skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really not sure how you can missread my example to come up with 'isoalting a human is analogous to removing oxygen'.

My comparison is based on sciencse vs. fiction. 1+1 = 2 is a reality which works in german, africa, usa and everywhere else. There might be a difference on how those symbols (1, 2...) look like but the axiom is true and valid and is discoverable.

In religion its not.

Concept of god exists but it looks different depending on your believe. Multiply gods, one god, good god, bad god...

Even the stuff written down is based on someone who wrote it down and still people interpretate it totally different.

Never seen someone implying they are right that 1+1=3 if the interpretation of 3 is not 'next after one'.
Find news that are published independently.
For example if you want (mostly) Australian news that are funny, see https://www.youtube.com/user/thejuicemedia
Europe's Software Problem
Hi. Article author here.

I supported WordPerfect for various law practices in the courts around Chancery Lane in London well into the MS Office era.

The main reason was not templates; it was the word-count function.

MS Word has a very odd implementation of features like headers and footers, footnotes, tables of contents etc. It considers them separate areas of the document, and so when you do a word count, they are not included.

For authors who are paid by the book, this isn't very important. For journalists, who aren't paid for headers and footers, only raw ASCII text excluding such things, it's almost good.

But for lawyers, who are paid a lot of money -- far more than journos or authors -- for every single word, it matters a lot. WordPerfect counts every damned word, wherever it is, whatever region of the document it's in -- so they get paid for all the words the client received.

This could well be a difference of thousands of pounds/dollars/euros/whatever.

For that, a single copy of WordPerfect at £150-£250 could well pay for itself by the first document you sent out.
I have a bike with cantilevers too, I admire their robustness but yep, definitely not the quickest way to stop in a hurry.
CNBC beatin that drum

Are they in this alone?
On the market-strangling side, Chrome is already the next IE6.
On the stuck-in-the-past-and-always-broken side, Safari is the next IE6.
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Sounds like the issue here is just the douchebros, instead of the name of the language.

What we should be getting rid of is the douchebro behaviour.

Also, are we gonna rename the "D" language because someone might make the exact same joke about it?
How about actually supporting the European Tech industry instead of just adding endless bureaucracy?

Ban Oracle and Microsoft from public procurement and start supporting the European equivalent of Baidu or Yandex. With ARM (prior to the acquisition), Linux, MariaDB, etc. - Europe was in a great position to do this.

We need to stop this digital colonialism where massive, monopolistic US corporations pay no taxes in Europe, and then take all the profits back to the US where they pay 3x the salaries - only supporting the US economy.
In addition to Screaming Frog, which is very well-known in the industry, you may also be interested din Sitebulb, which seems to have been inspired by Screaming Frog but took a slightly different approach to the presentation of the audit information.
Given that in a global market system anyone contending with the patent system and its abusers, also has to contend with market competition from countries such as China which aren't interested in honoring the IP rules in the first place, I find it hard to argue with your conclusion.

Looks like arbitrary rent-seeking and random intellectual piracy to me. A cover for barratry as an income stream.
Firefox and Safari do engage early, and they do participate in discussions. GitHub comments are a very small visible part of it.

However, Chrome simply inundates them with APIs. There are 50 to 100 new APIs that Chrome releases with each new version. And a new version comes out once every two months. So, Firefox and Safari have to be "actively engaged in discussions" on 300 to 600 new APIs a year [1].

This is not sustainable in any way, shape, or form. Hell, Microsoft gave up on developing a browser of their own, and they are definitely not lacking in resources. How is Mozilla expected to cope? Safari has decided to set their own pace, and flat out refuse APIs that breach security and privacy, because by this time Chrome teams should really know better (if only they cared).

So, no, it's not true that Mozilla and Safari are "not engaged at an early stage". They are, to the best of their abilities and resources. But they also have browsers to develop, and in the end there are only so many hours in the day.

[1] https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/confluence
> This gives consumers of the API plenty of time and margin to experiment with both and move on.

It's not a silver bullet though, as we saw with the move to Python3. It annoyed people with large Python2 codebases, giving them the choice between:

• Laboriously reworking their code to transition it to Python3 (a language with only limited advantages over Python2)

• Using an unsupported language for a significant codebase
I have made https://editcsvonline.com, a simple tool to edit CSV files without the need for Excel or Google Sheets. It's a free tool that anyone can use, meant to promote my Excel-like product DataGridXL.
Last line of the article:

> Naming is hard. No pun intended.

I refuse to believe that the pun was unintended, and it was beautiful. Give this reporter a cookie.
"Just use SQLite, lol" is not a spec.

P.S. SQLite doesn't have a spec. Once you start really using it and bumping into version differences, extensions, etc., you'll really feel the pain caused by this.
I think you're being too dogmatic about this. For me it's a perfectly valid use case for identity verification. It prevents a big problem and only affects an extremely tiny subset of users.
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48 hours (24 hours is the least we could get with AWS S3, but files could be available several hours after expiration time per their documentation, so we wrote 48 hours to be sure). You can also check other removal times here https://neural.love/terms
It is a wrong person you think of because he took over at VW after the Dieselgate and he is the main driver for EV at VW. The person you should be lashing out on is Martin Winterkorn.

What I don't get is how does coal apply to electric cars and how electric cars solve the coal usage problem. He clearly has an agenda and tries boosting EV sales. Can't blame him, he is the CEO and shareholders are watching.
Boa sorte!
Funny enough we discuss in such religious discussions often being religious vs. not being and ignoring the huge difference of existing religons.

I had a discussion about this topic with a more hard core christian: I said 'look if it is a good god, it doesn't even matter if i worship her right?' and he said 'nope, its written that you have to worshop'.

So one believe doesn't equal to another believe.

Your underlying base changes based on your believe.

"An axiom, postulate or assumption is a statement that is taken to be true, to serve as a premise or starting point for further reasoning and arguments." this is not true for two religions being created independently from each other while this is very well true for science.
There is a difference between an array of encrypted numbers (which fhe requires if I understand it correctly), and a completely encrypted bitstream (where the data could be put to hide the fact that it is a number array)
I think in Australian supermarkets there is some element of this second-use that occurs in the supermarket itself. Avoids the two extra trips.
CUE is currently centered around its CLI, but AIUI, that's not the long-term goal. i read in some CUE issue somewhere that the goal is shifting towards enabling frameworks rather than driving people to the CLI, though i don't have a link.

Our use of CUE in Grafana is an example of framework-style usage. It is a hard requirement that users never have to install the CUE CLI to perform any of our planned CUE-related tasks; rather, the needed tooling is baked into Go packages we export, and things like grafana-cli. (Avoiding a dependency on the CUE CLI also gives us a defense mechanism against breaking changes)
> That post has too many examples of hubris and delusion for me to bother quoting it here

Well, I could not help myself.

>> While versions of Safari, Chrome, and Opera support a technology called Web SQL Database, which uses SQL statements as string arguments passed to a JavaScript API, we think developer aesthetics are an important consideration, and that this is a particularly inelegant solution for client-side web applications.

>> We .. also spoke with Microsoft, who agree with us that IndexedDB is a good option for the web

OMG!! MS thought not doing what Apple and Google wanted was a good option. Earth shattering.

As for the code examples, both sets look horrible, but this and "_developer aesthetics_" don't go together. This is how they think their `JOIN` is "better" than SQL `JOIN`.

candyEaters = [];
function displayCandyEaters(event) {
var display = document.getElementById("purchaseList");
for (var i in candyEaters) {
display.textContent += ", " + candyEaters[i].name + "bought " +
candyEaters[i].count + "pieces";
}
};

var request = window.indexedDB.open("CandyDB",
"My candy store database");
request.onsuccess = function(event) {
var db = event.result;
var transaction = db.transaction(["kids", "candySales"]);
transaction.oncomplete = displayCandyEaters;

var kidCursor;
var saleCursor;
var salesLoaded = false;
var count;

var kidsStore = transaction.objectStore("kids");
kidsStore.openCursor().onsuccess = function(event) {
kidCursor = event.result;
count = 0;
attemptWalk();
}
var salesStore = transaction.objectStore("candySales");
var kidIndex = salesStore.index("kidId");
kidIndex.openObjectCursor().onsuccess = function(event) {
saleCursor = event.result;
salesLoaded = true;
attemptWalk();
}
function attemptWalk() {
if (!kidCursor || !salesLoaded)
return;

if (saleCursor && kidCursor.value.id == saleCursor.kidId) {
count++;
saleCursor.continue();
}
else {
candyEaters.push({ name: kidCursor.value.name, count: count });
kidCursor.continue();
}
}
}
Why the ReMarkable doesn't have a backlight I do not understand.
Same thing with the calculator example. It's not doing anything with FHE. Do any of the examples actually do anything??
Hi. Article author here.

Most people – me included – reckoned that Word 5.1 for the Mac was the last, best version.

If you grab the ShapeShifter VM that I describe and link to in the blog post, and look in the MS Word folder, you may be in for a very pleasant surprise. :-)
Of course they were aware of it. It requires not even basic proficiency of English. But at what point is it decided upon that the name was chosen just to rile people, and by whom? By you, depending on what mood you're in on the day in question? Humiliating conversations around these topics are only initiated by people like yourself when you decide to feel offended by harmless notions. The behavior shouldn't be dignified.
Why judging things by their capacity to pay taxes?

Taxes are about the least thing that matters for society. You complain about incompetent bureaucracy but who do you think manages taxes?

Good service, privacy, innovation, these are the questions.
Except Democrats have been consistently beating Republicans in presidential elections. Click the links. Go back further if you want to. The Republican candidate has won the popular vote exactly once (in 2004) since 1990.
A good starting point is to set up a network tap and analyze the logs, manually.

Obviously, it's one of those things that is rarely done by the people who use fancy security products.

.. because it’s hard

E.g.: Botnet traffic is often “strange” and easy to recognize
Why? As a user Safari is the best browsing experience, lightweight, fast, and with the lowest energy usage.
You mention it though to bring it up as an argument or a point for religion otherwise you wouldn't do it.
MBAs have ventured into this space too. beancounting, cost-center vs profit-center, optimising for revenues, more PR, & so on .
It goes on everywhere. New York is the same.

Ireland is an outlier in the fact that her ascendancy coincided with the US tech boom and language was an advantage. You have a very awkward situation developing and the current political leaders don't have the imagination to get out of it.

The UK is an outlier because though they had a far more robust and diverse economy they threw everything into finance and have just burned any bridges back.
>I don't think this has anything to do with "American puritanism" or 21st century something. Giving a project a name that sound exactly like "cock" is just plain bad.

You do know that coq is a perfectly fine french word, and also in the name of a big french sports brand, right?

Not to mention that "cock" is mere slang, the official word just means rooster.
When it comes to eggs we are talking about the chicken having a space of living in a static area indoor, compared to the ecological requirements of much larger space per chicken with half of the year having access to go outside and for the full year always having access to sun.

In my view I think it has some impact on the animal well being, and if I understand it right, the life length of the hen and the egg quality is also correlated to how they live.
It is not an ideal name, I agree. On the other hand, it is the french word for an animal, and not for the male genital organs.

What about the word bite (la bite) in french? Are we supposed to remove the word bit from the English language because it sounds similar to the french word for penis?

There is always going to be strange overlaps when it comes to different languages.
If you haven't, and have the budget to do so, try a set of Paul Components mini motos. Fantastic brakes.
London is an exercise in marketing, to see how far peoples suspension of disbelief can be stretched whilst being a net drain on a country it isn't even strictly part of, and a drain the world as a whole.

It is amazing to see how Brits outside of (hell, even in) London live, the British countryside has some of the poorest areas in western Europe. Evidence marketing is effective!
I'd rather ban fb, twitter, tiktok
What prevents you and everyone else to just pronounce it as an acronym?
Settings > Inbox > Reading pane
It would be much easier if France, Germany, Italy, Spain made an effort to be a bit more competitive, rather than bullying economies that are already reshaping to compete globally.
let me introduce you to the existence of the Netherlands and Luxembourg
Pure speculation, but could be a combination of keeping the thickness down (it's only 4.7mm thick), and the purism of recreating the pen-on-paper feel.

That being said I wouldn't be bothered at all about a thickness increase, or breaking out of the pen-on-paper "immersion"... Perhaps there's a more technical reason.
The whole purpose of E-Ink is to use "passive" displays which are more comfortable to the eye. Adding a backlight would remove that.
(Potentially-relevant fact: I am a woman.)

I first heard of Coq in a CS lecture, and it wasn’t at all off-putting. The professor included the obligatory “yes the name sounds funny” disclaimer and then presented an interesting walkthrough of Coq. I haven’t used Coq myself yet, but that has more to do with the difficulty of starting than the name. I’ve enjoyed the Natural Number Game (a web-based set of Lean exercises), as a good example of something which actually helps people get into theorem proving. This debate over the name of Coq is just an instance of the Law of Triviality.
As someone with a limited knowledge of kernel stuff, does this mean Linux is likely to significantly outperform other comparable kernels like FreeBSD and OpenSolaris? Or are those other kernels keeping pace?
Here's hoping they reveal the new name and it's Weiner.
Also asked about this here, but didn't get a lot of responses

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27495352
Hi. Article author here.

No, not really.

I am a Linux and Mac user. I don't run or use Windows unless I really need it – for instance for reflashing firmware.

The modern version of WordPerfect is a perfectly good app, but it's a perfectly good Windows app, and I work on Linux.

This is a native Linux app and for that reason it is preferable.
It's not a capitalist conspiracy, it's just the path of least resistance, if you are in the morning meeting deciding what stories to cover, it's a slow newsday and you have a press release from the zoo announcing the birth of the panda it's easier to just report on that than to go looking for a story.
> Imagine for a second that your favourite programming language or the one you use at work was called "Penis"?

Except "penis" isn't ambiguous. Coq is French for cock -- as in rooster. If you have an issue with the name Coq, chances are you're too infantile to make meaningful use of it or contribute anything of value to it whatsoever.
>Yeah it's so weird seeing americans treat this as some kind of Hard Problem when it's been part of our daily life for 15+ years

As a non-American who is disproportionately aware of US culture and issues even though I've only been there a couple of times, I think it's part of a general pattern.

My pet theory is that the combination of the USA's size, relative geographical isolation, historically strong economy, and youngish history have led to a critical mass of its population being completely unaware that there are certain things that can be done differently and arguably better, as they are done elsewhere.

Most of the developed World is composed of either small neighbouring countries between which ideas are more easily shared, countries with long histories and limited resources that have had the need to improve their efficiencies and learned from their pasts, or countries who had to make concerted efforts to either become develop or recover after catastrophic war. Meanwhile, the population of the USA (and to a lesser extent Canada, and maybe Australia and NZ) has had little exposure to alternative ways of doing things, and no motivation to do so—everything is fine.

Off the top of my head, I can think of the following things that are done better outside the US but most Americans are unaware that alternatives are even possible: e-payment methods and cheap bank transfers, home insulation, vote counting, prices including sales tax, intersections (roundabouts vs 4-way STOPs), electrical plugs, kick-resistant front doors, punch-resistant interior walls, toilets that don't need a plunger handy, SSNs not being a de-facto immutable password, etc.

I've sometimes been tempted to compile a detailed list of articles on each of these things on a blog, but not being American I feel it would be very unfair and would seem gratuitously condescending on my part. I hope this doesn't come across as dismissive or an attempt at a flame-war, it's just my observation. I have nothing against the USA, and I am absolutely not implying that no good ideas come from the USA! Many great ideas were born in the USA, and are then adopted or adapted by other countries. The difference is that the flow doesn't seem to go the other way.
> Perhaps I'll have to go back to school and re-learn English.

Absurd hyperbole.

“ These days, these days, right, if you say you're English, you'll be arrested and thrown in jail!”
Curious how y'all find the group chats you want in the bajillions that Googlers must have by now created, given that there are exactly 0 controls on who can create groups and no ability to delete or hide them...
“Oh no, not Mr. Big Cog!”

https://conker.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Big_Cog
Not sure why this is being downvoted. If someone has a point against this opinion, I'm interested to hear it.
Not crazy about the ambiguous/meaningless title
I'm going to guess it is to keep it slim. And while I normally think this fad to make everything thin is stupid, in this one case I feel it makes sense. You want the thing you're writing on to protrude from the table as little as possible.
I wonder which will happen faster:

A) classic displays (LCD/OLED/Mini-LED/Micro-LEDs) reaching a point where the quality and power consumption are so low as to be indistinguishable from paper

B) Color e-ink displays get good enough for interactive use, movie watching, etc.

Maybe someone who's an expert in display tech can chime in? My money's on A) since so much is invested in it.
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Take two jet engines and strap them together. Now strap a pilot on top. Point it vaguely upwards and light the blue touch paper. I can still just about hear a pair of those things trying to tear their own wings off in my long term memory!
It's easy to get upset about all this.
Things happen in cycles though. Academia is currently in a lull due to poor incentives, oversupply of research staff arising from the massive growth of universities and the democratisation of higher education, and the general devaluation of experts and technical skills. I also see that in certain foundational areas privately funded research is outperforming academia, sometimes by silly margins (eg Deepmind's protein folding work, Google and quantum computing). The protein folding is a good example of why - Deepmind had something like 10+ senior researchers working on the project, whereas academia has overworked flustered PIs who do admin mainly and a few students starting from scratch each year. This discrepancy can only exist because academia doesn't really care a lot about actual progress. Another interesting phenomenon lately has been the total deluge of deep learning papers. Once the cat was out of the bag, there was a literal explosion of research output in a very short time. One can only conclude that there are a lot academics sitting around looking for the next big thing (rather than working to create it). This is a bit cynical perhaps. There is still progress being made, but as others have noted, it definitely seems to be slowing overall.

I think actually we haven't seen the worst of it. My theory is that the rapidly ageing demographics of the world, which it is important to note is totally unprecedented, will have profound impacts on research and life in general. Mostly, it will be less interest in and funding for research. The cost of caring for the elderly is part of it (see where government revenue goes in more socialist countries, or observe the huge pension liabilities coupled with increasing life span in the USA and some of Europe). But there could be less tangible factors, like the willingness of a more elderly society to support research which will only bear fruit long after many of them are dead. This is understandable. Society will fund as much research as it sees fit. It is hard to make an actual moral argument for funding the kind of extremely expensive, highly technical and incremental pursuit that science has become.
No, but you might want to take it into acccount if you're naming a software project lots of French-speakers will be involved with.
Couldn’t you just sign the payload to verify authenticity?
I am after there is nothing about new wave UNIX to talk about, unless we are now supposed to start talking about Rust and ripgrep adoption at Open Group.

Now that would be new wave UNIX
Each pixel is encrypted separately. FHE lets the server take two encrypted numbers and add or multiply them to make a new encrypted number. There is no way for the server to ever know what any of those numbers actually are.
Nice, I was looking for a Javascript version. I will check it out. Regarding "Read the Source, Luke" you are in good company with Apple and its Swift ABI :)