? The whole point of markdown is that you may render it but it's also fine and easy to read when it remains plaintext.
Hi, where Amazon, providing services no one asked for and stretching our Internet security even thinner!
> I'm just going to be explicit. In 2020, Henry created 12
> issues, commented 25 times, and created 29 pull requests.
> This is across all Babel orgs.
>
> https://twitter.com/sebmck/status/1392053448892469250

There has been a lot of innovation within the tooling ecosytem over the last year (esbuild, vite, snowpack, bundless, swc, whatever Jarred Sumner is working on). None of this innovation is coming from Babel.

It seems like a gravy train. Open-source contributors of other projects are currently carrying the torch of uncompensated work.

If they want to get paid, they need to think about how they currently fit into the ecosystem.
Use Tor to proxy those connections.
I think you will need a substantial increase in your budget to go to some of the inverter units that are found on RV's and sailboats, who face this same challenge. These units that charge while in use like you want exist, but not downmarket, and they have a relatively limited (10-15 year) lifetime, and the robust ones only appear to cater to higher loads (would appreciate anyone who knows of reliable units for smaller loads like OP is talking about).

I would really like an inverter design that anticipates the wear, modularizes it, monitors it, and failsafes the wear. So when the top 5-10 items that normally wear out (capacitors, inductive components, vibration isolation material, etc.) blow, a standby automatically takes over and my house supply chain management system auto-orders a replacement.
Convenience is way too alluring for the general public I am afraid. But I completely agree.
CryptoProfit
> but that refactoring requires super duper overqualified people, etc

Yes, and it needs super duper overqualified managers to understand that the super duper overqualified engineers actually are on to something with their suggestions.
Getting and restoring a Sun Ultra 1 Workstation
It works very well if you are already the bigger competitor :-)
How about some kind of 'proof of sharing' crypto credit system? I like the idea of a shared mesh, I am not keen on this being proprietary.
No, quite the opposite in fact. Unfortunately most of the ones I want I likely couldn’t get, so I apply the masses of ones I can.

To be fair though, I haven’t sent out hundreds applications in many years. In fact the only time I did was when I was trying to get my first job.
How to Rebuild Existing Software: Fixing and Updating Legacy Code
Show HN: See how many podcast listeners there are for any topic
Well, having a bathroom in each apartment could also be seen as a total waste of space and water, just as wifi is, but there are good reasons why people prefer having their own reserved resources and privacy - in both cases.
> Yes, minor hydrofoil ships have been built but why not cargo ones?

I'm assuming that the additional of the weight of the cargo means that you would need to go much faster in order to lift the ship up on the hydrofoils, and this makes it infeasable.
Nvidia’s Marbles at Night RTX demo is now free to download
Heuristic might be a better term.
Indeed - misaligned instructions don't work on ARM, the instruction pointer has to be word-aligned.
You do realize that wifi uses a shared medium and each network only lets one device send at once? If one device is transmitting then all other devices must cease transmitting or they interfere with the radio signals. Having more 5Ghz short range networks is a good thing.

It's the same thing with 5G. More cells, less range.
I love how insidious Amazon are with their products, get the hardware into their homes then just change what it does to what you want. What you didn't read the EULA in the last update?
TricepMail has granular/heritable switching between plain text or HTML, with or without images. For example, if you have a mailbox set to plain text but receive an email that you would like to render as HTML, it's just one click away for either the entire thread or just that message.
This is my understanding as well. Section 3 sub "A decentralized algorithm" of their paper discusses the computation approach:

"In practice we can assign each eigenvector update to its own device (e.g. a GPU or TPU). Systems with fast interconnects may facilitate tens, hundreds or thousands of accelerators to be used. In such settings, the overhead of broadcast(vˆi) is minimal. We can also specify that the data stream is co-located with the update so vˆi updates with respect to its own Xi,t. This is a standard paradigm for e.g. data-parallel distributed neural network training. We provide further details in Section [6]."

So a general methodology that permits mapping analysis to "embarrassingly parallel" computational models.

Tangent: Given the provenance of PCA (Karl Pearson) this is all a bit ironic ..
This is a blatant attempt at using their market power to gain a dominant position in IoT connectivity by creating a parallel Network where Net Neutrality does not apply. If this succeeds, only Amazon approved devices will be allowed on this global Network connecting only to aws provided services thereby establishing a monopoly on non-cellular IoT connectivity.
After Apples recent move in the same direction with their „find my“ mesh network of apple devices being used to introduce a whole new mode of operation to support their Air Tags the Question of Net Neutrality has to be extended from just ISPs to Dominant Platforms that have the ability to create derivative Mesh-Networks.
Your advantage is cost of living then. You can create a SaaS and live off it much sooner than a SF person spending $100
a week on sourdough bread
Google's remittance push: GPay US users can now send money to India, Singapore
Nobody needs rich text.
I have experienced it at some point in 2017. That day I learned about helpful websites you can use to rate your email (which is helpful because you can realize that your domain/IP is blacklisted somewhere for previous owner was spamming from it). In 2017 I learned I have to add DKIM and SPF and had no problem with spam since then. But this thought me a lesson to go through ratings every now and again, just to stay up to date with new mechanisms that are being used by biggest email providers (gmail, yahoo, etc).
You can have private networks and multiple access points within the same wifi channel.
If you run the Docker daemon manually, it works just fine. I'm running a container on it right now.

It's not a problem with Docker on WSL 2, but a problem with the way WSL uses its own init system instead of systemd, while some Ubuntu packages are packaged for a systemd system.
There are a few times I’ve been told an approximate dollar value of my work, but they were at very tiny companies and never enough to impress.
I think this is an important point. How do I know donating money will end up actually going to the project.

For some reason I believe donating to The Blender Foundation actually pays for devs to work on blender (and I donate).

I have a friend working on an open source project. I know he works full time on it. I donated because I knew he was working full time and because I like the project and want to see it succeed.

I have no reason to believe sponsoring random npm package asking for funding does anything other then maybe make some person feel good that they decided to post some code on npm and/or github.
If an insurance pays off ransomware attackers then it seems like an viable target for insurance fraud.
And Smilodon Populator is described on wikipedia with a weight range of 220-436kg, so this is not a giant that's out of the range of what we already know.

It's still a big ol' cat though!
> So she was popular and so - that probably was true for many, many people throughout history.

The weird thing is that she seems to have been popular, yet she isn't mentioned (so far as I can tell) in the main sources of pre-20th c. biography (e.g. the DNB). Uncovering such minor but influential figures that hadn't yet been comprehensively described has always been a main interest of historians and antiquarians, so I think this author's work can be described as a very real accomplishment.
reminds me of fon.com
Design SaaS Product: Why You Should Choose Ruby on Rails Framework
I would be curious to know what kind of consumer response Amazon anticipates from this. Are consumer privacy, security and freedom factors that were considered in Amazon's decision making process when developing this product?

I know it's not in the spirit of discussion on Hacker News, however I feel I must just add the rhetorical remark: "Is everyone else concerned yet?"
For a cruiser a hybrid electric system has a lot of benefits. Basically it uses the conventional diesel engine, prop, gearbox, and adds an electric motor that bolts on. So if something goes wrong, all of those parts can be serviced worldwide. The electric motor is a form of redundancy, and can also be used as a starter if the starter fails, and the diesel motor can function even if the electric motor fails. At low speeds the electric motor only is used. The electric can be used at the same time for some extra power. For short trips with shore power you can get around without using any fuel. And you can recharge while cruising with the electric motor working as an alternator, allowing you to spend most of the time on only electric, extending your range.
The gist of the allegation:

"I'm just going to be explicit. In 2020, Henry created 12 issues, commented 25 times, and created 29 pull requests. This is across all Babel orgs."

"Sorry but that's DEFINITELY not $132k worth of work. Especially when there are other contributors who are working for free doing much more. Obviously everything isn't on GitHub, there's work in private but it is representative."
You know who’s making real progress on AI driving? Waze is. I don’t want to be too dismissive of EV progress thanks to Tesla but I feel like there’s no contest about who is pushing forward AI driving beyond the status quo.

And Waze doesn’t need a professional troll to go around garnering media support 24/7.
Fastmail's security is top notch. They're using Cure53's DOMPurify and their team understand these vectors really well, with strict filtering. Their pixel tracking blocking was better than Hey's when last I checked, and I reported three leaks to Hey that were not fixed for some time. Fastmail also run one of the best bounties I have ever participated in. I would even say significantly better than ProtonMail, having participated in both bug bounties.
Interesting, I've never heard of insertAdjacentHTML before. Thank you for sharing :)
This is great feedback. And I love your idea on the position the ephemerality, rather than privacy.

I am not trying to build a Unicorn, so I have no problem with Discord copying me. This will be a side gig. If it is even feasible.

Thanks again for the feedback.
"Showing off" that you know some screenreaders do the wrong thing is not any more "smart".
> however if someone does something illegal with it that'll still trace back to my IP and police will kick down my door, correct?

This is a big concern with all the major "public WIFI" systems like this one and others such as Comcast's Xfinity WiFi and it's pretty much never actually true.

For actual Wi-Fi provided by an ISP, the public network will usually come out of a completely different IP (your modem will internally have 2 IPs, or tunnel the public network's traffic straight into the ISP's infrastructure and it will only talk to the public internet from there with a different IP).

For this one, I'm not sure if this is even IP-based at all and allows access to the internet. Seems like all it allows is to talk to Amazon (using some proprietary protocol) and offers no access to the outside internet anyway.
I don't really get the "nightmare" consequences. Sure, some electric systems will go down / maybe burn down. But few people will die, right?

When I saw nightmare in the title, I expected something like humanity will be wiped out, or maybe just 90% of us.

Can somebody clarify?
I hope the 'parent' means "cats what became extinct due to man's stupid hunt practices" and not "Jurassic Park".

No animal can survive human's relentless attack, so re-introducing something that WE destroyed makes some sense.

Re-introducing something that evolution phased out, (imho - not an ethicist/biologist) is inappropriate. Also something 'out of its time' is not a nice thing to have. T-Rex made sense when there were other big-size herbivores to feast on. A pack of T-Rex now would hunt and feast on what?
I've heard people suggest that the UK leaving the EU may actually benefit the use of English as a lingua franca in the EU, because now it doesn't give any EU country an unfair advantage, so countries may be more willing to embrace it. There is also the fact that European countries have invested in English education for the last two decades making it a widely useful language in the EU. Also, though US hegemony may be fading, decades of it have made English extremely useful internationally as well.
It is not only Rosetta. M1 has special hardware to allow for faster emulation like supports for Intel cache coherency protocol allowing to emulate multithreaded code with much less efforts.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast
The little tyrant of his fields withstood,
Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,
Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.

"Elegy written in a Country Churchyard", Thomas Gray https://www.bartleby.com/101/453.html

(Ironically time itself has pushed Hampden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hampden out of the list of names that one may reasonably expect English people to recognise, while Milton and Cromwell still remain)
Oh wow there's people literally livestreaming now. I'm surprised and impressed.
> I actually am quite annoyed that most languages won't
> let you use Greek characters as variables.

$ python3
>>> φ = 2
>>> σ = 3
>>> φ + σ
5
Two privacy vulnerabilities are worse than one. If I buy an Echo, I may well be aware what I'm getting into and accept the risk of an always-on voice assistant, but do not want the additional risk of that assistant sharing my Internet connection.
It is if you take the US health insurance cost and compare it to the uk employees NI.

And UK has 20k PA ISA allowance (put 20k beyond tax) and a 12.3 k CGT Allowance and we don't get crucified on employee shares, if my EMI shares vest I pay no income tax and 10% CGT
Okay, but the potential harm / average good of internet access is orders of magnitude away from that of a firearm.

As a teenager, I would have loathed being restricted from the internet the way the above poster describes restricting their autistic teenager's.

(in fact, on one occasion my mother did restrict my computer access because I wouldn't go to the guitar lessons she paid for me anymore, I did absolutely loathe it, and I still consider that mildly abusive)
It’s delusions like this that lead me to believe cryptocurrency is a cult.
Same thing happened to me, got a big spike one day it was great but had 0 subscribers and no one watched any of my other videos.
Technically, Samsung jumped into this market already in 2012 (Samsung Series 3 chromebook had an exynos CPU).

I think the real news here is the AMD collaboration.
sometimes I would love to see an A/B test on HN: swap Amazon and Apple here, call it "Find my Homepod" and see the reactions.
It's a real shame that human selfishness means everyone has to have their own mini WiFi point rather than all sharing.

I wish the 2.4Ghz band had some kind of "at least half the bandwidth of any network connection over 2.4Ghz must be available for use by any member of the public, for free".

That would effectively be the licensing cost for your use of the WiFi band - you use up bandwidth in 2.4Ghz, but provide for free bandwidth to the internet for other people to use.
Blockchain Apps on Bare Metal Servers Part 1: Big Data and Security
> What does pushing back gain you though?

More accurate knowledge of reality.

After all, if someone on a forum is talking about $300k graduate salaries while the Bureau of Labor Statistics thinks the median pay of programmers in the US is $89k [1] I gotta take both of those numbers into account in my world view.

Otherwise you end up being out of touch with reality, thinking that bananas cost $10.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...