skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ehh, I'm a pretty die-hard iOS person but ad blocking on iOS is a steaming pile of BS, to put it mildly. They flat-out don't work for 99% of ads. They're not ad blockers, they're domain filters, nothing more than a big hosts file, and they block absolutely nothing at the page/element level. The ad industry runs circles around 'ad blockers' on iOS.

The lack of functioning ad blocking is by far the biggest downside to iOS, and the same reason that I pity the engineers who put all that work on desktop Safari only to have it rendered worthless by their lack of ad blocking.
I like Hetzner cloud. It consists of about 5 products. Very straightforward and cheaper than AWS.
Thunderbolt 2, if supported natively by the hardware and using an external monitor, might actually be enough in practice. I used to game on rMBP 2015 with a GTX 1080 in a TB2-connected eGPU and it didn't even saturate the link, so when I upgraded to an iMac with TB3 the performance was pretty much identical.

The rule of thumb is: use an external monitor and the highest resolution possible. Sending control commands one way consumes much less bandwidth if you don't need to send whole images back down the link, and the high resolution and quality is to make the GPU the bottleneck, not the TB2 link.
Mostly software - games and related tooling, learning more about type systems and applying it in a homebrew language.

I can start building it now. But after already spending 40 hours a week writing code at my day job and having those problems swimming around in my head all the time it's hard to find the motivation to do more, even when what I do for my day job isn't as creatively fulfilling.
A pump and dump gets him actual cash, as opposed to capital tied up in shares. But more importantly, every move gets him the press coverage he craves.
To an essential worker, how can they tell if someone is vaccinated or not? This is like when I got citizenship they told us all that as citizens we no longer needed to prove our citizenship (which may be true, but anyone could claim to be a citizen to get this right).
And how the hell did she come to know that?
I don't believe there ever was an "American Work Ethic". I always thought that was some comfy term to give this culturally unidentified country some form of distinction.

Do we build things with better quality? Compared to China, but certainly not the rest of the world.

We don't work harder, and current generations would probably view such pride as mindless.

So to say people no longer believe in American Work Ethic anymore might be true.
Elon has been playing the market, for ages. I'm surprised no one calls how he deliberately boosts then crashes stocks. He's clearly playing the shorts and benefitting from the upside of crashes somehow. Methinks he plays a bit too much like Hamlet, smoking weed on Joe Rogan, feigning bumbling benevolence on Twitter. But I think he's more like the Joker. He says, 'I'm like a dog chasing cars, I wouldn't know what to do if I caught one, you know, I just do…things.' but he actually has a plan, even in these areas where he's apparently just bumbling.

I am not against Elon at all, I just think it's funny how obvious it is that he's playing the market through information and his platform and nobody seems to see that.
While I agree that the major reasons for being anti-surveillance is because of the long game, can we not also complain about our tax dollars being wasted in the short term?
You can store "files" on iOS. Just store them on the app's private directory, then offer a launcher service or "file browser" of some sort.

And apparently these days they do offer a shared storage space, anyway.
Missing “if I don’t do it somebody else would”.
I'm glad to see Jeff Hawkins was mentioned. Much recommend A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence.
Just because the CDC/Government says to do something doesn't mean you do the opposite?
In the case described in the article of government impersonation, I'd prefer a 10x fine.
Taichi and other smart optimizers (e.g. Halide, Tensor Comprehensions, TVM) are really neat. I think they'll play a huge role in ML and graphics improvements in the next 3-5 years.
Thank you for building Zig. It's made a huge impression on me, especially the Road to Zig presentation.
I just searched for "employee identification number" on my mobile. The first full screen was ads - identified only by the tiny letters "Ad" in the upper left. How is making your ads show up first and look almost indistinguishable from results anything other than sponsored results? Google may not call it that, but I think you'd need to be a current or former Google employee to not understand what it is.
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"Culture of fear" is Fox News raison d'etre for existing.

The idea that wearing a mask is at the forefront of this issue is laughable.
This is the citation I found for this claim:

https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/04/06/the-cdc-now-recommend...

Overall, science is a process. If research came out that changed the recommendations, well, that's how science works. This is no different in my mind than the gradual change in the recommendations towards cigarette smoking over the decades, only in this case it played out over weeks and months (that article was from April of 2020).

If you want something infallible and written in stone from day 1, that's what religious texts are for. But to claim that scientists lost credibility because new research led them to change their minds is to misunderstand the purpose of science.
Maven and gradle projects can depend on each other, are producing the same kind of artifacts and deploying them to the same repositories. And both can be used in any IDE you like.

And ant is prehistory.

In C++ they don't even have Maven equivalent (only thousands build systems but no universal way of naming/deploying/running projects or specifying dependencies).

In Python there's several maven-like systems that are incompatible and don't have the concept of universal project identifier or repositories.

In JS and Rust they basically copied the Maven system and changed it a little.

Clojure uses Maven wrappers with lispy syntax for pom files.

I struggle to find a language where this is solved better than in Java.
What do tech workers have to do with a car factory?
> how can you perform an operation like 1+1 without time?

1+1 is a dimensionless operation.

Do you mean how it would physically happen without time? It's possible time is just an illusion that emerges from our perception of the universe.

See https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-04558-7 and https://www.quantamagazine.org/does-time-really-flow-new-clu... or https://www.npr.org/2013/05/17/184775924/resetting-the-theor... for a counter argument.
Because it's a publicly visible political statement and tribal signaling. What the MAGA hat was for the right, the mask is for the left.
I can give you an example, if you want information to get out and spread quickly, do you 1. put it on your website and wait until people notice it and dissiminate it or 2. Let the main information "spreaders" know in advance so they can prepare articles (possibly do some interviews) etc?
Which do you think reaches more people in a given time?
This is very cool. I’d also like to see a Linux version.

Also looking at their job spec for full stack developers and nice to see a company focused on server rendered html. No react, no graphQL, no JSON apis. Should be lightening fast and as a dev I like the fact they are choosing a stack that’s appropriate for their product (an ecom marketplace). I find that a lot of time is lost these days to fixing overly engineered stacks when the end user just wants to see a pretty simple, nicely designed HTML page at the end.
This is pretty much what I'm intending to do from now on, and retrospectively it is crazy that I thought it was okay not to.
Why would you need an app on the desktop? Honest question. I have used zulip in the browser for 3 years and I don't know what I would be missing.
garden -> microfarm

garage -> microfactory

trailer park -> tiny house village

gruel -> soylent

I'm not sure if there's a word for this other than "marketing", but it's an interesting phenomenon I've been noticing lately. Just re-label something old and it sells better.

See also: the McDonald's celebrity meals, it's the same chicken nuggets or hamburgers they've been selling for decades, but call it the "____ Meal" and get a million new customers.
Whenever an article posted on HN features some subscription lock, it should redirect to an arcichived alternative like this.

Thank you
Real time rank system or compute beforehand
For reddit posts or any blogs, should i rank them in real time (onload ) or just compute it one time(every month,year..) and save it so user can just read it ?
Going from 1g to micro/no-gravity seems like a much more dramatic change than going from 1 to 0.3, so I think that's an argument for going to Mars ahead of asteroids.
This is awesome! I'm working on a similar hobby project (an avionics software programming/simulation game) and have written some basic avionics software to fly/land Starship [1]. It's really satisfying when simple simulations give results that are close to reality.

The StackOverflow blog posts and this blog have been very well timed for me - I have a good list of things to learn more about now. In the initial avionics software that I've written I'm using a fairly simple approach involving a lot of PIDs to keep the ship on a predefined track. So getting some more dynamic trajectory plans in there will be a fun thing to explore!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdLv62ZVl6I
The most thing I love Syncthing is its selected folder sync function, which others services don't offer.

Other advantages are opensource, privacy, lightweight, fast. Happy with it for months now.
It could be, I agree. The numbers from your article seem low to me, but of course I'm not an expert. Also drugs aren't just discovered in the US, so world wide it's surely more.
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Unsurprising. Google's founders are some if the biggest investors in Musk's companies.
Press releases are issued in embargo constantly; this is not new or surprising. Every single press release we issued was embargo’d until a certain time, when basically everyone covered it at once.
Same here, I am looking for something that does have rj45.

Some dell latitude laptops have a connector that "packs" itself, making it slim enough to be buit-in, without bumps. Is this an option for you folks?

How much do you think it will bump out? Will the laptop be stable on an even surface?
That's why TLS for internal network/IoT devices is important. Browser industry must seriously consider this uncovered usage.
Huh. I’m a fatass and figured I’d be the first to complain about walking, but 20 min? I mean my kids walk further than that school each day.

Edit: It would take me longer to drive there if you include parking and everything.
Our Swiss virus guy too told this 'lie' in the beginning, a few months later he explained that this was wrong and the only reason he said masks are not necessary was because there weren't enough and private people were already stockpiling it anyway.

So people wore masks and life went on.

I still don't understand why sooooo many countries can't be more honest about these things
Colonial Pipeline Paid Roughly $5M in Ransom to Hackers
Why would it need devs? It can be pumped and dumped with no further code changes.
> This isn't a calculus I've thought through in depth, but the answer is almost certainly not "nobody."

That's fair; I don't doubt that there are isolated, contemporary examples where un-masking would have led to a better situational outcomes.

As far as if "public reaction" should factor into individual choice, my stance is more based in principle than practicality; bending to the will of popular opinion is a strategy that is highly stifling, due to the fickle and stochastic nature of group opinions. I think it's dangerous to suggest that there are any societal circumstances where everyone should just "side with the crowd." Superseding reason with groupthink rarely yields anything but disastrous outcomes, so I believe that if one can tolerate the ridicule and aggression, then they should stand by their principles.
I certainly don't like being manipulated and "agitated" online, it's true.
Permanent magnets are handy for spinning up a power grid from zero, are they not? Many generators need power to produce power, so they’re useless if the grid is down, until they get fed some power by something else.
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It seems incredible to me that they actually paid the ransom. We are talking about critical national infrastructure here.
Universe is more than 98% hydrogen and helium by mass, with all other being less than 2%.

Maybe metal was not the best word for that, but having word for "all elements except hydrogen and helium" is useful in astronomy

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallicity
Indeed, and the big mistake what that many decided to use it for anything other than writing kernels.
First, this is a straw man. Nobody is saying that the CDC's guidelines are infallible. They've been widely criticized for botching the Covid-19 crisis.

Second, the difference between CIA, FBI and CDC is that usually when the CDC makes a pronouncement, it is linked to some scientific basis. Unlike the CIA that can claim Iraq has 'weapons of mass destruction' based on vague evidence that nobody - except for a handful of legislators and the president - get to see, one can go and track the science behind a CDC's announcement relatively easily.
To me it’s always been a balancing act.

Things like Repls often turned me off if they left me feeling like the things I was running in them were contrived and ephemeral.

Even if I was producing some cool graphic or something, there was always this nagging feeling that I wasn’t making something “real” that could be saved off and shared. Almost like the difference between messing around with a dry erase board vs learning how to draw with a pencil and a sketch pad.

But at the same time, PHP was instrumental to my learning how the web worked, in part because of how easy it was to find shared hosting that easily mapped PHP files to web routes 1:1. I can’t imagine I would have learned much if my first step was installing Apache, then mod PHP, then mod rewrite, then setting up htaccess files and directory permissions and then realizing that I didn’t get the PHP with GD graphics installed.

Maybe this is an “everyone learns differently” thing, or maybe this is a “the right answer is somewhere in the middle” thing.
Masks weren't a mysterious new invention that the CDC just learned about at the start of the pandemic.
" Success is moving from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." W. Churchill
To be honest, we still don't really know if masks work. They look like they probably do something, but the evidence is weak and the effect size small.

It's totally worth it to bend an exponential function. But the individual benefit from mask wearing in any given interaction is negligible.
You’re right. The “system” is flawed. The poor knowingly enrich the wealthy and then whine about it. Seems to be happening more and more nowadays.
Re usage of "copy": if you've heard the term "copy editing", it's within the same ballpark.
Cool read! Always fun to think about this stuff.

> The official implementation uses a Per Call Load Balancing and not a per connection one. So each call is being load balanced separately. This is the ideal and the desired case and it will avoid having heavy sticky connections.

I wonder how much of this is just leaking from how stubby & GSLB is done internally at Google. I'll admit, I don't know much about gRPC.

Separate point: if you control both the clients and the servers completely, you can have servers respond with load shedding signals if they start to get overloaded, and use that as a hint for the client to go look elsewhere. This doesn't solve all problems, but it does make some cases easier to handle. Also it is obviously not a viable solution if you don't fully control all clients - some of them will just not respect your load shedding and continue to beat an individual server into the ground.
> Add a script on a website that will test each application from your list.

This means exploitation requires Javascript, right? Tor browser users should have it disabled at all times.
Why tie the L7 load balancer solution to AWS while the rest of the article does not mention AWS?

It already worked fine way before October with envoy or haproxy for example.
I saw the same thing recently with renewing TSA PreChek. The top result is not the government website, but some shady middleman which seems to charge 3x to do the same thing (while also siphoning your personal information incl. passport number).

It was a bit jarring, I got very far in the process before realizing something was off. Made me realize how much trust I was implicitly putting into my search engine.
You can see it, if you look at it (the right way).

You can hear it, if you're otherwise silent and focus on the sound.
They likely just target a trajectory that falls at the center of their throttling capability. The controller can then handle a limited amount of trajectory error by throttling up or down. I.e. if they can throttle down to 70%, then they would compute a trajectory that would nominally require 85% thrust.
I reported the same scammer ad at least five time over a period of a month on DuckDuckGo. The ad was impersonating a major Danish news site.

This issue isn’t restricted to Google. The only main difference is that Google run their own ad network. In both cases it show how little verification is going on with online ads. If anything I believe the ad networks should be held resonsible for the ads they push to the end user.
That's a fair framing, although there absolutely are people who misinterpret the First Amendment to mean that speech is protected from all consequences.

Taking that concept at face value, it means that Apple's behavior in this case would be unconstitutional (which sounds insane because it is).
Zulip is amazing. I'm of the opinion that Slack is actively bad for work, because it encourages ephemeral, disjointed chats that you can't easily find again later.

Zulip is fast, light, and is a much more natural way to chat. The "river" of messages that you can zoom in and out of is just fantastic.
I'm with lemonade here. This is a case of users sharing a hyperlink to a private page - a little like when you share a Google Doc with access to "anyone with the link".

The user shouldn't then complain if they give the link to everyone on the web via social media.

This exact pattern is also something less legit security researchers do deliberately to try to coerce companies into paying bounties. They deliberately try to leak OAuth tokens, verification URLs, Auth cookies and other secrets into Google search results, and then claim your site is insecure because "anyone with Google can see my private data!"
> For tools like this, SaaS will almost always beat open source just by virtue of elbow grease and a product direction.

You mean a broken wiki and slow project management tool is better than specialized open source tools which are way better at the same thing
Yeah, this is something that even a lot of data science leaders don't understand.

As an example, I recently discovered a bug in a production system that was costing many millions of dollars, that essentially happened because the team was told to go off and implement a shiny new ML model rather than understand and incrementally improve the system.

It's incredibly depressing.
Tether reserves backed by 2.9% cash
Yet investors have made a fortune over the last year while there’s interest rates below inflation.
As a gang with a "provable" identity and a will to avoid any latency they may release those data as a way to "educate" their future victims.
Cool! I've been playing around a bit with X Plane and the library NASA open sourced for getting simulator data to see whether I could get autopilot software to fly upset recovery maneuvers better than pilots. What are you using?
From and outside perspective this government you are describing is only hard to visualize. For years now voting comes down to the lesser of two evils where everywhere else in the world new parties form and establish new ideas America still has two of them only, kinda. As Swiss it's also far from our understanding what democracy is supposed to be.
yeah then what happens when you reopen international travel lol
Side note: Signal does this as well, this is why privacy-oriented services still offer a Giphy integration.
I mean, if you have perfect measurements of the state of the rocket and a complete model of it then it's just physics.

Problem is that measurements are random variables and your model of the rocket is probably not perfect and now somehow you need to make it work.
Bezos' 70% Rule Will Help You Decide Faster
> I still don't understand why so many countries can't be more honest about these things

Depending on the jurisdiction and on your political opponents what the Swiss virus guy did is liable to send you to prison for intentionally lying and acting on that lie when employed as a public servant.

Most probably the political debate is less vicious in Switzerland and that won't happen to your virus guy, but where I live (EU country from Eastern Europe) that would have been very dangerous for him to do in regards to his freedom. I guess that's why a lot of politicians double down on their lies, because if they're caught there's a small chance of them going to prison for them, so why take the risk?
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> It's a table-database, it's a wiki, it's a kanban board, it's a team calendar, it's a project gallery, it's a blog.

So what does it do that something like gitlab or phabricator cannot do ?

And if you are willing to consider different products for different things then you have dokuwiki/xwiki/wikijs/bookstack for wiki and multiple popular project management tools like kanboard/focalboard.
Thousands of tweets, reddit comments, and HN comments accused him of being a pump-and-dump artist.

The problem is that he has cultivated an ecosystem of sycophants that can't imagine him doing anything wrong, and then there's just the average person who doesn't follow him closely.
ie6 doesn't even have inline-blocks. now that's scary
Go help the folks working on Focalboard!
I think the CDC had a pretty good image based on... I dunno, Hollywood movies.

I don't think the way they handled all this shows them to be as competent as advised.
Meh, I understand your point, but as someone who follows the conspiratorial world passively, I can tell you the whole 'but they told you masks were useless' thing is a post-facto rationalization to gain some common ground with the less conspiratorial people.

In reality, the usual suspects were pushing conspiracy theories about the CDC even before they determined masks were useful. A famous conspiracy peddler famously claimed the CDC was downplaying how bad the virus was and 'it was over for humanity, it'll only be lone survivors' when we only had a handful of cases in the US.

In other words: the CDC could've nailed every single guideline and we'd still have half of the population making up conspiracy theories about it. It's just too politically convenient.