skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An appeal for an objective, open, transparent debate re: the origin of Covid-19
Everything is working as intended though: we're talking about security middleware, not security middleware.

This stuff is built on the foundation of puffing out EnTeRpRiSe ScAlE egos with "look at all this vast complexity that I made, I am a god". It's not built on a technical foundation of always moving the needle forward just because you can and because it's cool and the right thing to do.

Sooo, all the $$$ get spent on dashboards and analytics screens and front panel designs and logos and stuff. The actual DNS bits? Probably /r/programminghorror material.
It's not just about the jobs, there are things to learn in anything you choose and the connections you make can be great.

There's always going to be people who complain about it, yeah. A small minority, though.
Default Mode Network
I preordered a Sinclair X-1 bike (i didn't pay anything), but it unfortunately never got built. I believe Sinclair's son is still
promoting it on Instagram.

The idea of an electric bicycle with weather protection is obvious, unfortunately it seems they are too expensive to manufacture to ever leave their tiny market niche. Most new models never make it to production (and there are lots of them - look through this forum thread:
https://www.pedelecforum.de/forum/index.php?threads/ein-rege... ).
So what you’re saying is that legislation would help here?
Surprised that the former military neighbor didn't recognize the Russian made helicopter.
No. Proper theology demands that you must go with the latest react trend and discard everything else until they change their mind again and generate a ton of blog posts teaching you what was rejected a couple of years ago.
I'm building a pocket-sized solution for this, if you're interested https://pibox.io/ - I've got a prototype on my desk right now!
I use shellac, an application is dry in about 20-30min.
I immediately liked "git the architecture", but stayed away from it a long time because of what I though a poor user experience. I attributed this to the clunky CLI, but you're right that the richer state was also part of the problem for me when using the CLI. With the index (and also stashes) there's more state than in subversion for example, and it must be managed properly.

Magit (https://magit.vc) solved both problems as far as I'm concerned. It shows the current git state in a clean, easy to explore way. It also makes it easy to change it as needed. It also hides most of the CLI oddities by building commands for you from a well designed menu system --- some weirdness will remain: bypassing hooks is "-n" for a commit and "-h" for a push for example. That's the price of staying close to the CLI. And the result commands can be seen and checked if one wants to. Magit makes the git options visible and discoverable in a compact way, and expressing what to do easier.

To me that made the difference from preferring sticking with subversion or using mercurial, to preferring git today. In particular, the index is a very powerful tool to break a lot of changes in a set of nice "atomic" commits once done. I really appreciate it now that I can easily visualize it and control what's there, and trivially sends specific line changes to it.

Sure, Magit is tied to Emacs. But it's possible to use Emacs just for Magit. I'd recommend anyone having problems with git UX to have a try. Some people may joke that now they have 2 problems, and that may be true ;), but for someone that can deal with the Emacs basics I'm positive Magit will be a plus to deal with git.
Amazon's fulfilment system co-mingles. Checking the seller is pointless, it is an accounting thing only. If it's fulfilled by amazon, then the source can come from _any_ FBA merchant.
Yes it's way too early to draw conclusions. Think currently mRNA vaccines still stand strong compared to what else is on the market. Also one of the big promises of the mRNA technology is increased development speed so it might especially be helpful for things which mutate fast.
Some corrections in regards to CLR.

The language that fully exposes its capabilities is C++/CLI and not C#.

In fact, most of the performance improvements since C# 7, have been how to surface those C++ capabilities into C#, while keeping the generated MSIL verifiable. C++/CLI is also able to generate unsafe MSIL sequences.

This is specially relevant since C++/CLI is Windows only, so one cannot just switch to it in cross platform .NET.

Secondly, .NET was also an excuse to reboot VB language, so some QuickBasic quirks were also thrown out, additionally, they have increasingly made VB less painful to migrate old VB 6 code.

Other than that, you are right, and this is also a reason why platform languages always have an edge over guest languages, even if they aren't as shiny in getting new language features out the door.
If the US was nuked into oblivion the only things remaining would be cockroaches and intellectual property attorneys. I don't know why I repeated myself just there.
Because nike’s ceo needs a bonus and the shareholders need their dividends. Because the return on capital is given more value than the labour that actually made the thing. Your shoes say they were made by nike, but they were 100% made by a person, who was underpaid, and designed by a person who was underpaid, and shipped by a person who was underpaid - all so that someone who put in some cash and laid back waiting could get a big return.
> society needs builders and plumbers, not masters of English literature and Sociology.

There's no reason why someone can't be both. Universities weren't originally designed to be job centers, that's what vocational education was for. This is also one of the problems that I see with the current system is that universities are just seen as a way to get a job rather than to be educated. The issue of people feeling shit about wasting their time or whatever also stems from this issue - they came to university to get an easy job afterwards, not to learn, and this belief is misleading.
Both are safe options job wise.

With python/Django it is going to be easier to land a backend position, where you will be using Django mostly for building APIS and interacting with databases and third party systems and it will be less likely you will be expected to do frontend related stuff. Sadly not many companies nowadays do frontend with Django anymore, even if it were the right tool for the job, it is unfashionable to not do SPAs in most companies.

With node, it will be easier to land on a position where you're more "full stack" and expected to also know css, html and more frontendy stuff.
I wonder whether they have an explanation for this. Probably more overhead in the abstractions necessary for parallel processing?
The rule is that it has to keep the item barcode (SKU). SKU recycling is common practice even among ‘legitimate’ sellers - agree that it’s completely ridiculous though.

Amazon are aware it’s happening but ignoring it because it’s good for business. If they really cared about it they would do more than ban 600 sellers - given an afternoon I could put a big list of fraudulent products together because they are so easy to find, so it wouldn’t be difficult for Amazon to do the exact same.
I’ve had a few mpow bits and they are good. Shame.
"Ignore that guy. I'll offer you 172.16.0.0/12 for the same price."
That's the damnedest thing, though. Review fraud has me manually curating a mental list of trusted brands which I'll preferentially by from, rather than using a marketplace for discovery. Seems totally backwards.
Sure, everyone has different tastes. In my opinion Thor Ragnarok and the two latter Avengers movies (Infinity War and Endgame) are worth a watch even for non-hardcore fans.
I'm in the same boat as you, but I've been thoroughly enjoying "What if...?". Makes me feel like I'm watching an actual comic book.
The internet is known to be a hive of villainy and scurrilous behavior... I suggest starting there...
The terminology comes from Emacs:

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/KillingAndYanking
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ki...

The basic idea is that your clipboard ("kill ring") can contain many entries, so you can kill several lines (or words, sentences, functions, what have you) and then yank them back at other locations. Yanking copies the most recently killed text, but you can use another command to replace it with previous entries until you find the right one. Thus you don't have to fear losing the clipboard while performing intermediate operations.

Readline-type libraries typically implement a small subset of the Emacs kill-ring features, so you really need to try Emacs to appreciate the full range of the concept.
Of course you can detect a cellular device. You mean, can't detect with an app on your phone.
I think there are far more examples of developing countries ignoring copyright - the US didn't recognise foreign copyrights until the 1890s.
Types colormap I've sometimes wanted to use, but which never seems to be included in packages or evaluations of colormaps, are 2-dimensional and cyclic colormaps.
I often would like to visualize two related values in the same plot, so a 2-dimensional map would often be helpful. Cyclic maps come up in the context of visulaizing complex functions, but also in other contexts. There are some premade maps for that (e.g. Mathematica's BalancedHue), but they are much rarer and I have never seen a discussion about colornaps which includes them.
I wonder why they never used that Ethernet-over-hdmi, which is a thing for many years now. There is likely something plugged into TV using hdmi that is connected to network.

Also, I recall reading that TVs from certain manufacturers had/has bugs in them that will prevent TVs from functioning after periods of time without connection or firmware updates.
> LARPing element of "taking up arms against the state" is how one-sidedly political it is

Did you look up any news from Portland lately? Because looks like you didn't, otherwise you'd know about people that has been successfully fighting the police and causing a lot of damage to the state, and the state basically retreating before them with the tail tacked between its legs (the reasons might be complicated but the fact is pretty obvious). And those people don't have much love for Trump, to say the least.
Given that it runs client side pairing with plain rsync servers, meant to efficiently support mass file distribution, using multiple cores but less efficiently to gain in overall performance seems a good tradeoff.

One thing most client/home systems have in abundance most the time is spare cores.
Unfortunately yes it is.

All of this reminds me of good old bluejacking, which was when we did the same thing using Bluetooth.
That may not entirely be true, at least as recently as a few years ago. https://www.economie.gouv.fr/dgccrf/plan-controle-2016-des-h...
Software Development in Containers – A Cookbook
Telegram does AFAIK.
Thanks, I'll give it a shot.
Ha, yes it’s not like they’re all going to shrug and go back to college is it.
Yea, it's also that plumbers subsidize it.
I think the notion of proliferation of broadly available technical knowledge is correct, but I'm not entirely convinced whether literature in particular was so relevant.

In How Asia Works, a great book on industrial expansion in Asia, Studwell notes that when Taiwan was moderately prosperous and dominated by industry half of the workforce could not even read. What really benefited East-Asia was a grey-collar culture, a national, egalitarian educational system and corporatism rather than a white-collar, classist and academic culture more common in say, England.

This is something you also find in Germany. The education system was designed to be broad. Schools were universal and focused on practical knowledge, with few ivory towers. Knowledge was historically and is still spread around between institutes (Frauenhofer say), firms, and industry-friendly universities, dispersed and practical rather than concentrated, theoretic and elitist.

This Prussian style system which is really where most German institutions come from also was quite literally copied by a lot of now industrial powerhouses in Asia.
Echoing the sibling comment, I knew Honey was WAY-too-good-to-be-true from the seemingly infinite marketing resources being poured into it - but I had no idea it was a botnet (?!). Further insight highly appreciated!
What happened to Newegg?
I'm refactoring a (not so big) TypeScript codebase from exceptions to returning error results for this reason.

I don't know about Java, but TypeScript does not have a way to annotate that a function throws, not to mention what it throws - so carefully handling every error case would be difficult. With the new approach I know exactly what kind of error codes each function can return and how to handle them.

Thanks for your comment, now I have more reassurance that I'm not wasting time with the refactor.
Google classroom and Google docs can not be used when YouTube is blocked
This is absolutely great. Seeing this for the first time somehow reminds me when I learnt about Google. many years ago. The salespitch for google back then was "They have all the linux related docs and infos indexed". The promise of this engine seems even more promising. A search engine specialized in text, look 'ma! I hope this grows and gets the user attention it deserves. Google has becomes so ad-infested in the last 3 years, its time something replaces it.
I really want to call out the technical founders here, Chris Coyne and Max Krohn, because they've done nothing but leave a legacy of abandoned products in the hands of untrustworthy companies: in the case of OkCupid they sold to Match.com which devastated the site committing it to the same wastebasket as Match.com's portfolio of other predatory dating products.

Then they created Keybase, which was fantastic, before selling out to Zoom. Development has all but stopped.

This style of hit and run get what's mine is endemic to SV. Nobody takes responsibility for the lasting legacy of the things they build.

OkCupid was a safe haven for people who really wanted something genuine. It had a culture-wide effect the same way that Tinder cemented hook-ups as the New Normal of dating. We need to start taking responsibility for the things we make that touch millions of people.

Chris' Twitter [1] professes his love for making things. Yes but you don't love being a good steward of the things you build.

[1] https://nitter.42l.fr/malgorithms
I feel the same way about endless prestige dramas involving guys doing crimes and then agonising about it. I don’t believe any of us is starved for content though.
'You may not need javascript' is a repo I'd like to see.
Iceberg Article (2018)
This looks great, covering about what I'd want from a modern date/time library, but threre seems to be a huge ommision: Is there seriously no way to format/parse dates and times based on arbitrary format specifications? C has functions for that! Why is JS so resistant to this crucial functionality?
I am a filmmaker and VFX artist and boy are you wrong.

Doing a 4k scan of a film that only ever was scanned for a DVD release is trivial, provided you still have the masters.

Doing the same thing with a film which was made 1995 as a digital animation is anything but trivial. This is not your "I just have to select a higher resolution and render everything"-thing.

- certain visual results might be bound to software versions that are so old grabbing a copy of them and making them run would be a challenge in itself

- there might be manual processes which need to be redone in order to get the final result — IF they have been documented

- there might be file formats in use which are no longer readable, or might be read differently

Scaning a film and retouching it is trivial, redoing a digital animation that was top notch in 1995 is not.
The paper's author, Höffner, names the fragmented German states as the reason IP claims (in this case copyright) was so difficult to enforce.

Now we have international trade agreements enforcing IP in most places. Could this effect partially explain China's rise in tech? They ignored IP for ages.

I mean it's certainly easier to innovate when you're not looking over your shoulder or stopping to ask IP lawyers if they think you've breached anything in trivial parts of your tech.
> except that in rich countries a person can buy about two specialist textbooks for a week's salary

One has to remember that salary != disposable income. Perhaps especially in developed countries, most people spend more than 3/4th of their monthly salary on necessities such as food, rent, clothing, maintenance and healthcare. "A week's salary" is a couple months of saving up money, and buying a textbook for it means deferring other purchases like new (used) car, or vacation, or home appliance, etc.
This has to be at the OS level or it will either be killed by the OS or ruin your battery life.
It would be useful to dostinguish how this different or improves on other oses using isolation.
Can you provide any sources? Google only gives results about a single singer.
Thanks for the recommendation but I will absolutely not be watching anymore Disney dreck.
> Not sure how they deal with fraud.

When you scan the QR code at the end it will usually tell you just to pay, but sometimes it will ask you to wait for an attendant to check that you have scanned everything correctly.

Assuming everything was accurate, it then updates a ‘confidence’ score in the background for you - and if you always scan everything correctly the checks quickly become less frequent / almost non-existent. If you always scan everything wrong, the attendants will be asked to check it every time.
Many Chinese sellers now actually have warehouses in the EU.

So you buy from AliExpress and it's shipped from Poland or even Germany with DHL/Hermes/etc.

Which I guess might not help British buyers anymore, but look for "UK fulfillment/warehouse", maybe some will have them.
This is what makes some recent movies (like Mad Max Fury Road) so much more intense.

The director has intentionally decided to not use CGI for anything which can be done with real vehicles and real actors.

And unlike the Marvel superhero snore-fest, it actually looks and feels real, because it is real. And your mind can tell. This makes you actually care.

CGI is instead just used for matte painting, to touch up the scenes or scenery, rather than compose core of the shot. And the result looks brilliant.

So yeah. Less CGI please and more restraint.
OS have a variety of products including maps supplied rolled in a tube to avoid folding. I think the 1:10000 scale has the names of individual fields on farms.
how about partying whole college, extending childhood?
May be you should write why dart is bad instead
Almost all of the tags are on people’s keys which hold close to no value
Trying to compile it on osx. Several errors like this:

make
cc -I/usr/local/opt/ruby/include -c -o bestline.o bestline.c
In file included from bestline.c:122:
In file included from /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/termios.h:26:
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/include/sys/cdefs.h:681:49: error: invalid token at start of a preprocessor expression
#if defined(_POSIX_C_SOURCE) && _POSIX_C_SOURCE == 1L
^
"...society needs builders and plumbers, not masters of English literature and Sociology."

Society needs both but I'm in full agreement that in recent decades that the trades, woodworking, etc. have been terribly denigrated and they need to be restituted to their former position in society. Even with modern equipment that's taken much of the menial work away we still need people with the skills to use those machines properly.

Also, we need creative people who are best skilled with working with their hands. We cannot lose sight of the fact that many are most suited working this way and to force them into doing a desk job is both unfair on them and on society generally. By saying this I'm not implying that they're any less intelligent - in fact I know some very smart and intelligent trades people who I'd trust with almost any work with training.

I say this as person who has been a professional/desk worker for most of my working life but also as one who also had the privilege to be trained in metalwork and woodwork and for a time working in those trades. I understand that mentality, and there's absolutely nothing wrong or demeaning about it.
I am going to admit I rarely go see Marvel movies but I have seen at least two from phase 1 and two from phase 2 and they were all quite formulaic. The plot follows generally the same trops. Music mostly was the same. Easy jokes came counterbalancing heavy moment of gravitas. The overall editing was close with comparable duration of takes and timing. They really calibrated products.

Then again, I think it's why people go see them massively. These movies can be consumed with zero intellectual effort and are built to give you a dopamine rush while never challenging your world view in any way.

I personally believe this is where cinema goes to die but both the indie scene and foreign industries are producing more movies than ever so I don't really care.
Removing the battery is the official way of turning them off. If the anti stalker mode activates on your iPhone. It shows an animation of how to twist and remove the battery.
Simulating Nuclear Fusion Schemes with Semi-Analytic Models
Reminds me of this:
https://beyondrange.wordpress.com/

Pictures with really long lines of sight, the current record is 443km.
Don't the peering agreements have to pay for bandwidth? Isn't there a bigger cost for those flooding this one? Could they charge-back and encourage peers to throttle? Can peers fix this with pricing model changes?
I would actually pay to get LineageOS like upgrade on my now not so "smart" Android TV from 2015.
I have an S6 from 2015 as my daily driver. I haven't noticed anything wrong. It works as well as it always did.
Beyond horizons – Home of the Farthest Picture ever taken on Earth
im getting dropped at the start of a two hour video on biking in general. probably some part of the video me tio s Winnebiko I or II from Steve Roberts? https://microship.com/winnebiko-ii/
I dont remember it asking to bypass anything.
The printing press (1500s), bible distribution and gained literacy was the main reason I think, it created a knowledge culture earlier than elsewhere, basically an offline web.

The industry in Germany has strong protestant and prussian roots. Families with a protestant background got wealthier earlier when more land and resources were up for grabs, kinda like digital entrepreneurs in the 90s or early 2000s.

I think it's quite comparable to computers, Silicon Valley and the internet these days, and why it's dominated by US companies.
Or the distribution of people now online better reflects stupidity in the general population.
That’s a good case for an unzoned time data type - storing a time without an associated date or timezone. There are some scheduling use cases where such a type is useful - such as your alarm clock example, or suppose a chain of retail stores has standard opening hours of 9am-5pm regardless of the time zone the store is in.

But a combined datetime (both date and time) in an unspecified non-UTC timezone is far less useful. As I mentioned in another comment, there are some rare use cases where it is genuinely appropriate, but far more often if you give people such a type they’ll use it to store data in a single specific time zone, without being explicit about what that time zone is-which is a bad practice.
>A 50 kiloton warhead detonated over Tel Aviv would reduce Israel’s economy to basically nothing.

At which point America would step in.
The ground track in the article does not show them as over the ocean at any time during the flight.
Also "Designed in European Country, [ah, but] made in Asian sweatshop", is very common 'over here'.
Just seems so....cheap, exploitative and somewhat embarrassing to me.
I try to avoid them.