skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not sure if I'm understanding what you are comparing with. what is your alternative?

if we are taking authz as a need in your org and also a single point of failure for your entire services (as you said in your comment), are you suggesting you would instead build / host your own Zanzibar like authz service, and that your in-house solution would do better in terms of availability than this external solution?

leaving aside how much you'd lose on productivity, I would guess your in-house solution will break more unless you spend a lot of time making that a highly available service (and you'd depend on other SaaS for that as well, which may also break).
Of course - it’s a very common rhetorical tool.

The reason it’s getting so much debate here is because of the context in which the author employed it - shutting down someone who used homophobic language.
It's also important to point out that phasing out third party cookies while still maintaining tracking in Chrome for themselves seems like a clear antitrust issue. They are effectively making it harder for any competing ad service to track users without making it any harder for themselves.
Is selling shares of yourself the way of the future?
Great article, I learned more about these daily-use tools.

An easy trick I use a lot is host OS identification via ICMP. A TTL of around 64 is Linux, ~128 is windows.
Why Americans Hate the Media (1996)
So when is the CEO going to jail for contempt? Or does that not apply to companies, only actual human beings?
Dutch Say Schiphol Airport Cap Will Bring an End to Cheap Hub Flights
Okay, we all agree this is not what happened (and we have confirmation from project leads in this very thread) and I think we know what happened with GNOME but what happened with KDE? Did KDE just fail on accident, just completely coincidentally at the same time? I was always a GNOME fan myself, so I never really followed KDE. Does anyone know the story there?
It is a job. It is OK lol

Maybe it is because I am more senior now, FAANG or not reveals very little of your character or quality of work when looking at a particular someone. More like a baseline guarantee but that is about it

Ex-FAANG, now startup
this isn't quite accurate. The modern filibuster is basically a move to table discussions, and it takes 60 senators to overcome that delay and continue to a vote. The problem is the onus is on the 60 senators who want to pass it, and not the 40 senators who want to delay voting.

In this way it's stupidly easy to block any legislation by telling the other side "I'm gonna filibuster this." and if they want to pass it they need to pull the ~10+ votes and make it bipartisan. This is a lot of work so they normally don't even try.
> Big difference is that porn is incognito so probably a little more difficult to try matching preferences with your peers for good reasons lol

Maybe something like the reddit model where it's pseudonymous based on username. People who like this subreddit might also like that subreddit. People who like these porn videos might also like those videos, etc.
Likely. There are so many fringe scientists in middle east who tried many experiments centuries before west rebranded them.
The US should mandate every gunshot be accompanied by a loud ultrasonic tone that can easily identify the occurrence to any recording device. The tone could eventually be modulated with the guns serial number.
How is this a cut and dry question? By your definition is there any national security question that isn't cut and dry?

Would adding three more carrier groups to the Pacific likewise be a cut and dry question? What about scuttling three carrier groups? What about another three hundred ICBMs to the nuclear arsenal? Hundred-year leases on seven new army bases in Poland? Another trillion or two on building a new fighter jet?

These all seem about as cut and dry. Which is to say, not at all.

It's correct to observe that piling mountains of money into the military-industrial complex tends to have consensus in Congress, but let's not confuse that with the questions having a 'cut and dry' answer.
> when my roommate brought some hump

What is "hump?"
> Discovery orders such as these typically cannot be appealed before final judgment is issued. However, contempt-of-court sanctions for violating a discovery order can be appealed. The request for a so-called “friendly” contempt-of-court order is designed to allow ShotSpotter to effectively appeal the discovery order by appealing the contempt order.

Sounds strategic
Proposed tax bill includes closing carried interest loophole
I suppose so. Sometimes we use colorful language to make a point. I think the text absolutely supports the idea that the author feels it is their place to educate others in what they (the author) have determined is the correct moral stance. Frankly, it makes my blood boil (metaphorically, of course), and I'm on the author's side, politically speaking.
Bogus Ankle-Monitor Alerts
Not mistaken. There were both circular trackpads and a couple of trackballs.

Like this: https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8466/8080447493_c11ce3c520_b.j...
True, I do remember this, like we had to wait a while to get options for nautilus back. It really wasn't as bad as GNOME 3 though. There was a huge difference in the number of options (or % of options if you will) taken away in 2 and 3. The original GNOME 3 was originally a barren straight-jacket, where not even gnome-tweak-tool existed yet (or at least most people didn't know about it.) Remember, extensions didn't come until later and mostly didn't even work until yet later.
When I hear that sort of mockery, especially from so-called "thought leaders" and other loud voices, in conference talks, in long-winded YouTube videos (rants), etc., it's such a big red flag to me. Even though I might agree with the individual in a general sense, it makes me wonder what they're missing or getting wrong or biased against in the areas where I don't have the (supposed) expertise that they do.
God bless IRC
Why play with old and extrapolated data.

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electr...

Select generation by energy source.

Note, that while solar will probably do fine as long as its cutting off that peak 3-5PM time-frame, it falls off faster than the wind picks up (in general) and the NG plants then peak.

Move around in the year a bit, then flip to daily average.

See that, those are massive swings. One either overbuilds by a large factor, or one comes up with a storage mechanism to de-carbonize that. I'm betting given the political climate in TX the smart money is assuming that will never happen. So, the smart money would bet on just enough renewables to catch those peaks, and then fill in the rest with NG. Should that fail due to rising costs, there are coal plants.

PS: Texas has 4 reactors seen in that graph, producing ~4.7GW of power, which before the NG gas boom were regularly producing some of the cheapest power in the state. They are also some of the most recently constructed reactors in the US comming online in the early 1990s after 15 year construction cycles filled with lawsuits, and redesigns and every excuse in the book (STP actually had 3 different general contractors IIRC) to keep them from coming online, largely by environmentalists. If the remaining 4 reactors at the two sites and just two more sites with similar generation capacity were created it would more than wipe out the baseload carbon in the state leaving the NG plants only spinning up when the renewables failed. In the grand scheme of texas energy production, it would be a drop in the bucket of plant costs, even if they were constructed at the costs of the existing plants. If they could be constructed at the costs of reactors in the 1960's (aka less than NG plants) those price equations would flip on their heads. No one in their right mind would be building renewable energy sources, but because of politics and people who get in the way of Nuke plants, no one in their right mind will bet against gas.
I was the lead designer of Unity. Unity was not a response to patent concerns, but rather the manifestation of a convoluted OEM strategy involving exclusive distribution of distinct design features, and a write-once-run-anywhere dream of running Ubuntu on any device from netbooks to big screens to automobiles.
Please report to the nearest processing center for your attempted libel against the police-industrial complex.
In 2006 SUSE was the KDE distribution. Unambiguously. While other distros had community editions that shipped KDE (as the article mentions) when you wanted KDE with no frills and everything working out of the box you used SUSE or OpenSUSE.
How so?

Raytracing tries to create images by simulating how light bounces around an environment. It’s physically-based in that it uses laws of physics/optics to do that (e.g., Snell’s Law when light passes through different media), rather than some method that just happens to look cool.
> that literally no one starves in the U.S. for lack of food availability

https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo...

The metric of whether or not someone literally dies of starvation is a pathetic metric.
A truly pluralistic, non-oppressive society is a necessary prerequisite.
You think there are millions of US American school-age children whose parents voluntarily undernourish them? Out of 73 million children under 18 in the US, that's at least several percent. Do you have a citation?
As a Firefox user for the past 8 years or so, the only thing that I switch to chrome for these days is searching in foreign languages. Translation is second class in Firefox compared to Chrome.
Taiwan is right across the border from China. At any point, they can invade and take over.
I've heard the talent denial to competitors reason but even for companies as big as FB and Google this seems unrealistic to me. Is hiring an expensive engineer really worth it to prevent one of many other potentially competing companies from hiring them? This makes sense for very specialized roles but for general engineering it seems like there would be more cost than benefit.
Continuous Feedback for Developers
Hi, Continuous feedback is part of the DevOps infinity loop. Is there a platform that constantly provides feedback to developers on how their code runs in production during development?
You could do that using TLS client certificates, but they have terrible UX that browser vendors are only making worse over time.

There are also other auth mechanisms natively supported by browsers, like HTTP Basic Auth that can be used.
This is a nice tutorial on differentiable and inverse rendering (one of the Mitsuba authors also gives the tutorial):

https://shuangz.com/courses/pbdr-course-sg20/

Inverse rendering is such a cool idea... solving for the inputs (3D models and materials) to a renderer such that they match real world inputs (photographs) by computing gradients automatically.
There's a movie about his brother, it's been on my watch list for years — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_Beneath_My_Wings.

The connection between aviation history and nationalism is fascinating. As a dual citizen, it's hilarious to realize how virtually no Brazilians know much about the Wright brothers... while basically no American I ever met has even heard of Santos Dumont, a huge hero in Brazil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Santos-Dumont).

Needless to say, the same applies to the Russian / American space race. We do know a lot more about the stories on both sides there, but we obviously have a very western-centric view of things. Going to the wonderful Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow (https://kosmo-museum.ru/?locale=en) really drove this point home.
And don’t try to go down stairs while overburdened if you’re wielding one.
I've seen this several times, but I've never seen anything describing how or why & was included in the alphabet when it is clearly(?) not a letter. And what caused it to be dropped?
I use XFCE, a lightweight Win95 style DE. My XFCE start menu ("whisker menu") is bound to Start+Space, which lets me find apps by name. For apps I use frequently, they are bound to Start+[Key], eg, Start+F for the file manager, Start+S for Sublime Text (also used to open new windows in each app).

I do miss the Expose from macOS though, I don't think XFCE has that. (Edit: apparently this can be done with a third party tool.)
Are you serious? I'm starting to wonder if this whole "Ask HN" was posted to dissuade people from buying crypto.

1. False. There are mobile wallets that download only part of the blockchain.

2. This applies to all crypto, not only Monero.

3. True!

4. The number of coins added by the tail emission is too small to affect the size of the pie. The inflation rate from tail emission is asymptotically zero.

5. Privacy or no privacy, it's still crypto, which protects your fiat from inflation.

6. Monero can scale on the lightning network to millions of transactions per second. The more technical reasons, like auditing supply and POW aren't big enough problems for consumers to worry about.
In the US you can receive 6 months in jail for contempt. Perhaps the company should cease trading for the same period.
It's a bit tricky to say what the "Sapir-Whorf hypothesis" predicts, since apparently neither Sapir nor Whorf exactly formulated a clearly stated hypothesis on this topic. This means people write about "strong" or "weak" versions of it.

I think, to use your analogy, any language that lets you write new libraries which can be imported, will tend to become pretty decent at anything which people programming in that language do a lot. Whatever problems there are in the language itself, tend to become ameliorated (though probably not entirely eliminated) by focused work, for example spinning up a neural net or scraping a website gets much easier once a lot of people have done it in your language of choice, and they have released a library that they use to do it.

So, a language may not be good for speaking about a topic which the speakers of that language don't have much experience with, but if they come to have much experience with it, the language will quickly evolve to get better at it.
Just give me a way to blacklist Google results. I know there are plugins, but Google, I am willing to augment your AI with human level intelligence when I accidentally click some blog-spam-SEO-bullshit and can't hit the back button fast enough. Hide that site for me permanently. Downrank it globally if enough users do it. Use the feedback on your AI models.
> Eventually turned myself in and (miraculously) got out with an honorable discharge.

How did you swing this?
500Mbps for $60 is already expensive and slow all over Europe, for example $30 for 1 Gbps in Spain.

Starlinks <200Mbps for $124 is very expensive. You can get 100 Gbps for $5500, that is $5,5 for 100 Mbps.

As an internet provider since 1987 myself, I think all of the above is slow and expensive, I am not kidding, $1 for 100 Mbps is fair and still allows us ample profit margins.
It’s not possible to define what your company’s culture “is”. Culture is an emergent thing, that arises in the innumerable interactions between and among people. At best, you can hope to influence it. But you can never control it.
Judging by this threqd, it appears to be to some.
Xenon experiment: No dark matter, but the best “null result” in history
> not sure if I'm understanding what you are comparing with. what is your alternative?

An in-house AAA solution.

> and that your in-house solution would do better in terms of availability than this external solution?

It won't go broke and cease to exist nor does it traverse the wild wild west that is the Internet.
Again, you're limiting to just YouTube creator styles, and I'm including full on editorial for things like corporate training, episodic, feature, music videos, etc. That's my world. Obviously, the longer the final piece, the more footage necessary. However, something short like a music video can require a huge amount of footage that you might not consider. All of those quick edits of just a few frames to seconds of a shot wasn't that short from the camera. Some of those types of shots might not have ever been intended to be used and be something in between takes. It's all creative, so there are no rules in music videos.

Doing that kind of editing does require access to all of that footage at any moment. If you're doing supervised sessions with the client sitting next to you means that they on a whim could decide they want to work on a totally different part of the content. When the client is footing the bill by the hour, you don't get to waste time "loading" content.

It's really one of those things that until you've walked a mile in another person's shoes, it's best to not go blindly suggesting "better" based on one's limited knowledge. Asking questions for a better understanding is a totally acceptable way of learning, and I'm all for it. We're danger close to the former. Hopefully, I'm not sounding like an asshat leaning towards the latter.
I found this difficult when I was a young professional. Later I realized I was surrounded by mostly bad managers. They didn't want a real status update so that they could help manage the changing risk landscape. They just wanted to be told everything was OK.

After about a decade I got wise to this pattern. Their first reply would be passive-aggressive: "What are you going to do about this?" (Why just me? Are we not a team?) The old me would be unnecessarily courageous: "Get it done, of course!" If I had anything less enthusiastic to say they might follow with, "What do you want me to do about it?" This is a very different question from, "What can I do to help?" I was emotionally exhausted.

Of course when I alone couldn't mitigate the risks and things went south it was my responsibility and my apology was expected.

Once I realized these managers were a one-way street I started simply telling them, "You're the manager. You manage it." Good managers get more from me, but good managers usually are actively ahead of things previously raised and the need to occasionally pull things over the line occurs with lower frequency. Who doesn't want higher throughput with lower stress?
With the exception of the legendary early gnome with a wand of death - sometimes the game just hates you.
How about using browser-supported auth mechanisms instead of manually reimplementing auth using cookies? There is HTTP basic auth, or TLS client certs and probably more.
the very point is that climate change and CO₂ are mediopolitical distractions, and your 'simpler' isn't better but rather materially worse. pollution is a consensus problem. we should directly tackle that problem, not the indirect, mediopolitically manufactured one.

* note that consensus isn't how media or political careers are made.
https://www.cnil.fr/en/google-analytics-and-data-transfers-h...

This details the changes Google Analytics users must make to be complient. After making all these changes is there any value left in using Google Analytics. Why bother. Honest questions.
You have a problem. So you choose Microservices. Now you have N distributed problems and a system that is K times slower. Well done.
Anyone operating under the assumption that their government doesn't already have unfettered, at-will access to all their data is deluding themselves. News like this should come as a surprise to no one, least of all the technically literate crowd here.
If you've ever had to jump through the hoops of these programs like my parents had to, you would know that simply being eligible does not mean that you'll actually gain access to the program nor are you actually eligible if you're poor.

The income requirements often times are far too high especially if you're in gentrifying areas due to cost of living.
Makes me think of the movie Everything, Everywhere, All At Once (it also involves parallel universes and life's failures).

A friend said the other day, tomorrow isn't written yet...
Jeff, if you do end up with a noise-friendly place to rack a server then options open up. The last dl360 I bought was less than $1k and came with a Mellonox dual port 40 gigabit NIC. Equipment is still cheap in the used market because those who haven't just moved to the cloud are still upgrading to newer and faster servers and networks as older servers and switches are fully depreciated and scrapped. Eventually that stream will diminish but the cycle will repeat every few years.
> Don’t use (almost) any libraries

I will not hire someone who holds this view, straight up. It's the only technical belief (aside from crazy things like don't care about quality) I can think of that would instantly disqualify a candidate in my mind. Everything else feels negotiable and perspective-relevant, but not this.

It's such a massive waste of time to try and rewrite functionality that already exists elsewhere, and an inability to trust other people is a huge, bright red flag when it comes to working with others on the team.

Being very selective of which libraries you use? Sure, fair. We can talk about various lines and where to draw them, but categorically denying library use? That's unacceptable.
Wow haven’t seen that name mentioned often, got any good recommendations if their writing for someone wanting to get into it?
Pandemics, disease control, and epidemiology :)

i.e. infected = base. New infection rate, spread, R0 etc = 1st derivative. R0 increasing or decreasing = 2nd derivative.

Environment, Metereology and Climate.

Climate/phenomenon (i.e. global warming) = base. Is it increasing/decreasing = 1st derivative. Is the rate of change increasing or decreasing (i.e. as carbon emissions start to enter the atmosphere after the industrial revolution) = 2nd derivative.

You could get really fancy and say that climate is a statistical function on localised individual weather observations which follow the above pattern. And that you can take a derivative on the numbers generated by these individual observations themselves measuring localised 1st/2nd derivatives. Does that make it a third derivative? Exercise left for the reader :)

Economics, Finance, Risk and Regulation.

Closely related to interest rates and equilibrium funnily enough. Lets take mortgage stock/book cause it's easy.

A percentage of mortages go into default. 1st derivative. Are the rate of defaults (or adverse events) increasing or decreasing: 2nd derivative. (am i right on that, i haven't thought too hard, just whipped it out).

Indeed, I imagine it would come up in a lot of places where things can transition between states of equilibrium. To observe equilbrium and transition to another state, you may need to first measure 1st derivative. 2nd derivative may then inform on whether the system is transitioning to a new equilibrium/state or not. Sorry if that's too abstract.

Engineering

I presume higher derivatives would come up anywhere there's possibly of feedback loops. 2nd derivative can tell you if the system is heading towards catastrophic failure.

Which brings us to...

Anything (or at least a lot) of fields that invovle practical or empirical measurements or estimations of exponential effects. Since in the real world most exponential effects have a natural limit or regulator, we're often interested in knowing when the phenomenon hits its natural limit. And this means observing the rate of change (2nd derivative) on the rate of change (1st derivative) to pinpoint where and when the exponential behaviour is breaking down.
There are a surprising number of masochistic devs out there.
Agreed; nothing in JS has hit the level of productivity I got with Meteor, and while its still going along, its pretty sad that it (or its ideas) didn't catch on.