skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That assumes they will even find customers who want to launch that much stuff.

For a long time, the only fully loaded Starships will be carrying Starlink satellites, and maybe fuel for an orbital tank farm. The Starlink launches will be physically full, but not boosting even close to the advertised cargo weight capacity, because those Starlink sats don't pack in tightly enough. Eventually, people may start to think of things that can use up that much load capacity or volume (rarely both).

Suborbital freight will be a tricky business. It can take quite a lot more than 45 minutes to round up and pack enough freight to fill up a Starship, and to get it unpacked and distributed at the other end, so the 45 minutes aloft doesn't save as much time as you might expect. Same for passenger service: if it takes four hours to get everybody secured, and two hours to get everybody out to the curb after, you have to go pretty far to make it save enough time to be worth the extra cost.

So, in order to take advantage of the new capability, a lot of boring stuff has to be invented and fielded. Practical air freight needed, besides the aircraft, a custom shipping container design delivered to everybody with freight to ship, and cargo bay floors with rollers built in to get them on and off fast enough.
Not one generation ago white men produced nuclear missiles to level your cities and burn your children into ash. And the same for the soviet cities for what it’s worth. Should we cut white men a break?

Yes, probably, because the fact that they were white men was largely irrelevant. In the big picture at least.

Thinking communists are the enemy is just… so lame dude. You do not need to like communism. I don’t like communism. But with a tiny amount of geopolitical awareness, it becomes quickly apparent that nobody cares about communism. All of America’s actual adversaries, including russia, have abandoned communism in all but perhaps name and some branding. Communism was not the reason we had conflict with the Soviet Union. It was the fact that the Soviet Union was large, powerful, and aggressive.

Nobody cares. Saying communism is a mortal enemy is literally decades out of date.
If anyone else was curious, Sundar Pichai had not worked on Search prior to becoming CEO, it seems:

> Pichai joined Google in 2004,[8] where he led the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software products, including Google Chrome and Chrome OS, as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive. In addition, he went on to oversee the development of other applications such as Gmail and Google Maps. In 2010, Pichai also announced the open-sourcing of the new video codec VP8 by Google and introduced the new video format, WebM. The Chromebook was released in 2012. In 2013, Pichai added Android to the list of Google products that he oversaw.
I don't work there, but if I were an employee, I think I can hold out until bunny ears become a mandatory part of my uniform. /s
The Internet Is Dead: What's That Mean?
Thank you for your kind words. I hope you are right.
The problem with that is in large parts that Haskell 98 is very outdated, and so relatively basic and absolutely useful extensions are in the same pot as all the experimental stuff.

Haskell Prime, essentially the Haskell 98 successor, is supposed to fix that. The first thing I do in almost any Haskell project is enable a bunch of extensions that I consider absolutely essential[1]. Most or all of those should likely be incorporated into the new standard, and then the truly experimental stuff stands out as experimental again.

Unfortunately it seems that Haskell Prime efforts have slowed down, despite a very active Haskell community in total. I have not looked into details there, though.

[1] For example ScopedTypeVariables, where it's hard to imagine for me at least why this would not be the default.
1. That argument makes no sense at all.

2. If we could transplant eyes we absolutely would have eye donors and things would in fact be more equal in a good way.
One incomplete answer:

At the bottom, this lets you prove that you know a signature without revealing what that signature is. This idea has been used in anonymous credential systems---much like this one! In the cryptographic literature, the underlying idea goes back to David Chaum ("Blind signatures for untraceable payment," Crypto 1982) and as far as I know the first implementation was Camenisch and Lysyanskya ("An efficient system for non-transferable anonymous credentials with optional anonymity revocation", Eurocrypt 2001).

Even without the zero-knowledge property this idea is useful, essentially because the "K" in "SNARK" stands for "knowledge" (as in, argument of knowledge). In other words: a convincing proof tells the verifier that the prover must know a signature, even if the prover doesn't actually publish that signature. You could also prove that you know 10 signatures, or 100, or more (well, up to the somewhat limited reach of existing proof systems).

Meanwhile, the size of the proof and the cost to verify it grows much more slowly than the number of signatures whose knowledge it establishes---so you can think of this as a kind of cryptographic "compression." This is one of the big ideas behind rollups, which are one possible way of improving the scaling behavior of blockchains like Ethereum.
Agreed on the thousand small improvements. I now spend my days prioritizing work that will move the sales needle with the minimum amount of work.
Hmm... I loved _Parliament of Whores_ in middle school--maybe time to give it another perusal.
Thank you. It does look familiar.
I would love to use it if i was for more then just gmail.

Though fantastic idea all around!
Black boxes also fail when they leave out the bottom or top of characters.

I took down a ton of poorly redacted black boxes while modding /r/facepalm

In retrospect, a bot could do the job pretty well
for me it was the rally car racing:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120624081721/http://www.scca-n...
Even with a fast connection, it takes a very long time. I'm guessing the site is overloaded as the peak was a few tens of Mb/s, and generally much slower.
Windows paint does pretty well, though it's still error prone
Akamai to acquire AWS competitor Linode for $900M
It sounds like something straight out of HBO's Silicon Valley. It's a big problem with their 'Metaverse' idea in general. I saw some footage of the Horizon Worlds VR platform and it looks incredibly corporate and sterile.

If you look at how creative people are in VRchat or Minecraft or other user-centric ecosystems I wonder how Facebook is supposed to be attractive to users.
"the enigma never encrypts a letter to itself": I recall that the clue to one day's cypher was a longish document that contained every letter except 'L'. The analyst guessed that it was produced by somebody running a test who kept typing the letter 'L'--she was right.
For a first name + last name combination, you still have a lot of potential combinations based on the total length
I do this on my website with paywalled information. It respects upper/lowercasing and spacing but randomises each character. Anyone can disable the CSS blur but the data is still obfuscated.

https://imgur.com/a/NY6xKie
The Elements of Cache Programming Style (2000)
It's not so much that running a forum is difficult.

But anyone who launches a forum today is competing with the large, metaforum platforms like Reddit and Facebook and Discord.

It's just too difficult to assemble a userbase.
Upgrading your PinePhone modem to open source firmware easily
The timeframe being a few hundred years in our future?
Pretty much by definition if your only contact with someone is to say "happy birthday" once a year, that relationship is not currently meaningful.
Rust is necessarily a comparatively large language, but I’m content that at present it’s not getting noticeably worse: additions are mostly filling things that could be expected but are missing, plus some focusing on improving ergonomics.

Take generic associated types, for example: they’re a major new feature… but are conceptually just removing a potentially surprising limitation.

Or const generics: they really are a major new feature, but in general the code that can use them was a good deal more complex and inconsistent before.

You’d have a stronger argument about complexity creep on async—there was lots of demand for it, but it’s not clear that the design that is now frozen was in fact ideal.
This is likely to have the unintended side effect of reducing research -- investors will be less likely to put money into a company if they'll have severe restrictions on what they can do with the IP if the company doesn't succeed and they may even have there millions of dollars of investment released to the public domain because they couldn't find a company willing to continue with an unsuccessful use of the IP even if it would be valuable for other uses.
Increase that interest rate just 1% to 2.5%.

Then the interest payments are the same number as the over-bloated defense budget: 750 billion a year.

So, the old question: Guns? Or butter?

An aside:

In my lifetime, the highest interest rate was roughly 20%. That would cause monetary collapse in the US today with an interest load of 6 trillion bucks a year.
Mouser appears at 3-3 as well.
The closest to that for me was being a just out of high school employee at an interesting post production facility that had some talented people in the engineering staff. I was a kid in a candy store, but all electronics and video/film based stuff. The engineers were probably taken off guard by my incessant questions of why/how/huh until they eventually realized that I wan't being a pest but actually learning what they were sharing. At some point, the questions were advanced enough they wanted me to switch departments. Definitely the best OJT situation I've ever been in, but that was 30 years ago now. damn.
The article mentioned Hindutva as I pasted. If I understand correctly, Hindutva people have a vested interest to want this script to be Sanskrit related as opposed to an indigenous Indian language. Is that correct?
Yes, it's been that way long before PDFs. Simply knowing the potential words, often names, that could appear in a document, gives those with the redacted documents a chance at determining what has been hidden based on size. This might be part of the reason why when declassifying documents, the redactions end up being more of a sentence than is needed. The extra buffer of hidden words gives some additional protection to what needs to be redacted.
Sundar Pichai was responsible for the Chrome browser and Android operating system. [1]

While the comment might be a little oversimplified, I think it's reasonable to say that those deals would have fallen under his ambit. And there's no question that Chrome and Android are the two central planks of Google's search distribution monopoly with consumers, along with the Apple deal.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/how-sundar-pichai-rose-to-be...
I use NestJS with Jest just fine. Lots of decorators, too. What bug did you encounter?
Google responded regarding Quote Search
>Especially the bit about stonewalling customers until the issue appears in a public forum, and then suddenly backpedaling.

That's standard practice for pretty much all of Big Tech. Official support channels? You can go fuck yourself. Get lucky and frontpage reddit or HN? They'll finally honor their commitments and put out a press release about how $BigCo is committed to $generic_ideals.
For somebody reviewing the content, how do they know that you applied this to decide that it shouldn't be up because it doxes somebody?
How can you be fooled by the U+202E trick? (2013)
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Quorn's chicken is excellent tasting. The nutritional information below is not complete, but what is shown isn't bad:

https://www.quorn.us/products/quorn-meatless-chicken-pieces
Estimates are always the elephant in the room. Especially large scope estimates. I don't think estimating more accurately is the solution, making software more predictable to write in the first place might be worthwhile. But the realistic solution is to manage around the practical reality that software estimates suck. Maybe don't plan release dates or milestones based on estimates, perhaps you could do it based on progress reports and a revised estimate after someone has actually started working on a task.
FWIW I've run a mica window geiger cointer for hours in front of my tubes and been completely unable ti measure any radiation above ambient. At some point I will do it with a large scintillator, but already it's pretty clear that those X-rays are very soft indeed.
To be fair, there are some types of products that can't be sold across state lines easily or at all (like insurance)
They didn’t sit down with pipeline protesters, why should they sit down with this mob?

“You need to get vaccinated, or you can’t work in cross border trucking or go to restaurants for a year or two” is an infinitely smaller ask than “give up control of your land to us, also your drinking water is poison”
It is dystopian.

The solution is straight-forward.

Engineers running for local office, with the explicit goal of modernizing infrastructure, and winning. That’s where the farm for political talent is made.

I’d guess we’re a generation out from that. I look forward to it.
Those games at GameStop or other physical media have already paid their ~30%.
Researchers find threat group that has been active for 5 years
And you can always register in the other party, and vote for their weakest candidate in the primary, just to spice things up.
Not sure if it's just me, but I've been seeing less of the interesting technical content that used to define HN, seemingly replaced by more tribal stuff about SV and big tech (which soon gets very repetitive and tiresome) and even politics. Perhaps the pandemic/work from home stuff is a causal factor in this change, regardless I find it quite real.
It's very relevant. The author could have devised a system that was "reach out to people on their birthdays", but they didn't. They set up an automated system that reminds you to contact people based on their predetermined level of importance. Having an AI craft an automated "ice breaker" style message doesn't seem like too much of a leap from here.
Convert PDF to jpg or png then use a black box and save. Gets burned into the image.
I sometimes have similar issues. But I can understand why Google might not want to cater to the multi-lingual market: perhaps it's just too niche?
The LaTeX isn't rendering on any of my mobile browsers. Anyone else see the same?
There are some super high-res square monitors out there used for viewing mammograms and MRIs and such but they're like $25,000. This is the only one I can think of off the top of my head [1].

https://www.cdw.com/product/barco-coronis-uniti-mdmc-12133-l...
Why would someone use this crap?
And if you would prefer parody, try Dave Eggers' "The Circle" and "The Every". The latter is particularly relevant, and had me laughing out loud.
How bad is Google search?

I had to search crates.io . Let me tell you. It's not the pinnacle of search.

What I searched was `fast bitset implementation`. My results consisted of drill bits a stack overflow questions and a Baeldung article on hashSet vs long[]
Sorry, under no circumstances would I EVER want to be a part of someone's automated list of "weak connections". And it sounds like I'm not alone.
o_O

What's amazing is that it's actually a neat demo with cool music. And the only additional hardware it uses is ONE RESISTOR.
It’s a hedge for a nuclear war. If this US is in total isolation, they can grow corn, wheat, soybeans etc quickly with high output.

Thinking about the geopolitical strategic layer of ag policy is fascinating!
Don't you just set the region and language at the bottom?

I also search in multiple languages but I also know that's an exception. The majority of the people in the world likely would only use a single language and it's easy to believe that search results are better for those users with languages separated.
A proton in a hydrogen atom does not have the same mass as a proton in a Helium atom, nor do any protons in any particular element have the same mass as the protons in any of the other elements. Again, the mass of a proton varies.
But decorators aren't a JavaScript feature, that's the point of this comment thread.

Some form of them might eventually be a JavaScript feature, but anything using them now is potentially incompatible with that future form.
It's not only an unfortunate happenstance; often it's a deliberate tactic. "Gish gallop" and "flooding the zone" are two of many terms for it. It's trivial for one troll to tie up a dozen good-faith interlocutors with wild claims of their own and demands for proof of others'. It's very hard to devise or enforce rules that would prevent such behavior (far easier to police the reactions), so it's common on practically all forums. For various reasons related to what kinds of people are drawn to computing and what behaviors are rewarded there, it's inevitably going to be even more common here.
I ran my last startup on cron-jobs.
Many times I didn't notice if the job didn't execute.
That was an immediate value proposition for me.
Salesforce ties exec pay to DEI
2.0 fixed a lot
Typing this from an iPhone SE gen 1. Second battery but otherwise still flawless and up to date.
What G Suite announcement? That they changed the name?
Too bad Virginia is banning it in schools
In English, Google is pretty good at figuring out when to add spaces in your queries (if you have a typo with your spaces). Similar technology should help it with German?

There's nothing magic about putting a space between words or not. Similar to whether you hyphenate or not.
I write a bit of Rust, but not for work, and I never heard about this survey. I think that's probably common - the more Rust you write, the more likely it is that you fill out the survey, so the sample is probably very biased towards people who work with it a lot (ie, professionally).

Or - you could describe that as biased, at least. Alternatively, maybe the intent of these language surveys is exactly to find out what committed power-users think. Either way, interpreting results from language surveys is tricky business.
Especially in the age of AI/ML, doing something like this today is just BEGGING to get algorithm’d into oblivion.
Yea, it makes me really worried about Angular's future updates given its heavy usage of decorators.
Too bad wirecutter is very hit or miss. I have definitely bought their recommendations and regretted it.

Searching for query + reddit is an OK means of looking for recommendations

What would be nice is a store (like amazon or target) that only sold reputable items. I'm not looking for 3rd party marketplace (like walmart or amazon offers). Maybe costco (brick & mortar) offers this curated selection, but even costco's products are hit or miss.
Believe me, it was very hard to make a slower disk system than the C64 had with the 1541 even back then, and even compared to older hardware. Others in the thread already elaborated why it came to that: A sequence of accidents led to the bus being bitbanged in a terrible way.
the other day, on HN i mentioned i was trying to find some relevant meme on DDG, and someone said "try googling 'foo bar baz'" and i thought it was funny.

I don't use google search if i can avoid it. I'll try 3 others first, and generally just give up. Google doesn't deserve any money.
Metameats.
Things were different. I had a similar experience with Michael Hart from Project Gutenberg. I stayed in his house! He was ridiculously warm and welcoming.

You can't imagine what scarcity of nerds there was back then. These days, every city has hundreds or thousands of programmers. But in the 90s -- for any area of computer interest -- there were only a few hundred of you around the world. It was wonderful to meet someone with the same interests.

Being interested in programming/hardware/security AUTOMATICALLY made you a member of a small club. Most of the other members were glad to help you. And there wasn't a surplus of people all trying to stand out and be noticed on social media. (In fact, because you were into computers for the love of them, you probably weren't even thinking along the lines of "I must get noticed by $celeb so I can ask them for a job". The odious phrase "personal brand" had not been coined yet, and the concept was foreign to most in our computer nerd world.)

It lasted until around 2008 or 2010, I reckon -- about the point at which "go into computers, it has good money", the success of YC, and the rapid growth of FAANGs really made nerds ubiquitous. Then Marvel/Disney turned our niche interests into the mainstream, and we became culturally adrift. We were in sitcoms (Silicon Valley, even Big Bang Theory to a great extent) and fully mainstreamed. At that point, you could ask someone for something but you were just one of an ocean of unremarkable others.

That's how things were different in the 90s and (as a white English-speaking het guy who had Internet access) gosh I miss those times.
I think openoffice did something like this before Microsoft did

https://www.zdnet.com/article/browser-based-openoffice-org-r...
Nice work! I too viewed source, but I did "give up" quickly.
Caught by pair a eagle eyes, eh?
That graph shows it as being less toxic than the original ore, which makes sense as it's purified uranium without any of the nasty fission products that are hanging around in the ore.

It gradually approaches the ore level over time, which again makes sense, as the fission products are going to build back up.

The point here is that the uranium is going to decay no matter what you do, whether in the controlled environment of a reactor with some attention paid to proper disposal, or in the completely uncontrolled environment of the original ore bed, where it's quite possibly going straight into the water table.
People have. In my opinion, it's a bad idea. I think that to appreciate Rust's design, you pretty much have to be familiar with the awfulness of memory leaks in C/C++ (and it helps if you have experience trying to make a program in a GCed language hit strict latency requirements). I think Rust's design is genius, but I think the first language you learn should be an easy language with a GC (there's enough hard parts of learning your first PL). The next step is to learn C (because it's beautiful but fatally flawed), and only after you have learned why manual allocs and frees suck, should you learn Rust.
Smart people lie about their race on job applications. I would just tell people under me to swap their races on the forms.
> The long answer is that most of the web has become too inauthentic to trust.

It's only a matter of time before reddit too becomes too inauthentic to trust. Not only is it directly funded by advertising, its audience is mainstream enough for advertisers to invest time and money posting fake opinions in order to make it look like it's coming from real people.

I seriously hope I never see comments or news about people appending hacker news to searches. I don't want advertisers to kill this site when they catch wind of it.
... unless you do it using totally random pixels, derived from a RNG rather than from material being redacted.
>>two chihuahuas

>That's heart-warming.

Chihuahuas are the least heart-warming dogs I can think of.
The March 1931 issue of Television News[1] is a fantastic snapshot in time of the development of Television.

Amazing all those various silly spinning disk systems peppered throughout the magazine...and then buried on page 48 there's Philo T. Farnsworth[2] and his "scanning electric pencil"! Huzzah!

[1] https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Television-News/Televi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth