skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The usual kinds of leaks do not help case manufacturers. You need very detailed schematics or the device itself to be able to make accessories for it. A blurry photo definitely won't do.
Way to take a stand "anonuser123456"
Hot Take: If your website needs ads to survive, it wasn't that good to begin with.
Poe's law tells us that a parody of a viewpoint is essentially indistinguishable from a sincerely held viewpoint.

The best trolls are the ones who are playing true believers.
“It's not what you don't know that kills you, it's what you know for sure that ain't true." (Mark Twain)
On Firefox, when I load instagram, it deletes my history so I can't click back. I can't believe they'd deliberately be that shitty... is this some weird bug?
I've replaced the article's title in accordance with the HN guidelines [1], using a representative phrase [2] from the article itself. If anyone can find a better such phrase, we'd be happy to change it again.

[1] Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

[2] When changing a title, it's best to use representative language from the article itself https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Astronomers uncover evidence that there could be many more Earth-sized planets
I guess my mistake was thinking 20 plus years was old enough, that would be out of patent.
Subtitle:

A California farmer decides it makes better business sense to sell his water than to grow rice. An almond farmer considers uprooting his trees to put up solar panels. Drought is transforming the state, with broad consequences for the food supply.
Didn't that backfire? Having to prove that you used FDIV, and that errors in the fourth-or-beyond decimal place would actually affect you, was such bad press for Intel, that they eventually offered replacements to anyone upon request. As Wikipedia tells it:

> Intel's response to the FDIV bug has been cited as a case of the public relations impact of a problem eclipsing the practical impact of said problem on customers. While most users were unlikely to encounter the flaw in their day-to-day computing, the company's initial reaction to not replace chips unless customers could guarantee they were affected caused pushback from a vocal minority of industry experts. The subsequent publicity generated shook consumer confidence in the CPUs, and led to a demand for action even from people unlikely to be affected by the issue. Andrew Grove, Intel's CEO at the time was quoted in the Wall Street Journal as saying "I think the kernel of the issue we missed [...] was that we presumed to tell somebody what they should or shouldn't worry about, or should or shouldn't do".
Here is my landing page:, what do you think I am doing wrong? and I accept any suggestion that could improve my business
> I am surprised it hasn't caught on better in the multi-core world, it being older than even Erlang.

Because multicore support in Ocaml has been "just a couple years away" for many years now.
There has been a bunch of research on reconfigurable optical datacenter networks to do this.
I do get your point but... are you saying you have no reception in subway?
Bad automated policy is bad because the policy is bad, not because automation is bad.

Automation applies policy evenly. An employee can be sure that the firing wasn't due to a boss having a bad day, not liking the employee personally, not noticing worse performance of colleagues, etc.

The real problem comes when automated assessment is poorly designed. And it's a shame not only because of the heartless actions that impact real people's lives and the needless public relations damage that is bound to emerge. It's also a shame because of the lost opportunity to help workers' performance improve via feedback at a level of detail that the automated systems could provide.

Damn the secrecy. Develop an open rating system that provides continuous feedback to the worker. Build in dampers that provide ample time to learn, correct mistakes, and improve. Publish every factor, every consideration, every weight that goes into the assessment. Openly. Refine over and over until both management and the workforce see it as fair and helpful.

I would take that system over the subjective, unevenly applied, unclear criteria that's historically been used to assess performance. No surprises to the workers, and management has to own the criteria rather than hide behind unpublished automation. Objectivity should be a virtue. Without transparency, it's going to prove to be quite the vice.
It won't work, the lessons won't be learned.

Within the larger space of crypto are the "degenerates" and "ape investors". That's what they call themselves. They're fully self-aware of their unhinged choices and behavior. They embrace it and laugh at it.

This is important to understand. They aren't uninformed or gullible. They know they're crossing a field of land mines and decide to go for it anyway.
That ship sailed when they decided we had to stay within their walled garden for our own safety.
Another fun one:

> new Date().getYear()
121

Of course this is avoided by using getFullYear(), but I've always wondered why a language that came out in 1995 had a function that returned two-digit years.
I'm starting to find that title links to posts with multiple images just link back to the page you're on. It feels like it's just going to slowly disintegrate. Which I think on balance I'd be happy about because I spend too much time on there anyway.
Are cellphone numbers a dystopia?
So, they were banned from platform A because some censor at A does not like what they do on platform B.
Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager need to take the blame here. Web developers are doing their damnedest to build a decent site or application, until marketing/growth steps in and makes GTM a requirement, and product want to try out the 6 different analytics tools they're looking at.

You can at least push back on the product somewhat, or use something like Segment to fan-out. But once Marketing gets GTM in place, all bets are off - they're doing god knows what to the site/application, completely outside of the purview of the usual engineering process, because they can inject whatever they hell they want into the page.

GTM is essentially a backdoor but it gets a pass because marketing.

Web devs emphatically, and by definition, do not suck at developing websites.
I mean, it depends on what you use it for. My project seems to confuse it in some way. But it should work perfectly fine for a lot of stuff.
Nod. I wonder what might be done with richer input, gaze and pose, rather than just facial affect (and very limited interaction context).[1] AR seems likely to make those much more widely available - though it could be worked on now, but for lack of institutional context.

On the other hand... there are other pressing bottlenecks to a Primer. Status quo has people learning the Sun is yellow, from Kindergarten teachers, college textbooks, and even outreach. With only a very very few of them getting an "oops, nope, our bad" correction years later in grad school, discussing common misconceptions in astronomy education. We're collectively not able, on a timescale of decades, to even get Sun color right in the most popular college textbooks. So if a Primer is to teach science and engineering as a richly interwoven coherent tapestry... we'll need to figure out socially how to transformatively improve our creation of those stories.

The student in the video is learning the color lavender. Learning color is common preK-6. And yet, even first-tier physical-sciences graduate students are deeply steeped in misconceptions about color. So a motivational peer robot might help... at least with equity. But if we aspire to teach color successfully, a novel goal, attention seems needed elsewhere. But there aren't great incentives to ask "What might a greenfield tech-enabled preK-6 successful approach to teaching color look like?" Or at least, I've not seen it. If anyone knows of a setting for such questions, I'd greatly appreciate hearing of it.

[1] the paper: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C22&q=Imp...
"there was a bug that forced a reboot when the keyboard was plugged in while the system was running."

That's not a bug, it's a feature!
-- Sun

God, we fought with them about that. Even if it was a reasonable feature on a Sun 3 workstation, why put it on a high end server?
Realise our predictions are fallible: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/08/us/glaciers-national-park...
I have an Onyx Boox 2 (e-ink tablet with hdmi input), and tried to code on it. Can't speak about the latency because it's not the same product. But what I realized is: you lose syntax coloring. Try to turn your monitor black and white to test if you find the lack of coloring acceptable.
Well, it's hard to say. McCormick's (who own a ton of sauces, like Frank's RedHot and Cholula) has a revenue of ~$6B. If Sriracha was the cornerstone of a more traditional condiment company, perhaps they could grow through marketing, and M&A to about that size.
Practical Guide to Xhtml
Safari, nothing fancy.
Hey, I would if 1. I got paid for it; 2. I'd justify it with "fuck this platform, everyone should go back to individual websites/blogs/forums".
Steve Jobs had star power to match anyone -- Barack Obama, Bob Dylan, whatever comparison you want to make.

It was a unique condition that one person was both the greatest tech marketer and greatest tech product manager of all time.
Widespread adoption of trusted keystores and encryption keys, completely eliminating the need for passwords.
Ethereum keeps kicking the can on this, and not for technical reasons.

> “One of the biggest problems I’ve found with our project is not the technical problems, it’s problems related with people”. - Buterin

https://tokenist.com/buterin-explains-why-ethereum-2-0-upgra...

Given that the reasons are political rather than engineering in nature, there's no way to put a timeline on them.
macOS and Linux.
I guess as far as counterparties go, people trust a bank or the fed more.
This would be a good point. Maybe adding commentary and context would make those videos more compliant with the platform rules.
Thinking of Facebook merely as a consumer platform seems overly broad to me. Each of those are social networks, but they fill a particular niche in the social experience. YouTube is for asynchronous videos from people you generally don't directly know, Reddit is for pseudoanonymous communities, etc.

Facebook's niche is in one-to-many communication with people you directly know. It's also arguably one of the stickiest forms of social network because of the strength of its network effects. There is very little real competition in that niche.
It's great on Asian cuisine, but I can't stand when I ask for hot sauce at a Mexican restaurant and they come out with this Asian-style sauce. It's not spicy at all, rather sweet.
And then I will stop using Reddit for the most part (although it's still the best resource for finding authentic reviews of things / services.. I Google "<thoughts on something> reddit" more often than not these days). Which is probably for the best for my productivity / sanity tbh

The redesign is still a slower, worse experience, especially on mobile.
I've been looking at the calendar and date types for BACnet, which is a protocol used in building automation (and hence, scheduling is super-important) - one of the things that it's got is some nice support for repeating dates/date patterns, sort of like cron but with odd extensions. (Because you might want to run a fan or purge a storage tank on specific days)

For example, month is a number between 1 and 14, where 1 through 12 are Jan-Dec, but a month of '13' means "Odd Months" and month '14' means 'Even Months', and there's an explicit 'Not specified' for things you might want to run every month.

Similarly there are special values for 'Even Days' and 'Odd Days', and special values for Week of Month: 1-7(1), 8-14(2), 15-21(3), 22-28(4), 29-31(5), 'Last 7 Days of the month'(6), and 'Unspecified'(255)

I like that there's nice compact and standard ways to express and serialize these common choices. I wish there was something like that included in temporal but it doesn't look like there is?
> If a socialist candidate is assassinated in South America and someone on YouTube says “this was the American imperialist regimes doing” without evidence, I wouldn’t assume they are right, but I’d see it as an opinion

You are conflating "opinion" with "unsupported statement of fact", "assumption", and "guess". Assumption and conclusion are not synonyms, but your statement here treats them as though they are.

"Murder is wrong" is an opinion, because it's a compressed substitute for an expansive syllogistic trail that starts from some initial premises that are purely personal and subjective about the value and nature of life and being and leads to the conclusion. You reach a moral ruling starting from an instinctive feeling. Expressing that feeling itself is not an opinion, but concluding a moral position from that feeling is. "I like the taste of this cheese" is a factual observation about the self that is not an opinion, because while it observes something personal it itself is not subjectively based on an initial position. You either like the taste of this cheese or you don't. Statements about the cause of things that happen in the world are either true or false, not opinions. There's a reason for the old saw that opinions can't be wrong. Subjectivity is the critical element that makes them opinions in the first place. People tend to lose or forget that distinction or insert subjectivity where none exists, but that's an error which disrupts effective communication and muddies thought.
> "includes an @ and a period ...

Periods are not required, either!
The difference is that Apple doesn't claim to have a 1:1 reserve of dollars to back the value of their stock. It should matter to you that the USDT folks are lying (over something important).
Sentiment analysis is a real thing. Of course collecting poll data on questions like "How much do you approve of the US Air Force turning large parts of your country to a moonscape? Rate from 1 to 5" probably wouldn't have gone over so well.

On the other hand, virtually every study of the Vietnam war said it was a huge mistake and Domino theory was bullshit.
I built this in Unity with WebGL after collecting data from Google Arts & Culture, over the course of three months. I'd love to know your thoughts!
And ECMAscript still sounds like a disease.
Anki user here, for about 5 years now studying Korean and to a lesser extent Japanese and miscellaneous topics.

This is cool, but I will never base my learning on a closed-source product. I simply don't trust anyone with data / workflows this important to me.

Anki doesn't have great UX, but it is -dependable-. It works, day in, day out, and I've had zero issues with it. I trust that in 5-10 years, my anki decks will be there and work exactly the same.

edit: I'm not trying to be negative. I think there is a lack of spaced repetition-based flashcard apps with great UX. However I personally value stability and guarantee of longevity over nice UX. If the developer of Anki quits tomorrow, it being open source ensures that it'll live on with new maintainers (even if that's just me).
E.g. sending links to your post to friends and family. Many family members don't have accounts, and some days all they see is a login prompt. Many times, my recipient is on a different device / using a different browser / cleared their cookies because their ISP tech support somehow thinks that helps - some days, all they see is a login prompt, and don't remember their password, and don't want to go searching for it.

All of this has ensured that none of them like Instagram links, and do not want an account.
Oh wow, is this what happens when multiple Fuck You Patterns collide?
Probably not, but there's no reason to perpetuate the confusion of the two. I'd think the only practical situation where it'd be a problem is if you enter GMT into software that actually interprets it as GMT rather than UTC.
Historically, this is not entirely correct. Segmented MMUs (as opposed to the more common, currently used concept of paged MMUs) were intended to provide the hardware support for the protection levels and the data/code mixture in OOP. I.e. each object would have executable, readable, r/w and inaccessible parts. Protected by the MMU, depending on the currently accessing context, that is, a subclass, friend class, other class, etc. But creating a segment descriptor for each object or even just each class was, of course, far too expensive in the end.
Consistent with Apple's implementation of other surveillance measures[1], this is clearly for the benefit and security of users and employees who don't know any better.

[1] https://www.sentinelone.com/blog/what-happened-to-my-mac-app...
// procedural style
func foo01(a) {
b = x(a);
c = y(b);
r = z(b,c);
return r;
}
// functional style
func foo02(a) {
return z(x(a), y(x(a)));
}

With foo01, one can readily study the value of "b", "c", and "r" in a debugger and/or a Write() statement. With foo02 it's harder to do the equivalent. A good debugger will let you explore the output of a given function call in foo02, but you still have to rework the code to put those into a Write() statement. A direct debugger is sometimes not sufficient, especially in big loops.

It's also easier to read the first style. It's more like a bulleted list:

- Step 1
- Step 2
- Step 3

The functional style is often an awkward horizontal string of chained steps. Sure, the formatting can be adjusted, but it takes more effort, training, and/or discipline to format functional code to make it legible to ordinary code maintainers. Procedural just handles riff-raff better; functional requires ideal conditions/staff.

PS, do I really deserve a -4 score above?
Ome change is enough to transform the mature of the net: no JavaScript or other way for pushing esecutable code or dynamic state chamges to the client, instead, extend HTTP to contain a Turing complete query language to be executed on fhe server.

Pondering the implications is left as an exercise for the reader.
The writing on this website makes me believe the transition depicted in the film Idiocracy is well underway.
Having designed programming curriculum, I have to disagree that the language is a bad language for beginners (though it is very far from ideal).

To be fair the primary reason is not really a virtue of Javascript per se, but the fact that it runs in the browser is a large pedagogical gain that no other language can easily match and is hard to overstate. Learning to program is overwhelming for most students, and setting up your environment is a major component of that. Being able to run your code natively in the browser is a huge boon. Even better, having that code immediately be useable in a very real sense boosts motivation significantly. For most students it really is preferable to let students get very comfortable with basic code constructs before having to interact with the underlying system in any meaningful way.

At the language level, Javascript also has some nice affordances that let you treat constructs as simpler than they are in your curriculum and expand on them later. I think the best example of this is `var`. Viewing variables as uncomplicated "buckets" that happily contain any data you want to shove in them is a good starting place when introducing the very first building blocks of something like if/else control flow.

Most languages are built with semi-experienced programmers in mind and are ill-suited for many beginners and actively bad for children. As an easy example: as a developer I like seeing type specifications for numbers, but pedagogically having to introduce the difference between ints and floats on the first day is just empirically confusing for most students. Much better for them to be "magic" until you can properly motivate them to care (which can be just a few weeks in!)

I could write on this topic far longer than I have, but the short of it is that Javascript has done a truly surprising number of things right for a teaching language. I'd still love to remove some of the zany examples here if I could though.
Can't upvote this enough. Goes against the mainstream narrative, so may not get much traction here on "mainstream narrative" HN.
It's centralized domain-name registration, so there's no point to using decentralized tech to manage registration.
Speaking of fuck you patterns, has anyone else been part of the A/B test where navigating to an Instagram page prevents you from using the back button? They somehow clean my tab history so that I can’t go back to Google. It’s been happening to me for months!
exactly. Head of security at a transnational not being able to deal with a rogue sheriff in a very law abiding country/state/county and getting caught with pants down instead - it is hard to be more inept than that.
If they do (and it wouldn't surprise me), people will start making third party desktop clients (or rather, they'll start getting popular).

If they ban those, then we'll see some major migrations methinks.
> sounds just like someone deciding to look in your garbage bins to find anything to be used against you.

This is a trick I’ve seen right wingers employing over and over.

Edit: burn, karma, burn!
Because the original sriracha sauce comes from Thailand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sriracha

> It resembles actual Thai sauce about as much as Kraft “American cheese” [sic] does a good English cheddar. (Although unlike this comparison, Sriracha arguably improved on the original.)

Thai people hate the americanized version of sriracha, so I guess your comparison is right that Huy Fong Foods sriracha is like the Kraft “American cheese”.
How did Deng Xiaoping reform China from economic backwater into the powerhouse we have today? Deregulation, which birthed innovation.
Buggy helo software took 6 lives
Glad it's not just me. Twitter seems to break more often when a page is loaded from the browser cache, but I can't pin down any other pattern for the “Something broke” errors on both mobile and desktop.

Will Twitter ever have more than two 9s of reliability as measured from the user's POV?
Great, now my boss is going to ask me to implement this.

Thanks.
There are agencies who do nothing else but deal with bureaucracy of applying for these funds and they are a justifiable expense when looking for funds... Next level job creation right there
The Unseen Side of Speedrunning – All Attempts
> Pro-employee policies are necessarily anti-employer

I can't help but feel offended that you feel this way. As a technocrat, sure, let's treat employees as numbers on a sheet that we can hire and fire at will because who cares about them as people right?

Don't forget employees are people, with families, who are usually working to sustain their own lives.

It saddens me how deep this US-centric rhetoric on treating employees unfairly has gone.
This makes me wonder if they purposely submitted a weak case to appear proactive for political purposes, while knowing it would be tossed out. There is a lot of money that flows from big tech into the political coffers, so you have to be careful to not rock he boat too much.
I know market cap isn’t sensible for coins with varying values, but for stablecoins equal to $1 market cap is supposed to be the number of tokens in circulation and therefore should be close to reserves.

Number of reserves is its own issue but only having 0.1% reserves is miniscule.
People do this all the time. There are companies that specialize in it. I've often had cars inspected remotely, but always by having the seller bring it to a specialist shop.

My experience with this kind of thing has been that it's hit and miss. It all depends on the person doing the inspection. Are you trying to do this as a startup? If I was convinced that the person really knew what they were doing, took lots of great pictures, scanned codes (including manufacturer specific codes), checked every panel with a paint meter etc. then I'd use it.