skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are certainly large with their own Datacenter, along with Oracle which is growing fast. But they are not HyperScalers. At least not by first and common analytical definition of it. And no one in the same industry, ( Linode or DO ) would think of Softlayer and Hetzner and OVH are hyper scalers. The three names combined wouldn't be equal to Azure or GCP scale.

Even TecentCloud and Alibaba are relatively new addition to the term once people discovered their scale. Although generally speaking Hyperscaler used by industry analyst still dont include these two when they use the term.
Funny how they keep saying the same shit even when climate denying idiots come to power and try to shut them up.
That seems to be a decent strategy. Virus is endemic and you will catch it at some point. It isn't sure and probably unlikely that immunity against this variant would shield you from the others. Same problem the vaccine has in the end. If there aren't unknown long term effects, the idea doesn't seem to bad. I guess responsible doctors would always advise against this though because it would still be an experiment.
>Seems like government sponsored bullying is the default M.O. in Germany.

Yes it is, it's a bit like the CCP, if they think it's anything against them (truthfully or not) they bite first and second, then stop talking about it and hope everyone forgets. Works pretty well for everyone directly involved...so no pressure to change anything.
Today is the 40th anniversary of the release of the BBC Micro in the UK.
> ie learn a bunch of esoteric commands (:Git blah) so that you don’t need to remember the other set of original commands

I use fugitive, but haven't remembered these commands. I map what they do to shortcuts of my choosing e.g. \gad = git add; \gco = git commit; \gpus = git push etc.
That’s not entirely true - they attracted a specific crowd hyped by politics.
I'm personally a bit more interested in computer chess, but find it very interesting how engines are used for preparation in human chess.

You might think that engines make opening preparation trivial: just play what the engine recommends. However, that misses a critical point. To simplify a bit, engines (whether neural network or classical engines) always play with the implicit assumption that they play against the best response of an equally strong opponent. But in human chess, the strategy is not just to make objectively good moves, but also to give your opponent a chance to make mistakes.

For example, Stockfish's search doesn't distinguish between a move where the opponent has an obvious answer, and a move where you need very deep calculation to find the correct response. Mathematically, both moves are equally good. Strong human players would, of course, always prefer the line that's more "difficult" to play for the opponent.

Therefore, in opening preparation, the goal is to find moves that are both:

* objectively "good enough" (that is, they don't immediately lose if the opponent happens to know or find a good answer)

* difficult/confusing enough for a world championship contender to give you at least the chance to gain an advantage

Finding such lines with engine help is to my understanding an important part of the work of seconds. Not only does that take a lot of time, you also need to be very good yourself to make realistic judgements about what a top player might or might not find over the board.
Last month a few people on a single HN thread were angry with them.

Sorry, I find it a bit annoying when people make broad conclusions about a large group of people while ignoring sampling bias.
How to Consume COPD CBD Gummies?

COPD CBD Gummies << Reviews >> COPD CBD Gummies is a new and better CBD supplement that would assist you with dealing with your pressure, uneasiness, and despondency level rapidly. by utilizing this oil supplement, you can emphatically battle your persistent aggravation, muscle agony, and joint torment rapidly.

Click Here @ :- https://www.westword.com/storyhub/copd-cbd-gummies-ripoff-or...
https://www.facebook.com/COPD-CBD-Gummies-109194574869891
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/copd-cbd-gummies-ab1...
https://www.spreaker.com/show/copd-cbd-gummies-view
https://kit.co/COPD-CBDGummies/copd-cbd-gummies
https://copd-cbd-gummies-info.jimdosite.com/
https://sites.google.com/view/copd-cbd-gummies-store/home
https://copd-cbd-gummies-view.yolasite.com/
https://www.homify.in/projects/1061987/copd-cbd-gummies-revi...
I've lived all over the place, and spent my childhood in SE Asia. While aspects of the respective cultures are more reserved about PDAs than the US, hugs were commonplace between friends and family of all ages, not just kids or spouses, pretty much everywhere. Some people don't like it, and that's fine and should be respected. But as far as I experienced, both personally and by observation, the majority do.
That is fair. I too have met Chinese that are anti-govt/anti-CCP (though nowadays they seem to be a minority). And yes I also recognize that there are still many problems that need solving.
Fork is fantastic, plus it’s nice to have a piece of quality software that doesn’t require a subscription. That said, if they released a new major version I would likely pay for it because I’ve been very happy.
Unlike Musk, they were asked to help by officials in charge because they were the best at what they do. What they had just achieved was an unbelievable feat rescuing those boys.

The place was already a media circus but Elon decided to involve himself anyway and complicate the situation because he read about it in the news?

So when the actual heroes of the story are asked questions about the annoying tech billionaire who wanted to try out one of his 'new toys' in such a high pressure situation, they didn't mince words. It was a stupid idea, and he said as much.

Apparently this hero (and I mean HERO, not some cliche) was supposed to be more diplomatic to the sensitive self serving tech billionaire who injected himself into the story, did nothing but promote his own image and then slandered the actual people who performed the rescue.
A story arc is just an extremely traditional storyline, isn't it?
Tigers are protected species. And if wolves are a threat to us, then we are as relevant as wolves.
> The performance Julia provides without interfacing C/C++ or Fortran is not just a convenience, it has architectural consequences.

These statements set the expectations really high. Yet they omit the ugly truth of increasingly slow compilation times, pure compilation caching, JIT which might affect overall performance due to type instability.

Yeah, like Haskell has a nice Quick-sort example prominently displayed at the front page, Julia is sleek for scientific computing, yet it can bite you really bad as soon as you start wrapping the developed model into a real world REST app.

Do not get me wrong, I see some of the benefits of Julia. On the other hand, I do not think this uncritical hype about "coding 'further'" does good for the language.
Using a Tiling Window Manager on macOS
PTK v7.5.1 – now with reporting feature
Harmonix, Developer of Rock Band, Joins Epic Games
"A truly 'mobile' phone"

Phone has wheels
Motto of many technical posts on Hacker News front page.
The most important point, that I enjoyed watching it, was still there.
"Package speedups on Windows are expecially nice for me in this release."

This is huge! Despite my best efforts Julia as been practically unusable on Windows. There are lots of people at work who could probably replace Matlab with Julia, but this has been a complete showstopper.
As long as they have people they’ll continue. Maybe we’ll be surprised by someone that hasn’t been on the radar at all until now?
my mom :)
Dialing could charge the batteries.
I'm also from the UK, and I do enjoy a hug, but some of my friends really don't like them. If I'm hugging a woman, and they lean their cheek into me, then I will give them a kiss on it. However, it can have some very awkward and funny moments.
Cool product, awful website.
I'd fall into this explanation if I didn't need to post yesterday a sign-up form for my daughter's school.
I think the activism is because companies are already trying to push back hard against it, when actually it should be a matter of personal preference.

For lab work I can see why wfh is not an option, but for software development and lots of other work that could be done from home the decision should in principle lie with the employee, whatever works best for them, assuming that they are able to function like that.
I was hoping to see some link between labor and demand. Wouldn't more employed people or higher salaries translate to increased demand? By that inverse, if demand is decreasing, does that mean less employed people or stagnating/lower wages?
It isn't Facebook, it's us
Emerging strategies for treating metastasis
It really depends on your threat model, and can definitely be of benefit when complementing other good security practices.
Strictly speaking, programming language standards don't guarantee timings, so the compiler could always insert branches in surprising ways. In some (admittedly rare) cases, they actually do. Some high-level languages like Python don't have constant time arithmetic at all. (On the other hand, having arbitrary precision integer by default makes prototyping very easy. SAGE is based on Python for a reason.)

The CPU on the other hand is more reliable: while every branch it takes will have variable timings, arithmetic timings are almost always independent from the content of the operands. There are two important exceptions to this:

- If your CPU doesn't have a barrel shifter, the timings of arithmetic shifts depends on by how many bits you shift. That's why modern cryptographic primitives now shift by constant amounts, unlike RC4.

- Some small CPUs have variable time multiplication. 64-bit multiplication is the worst, because you need compiler support to emulate it on 32-bit platforms and smaller.

On modern desktop/laptop/palmtop CPUs, all you care about are secret dependant branches and secret dependent indices in your generated binary code. And that is pretty easy to test with Valgrind. Replace your secret inputs by uninitialised blobs of data, see how it reacts: if Valgrind complains about a jump or indirection depending on uninitialised data, you may have a problem (you'll have at least one in the case of verifiers). If it doesn't complain however, you're good.
Thanks for checking it out!
Yeah, like you I made it for personal use :)

Thank you!
> The best work environment is working in close proximity with other people who are all in the same time zone as you, who can tell by looking at you that you're too busy to bother at the moment.

I think that is a matter of personal preference. I - and my colleagues - hail from al over Europe and even though we miss seeing each other in person the productivity is up tremendously compared to pre-pandemic and the lack of travel, positive contribution to climate impact and extra time not wasted on travel have been an definite plus. But I fully appreciate that that is not for everybody.
That seems like the bits most post-war scholars would be interested in? I'd be more surprised if there were a lot of marks in the Nazi laws about the church.
1) This is not "new syntax"; syntactically the language is exactly the same. It's just reordering of statements for clarity / maintainability.

2) Better languages don't have fall-through in the first place. The whole idea is just utterly weird.
It's pretty obvious that this whole "email everybody you know" method to find candidates has some serious selection biases. In particular, you're more likely to get referrals to people who are in the industry and have proven themselves, which clearly isn't a bad thing in and of itself, of course. However, I'd be concerned that this sort of thing just selects for people who are like the people that you know already. That doesn't seem like a solid strategy when what you want is actually the best available people who are willing to come work with you. How would you design a recruiting process to attract those people?
This was it. Can't paint a room full of stuff. And you don't want to sleep in a freshly painted room either.
Any notable changes?
Been using Supabase for a while and love it. It’s got that feel of a really well thought out service where things just work how you’d want it to and new features arrive that you actually want and make life easier. It’s one of a handful of companies I saw and immediately wished I could invest in.

This announcement doesn’t really matter to me since I really like having a hosted service. But it’s good to know it’s future proof - ie if Supabase go out of business or a project takes off and I want to self host with all the good stuff then I can.
PEP 674 – Disallow using macros as l-value
The Hideo Kojima of animation
It is actually pretty easy to see why we don't find evidence of galaxy-spanning civilization.

Civilizations may be presumed to arise often enough. They sort more-or-less neatly into sedentary and expansionist bins. Statistically, the former are much older, and thus may be presumed to have, typically, access to much more mature technology. The latter are, statistically, young. Sooner or later any of the latter will seek to engulf one of the former, and be destroyed by its superior, mature tech--if not the first time, then the second, or nth time. Odds are, then, that an expansionist civilization has a fatal encounter with a sedentary before it gets to us, and is curtailed. This leaves the galaxy filled with ancient sedentary civilizations disinclined, by definition, to visit us, and random small, young, short-lived empires with curtailed reach.
South African talent marketplace OfferZen gets $5.2M to deepen European growth
Fun game.
Troll those being morons by mapping their domain names to the ip addresses of the domains they want blocked.

If anything it would be funny to see what creative means the morons come up with to try and stop them.
You mean... binocular?
Actually this could be quite useful for parents who may have conditions like epilepsy or diabetes or something else where they could slip into states of unconsciousness or incapacitation. The kid could be taught from an early age to ring 911 or 999 or some other emergency number listed here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emergency_telephone_nu... (what a anti-NWO list of numbers)
and hopefully get the appropriate service just by using their Fisher Price phone.
We read and hear about kids calling the emergency services all the time so I wonder how long before we get the first Fisher-Price mobile phone emergency call, which news organisations will be the first to run with it?
WTF Is Wrong with Open Source Communities?
That's insane. Excel definetly didn't sound like the right tool for that job
I'm in the same boat with an older Firefox -- JavaScript is either on or off.

I generally keep it off while browsing for information.

When I'm doing local dev or working with trustworthy sites only, I turn it on.

After a while, the process of toggling it is almost automatic, though it still takes a few clicks and typing.

As I mentioned earlier, I've grown to avoid sites which tell me JS is required, and have found that it's mostly a good thing, because that type of design usually correlates with poor quality content, so they're really doing me a huge favor by denying me.
"Department Of Corrections" is a little Orwellian, a little Pythonesque. I can imagine a little old lady in a tweed suit going around town and correcting the spelling of shop signs and graffiti with a red marker.

It's rather more unpleasant in real life though. Why not just call it "Department of Prisons" and be over with it? It's like how in Greece we have the "Ministry for Protection of the Citizen", which is responsible for sending riot police to teargas pensioners and club teachers on the heads when they demonstrate. It used to be the "Public Order Ministry" but everyone made the obvious joke about it ("Public disorder"). So we need police and a mininster to supervise them? Call it "Ministry of Police". Why beat around the bush? For the sake of whom?
As this is a regex->DFA implementation I wonder how it compares to Google RE2 [1]

there are nice performance comparisons to glibc, rust regex and cl-ppcre, but re2 was missing from that list.

[1] https://github.com/google/re2
The article can have two pay-offs:

- People who know some category theory can sharpen their knowledge of it. They can ask followup questions, like does the Fibonacci sequence have a left adjoint? The answer is yes, which is what the top comment on this HN page talks about.

- People who don't know category theory might use this to learn some. In which case, we have a case of number theory having applications to category theory rather than the expected converse, which would be category theory having applications to number theory.
Assembly Nights
Presumably they've only heard the variant "My friend told me his coworker was hurt. I hope he or she is ok". /sarcasm
Going to be very different in React 18
"Holding any cash in any quantity is a risk."

As usual, some people want to undergo this risk in order to balance out other risks. For example, your bank account can be frozen under a variety of scenarios, even unjustly so. In such situation, it is better to have emergency cash at hand.

Diverse investments are good, but some liquidity is good as well. If you e.g. need to escape a starting civil war, things that can be carried on a person and have near universal acceptance are more valuable than a roll of blue chip stocks or a nice house that you cannot take with you. I have met people who escaped the siege of Sarajevo; cash and gold went a long way helping them out.

"As for cash only society, sorry but fuck that. "

That isn't something I proposed.
Project Starline: A high-fidelity telepresence system
Github takes down the repo -> authors host it in a country whose copyright laws are not written by billion dollar companies.

I wish all russians a great day. Allowing this mentality to take a foothold in other parts of the world would be a major loss to humanity as a whole.
EEVblog 1439 – Analysing Veritasium's Electricity Misconceptions Video
How can starlink operate without a ground station in India? Every receiver needs to act as a ground station or you cannot send traffic. If the receivers are unlicensed, running one would be a legal risk.
And locks are only for keeping honest people honest.

That's why we build defense in layers. The obscurity layer is extraordinarily effective for the effort it requires. It also keeps log files clean!
there's also this: https://github.com/asvetliakov/vscode-neovim
Derivative of line parallel to floor is zer0.
I wanted to use supabase for one of my pet projects, but, unfortunately, the egress fee is just way to high, $0.09 per GB. I am not sure if it is viable for any serious project.
Haha that's great
The published paper that the article talks about is open access and actually has photos

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000169182...

The two hug styles are about the way the arms are crossed
Also, evolution isn't "complete". It's not done optimising. And sometimes, some things evolve and there just isn't enough evolutionary pressure to remove stuff that does't hurt. Men have nipples.
Yeah. And the PUA where it tries to eke out it's meager existence seems to have been occupied by some squiggly drawing set (), at least on my system when looking at the wiki page.
and also that the government was subsidizing the programs when the companies complained about the added costs.
Agree. Maybe they may consider going the crowdequity route for their next raise.
Postgres Studio – A Postgres Tool by Supabase Is Now Open Source
The psychopath is their own worst enemy here. Never buy a gold car. Gold is hard to see, especially peripherally (which is why it's so hard to find a gold ring if you drop it).
Even if we assume that aliens have our exact mentality, we figured out to not genocide the Sentinelese. Why the aliens can't figure out as much?
Show HN: BeforeDo – Search engine is a garbage pile, so i made a Service Engine
PyWebIO seems similar: https://github.com/pywebio/PyWebIO, it can turns python command line script into web with only very small change.

And PySimpleGUI mainly for Desktop: https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI
was about to comment the same thing. I teach future teachers, and I always say that_ everyone forgets their school math and chemistry lessons after cramming for the test. What sticks is learning how to survive in an unequal, dysfunctional system where you're the oppressed class, fighting among each other while you can't touch the people in power.
This was last updated on August 16, 2020. It should be tagged "[2020]"?

Also why is it being brought up now? Because of the DESQview thread?
What software do the seconds use to do deep dive research into the moves of specific players?
Anyone can fudge data to get a result that objective evidence doesn't support.

The more self-confident scientists might actually be more likely to fudge data - they can self-justify by thinking "this idea must be true, so even if I put fake data in now, it doesn't matter because eventually real data will emerge to support it"
>Again, “faith” is antithetical to science.

This is the point of using this word in this specific context. Scientism isn't science. Hope this helps.
That's an odd default to send it to the Internet...
Was hoping lazy git would perhaps help with a feature that tig lacks and I've only found via vim-fugitive. I.e. viewing the whole file between revisions https://s.natalian.org/2021-12-01/git-file.mp4
This happens when there is a glut of qualified candidates relative to demand - as there is for junior devs.

The more qualified applicants for every job the more hiring criteria will become increasingly arbitrary and subject to the interviewers whims.

I reckon this is where racism, sexism and other idiosyncratic personal biases also have the most room to flourish.

Take home tests are popular when there is a glut because the time cost of assessing the candidate can be shifted to the interviewee.
>language features will for sure limit the optimizations a compiler/interpreter can do

For example:

Common Lisp has a full numerical tower, meaning it will automatically convert fixed size numbers into bignums (and more cool stuff). This means that an addition has to branch if it can't prove that a result won't overflow from fixnum to bignum. Yes, C also needs to use bignums, but they're on an opt-in basis. In CL they're opt-out.

There are more examples of this, often related to the dynamism of your language. The more introspection a language is capable of, the less a compiler designer can do to cheat and optimize your program.
A cthulhu mythos story written by an AI trained on the Simpsons
> Damn you, ambiguous technobabble!

Well, you are the technobabbler... :-P
> This lack of diversity is unacceptable.

Open source contributors self-select. They have to put time in, usually for $0 and often without thanks. I don't know of any FOSS project who asks, or cares, about race or sex or anything else except code, or if the project is ill-maintained, at least your patch will get just as ignored regardless of your background.

The article reads like some (white) Karen who wants to talk to FOSS' manager, there isn't any.

If you think there should be more people sending patches or running FOSS projects, bring them, if their contributions are any good non-broken projects will be glad for them.
PCem has been all but abandoned, try 86Box instead.
https://86box.net
Wikimedia exploring the creation of a sound trademark for voice command devices
I know it makes me sound like a snob, but Ghibli has spoiled me. I don't enjoy Disney animated movies anymore, like at all.
I don't know how Fisher-Price manage to get the quality they do. No other toys in our house come close to being as unbreakable. The cash register I played with in the 80's is still working just as well as it did back then.
>my own Lantern

Brilliant reposte, but I am curious what software are you referring to here?