skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The methodology is really flawed.

Why Microsoft office and not Lotus symphony which predated it 6 years? There is plenty of open source typesetting software and editors that goes back to the 70s. Why use OO as the comparator?

You want a GUI? Abiword is 1998. A suite? Koffice is 2000.

Why not compare it with VisiOn or WordStar?

And Word came out in 1983, why not start the clock there? Office was announced in 1988, why not there?

Electric Pencil was 1976, that's where GUI word processing that led to WordStar, WordPerfect and MS Word really started, why not that?

Xerox BravoX was 1972, there was a commercial product called the Xerox 860 with it in 1974, why not that? Here's a commercial from 1977, I think that obviously counts: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lQb8hgg2gGs

Nope 1990. It's totally arbitrary

All of these have that same flaw. Before Netscape was Cello in 1993, MacWWW in 1992, both commercial. It was a mix of open source and commercial the whole time.

Photoshop was just a knockoff of Deluxepaint which was a knockoff of the Quantel Paintbox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantel_Paintbox

Here's a video of the use. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BwO4LP0wLbY

Again just an arbitrary year.

Besides, in the long history of software, what's open source? Are we talking the cabinets next to the TX-0 at MIT in the 1960s with paper tapes that you could cut copy and modify? The source code published for free in the zines and journals marked public domain in the 1970s through things like flexi-discs? People broadcasting software over CB radio in the 1980s? Only things released after the modern regime of copyrights was collected and cataloged?

It's just sloppy, arbitrary data and therefore invalid conclusions. This is bad science.
I use mainly open source software so I don't use pirated stuff in any of my operational systems as it poses too many problems.

So too is licensed commercial software as Adobe's Photoshop licensing scam shows. One of my most annoying examples is UltraEdit a text and code editor originally from IDM Computer Solutions, now Idera, Inc.

Years ago I bought a perpetual upgrade license which at the time was quite expensive when compared to a single-version purchase but along the way IDM introduced a website locking mechanism to stop pirating and it turned out to be a big problem.

If one didn't uninstall
UltraEdit correctly the IDM website deemed it to still be installed. Now, we're all pretty familiar with that except the trouble was that I'd be forever changing the O/S or blue-screening it and I'd often forget to uninstall U/E first - and it was the only instance of server-locked software on my machine (having vowed long before IDM changed the rules never to buy software licensed in this way).

I should note that multiple installed instances were never a problem as the license permitted three copies and I only ever had one installed copy at a time. The problem was continual difficulties in resolving the 'dead' license count on the server as the company just wasn't interested in helping. So the solution was to remain on the last of the non-locked versions (U/E for Windows v16.2).

So I felt cheated and I still do. Moreover, the company lost sales, I didn't buy UltraCompare nor did I put UltraEdit or it on my Linux systems as was my original intention.

Frankly, most commercial software sucks big-time, long live open source.
The principle behind it is called polarized training. Multiple studies have been done at this point. There are still tiny disagreements but the general idea well tested. I’m using it as well for schema’s as well and works like charm, people go faster and training is more enjoyable
If you want the book to be profitable then yes. Small exception for how tos or if you're backed by a large brand so the author becomes irrelevant.
I use a Logitech Mouse and Keyboard combo. Is there any USB-C dongle available for those at all?
Of course there are outliers, without a doubt, but for the most part, wages in the games industry lag far behind "market rate" of the overall software development industry.
To me that whole notion of “# of deaths by xxxx” is starting to look so absurd. Would we compare fry pans by looking at the number of death per meals cooked ?
Even going for a pure lead sprinkled with Teflon flakes pan wouldn’t give us any interesting number by that metrics, and I feel energy production is basically the same.

There needs to be more granularity than “death”, and the numbers need to come from somewhere else than the government also involved in running the plants.
R1a1a seems to correspond to Proto-Indo-European-speaking migrants, but that's not the only group that contributed to the genetics of the present population of Europe.
become a landlord, buy solar & batteries.
From a hacker news pragmatism point of view, I wonder which wins a marginal ratio of amphibian lives saved to economic damage contest: shutting down or regulating polluting industries vs imprecisely lecturing cairn builders on tinder
I know of two scaleups that have left it. As usual, this might just be poor implementation choices rather than product or support issues.
I too follow this advice and i wish someone would have told me earlier. But hiw do you judge if the book at hand is „interesting“? I for myself try to figure out my emotions towards the book- do i feel a real urge to keep reading? If the answer is yes, you probably wouldn’t even think about it. If not it can be hard to detach oneself from the book. Maybe you like the author or the cover print. Going back to the question above helps.
But what is even more important is the selection process. Reading should be fun but selecting your next book can be tedious. Often researching the internet is sufficient but sometimes i have to sit down inside the bookshop and start reading. I often leave without buying anything. Dont buy loads of books and only read a fraction- this is bad advice and will make you loose interest quickly.
A loose association of actors with invested interest in destroying UK and EU, with differing priorities:

* Disaster capitalists like Jacob Rees-Mogg, who extract money from the economies being destroyed.
* Media moguls like Rupert Murdoch, with the goal to control who is in power.
* Corrupt politicians like Boris Johnson, who want to live large while passing taxpayers' money to their allies.
* Oil/gas industry, for reasons that are pretty clear to everyone by now.
* Russian government and its paid agents like Aaron Banks, who want to see EU, UK and other western powers as weak as possible.
* Hi-tech companies like Cambridge Analytica, Palantir and Facebook, who receive huge sums from the above groups to subtly manipulate public opinion and directly affect elections.

Note that right-wing public is not on the list - there is nothing political in any of the groups' motivations (except, arguably, Russia). It's simply that they have figured out that the conservative voters are easiest to manipulate, and they continue to influence other political groups as well. In the UK they have directly manipulated Labour into electing Corbyn for leader (supposedly hoping that his extreme political position and leadership incompetence will cause the chaos; until they realised that the same result can be achieved far more easily with Johnson); in Germany they have been funding the Green party for its extreme stance on nuclear energy; and so on.
It would be exciting if you could add more memory to their machines, and maybe gpus, on systems that cost less than 6000 dollars (and even those haven't transitioned to apple's in house cpu architecture).

For now, Apple Silicon is just sorta a blip because most people buy them for coding environments and editing pictures, and apple decides to dedicate all of those performance per watts on having Apple Music boot up as fast as possible on boot.

For me, I get the popcorn out for all the ongoing GPU drama between AMD, Nvidia and now Intel. All of that seems to be the sequel to Pirates of Silicon Valley.
I agree with you, but the article does address this point.
We do a lot of .net core development (our main product is a large codebase in .net with code written and refactored from back to 2013) and most of it is on mac. Most use rider or vs for Mac. Most code is asp.net core, we have a large xamarin app and a few internal desktop apps (written in windows.forms which work under mac, windows and linux). I would say the experience is great.
> Neither am I delighted to have my machine talk to Cloudflare or Akamai

what's your concern around CDNs? Its not like its viable for every company to put in 1000s of edge nodes to ensure every area of every country has a good website/app experience.
A sane person cam struggle to find a place to use the bathroom in downtown Seattle. I've had to hold it myself from Cherry street to the Issaquah Transit Center for lack of a place to go in-between. The facilities at Tibbets Creek Park have been quite a relief on more than one occasion. Though that's an expensive trip for someone who doesn't have much money. And quite out of the way for anyone not living in the suburbs.

And in case you didn't know, America gutted public mental health over the past 50 odd years.
Or you know, brainwashing is prevalent in higher ed in case you have not noticed.
The links are just background info.

The concerns are difficult to dispute because they’re “not even wrong”. There are no specific claims that can be disputed.

Serious astronomers don’t just look at a photo with bright dots and get confused because some of them are satellites. A few predictable bright pixels are the least of their concerns.

As far as space debris, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_debris_produci...
If you use a microcontroller with 4kb of ram you should know the length of all buffers you use so you don't need to store it. For NES programming, which has 2kb you don't program C at all...much less wasting cycles doing things like strlen. It's tedious but rom is bigger and you can "store" the length of things in the instruction themselves (ie., hardcoded lengths), whereas ram is saved for more important things like position of sprites or whatever.

I really hope people aren't seriously doing string parsing on microcontrollers.
https://google.com/search?q=on+the+front+page+of+hacker+news
See generally

https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/papers/RSA-survey.pdf

To the original poster, see also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)#Attacks_aga...

One should never use "textbook RSA" for secure communications. It has problems with plaintext malleability (that is, there's a predictable way that an attacker can change the plaintext, possibly meaningfully, by changing the ciphertext), with some number-theoretic attacks, and more. Also, with textbook RSA, the message size is limited to the size of the modulus (e.g. with a 2048-bit modulus, you could never send more than 2048 bits of plaintext in a single message).

You can also become familiar with many of these problems by working through Thomas Ptaček's Cryptopals exercises.

https://www.cryptopals.com/

In these exercises, you implement famous attacks against naive versions and inappropriate applications of ciphers, including RSA.

Most ciphers provide confidentiality properties under highly idealized conditions where an attacker is given the least prior knowledge and least ability to influence the communications process, and where mathematical quirks that could lead to a mathematical solution of the cipher are assumed not to occur. This means that other kinds of constructions need to be used in order to produce a system that's secure in practice. An analogy is that one might use a hash for message authentication, based on the claim that the hash is secure in certain settings -- but this may be vulnerable to length extension attacks. Or one might use a block cipher in ECB mode, based on the same sort of claim -- but this may be vulnerable to several mode-of-operation attacks such as recognizing repeated encryptions of the same plaintext.
Monitors cost 2 to 3 times the price of TVs. And dont come with speakers either.
Yes, and Blender. Both examples where productization is better. Likely marketing and community building around the software is much better too.
Be curious how Kubernetes actually creates technical debt.
Lex Fridman Podcast: Magnus Carlsen
> The really oppressed Chilean women make it the best

Actually fuck this.
> If getting banned for consistently making a mess is what it takes to get public bathrooms back, then so be it.

we have similar system already in place. It is called "no-fly list". Interesting that most of the people on this site is against it while seem to support the proposed "no-bathroom list". I wonder why so. May be it is because the people here allow for non-zero possibility that they may be subjected to the former while they are sure that the latter would never apply to them.
The funny thing is that it’s full of people willing to take business advice on crypto and ‘web3’ from this dude…
> And a 'small loss relative to the country's balance sheet' would make an absolutely huge difference if that loss had instead been spent on education or health.

Definitely. Bitcoin purchases are larger than any public hospital anual budget for example.
The problem is directional. Other FOSS out there seem to clearly understand what are the pain points and adress them as fast as they can while adding new features. Gimp feels slow in that regard. Maybe not enough dev resources or no clear focus among all devs.
One fun metric I heard: subtract your age from 100 and that's that pages you should read. So, for example, if you're 60, then 100-60 = 40. If it hasn't grabbed you by page 40, toss it.
That's a digraph, and they're only a problem if they can be pronounced differently. If "ng" is always the velar nasal [ŋ] and can never be the sequence [ng], then you can just treat it as a distinct symbol that happens to be composed of shapes used for other symbols.
It’s usually progressively deduced from your salary, you don’t need to buy it upfront
Hackernews in general can be quite callous towards poverty.
> The vast majority of the “money” we are sending is military equipment that the U.S. produces. You think Ukraine is reselling it to somebody else while they are in the middle of a war?

This story that is now continuously pushed by pro Russians is based off a single story from a single NGO that didn't even relate to the current stage of the war.

This story instead was talking about how weapons where being targeted by Russia before they reached the front lines early on and is not at all relevant anymore.

What people are trying to do is angle this story as the weapons being sold, but it's actually about weapon shipments being targeted by Russia.
For 1, how does intelligence correlate with the types you mentioned? Seems pretty subjective.
Is there any place there are actual statistics on this. Say the top 10k most used open source projects across languages where each project has the amount of money spent to maintain it / the number of people hours needed to maintain it and where the maintainers care to be remunerated?

I really don't know which open source projects are under funded. Firefox, Python, LLVM, Clang, .NET, Chromium, Electron, VSCode are certainly adequately funded. There are also projects like some of my own that have a few 100 or 1000 users but I don't need/want funding for them. Maybe if they got 10k or 100k users and I actually got lots of support requests that would change.

I'm sure there are several under funded projects but it'd be nice to see some qualitative data instead of just feeling it must be true.
pressing volume and power at the same time is painful?
Non-religious people can find "something more" under the influence of psilocybin, DMT or LSD or during following weeks. They may start looking for purpose or meaning where they previously did not seek: inside.

No drugs will give you long-term purpose, meaning or self-worth but some can certainly provoke thought patterns of "there's more to it all" or "everything is connected" which in certain people may result in positive life changes like seeking (or acknowledging) spirituality without losing disregard towards religions.
Why is a custom format needed? Why not just use JSON or YAML?
UUID list: list of unique id implementations, concepts, and resources
Just going to throw this out there because I haven’t seen it referenced much on HN, but as someone who spends 8+ hours a day in one flavor of AutoCAD or another I am constantly cycling between caps lock and standard. Nearly every modern plan set produced is done in all caps, and with nearly all standard office communication being done through email or slack switching from one to the other easily is really quite important to me and my colleagues.
Well yeah, those TVs are cheap because they use crappy panels and get subsidized by ads. If you just want a cheap panel and driver, you can message a wholesaler on panelook and buy them for like $200 plus some change for a sound bar.

A fast 4K monitor costs ~$700 because it’s a much better product.
I have zero trust in Authy or RSA SecurID. As far as I am concerned, for a security product, one strike and you’re out. This is Authy’s second at least.

At this point I also won’t consider anything but U2F secure 2FA.
Unless you consider the topics of 'privacy' and 'security' to be distinct for semantic correctness, I don't know what you mean. VPN is not supposed to provide security??
I'm not sure what it's like where you live but where I live it's like this.

Train/Bus stations don't have bathrooms.

Homeless shelters and the churches which do provide services make you leave during the day and do not let people back in under any circumstances until around 5 PM.

Fast food restaurants, gas stations and hotel lobbies all lock their bathrooms and allow access to patrons only.

Which leaves shopping malls and libraries. In a huge city, that's a pretty low toilet density.

> but that needs to be coupled with enforcement against people who would abuse them,

I have no problem with this. Vandalizing public utilities should be a crime which is enforced. Having to answer the call of nature should not be.
Booked via Air France does not mean flying on an Air France plane. In this case it's in fact the same Delta flight.

I checked and the only flight I can find in early-ish August that used the plane mentioned in the article was on Aug 13 [0]. But it seems the flights out of ACC are very consistently delayed.

[0] https://www.planemapper.com/flights/DL157
“No GMO” labeling isn’t because of any of those issues though; it’s just marketing to Green Meme people, upper class Whole Foods shoppers who are big into naturalistic fallacies.
I don't think I agree with the framing that the situation is some kind of scheme by executives to underpay people. All jobs have compensation, status, quality of life, "passion" components, etc. If someone wants to take a job that is higher status and that they're passionate about in exchange for lower direct compensation, who's to say that's not that person's preference?

Now, is it unfair that the compensation component is so low that people who don't have other means of income effectively can't take the job? Personally, I don't think so. I would love to research butterflies 24/7 and if I was independently wealthy perhaps would, but I completely understand that demand for butterfly research doesn't generate enough funding to make it possible to do that and lead the life I live now.

FWIW, from my limited experience leadership were all perfectly lovely people, extremely passionate about publishing as well, who in some cases had worked all of these "drummed up" jobs themselves on their way up the ladder.
There's an amusing way to quantify just how systemic the language orthography is: train an ML model to converts words to phonemes and back, and then see how many mistakes it makes. With similar sized training corpus in different languages, you get numbers that are directly comparable. Of course, it's a very rough estimate, but still interesting:

https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigtyp-1.1/

Finnish scored 98% accuracy on "writing" (model converting phonemes to written words) and 92% accuracy on "reading" (written words to phonemes) in this study. The only other languages with both scores above 90% in their comparison are Esperanto - which is explicitly designed for that, of course - Serbo-Croatian, and Turkish. I'd say that's a very good result for a natural language.

For comparison, Spanish is 70% writing / 85% reading, French is 28% writing / 80% reading, and English is at dismal 36% writing / 30% reading.
So, most ‘experts’ then? I try to know as little about k8s and aws as I can but because of ‘people who embellished their resume’ (I am trying to be nice here), I had to because most that had it on their resume did ‘something’ with it but not anything usable. Now I can do it myself (but hate it very much) and ask questions during interviews 99% of so called ‘k8s experts’ (…) cannot answer. And I see this now happening more and more in security as well; people ran a vuns detection script once and put security expert on their resume.
U2F generates a new keypair for each origin. Public keys are not re-used.
Interesting! I thought for sure I had a type for audio languages.

We could add one by simply adding one word to this line here: https://github.com/breck7/pldb/blob/59be1839df9888099537662e...

Or perhaps it might be better to add it via a group/tag/paradigm/industry or something like that (created an issue to track this: https://github.com/breck7/pldb/issues/39)
Why are D-sharp and E-flat considered to be two different notes?