skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My Dad had one of those calculators he built from a kit.

I remember it had a great bug if you divided by 0. It would go mad for a moment then start counting very quickly on the screen.

My time spent with the calculator was doing that, and trying to make sums which came up with rude words when held upside down! (I was too young to appreciate the trig features!)

The old man build lots of Sinclair kits including the watch, and it was the ZX80 that got me into computing. That took a long time for him to make it work as the PCB had a cracked track.

Happy days and thanks for all the good memories Mr Sinclair (as we always used to call him in our house!).
It's not a part of the university of London anymore.

But this is semantics really, apparently the GP meant a very specific type of college but didn't communicate this and colleges that are universities under the hood aren't part of that unstated definition.
Has been using Windows, Linux and BSD at the same time for almost two decades now. I use Windows for almost everything, Linux/BSD were really for exploring OS implementations, experiments etc.. Don't really want to mention Windows 9x/ME as I wasn't impressed at all, Windows NT5/2000, then Windows Server 2003/2008 were very stable and those perhaps the best releases of Windows IMO. At the same time, Linux/BSD might be more stable but the usability of the GUI was much worse. Linux/BSD get much better since then, especially Linux, I can almost do everything it need with it now. But Windows well, get much worse. Windows Vista required too much resource and I did not really use it much. Windows 7 was much better than Vista, but really I did not see much improvements from Windows 2000 excepts it looked better. Windows 8 was a step way too far by forcing user to change their habits for decades and also looked much uglier. Windows 10 basically is just Windows 8 adding back those visual elements removed from Windows 7. Worst problems with Windows 10 are not really trying to switching the UI to a new one but really not respecting the users at all and breaking existing functionality while replacements do not work at all. I seriously no idea what was their product managers were thinking by forcing restart to update without asking permission. My colleague's laptop restarted in the middle of a presentation to his boss and a whole bunch of other stakeholders as Windows 10 decided it's time to update and the estimated time to complete was over 2 hours as there were over 200 updates to install... The annoyance I personally found were Disk Manager GUI and diskpart utility broken at the same time; Both traditional GUI and so called modern UI to set IP Address/DNS server were broken at the same time. Have 32 GB of RAM and got BSOD because of out of memory for no reason etc. Almost every update, there would be surprise, not necessarily bad, but you just don't know what's going to work or break each time. Unfortunately there is still something I don't really have a replacement on Linux, or I would have ditched Windows now. If the current trend does not change, I will have to ditch it eventually, only a matter of sooner or later.
I believe Commonwealth citizens (at least, those from countries that share a monarch with the UK) are entitled to use 'Sir' or 'Dame' as well: though Canada, for one, seems to take a dim view of its citizens accepting British honours.
DARPA Seeks an Interoperable ‘Space Layer’
There has never been such an agreement.

What there has been is the NPT's Article I prohibition on the provision of nuclear weapons or nuclear explosive devices to non-weapons-states (which are all but the 5 weapons states, USA, Russia, France, UK, China). It also prohibits assistance / inducement in developing weapons.

The "(or nuclear powered)" bit has never been a thing.

There is also the Nuclear Suppliers Group, which is a group of nuclear-technology-exporting countries that agree not to export to NPT non-weapons-states a much longer list of dual-use nuclear technologies, unless IAEA comprehensive safeguards agreements are in place. Australia is a member of the NSG, and has safeguards agreements with the IAEA.

The IAEA has been informed by all three states of this new proposal.: https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/pressreleases/iaea-on-trilat...
"UK education"

Nitpick: not all of the UK uses A-levels.
I mean technologies, not capacities. Yes, we'll need to build more nuclear plants to cover the needs of the society, but the technology used would be roughly the same.

But the same trick will not work with renewables to my best knowledge. We can't realistically place enough wind turbines or solar panels, say, in Germany or in France to cover their energy consumption.
Apply for DARPA Project SPACE BACON (space-based internet) [video]
Here's an example to get you started. Compile and run with ./progname | tee /dev/tty | aplay

you can also pipe it into other programs like xxd: ./progname | xxd | tee /dev/tty | aplay

#include <stdio.h>

#include <math.h>

int main()

{

int t;

for ( t=0; ; t++ ) putchar( t*((t>>7|t>>13)&73&t>>6) );
}
Imperial College is not part of the University of London (it left in 2007).

In any case, the ‘University of London’ is an almost meaningless umbrella institution. Its members function as separate universities for all practical purposes.
https://learnxinyminutes.com/
We've had decades of leading innovation with Democracy.

Just because the current state of affairs is more concerned about trendy topics like wokeness instead of 10 year plan for the future doesn't mean we're want authoritive governments.
IANAL, but often it is not extorsion when you are the victim:

Give me money or I will tell the public that you did me wrong -> not extorsion

Give me money or I will tell the public that you did someone else wrong -> extorsion

I believe that the litmus test is whether you are entitled to a compensation or not.

Either can be defamation though.
Do we know which design it is ?
What do you mean by easy in this context?
Not necessarily, vocational qualifications in the U.K. (the NVQ) are often available at sixth-form colleges, but they will also teach the non-vocational A-level qualifications too. I don’t think there’s any consistency to what mix of vocational vs non-vocational certificate you can expect at an institution based on use of the word college.
It does not matter if the founders changed their mind or lied from the beginning: the result is that they denied the employees what was promised.

> All 12k employees evaluated that value proposition and said it's worth it.

No, the value proposition included the promise that was later broken.
If you have all code already, just paste into a file and run that file…

Otherwise you might want to check out piping support https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/6130 Something like `echo "yourcodehere" | deno run -`
Thank you for the resources. I've read some of your posts, and I found them useful, insightful, thought provoking, and pleasurable to engage with. Also, it looks like you are passionate about beautiful and thorough documentation, to a level which frankly I don't remember seeing in my 15+ years of engineering. I find it quite inspiring. When you say your work is high quality, you're not bragging or exaggerating. I admire your thoroughness and attention to detail, and hope to learn from you.

I must say that I wonder how much work you need to put in to get to your desired level of quality. Excuse my bluntness, but would you consider yourself a workaholic? Also, I find it odd that you say you don't make a dime from your work, even if it's mostly FOSS. Surely high quality work should attract high quality rewards.
The QAA and BCS have a set of national benchmarks and course descriptors that degree programmes have to follow if they want to be validated or accredited. There's a lot of flexibility within them for specialist modules, but some key topics have to be covered in all.
Right to repair is really only important for hobbyists and for people with lower incomes. CSAM scanning is an attack on their core userbase, those who are technically inclined and want a phone/computer that cares about your privacy.

I'm completely fine monetarily with tossing a phone in the garbage if it breaks and getting a new one
It would be good if people could stop hero-worshiping famous universities and people from those universities. There are quite a few idiots who graduate from these institutions.
The parts of vaccine development that we fast forwarded were not the research phases, it was the bureaucracy about funding. Vaccines do not get "long term" testing because the immune system is typically done responding within 5 weeks of inoculation, this is not like drug development.
Sorry for the late reply: Accelerometers[0] are usually rated by the peak acceleration per second they can measure, say 8g/s.

Gyroscopes apparently are now rated at degrees per second, so, 4000 degrees/s for example.

The higher those numbers, the more time the ADC has to sample, be that on the sensor itself (digital output, say SPI, 1-wire, or serial) or an intermediary (arduino, ADC board with digital output) if the sensor is analog. The sensors in even mid-range cellphones is probably enough to determine what road you're driving on and how fast, judging by viewing the graph output form something like Torque Lite or some other sensor display app.

I had some $12 9 degree of freedom sensor, gyroscope, accelerometer, compass (or something), and when displaying the combined gyro and accelerometer as a line on a graph you could watch me leave the room (footsteps, doors) walk all the way across the house, and turn off a loud radio. The sensor was on a desk.

[0] https://www.adafruit.com/category/682

P.S. the Bosch sensors are crazy. expensive, but if you can find a SoC board with a bosch (BNO is the part prefix) sensor for like $50, get it. Atomic Pi is one board that has a Bosch on, and it's barely over $35 itself!
I friend of mine was a lecturer, and she set exams and tasks which explicitly tested the students' understanding of the material she was teaching, as you would expect - scores for her tests followed a bimodal distribution - indicating that they were working.

She got terrible satisfaction scores, and got pressure from 'higher-ups' to reweight the exams so the people in the "fail" group passed.
>an AI that's <snip> easily tricked and distracted by clickbait.

So, AIs are actually on par with most adults now? (Sorry)
Top-down DLP 3D printer from 3Dware
> IMHO, as a PhD student, what really matters is not how well your university is ranked but how well your research group is organized and how much the people there support you.

I've noticed this as well and I'm not even a PhD student! For example, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam doesn't rank super high. Yet, when I look at their cyber security department, then they're top notch.

In most cases though, industry doesn't care about any of this. So only do it if you're actually interested in research. PhD to industry doesn't translate well (high variability in where people end up).
> This is a main selling point of having a high proportion of your politicians having an engineering background.

At what price for democracy and for human rights? And how is China progressing on transitioning to renewable energy? Hint: it doesn't [0].

(Not that western lawyer-led nations do better...)

Having promised a reduction of 65% by 2030 [1], I guess they do count on those nuclear projects working out in the end, but at their scale and with 85% of their energy consumption coming from fossil fuels [2], they do seem to have their work cut out for them.

[0] https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-carbon-emissions...
[1] https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/china/targets/
[2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...
its funny how this story sides with ther products being userhostile aswell, i wonder if that is just a coincidence..
Show HN: Rotating Electronics symbol file in LTSpice by Bash
Non-paywall https://archive.md/lhXt2
Unless there are aliens around, there won't be any "many" left after humanity goes extinct - at least not until another sapient species evolves.
Okay? I don't work for Apple, and I'm not making any judgement or sharing my opinion, just answering the question that was asked in a way that I hope was objectively factual with little editorialising.

I will state though that Google Photos has in-servers CSAM detection, and Dropbox. You can have your own opinion about all of that.
No company will pull out because there is money in these countries - what happens there in politics, social sphere doesn't actually matter as long their business isn't in any direct danger. And if there's some threat, their "values and moral spine" bends with ease; big corps have tools and means to do damage control if situation requires.
It's the same reasons Australia has always had submarines - defence of shipping because an island nation relies on shipped goods, and an ISR platform.
You mean a hourglass, like the ones used as timers in kitchen?
They are both colleges and universities by US terminology. For example Harvard is both a college and university, the undergrad part is the college part.
In fairness, people have been asking Apple and Google (plus many other western businesses) to pull out of China for a long time. The point your making isn't something new nor overlooked.
Not familiar with MailChimp, but we use Mailgun (could be any similar system for the sake of argument) and there is a heck of a lot more than just having clean IPs.

Every time I use one of their screens to look at some issue I think... There's a bunch of stuff we didn't have to build, all for $80 per month.
Can you name this company? They sound like good people.
They might have given up on allowing you to go on living.
Last month https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/aug/01/sky-news-austr...
>The west and it's industry never stood for freedom abroad since it decided that business is more important than democracy in the rest of the world, basically when the west accepted China in the WTO.

I'd say it was long long before that. The US replaced a democratically elected leader with a dictatorship at the behest of a fruit company to give one example and it has had plenty such business influenced examples preceding and following it.

>Tell that to Apple in China

It ain't quite done to separatists but is it surprising? It's ok even when a lot less money is involved and it happens locally.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28286853
> In the end what changed is that e-mail based marketing was on the decline, with other mediums taking over.

FWIW this is completely incorrect. Over the past 2 years other marketing channels have skyrocketed in cost (eg FB ads) and most brands/companies are now investing heavily into email marketing. It's a significant growth industry right now, more so than at any time since I've been involved with email marketing (since ~2010).
Everything is global, I hate that modern tech tries to bring back some kind of "illusion" of borders.
Technically, no idea.

Coming from an enterprise getting approval to use a new SaaS vendor is painful.

But if a existing vendor has new product offering, you skip a lot of painful TPS style application forms.
+1

Also, if you want the university's reputation to boost your CV, these things change over time. So the "brownie points" of "my university is top of a ranking" may not last very long.

So pick somewhere reputable that will give you a good education and don't obsess about rankings.
Apologies, a good nitpick! Particularly since the thread is for St Andrews so the Scottish Highers are definitely worth mentioning :)

The international baccalaureate is also becoming more widely available.
More than a little hypocritical to complain about crypto scams, when he himself created this "cheap eth" coin, gave himself a bajillion coins in the fork code without telling anyone, and then started shilling it in his stream.

More info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26175655
So they compare the two iPhones because of the weight. But are they also comparing it with design and intricacy. I know we're talking about ASICs here. But I wonder what's more complicated (by a factor of 10), an iPhone or ASICs? I have no clue, I don't even know what the acronym ASIC stands for (I guess IC = integrated chip, A = autonomous? S = single? That's my guess anyway).

Ah, Application-specific integrated circuit. 1 out of 4!
Well, the unique value proposition is their gigantic index, really fast search and a bunch of other things.

I'm not sure about the quality of the results, I just use DuckDuckGo these days, but IMO the unique technical advancements are pretty unique to Google.
They don't need a legal ground to harm any Russian citizen. Last several years political repressions are gaining momentum and there's less and less care about keeping it in a legal field.
Huh. A weighted algorithm, somewhere between Google and the one linked, where you could subtract from sites by amount of JavaScript might be interesting.
If you're counting species, beetles.
Crypto project calls FBI after anonymous contractor steals ETH
There is a slight naming clash though, for some institutions such as Cambridge and Oxford, where Cambridge university (for example) is made up of a number of colleges https://map.cam.ac.uk/colleges/

This is not the same as an independent institution which is a college (for example Cambridge regional college https://www.camre.ac.uk/)
> But Russia is where people here start being outraged?

It's entirely possible that the same people are _also_ outraged by Apple's business in China.
the needs of the haves outweigh the needs of the have nots"
Awesome work! In our shop, we managed to solve significant application bottlenecks simply by switching to Shenandoah GC. The application in question is very complex, so any kind of rewrite in another language is out of the question.

This is the power of JVM we do not get from other languages/VMs. Kudos to JVM (previous and current) architects, developers, and everyone involved with it.
That is more of a case of Department than group being highly ranked.

Department reputation in the field is very important, particularly how they are seen by industry.

> well your research group is organized and how much the people there support you.

Controversial perhaps, but when academics are being dicks, nobody ever calls them out on it, academics close ranks and protect their own. Students come and go, professors are there for life.

If there are issues with ones research group, there is no support. Chose wisely, but it is hard to know in advance what sort of environment there really is and how things will really play out.
> Rails doesn't scale? Github's the largest code repository site in the world.

You know, i think i understand both of the viewpoints here. Personally, i'd say that Rails doesn't scale as well as i'd expect it to. You can definitely build scalable systems in it, though you'll end up throwing a whole bunch of hardware resources, when compared to certain other languages and technology stacks, to serve similar load.

For example, right now i self-host a GitLab (https://about.gitlab.com/) instance for managing my code repositories, CI builds and so on. Even with just me using it (alongside some automated processes), it routinely eats up close to 4 GB of RAM, which in my case is an entire VPSes worth and costs me about 60 Euros a year with Time4VPS (affiliate link, if you'd like to check it out: https://www.time4vps.com/?affid=5294) but would cost me way more in AWS, GCP etc. One could argue that that's not too expensive, but not everyone earns a lot of money and running 10-20 VPSes does eventually add up, since i can't afford colocation and my residential homelab setup with a WireGuard tunnel to bypass ISP NAT with a proxy VPS is pretty slow, even if i can afford more storage, RAM and CPU power that way.

Compare that situation to projects like Gogs (https://gogs.io/), Gitea (https://gitea.com/), GitBucket (https://gitbucket.github.io/) and sourcehut (https://sourcehut.org/) - i'd argue that all of them on average use less CPU resources and memory for accomplishing similar tasks.

However, we cannot ignore the fact that using Ruby might have been exactly what allowed for quickly creating the functionality of GitLab and many other platforms and tools out there, GitHub included, so the choice between usable software and innovation in the near future and performant software possibly years from now is a tricky one.

There are probably good arguments for both, but noone can declare either to be better. Personally, i don't mind using Ruby, Python or even PHP when it makes sense and i don't need to worry about scalability from day 0.
I posted a sibling comment to your about Russia and the general point. I'll try not to repeat myself but China is very close to my heart as my wife is Chinese and therefore so is half of my family.

My wife's father's family were brutally oppressed by the Communists. To this day he gets upset, and I've seen him burst into tears when talking about what they did to some of his relatives in the 50s and 60s. This is the toughest guy I've ever known.

None of my Chinese relatives, no matter how deeply they oppose the government, thinks Apple should not sell them iPhones because of anything the CCP does. When Apple pulled VPN apps in China they blamed the CCP, not Apple. None of them think refusing to trade with china is in Chinese citizens best interests. This is why I think I can gauge how Russians probably think about this though I have no experience of Russia.
when I first saw the title - I was strangely hoping someone had managed to get doom running on it
There's a lot of "ye olde business logic" in what I'm building, for people who often change their mind about what they want.
A Rails API (with Postgres and Elasticsearch) makes this fairly easy to handle, especially with the limited staff we have.
A Vue.js client provides the fancy UI the users want.
League tables can declare what they like, the fact of the matter is that Oxbridge has been considered the gold standard of British university education since the Plantaganets, and I don't see that perception shifting easily.
I bet if those crimes were proliferating at the rate that CSAM is, a lot of people would be pursuing more active counter measures
It was a project started just before 11 was announced along with javafx's removal.

Being removed meant any install on clients machines would be problematic (possibly why it was removed)

So the project was reassessed, and everything that was going to use javafx was replaced with webkit/html5/css/js which was expected to be and turned out to be much easier to deploy and far far more portable.
> I use Linux for most things and only boot into Windows for games. Wintendo is a real thing.

> I'd like to be able to play the games I want to without worrying about being frog-marched into an OS without a taskbar.

Lutris/Steam with Proton works wonderfully nowaday!

The main caveat is if you enjoy multiplayer gaming, it often require extensive low-level access to your Windows environment for anti-cheating purposes. Wintendo is the correct approach in that case; VFIO is an option, but afaik some anti-cheat systems will detect that they're running inside a VM.

Most security concerns go out of the window (pun not intended) when the most sensitive information your OS has access to is your Steam account, which has 2FA against a separate non-Windows device.
I haven't use imgix but just had a quick look at the docs. It doesn't seem to have the same ability for you to give your users a way to upload their own images in a secure way? If that's the case then that's a big + for Cloudflare.

In general though, CF just nail every version of what they do so I'd personally go with their version of it even if it's the same.

Is being a cloudflare fanboi a thing yet?