skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It seems like you reject this premise, maintaining that PoW networks are objectively verifiable? But you didn't really refute the parent's point there, which was that there are no "objective standards" in deciding which bootstrap nodes to use; it's ultimately a matter of trust. If I trust the wrong bootstrap nodes, I can be eclipsed from the real network.

Right, but it's not about trust in the same way. I can add an infinite list of bootstrap nodes. Quantity matters, not quality.

> But PoS involves a very similar 1-of-n trust model; I can request checkpoints from n semi-trusted sources and check that they match.

"Very similar," not the same. You need "semi-trusted sources", and there's no objective standard in case they disagree.
Bad thing would be if the vaccine protects against it but not against a deadlier variant which would then become dominant. Et voilà we created our own doom.

edit: Why is this flagged? Because the evidence of mildness is insufficient or are people angry that we might be able to roam freely again? I am starting to get doubts that it is the latter...
what's waze?
People buying NUCs are not buying Raspberry Pis. Different use cases.
https://www.no-thanks-extension.com

Can't recommend it enough. There's no extension for Safari on iOS yet but it's so worth it.
In the context of the article, if you are trying to keep foreign processes "off my cores" then you can't neglect to keep them off the adjacent hyperthreads, because those share some of the resources. If you have 8 threads on 4 cores then at least the way Linux counts them cores 0 and 4 are sharing some caches and all backend execution resources. So if you have isolated core 0 but not core 4 you might as well have not done anything at all.
Elon actually makes major decisions on engineering too e.g. switch from carbon to steel.

Or pushing the idea of catching payload fairing and now boosters.

Especially catching boosters is the type of crazy stuff that only Elon would have stomach to try.
Maybe because Mozilla collects a massive amount of "telemetry" on users, in a way that is personally identifiable, despite zero need for it to be so?

https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/t...

Or maybe it's because you can toss some money at Mozilla and they'll silently install a browser extension on behalf of an advertising company for a shitty TV show about a l33t haxx0r d00d?

By the way, the bugzilla report about that particular incident was locked, then made employee-only, then made public again...then restricted beyond employee-only...by a project manager...who used to work for advertising companies before she came over to Mozilla.

Or how about the fact that flipping on some of the anti-tracking features include munging the timezone, which means times in almost any website are wrong - which seems to be a poison pill to keep people from turning it on?

Edit with details regarding the extension controversy: https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16784628/mozilla-mr-robo...
Shot very well by reputation!
Even if such a vaccine was developed, our current reality shows that not enough people would take it.
The original Fraunhofer MP3 player, Winplay3, had settings to reduce decoding quality - which helped a lot on my 486.

https://youtu.be/vzQT4qkC-gk?t=110
I'll take Things That Will Never Happen for $400, Alex.
I adore Gemini, but what I’m imagining here is something that serves a wider range of web use cases, which Gemini does not support, by design.
This is a pretty uninformed take. There are all sorts of projects made in crypto: collectibles, music, art, gaming, loans, mortgages, debit cards with rewards, social media, wifi networks, anti-fraud, food security, etc. And many projects have a large donation component to them.
Complexities of Software Estimation
> the new lead developer wanted to rewrite everything. Using all kinds of object-oriented methodologies. The older code was all C based and very simple.

A tale as old as time.
LSP is trash compared to intellij's tech

it is night and day..

i don't understand how people believe LSP is perfect, it is not, the API is broken, it missing a ton of stuff and as a result client implementations are often broken
Boost is only offering replacement SIM cards, not phones, at least in the case of my Moto G7 Play and my spouse's old iPhone.
Bitcoin benefits drug users and dealers every single day, and have been doing it for almost 10 years. May be in US it's different, but there's just no street drug trade anymore around here. If you want to buy weed, you have to buy bitcoin, in some shape or form.
The problem with Python's map and filter (and how we might fix it)
Wrong. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about new works from the original artist getting a boost for being by the original artist and not some random person.
Was it plan or execution? I understand he had some very aggressive performance targets to hit too.
Language models have the same defect - they are quite brittle and susceptible to black-box adversarial attacks ( eg arxiv.org/abs/1907.11932 )
This is assuming you have a trusted editor who can make updates (or that you trust everyone who needs access to make reasonable edits).
I once had to squeeze CPython down for embedding into a mobile app. I ran our workload under strace so I could include only the needed parts of the stdlib, and ended up with just under 3MB zipped. That's probably about the theoretical size limit.
> no cgo

If you're not careful, you will use c code when using os/user and net according to https://www.arp242.net/static-go.html.
Winamp has a plugin for Orchestra 80/85/90 files, which to the best of my knowledge, VLC does not. Wouldn't be surprised if this were the case for many 8-bit era music formats. The time period in which Winamp came to prominence was when there were still lots of people with a foot in the 90s (and 80s) without it necessarily being retro nostalgia.
What's your evidence that Twitter's market is significantly larger?

Non-tech people sometimes ask me whether they should get on Twitter. I ask them why they might want it, and very often my answer is, "No, don't worry about it." And that's coming from somebody who uses Twitter enough to have two separate accounts plus a Twitter bot (sfships).

Twitter, like HN, is a niche social network. [1] Twitter's niche is much larger, of course. But I don't think it makes much sense to compare it to FB, whose target market is "anybody with friends or relatives".

[1] Technically, I'd call it a multi-niche network, in that it gets the most publicly active segment of people in a whole bunch of social groups. For example, tech people is has are the sort most likely to write books and articles, speak at/go to conferences, etc. But if you're the sort of workaday programmer who punches a clock at a bank and pays no attention to the industry, Twitter doesn't do much for you.
When “Pentium” was the name of the very most precious metal one could obtain
Ahead of the 2022 elections, Facebook’s toxicity is rearing its head again
> We’re building Winamp for the next-generation.

The incorrect hyphen is just irritating as well.
Browsing history is something which is very easy to deanionymize so I do not buy that defence. What they did was inexcusable, but again both Microsoft and Google are more evil. I run Firefox, but only as the lesser evil.

Edit: 1% is 1% too many if you have a company which claims to care about the privacy of their users. Especially since browsing history is very sensitive and easy to deanonymize.
There are a lot of communities that have patron only Discord channels/servers. Some implement this gatekeeping through proving ownership of a specific amount of a given crypto or a NFT. FWB and BAYC are examples.

https://www.fwb.help

https://boredapeyachtclub.com
Here is Brendan Eich’s HackerNews comment on the topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1905155

(2010, he was still at Mozilla)
Wow. People were speculating that this was a ruse by Qatar to get out of contracts with Airbus.

After seeing the images, that's no ruse. And that appears to be a bit more than "cosmetic".
> What's the long-term play that I'm missing?

Bet: They’re building the core for all of their future products.

Start free, gain momentum, have “pro” addons, slowly start offering products like WebStorm but built on top of Fleet.
> In the mountains of Italy, drivers give a short honk before entering a turn on a serpentine road,

This was common in Puerto Rico when I visited.
Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal Will Replace Jack Dorsey as CEO
LSP servers and code formatters are often written in JS.
Bitcoin Miners Adopt Liquid Immersion Cooling
> The “fake” chain would lose all honest verifiers (and all transactions from honest wallets?) which seems like it would be pretty detectable with simple statistical analysis. Staked nodes not participating (and active wallets not transacting) becomes less and less likely the longer the post-fork chain is.

But you don't know who's honest - you may as well be saying the real chain lost all the dishonest verifiers.
It's a ponzi scheme
Would you critique Musk in a similar way?

Honest question, because it's eerie how you could swap Dorsey for Musk and the statements would still apply but seem much less true.
I remember looking into this stuff around 2005, being intoxicated regularly (marihuana). What a waste of time. Anyway, I remember Icke plugging this fellow Credo Mutwa [1], some kind of shaman from South-Africa. The name sticked with me, cause I'm Dutch, and Mutwa kinda sounds like '<name> moet wa(t)' which in my mind jokingly meant "he's gotta earn a livin' somehow".

All kidding aside, lunatics. Just reading his Wikipedia page (I'll plug it once more [1]) sheds enough light in the BS. Though, as long as you take it for what it is (fiction, comedy, propaganda?) its all good entertainment. Problem is, for most followers, it isn't entertainment... there's probably hordes of people not using safe medication, birth control, vaccines because of fellows like this :-(

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vusamazulu_Credo_Mutwa#%22Rept...
Today the most visually and child unfriendly aspect of the website is the dropdown asking you to approve cookies :)
Certainly there are different perspectives. I think many people don't trust that we have the ability to change the Constitution to suit modern American culture without ruining it. But it's also arguable that we could do much to clarify modern interpretation of principles that aren't as obvious given the dramatic shift in technology between 1789 and today.
Mumbai Terrorist Attacks – Interview with John Spencer
My hero. If I was not on Linux I feel like I'd be on the same boat. On Linux I use mocp which is a console-based directory-based player, so pretty much the same thing.
All of which don't "benefit anyone but the people that invented it and the savvy traders trying to make a buck". He got it right the first time, and you are just falling for the dishonest rationalisations of crypto scammers.
"supports the smallest number of features out of any browser."

This is a bit like saying India has the smallest number of people in countries named China or India.

It's still an enormous number of features, and it is simply extraordinary what is capable in the browser.

"this is reflected in all the developer surveys"

Remember "Made for IE"? IE was dogshit, yet there were loads of devs who thought ActiveX was the bee's knees and having to deal with other browsers and platforms was just an annoyance in their lives.

Developer surveys on this are worthless, and if we listened to developers as a group it would be an entirely Windows world.
>but I've never quite understood why Mozilla got such a hard time from users about telemetry

Telemetry includes personal information such as IP address and some people are (rightfully) concerned about it. Also we do not know for sure what is done with this data, as Firefox server side code (the one that processes the telemetry) is not open source (and even if it was it would not be a guarantee).

> Okay, did you enable the telemetry that lets them know you use it?

There would be no problem if Firefox shipped as a zero-telemetry browser, and all telemetry was opt-in. This would remove all doubt and if you want to send Firefox data you can choose to do so.

However that is not the case. Significant amount of telemetry is enabled by default. Choosing to go for opt-out vs opt-in is what is hurting Mozilla's credibility here.

What then happens (and I am speculating here) is that this behavior triggers most power users in a negative way (for various reasons, one of them being simply using your bandwidth and resources for telemetry and noone likes having a slower browser) so they do their best to disable it. This in turn leaves Mozilla with data that does not include most of its power user base, the one that actually has most impact on Firefox market share (because as 'techies' they install the browser for their family and friends). The crippled data leads to crippled product decisions, which in turn makes power users even angrier and thus we witness the death spiral of user attrition that Firefox is currently in.
I wouldn't say that plumbing was the biggest issue. A big limiting factor was the control systems available then. I believe a couple of the N1 failures were caused by control system failures. With modern controls you can monitor and control each engine with much more granularity.
That makes no sense whatsoever.
I'm surprised other music software or streaming sites don't have visualizations.
Norwegian changed via a language reform a few decades ago. "Fem og sytti" used to be the norm (we inherited some of the Danish rules with the reverse numbers, but not the "halvfjerds" bit (which is effectively "half and four times 20")), and was still common well into the 80's-90's. I learned the new form at school, but picked up the old form from my parents.
Peasants were an investment back when peoole were poperty
I’ve been thinking about that. I think it’s a good assumption that people will enjoy jokes more that they are surprised by. As a corollary, in the limit, you get absurd humor where the punchline is by definition not predictable.
Consistent Hash Algorithm and Go Implementation
As a manager, yes it did. Managers are simple people. All they do most of the time is try to figure out who is critical and who is expendable (invest or tolerate). While it's not the only path to the invest bucket, putting out a fire in the middle of the night is a quick way to land there. It's often a good way to prove yourself in early career scenarios when you don't have a ton of architectural pull power.
Satellite reveals Australian coal mines emit much more methane than expected
Is this no longer an unproven hypothesis? My impression was there’s just a lot of correlation evidence.
Ask HN: Where do you search for remote jobs?
I've been primarily browsing indeed which is okay but I feel as if there are better option that I'm not aware of. Where do you search for jobs?
At work I've had to create a model to rank our products and was searching for implementations and working examples of Learn To Tank models (especially with lightGBM examples). There are actually very few tutorials out there. I understand the theory but there are a thousand questions I had about the implementation and the data preparation and could not find the answer on the internet.

It was quite surprised given how much Machine Learning has been blog spammed.
Do you want to be surveilled?

We promise it's anonymized.
Ask HN: Are managed DB so important?
In the past I've been deploying everything (application + DB) in the same server for small projects. I didn't have the need to split the DB into another server, but I think it wouldn't be a big issue.

The think is that I will start something that I hope it will become a SME -I know for sure it won't be Internet Scale-, but people tell that using a managed database is a must.

My question is:

Given that I am already proficient with Linux, and my cloud service makes automatic snapshots (besides other rsync backup I do), Is it really such a big deal?
Good riddance, but if history is a guide then an even more awful human being will head that toxic garbage of a company.
Great idea and fyi the how to play link in the game points to a wrong url in your github wiki.
No, it most certainly can't.

The flu, like all viruses like it, mutates quite rapidly.

It'll just mutate in response to the "one shot" to get around it.

So, "one shot" will turn into multiple... oh wait... we do that every flu season, and it's a never-ending game of cat and mouse.
Maybe someone has the answer to the main reason I'm not using Firefox:

Is there a (sane) way to map Cmd+D to highlight the URL bar? I was trying to do this about a year ago but it proved insanely complicated. I managed to update omni.ja in v80 but then couldn't anymore in v80.0.2 (plus this would get annoying quick to do frequently).

In Chromium this is easy since the there's a menu entry for it ("Open Location...") so I can natively create custom mappings for it, but I refused to retrain my muscle memory for Cmd+L so I went back to using Brave. :|
Actually I can assure you Strava does have a check for this because I've been hit by it before when accidentally forgetting to stop the activity before loading up my bike and driving home. It flags the activity and forces you to edit your route to remove the offending section.
I wonder why are they so insistent on installing a SIM card?
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I think the secret is having some really stellar #2’s. Gwynne Shotwell Does wonders for space-x giving Elon the space to focus on the non-boring next-gen stuff. Jack had the same with Sarah Friar at Square but she left for Nextdoor. He also used to have Anthony Noto doing the company building at Twitter but he left for Square? But honestly, Elon’s probably an anomaly and no one else could match that ethic and sprawl
The good ol hypothetical shot. If only people would take this shot that doesn't exist yet.
At the very least, the E-Bike is far more efficient at moving a single human than using an entire car.

Moving one person using a ~1500-2500kg vehicle with an internal combustion engine with ~25% efficiency, ignoring all the fuel source logistical inefficiencies.

Compare the E-Bike, at let's say 20kg of bike and 80kg of human, so 100kg, having the energy come from even dirty power plants it will still have been far more efficient and use less energy to move the human the same distance on the e-bike.

Also consider that many (and in some countries all) e-bikes are ped-elec, or electric assist, not entirely electrically motivated, and it's looking pretty good for the e-bike!
As someone who for quite awhile almost exclusively used Chromium based browsers and then coming back to only using but actually appreciating using Firefox I approve and very much agree with this message.
Poking around it looks like it is using jquery, which initially came out in 2006. So I'm guessing it has been updated over the years. I wonder what it looked like in 1995.
Ask HN: SaaS marketing channels for bootstraped lean budget?
Any tested/tried tips and resources for enterprise SaaS Marketing?
What Growth Hacking "must-do" strategies you recomment?
I use it because I never stopped using it. I love the classic gray on black modular UI (it looks like high end stereo equipment). Winamp has all the features I want, and nothing has come along that compelled me to stop using Winamp altogether. Since it's the same old Winamp, it's incredibly light and fast.

I'll use Foobar2000 and VLC from time to time (Foobar's conversion and bulk tagging are great). I've tried using them full-time instead of Winamp, but they just don't feel right.

EDIT: I love how there's an 'active playlist' of what's playing now, and additional saved playlists in the library, and can move/copy entries between them. It's probably accidental design of adding a library later, but I haven't found another player that shows multiple playlists side-by-side without customizing it into something else.
> IE was dogshit, yet there were loads of devs who thought ActiveX was the bee's knees and having to deal with other browsers and platforms was just an annoyance in their lives.

I don't think that's true.

There were loads of devs that thought that ActiveX was the quickest route to the best experiences for the largest market segment and having to deal with other browsers and platforms was something the people signing paychecks cared less about, if at all.
Pinning services exist, VPN's exist, also every other technology including torrents exposes your IP.
We don't have a vaccine that reliably kills coronavirus in "one shot", so we don't really know. For the vaccines that work, uptake is much higher than that for the covid jab.
San Francisco convinced thousands of people to adopt storm drains
James Webb Space Telescope cleared for late December launch
> This practice is abusive because it subverts the agreement that one will exchange their labor for pay within a defined set of hours (8 hours per day)

But for salaried employees, this isn't the agreement. I sometimes work four hour days. Sometimes I work odd hours. The agreement, for salaried employees, isnt about hours, it's about work getting done.

If someone consents to that, swell! I think many companies are abusive in that they don't compensate oncall work enough, but salaried oncall positions aren't inherently more abusive then having a lawyer on retainer.
While I agree that Musk’s hockey stick stocks mean removing him would piss of the people who could remove him, removing Dorsey because twitter isn’t a great stock seems weird. Stock matters for fundraising and for compensation, and as long as that stuff is working, the rest of the stock considerations should be secondary. Obviously they aren’t secondary to investors and investors have disproportionate power, but it still seems stupid.
Parag Agrawal is new Twitter CEO
Yes, I also hate Java so much!
3 months ago....

"Qatar Airways grounds 13 Airbus A350s as fuselage degrading"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28098888
Sounds like we need an archive.org archive
https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/object-storage/

S3 on OVH.
Here’s the developer https://www.laniche.com .
Their other websites don’t seem to be as laggy but there is a theme of animating *every* element and embedding videos.
Yeah, if you just want a text editor and not an IDE, you probably shouldn't be using an IDE. Those things that are "just not" helpful to you are very helpful to others.

Personally, I very much want an actual IDE for a lot of my work. So I'm happy to buy a fast machine with plenty of RAM and then give the IDE a good chunk of it. But I'm glad they're making Fleet for folks with other preferences, and I'm sure I'll be using it myself when I just need to open one or two files and make quick edits.
Mozilla is a terrible organization and Firefox is a joke
LOL same. It's absolutely wild how that's an automatic response.
It's basically a perfect music player. Lightweight, fast, runs on every version of Windows 95+, great playlist manager, skins, and has extensive plugins which support any music file format.

Why continue the search for perfection once it's been found?
Lack of modern feature support? This is beyond parody.

"What point are you trying to make here? iOS users have no choice but to use Safari."

Android users use the browser on their device -- any browser -- less than iOS users use their browser(s).

Read the Google corporate propaganda repeated on here, and other platforms provide a web bliss of PWAs, freed from app subservience. Only, not at all.
What are your performance requirements?
Funny, I had a similar reaction. The wording is just strange. Like on Reddit when bots are trying to create fud.
> stock popped 10%

stock is back to where it was a week ago, and is still lower than most of the year. These headlines are meaningless.
Can OK it not just mean, “it’s OK to honk”