skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the exact opposite. Those scrolls were initially discovered in an era when no one knew how to properly treat papers like that. They literally crumbled under the light. This created a serious danger of inadvertent destruction of these important documents so the access to the physical documents is highly restricted. The content is scanned and available online for all.

The problem is made worse by rich collectors (mostly from the USA) who pay for fake scrolls often to justify some religious view. There was a pretty interesting documentary (I believe from Vice if I remember correctly) on this subject.

Again, Israel is a secular country. 26% of Israeli citizens aren't Jewish. Of the people classified as Jews, secular are the VAST majority and control all branches of government. I won't say there's no influence of religion but in many regards but its influence is on par with the influence in the USA.
The alchemy moment will be when a laser impulse (made of a cardboard, a stick and a couple mirrors) assumes the shape of the gold nucleus.
Call me an old gray beard here. But, IMHO the client is x10 more complex in all platforms. Pumping out crud api calls is fast. Dealing with React/swift/state management/product managers is not. So with this project BFF I feel it's going the wrong way. We need ways to help the clients do less work faster. Not the backends. Client team members don't need more work - working on a BFF. They need less work, maybe Backend team members do more client work near the api layer.
> By the point that you do this at scale with your whole fleet, you'd almost be better off just setting up the tunnels yourself.

I suppose you are correct, if you regularly have traffic between every pair of nodes in the network. But I suspect that most companies have a lot of laptops that only talk to some datacenter/office via the VPN plus Gmail/O365/whatever via HTTPS. Monitoring in that situation is very easy.
Yes. As a lead with a team spread across time zones, I’m constantly reminding (nagging) people to check in. I don’t want to have to corral people into a ‘least inconvenient’ meeting slot to get updates.
Feels like it would fit right in to this architecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
There's still a dislike button, it just doesn't show the like to dislike ratio, so it's barely worth pressing. The outcry at the time seemed to indicate that this is explicitly to appease bigger media companies, who put out crap and don't care what anyone thinks (but do care about what people think other people think).
Typically each channel takes its own course and evolves at different speeds with different needs. Trying to engineer a common set of APIs that serve all channels eventually leads to ever increasing FE logic with a backend API with leaky abstraction (by virtue of trying to accommodate different UI concerns).

By decoupling the BFF APIs which are geared towards a UI specifically, in a way you are moving a big part of the logic and orchestration to the backend and keeping the UI layer super lite. From practical experience, this has been a very helpful pattern both in my startups and enterprise career.
I'm good with that too :)
Interesting to see the amount of negative comments.

Most of the negativity seems to come from the following points:

- EU-funded project cannot succeed in tech because previous EU-funded projects have failed in tech in the past (and generally government-funded project in tech are suspicious)

- Search is hard, and therefore it will fail

- The project is underfunded

Even if the points above can all be valid (though the obvious US-funded startup launched by a bunch of uni students seemed to have fared pretty well) it seems we are missing the point of this project.

The proposal is to contribute to the creation of open building blocks necessary to enable others (including private US companies) to make better search products.

Better search product are needed.

Shall we remember HN of some of the intense conversations that happened here about Google failing us:

- Google Search is Dying [1]

- Every Google result now looks like an ad [2]

- Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories [3]

So while, yes search is a hard topic, we should welcome initiatives aiming at improving the ground infrastructure needed to lower the barrier to entry on this subject and hope it will allow many companies to build better search products (or inspire other initiatives to contribute in similar and even more successful way)

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30347719

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22107823

3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29772136
Honestly I think this is a really good thing. I expect a huge backlash but when you look at it, there's really no good arguments against.

What about freedoms? Unlike speech, you don't have a Constitutional right to drive drunk. I think even hard libertarians would balk at arguing "people should have the right to down 8 beers and then tear up 70mph on the highway". Because unlike freedom of expression drunk driving really does impact others, it's one of the leading causes of death and "I drive completely fine when drunk" is something nobody can say confidently.

What if the BAC fails when you're not drunk? After all BACs aren't 100% accurate. Now this really is a serious issue. But it's also something I really don't see happening. Because false positives in the BAC hurt sales, so auto manufacturers are going to skew towards false negatives. Capitalism is a really strong force, and capitalism says you don't want to prevent people from starting their car unless they are definitely drunk, because that generates bad coverage which ultimately hurts sales. Especially because the regulations are going in effect three years the earliest, so there's plenty of time to device better easier tests, so consumers aren't compelled to ditch your car for one with no BAC or a more reliable BAC.

Ok, but what if I'm drunk and there's a huge tornado or someone's chasing me and the only option is to drive recklessly? This is also an issue. But perhaps in that case there could be some emergency override which notifies law enforcement.

Ok, but what about speeding? The NTSB is not having vehicles check for speeding and they will not any time soon. Everyone speeds, on certain roads you actually put yourself in danger by driving under the speed limit, and speed limits are ultimately widely regarded as dumb. DUI laws are widely regarded as not dumb.

The bottom line is, unless there are really exceptional circumstances, you should not be driving drunk. And nobody is arguing that you should be allowed to drive drunk. So I think something which physically prevents you from driving drunk and breaking a near universally-accepted law, despite limiting your freedoms, is fine.
Note: uMatrix is not dead, it's just no longer updated. It's still available from the Chrome web store and Firefox add-ons sites. I am using it in Firefox right now, it still works as well as it always has.
I mean... if you don't care about cookies (as is the extension's name)... you don't care about cookies. Asking what happens to them is missing the point.
>That's not indentured servitude. As soon as you quit making money, you owe no tax.

In practice, the vast majority of people need to work. Whatever the income tax rate is, is the proportion of the labor that is being involuntarily done for the government.
You have the following constraints:

1. You do not control the update cycle of the client layer

2. You want to decouple platform support. You can do this for technical reasons and for org reasons (you can scale up teams independently)

This way, you can have the client be simple with a slow update cycle. You restrict its slowness to it alone and not to the whole product. You can then scale your backend services teams independently. You can throw away entire backend services while your front-end team modifies their API layer to ensure that legacy clients can handle things. The front-end team working on a client with a slow upgrade cycle can mock API responses or something. Meanwhile, the front-end team that's working on a client with a fast upgrade cycle can just move on.

You can thin your platform-specific client and move more logic into the platform-specific backend while keeping your platform-agnostic backend moving fast.
What do you mean? Buying a used car from a dealership is about 5x worse than buying a new car. Of course they're buying from an individual.
its absurd, and you're slandering a bunch of free software devs who care quite deeply about security and user safety, in service of a total conspiracy theory that quite frankly comes across as trolling. Good luck with that. If by chance you are in fact sincere I have no idea what even to tell you, its just a batshit crazy notion. But odds are strong that you know exactly what you're doing, so, keep at it I guess, whatever winds your clock.
My complaint is almost the opposite. I don't want to see the time and date at all. No way to disable it in Windows 11 (found some open source utility to do this, but it was quite clunky). Really strange decisions by Microsoft.
Aside from the site breach there's also been a successful campaign to get the administrator's mail forwarding and phone service terminated. They're now going after his lawyer.

Where does it end?
>>Boo-hoo. Companies benefit from things they don't pay for all the time.

Your derision is not going to change the financial logic that incentivizes companies to free ride on other companies' expenditures on training, and disincentivizes companies from making such expenditures.

You have to adjust policy to how the world works, because the world will not adjust to make your policy work.
You misunderstood what I mean by "gap" here.
The gap isn't that it is impossible to produce security/reliability equivalent program using C vs Rust, which you seem to be arguing.
The gap is that statistically for many code written in real world for various degree of efforts, Rust code will have much less of security/reliability issues, and it will take much less effort to get to the similar quality point compared to C or C++, and that gap is NOT bridgeable by making C programmer better or by inventing better conventions and styles.
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I agree with you on not caring at all about cookies.

I've never understood the obsession with cookies and tracking. It seems that some people imagine Sundar Pichai sitting in his underground lair, following the browsing session of individual Chrome users, cackling with evil delight.
Here is an article from UCSC describing the UnSpam and Project Honey Pot work that grew out of the work of cofounder Lee Holloway (eg al)[1].

Disclosure: I worked there with Lee Holloway, Matthew Prince, and others.

[1] https://engineering.ucsc.edu/news/article/1183
Open Source: Free as the Air You Breathe
ASS - acronym’s seriously suck
Touché.

I guess I should clarify that in the rare case I still want to access the content, I still do not engage with the modal dialogs, but instead use a proxy service such as archive.is to present it in an accessible way.

I consider modals to be a gross accessibility issue.
the idea that "making things 'more secure' is active hostility", is some grade A trolling, congratulations on that.
I know, I have a 2080 at the moment. But I don't like where the PC industry is headed so I am not going to support it going forward unless something changes.
The first step in committing ballot fraud is always accusing the other side of it. We know who was trumpeting that even before the election. And, somehow, it is all said to have happened in counties the accusers controlled.
Maybe that's the point..
NYC One-Pipe Steam (2014)
I'm in trading. There are no deadlines or late-running projects. Either the thing is going to be the present best thing to move us closer to more money or it is not. If it is not the best thing we could be doing right now we are going to drop it.

Historically, restarting a dropped project from scratch when necessary has led to better outcomes than sunk-cost-fallacy continuing.

We'll want to drop very few projects, but we can perform a rapid iteration cycle because of the feedback cycle. So almost anything can be derisked.
For me I do rotate depending on the time of day or the weather.

If I want less color then it is Py Light. If I want a good light theme then Solarized Light Alternate (really great compared to regular solarized). If I want a dark theme then it'll be Base16 Mocha, Base16 Paraiso, Pudding or skyline.
Yep, I confirm that is my experience as well. Google is starting to inch towards the television industry. In all honesty Im not watching any TV these days but i imagine its some advertising and snippets of content. Youtube without membership or ad blockers is just like that if not worse. From how if started to what is has become it’s a long way…
I'm surprised they don't use LiFePO4? Safer, vastly more charge cycles, and it's not like packaging is a big deal.
Exactly. My agent speaks for me.

That it's inconvenient for the tracking industry and thus was ignored is an enforcement issue, not a technical one.

If my browser tells you not to track me, it should be illegal to ask me again.
Uber hack caused by contractor; MFA fatigue attack used by TA
https://nhigham.com/2020/10/06/what-is-the-complex-step-appr...
Thermal runaway is a contagious failure mode.
I sort of want to like it. But this is pretty hokey.

The tune bounces around quite a bit. Listen to Anchors Aweigh or the Marine Corps Hymn or even Wild Blue Yonder. They all have a more linear through-line and better melodic phrasing. This one's all over the place.

Five years in the Marines probably made me a bit biased but at least the lyrics in the Marines' Hymn has honest to ${DEITY} verbs in it: Fight, fought, took a gun, etc. I fear the Space Force hymn is sort of wishy-washy with weasel verbs: We are, reaching, standing.

Like I said, I wanted to like this and I respect the Space Force... they're the high tech people who differentiate our warfighting style and ability from other nations. They deserve a better song.
It's also incredibly important for management to be able to communicate when a team is actually in one of those "200M vs 10M dollar" moments, and when its just like.. "well I sorta told a client we'd try and get this in by this arbitrary date I picked."

I've worked for too many managers where either everything, or too many things were urgent too frequently .. without any urgency gradient to differentiate.
It's always good to give your developers autonomy as the company/team grows in size.
Good point. But if democracy were not important, would they put so much work into undermining it?
James Web Telescope's pictures of Mars could reveal more about the atmosphere
Man I read and I feel I want to turn my face away from it. But I know your words ring true in my heart and that's probably why I never feel comfortable for long even as I threw bone after bone to myself.

TBH I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm kinda split and need time to think it through. Looks like it's either A or B because of limited energy.
The web gets its share of criticism and sometimes its deserved, but it runs on every device, on every screen size and never comes close to the size of an app.
You know there is a difference between producing too much cortisol and being hypersensitive to it? They are logically two different things.

And please enlighten me on your medical background / standing. I used to teach stats to doctors to help them understand medical tooling.
Yes, US companies tend to price a bit higher in non-USD in order to hedge against currency risk. Their profits are reported in USD.
It's what mathematicians[0] and programmers[1] refers to as a graph. Traditionally you would use http://graphviz.org/ and its many derivatives, which meets your long-term-stable criteria. These days if you want clicky web GUI you can use a bunch of javascript-ports, eg. https://sketchviz.com/new or https://github.com/jwilber/roughViz ... avoid valuing presentation over content, though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_(discrete_mathematics) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_(abstract_data_type)
Yup. I now pretty much use YouTube search only to call up a video where I have the YT ID. Everything else is a waste of time, and I just use DDG search if I want to find something without the ID in hand.

How management thinks it is a good idea to make their products useless by letting a bunch of self-aggrandizing "analysts" or marketers or whatever attempt to manipulate their customers/viewers is beyond me. The fact that they are all paid to fork it up so badly is just mindboggling.
Don't worry too much. People are different.
I thought it was added. Supposedly you can drag shortcut icons together and folders will form. Don't have it to test.
Your first section seems to be a reformulation of the Labor Theory of Value, which has been thoroughly discredited.

The second seems to think that all value derives from land (never mind that the value of FAANG companies has nothing to do with land value). But hey let's run with that for a minute. Suppose one person owned all the land. In order to get any value from it, he's going to have to rent it out to people who do use it productively.

Hmm, where do we have such a system. I know! The government owns all the land, and rents it out (property taxes) to people who use it. The free market hasn't collapsed because of this.
If I take your API away, I am breaking your app.
> I can't send you a secret tamper-proof message over a blockchain if we haven't exchanged information over some other channel previously

... Of course you can? If we're interacting via blockchain we both have mutually-known cryptographic public keys used to sign transactions. Assume without loss of generality they can't be used directly for public-key encryption (eg they're Lamport keys). I generate a McElice public encryption key and include it in a transaction signed with my signing key. You use that to encrypt your message and include the encrypted message in a transaction signed with your signing key. I decrypt the message; it's secret and tamper-proof.

If, as in londons_explore's comment, we're worried about any specific algorithm being broken, we can use a bunch of different signing keys, and a bunch of different encryption keys, such that a attack would have have to break all the signature algorithms or all the encryption algorithms to compromise the message.
How did you do it? Asking for a friend who would like to get to the webservers behind CDNs that front Russian websites.
A myth Republican Party operatives clearly believe, as they work to make voting harder.
Yeah... my opinion use the DOM... it was a great invention... Mustache and JS class with async,await - really what more do we need?
From the uBlock repo: [0]

> No donations sought.

> Without the preset lists of filters, this extension is nothing. So if ever you really do want to contribute something, think about the people working hard to maintain the filter lists you are using, which were made available to use by all for free.

[0] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
My experience is based on playing GPU-demanding games on RTX 3090 with 4k and 2k monitors.
The bigot they are (1957)
ISPs are often granted franchise monopoly powers.
My take is this.

Most people who work with machine learning and AI follow the herd using certain methods of evaluation that don't necessary lead to working systems. I'm more familiar with applications to business, text analysis, and a bit about finance such as algo trading.

This is one of the missing links

https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/calibration.html

if you have a prediction that says "this is in class A" that's not very useful in itself. If your predictor is calibrated and says "there is a 55% chance that this is in class A" you probably don't want to take action that prediction but if it says "there is a 97% chance this is in class A" you will take action.

IBM Watson won at Jeopardy because it was calibrated and could make a rational decision of whether or when it should hit the button.

From an algo trading point of view the other thing you need to turn predictions into actions is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion

I bet there is some similar way to turn predictions into actions based on control theory. Speaking of betting there is a practical application of this in this book

https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Beat-Racetrack-William-Ziemba/dp/0...

which is a gambling system that really makes money. The book is not very mathematical, Dr. Ziemba has written a lot about hedge funds, algo trading, etc. and probably in his body of work there is something that covers the same ground and is more mathematically rigorous.
Judge for yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32916346
It was another time, with another set of memes running into society, like software daemons setting stuff to work in a fascist way. Think about a pair of the Linux desktop GUIs, Gnome and KDE.

Gnome gives you a set of rules for using the desktop, you can't modify, except by going around the set of rules. You can run a computer with this GUI, you have set of constrains and a set of benefits.

KDE chooses a diffent path, you have freedom, lots of it, you can do almost whatever you want with the GUI, change its rules, how it behaves. You also can run a computer with this GUI, and also it has a set of constrains, and a set of benefits.

But who decides which one is better? You decide, you choose, you have the freedom to choose whatever GUI suits you better.

But in the real world, things got really messy, awfully.

Sometime around the 30s the fascist movement took a stronger way of forcing society to play by its rules, then it resorted to violence to expand its influence, ultimately - ten years later - leading to the WWII.

But the grave failure of the fascist movement to the societies it ruled was published by western victorious elites later as a complete, absolut failure in every aspect, but the history actually show a different picture: the violence and the war took the victory out of the hands of the fascist movement.

When the WWII exploded, the fascist movement was already established and ruling most of the super-powers of the 30's, and it actually didn't went away after the Axis defeat. Another kind of fascist movement took over Russia and China.

Maybe the violence can't be taken out off the fascist movement, as much as freedom can't be taken out off truely democratic societies.

But what happens if a new kind of fascist finds its way into the western societies again?

Would they have learned the leasons from the past or they would just want to retake control from current ruling elites? Just to take Europe or maybe other countries back to the 30's? Then who knows where they would lead the human history.

Freedom can only persist if we - who like it - watch over those who do not really like you to have options and the freedom to choose from them.
Recommendations for old videos drives me crazy. There is a magic the gathering YouTuber who releases daily content that I watch (at least in the background) daily. I want to see the current state of the game and the meta being played. Videos of his from two years ago do nothing at all for me. He has years of content, and I don’t want to actually block his channel from recommendations so I guess I just put up with it.

Similar story with a guy who reviews indie games daily. I want to see the future (potential) indie hits not the games from years ago.