skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recall as a younger child (teens, in the early to mid 2000s) there were these websites that allowed you to get all kinds of free stuff as long as you gave them your details. I, as someone who had only just discovered the internet (i.e. clueless) after emigrating to the Netherlands only a few years earlier and being in a relatively poor household, decided it was the most awesomest thing. I was signing up for all of these websites.

"Who cares!" I thought to myself. "What can they even do?! As long as I don't pay them anything it's fine!" I naively told my parents, who were just as naive around these issues. I got told off a few times, not because I was giving out my data to every company under the sun, but because random things were coming through the door.

I remember once a prominent pet food company sent out a sample cat food package. I didn't even like cats. Pets were frowned upon in our culture.

Needless to say, I'm some 15 years older now, and I regret every single form I was filling out back then. I realise that everything has vastly changed and systems change, but I can't help but feel somewhere some system still has my data, and it's only a matter of time before something wrong happens with it, if it hasn't already.

This kind of thing probably targets similar households. Poor people who are generally uneducated on these matters. It's sad that such thing isn't outlawed.
I am a research scientist that knows how to write numerical code, but I do not trust myself to write secure web software. Which is the reason I regrettably keep the app in question internal and the source unreleased.

To give a more useful answer though: it just uses cherrypy as a web framework and the zoom python bindings and sqlite. Nothing sophisticated, just a CRUD app that occasionally needs to download a large file and transcoded it in the background (which is where this scheduler will be used).
That’s a heuristic which like all heuristics will fail to work in some cases.

This is one of them - we’ve never had private hostile organizations with immense budgets trying to manipulate and help themselves to the private information of regular people at global scale before.
Well said. It’s almost a meme at this point: HN commentor takes a reductive stance that sounds clever in theory, but collapses when confronted with the actual factual circumstances. Repeat ad nauseam with no gains in collective self-awareness.
Must be regional. Over here I picture electricians with an insulated #1 square welded to one hand and a power driver to the other.

Slotted stands out because it's a wallplate-only screw.
With respect, if we can't even constructively discuss what you yourself said I think we will go nowhere and we are wasting each others' time.
Not your keys, not your bitcoin.
An explicit part of freedom is the freedom to make mistakes and suffer horribly for it. This isn't pretty and it is fair to hold it up as an inevitable part of the crypto world - but this can happen and crypto can still live up to its promise. Losing everything is an aspect of unregulated banking.

The argument that the crypto people can make (and I am still one) is that over a lifetime I feel I am certain to lose ~40% of my cash to government inflation (possibly more), people who are incompetent will get automatic handouts every so often to stay in charge & vast sums will go to fighting wars in places I don't want to fight wars.

I'd rather take a system where there is a 10% chance to lose everything and people can only create money according to pre-agreed rules. No stealth taxes, I want to know who is paying and how much. If that involves concentrating the risk it is worth it. Depending on how much you lost you might still come out ahead in such a world.
Same as me but with small garden hand tools. I've lost several over the years in my reasonably large garden. Nowadays I prefer to buy ones that have bright orange or red handles, or similar.
I was there recently for a conference, didn't know about the 9eur ticket and got the 10eur 24 hour ticket for zone ABC on the machine. Anyway, forgot to stamp the ticket, of course. The controller didn't give us a fine but warned us to stamp it before we get to the central station.
I haven’t looked much into feed readers. I got Inoreader’s paid tier. The second paid tier when it was on sale. It has filtering. No idea how good it is.

I also mostly care about filtering as well. Patterns and categorizing things is a love for me. I need to spend a bit of spare time on figuring it all out. Especially before Inoreader renewal comes up.

I haven’t yet figured out which mobile or desktop app to use for feed reading though. Do I use Inoreader directly or something that syncs with it. Not sure if the filtering works if syncing.

Regardless, do you have any opinion on any mobile feed readers? Are you using the old Readkit on desktop still?
Disclaimer: I now work at https://www.yugabyte.com/yugabytedb/, I joined because I liked their approach and think it has a lot of merit.

But there are also https://www.cockroachlabs.com/product/, https://github.com/pingcap/tidb and
https://ydb.tech/ which each has promise.

There is definitely lots of progress to make in this space. From what I have seen they are all significantly slower on a single node and are not as battle-hardened. But I think with time we will have a few really nice options to pick from.
"I have never seen a square (Robertson?) screw in the wild, I assume that's regional."

The way I heard it was that Mr. Robertson gave his new screws to Henry Ford for testing. Ford wanted to use them but Robertson insisted on a royalty per screw. Ford would not agree to that so the deal failed. This is probably the reason they are a regional rather than an international screw. The entire electrical hardware industry uses square heads in Canada.

(Source: Probably CBC radio many decades ago (?) )
No need to apologize - just keep in mind that some replies are written believing your colleagues are criticizing everything you do. Doesn't make the advice less useful, but it can affect the sentiment.
Heads I win / tails you lose is the phrase I believe :)
The other fatal flaw of Wayland is that it’s support on anything other than Linux is abysmal. I can run an X server on Linux, BSD, Commercial UNIX variants, Minix, macOS, OpenVMS, and even Windows. Heck at one point there was even an X server for DOS!
public static void main(String[] args)

Why does this come up so often when people talk about Java?

Because beginners are confronted with the IO Monad if they want to write a Hello world program.

Monad is a typeclass that any datatype can implement. Monads have a then or flatmap like function that takes a Monad and a function that operates on the contents of the monad but also returns another monad of the same type which is then combined according to the implementation details of the specific monad that implements the monad typeclass.
Sounds like the insurance company is the customer, then.
I much prefer modern GNOME and KDE to their older counterparts. I believe modern DEs definitely lack a certain polish, but the old, clunky late-00s UI is incredibly unappealing.

I can see why existing Linux users may have resisted the change but I wouldn't have even tried Ubuntu long enoughto switch to Linux had they stuck with the old system.

Windows 3.11 is a terrible fit for productivity, Win95/98/2000 were immensely better. The Windows usability only improved until mscursed themselves with Windows 8 (with the exception of Vista which was released before it was done and was almost as buggy as modern Linux, though SP1 fixed most of that).
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04. Right clicking the thrash can icon works as intended.
Tesla Autopilot Almost Steers Model 3 into Oncoming Train
I loved/love Unity and kept on installing it on my desktops. It's now running on 22.04.

Don't see why it needs to be changed. There are so many parts that feel a lot of thought has been spent on them.
> There's always going to be "management",

Fuck crypto, but the concept of a DAO may change this.
> Google's hiring system is so Byzantine that buying companies, bypassing it, might be their main recruiting method.

Wrong. Google actually fires all former employees of acquired companies once a certain protection period in the acquisition agreement is over, unless they individually pass the tests applied to new employees.
Oregon State University also has a TRIGA reactor, in Corvallis, Oregon. Looks like it is rated for 4x power of Reed's.

https://radiationcenter.oregonstate.edu/oregon-state-triga-r...

TRIGA was developed by Freeman Dyson as one of the first inherently safe reactors, proof against meltdown in case of e.g. failure of pumps.

TRIGA reactors will remain useful long after all use of nukes to generate electrical power has faded away.
That's a good point. My assumption is that with a more democratic structure governing corporation decisions, those decisions will likely be less aligned with the ideology of "profit at the expense of all else" which can lead to some of the projects that McKinsey has worked on. Of course its not foolproof and the organizations could still make those decisions, but I think it would still mitigate a good portion which would be a step in the right direction.
Halifax bank to close customer accounts for “inappropriate” social media posts
Show HN: Minecraft mod to run external scripts (serverside)
For manufacturers on assembly line, if something is not user serviceable, yes, it is OK to use anything, from Torx to Pentalobe to something even more exotic.

But if I ever need to service something, I want it to be accessible; I want somebody at least think about it for once.

My favorite screw drive type is hybrid Slotted/Philips screw. If it is large enough to be unscrewed by a coin and somebody have thought about it too -- even better.
They aren't a bank

Laws don't function on what you think is equivalent

Banks are a lot more than "I will hold your money"

Your mattress is also not a bank
What you say is true, but that is how insurance works - you pay a premium for "What if something unexpected happens", there is a 9 nines chance that it'd not happen but still we keep paying. K8s is similar.
We need to stop saying don’t roll your own crypto and start teaching it with good examples and good explanations.

The only people who will listen to “don’t roll your own crypto” are people who maybe should be learning crypto since they can approach it with the needed level of humility.

The people who should not be writing crypto are precisely the ones who will ignore this advice.

It’s also sort of elitist sounding and that puts people off and further reduces the odds that they will listen.

Everyone knows that someone “rolls their own” crypto or none of it would exist. How does one get into this mysterious club? As near as I can tell you… roll your own crypto… and manage not to fuck it up. So the way you get to become someone who gives this sage advice is by disobeying it.

(Of course there are degrees and Ph.Ds and publications but that’s the realm of real cryptographers of the sort that design ciphers. I’m talking about programmers using crypto.)
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I like heads I win / tails I win as one notch up from the usual. Heads i win / tails you lose could imply that we both lost. However, heads I win / tails I win seems more appropriate for McKinsey and the other truly ruthless (or singular focused) orgs out there.
Huge amounts of natural gas are stored underground in artificial caverns. The same geological formations can be used to store hydrogen. This is not some suspect newfangled technology.

The storage is not free, but it is extremely cheap, compared to the cost per energy capacity of batteries. Ignoring this fact will not make it go away.
The comments so far have tended to focus on the proof itself, but for me the coolest part of the blog post were the formal methods.

Does anyone here also use SPARK for this sort of thing? Are there other formal methods tools you'd use if you had to prove something like this?
A 4-quadrant diagram on a golf club, this looks made for executives :)
It's not a question of "if" a developer can learn a new language, but of "how long" it takes. And it's not a question of how long it takes to become moderately productive, but how long it takes to reach an expert level of proficiency.
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/9/decss_tattoo.html

Could do the "I/O Port Icons" in appropriate places. Little keyboard glyphs on the back of the hand, video in over the eyebrows,etc.
> you mount the Walkman as a USB storage device and transfer files. Wait… that’s it? Yes!

Ahh yes that is a Premium feature not even Apple or Android flagship phones are able to provide. For some reason.
Hacker news has a lot of "hackers" (older meaning of the word) participating in the discussions. Hackers are usually pro-free information flow on the private level.

So it doesn't really surprise me.
Yeah, I rarely see consultants give much advice beyond what the leadership already said they wanted to do - albeit not often directly.

What seems to commonly happen is a consultant comes in, listens to leadership, and then regurgitates what leadership already really wants to do. This lets leadership absolve some of the responsibility when it fails ("The consultant told us to do X").

And it makes sense because who knows the business better than leadership? The consultants can't really do much else other than take their cues from leadership. What routinely surprises me is just how much companies are willing to pay for this service.
"Surely crypto fans will recognize that the math under this claim does not make mathematical sense?"

Is that something that you see them doing elsewhere?
Being unemployed probably means you don't have a huge budget, but some for our child I've tried to do a little bit of "everything" to see what he enjoys.

When I ask him what he wants to do he says "I don't know", so I say "We're going swimming in the sea", "Lets plant some seeds", "Today we're cooking / sewing", "Lets pick a spot on the map and go visit it by bus/tram", or "Lets draw pokemon evolving".

(maps are kinda fascinating to him. I often ask him what he thinks he can see if he were stood on top of a particular local landmark - he has a good sense of direction, but no idea of scale/distance.)

Over time I've learned a bit about what he likes, but he's young and fickle enough that some ideas are good one day and terrible the next. (For example he loves swimming and playing football, but when I put him in age-appropriate classes he refused to take part - "I don't like doing what the teacher says, why can't I just have fun and play about?")

Electronics is interesting to him, as is listening to "Daddy music". (Goth/Rock/Metal.) "Mommy music" doesn't appeal as much which I find a little fascinating. Does he genuinely prefer my music, or is it something about me? I know that he behaves and plays differently depending on who he's spending time with ..
> We need to stop saying don’t roll your own and start teaching it with good examples and good explanations.

I 100% agree with this statement, in isolation.

But in context, I have to wonder if something in the post sounded like I was telling people not to roll their own? Because that wasn't the take-away.

Either way, https://gotchas.salusa.dev/GettingStarted.html

> So the way you get to become someone who gives this sage advice is by disobeying it.

Lawyers have a similar thing, from what I've been told.

"Don't go to law school", "Don't become a lawyer", etc. are what many lawyer parents have told their children (some of whom went on to become lawyers themselves).
Kubernetes seems like subversion before git came out. Overly complex but got the job done. When git came out, all other VCSs were quickly abandoned. Just waiting for the day when the git of container management comes out.
On Mac I use the "Shottr" screenshot tool, which can also do OCR on the image if I need text out of these sorts of sites.

I think similar things exist for Windows.
This is the result of centralization of power, and nothing more.

People are people, regardless of what faction you've been brainwashed to believe supports the greater good
Reminds me of this little reactor in downtown Schenectady NY https://www.rpi.edu/dept/ne/public_html/RCF.html
And if you don't have salt domes, you can use more laboriously excavated caverns in hard rock. This would still be an order of magnitude cheaper than batteries per unit of storage capacity.
It's about collecting data. But now we have other ways, don't we?
fwiw - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives
I have had much fun with my daughters at that age (and younger, and older) with Arduino kits from Ali Express. Just a few dollars' worth of parts were some of the best spent money I've ever spent.

I would do the programming, and the girls would help assemble the parts. But they would be with me and see the programming process. Soldering lead free is difficult, in the end some things I soldered myself with lead. And one of the girls is interested in the programming in the end.
Interestingly, there's a very high chance that those HTML pages with tables crafted in the 90s still render perfectly fine today (if they're still around).
> If we organize corporations to be owned by the workers instead of shareholders

That model isn't a good solution either - it would require for workers to "buy in" into the cooperative in order to have a job. Most cooperatives are founded by a group of people pooling together their individual assets to start operations.
> Lamb has always attracted admirers (notably in the ranks of the Charles Lamb Society)

Isn't the fact that a fan club of an author has admirers among its members the opposite of notable?

Anyway, the review makes me want to check out some of his writing on Project Gutenberg, so that's a good sign!
Walks in nature + iNaturalist. Gardening. Pottery. Vermiculture. Microscopy. Creative writing. Watercolour. Robotics.
Funny you mention that. X11 has been maintained for decades.

Tell me, does this Wayland improve the User experience?
Or merely the developers?
McKinsey’s biggest structural issue is extremely decentralized leadership. Senior partners are not accountable to anyone and there’s limited ethics oversight.

Combine that with working with a majority of F500s and governments, and it’s a high risk situation.

Great initial job training though, so no limit to talent pipeline when they get college grads for 2 years.
The article says (near the end): "The Robertson, or square, drive is quite common especially throughout Europe."

Is it? I'm in Europe and I've never seen Robertson. From what I read Robertson is very ubiquitous in Canada and is hardly used anywhere else. Is that right? Can some people from different countries share their experience on Robertson in their region?
The best feature from Unity was just tapping alt and easily finding the menu option on the app I was running. This helped a lot with apps that had many or deep menu items like GIMP or LibreOffice. The new policy, however, is for apps to drop menus. I don't think a new incarnation without app developers embracing it would have the same effect.

Also, for the sake of maintainability, it would be very good if this was implemented using GNOME extensions.
With regards to your music library, how do you listen to your music on the go? I tried the self-hosted setup maybe 8 years ago and couldn't find a reliable way to stream to an iOS device. Is that something you've looked into?
Interesting work, best of luck!

In all honesty, the biggest issue I’ve have with quantum development isn’t the interface per se (everyone knows python), but the instability of the underlying APIs. Half the qiskit examples you find are all using deprecated modules, and anything off that beaten path might as well be throwaway code once the corresponding paper is published, assuming the paper had any code to begin with.

I get that this is a consequence of open source development in a bleeding edge field, but just getting stable and reproducible results is hugely important for those of us trying to do applied research in this domain.
Thanks for this post! Lots of resources and references mentioned to look up.

Yeah the interface isn’t so important with a different feed reader actually being used.

I’m guessing there isn’t filtering available. I’ll look into it though.
Are there a lot of people writing JS with leading semicolons like these examples?
Lots of good suggestions in this thread here, I'd just like to add - see what she's interested in, from a topic point of view. A lot of the suggested things here are science based. Is that what she likes? Maybe history? Museums and exhibits may be much more appreciated and exiting than science kits. Or perhaps biology? Bug collecting? A basic microscope kit might be better.

It need not be educational in the traditional sense at all either. You could go on hikes, teach about camping/wilderness survival, knot tying/scouts activity stuff. It could even be handyman things if those are of interest to her (I know they would have been of interest to 11yo me) - basics of tools and tool safety (assuming you know it yourself, or perhaps a local course for kids if available). There are more "practical"/lifesaving options too like knowing how to change a tire, or how do perform CPR/Heimlich maneuver.

Additional on a tangential note there are lots of excellent books, but in particular I highly recommend the x Book series by DK (not just for kids but also for adults) (https://www.dk.com/ca/promotion/big-ideas-series/). Encyclopedias are also great, the more pictures the funner they are for some.
Unfortunately, with modern toolkits the network transparency is often abysmal. I remember that Qt 3 had awesome performance and Gtk 2.0 had passable performance, bit modern ones feel like they have to redraw everything from scratch by bitmapping every time and would be totally unresposible until they do that.
It's not you. Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator and InDesign are on a class of their own. Unfortunately, nothing comes close. If you don't like Premiere or After Effects, that are great choices. Not so much for the rest of the suite.

I'm rooting for Affinity, because of the buy vs rent business model and because Adobe need competition, but they still have a long ways to go
Ladybird Web Browser – SerenityOS LibWeb Engine on Linux
Every nationalist is honored when a foreigner takes a keen interest in his or her culture, regardless of the reason. It brings so much dignity to a country when a foreigner loves it. They might cringe when they see the "weeb"... but deep down inside they're absolutely brimming with national pride whenever they see a foreigner Naruto-running.
You can’t just hire 1 DevOps superstar though because they need to sleep and not burnout. You’ll need ~7 people on a rotation if you need to really support anything worth really supporting. DevOps is about giving Developers a dedicated System Operations job for some small fraction of their time.
Reading the Go spec will only take an hour or two if you don't get distracted. If wasting time is your concern, it's such a small amount that you've probably recently wasted more time on a number of trivial things. Reading the Rust Book takes a bit longer, but it's still just a handful of hours.

https://go.dev/ref/spec
https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
Very cool idea, indeed!
It's about hiring talent that can drive customer value without concern for anything else and the business can eventually hire more experienced individuals to fix the mud mountain if there's market fit and continued need.

It is extremely easier to find more affordable talent that has come out of a boot camps knowing javascript but more specifically "react/nodejs" which lets them work both frontend and backend. They rarely know best practices, how to properly debug & troubleshoot a problem that isn't a Google search away, etc, but they will be hungry and work their butts off to ship their CRUD style features.
You're not entitled to a relationship either.