skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And it's a step below the interface they had not that long ago, which was fine and which worked on literally any machine very very fast. The "basic HTML" mode is well....extremely basic.

That's the interface I have in mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBI2liYIvdY

I don't feel like the current 2021 interface offers any advantages over it, and yet it uses far more resources to load and open things smoothly.
Hi, Silice author here -- about the license see also discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27575174 and github issue https://github.com/sylefeb/Silice/issues/106
Love it.
This is pretty useful to see how patchelf in NixOS works.
Interestingly enough, the Norway SWF did dodge Wirecard. The new CEO is a former hedge-fund guy. He was named March 2020, but did not start until September 2020.
There's not enough context for me to think it attributable to any change in leadership, but he did bring it up as an example of how they could benefit from looking for more things to not invest in. Whatever segment of their portfolio this is, is otherwise pretty broadly diversified.

https://www.reuters.com/article/norway-swf-idCNL8N2MF4WF
#3 - I believe this did happen much more than people realize.

In the 90s and 00s, every company with more than 1-2000 employees would have an internal dev staff. I worked in some companies with 20 devs, some with half a dozen, but there was always a dev team in the IT group.

Today, companies do low code via SharePoint and Salesforce. The do BI with Tableau and Power BI instead of internal BI teams. Their external web presence is done with Wordpress instead of a custom site. Sprinkle in some SaaS, and the internal dev teams of corporations are way smaller than they used to be, with some companies not having any internal devs.
I think fewer people would have mocked it if it were in anyway accessible to ordinary folks. They set the wrong price point, which made it an easy target for ridicule because only 'rich' people with sufficient disposable income even had them.
8-bit guy had a vid on this a few months ago. Basically he opened up an electronic catalog from the 80s and showed how everything in there was items that did 1 thing. His phone now does all of that including buying the one thing.

We expected device convergence. But we expected the PC not the tablet/phone to be that device. We expected that to be an extension of the PC. Not the other way around!
Besides size and volatily (dissolution, mergers of ETF generating unfavourable tax events), most ETF by European providers are swap-based. This means that they are cheaper/slightly better performing according to their swap risk premium, but some folks they like to stick with non-swap ETF. Finally, age --- Blackrock, Invesco etc have some of the largest and oldest ETF in the Euroepan/German market on some of the most desireable indices, and so it comes that people might not think of collecting 10 ETF on the same index but stick with one, esp. since for tax optimisation, FIFO purchase/sell order can be circumvented by collecting the same security in distinct depots.
As a 90s kid, I thought the society would be more censorship resistant. The internet is just a reflection of that. Most people claim they are against free speech, except when it comes to their opposite political faction which should be censored.
There WAS a proper gap in traffic if the car used its accelerator on the ramp. The car would not have impeded the truck at all if it drove the ramp faster. This is an incredibly common issue with autonomous systems: anticipation of other vehicles with an awkward angle of attack, which is common while merging or while other cars are merging. Also, autonomous systems also tend to be way too cautious, which is incredibly dangerous in merging scenarios.

A good driver accelerates on that ramp on beats the truck by 2-3 car lengths and merges at speed. Yield does not mean stop. A cautious driver slows before the merge point, maintains a roll, then mashes the accelerator to merge safely at next opportunity. A terrible driver (Mobileye) stop abruptly at the end of the merge junction, almost hits a truck, leaves its front end sticking out into the oncoming traffic, then dangerously merges sheepishly without accelerating fast enough. You can even see how much this freaks out the human passenger. He thought he was going to get hit!
Its not an aside, its centrally related. The technical version of the app enables the problematic activity to scale and thus the moral and ethical implications are centrally related to the technical implmenetation.
Terraform is not exactly something people I know love. We accept its existence and that’s it.
The document says that the encoding is 11 bits for two characters, which means that Base45 plus that encoding is very efficient, since 45^2 / 2^11 = 0.988, so only 1.2% of the capacity is wasted.
I would say no current programming environment has matched the productivity of Hypercard for front end GUI development.

The biggest advances have been distributed version control and dependency management systems.
I started my CS degree in 2000, I heard the same, companies would rather fly someone from India over then hire you. Also my CS advisor said "Java will be the only language anyone uses in 20 years"
As against all the awesome tables OSes and applications on competing devices?

I think it's just that growing tablets to be competitive with desktops is either really, really hard or just not reasonable to expect. As a form factor, for all that I love it and you'd have to tear my iPad out of my cold dead hands, it just has inherent limitations to go with it's strengths.
What about the requirement for a "local partner"?
The power and the limits of the abacus [pdf]
Nice language, but unless I'm mistaken, it's not a functional language but an imperative one.
>Moore's law is about transistor size shrinking, but that has an obvious end

Yes, but by itself that isn't a single core vs. multicore issue. It's a process node question generally.

That said, Intel in particular did try to push single-core frequency at least a beat too far. They demoed a 10GHz prototype at one IDF--and other companies were mocking them for it.

The story that a very senior Intel exec gave me at the time was something to the effect that, of course, they knew that they were going to have to go multi-core but Microsoft was really pushing back because they weren't confident in multicore desktop performance in particular.
I think he means the opposite -- that at this point (with the entire vulnerable population fully vaccinated) it's unreasonable to force anyone to undergo restrictions.
> It was still a step up from the previous condition of serfdom and subsistence farming.

It's actually debated as to whether it was better at first.[1]

It seems for a for the first 60 years or so the standard of living may actually have fallen until the initial shock was over and working conditions etc. improved.

You are right though that modern industrialising nations may be able to leapfrog some of those difficulties allowing for a much more rapid arrival at decent living standards.

[1]https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/IndustrialRevolutionandt...
The example in the article seems to show a 1hr expiration but its probably just fake data for the sake of the article.
It’s now well known that in the Malaise Era of Detroit, all corporate executives received their company cars after they had gone through the quality shop to correct all problems. They drove perfectly set up cars that did not have any of the problems experienced by the average consumer. They simply had no idea what it was like.

You read complaints on HN all the time that sure make it seem like we have entered a Malaise Era in computing. Us developers surely do not run computers set up like the average consumer, and you can be darn sure that corporate executives at Microsoft and Apple do not get plain vanilla laptops fresh off the production line.

The result is entirely predictable.
There is a law in Austria for this.
It's been done in parts, for example Blackrock has both DE000A0F5UF5 and IE00B53SZB19 on the NASDAQ100, but after looking at liquidity/volume and performance data, few of the special-made DE ETF actually make significant sense to buy.
'Living fossil' fish surprises scientists with 100-year lifespan
I don't believe the least bit that there are more than a few people in South Korea who believe that they are living 'in a way dictated by fears of the American empire'.

I say this as someone living in a region where the 'local neighborhood' also has its challenges in the form of a wannabe world power local authoritarian hegemon. Alliances, including the one with the US, are seen as paramount for security and long-term sovereignty. If that also fulfills some US strategic interests, so be it. The alternative is dreadful.
> the official apps that let you check the record do not allow tracking, only verification.

So why are name and date of birth included in the QR code?
The downside of this is that the lookup is done online, and every use of an individual is tracked per service. This is not something that I am comfortable with.
There’s a complex interaction between the tick’s saliva and the human immune system that activates this allergy. My wife also has this condition and her reactions start in her stomach often resulting in vomiting and she feels fine after. Sometimes, the reaction results in a migraine headache. In her case, it’s not just beef, but any mammal.

It seems that all mammals contain alpha gal except Old World monkeys (which includes humans.) But cannibalism is frowned upon, so no mammal for her.
Cool! I still find this 2013 tutorial to be the best educational resource for CFR that I've seen: http://modelai.gettysburg.edu/2013/cfr/cfr.pdf
Except Sevastopol is in Crimea which is internationally recognized as being part of Ukraine, not Russia. Gdansk is also basically a stick's throw from Kalinigrad.

The presence of NATO forces in the ports of Odessa, Constanta or Varna would improve the balance of power in the Black Sea, which would otherwise become a Russian lake now that Turkey has its own agenda and it's not such a reliable partner as it was in the past.
How long would it take you to guess one? 100 years? Does the app actually check to see if you have guessed?
You mean the CA that signs the vaccination certificates?
The difference now is that this information is being made digitally available outside of a personal health dossier.

When traveling to African or South American countries, you have to show proof to a public immigration agent. I have an international vaccination passport, on paper, which has been 'good enough' to provide this proof.
My health dossier is not publically accessible.

Currently, this check is

- looking at a piece of paper for the correct stamps,

- perfomed by a public immigration officer,

- upon entering a country.

With this QR code, I now put this check into the hands of

- any QR code 'reader' app,

- on a Google or iOS platform,

- which can be connected to the internet,

- performed by private companies (venue/event/organizer)

- upon entering a variety of locations.
The NYT’s podcast “The Daily” had a really good episode a few days ago about Apple & China that touches on these sorts of “political” requirements. I think it’s much more subtle (but no less concerning) than parent comment implies.

Episode link (w/ transcript): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/podcasts/the-daily/apple-...
Is there tangible, real, honest to god proof that the Chinese government is involved in using TikTok to “steal data”? Because to be honest it sounds like nationalistic nonsense to me.

Classic HN, due pedantry on backing up broad statements with sources, except for when it’s about whatever enemy is currently in the spotlight.
Sorry - i deleted my comment as I thought it was superfluous, but to reiterate - "it would be the validity for the test, not the cert". It is entirely possible that there was an expiry set, but you wouldn't be able to "reissue" it with a new expiry date, in contrast to what GP was suggesting.
I would be surprised if this happened even once in the history of the patent system, and I feel confident stating it has never happened in the past 50 years. Patents do not drive innovation, they restrict it and erect barriers to entry.
> Side note, here's a free idea for a book: ecoterrorists conduct underground gain-of-function research on Alpha-Gal, making it transmit from person to person rather than from tick to person

I would hack into a covid vaccine factory and modify the mRNA code so it produces the spike protein and the alpha-gal protein.
Not a prediction of the future, but rather something I've found quite funny over the years: watching so many things keep repeating themselves in a never-ending cycle. My two favorite have been...

1. Compiled (native) vs. interpreted (bytecode/VMs). It's this forever cycle of "performance required" that shifts to "portability required", which lacks performance, and gradually shifts back, and repeat.

2. Local processing vs. dumb terminals and shared computing. The current "dumb terminal" phase being the idea that you can buy a $100 Chromebook and working entirely online.
> Most people claim they are against free speech, except when it comes to their opposite political faction which should be censored.

Let's shut up and let the other side speak? It's usually the opposite in my experience =-P, haha. Sorry, couldn't resist, I know you probably meant to write the opposite.
Intel to Adopt SiFive's New High-Performance P550 RISC-V Cores with 7nm Platform
And yet the German auto market is a particularly rigid oligopoly regardless, dominated by their domestic auto giants.

BMW, Daimler, VW all stuffed into one $4.3t economy. It'd be like if GM and Ford were ten times larger than they are in relation to the size of the US economy.

Scaled up to the US economy in size, those three would be up around $3 trillion in sales (five to six times the size of Walmart).

So they're co-monopolies, towering over the German economy, sharing it all with one or two other giant German companies. I suppose that's nice of them, sharing is caring.
To trim or not to trim, that is the question
> Technically the companies are allowed to operate in China

So you are saying they are not blocked by the GFW?
It is too small to come up with a reason to buy a DAX ETF for most people.

To stick to the GNP you mentioned: Let's say you want to own the whole world economy or you are European/German and want to own part of your own local economy. You buy something like an MSCI World (66% US) and now want to increase the miniscule percentage Germany has in them (<3%) to account for the GNP being 5 times smaller, not 22 times like the market cap suggest. Do you now want to do that by buying only 30 companies on top of the ~1600 companies inside the MSCI World? That would be extremly heavy bets on those companies. So something like a Europe STOXX 600 is much more useful for that purpose.

DAX30 is an extremly narrow set of companies, which do not have much in comman, except that they are based in Germany. Even if you wanted to bet only on their "Germanness" for whatever strange reason, why would you buy only 30 companies?

NASDAQ100 is not "big enough". You do not buy it because of its size, you buy it, because you want to bet on tech. It just happens to still be 15 times bigger than DAX30.
And it is in a few countries. Austria and Germany included.
Maybe it's my bias but I took "clean code" not in the traditional sense, but to mean insisting on patterns perceived to be "pure" or "clean" even when their application harms performance or isn't a great fit for the host language (ahem, JavaScript and functional + immutable-datastructure programming) and makes it even easier for devs to footgun into bad performance while staying "pure".
Bad as in not smooth, like far from perfect but also nothing I had ever thought twice about while riding a couple hundred dollar retail store mountain bike. Average Ohio roads, not the worst but definitely weathered.

My former housemate had some kind of race bike with a carbon fiber frame, it weighed next to nothing but he was constantly in fear of road debris, couldn't hop curbs, etc. It was a terrible choice for where he was actually riding.
I expected VR, or at least 3D spaces, to become a de facto way of navigating the internet. In hindsight that would be horrible of course, as it would be slower, resource-hungry, and overwhelming to deal with for 10h every day.
Since Peloton has sold subscriptions from day 1, this probably shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

The worst part of this story is that the device killed a child and they're using that as the reason to collect monthly ransom. It sounds like a Sopranos episode: Make your monthly payments or we might hurt your kid.
> You would imagine the software and hardware should be several levels above what we would expect to get from even premium brands such as Apple M1 etc

You would actually expect it to be several levels below, but extremely well tested, just like spacecraft hardware/software.
<(relevant) plug>try our solution to the remote whiteboard problem: https://sharetheboard.com

FYI, since it comes up often: digital annotations will be added in July
In the 90's COM didn't make a lot of sense to me because I never needed it. Then, around 2001, I needed it to solve some problems and I finally invested the time to figure it out. It's actually pretty neat as long as it isn't in your web browser (ActiveX).

Around that time I too thought I was seeing the future - component-based development that's language and platform agnostic.
Engineer Builds Self-Balancing Autonomous Bicycle in Spare Time
Graduated 2001, everyone I know who wants to still be in CS still is. It definitely takes some willful effort to keep up though, as things change so rapidly. I remember when I first started working is when everything started becoming a web application "so you didn't have to install anything". I remember thinking that seemed like a crazy tradeoff to accept. But then everyone did it. I still think it was crazy.
There is not even an app here, people just show QR codes from wherever they have stored them.
Anecdote from a mid-90s grad. I found that in the late 90s/early aughts my friends with the coolest jobs had degrees in something computational but not CS. Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics.

They all had to learn to code in school and had background domain knowledge in some specialty. In contrast myself and my CS friends had, well, we had knowledge of Turing machines with infinite tapes.

As the years played out it normalized between the two groups as each filled in their own weak spots with experience. But in those early days I was pretty jealous.
Crimea is ethnically Russian and was only part of Ukraine as an accident of Soviet political history.
Welcome to the Schengen area.

You will not enter any Schengen country without the border guard checking if you have an entry in the Schengen Information System.[1]

A reply is available within seconds after the border agent scans your ID document (passport or identification card).

Travelling between Schengen countries doesn't require an id or a passport, but currently countries have restrictions on entry most of them either insisting on you being vaccinated or to present a current Covid test.

I'm travelling to Paris by train on Friday. which has the following requirements for entry:

From 9 June, fully vaccinated people from EU or
Schengen Associated Countries will not be subject to
testing or isolation requirements.

Accepted vaccines:

Pfizer/BioNTech
Moderna
AstraZeneca
Johnson & Johnson (Janssen)

further

All travellers (from 9 June: all non-vaccinated
travellers) are subject to the requirement for a pre-
departure negative COVID-19 test taken within 72 hours
prior to arrival.

Now sure, chances are small that I'm even checked in the train. But if I am then it would be pretty dumb to present fake documentation. Don't you think so?

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/border...
I didn't get it, hopefully they fix it before an actual emergency happens.
It would take longer than that to try all combinations. The app logs a message but doesn't attempt to sweep the wallet or anything.
Bitcoin's Sole Fundamental: Momentum
Such a system would be a nightmare for matching names reliably.

There may be variations between different documents (e.g. it might exclude middle names, people might use a different name on different documents, accented characters, hyphens, might be in a different order, might have a title or honorific such as "MR").
If I lived alone I wouldn’t bother with a dishwasher, but for a family they are great. Biggest issue I find is unpacking them. There’s always stuff that hasn’t dried properly.

I think the ideal would be dual drawer dishwashers that you use alternately, leaving the clean dishes in one until you fill the other, so that the dishwashers become the cupboard. Do people do this?
Good. We're taking all of July off at my company. Why? Because covid was an incredibly hard period for all of us and we as humans need a break. Somehow we all just seem to expect things to keep going like nothing changed. We all just seem to be expected to gloss over the pains of isolation, potential death and stress of work and life with no separation or boundaries. We made a conscious decision at my place of work to actually acknowledge the difficulties we've all been through and we're just going to take July off, because what else are we going to do? Ignore it? No. We won't do that.

I'd advise everyone to try take as much time off as possible this year. If it's available to you, take an extended break. The mental, physical and psychological damage of covid is something we really can't ignore.
China bought off the Bidens long time ago. No surprise here. Unfettered access to our markets, restrict our companies from operating there. How have we allowed our politicians to keep selling out America?
Digital Clock with Date Using JavaScript, HTML
or both, why do things have to be either black or white?
Own two companies that agressively underbid all others?
Overall, I got everything wrong. Technically, commercially and socially: wrong, wrong and wrong.

I thought things would develop along lines that were of interest to me or which appealed to my personal aesthetic of computing (textual). And that viewpoint turned out to be the most myopic possible in terms of predicting what would actually happen.

If I predict something then almost certainly it will not occur.
I agree with you that I wish the yellow card was "good enough." It is for some countries like Germany and Iceland.
For offline checking you will eventually need some data (first name, last name, birthdate) to validate against eg. an ID card.
Yes, cross-border traveling is definitely harder and more expensive without vaccinations. Easier domestically.

I'm just not convinced that we should require the same tests even after vaccinations even if it now leads to uneven amount of hassle.
> watching so many things keep repeating themselves in a never-ending cycle

Hacker culture calls this the Wheel of Samsara.
Maybe I am too naive but what the heck are they overworking on? It's an app with some basic functionality. Is software dev in such a sad state that you can't deliver a self-standing product that doesn't require teams working overtime to keep it running? I doubt that all of their staff is doing DevOps or maintaining servers which are the only two things that jump to mind as being labor-intensive for a an app with millions of users
I watched it, but the way it is presented makes it really difficult to consume. That is unfortunate, because I think the message is really important.
OP here. I made this mostly out of fun/curiosity. The premise of cryptocurrencies is that it's practically impossible to guess the private key for a given address. This just keeps guessing on the off chance that you hit a 1 in a 1461501637330902918203684832716283019655932542976 chance.

People are naturally bad at large numbers (myself included).