skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a binary and universal format for plain text (utf8) that is extended all the time with additional emojis. But it seems almost unimaginable that we ever get a binary text format that also allows simple semantic markup, like emphasis, tables, hyperlinks, amounts, dates, and phone numbers.

It's 2022, and really, we should be able to copy a paragraph from an email with a table in it into a chat app and have it just work. HTML is way too complex to use as data communication format between apps (vulnerabilities; every app allows a different subset). Markdown is made for humans to read/write, when what we need is a simple unambiguous binary format that is easy to parse.

We can have compound emojis where a polar bear is a bear + a snowflake joined by a zero-width joiner. But a datetime or number in text is too much to ask?
> improved install process, especially with the MBR

Do they mean it's a DOS for which MBR is not the only option, i.e. it supports GPT&UEFI?
Mozilla prepares to launch MDN Plus in March 2022
Source is in german, translation here: https://www-soeren--hentzschel-at.translate.goog/mdn/exklusi...
By phrasing it that way you're searching in English, it seems a reasonable choice to return sites that are in English.

If I search DDG for "US President", the first results are the English Wikipedia page for "President of the United States" and "List of presidents of the united states"

If I search for "US-Präsident", I get "Liste der Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten" and "Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten - Wikipedia" from Germany wikipedia, and fairly high up is a link to zeit [0]

That Zeit link doesn't appear if I search in English.

It seems that DDG puts the language used of the search fairly high in the weighting. That's reasonable to me. If I search "Nicolas Sarkozy im Gefängnis", I get German stories about the French President.

I can see both arguments, I don't think differing weights for language is an indictment of a search algorithm specifically though.

[0] https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2022-02/joe-biden-us-pra...
Yes, almost ;)
How well would Mastodon scale? If this is as succesful as Trump was on Twitter, it will draw tens of millions of users in a short time. Probably more than there ever has been on Mastodon.
Until as a pedestrian, you are hit by a bike.
I think there was never the possibility to "out-tech" tracking solutions in the first place. You simply cannot plug every hole imaginable that will be discovered, and still serve your service on a network.

The only remedy is strict legislation and judicial recourse against companies that do try to cheese it.

Just like you cannot possibly implement real world security and surveillance that makes it completely impossible to commit theft, but you can implement strong enough legal deterrance to make it a really unviable risk/reward scenario for individuals and corporations alike
Send him this link:

https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-is-a-daily-scrum

From the horses mouth:

"The Daily Scrum is Not a Status Meeting"

Or maybe see about getting him certified.
Thankfully for all but one desktop GPU vendor the drivers are built right into the kernel and come out of the box with any distribution.
A velodrome? A park?
Should add 2020 tag to this article to reflect its date.
Just FYI, MongoDB storage also uses mmap internally.

So we are comparing here "just mmap" with "mmap + all that connection handling, query parsing, JSON formatting, buffering, indexing, whatever stuff that MongoDb does".

And no, MongoDB is effectively never a cheap solution. They are used because they are super convenient to work with, with all things being JSON documents. But all that conversion to and from JSON comes at a price. It'll eat up 1000s of CPU cycles just to read a single document. With raw mmap, you could read 1000s of documents instead.
> If they must share, bikes are much closer to pedestrians than cars

I disagree. Aggressive and fast driving cyclists are in no way less dangerous to pedestrians than a car. Keep the cyclists away, in their own area. This makes for easier rules based on consistent behavior of the participants.

Sometimes I wonder, why cyclist complain about the dangers of cars, while on the other hand they are a thread to pedestrians.

I think that every form of mobility has its own rules. Pedestrians walk fast at around 6km/h. Average is maybe around 4. A cyclist is way faster than that.
The BX10s come for free with most dedicated root servers, and are meant to be used as free backup space. They will continue to be free. They are not visible anymore on the website because they are only available to customers who already have dedicated root servers.
Customers who already have free BX10s can continue to use them for free. If they would like to upgrade to a BX11 or something else, though, we ask them to pay the monthly fee. --Katie
I miss the time when writing a simple game or software package, or basically anything by yourself, was both doable and a great achievement.

Everything is so ridiculously complex now, and weighed down by so much compliance and need for security (because bad actors are everywhere). You need a whole team to even get started on anything worthwhile.

I dunno, I just liked the early days when we were naive enough to assume malicious actors didn’t exist, and everything somehow worked out alright.
Sure, go ahead and do that. Meanwhile:
https://medium.com/@dodiyadharmik/boeings-737-max-software-o...
Lyx is great for that exact purpose! I used it too as an undergrad. But it doesn't offer the full flexibility and toolset available in LaTeX, which limits its use for more complex documents.
Sidenote, but have we collectively forgiven Sourceforge for bundling crapware installers into binaries?
Responsive layouts for varying screen sizes dont exists in the 90s so its not a fair comparison. Responsive Web Design was coined only in 2010. And RAD apps arent tied to the database unlike Retool.

With RAD apps, the barrier to entry is low. You install the IDE from this thing called a CD-ROM, drag some components, add some code to make it reactive (Yes we have reactive components in 1998!). Compile and run.
>Being a mischievous teenage hacker didn't land you in prison.

On this note: Hacking, cracking and phreaking were done purely for curiosity sake. Even virus developers did it just because they could.

There was a sense in the community of pushing the technology to its limits.

Nowadays hacking, cracking and all the 'black arts' are for pure profit. Being it private or government...
Uh, in fact, British and American natives are the worst, when it comes to homophonic errors. Your/you're, its/it's, their/there/they're - unless they're well educated (and often even if they are), chances are that the natives will get them wrong whereas foreigners won't. That's because they think of the language in terms of sounds first (as they learnt it before they could read), whereas foreigners are forced to think about it in logical terms first.
If the scripts are hosted on the separate domains they don’t have access to some global state and there is no cross site tracking.
Best guess is that he was trying to parlay others (free/commission) work into a real company by signing design contracts.
Blocking all GCP and AWS hosted sites is about as effective as turning off all javascript. It reduces the usable set of sites on the web to basically worthlessness.
Silicon Valley Loves the Startup Fast but Scandals Plague Its Founder
Some folks asked how our Super Bowl ad came to be, here is the quick back story
No Shortage of Dreams: MSSR as Mem (1967-1968)
> their whole goal is to create a need where there isn't an organic one

This is reductionist. Was telling people about trains and cars creating a need where there wasn’t one? In a sense. But in another sense, it was broadcasting a better way of being. Marketing doesn’t have to be evil. Saying all marketing is evil is sort of a cop out for the people who do it badly.
Maybe depends on whether you are "driving" the agent personally?
Good to know. Hope the author of the site is aware of this if they ever go to Europe.

They should just block European IPs like other sites do, though. It'd be safer for them and also less work.
> In fact, they can only be solved by unusually smart people

Wut? Have you actually ever met a person who can't? I always suspected the electoral majority is not particularly bright (which sort of contradicts the idea of near-100 being an average IQ nevertheless) but if this is "unusually smart" then things feel really creepy.
Guess the lack of stamps means record holding has moved from the passport into the cloud. While the distributed record keeping was certainly more privacy friendly, the new method makes it certainly easier for nation states.
I have to say, on the one hand Mike Cannon-Brookes seems like an upstanding guy who cares deeply about the environment.

One the other hand, he helped create JIRA.
You can buy SDR based GPS receiver (using atomic clocks on satellites) for very cheap. For ~1500 you can buy a 1x PCIe atomic clock and then run a sNTP server to update everything.
The GC didn't ship with a modem at all even in early not cost reduced models. There may have been some bundles with a modem for PSO1&2 or Homeland but there was only 4 games in its entire library that could even go online.

The Dreamcast had a built in modem and some models of PS2 had one built in.
Intel Meteor Lake Client Processors to Use Arc Graphics Chiplets
UPC got slapped for this before it was sold to Vodafone. So for a time one could buy the modem - its pretty nasty because the rent price is exactly calculated from 2 years the company has warranty from the hw distributor. So basically if you use it for more than 2 years you are paying for payed off hardware for nothing. And of course those devices and users last far more than 2 years (more like 5-10) this is just money printing.

But other coment is right. They have to allow you use your device.
I live in Stockholm, a lot of cyclist and a lot of cars sharing small roads. I do not drive a car nor do I ride a bike. But TBH there is a bigger chance to get hit by a bike than a car here, and that's why I don't like them.

There seems to be a limbo existing that is been taking advantage of by the cyclist here, they are neither a car nor a pedestrian. They seem to switch between "Move am a car" and "Mind me am a pedestrian", making it very hard to actually know what they are doing.

At the same time cyclist (some) don't seem to follow any unwritten nor written rules about speed. They have no problem passing you as a pedestrian 20 km/h often by surprise cause you cant really hear them coming.
> that's a team working on one problem, not discussing/managing the one of them working on each of multiple different problems

Pursuing a common goal. But working on different problems. (Is it a blood pathology? Is the immune system misbehaving?) If a team doing a stand-up isn’t working on any sense of a common problem, they aren’t a team and aren’t working efficiently.
Airbnb could just raise their prices by 10% if they detect a bot; that would be a way to take a cut of someone doing that. It would be really subtle too, so they wouldn't know that they'd been detected.
They would close or shrink departments that lead to careers with poor incomes. I'd argue that wouldn't be such a bad thing. Many departments like English are notorious for conning gullible students into grad school with marginal at best career prospects, just to preserve their turf in internecine inter-departmental turf wars.
I would argue that it may be a case of "less is more". Yes Markdown is limited, but the limits make the language trivial to learn, modify and understand. It also means that the format can be trivially displayed almost anywhere and converted to all sorts of other formats.

There will always be a tradeoff between simplicity and the feature set, I find that for the vast majority of my use cases Markdown is simply good enough.

When I read markdown docs on github I usually get a pleasant sense of familiarity, everybody tends to gravitate towards the same basic layout because that's what Markdown does. That's a feature IMO, it means that you can focus on the content, not waste time parsing the quirky layout.

Monthly reminder that Gopher should've won btw.
No, it just means they couldn't have stopped digging at that point. Having dramatically reduced the search scope to a small number of people, they would have just needed to find one other small piece of evidence to narrow down the group suspects further.
It shouldn’t be on the todo list of the average user to be knowledgeable on this subject, just like the average consumer should not have to be an expert in airbags to expect the ones installed in their car to work.
Leaving an email on your profile (the “about” field) might increase the chances of someone contacting you.
If you think PEG parsers are a good idea and we should use them, comment below which strings this PEG grammar matches:

Str = "a" Str "a" / "a"

If you get it right and you understand the logic, by all means use them. If you get it wrong or can't wrap your head around how it works despite knowing the answer, maybe reconsider.

EDIT: since my point was too subtle and I have been misunderstood and downvoted as a result of it, allow me to give a hint. If you believe the above grammar matches aaaaa you fall in the latter category. It does not. Yes, aaa matches, aaaaaaa matches, but aaaaa does not. Yes, this is mind-boggling.
The problems in converting LaTeX usually come from third-party packages. When only a restricted set of packages is allowed then it is quite straightforward. This is the reason many publishers require latex, even if they don't use LaTeX internally (which is often the case).

They convert LaTeX to the XML dialect that their in-house layout system understands.
Not sure I agree with your “opressive” high-IQ developers spin, but it’s clear that whoever implements this kind of captcha (even the not-so-challenging ones) doesn’t give a shit about user experience and deserve to metaphorically-speaking, burn in hell. I think it’s just an example for how developers should not make decisions about UI or UX in general. It doesn’t really matter how hard to solve the captcha is, it shouldn’t exist in the first place, even those with: “pick all the fire hydrants”.
At a large enough scale, I agree that there's an impact to locals. But don't tourists also boost the local economy, the travel industry and introduce different cultures themselves? It's not such a clear case that this is all negative.

The lack of regulations is an issue of local governments not catching up to tech companies, as usual, not Airbnb's.

> Basically, tourists aren't locals, they should have a right to live like locals.

What if those tourists do eventually become locals after staying at an Airbnb? Are you against migrants as well?

> Especially at the expense of the locals.

The locals do benefit financially from tourism. Markets like Airbnb's simply accelerate this, which of course introduces issues, but governments should carry more of the blame for this than a company that disrupts the hotel industry.
Upgrading your bike seems like the most obvious move ;)
Early days in a longterm plan. AGL board rejected the takeover. I think shareholders know its a net negative longterm asset and the proposed (by AGL board) dismemberment is an attempt to get stranded assets ring-fenced.

An observation I've read online is that MCB can wait 6 months and rebid for less, the future for AGL is very rocky. If the liberal government lose power in the coming federal election their assumptions about price support are toast.

Coal powered electricity has been in decline since the 5 minute bidding came into law, and before. It's also horrendously unreliable now.
Are you charging me with hypocrisy? Ok here’s the difference:

- “Ineffectual EU”: this could be a well-informed or badly informed opinion. Or it could be a lazy stereotype. The OP did not elaborate so we have no way of knowing that at this point.

- “EU stereotypes → aids populists”: the reasoning or association being drawn is right there in the post—You said A (or rather my interpretation of A) and that causes B.

My own point was simply that one can make a counter-argument instead of complaining about how a certain assertion aids populists.

Could my point have been made without the EU fan stereotype charge? Sure. But taking the high road at all costs is not my personal policy and responding tit-for-tat is OK in my book.
"Blocking scripts for each individual website" probably isn't too bad of a burden though. There's enough people who are annoyed by this and few enough sites that you actually visit (how often do you actually visit a brand new website, or one that hasn't been visited by thousands already?) that maintained (donation supported) chrome extensions for this will pop up eventually.
Modern Ukraine and the spread of democracy in the former Soviet bloc countries
Daily Mail readers are addicted to rage. I've realised this with my parents recently. They don't read the Daily Mail but they watch a lot of conspiracy videos and it's got to the point that I can't speak to them without the conversation degenerating into whatever is currently making them angry.

Do we know why people get addicted to rage? I don't understand what the payoff is as it just seems to make them angry.
I think you're flattering yourself a bit if you believe that being able to solve a CAPTCHA means you have an unusually high IQ
> On publishers, I wrote a book for Springer-Nature, and they wanted LaTeX. I wouldn't have published with them, if not.

Do you know if they used LaTeX for the layout internally, or if they used some proprietary system that was fed the LaTeX source?
One is making food for the community, the other is just enjoying a personal hobby. Makes sense the former would be instinctively judged more leniently than the latter.
The whole "bitness" of CPUs is a weird concept.

I dislike the "register size" definition, because it kind of falls apart on modern CPUs. Which register should you be measuring? If it's the GPRs, then we will probably be stuck with 64bit CPUs forever, which is boring. Perhaps we should allow the vector registers to be counted? That would mean most modern CPUs are 256bit, but some Intel CPUs are 512bit. What about fpu registers? That would make the 8088+8087 an 80bit cpu, despite it's tiny 8bit bus.

Personally, I think we should be using a definition that roughly scales with the the performance of the CPU, rather than the software API.

I quite like the idea of memory-bus width. That would fix the 68000 at 16bit, where it arguably belongs, but would make some weirdness with the 8086 and it's 8088 sibling being 16bit and 8bit. But then again, that does actually reflect re-world performance between the two. It gets a bit complicated once CPUs start gaining caches, but I propose we measure the bus width between the CPU core and it's L1 cache. Most modern high performance CPU designs can move actually transfer multiple registers (commonly three) to/from L1 cache every single cycle. Since those registers can be 256bit, that would make them a 768bit cpu.

Though if we start talking about per-cycle data transfers, we really should go back and update older CPUs to how much data they can actually transfer per cycle? Since it takes the 68000 12 cycles to transfer 32bits of data to/from memory, that would really make it a 3bit cpu.

The z80 would become 1bit, and the 6502 would be 2bit (remember, the 6502 does one memory transfer per cycle, while most other 8/16bit CPUs do one memory transfer every 4 cycles), and the 8080 would be 0.62 bits.

You just can't win. Might be better to just to write-off the entire concept of bitness as flawed.
I also have to use Jira and hate it, but I will continue to use it and forgive him much for this activism.
Sourceforge was sold over 6 years ago and the current ownership never bundled crapware installers into binaries.
Well, when I drive my bicycle, I usually look like a regular person and I drive on the bicycle lane. And it seems no car driver feels bothered by that.

If we want car drivers to be less angry, maybe it makes sense to stop doing what makes them angry.

Also, there is plenty of bicyclists who have a strong reaction towards car drivers, because they had bad experiences in the past. I think 10% asshole ratio is enough to train people to subconsciously expect the worst, even if it is still statistically unlikely.
Even today, when doing constructions, sometimes japaneses works find weapons bunkers, that where to be used for the population in the last stand against western invaders.

That would be very prudish for Japan standarts in wwii.

The things they pulled in China and Indoshina would compete with the worst things that where made in the European Concentration camps.

Theo only reason they did not put Japan in a trial in the style of Nuremberg, was was the location of Japan, closer to the Soviet Union and later China.

If not for that, Emperor Hirohito and many of his followers would find themselfs in the end of a very short rope.
Will this actually let us fund Firefox development, or is it another way to line the pockets of the wildly overpaid Mozilla Foundation executives?

Sorry to be so negative, but as a long-time Firefox fan, I despair at the disparity between the funding for the Firefox team vs the executive team
Maybe you could run all your communications through a translator twice (e.g. English -> French, French -> English), and fix any typos?

It would hopefully keep the sentiment while changing the words.
The counterfactual to fishing isn't nothing though. People need to eat. Any calorie not coming from seafood has a footprint on land. Some seafood like whitefish, small pelagics and farmed bivalves, when sustainably managed are about the most low carbon and environmentally low footprint foods you can eat, and they are also very micronutrient dense at a time 'silent hunger' is affecting at least a billion people on earth.
I'll just use Selenium to direct the browser then.
Yeah, he could well purchase a controlling stake at Jira and shut it down ahead of schedule as well...
> You choose to tell the doctor private information because of patient-doctor confidentiality. The other type of “private information” is collected by observing you in public (e.g. in a Walmart).

I think this distinction is irrelevant. The salient questions are:

- Is this information private and potentially damaging to me?

- Do I expect [third party] to have access to it?

This is especially important if [third party] can be a government. In the massive web of interconnected buyers/sellers of adtech data, there is no reason to expect that oppressive governments will be unable to get anything they want.

But to address your point:

I absolutely do not expect "observing in a public place" to include personal conversations and/or data about exactly what products my eyes land on.
> It seems the only possible option to retain privacy rights given to us by law (eg in the EU) is to disable JavaScript and cycle IPs or other fingerprinting
features. None of that is realistic.

As a last resort, using a VPN and automatically scrambling your fingerprint seems doable
The grandfathers point was that shared bathrooms would decrease costs of building new apartments, which is good for poor people with less income. Needing to share a bathroom with someone is no problem compared to not having a place to stay.
I use Readdle's Spark as an email client and find it does a much better job of this than Gmail. Plus you don't have to fight that horrific gmail interface.
Why would you be _more_ averse to sharing a bathroom if you're low income? I think it's more about American germophobia or new members of the middle class feeling that sharing bathrooms is beneath them now that they've made it.

In most places being poor doesn't mean you live in squalor, it just means you have less money. You are still doing your best to keep your place clean etc.

And obviously your neighbours won't be strangers for long.