skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree w.r.t. password managers. Luckily, with browsers now having built-in password managers, it's less UI friction if we come up with some standard for user certificate workflow that's close to password workflow.

In a world where users rarely see their actual passwords, it's much less of a UI change to (nearly) silently replace password changes with certificate signings and (nearly) silently replace password logins with certificate presentations. A small extra attribute in the HTML input tag could signal to the password manager that it should perform the certificate workflow instead of the password workflow.

Ideally, instead of specifying a specific mechanism, the extra input tag attribute would signal the password manager to actually perform a SPNEGO mechanism negotiation, so the password manager and the server could negotiate if they were using certificates, Kerberos, or some future mechanism. Though, this would also require adding certificate support to GSSAPI. The upside would be that future changes could be done without any changes to HTML.
> Money is just crystallized work time.

The value of a currency is a representation of the faith the holder has in the issuer. Consider QE: a government issues digital payments to banks for billions of currency and the work involved is roughly as complex as sending SMS text messages, and yet for $1B you can buy a really nice yacht and a trip to space.

A paradox? No, we just believe the currency has a value unrelated to any notion of work required to produce it.
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Out of interest. What do people do at social occasions? What would you do if you met a friend after work on a Friday night? I think we need better options for this in the Uk... most cafes shut and not drinking in a pub still feels weird (and soft drinks are so sweet)
> note that it’s a historical anecdote, not many people could do that say 150 years ago

It might actually be. 1871 is just few years after civil war in United States, many people were moving away from severely abusive situations. Whether soldiers, former slaves, citizens in places where armies went through.

Plus, people in past did moved to other cities just to escape abusive parents too.
For anyone interested, there is also https://libreflip.org/ website about similar device.
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Small scale items in large scale industrial agriculture sounds like something that wouldn't work too great. And might cause even more issues.

Makes me actually think how practical and ecological micro-drones would actually be? Have hundreds or thousands of these little things made out of plastic, with electronics and batteries in them. How do you track those and be sure each and everyone is responsibly recycled? It feels to me like something that would actually cause more issues than solve...
“ Dan would eventually find out about the free kernels, even entire free operating systems, that had existed around the turn of the century. But not only were they illegal, like debuggers—you could not install one if you had one, without knowing your computer's root password. And neither the FBI nor Microsoft Support would tell you that.”
Whereas the technological aspect and questions are very interesting, this certificate has the sole purpose to divide the people.

I am devastated to see this coming.
Here's an intro to surreal numbers I wrote a while ago: https://ianopolous.peergos.me/maths/surreal
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V2EX's creator, Livid, responds to his site being blocked by China's GFW
It becomes obvious that in recent years more and more controls are being imposed there. For dealing with the website hosted in China, they have ICP filing, public security filing, and a brand new Cyber Administration to monitor and act. Individuals and corporations obey. Those websites and apps that are not hosted in China will be blocked in most cases once they got big, especially if it is a website in Chinese.

Thus, control of the usage of the Chinese language is accomplished. That is the sad part. Internet is the most effective way to spread ideas in this era, while the usage of a language used by 1.4 billion people is strictly controlled. Of course, you can write in Chinese on a server outside China, but if what you wrote cannot reach its most potential audience, the meaning of writing itself is reduced.
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BASF has produced herbicide tolerant crops plants without using GMO in the breeding process, and patented the whole system (BASF Clearfield ® Production System).

This does everything people accuse GMO's for, but it's not GMO.
When writing GPL'ed code for your employer your employer must obviously be (made) aware that that code is going to be licensed under the GPL. Therefore, as the copyright holder -- they have already given permission for that license to be used or they must do so.

Seems pretty straightforward to me.
I thought there had been more threads on this, but found only one:

Donald Knuth: Surreal Numbers [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11987415 - June 2016 (54 comments)
So is this about the world or US soils? The title suggests the former, but everything in the article and all the authors of the study are around the US.
Considering the vastly different regulations and practices in the EU ( e.g. grazing, crop rotation are very popular) i suppose the situation is different.
> Forney at one time had a stack of ten of her 1987 Toshiba laptops that she’d bought on eBay for $10 to $12 each. “We’re down to our last one,” she says.

I don't remember all the details but if my memory ain't failing me there was something similar with the software used to interface with the iconic McLaren F1 car. Only about 60 of those cars have been produced (at least for the road, maybe more for competition) and the mechanics servicing these cars had to stockpile old laptops because the proprietary software/interface had never been ported to modern technology. Eventually a few years ago McLaren assigned developers to the task and a new version was made. I think they did it because they were running low on the pile of old rusty dusty laptops ; )
I have travelled South East Asia for several years and never been asked to show any proof.
I'm sure that your comment was well-intentioned, but it's best to leave provocations (such as religious provocations) in place rather than opening a new loop in the threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Yes, we have been breeding plants and animals for a long time, long before Mendel. But the difference between breeding and GM is not only a difference in magnitude, it is also a difference in kind. We are not only breeding faster and better aimed, but we are not only ingesting genes from completely different species, but from different kingdoms!

"Well, people have been killing each other with spears forever. Nukes are just more of the same."
Sugar will not be optimal either. Nutrition isn't that simple.
i know, i'm just filling in the blanks
Even if I can eat more pizza without having to think about my blood glucose level, it would be a big plus in my living standard.
I'm also on the EU, and the EU has also many rules for "traditional" agriculture, it is also regulated and controlled.

The problem I have with the Bio label is that these extra rules are counter productive.

- no use of artificial pesticides (but still allow "natural" ones)
- no use of mineral fertilizer
- no use of GMO
- no use of artificial food colouring or aromas or conservative.

The thing is that there is little evidence that any of this is better for health or for the environment.
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Well JM Fortier doesn’t call his method permaculture. But he buys organic compost to add to his beds regularly to replenish the lost material.
TL DR: Distributed system is hard, and Hadoop cluster are not really designed for a dynamic environment.

There are as probably as many services running inside a Hadoop clusters as a Micro Service meshes, except:

* The services can be huge: HDFS Namenode can takes hundreds GB of RAM, hours to start up in a multi PB cluster. Updating configuration requires restarting, so it is a huge pain if you care about zero downtime.

* The services are often bound to host and can not be easily migrated to other hosts.

* The communication interfaces between services are not well-defined: Hive Metastore, for example, didn't have a formal protocol documentation for a long time, yet everything depends on it to store metadata (I'm not even sure if they have the protocol now). As a result, services are often tightly coupled: you need everything to be compiled with the same libraries version, or stuffs might not work correctly. Furthermore, due to dynamic code loading, issues might not surface until days later - in the middle of the night, making life miserable for everyone.
> I didn't start to feel anger or trauma until I went away to college in the early 90's and no one seemed to have similar stories

I've got stories like yours. And I too thought I wasn't traumatized, at least not too much.

But I was wrong.

The trauma was a weakness below the surface and given the right mix of pressure (the pressures of startups don't by default provide a safe environment for mental health) it gave way almost 35 years later almost ending my story.

A year of therapy later and I live a simpler life now. I survived my past, few could and there's strength in that.

I concur with you that a kind of anxiety exists due to people who just shrug it off, and this was worse and seems to keep the past more present.

A few kind individuals heard me, didn't dismiss, and didn't judge, and have been more support than leagues of others. And being heard by those few people who are softer and gentler, has been absolutely restorative.

I'm glad others don't have stories like ours, but sad that means most people can't connect with survivors who do have these stories.
> the smell is horrific

Okay. How do you feel about ciggies, cigars and pipe? That also smells horrendous? Or car exhaust fumes?

The thing here is: you can be against something because it will be "yet another annoying thing"... But that ignores the freedom aspect: if behavior X is less-than-or-equally annoying (unhealthy, addictive, etc.) compared to Y, and Y is legal, then that is a good argument that X should be legal too. If not we get into "unfair discrimination against behavior X" territory.
Yikes, taking HN threads further into religious flamewar is not cool, and crossing into personal attack is no way to serve God, or love! Please don't do that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would love to see a fight between anti and pro covid fanatics.
The "black box" statement is interesting, because aren't all medications a "black box" to the vast majority of people? When you go to your doctor and are prescribed medication, you generally take it without asking questions. What I don't understand about anti vaxers is why vaccines are any different?
The Monterrey Tec lecture has a part 2 as well. And thank you for sharing the CBC link. I've added it to my list of talks to listen to.
Temperature fluctuations damage the interfaces between the different materials inside an integrated circuit, so they will greatly lower the lifetime.

Nonetheless, there is a continuous aging of the metal traces (electromigration) and especially of the insulating layers, e.g. the MOS transistor gates, due to the difusion of atoms.

This continuous aging is accelerated by steady-state high temperatures and it eventually results in either open circuits or short circuits somewhere, destroying the device.

Good MOS integrated circuits are designed for a lifetime at their maximum specified temperature of at least 10 years or even 20 years or more for the better of them.

Nevertheless, this is puny in comparison with the lifetime of many semiconductor components produced 40-50 years ago, before the continuous shrinking of the active device sizes, which could have lifetimes of hundreds of years, when free from fabrication defects.
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Please leave provocations (such as religious provocations) in place rather than opening a new loop in the HN thread. That just replaces the actual topic with a secondary flamewar, which only makes this place worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I haven’t yet read the study but one thing I would assume should have great effects is:

Anything that causes long lasting ptsd like simptoms, where you are constantly afraid, or have triggers which make you afraid.

This exposes you to a lot of adrenaline and other who-knows-what hormones in a period where your brain is still in heavy development.

I have little idea about these things, apart from the fact that I had a traumatic childhood, and developed MS, which is a disease that also has some link with what happens to you before the age 15 (how far you live to the equator therefore in theory how D3 deficient you grow up before the age 15 is significantly correlated with the chance of developing the disease)
I'd say that pointing is inherently slow because it involves checking where the cursor is, where the target is, moving it in that direction, then stopping at the right time. With a typical keyboard-based browser interface clicking the update button would have been a 2 key combination. Two discreet steps without any timing or measurement nuances.

I guess which is better for me doesn't have to be so for someone else. Mouse interfaces do have a certain simplicity to them.

Check demo animation on Saka Key's readme: https://github.com/lusakasa/saka-key
I'm no expert, but with a 15W power draw the answer to the "how long" question is likely to be "perpetually" with active cooling. Now, Apple tends to let its processors run very hot before throttling (I had an old i5 MacBook which easily hit 98C), but again, a 15W power draw means there isn't all that much energy to push into whatever heat sink or cooling solution they want to use. (In the real world it's rather more complicated, with different load intensity on different parts of the SoC, but still)
Apple uses a special version of LLVM bitcode as deployment format for watchOS and iOS.

This variant wasn't and will never be upstreamed.
This is partly why alcohol epidemiology is so hard. People drink less in ways correlated with their general health.
Onivim looks great! Does it/will it support remote development like VSCode? I do all my development on a virtual machine. I love everything about VSCode except for the vim plugin.
Or maybe find a niche where competition doesn't affect price so much?

Vinyl records? Text editors? User-hostile "Enterprise" software?
I look forward to seeing this in the Solid benchmark suite.
I’m fascinated by soil and all the interactions between microorganisms, insects and plants. Does anyone have any recommendations for books on soil science (Edaphology)?

Over the course of three years I transitioned a small plot from a monoculture into a thriving “forest garden”. My goal was to restore the soil health and utilised a variety of plants, insects, and mycelium to achieve that. It was an amazing adventure that taught me a lot and also helped me through a mental crises. That experience and experiment has motivated me to be a soil farmer.

My biggest lesson was that pests and weeds are symptoms of a larger problem. INSTEAD of trying to manage them, look for what nature needs to manage them. For example, what attracts ladybugs? What environments are friendly for ladybugs?
Being a nanny state and killing people for possession of a plant with recreational and medicinal value is quite a stretch.
Emacs 28 is finally adding modern undo-redo: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=2645ae...

Recent versions of evil have the option of choosing undo backend, and I have found the new buildin one impeccable thus far.
"Worthless fool" checking in here, please post a link to back up your assertion that those dates are Brazil's flu season.
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I'm not sure how this is a response to what I said, quite frankly. It seems like you see an argument that I wasn't making, so I'm a little confused. (EDIT: To clarify, I don't disagree with what you said about the plight of indigenous populations in this comment.)

I simply said that I hope the US (or any other country, for that matter) learns from the mistakes of western European powers, because it hasn't reached that level yet and the world (including perhaps the US in the long term) would be better off if it didn't. It seems rather disingenuous to equate the comprehensive political, economic, and emotional damage these colonial powers did and sometimes continue to do to "poor countries" to what the US has done, so far, even though the paths have stark similarities and the US could readily end up at a similar place if it continues certain practices.
Yeah, if they actually wanted they would have been a bit more pushy than just shooting an email away.
> IMHO, it shouldn't be a goal of society to tempt people into ingesting things that they don't need to.

No ads for ice cream, chips, any cakes or pastries, etc. Great world you'd create.
As a child I was writing a letter for my grandmother and naturally used the Macintosh LC III we had just got. My mother was against using the computer as a handwritten letter would be more personal.

So I found a place in the print dialog where you could add different watermarks and chose the one saying "PERSONAL".
A mandatory test that they refused to let you take? Mind boggling. Unless it's the usual hidden factor, the R word?
To see all the 600+ comments, you'll need to click More at the bottom of the page, or like this:

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Hard liquor consumption is dropping everywhere in Europe and wine and beer are going up, especially in Eastern Europe, famous for hard liquor binging.

Only Northern Europe with its dreary weather is the outlier, somewhat.

My point being that raw alcohol consumption is going down across Europe.
>no no no, you should not expect people to behave badly

you should not excuse people behaving badly because it is to be expected.

if you want to be able to protect against people behaving badly you should learn to expect it of them, expectation of bad behavior enables preparation.
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Math is made by humans to be learned and applied by humans. There's no need for marketing in the form of pretext formalities. If anything, we should savour the human metadata to math - the last decades before AI takes over.
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It's not ancient by any means, but it is a mobile GPU - I've got a GTX 1080 Ti on my Thinkpad X1 Extreme.
I don't think the negative changes are higher. On other hand I do not really understand why don't we apply same standards for testing with any cultivar as we do with GMO one. Surely that isn't too much to be asked for food safety.
I don't really understand the issue? If I want to prefetch an image, I'm on the same origin the whole time and this cache segregation doesn't matter.
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Only the back half of nature magazine contains scientific papers. The front half is articles like this one that are meant for a general audience. That part part is surprisingly readable and often quite interesting.