skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Item in plain English means basically anything that can be counted, usually something small. Item in a video game usually means something players can pick up, maybe use, and drop, as opposed to something that's part of the environment. Item in Minecraft has a technical meaning, basically anything that can go into a hopper inventory, as opposed to particles, blocks, mobs, stuck arrows, other entities...
Firefox assumes you may have multiple sidebar extensions installed and may need to actively switch between them. Given the sidebar itself is the vestigial home of Firefox's original bookmarks and history panels, many decades ago, before those got newer windows/pages, that assumption isn't necessarily wrong. There were years you could have a bunch of stuff in the sidebar. It is only now that most of that stuff is gone and people are only using the sidebar extension point for this one singular use case (vertical tabs) that the extension/app/page switching header feels redundant and unnecessary.
> All four use cases use the same bloody input - CSS!

All of the four mentioned use cases are stylistic. So it is desirable to accomplish them in a domain-specific styling language.

Used correctly, conflicting regressions are greatly minified.

It's just the problem with CSS that the vast number of developers don't know about its fundamentals, such as "CSS Specifity"

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Specificity

This collective lack of knowledge leads to the kind of "monkey patching until it works for me (and breaks for you)" many lament about.

Feel free to give an concrete minimum viable example (including code) where you are struggling with CSS, and I will try to give suggestions.
> The UK and China are not comparable. China is the worlds most populous country (for now). The UK has a population of under 70m.

You say they are not comparable, and then compare them in a way that backs up the point you're trying to argue against. It _is_ two-faced of Apple to give China a pass here, undoubtably in large part due to the massive loss of sales were they not to comply and be removed by the Chinese regime.

> China is a totalitarian regime where even an imperfect freedom is preferable to no freedom at all.

If the Chinese gov't has the keys to unlock "private" conversations, how is this "imperfect freedom" in any way different from WeChat or other state-sanctioned messaging systems?

> The UK is a democratic country which should be upholding the right to privacy.

I mean sure, but Chinese people should have the same rights of privacy as anyone else. It's not suddenly less-bad because their government is totalitarian.

> If Apple weakens crypto for the UK, it affects people in other countries as well. iMessage is not exactly popular in the UK, so it is disproportionately used for transatlantic communication compared to WhatsApp. If Apple complies with the law, they are violating the privacy of users in the US as well.

How is this any different than what Apple currently does when an iMessage user outside China messages someone inside China? My understanding is that it acts precisely as you describe, but I could be wrong. And likewise, from what I understand iMessage is likewise unpopular in China so cross-country communications would potentially be a major source of iMessage activity as well? ( I don't see any statistics on this)
I suppose they won't use a non-human shader, since it is the whole point.
For me it would be the title of Fellow, especially at any of the big tech companies. I see more prestige in being a fellow than any other title.
Probably couldn't profit off it as they expected. Politicians never change.
> I run https://www.lfgss.com/

Let me take the opportunity to thank you. This is a rather amazing forum. Kudos to you for listening to what the community wanted. This is probably my all-time favorite thread: https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/172374/
for me, but not for thee will never go away
The author’s claim “history is not true” is a huge one and it’s reasonable to look up his background to understand where he might be coming from.

Unfortunately for him (the author) he’s not coming from an expert’s position, and whatever perceptions that creates in people is not fault of the commenter you’re replying to.
CTF is a hobby completely unrelated to professional affiliations. It's shameful of the Google employee in the bug tracker to partially dox and bring the researcher's employer into this.
“ And most importantly, a realistic path to $1M+ TC by 5 YOE, and $10M+ TC is not uncommon for 15-20 YOE.”

That’s wild, if true.
> On what specifically?

For starters, PRISM and XKeyscore. Both are damning indictments of the state of surveillance a decade ago, and are so damaging that pretty much every FAANG company denies knowledge of their existence. PRISM was about the outreach the US government has with domestic companies, and XKeyscore showed just how far those connections could be abused.

Simply the fact that these leaked documents exist and Apple denying them is a contradiction. Everything else is speculation, but my brain can imagine a lot happening over those past 9 years.

> Why does that matter?

Accountability purposes.

> You're already trusting Apple hardware.

Ideally I don't do that either. I'm not a fan of closed firmware interfaces and if possible, I'd like to audit the code for those as well.

> Public access to source code doesn't make security systems safer.

The majority of networked servers online today beg to differ. Over time the industry actually found that it's much safer to use an open and transparent OS than it is to trust a black-box with UB that may-or-may-not be fixed.

> I'm not sure what a journalist or even 99% of webshits on this forum would do with trying to audit crypto.

This speaks to a lack of either experience or imagination, I can't tell which.
Oh lord, I ended up working at a place that had one of those. He would always carry this huge stack of old-school fan folded green and white dot matrix printer paper to prove his bona fides and would spend every meeting furiously scribbling circles and boxes on it and then throwing it away after. His catch phrase (in like 2013) was “I could probably whip together an AI solution for this but I’m too busy, you guys just let me know when you have some regular solution for me to review.”
How is this a self-own?
The new system is faster.
Sounds like a European view.
He decided to have a child knowing that an average man had decent chance he would be dead before they entered college. Being in remission from one of the more deadly and rapid forms of cancer meant he knew or should have known that the child would likely grow up without a father. That does not seem like support to me.

And Warren Buffet will tell you that you want to give your kids enough money so that they can do anything, not so much that they can do nothing. Have you spent time around kids who know they will be millionaires when they grow up? Really messes with your head. A buddy of mine was supported by his parents as an expat in a resort city and ended up brutally murdering his dad after they clashed about money.

And FWIW, I will be able to give my kid enough money to do anything, have been carefully developing his mental and physical aspects, travel abroad, language immersion, etc. So your attack is inaccurate in my case.
yeah i wish there were an easier way to say we have DID than making multiple HN accounts, we were even personally recommended to do that by HN's moderation team but opted not to because we need the shared rep and comments.

including a disclaimer in every comment (which we have to do if we include a signature, because then people will ask what the signature means) is also somewhat tiring, so right now the pronoun usage is a bit of an unsolved problem, hehe.

glad to see the profile did its job though

as for the edit, another commenter says there's still no evidence that people with true tetrachromy have a fourth primary color. that's not to say they don't, but just that it may be years or decades until a study conclusively proves its existence, if there is one
I wish there were multiple sets so I can have various preset modes that I select when I start a chat.
Could it be that it's not actually a white dwarf? Perhaps we're making the wrong assumption because it gives off light like a white dwarf and the surface that we see appears to be hydrogen and helium based on spectrometry.

Maybe it's a planet that had its atmosphere ignited? That way it could have a super strong magnetic (iron) core while the exterior would appear like that of a white dwarf. This would explain a magnetic field that's strong enough to keep the two elements in alignment, matching the poles.

The sci-fi fan in me wants to believe that a super advanced alien race did this on purpose so they could make a giant generator out of it. I mean, it fully rotates every 15 seconds which would be a pretty damned good alternating current if you surrounded it with a lot of ferromagnetic wire.

Another reason why one might do this on purpose is to make an "anchor" or clock of sorts that gives off easily detectable gravitational waves from a great distance. As the helium side would have more mass than the hydrogen side and thus the gravity surrounding the object would be regularly rising and falling along its rotational axis.

Should we find more astronomical objects like this in the future we should check to see if they are aligned in any way that would make it easy to navigate your way through the celestial area like an enormous set of GPS satellites.
I have commented on HN before that I have been skeptical of the moon landing ever happening, but I've spent some time on apolloinrealtime.org listening and reading the Apollo 11, 13, and 17 moon landing transcripts and I have come around. It sounds way too real to be faked.

In that light, I think it was an incredible feat of engineering for the late 60s, and early 70s. Keep in mind, Japan was unable to land a probe on the moon as recently as last year.

Do I think it was worth it? That's debatable, but the engineers and scientists involved accomplished something pretty fantastic and that alone deserves some merit.
> Literally nobody suggested this in this thread, me or otherwise.

Sorry I wasn't clear! I can see how that looks like a strawman... what I meant is that I would like to see a more protectionist economy (by the government). Apologies for the unclear phrasing.

> I would challenge you to imagine some solutions that are neither capitalist nor governmental. If you can't think of anything beyond these two options then I suggest reading more about mutual-voluntary organization.

> Why not both? You can decide whether you will support or boycott organizations and systems that actively pursue these things, while also lobbying and voting and building organizations that pursue mutual voluntary organization. Might mean you have to change your lifestyle though and most people don't want to do that.

I do try to support community organizations of various forms (State Farm, REI, 501s, ESOPs, food co-ops, solidarity economies, church-charities for disaster relief and homelessness, etc.).

But I think there are some problems at scale that are uniquely suited for government-like entities with national policymaking reach, and technology-driven job displacement is one of them. I'm not enough of an anarchist to see a well-functioning government (which, to be clear, the USA does not have) as terribly different from other forms of democratic decision-making. Rather than having a bunch of small shadow governments parallel to the federal and state ones, I really wish we could transform those actual governments into something with more direct democracy, especially at the local levels. That may or may not happen in my lifetime, but I think that's a better long-term solution than a bunch of small scrappy NGOs and alt-societies popping in and out of existence, almost always with very limited reach and impact. Sometimes they feel more like performance theater than actual social forces. I think one can only witness so many Occupy-like uprisings before starting to seriously doubt their effectiveness.

I believe it takes a certain economy of scale that only government (and huge multinational corps) have access to, that's needed to be truly transformative. Some unions have reskilling programs, for example, but it's not really enough to save an entire profession/industry.

But... I would love to be proven wrong. Do you have any examples of non-governmental cooperative/democratic organizations that can effect large-scale socioeconomic change?
Many ideas that come from lisp, and for which lisp was long ridiculed, are now mainstream, like garbage collection, closures, a big runtime, a huge library (nowadays lisp is criticised for its small library), typed data (instead of typed storage), exploratory development in an interpreter coupled with an optional compiler...

I don't consider languages with these features lisps, but I think the GP's statement is only quite mildly hyperbolic.
SICP is a beautiful book. The Youtube lectures are just as good.
>Do you think that the US government and the fed don't do this? You don't see it, of course, because they also report the numbers you use to decide if there is inflation.

Inflation is an objective measure it is the price increase for a certain basket of goods. Yes, you can fake it to a certain extent, but this is true for everything.

>You don't see it, of course

What? That is totally false. Inflation is one of the easiest metrics to spot.

>And who says that it has to be controlled at all, in the sense that some singular entity controls it, rather than an algorithm?

Practicality. Either the algorithm is extremely simple (BTC) or you will ruin your economy.

>Yeh, and it's no less a problem when it's the government rather than Amazon.

Total nonsense.
I'm assuming that banks and payment services will add it to their services. Everything that goes over ACH will gradually switch to FedNow. There will be no noticeable difference to users except that transfer will be instantaneous instead of taking days.
The moon landings were successful and also a waste of money
That's it. There's a Lucy Worsley series about Tudor England where she goes to the actual 'real tennis' court in Hampton Court where Henry VIII played and they do a bit of a demo with some folks in period costume (as Lucy does). A little bit like Jai Alai, maybe.
Yelp's main database was a couple of MySQL clusters (several TB of total data) for almost all of the company's existence, but they've always had a penchant for architecture astronomy. The ad system had the most justification for novel data architectures historically (when I was there, it was generating and processing tens of terabytes of data per day via Hadoop/EMR, which was new and cool, and I'm sure it's at least an order of magnitude mode than that now).
There are probably way more people familiar with computer mice than video games.
yes, it's usually the end of the stick they give to people in countries other than 1st world

it is in a sense poetic that the stick is sourced in the 3rd world

but I get it, you're both, correctly nitpicking and I'm wrong. this is the hierarchy of the "worlds". I feel really bad now, highly recommended.

nonetheless, you refuse the deeper point. may somebody form the 0th world help you
Anti encryption? Not sure most people support that specifically.

But generally speaking, I dont think you’ve emphasized it strongly enough. People arent just supportive of trading privacy and freedom for the promise of safety. They are literally begging for it.
Aaah yes, the well-known "30 minutes of light exercise" to prevent pregnancy, kill a bacterial infection, or solve asthma.

Some diseases can be partially avoided or alleviated by exercise, but let's not pretend it is a panacea for all of life's ails. Medicine exists for a reason.
Interbank payment systems are actually provided by central banks or the government (or affiliated organizations of either) in quite a few cases.

Europe has TIPS (an ECB-operated implementation of the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer scheme), India has UPI (which is pretty close to the central bank, as far as I understand) etc.

In the case of FedNow and TIPS, there are private alternatives as well, such as RTP in the US or EBA Clearing's SEPA Instant implementation in Europe. This is similar to ACH – there's both a public (FedACH) and a private (The Clearing House) implementation/network available.
Agreed. This is really strange from their pricing page:
>> Get started for free to test our APIs & unblock your development team. Talk to us about your transaction volume to get the best pricing with flexibility to grow.

You would think there would _at least_ be a ceiling price. Makes me wonder why they can't show _any_ pricing.
It's a slow-motion siege.

I frankly hope America gets real about drugs- treat their use and presence as a given, decriminalize them, regulate them like alcohol and marijuana, render drugs a public health issue and not just a way to fill prisons, and put this town out of business.
Yes, and I specifically said I don't support the UK legislation so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
I want to sit on the roof with the other highly paid burn outs
Notably absent from this post are any technical roles.
How to define terroir when wine production is intertwined with tech?
A few thoughts:

1. I love stuff like this. I think about it with elections all the time; even in the biggest landslide elections there’s always about a third of the population that wasn’t on board. A good reminder about winners writing history books.

2. I’m in my 30s. The first time I ever was given an idea that people weren’t all about the Moon landing was a Larry Norman song[0], of all things. (“They brought back a big bag of rocks / Only cost thirteen billion. Must be nice rocks”) I was definitely an adult by this point.

3. I’m curious about the wording, but it seemed like the survey question was focused on cost. Americans never like things when you ask about cost. If the question was “should we develop rockets strong enough to beat the Commies” it probably would have polled a lot better.

4. Americans also always seem to be cool with public works-y stuff once it’s actually built. No one liked the Big Dig until it was done. Part of that is the cost concern, but I think there’s also the disbelief that things are possible, and fears about what the bad side of the thing could be.

[0]: https://genius.com/Larry-norman-readers-digest-lyrics
Because wealthier people have more complicated returns and are much more likely to litigate, resulting in more time commitment.

For high net wealth audits, you could have potentially dozens of people working on it for years so there is a possibility that a judge / jury rules in your favor.

They are going after low effort people, but making it up by volume.
> every keys to every door

Have you seen doors in the uk? Most are just there for design.
I agree. If we stated that torrent sites are hosting it then what other systems are implicated? eg: DNS itself provides a pointer to the torrent sites which then have a pointer to the data.
Yes, I find it interesting to note the different types of errors. There are some random errors, but many of the errors seem to be repeated. It looks like a lot of people ended up in the wrong code path, resulting in blue/white pixels in the lower half, while fewer people made the reverse mistake (yellow pixels in the upper half). There are a lot of purple pixels in the upper right; I wonder what led many people to the same mistake.

Another interesting thing is to try to reverse-engineer the worksheet: section B is the sphere, section C is the ground, and section D is the sky. But then there's the lighting model, shadow, etc.
> Wish we could do the same for the credit card companies.

For e-commerce, isn’t that SRC?

https://www.emvco.com/emv-technologies/secure-remote-commerc...
Dirt bike riders/motorcyclists have been pouring water over their clothes/suits and then riding for generations.

Works great to cool down well below ambient air temp as long as humidity isn't super high.
> I have been skeptical of the moon landing ever happening

I'm curious - what caused you to question it ever happening?
I guess this is Google's way of telling media companies in Canada / Australia how they feel about link taxes. I wonder where they got their training data though..
I would not be surprised. A few years ago I developed disabling inflammation in my wrist, which turned out to be caused by my tendons having grown in an abnormal configuration. A simple surgery that "released" the collar of the sheath holding the tendons provided relief.

My surgeon told me that some segment of the population has the same issue and that they are simply born with it, but he is not sure what percentage it is, and some may go a lifetime without ever knowing.
Black start of a single plant seems reasonable enough, but black start of a whole grid seems almost absurd.

How could one possibly balance the load with the plants coming online? If the generation and load is too mismatched, the generators can literally automatically trip off the grid, so generation and load must be carefully balanced as things get brought back up.

One would almost need to shed nearly all the loads from the black grid (Which may have happened anyway as the grid collapsed, but any loads not already shed by the collapse could prove interesting), and re-add some some gradually as plants come online, which still seems crazy difficult.

And inrush current demands from many loads as they are get reconnected must be pretty insane.
Archive link: https://archive.is/E1OzW

Also, I'm all for renewable energy stuff, but uhhh... anyone know how a wind farm holds up against getting blasted by at least one hurricane every year?
I'm really uninterested in human spaceflight, but very enthusiastic about space exploration. In particular I like the idea of mining asteroids and not doing much mining on earth.
> It's unfortunately easy to get a response that includes { "name": "grande latte" }

type Item = {
name: string;
...
size?: string;

I'm not really following how this would avoid `name: "grande latte"`?

But then the example response:

"size": 16

> This is pretty great!

Is it? It's not even returning the type being asked for?

I'm guessing this is more of a typo in the example, because otherwise this seems cool.
Mid-level Engineering Manager at FAANG pre-tech downturn.
You can walkt through the (virtual) halls of forbidden knowledge and hiding text on textures visible in complex game engines can be an effective to bypass censorship using inconspicuous tools.
My trophy job is where I get paid well, don't deal with idiotic janitorial work being forced upon me by upper management who have no idea what they're doing, and don't have to work off hours very often.
Guess the UK market is just too weak to matter?
I think these roles only hire from top tier colleges and if you didn't get into one, too bad the ship has sailed. Can't argue on comp though. These jobs post very well.
Absolutely. Another concern I have is the demonstrable incompetence of the UK government. If they have my data, which will only ever paint a partial picture of what I do, who knows what conclusions they may draw. I don't want to spend hours talking to nice policemen because my GPS data shows me regularly in the same park as some known terrorist just because they've never heard of a park run.
> An especially egregious fact is that Nintendo uses open source emulators themselves [...] the most recent Pikmin

That's not true. Pikmin uses Hagi, which is Nintendo's own emulator. Nintendo never used an open-source emulator in a release product.

See this fellow confused guy's thread: https://gbatemp.net/threads/pikmin-1-2-use-dolphin-emulator....
Do you need to install software really quickly? Performance is nice, but I understand why it's a low priority.

I guess it can save you a few billable minutes with CI runners, but otherwise speed probably isn't a huge deal for most users.