skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if you read the article, but literally every one of your points is clearly addressed
Open source contributors self-select.
> Yes, and if the environment is hostile to people of colour, or specific genders, they obviously won't contribute.

They have to put time in, usually for $0 and often without thanks
> Right. As the author states in a comment below the piece: "Open source work should be paid work, and, until it is, it shouldn't be a requirement to getting a job -- that only increases inequity when so much of the unpaid care work falls on those already minoritized by tech and open source."

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.
> So how do you explain all the research that tells you this isn't true? Such as this piece - https://peerj.com/preprints/1733/ - cited in the article.
I don't do HPC, just real time video encoding. It's never enough even with h264.
Is it done yet? ;-)
Depends on where you lose it. If it's in/at some place where you can buy something, people usually bring it there and you can get it back as soon as you notice. If it's the whole wallet, it's even easier (would be true for CCs then as well). But yeah, if you don't get it back, then it's gone. But to be honest, if I lose like 100-150€ once in 80 years because of that, then I can take it. I never have more than that in my wallet, unless I intend to buy something. (And that's also another benefit. Cash prevents against impulse buying and you spend your money better (you visually see how it's shrinking etc)).
>>> 1. Biology has never selected genes to maximize longevity, only to maximize healthy breeding. There are very likely tons of genes that make sense as a growing child but are harmful at a later age, e.g. a post menopause/vasectomy adult does not need the genes to create gametes but those same genes may be causing cancerous issues for some.

This is being debated, in the sense that there is a relationship between longevity and breeding. How ? For a human to be able to have kids every 2-3 years - instead of 6-7 in apes - older individuals have to be healthy enough to bring a calorie surplus to the mothers.
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Backpressure was a recurring topic at Basho. I thought I might find something from one of our engineers online, but instead I found these: a look at one client’s approach for using Riak, including how they implemented their own backpressure in front of it, and Fred Hebert‘s discussion on queues and backpressure.

- https://blog.booking.com/using-riak-as-events-storage-part4....

- https://ferd.ca/queues-don-t-fix-overload.html
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Any chance this will become open source? Would love to take a deeper look into it. Looks great though! And something that can use animated webp and do conversions!
+BugReport - Dragging multiple webps to add, just adds eg. 5 of the first img in dif rows. (Not tested other formats)
Could be. If you're willing to admit that it might go the other way as well then I'm fine with being skeptical on either side (In fact I encourage it).
The thing that always bugged me was that Offensive Security certifications basically have no official recognition within that system despite being difficult relative to the others (it's often on job posts for contractors though)
> No, that is not logically expected, because the entire concept of "profit" is collecting extra money on top of the cost to actually render the service.

In an ideal world, you are more efficient at the service you provide than the general population, and the profit comes largely from that efficiency reducing costs.

(Of course, we don’t live in an ideal world)
It's not remotely security or intended to be. Not everything needs to be locked down. Just because it's a number doesn't mean it's a PIN.
I've been hearing / seeing ads for this recently in Aus.

https://qualifyme.edu.au/rpl-skills-trade-recognition/

Pretty sure it's a revenue raiser and does fuck-all for anyone else.
Good to see a piece like this. It is well researched and considered. This comment thread, on the other hand, makes me want to nuke the entire tech community from space.
Yes, that's the problem. Graviton and M1 are competitive with x86. What about the rest of the ecosystem? Not so much. All the promising server projects have been canceled so far. You'll have to wait for Microsoft or Google to develop their own competitive ARM server CPU or migrate back to x86.
Why? Not hipster enough?
I think that's a toy safety thing, so that kids can't strangle themselves with it :-(
To add to all of the beep boop I am a computer person here is a feature table responses, Winamp was just damn fun. The silly llama intro, the skins, that miniature UI with fun EQ. Sure, you _can_ use VLC, or Foobar, but those are just tools that do a job.
Forcing a Non-Profit to block information just for "alleged" copyright infringement is the problem.

Does a DNS-Server from a Non-profit needs something like content-ID from youtube?

Or does a Non-profit DNS-provider needs hordes of lawyers just to check every single complaint in the future?

Would you like that?

Germany already has a law to block websites at ISP level, why bother a DNS provider with it? ...oh i know why, because it's not enough to block it, Sony knows it and the hordes of lawyers at telecom etc knows it, so you go after the easy prey.

That's the problem!
"If they're doing an investigation, they very likely got the employer involved in order to get more information on the person they're investigating"

What is an employer going to contibute, realistically. "Oh yeah, he always carries potassium nitrate and makes explosions during lunch breaks!"
I used to live in Germany and the letters I still get are nearly 80% from Germany. My local government just does things online and never bothers me with paper. It is quite amusing if it weren't this sad.

I wanted to vote in German elections but that requires me sending 2(!) letters because for some reason web forms don't exist.
Show HN: Load Testing with Real Browsers
That's because the target demographic can't buy it for themselves. It's aimed at being a Christmas present.
Take the nix pill
This is the best HN comment I have seen for quite some time.
I didn't see any certification bearer selling themselves as "experts", rather as a way to tell they know the basics - a way to compensate for lack of basic experience. On the other hand, with only little experience in a domain (let's say one project) there's no way you'd cover an entire curriculum, that's why for me a short experience is roughly equivalent to a certification exam. And even if you memorized a dump, that's a dump of answers to real world questions which you know now by heart, which is exactly the point of the exam. This goes for basic-level certifications. The "advanced" certifications are a different story - they must be doubled anyway with long time practical experience, so for those I see little value in cheating: if you tell me you're an advanced XYZ yet can't back that up with year(s) of project experience, sorry dear you took the exam (be it for good or from a dump) for exactly naught.
> This is the DESQview/X File Manager. It's not very friendly (no drag-and-drop and double-clicking an executable opens it in a hex viewer instead of running it) but it has enough functionality to be usable.

hex viewer :-)
What he said was not wrong. Why do better? I also wasted my time and learned nothing about how they achieved 25 GB/s with NFS. What were the bottlenecks? What did they fine tune? Was a plug-and-play type of benchmark?
Hello HN! Hassy from Artillery.io here. Load testing complex web apps is no walk in the park. If you've ever had to do it, you know. Traditional load testing tools are designed to work with API endpoints, whereas the concept of pages is a more natural way of thinking when testing web apps. A page may make calls to multiple endpoints, some of which may depend on in-page actions (and even in-page Javascript). Whereas APIs usually have specs (e.g. OpenAPI), pages usually don't. Trying to track it all down in something like Chrome DevTools can take ages. It's a mess.

So we thought, why not try load testing with real browsers instead? Especially if we can reuse existing E2E testing scripts we may already have? (based on Playwright) Playwright gives us an excellent API to run headless Chrome, and a way to record test scripts with "playwright codegen". Couldn't we try running thousands of browsers that way?

Turns out we can. :) That's what this project does. It's super early days, and I'd love any thoughts or feedback!
I love this, looks great
Only skimmed about half of the manifesto so far (so maybe they're getting to this), but: Wouldn't one practical difficulty be that Pi somehow magically shows up in a lot of formulas that aren't (directly, to the layman [like me]) related to circles and geometry? Then that would have to become 2 Tau everywhere, and in places where it's Pi squared it's 4 Tau-squared, etc. Buggers up a lot of stuff with unnecessary constants (like 2 and 4).

Otherwise, sure.
What about derivative-based regex?

I got worried at some point that some of the purported advantages of derivative-based regexes might be drawbacks. One such advantage/drawback is that it adds the complement operation into the language of Regex. But that gives you a way of deciding whether two regexes are equivalent, which is supposed to be PSPACE-COMPLETE, which ought to severely hamper finding an efficient implementation.
GPT-3 (and almost certainly also GPT-4) is not going to be capable of solving exam questions. I think you've got a radically exaggerated view of what it's capable of. It's a tool for generating roughly coherent text given a prompt.
> If you have four files starting with "A", one of which ends in .gz, typing "gunzip A" will suggest the .gz file.

Bash does this for me as well.
Would you consider this to be illegal as well?
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nikola-Zlatanov/publica...
"Microcode Update. Microcode is a hardware layer of instructions involved in the implementation of the machine-defined architecture. It is most prevalent in CISC-based processors. Microcode is developed by the CPU7 vendor and incorporated into an internal CPU ROM during manufacture. Since the infamous “Pentium flaw,” Intel processor architecture allows that microcode to be updated in the field either through a BIOS update or via an OS update of “configuration data.” Today an Intel processor must have the latest microcode update to be considered a warranted CPU. Intel provides microcode updates that are written to the writable microcode store in the CPU. The updates are encrypted and signed by Intel such that only the processor that the microcode update was designed for can authenticate and load that update. On socketed systems, the BIOS may have to carry many flavors of microcode update depending on the number of processor steppings supported. It is important to load the microcode updates early in the boot sequence to limit the exposure of the system to any known errata in the silicon. It is important to note that the microcode update may need to be reapplied to the CPU after certain reset events in the boot sequence. The BSP microcode update must be loaded before No-Eviction mode is entered."

There is also this walkthrough
https://igor-blue.github.io/2021/02/04/secure-boot.html

And here in the EU some sorts of reverse engineering is legal which will include microcode, but interpretation of law is a minefield in its own right, because no one can tell what mood a Judge or Judges might be in on decision day!
https://www.vidstromlabs.com/blog/the-legal-boundaries-of-re...
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>One of those moments where I can clearly delineate the person I was before watching from the person I was after.

I think I know what you mean, for me it was Kill Bill.

Its like something clicked in my head and I have understood what a good movie/story is. And I never just mindlessly watched a movie again.
> And when it is, the liner notes are usually lost in the process.

And sometimes the tracks themselves are inexplicably mangled: The digital versions (both streaming and for download) of Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series inexplicably leave out the between-tracks material on the live albums even though those bits are definitively part of the charme and appeal of that material.

Plus when ripping myself I get to choose how to handle that kind of gap material: Standard procedure seems to be to stick it onto the end of the preceeding track, whereas personally I've found that for live albums I tend to prefer having it combined with the following track.
Mobile SoCs are mute, they don't have any meaningful ways to communicate with the outside world.
A link is never too long for a HN comment
Telegram only uses end to end encryption for secret chats. All other chats are only encrypted on the wire with Telegram's keys. Your comment was encrypted on the wire to HN but that's not going to do anything to keep it away from the FBI. The majority of all Telegram messages are only secured by Telegram's unwillingness to cave to outside pressure. It's in plaintext as far as they're concerned.
I would say "being actively at war and shooting each other" counts as interaction.
You are conflating software compatibility with hardware availability.

Most ARM vendors sell the equvialent of an electric bicycle when what you need is a van and there are only two viable manufacturers of vans but the first one doesn't sell to companies and the second one requires you rent the van.
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I think you've got a radically under-exaggerated view of what it's capable of. It's fully capable of answering 98% of exam questions. It's even capable of producing working code from description, and much more.
The FBI is monitoring users - it's not a secret for a long time. Enough information has already leaked to the network to make it clear that this is not just a conspiracy theory. But, to be honest, I was surprised that each of the supposedly reliable messengers leaks data to the authorities. I was also surprised that I did not see the Utopia P2P https://u.is/en/ in the document. Maybe the only reliable application is one that stands for freedom of speech and anonymity and does not obey the authorities?
We are more detached from real life than ever.
Looks like Idiocracy was a documentary, not comedy.
> peer-to-peer technology (e.g. Bittorrent) with a distributed ledger (e.g. Bitcoin) and the social practice of sharing (e.g. Github)

2 out of 3 of those things (minus distributed ledger) has been around for about 20 years now. Y'know, The Pirate Bay and others?
That would be an obvious PR coup, but teaching a kid to use this instead of an actual phone is much less reliable in almost every way.
I suspected that you were using AWS as the cloud provider.

I went with Hetzner instead, and I manage my servers by myself. I have been looking for providers in case that things do get serious with the project, as I do not have the experience in system administration, but I could not find any good offerings with reasonable egress rates, as the project does transfer large amounts of data.
Promisio: JavaScript-style async programming for Python
Elon Musk says Raptor engine is a ‘disaster’ that could bankrupt SpaceX
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Yea, back in the 90s MCSE was a better investment and was actually a good way to get hired. I know lots of successful IT people today who got their first 'real' IT job thanks to earning their MCSE. Today I don't think they have the same value.
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That's not true in general.

Case in point:

https://icfp21.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2021-papers#event-over...

the key is that "elite" in science means "small", amongst other things. Any conference that accepts so many papers that not very attendant can visit every presentation is already not "elite" anymore.
Did someone at Fisher-Price forget to delete the page on April 2nd?
Portainer – open source Docker manager for multiple nodes
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I might have as well, but the egress fee also applies to the object storage.
You wouldn't think most large states have hacked apple's icloud backup servers 20 times continuously at this point?
I built an Ebay Bluetooth headset into a clunky kids mobile phone I got from a charity shop. Fun to use in public. Total cost £3.
What a dumb headline. From the same article:

> It’s hard to know for sure if SpaceX is truly in dire straights. SpaceX did not respond to a request for a comment from The Verge. Later today, Musk responded to coverage of the email, saying that bankruptcy is unlikely, but not impossible, if a severe global recession hits.

From Musk's mail itself:

> Unless you have critical family matters or cannot physically return to Hawthorne, we need all hands on deck to recover from what is, quite frankly, a disaster.

> The consequences for SpaceX if we can’t get enough reliable Raptors made is that we then can’t fly Starship, which means we then can’t fly Starlink Satellite V2 (Falcon has neither the volume nor the mass to orbit needed for satellite V2). Satellite V1 by itself is financially weak, whereas V2 is strong.

That sounds quite different from what the headline suggests.

Much better article here: https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/raptor-produc...
see also https://github.com/portainer/portainer
For detailed information on what XSS is, how it can be exploited and prevented have a look at the OWASP XSS description

https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/xss
how do I burn the note ?
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I work as a consultant. I'm certified on some GCP stuff.

Work pays us to study, take the exam and even pays a bonus if we pass.

Am I smarter as a result of that exam? No. But I'm easier to sell. Some clients ask directly for certifications, others ask leading questions to our sales people I think.

Would i put my certifications on every variation of my CV for any job I apply for? Probably no.

While I'm at it: Someone else here writes about instantly rejecting people because of shibbolets like certifications.

I'm fairly smart, well liked by colleagues and very well liked by customers. However I have been dumped in screening I don't know how many times, dumped during interviews etc for something nobody told me but now seems to be gone.

Well everyone who didn't take me seriously: Thanks! I'm now a consultant working somewhere else with someone who pays better. And I am very motivated to give your competitors an edge ;-)
> I would use this form if not naming my child, usually speaking to people who didn't know me, my child or my personal life very well.

There's a potential for ambiguity: we aren't sure "they" is a reference to the child.

"Early in the morning some people with toys passed by the house. My child told me they wanted this toy."
IMO those all provide a very particular, somewhat narrow perspective. I feel I can get a wider sense of what's going on from Twitter. As just one example, mainstream sources were quite blase about the COVID pandemic until very late, while other (it turns out more accurate) perspectives were available on Twitter.

(Edit: Well, w/ the partial exception of HN, of course!)
Niggers with attitude
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The media is also very pro-government so that helps.
julia> using Pkg

julia> Pkg.update()
I agree with some of the points you make

But I agree with Stan Druckenmiller that Bitcoin is a brand now and is an asset. It has finally found its purpose.

Also crypto for cross border transactions, unless regulations kill them

And DeFi for cross border finance, again regulation can kill this.
How the act of measuring a quantum particle transform it into an everyday object
End of exponential growth? I think it's the end of exponentially growing demand in developed nations. After all, we are getting older.

I don't know what is going to happen in developing nations but I know that the global economy (excluding developing countries) doesn't care about them or do something to accelerate their growth. The IMF for example would rather play debt blame games instead.
> They will when they're threatened by a gang of police officers.

At least that's better than normal people having to put up with that and pay for it. Now on to solve the next problem with police...
That's a Tesla
+1 Would also love for this to become open source!
I have the same distaste for moral busybodies that most on HN do, but I tend to use 'they' because the alternative expressions for when gender is unknown or irrelevant such as 's/he' or 'he/she' and similar are in my opinion a lot more jarring in written text. It's not necessarily a politically-motivated choice, I think it's often simply along the lines of 'this is the least awkward construct available to us'.
Physicists create time crystals with quantum computers
Telecom networks have a seriously complex back-end, that's what makes them better for larger areas than Wifi. A commercial mobile network typically has a few racks of machines below the antenna mast to run the radio systems, and then uses a fiber connection back to a mode central place to control those radios. In this case you're deploying (much smaller) local radios and AWS runs everything else in the cloud.
I think it was not mentioned that polygons too small to draw were always drawn as a single pixel, that's crucial to how Crash Bandicoot's eyes look.
Then it is probably because of my location.

That was part of why this message was unusually bad: they didn't even care to tell us if it was our device, our browser or where we connected from.
Ex-pat living in Germany: The only thing I don't care for other than the terrible customer service at restaurants and other places is Germany's stance on copyright and how militant they are about things. It's ridiculous. It's like the MPAA's wet dream.
Right? I mean, how can someone disagree with giving the most exploited members of our society a little bit more leverage?
At no point have I dismissed any expert.

Thanks for the quote tho, whats your point?