skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sandberg said the decision to step down will allow her to focus more on her philanthropic work.

After heading the company that created enormous psychological and sociological issues in the world and was/is involved in shady, anti privacy, illegal, anti-competition dealings she just gets to retire and focus on her "philanthropic" work. She's the modern equivalent of a robber baron.
I think you misinterpreted what the parent is saying.

He's saying that a bag that contains only vacuum would be the lightest, but as it contains nothing, it would just collapse into having no volume due to the atmospheric pressure. That would obviously provide no lift. As such, you need something in the bag that will fill the space.
Ask HN: Most employable programming languages for next decade or two?
I would love a more of relaxed approach as a freshman.
But we are the cool 2.20% right?

Right?
> Firefox is the only that has their own rendering engine and is cross platform.

Interestingly safaris rendering engine is open source and cross platform, but the browser is not. Lots of linux-focused browsers (konquerer, gnome web, surf) and most embedded browsers (nintendo ds & switch, playstation) use webkit. Also some user interfaces (like WebOS, which is running all of LG's TVs and smart refrigerators) use webkit as their renderer.
I feel like counting every library is silly.

In any case, i thought chrome used libnss which is a mozilla library, so you could say the reverse as well.
Stop that, you are breaking the illusion. People want a petty conspiracy theory.

People approximate this and think they can just reduce it to one government office when the truth is that literally every single participant in the economy is responsible. If I had to dumb it down I would say that the economy tries to be in balance. If the government appears to be doing one thing, it isn't alone, there are private companies and private individuals doing the complement.

In macro economy it is quite common to split an economy into two asymmetric entities. You, and the rest of the economy. If you earn, they spend, if they spend you earn.

If you borrow (known as printing in conspiracy theory jargon), they save (in aggregate), if they save, you borrow. Of course I am assuming that the balance is being maintained. If someone spends less than they earn, they save but if there is no net borrowing the balance is being disrupted. What happens then is deflation but that implies that the economy is in disequilibrium and must shake off some of the people earning more than they spend. It is kind of ironic that savers want deflation because in a perfect market they would get fired and wouldn't be allowed to work more which prevents them building up more savings.
I never said all education should produce something of monetary value. There are many non-monetary value things that can nonetheless be measured.

You keep talking about how things have been historically. Things can change, and historically not everything was done correctly.

> Either you want a society which knows its own history of you don’t.

You don't need hundreds or thousand of History PhDs for that.

There is no point on people studying things nobody cares and nobody will ever care about. If your work never gets used, why force a subsidy on it? Do it with your own means if you like. Or accept the fact that you will have to do it for a very low wage no matter how many PhDs you have.

You seem unable to defend your position other that 'historically it's been this way' and 'unmeasurable value'. There is no point in keeping going with this discussion.
And what are the "benefits" ?
DCSS for life.
I think I'm pretty far to the other side. There are risks.... but also major benefits.

I hope we find some way to mitigate the risks that doesn't involve throwing away dozens of modern conveniences, or limiting access to information to just people who can afford subscriptions(As surveillance seems to act as almost a subsidy).

I also find it rather disturbing that activists seem to focus more on pervasive data collection than they do on things like encryption bans.

So far all the actual laws have been mostly good. But there seems to be a growing minority that wants much more extreme action.
speed/energy and reaction time of human or control machinery dictates separation distance. Thus drones for example can hover much closer to each other than say a separation distance between human controlled cars doing 90mph on highway.

Most of the new aircraft development would contain a lot of automation to the point of self-flying. The dense network of automated traffic control for such new aircraft would be another thing that only billionaires could really do. That would allow to take out of equation a lot of human errors that make current aviation dangerous.
I think there are a lot of reasons why it can’t scale but none of them are related to the time spent in a Harvard class room.

The social connections and the culture are the key parts of elite colleges. I don’t think you can scale that with online classes.
Ha.. my ISP does :) I can hit those 25Gb/s when connecting directly (bypassing the router as it barely handles those 25Gb/s).

With it in the way I get ~15-20Gb/s

$ iperf3 -l 1M --window 64M -P10 -c speedtest.init7.net
..
[SUM] 0.00-1.00 sec 1.87 GBytes 16.0 Gbits/sec 181406

$ iperf3 -R -l 1M --window 64M -P10 -c speedtest.init7.net
..
[SUM] 0.00-1.00 sec 2.29 GBytes 19.6 Gbits/sec
WordWarVI:

https://smcameron.github.io/wordwarvi/

Video demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdPfI5B9Cjc

Its just so silly - editor (vi/emacs) wars manifest in a Defender-like arcade game - but extremely fun, and the source code is fun to read also.

Plus, its been my go-to for a "quick code base to port", its really fun to port.
GNU Backgammon

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnubg/
Germany got hooked on Russian energy
That is an ignorant and short sighted viewpoint. There's all sorts of legal precedent tangling this up. While the math of where the water goes is straightforward you can't just invalidate prior agreements and rules and whatnot without going through the process otherwise you just cause more problems because you send a message and set a precedent that the state will not honor its own rules. In the long term that is very damaging.
I think it needs to be right up there in your pitch from the start.

Position yourself as an “evidence based” supplier.

But for current clients, loss aversion is always the best way to get people to change their behaviour. What I mean by that is you have to quantify the value of lost customers. Sometimes that means doing some user testing anyway (perhaps on some other area of their product) and showing how many people are getting frustrated and/or giving up. User testing doesn’t have to be expensive, just find 3 representative people (even if one is your SO or the boss’s PA) and sit with them while they use the product. If you can tell a client this is costing you x million a year, and fixing it only costs x thousand then you’re pretty much there.

But like I said you’ve got to lead with evidence based approaches to get the clients you want.
England is a country within the United Kingdom located mostly on the island Great Britain within the British Isles.

So it depends on which of those things you refer to. Great Britain isn't a country, the UK is a nation composed of 4 countries, England is one of those 4.
My native language don't have gender-neutral personal pronouns.
If I want to use pronouns correctly in English, I have to make mental pause before writing he or she to figure it out. Woman/man distinction does not come automatically.

When I use or think in English, my brain has weird rules of its own. Some person can have his/her pronoun constantly wrong. For some it's random. Context and rhythm can also can create pattern.
> I can confidently say this, because I'm using Firefox since it's called Netscape 6.0 (and Mozilla in Knoppix).

Mozilla suite/seamonkey isn't usually considered the same as firefox, although obviously related.
I have been looking for something like this for years without realizing it. Top form! Top form!
I think either is fine as long as they build amazing 600ft+ airships.
No, this is not how science is meant to work. This report should have been thoroughly peer reviewed before it was released, not after. Countries use these type of reports to manage public policy. It is incomprehensible that the WHO would release a report with such glaring mistakes. This is especially true in light of all their other failures during Covid.

I’m glad they’re correcting the mistakes but based on this article they seem in no rush to actually fix the report. “We’ll get to it later this year.” I’m sorry, what?!? The report should be pulled until they have confidence in the numbers. And they should get that confidence through peer review.
Skia started in 2004 independently of google and was then acquired by google. Calling it "Chrome's Skia graphics engine" makes it sound like it was built for chrome.
Considering that the US universities consistently rank among the top and they do produce the significant portion of the groundbreaking innovation and technology, maybe the American model has a merit?

If you think about it, legacy admissions strengthens the connection of the alumni(which is likely to have significant career progress at the time of their offspring attends college) with the institution and gives them reasons to protect and the school from political hostilities. The legacy admission students give access to their successful parents connections. It should be nice to have the kids of Google founders as classmates, for example. Don't you think?

It's not like the tests for admission can %100 accurately test the talents of the candidates anyway. Maybe diversity in admission is an actual strength that rest of the world lacks?

What makes an institution elite anyways? I would say its legacy(the alumni) and its future(the candidates). There might be a healthy balance of giving up some resources from the future to keep the connections with the past strong.
If you want to learn more about the history of the Venn-diagram ikigai concept, I suggest this post: https://www.sloww.co/ikigai/

TL;DR it was created in 2014 when Marc Winn slotted the word "ikigai" into a pre-existing diagram about "purpose" from Andrés Zuzunaga.

This article's introduction was surprisingly even-handed, most introduce it as a "Japanese concept", which it isn't really. :)
I think this is a great idea, but for a different reason. "Elite college" is a relative and somewhat zero-sum term, since it refers not to the quality of education but the quality of job and networking opportunities that are available once a person graduates. The embarrassing truth of these elite colleges is that there's not a whole lot of value-add. The classes are good--well, some of them--but you can find classes that are just as good at a decent state university. Elite colleges don't give anyone the ability to beat the job market; they select those who are likely already to beat it.

They also offer a fog of war. Rich dumb kids seem smart because they went to the same place where a lot of smart poors like us went; smart poors experience enough of the wealthy dumb's aura to project themselves as possibly rich (now or in the future). This requires a certain balance. If you let in too many "meritocrats" (smart poors) then the ultra-rich dumb kids who bring the networking opportunities are going to be overwhelmed and go somewhere else.

So, frankly, I don't think this reform would do much for undergraduate education. We already have a great number of schools that are just as good as, or better than, the Ivies... but that lack proximity to power and whose graduates get regular shitty jobs. (Actually, most of the smart poors who graduate from Ivies get regular shitty jobs too, but that's another topic.) Instead, I support it because it would improve the state of research. There are far too few professorships to go around. Whatever these massive endowments are doing, it's not funding a healthy academic job market, and we've become third-rate at everything, and soon China's going to drink our milkshake. Academia's dead and it's dead because it killed itself, and the first step toward reviving it is to fix this gross misallocation of resources.
First Successful Transmission of 1 Petabit per Second
Just look up at the top of the thread and the very first comment that started this conversation: "It is a country with lots of seismic activity and are in the middle of the Mediterranean."
The main reason is that the vast majority of the benefit of the Harvard is not the class but the name on the diploma. Signaling and status do not scale.
Doom is not an open content game. Neither is Quake.
It’s fine if you want searching, but I disagree that it’s implicitly wrong not to do it because searching is supposedly standard and how everyone else is doing it. Never mind that there exists plenty of software (with far more specific requirements than “give me an object file/dll/executable, compiler version/ABI/options be damned”) that doesn’t use such an approach. For example, try to tell CMake how to create a freestanding executable (one that doesn’t link to the system C library). You end up fighting against the abstractions inherent in its design. Which is to say, depending on what you want to do, it might not be a good fit, and you may be better off just writing out your compiler options yourself.

Here’s part of the powershell version of a build script I have used, where I had fewer build variants, so I didn’t even bother to make a `build` function, I just copy paste the `out=... ; if { ... }` block and change the value of `$out` and which compiler and options are called. Note that you can accomplish this with far fewer variables if you don’t want quite as many build variants as this script supports — it was written as an illustration of how flexible you can make things, rather than how simple things can be, so it supports clang, clang-cl, cl, zig cc, with variants for asan, freestanding, for architectures x86, x64, aarch64:

$ml = @("-nologo","-c","-Zd","-WX","-W3")
...

$clstd = @("-volatile:iso","-permissive-")
$clangcl = @("-nologo","-diagnostics:column","-Z7","-Zo","-FC") + $clstd
$cl = $clangcl + @("-WL","-Gm-","-utf-8")
# -Wall > -W4 but includes very silly things like "function not inlined" for snprintf
$clwx = @("-WX","-W4","-wd4100","-wd4127")
...
$clfree = @("-D","EXAMPLE_FREESTANDING","-Zl","-GS-","-sdl-","-Gs9999999")
$clfreedebug = $clwx + $clodebug + $cldd + $clfree + $clnortti + $clhash + $cllink + $link + $linkfree
...
$out = "./x86_64-windows-free-cl-debug"
if ("all" -in $targets -or (split-path -path $out -leaf) -in $targets) {
new-item -itemtype directory -force $out | out-null
try {
push-location $out
$buildcount++
write-host (split-path -path $out -leaf)
ml64 @ml $src/example-x64.asm
cl "-Fm./example.map" "-Tc$src/example.c" ./example-x64.obj @cl @clfreedebug
} finally { pop-location ; }
}

If you have an issue, you can easily change compiler options. It will always work and won’t suddenly break if you install a second set of compilers for another project, whereas CMake will have to choose which one and might pick wrong. Likewise, there is no potential for an upgrade to CMake to decide to use different compiler options that interfere with the freestanding stuff. You lose CMake’s abstractions, but like I said, that may be a good thing, depending on what your requirements are, assuming you have detailed knowledge of the compiler (which I’d rather accumulate than detailed knowledge of CMake, and I would know, I have both).
Selling personal data is illegal unless the person opted in

That's not possible to opt in to under the GDPR, FAFAIK. People can consent to the purpose for which their data will be used, and any such purpose must be enumerated explicitly. "Selling the data" is not a processing purpose, and it would still be illegal even if the person consented (it does not meet the bar for informed consent).

Under the GDPR, the only legal way for personal data to be transferred between companies would be for the "buyer" (processor) to use the data original data from the "seller" (controller) on behalf of the controller. The data, as consented to be collected, remains the liability of the controller for its entire lifetime.
Unrelated question, what hardware do you use to setup your network for 25Gb/s?
I've been looking at init7 for a while, but gave up and stayed with Salt after trying to find the right hardware for the job.
> We’re already seeing this shift, according to creator platforms... Patreon... Podia... Teachable

No OnlyFans?

> One creator on Teachable who advises artists on how to sell their art made $110,000 last year with only 76 students, at an average of $1,437 per course. Another creator who teaches physiotherapy made $141,000 with only 61 students, at an average price point of $2,314 per course

So sell shovels?
1) How about a warrant canary? If you do care about privacy, I would appreciate a warrant canary which confirms that you have not been forced to log.

2) How about a family package (I would like to convert my family members but that will add up costs quite a bit)
AFAIR, KHTML was/is not related to Netscape/Gecko in any way.
Yes. One could easily argue the other way.

>The magnitude in East Germany was likely unique. Unbeknownst to them, the athletes were given heavy anabolic steroids along with sex and growth hormones, often in extremely high doses. For many of the victims, the consequences have been dramatic, some of which are only appearing now, decades later.

The other thing which is missing in that rather myopic conversation is that after their careers are over most competitive athletes in general have a hard time adjusting to a more "mundane" life which is understandable given that they were training since their childhood to be the best in their respective sport.
Money to some extent can bridge that gap but in most sports there isn't much money to be made in the first place.
Now give this into the mix of the accumulated harm to the body - at that level you are taking that willingly into account - and some insane overdosing to somehow sustain the damage in a system with unchecked incentives (ideological view), you now have a very clear signal.

In classic bodybuilding where historically virtually all half-openly use/experiment with all kinds of PEDs, one can observe that with time and experience the dosings of e.g. TRT and GH are being finely titrated now. Additionaly because of the more open culture around that topic there is a solid understanding (in the more professional community at least) about the benefits and potential side effects.

Another more serious issue are the effects of extreme weight cutting but I'll leave it at that.
Moral cognition as a Nash product maximizer
WebKit itself is a fork of the Konqueror's original KHTML engine by the way.
You must have a lousy antenna, or live in a noisy location.

My little homebrew shortwave radio has 8 bands and they are usually full of stations. Mainly Chinese though.
Cursor pagination works fine just ask for a cursor with any query and you can then pass that back with the next query to paginate. We don't support Relay atall.
Timbre-Transfer with Machine Learning (see: magenta) will allow to play exact digital copies of instruments on your typical laptop computer

Keith Bloemer of GuitarML has already done this with guitar amps (https://github.com/guitarml)
The question is price. Air travel 'sucks' but has also become a lot more accessible, even long haul. If an airship takes 4 days and costs the same as business class on a regular plane I think many people will just business class.
South-to-north migration preceded advent of intensive farming in the Maya region
>Modern air travel outside of business class and select airlines like Lufthansa is a far cry from the luxury and glamour of the Pan Am days.

Not really. It was comfortable if you had first class seating--at a price above today's business class. But the first class lounge was fairly lightly used for the most part and became business class seating when that level of service came in. While airports are worse in some ways because they're often so crowded, modern international lie-flat business class seating is more comfortable in general--and there are more entertainment options--than first class on Pan Am was.
Show HN: Dexios, a secure command-line encryption tool (v8.4.1 release)
> It's Safari-based, which is Webkit-based.

Firefox only uses Webkit on iOS, due to Apple requirements. It uses Gecko everywhere else. And I don't think it's ever been Safari-based anywhere.
I'm not talking about the version which evolved to Seamonkey. I'm talking about Mozilla/Firefox 0.8 which had a Mozilla logo as a "Spinner" instead of Netscape logo on the top right.
No real issues have been closed cursor pagination has been working for years. This issue clear says "frederikhors closed this as completed on Mar 3, 2020" as in closed by the person who opened it.
I'm wondering how much of these shifts in monthly revenue for creators are actually additional signs of inflation.
A personal anecdote isn't an argument.
Sibling comment has a page that says:

> Without doubt, the tallest mooring mast ever designed was the spire of the Empire State Building which was originally constructed to serve as a mooring mast, although soon after converted for use as a television and radio transmitter tower due to the discovered infeasibility of mooring an airship

Now I’m curious what it actually is.
This might be misunderstood as followers on social media, but a follower on social media does not equal to a fan. They address this at:

> Here’s how it works: A creator can cultivate a large, free audience on horizontal social platforms or through an email list.

Fair enough, but let's say the TrueFans™ are in the range of 0.1% - 1% of your followers. That translates to 10k-100k followers which is still incredibly hard to build.
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My rule: If there isn't a prominent, 1-click unsubscribe link in an email, it gets marked as spam.

If I click unsubscribe, and the form asks me to fill in information, it gets marked as spam. No, I'm not filling in my email, let alone completing a CAPTCHA, to ask you to stop sending me emails.

However, I don't click an unsubscribe link in an email where I suspect the unsubscribe link is itself a scam to collect information.
And there is a transatlantic ocean liner option--albeit on a fairly limited basis.
I think folks have a hard time understanding the value until they use it themselves/