skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your minimum classic web page architecture is something like this:

client -> webserver -> db

With the advent of CDNs for caching, someone thought "Hey, if my page is completely static, I might as well store it entirely on the CDN!".

Some advantages of this architecture:

- you don't need to manage a server / VM, a network nor a db.

- better latency as your page can be closer to clients, as most CDNs are globally distribuited

- does not have dbs as bottlenecks

- trivial to scale for high traffic scenarios

- potentially free for small projects

- static pages tend to be easier to test

Disadvantages:

- you're limited to static pages. anything that needs a login, a session, etc... is a showstopper*

- public endpoints. can`t use most CDNs for pages that only should be accessed from private networks

- potentially expensive for high traffic web pages

* some CDN providers now offer some sort of distributed storage / worker. YMMV.
I agree with this. Reddit fills the role Slashdot once did.
This isn’t really a fair stereotype of Ivy League undergrads at all. Parental pressure doesn’t translate into admission as much as you might think, given how transparently manufactured their applications end up looking.

The Ivy League graduates I know went there because they were naturally high achievers, more or less. They liked being challenged, accepting challenges, and working hard to complete them. Ivy Leagues deliver challenges and high expectations non-stop. Anyone who isn’t naturally the type of person to seek out and complete challenges isn’t going to last long there.

> I'm thinking of some cheap local college is good enough and save the money.

I really don’t understand this notion that Ivy League universities are somehow no better than community colleges. Everything from the faculty to the coursework to the buildings and resources are world-class. It really is a step above and I do encourage ambitious young people to take a serious look at top-tier universities, including (but not limited to) Ivies. The benefits are very real, but only for people who want that level of challenge.

On the other hand, if your goal is simply to graduate college and move on then Ivy League would be a terrible choice. They really are much more difficult.
I'm talking about "Trump had sex with Russian prostitutes in a Moscow hotel, the Russians have videos of it, Trump is henceforth blackmailed by Putin". It was first-page news on news websites like NYTimes and the BBC. It proved out to be false. Afaik both the NYTimes and the BBC are still in the news business after all that.
> The reality is more nuanced

> #Batterygate

Pick one.
Ann Reardon, the subject of this article, is a good scientist who's been debunking these 'food hack' videos for years. She eventually branched out into debunking other things like this.

I've always been impressed with her tenacity in challenging this sort of thing while also managing to educate and entertain. It must be soul destroying trying to fight this endless tide of misinformation, which is constantly boosted by the youtube algorithm.
Exactly, this is such griping nonsense from people who are scared of where the industry is heading.
This is a fairly ridiculous article that draws far ranging conclusions based largely on a 5 session course with 10 students.
Also, it is never a bad thing to actually read the labels of the food one stuffs into their body.
Every once in a while you stumble across someone who makes you think "that dude really needs to get high once in a while".
Generally I'm salty at people going full sales mode. But this time? I'm not even mad

Sandwich cages are the kind technological solution people in general just have something of a blind spot against. Made myself a note if I decide to buy a toaster when I move next year

Ah, the wonders of technology and engineering :)
Large corporations, with the help of helicopter money, soaked up all of the available labor out there and then squandered it.

Now, good is being tossed out with the bad.
I made the mistake of not testing _all_ of the wires in an outlet a couple of months ago.

I used a non contact voltmeter, and had shut off the breaker to the outlet I was working on. Little did I know that the jackass that did some previous wiring in the house had run wires from a different breaker in to this box. It was done in such a way that I didn't fully realize it could have separate live.

My palm below my thumb touched the live and neutral and gave me a pretty solid shock.

I'll definitely test every single freaking wire in a box from now on. F people who try to play electrician without knowing what they are doing!
If you refuse, then you under arrest and get driven to the police station where a Amtsarzt(approved police office doctor)
will draw your blood and check if you are roadworthy
There was substantial subsidy during the lockdowns. This is the semi-voluntary withdrawal phase; people who are reluctant to risk covid are still reluctant to go out because covid is still quite prevalent (apparently 5% of Scotland has covid at the moment!) and an unclear number of people are suffering from long covid.
There is a legal process in the US for leaving behind an estate, a trust, or a will. This repo is not going to work except as notes for things which really should be in one of those legal workflows anyway.
They're definitely contracts, just programming ones, not legal.
I think it's the other way around - if you only talk to those whose stance you think you can change then you are implicitly admitting that you are unwilling to change your stance. Otherwise there would still be value in hearing the other party out to see if they have anything to say that would make you reconsider your position.
CPA exams are kind of like Accounting's version of a lawyer's Bar Exam from what I understand.
Where do you store the documents?
Go on, cite the articles claiming those statements.
Microsoft: "no undocumented features"

also Microsoft: adds a hidden linker option in 2019 and nothing about it is known until 2022 in a community forum post[0]

0: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/add-linker-opt...
nothing is perfect but google has a market capitalization of 1.5 trillion dollars, i'm sure they can afford to remove of put warning on dangerous videos
> Our 12-year-old recently tried to make himself "cheese on toast" by putting both cheese and uncooked bread into the (almost brand new, upright) toaster. Aaargh!

I know it's tempting to blame modern technological monstrosities for this nonsense, but kids were lighting toasters on fire before the internet.

Source: lit a toaster on fire, prior to the January 1983 IPv4 migration on the ARPANET (and long before I knew what any of that meant).
Something I keep in mind: The people who spend most of their time online talking about a hobby, are usually not the ones who spend most of their time doing the hobby.
Why so? That’s honestly the whole reason I started watching him years ago, he was the dude who shocked himself.
> Still get a sinking feeling in my stomach whenever I am at some switching station below the 380KV leads

If you would like to get into the psychology of someone like this I am a big fan of watching photonic induction: https://www.youtube.com/user/Photonvids

He is, seemingly, a power company tech from the UK who just really loves high voltage and messes with it in his home with his buddy.
But why was your padding work so shoddy?
Curious which brand of vegan sausage you got tricked into buying.
> I believe that AC is way more dangerous than DC

Yes. I pointed this out myself several months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28682725
I also asked a similar question yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31938452

Which might have some insight.

I’m also a full stack dev that is a bit confused on who can actually benefit from static sites like this. Particularly when it involves marketing teams that need to manage content outside of the codebase.

I’m definitely not convinced by them yet.
Sue the person who uploaded the video, as it happens with all the malicious activities with the real world.

Sure, we can have tools to reduce risk - maybe there can be a warning under the video that the contents are disputed and some people claimed harm. If those people are lying the video uploader can sue them.

Just because some people don't know how to behave and have delusions that nothing is real on the internet, we can't have total speech control in an attempt of "saving the kids".

Just as with the real world, people need to develop the right habits to stay safe.
I absolutely love software easter eggs. Though I was surprised to not see my very favorite one, the LOTRO hobbit and squirrels in the Easter Egg Archive website. I tried to submit it, but submissions are paused.

Anyone else here know this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czs2tNymtqY
>If the weight of the car on the tire sidewall doesn't cause damage.

Myths like this get blown way out of proportion because of reddit type hand wringing and feigning of concern for virtue points and similiar behaviors that are common online.

If a tire sits deflated and not driven on for a couple of days and then gets aired back up it's almost certainly going to be fine. Sure, it could be damaged but the incidences of this are so rare that at the individual level it is not really worth worrying about.

>And a bike pump? I'm not so sure.

Yeah. That would not be a fun time.
The thing is the whole house of cards was built on pseudonymous growth. Most Youtube accounts can be traced back to specific people and corporations, sure, but it takes a lot of manual effort to figure it out and the success rate is not 100%. And what do you do when the person is based in a country with no regards for the rule of law, no extradition treaty with the US, yet its citizens still have the ability to post videos to Youtube?

What you're proposing would not only slow down the growth of Youtube, it would contract it. And proposing to Google that anything they do should get smaller for the benefit of mankind is somehow a cardinal sin against capitalism.
In your grandfather's defence, it is what pros do, as the pros rarely follow safety practices.

It's so ingrained that I have to fight back to not start explaining why getting zapped by mains is perfectly safe in the vast majority of cases. That is a piece of information that - while technically correct - completely misses the point that working with any risk whatsoever is pretty stupid when you can remove all risk by just disconnecting the circuit.
"For entertainment only" is such a cop-out, do whatever dangerous thing and show step by step instructions but then slap on a "for entertainment only" on it so you're safe from legal repecussions.
The Pentagon uses a secret program to wage proxy wars
When I was younger, a lot of my friends sold the occasional bit of pot. As far as I know the vast majority of them are productive members of society nowadays.
Those stats are meaningless. As opposed to what? Where are real incomes increasing? France? Belgium?

Real incomes are decreasing everywhere, but slower in countries where governments serve the people rather than globalists and climatists as is the case in the UK, EU and North America.
Does bitcode have the same performance gains from `-emit-llvm -flto=full`? It seems like Clang is better at inlining across compilation units when -emit-llvm is passed, but it also seems to store additional object files in temporary files? Is there a way to tell Clang to put everything it needs per translation unit in one file?
You have a good point but the economics and the psychological aspects are very intertwined. The more you can understand what people want, the better the opportunity adjust to meet their needs.

A major concern from this (at least for me) is to be aware of what you are doing for yourself and for others.

In this case, what is the persona or brand you are creating and deciding whether you want to incorporate that into your personal life or keep it separate.

I feel that a lot of folks who become famous run into the effect that their fans have on them or what they perceive that their fans want from them.

Heck, it really is just an amplified version of probably everyone. We all alter our behavior to some degree based off variabilities in different situations.
Whatwg gives up on fighting for A11y
> Adults should have some discernment about their sources of information.

Not to necessarily disagree, but it’s a learned skill, a skill that some 65% of the population simply doesn’t have.

https://goingdigital.oecd.org/indicator/24
Russia already has hypersonic. And there is no realistic defense against them. They scare the crap out of DC because a Russian sub could pop up off the coast of New Jersey and 5 million people including 99% of all US politicians would be dead 6 minutes later. So of course the US needs them.
And the Court can say the new law is unconstitutional on a flimsy pretext, as they’ve done with critical components of the Voting Rights Act.
Was it tested on very huge code base like say, the Linux kernel?
It's crazy we are still having these kind of debates in Europe. 20 years ago most youth around 18/20 thought Cannabis would have already been legalised by now, I don't believe one second that any of the European elected official under 50 never smoked pot. The only possible explanation I see is heavy lobbying from big pharma groups or wine interests.
"We came, we saw, he died."
The professor's takedown and HN discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30603287
I've noticed this too, but working with pandas and python for data related things. it almost always produces non-optimal code that is surprisingly popular- just the other day it wanted to make a copy of a large file instead of a view. turns out a lot of beginner courses don't teach about copy vs view because they use small toy datasets and its not a problem. also, this throws a warning too!
Freedom is not, and cannot be, an absolute. If I am 100% free, that by definition restricts the freedom of others (for instance, if I am free to punch you in the face, you are not free to not be punched in the face; if I am free to own you as a slave, you thus lose a lot of freedoms).

Determining what freedom should mean is not, and has never been, a simple matter of "well, if you make any restrictions on it, then it's not real freedom, so everyone just gets to be free!" It's all about finding balance, and dealing with nuance, and all that frustrating hard stuff.
Because it's clickbait.
Robotaxis are out in the real world now. They’re not just in the labs. Your information about mapping is highly outdated. The cars are all self mapping and have the ability to update maps in real time when they detect changes. I think you are the one not paying attention.
I'd love to see a US presidential debate where each side represented their opponent's position, and the US electorate were somehow willing to make a quality understanding of the other sides' positions a key judgement criteria. A man can dream.
If your point here is that arguing against the best version of someone's argument leads you to tackle their more credible claims, then I don't see the problem. It sounds like at worst, that might elevate a discussion a bit.

I've seen this approach in some oxford style debates and thought it made the debate better, as a viewer.
correct me if I'm wrong here, but I believe institutionally those were thought to be real by the people working on them at the time.
I don't think anyone was blaming modern technology, or anything specific, for this nonsense?
UnHeard itself is usually a mindless partisan paper that outright refuses to engage with arguments outside their own preconceptions.

>Yet what they taught me in the five sessions we had together was the near-absence of critical thinking and free inquiry in their respective universities.

Maybe they can start with their own paper.
> They have alienated an awful lot of voters with their effective denial of reasonable covid measures

they also won a number of sympathizers ... and "reasonable measures" - what a funny moment to write that nonsense.
Ah cool, I guess I completely missed that in my reading of the docs. Thank you for clarifying!
Forums managed to moderate their own content for decades. Maybe the problem is scale, so yes to the platforms that are too large and unwieldy.
I wonder if one hypersonic missile would cost like 10 Tomahawks? 20 Tomahawks? Overpowering defenses is not always easy. One Tomahawk is about $2M.

Also, time to reach the target may play a role, given that the launching platform cannot come closer than, say, 500 miles in either case. We assume that the adversary can detect the launch in either case; the time to react would be very different for a Tomahawk (about 0.75M; 1 hour) and a hypersonic missile (say, 5M; 10 min).
Maps are open, while objects are closed.
DOOM is big but not huge.

So not yet.

But we are planning to translate SQLite soon and yes the Linux kernel at some point.
This rollback, presented as "now the spec is on the same page with the reality of browser implementations" actually means "Oh, you work in a world where everything is about reusable, composable, components? We don't care. Go back writing HTML like it's 2010. We are not going to make Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Apple implement the modern outline algorithm. We don't care."
The point is more that, unless Google keeps continuously expanding their approach along every dimension, whichever spammers happen to be evading them at any given point will stick around and multiply.
Also, it's not electronic safety, its straight up electrical safety. There are no electronics in a magnetron.
As someone who used to do AI research, I feel the same way.
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It's hard to see something as not gatekeeping when you think that it's the right thing to do. That's my whole point. It's going to be difficult to give examples of positive gatekeeping that people aren't going to dismiss as "That's not gatekeeping thats".... "just good advice", "just the right way to do it", "knife safety 101". Encouraging someone to do something the right way is pretty close to discouraging them to do it the wrong way. Gatekeeping is a spectrum and the gates move. Everything on one side feels like it's the correct way and on the other the wrong way. Imagine you posted a cooking video to a cooking community. You did everything right but you had a blunt knife and were slipping with the knife and crushing the vegetables some times. You would feel like it's a gatekeeping unfriendly community if the majority of the replies you got were "OMG YOURE GONNA STAB YOURSELF" and "you should stop using that knife till you buy a sharper one" and "go and get yourself a knife sharpener and a honing steel and throw that glass chopping board in the bin and buy a proper wooden one". And yet this is common. It may be "knife safety 101" but I learnt about it working in a kitchen. My parents didn't tell me how to use a knife. They didn't sharpen knives. I know people who use glass chopping boards. People are likely to have grown up all their lives using a knife without ever thinking about looking up on YouTube "how to use a knife properly and safely". I.e. unknown unknowns.

I believe that it's important to do things safely and "properly" to get the most flavour/value. Turns out many activities are like that unless you're going to discover everything yourself from first principles. Gatekeeping is seen as something bad because the internet has made communities really discoverable and people entering new communities are finding that there are some mistakes that don't need to be made, they need to learn first, and the people of those communities tell them that. Some of those people are arseholes, and give advise in a very rude way. Since negativity has such a big effect, "Gatekeeping" comes up as a big negative term.
VLang is genius language. It's less boilerplate than Go, safer than C, simpler than Rust, and it's fun to use. Waiting for a Monad tutorial in V, ahh no, it's built-in.

VLang is the best language to me now to develop server-side application.
Bitcoin is the same value-add as cash because you can basically redeem it anywhere now, with few speedbumps if any due diligence is done.
Google to pay $90m to settle lawsuit over anticompetitive behavior on Play Store
There are services out there like everplans.com that handle this. There’s also the simpler and more basic deadmansswitch.net

Get a lawyer and do real estate planning, in either case.
Ann Reardon's (subject of this article) channel calls out these other channels and she even tries to recreate these fake crafts to prove they are fake.
Why is this a nothingburger? If you're making the claim that it's safe and it actively leaks memory, how do we know it doesn't also allow buffer overruns or double frees?

It would be nice if you allowed an option to compile with memory tracking so that as a user of the language you can debug this sort of stuff to make sure it's not a big deal waiting to happen.
> we're not open to allow anyone and their dog to become a "trust anchor"

Or, to put it more simply, you designed another centralised identity system.
Can't wait to see your face when you read what the Second Amendment allows.
Well then this employee must've done it wrong, because I cook bacon in my toaster over (and now an air fryer) all the time.

However, you do need a tray on which the bacon sits, which was perhaps your employee's mistake.
A model that allows robots to follow and guide humans in crowded environments
It is interesting to see that also exist channels that monetize how to make these experiments less likely to kill you using a 15 minutes video explaining some physics and one diagram.

More legit than the ones that kill you faster but still part of the same game, specially seeing the title “The most deadly project of the internet”
I will never not default to using canned beans in recipes. My weekly meal prep involves mostly fresh ingredients, save for the canned beans and microwaved rice.

The whole process takes about an hour already, and I just have no desire to cook the beans or rice in my tiny kitchen. And, the packages they come in are perfect size for what I need.
So drop it off at a salvage location. OP was complaining about salvaging it, like it was necessary. If you want to do is as a fun personal project, go for it, but it is wasteful of human time to salvage something that cheap rather than add it to a scrap pile for a professional salvage company to process in bulk.

As a bonus, the kid learns that if you arent careful with your items they may break and be gone. you dont waste hours of your time on something that should cost about 1 hour of your time at work max.

Edit: Agree to disagree, but my post is still a valid position to hold and im open to conversation. but sure use downvote as a dislike button - we are all familiar with where that gets us.

okay guess im an asshole. go use a salvaged toaster in your kitchen. for $20, id rather not risk burning my house down or teaching my kids to put their hands inside the toaster but to each their own
One expects nothing less than a moral panic and, dare I say, cancellation of an entire university, from the intellectual dark web types after such a representative sample.

These comments alone provide more intellectual stimulation than their entire front page.
Bad example.

Would you show off real SOL tokens of that qty?
X11 was designed for use as a remote session. Largely built for Unix, these Unix machines we largely accessed remotely. Local Machines were not as powerful as the mini computers of the time that would run the more heavy duty applications.

Honestly it really wasn't until SGI and NeXT did we see powerful mini computers on the desk running GUI applications in the 90s.

X11 is due for a replacement, but users just dont want to let go. Linux GUI based applications are still a small user base compared to the headless nature Linux normally gets used for.

For every 1 GNU GUI using Linux user, there are 100+ Linux installs that run completely headless. So the demand to move to Wayland is small.
You are right but for all the wrong reasons.