skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Datalog-ish query languages sure is a fun area to be working in. Such DSLs exist for various domains and, like Semmle's codeQL or the more academic Soufflé, Glean focuses on the domain of programming languages.

Glean seems to still be work in progress, e.g. no support for recursive queries yet, but I wonder where they're heading. I'll certainly keep an eye on the project but I wonder how exactly Glean aims to -- or maybe it already does -- improve upon the alternatives? From the talk linked in another comment I guess the distinctive feature may be the planned integration with IDEs. Correct me if I'm wrong. Other contenders provide great querying technology but there is indeed no strong focus on making such tech really convenient and integrated yet.
It really isn't overblown. The foaming outraged extremists that torture any individual or company that deigns to disagree with their current ideals is a huge issue.
Domain Names Gone Bad
The reason Apple and Google would never offer up a volume discount for large publishers without legal action is because it's 99% of the app store's revenue. Giving a discount to small developers cost them nothing, giving a discount to Epic Games and similar would cost them billions.
> It doesn't matter what the money is spent on after it is taken; that doesn't change that fact that rent seeking occurred.

It does matter. It matters a whole lot. Saying it doesn't reduces your argument to a purely semantic one; and a very stretched, very pointless argument it is.
You talk about these options as if they are selection dilemmas rather than an optimization problem, and discussing trading time and effort for price as if time and effort are unlimited resources. If you're going to pretend time and effort are unlimited, why not pretend funds are, also?
Hi, I remember being a Cronitor user but then switching to Healthchecks because it's enough for my needs. I'm not sure that's what you mean by helping me out (sorry if I'm not remembering an interaction we've had).

> but you can do much much more with Cronitor!

except for Discourse integration I guess ;)
Wealthfront went from 0 to 25B AUM
Really curious how this compares to Cloudflare's analytics. I run a site for developers with decent traffic, and according to Cloudflare only about 25% of our readers block Google Analytics. I had always thought it would be a higher percentage, so this seems to make sense.

It's also odd that the clicks from Google Search Console line up very closely with what we see from Google Analytics. I had always thought this data would be more accurate since Google SERPs uses (used to use?) forwarding URLs to track this stuff.
You can already embed VRML
Overall it's going well. While Clang, GCC and MSVC sometimes have surprising behaviour differences, once you look this stuff up in the C or C++ spec, these are almost guraranteed to be marked as implementation-defined- or undefined-behaviour (and if not then it's a compiler bug). Even being able to pinpoint what is implementation-defined or what is undefined-behaviour is an advantage of having multiple independent compiler implementations.
Having recently retired, I suspect I’m a bit older than most of the people here. I began my career in the early 80’s as an entry level developer at a large company. Eventually, I chased the money into management. In those days, we tended to hire talented, motivated individuals. As time went on and the Internet became more prevalent, everyone who had ever built a family website in FrontPage was marketing themselves as programmers. As the Internet matured, the diversity of technologies proliferated. Now senior management was telling those of us in the middle ranks to hire specific skill sets, e.g. Rails. The problem was such resources tended to be scarce and expensive. And even graduates of boot camps and weekend warriors who had crunched through a couple of Dietel & Dietel or OReilly books thought they should be paid $100k+, regardless of experience or the local market. Enter the off shore providers: Infosys, Cognizant, et al. They offered senior management what they sought - specific skill sets at bargain basement prices. And senior management at many commercial firms went all in on the offshore/outsourced model. Disney is one of the most egregious examples. Up until the last two years of my career which were spent working at a startup, I was in management at a large Fortune 100 company. This company spent 9 figures, never delivered a product, and eventually sold off the division. At one point, we had 100’s of offshore developers. In the startup, we dealt with the same issues. Senior managers often read literature targeted to their level, i.e. marketing. Hence, micro services and the cloud were the big thing when I retired. At our startup, neither was necessary for the market size and scale that we were targeting. We hired a younger architect who had the lingo nailed and told the CIO what he wanted to hear. Finally, they bought me out and I retired. They still haven’t brought the product to market, now 18 months after my departure. So, at least here in the States, we have an expectations problem and a lack of engineering discipline. Is the technology proposal appropriate to the opportunity/problem? Often, it’s not and the failures are costly and all too frequent. Retirement looks better each day.
Another ultimate irony is that people who can see part of the problem will say "it's always the other side that polarizes things" without seeing that this makes the problem.
Christianity as practiced is a different matter altogether. The ideal fails when it comes into contact with intrinsic human motivations such as desire for power, status, wealth e.t.c
Vaccines are NOT a treatment for individuals.

Vaccines are for populations.

We seem so wrapped up in our own precious snowflake egos now that we seem to have lost the ability to think of ourselves as part of a group.
Years of trying to treat models like images shows us it's a poor idea. Maybe now with Disney/Epic PBR being the standard material model it's closer but, that Panic truck? Good luck defining the exact lighting for that so it renders correctly and consistently.

The spec text even says that the lighting environment will come at a later date. So, no, you don't seemingly have any control over one of the most important parts that makes the visuals of your scene. Even VRML could do that.

Also seemingly no word on the camera position, or FOV, or anything else.

So it doesn't seem feasible to get even remotely matching renders, at which point, why bother?
The percentage is misleading. it's not people intentionally blocking Google Analytics, it's anyone that runs any adblocker, which almost all block Google Analytics. I installed uBlock for my parents and they don't have the faintest clue what GA is. A significant portion of those 58% probably don't care either.
UFC/MMA fights often involve a lot of grappling and kicks to the lower body, which aren't allowed in boxing. All else being equal a boxing match tends to contain a lot more head strikes. But obviously neither sport is particularly "safe".
If there's a large increase in the amount of remote work, I wonder how much software architectures will change in order to accommodate the lessened interaction?
The great majority of installed wind turbines are already built using electromagnets. Only a minority of turbines use rare earth permanent magnets. Permanent magnet designs cost more but are lower maintenance, so they are mostly used offshore where maintenance is more costly.
As the owner of a 6? year old i5-6600 I’m … ambivalent.
My desktop is a bit older - but can handle everything other than the security chip changes. Also pretty pissed off.
This seems very interesting, would love to see more alternatives to TreeSitter and microsoft LSP - what makes those hard to use is lack of examples and tutorials. So I hope tbere will be examples and tutorials. For example: How do you find all variables in scope when the text cursor is on line x and col y in /file/path/file.js
> But there is evidence of that. I linked to some of these papers in my previous comments.

The IFS is not a credible source. Their previous claim to fame was publishing bogus research on same-sex parenting, presumably because it doesn't align with their values[1].

The other link is a meta-analysis that shows a correlation between family political alignments (quelle surprise!). It doesn't support the more ridiculous claim that the arc of human reproduction bends towards conservativism.

[1]: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Institute_for_Family_S...
Doesn't firefox on android allow ublock origin?
The Rise of a Different Work-from-Home
> 1. The new design and sounds are modern, fresh, clean and beautiful, bringing you a sense of calm and ease.

THIS? is the number one point they want to highlight? Feel at ease, user, while we mine all your data and force feed you buggy release after buggy release of changes you don't want and didn't ask for!
Ok, forgive me for being imprecise in my language :).

Any willful activity that harms the brain should be considered carefully before undertaking. This would include drinking alcohol as well (something which many of us willfully choose).
Experimental HIV Vaccine Fails in Africa
>You, the dev.

As per the parent comment, it's not exposed to the javascript running on the page, which is arguably the "dev" in this case.

>Not you the client, hence the user.

I fail to see how it being exposed to the javascript running on the page or not makes a meaningful difference to the user. Are we expecting the average user to interact with the page via the developer console or something?

>and we all have seen where it leads to.

The proposal doesn't have any DRM element at all. At worse you can just inspect network traffic to download the model file to disk and open it in whatever app you want.
me too, I wouldn't consider first gen Ryzen as something unsupportable either. But at least they're still allowing for installations and well, I'm not so sure if a CPU from 2017 needs to be supported for new Operating Systems. Either way I hope they achieve something special with the new OS given they are putting the bar so much higher.
Looks so sleek. I was always wondering if my iPad could be used more productively when working remotely.
This was one of my major disappointments when I looked into solar the first time. I don't want to stick panels on top of my house that are basically just feeding back into the grid. I want to have panels that first feed my house, and maybe if there's extra feed it into the grid, but if the grid goes down I still have a more-or-less functional house. A big part of solar's value to me is the renewable, off-grid backup power. Solar has the interesting and useful characteristic that it keeps working even if things have really gone to pot and you've even lost gas and water for some reason. Having lots of houses like this scattered all over the place greatly increases civilizational resilience. (That is, I'm not so much trying to plan for "The End Of The World" just for me personally with my own solar install, but want the resilience at the societal level, and might be willing to pay to help it along.)

If solar's just going to feed back into the grid, I might as well just let the utility companies manage it themselves. It's more efficient than anything I can do myself.

Unfortunately, it seems like the way solar works helps that goal much less than I'd like. I hardly need multiple kilowatts of power backing a single functional outlet that almost seems begrudgingly provided.

I'd be interested in anyone who has experience in perhaps managing to set their house up the way I describe, what magic words to Google or say to installers to talk about this, and how much more money it may have been.
Show HN: Chiff – Authenticator app supporting passwords, OTP, SSH and WebAuthn
Hi, we're Frank, Wouter and Bas and we have developed Chiff. The idea is that you can leverage the biometric authentication capabilities of your phone to authorize things on your computer. There's an app (iOS or Android), which you can connect to a browser (via a browser extension). This allows you to retrieve passwords and fill them automatically, generate WebAuthn keys on your phone and log in via WebAuthn.

You can also pair the app with a CLI (see https://github.com/chiff-app/chiff-cli) to be able to retrieve passwords in your shell and generate SSH keys on your phone and authorize ssh requests on your phone (currently only available for iOS)

We're in the process of making the source code public, see https://github.com/chiff-app. The iOS app and CLI are already available, the rest will follow soon. More information on these plans can be found here: https://www.chiff.app/articles/2021/08/31/chiff-goes-open-so....

Looking forward to hear your thoughts and feedback!
Bagram’s new Taliban masters uncover horrors of US jail in Afghanistan
Uppy File Uploader 2.0
According to the wikipedia article, the last name was actually spelled "Fucker"
I think your comment, albeit totally understandable an honest, only highlights the double-standard. No one would normally even question who the male CEO is going to blame.

Look at Newmann. He was basically like: "Ooops! YOLO." And nobody is suing him for fraud.

VCs will keep investing in tall white boys with a good story disproportionately more than they would in women, however much more qualified. They will remember the Holmeses and instantly forget the Newmanns. It's just what it is.
In war games, the only winning move is not to play.
I haven’t heard enough about the under-the-hood details of Windows 11 to not believe that this release is not much more than a slight refresh to the desktop environment.
> I won't be entirely shocked if we see a return to right-wing Christian conservatism in my lifetime that will make the 50's seem like a liberal utopia.

This is my prediction, although I’m not completely sure about the lifetime part. If it does come to that, I’m not completely unopposed to the crazy prepper life though.
Reasons You Should Prefer House Extension
The conversion cost can be managed by simply cutting the extra cost required for designing and painting as such chores can be adjusted for a later time whenever you get more amount. House extension in Edgware lets you save money while moving is totally opposite to it because it increases the expenditure list.
It's a joke to suggest housing is ubiquitous in the US. The number of vacant homes in most metros in the US is less than one year's population growth, and as a fraction of housing stock at historical lows.
> Similarly, wrapping websites like Discord or Slack in Electron also gives the website owners full telemetry and tracking that they can't get in a tech savvy browser.

Discord, Slack and other similar webapps can (and maybe do) send telemetry in the same connections used for the app's features. You can't reliably block that.
Concur- I do use a pretty harsh tone when I talk about this, but it's definitely not what I mean to say.
>Scientists and health professionals fail at it.

They do just fine.

The problem is "science" "journalism".
> especially because parents/kids know the kind of money and fame a professional boxer can achieve.

Oh come on. Even among professional sports boxing seems incredibly unlikely to pay off as a career move.
My guess is that Microsoft will backtrack on this within 6 months of release because basically nobody will upgrade their processor just to use Windows 11. They have a history of doing stuff like this and then backpeddling when fewer people put up with their shit than they expected.

Then again, lately they've been doubling down on stupid shit nobody wants so who knows. Either way, I know I won't be upgrading to Win 11 any time soon and the company I work for certainly isn't going to rush out and buy all new workstations for it either.
Never too late to switch. Maybe this remote working trend will lead to outsourcing of programmers and we’ll see a rise of electrician and carpenter bootcamps as people flee software development. You’ll just be ahead of the curve.
It's all about leverage. There are certainly less good and better electricians and dentists, but at the end of the day they can only string so much wire and drill so many teeth in a day at rates that are pretty much set by the market. They have some leverage if they set up a business and employ people but there are still both lower and upper bounds.

Whereas a Pro Bowl quarterback or A-list movie star is worth maybe $100s of millions to a team or studio relative to players/actors who are "only" very competent. Coders are somewhere in between.
What does this have to do with whether Non-Commercial licenses are Open Source?

The FOSS movement has been incredibly clear about the threat of cloud software for years now, they were warning about this before it was a mainstream argument. And to be clear, Non-Free licenses like Mongo's that often come up during these debates do nothing to prevent people from being herded towards the cloud, and Non-Commercial licenses have nothing to do with how Non-Commercial content is distributed. There is no provision in a Non-Commercial license that says that I have to make the media I build with it available for download.

If your chief objection is SAAS, then it seems more than licenses, you would be arguing that software like Mongo is inherently Non-Free simply by virtue of being a database designed for use in the cloud. Mongo's existence is funneling more users into the cloud than any license it uses.

There are licenses (like AGPL, and CC SA) that can be classified as Free licenses and that do contain provisions to prevent companies from locking software and content up in a way that users can't distribute, modify, or consume in privacy-respecting ways. Those licenses preserve ownership without being Non-Free.

A Non-Commercial license doesn't do any of that stuff.
It would be evidence in antitrust proceedings to demonstrate that Apple is not aligning itself with the game console market but with the personal computer market.
They redesigned the app store, the settings, the file manager, added android emulation and changed the update cycle. it's also snappy with more agressive caching from what i heard. the search was also overhauled to be faster and more relevant

i would have loved for them to include more privacy and security features instead of the widgets panel for instance (which only allows microsoft services anyways so far) but it still looks like a decent release
> It's a problem when small companies have to pay company tax, and large multinational companies do not, merely because the latter has the legal know-how and the funds to achieve it.

Hence the question of why are countries not changing the rules so the large multinational companies cannot achieve it.

> As an analogy, it'd be like a road worker paying 30 percent tax on a $100k income and a company CEO paying 0-5 percent tax on a $10m income.

This seems unrelated to my question, but is there anywhere that this is true? All the examples of this I am familiar with in the US involve ignoring the fact that the CEO is not getting $10m of cash income, otherwise they would be paying a lot more tax than someone with $100k cash income. Which is stupid and invalidates any point trying to be made.

If the argument is that society needs to start collecting tax on wealth and forcing sales of assets, then so be it, but it should be stated as such.
GitHub's linguist library can be used to identify the programming language of a single file (edit: or of a whole project): https://github.com/github/linguist#single-file
Strangely enough, the mountaintops change quite often due to erosion and plate tectonics. They shrink [1] or even gain in height like the Everest did recently [2]. We get to know it only because we are extremely interested in mountaintops.

My question on how to format the data on changing landscapes was a serious one. It is so complicated, just to measure the signals of life processes in even one small region. There's so much data. There are now Critical Zone Observatories being built, in order to monitor these processes to the fullest extent on a local scale.[3]

I visited one such observatory in Aubure, France. There are dozens of people working there, just to monitor the vitals of a small watershed. They do a great job, but even they don't capture the data on living beings, animals, insects that are arguably also part of the landscape, or of a force that shapes the landscape through pollination, consumption, destruction or regulation of other living beings that have an effect on the landscape.

As hard as is it to define the borders and contents of a landscape, even harder question seems to me of how to represent changes. How to talk about changes on a global scale. Sure, the animation used in the article [4] shows quite clearly the change of planting zones over time, but this is just one data point. And a very abstract one, since one sees it, says 'yes, wow, it's changing' and then goes on to make a coffee and forget about it. The closer to the global scale we go, the more abstract the story telling becomes, the less personal the story becomes, the less likely it is to reach the reader. In the last years in the Rhine region where I live, the Asian tiger mosquito was introduced. It is an invasive species that is able to survive in the new landscape because of climate change. It's just one anecdote of a changing landscape, but one that people are talking about since, well, the mosquito is biting them, forcing them to pay attention. No one is talking about the other changes.

So my question still stands – if you are asking for quantifiable evidence on changing landscape, please define how it would look like so that you would be satisfied with it. Define the formatting of such data, of what constitutes a landscape, of what constitutes change. And how to gather such data on a global scale. And even harder, how to present the huge amount of data in a human readable way.

By doing so, you would do an immense service to our understanding of the earth and the processes of life on it. Because, while the news of a new mosquito or a mountain growing in height spreads like wildfire, hardly anyone is paying attention to the small but significant changes around us.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/18/swedish-mounta...

2. https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a349107...

3. https://www.czo.wzw.tum.de/home.html

4. https://placesjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/milliga...
> Time to switch to Linux

Windows 10 and 11 can run that app. It's called WSL2
We are in the middle of a battery revolution so... batteries.
Towards Real-World Blind Face Restoration with Generative Facial Prior Web Demo
That's a little reductive. I just think it's important to be aware that you can't really escape politics, and in a representative democracy there is often someone who will benefit from your choices one way or another. In the US this breaks down into us vs. them because of the two party system.

For an example, consider how Nader is sometimes blamed for Bush's victory in 2000. And indeed, whether intentional or not, Nader's campaign probably hurt Gore's chances. But my point is not to condemn (in this example) Nader voters. Just that it's important to be aware of who is likely benefiting from your actions and not pretend that by remaining "neural" or "independent" you're somehow above the fray.
The best way to prevent that is by disabling JavaScript. Generally, JavaScript is what enables such banners to popup and obstruct your vision with newsletter requests.
This feels extremely rushed. They didn't even push it out to QA (aka Windows Insiders) until the end of July.

It doesn't really look like a compelling case to upgrade, for somebody who is happily using an LTSC build of Windows 10 that is rock-solid.
No you can’t. Self-preservation and greed can easily be working in your subconscious. Humans are easily this fallible.
90% of the linked article is trying to peddle laptops and tablets that support Windows 11 so it's pretty obvious that they are just trying to milk the OEM OS market with a new OS.