skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BartPE exists and can also create a "portable Windows" from the original files of an installation media for a normal version of Windows, is it possible to manually create one's own WinPE in the same way? i.e. is WinPE composed of only the same files that can be found on the installation disc, arranged in the right structure, or is there something more to it?
We pay some of the highest power rates in the nation. CA isnt the only state with trees.
> the right tool for the job!

Hear, hear!
I get the feeling that contrary to rhetoric the search for life on Mars or anywhere else is almost an anti-priority. Not much designed to look for life has been sent since Viking in spite of direct observation of water ice, brine, and other features suggesting ideal landing sites for such experiments.

If perclorates were the cause of the Viking positive as many suggest, why not send a new experiment designed to rule that in or out? Why not send a whole lot more chemical tests for biology, or a microscope for that matter?

I suspect there is strong concern about the social effects of the revelation of any extraterrestrial life, even microbes. From what I see of the mass psychosis that is most of current political discourse this concern might not be unfounded.
If they didn't want information getting out of that area perhaps they would block better. It seems they just want to block ordinary non-techie users from communicating this way.
I grew up in a part of the US that some of the most polluted air in the country, back in the 70s and 80s. I recall waking up on a particularly clear day and being shocked by a mountain in the background, not realizing how close we lived to the mountains. I also recall feeling depressed about the continually yellow sky. While there may be a physiological effect of air pollution, I'm certain there is also a strong psychological effect, which could explain the immediate effects described in the article.
I'm a fanatic about freedom, if that's your point I supposed you're correct.

Of course there's a process for amendment. The process was made very difficult for a reason though.
A New Way to Capture and Convert C02 Efficiently Has Been Developed
Tbh, even until the 90s, even as safe as you can make spaceships, going into space is one hell of a risk. When things go wrong, no one can save you really. Now being the first perhaps takes an extra guts, and I can agree with that.
Goroutines and fibers are the same thing: M:N threading.

It is true that many of the fiber issues presented here are C++-specific. However, what a lot of the comments here are missing is that C++ issues have a way of becoming your issues whenever you use an FFI, even if you aren't using C++. Go's solution is generally to try to avoid using cgo as much as possible, because of these performance issues. That can work for the areas Go is generally used in today. But, as the article points out, that does not work for all applications. For example, I would not want to write graphics code in any system with M:N threading due to FFI cost, including Go.
Forgive my ignorance, but after looking at the Github readme I'm not really understanding what this does. What kinds of things would Alloy be used for?
> This isn't a regulated security

All securities are regulated under American law. Some just qualify for specific exemptions from specific requirements.

When someone uses the term “unregulated security,” it’s a reliable red flag to go the other way.
This comment is analogically incorrect.
Paul's response to this:

"Actually, for illustrative purposes I did include a few things you can't say, but I stuck to domain-specific ones. Within university faculties, this is the great unmentionable. And look at how much trouble I got in for bringing it up. (So far no one from the US car industry has complained though, perhaps because I mentioned explicitly that a heresy was coming, instead of just inlining it.)

Try this thought experiment. A dictator takes over the US and sends all the professors to re-education camps. The physicists are told they have to learn how to write academic articles about French literature, and the French literature professors are told they have to learn how to write original physics papers. If they fail, they'll be shot. Which group is more worried?

We have some evidence here: the famous parody that physicist Alan Sokal got published in Social Text. How long did it take him to master the art of writing deep-sounding nonsense well enough to fool the editors? A couple weeks?

What do you suppose would be the odds of a literary theorist getting a parody of a physics paper published in a physics journal?"

http://www.paulgraham.com/resay.html
The costs in this case was $1000000 per airframe sold if Class D simulator training was required, which resulted in the decision to go with the single sensor design.

This was discussed in the 60 Minutes Expose.

https://youtu.be/QytfYyHmxtc
"Fibers (sometimes called stackful coroutines or user mode cooperatively scheduled threads) and stackless
coroutines (compiler synthesized state machines) represent two distinct programming facilities with vast performance
and functionality differences."

It's pretty clear that fibers cover goroutines, green threads, M:N threads, etc., this is just Microsoft-specific name for them.
We’ll see about this :)
Is that like the relationship between C# and PowerShell?
One exposure/exercise rotating secrets and it is curtains for you.

It gets better...stop building rube goldberg secret contraptions.
The comment I replied to said cryptocurrency.
For another anecdotal data point, I grew up in LA, moved here as a teen, and have spent my career here with regular visits back to LA, and haven't found that to be the case. Leisure is so much _easier_ in San Francisco that it's hard to avoid it... Every resident is a maximum ten minute walk away from a park, there are constant awesome free events, and your life isn't fully governed by the dictates of constant traffic between any two points in the city. I've spent my time in the city itself but I've had plenty of exposure to different parts of the Bay and, controlling for the fact that it's less dense, much of the same applies.

The sheer success of the metro economy relative to LA over the last ten years means that there are a lot of people who moved here with dollar signs in their eyes, and I don't doubt that that's shifted the culture a bit, but it's very easy to avoid IME.

Our data points do differ in that it sounds like you're primarily around families and I'm around single people or young couples. Perhaps what you're describing is true for that subset of the population.
Womp, fair enough.

That part notwithstanding though, I think the overall point stands.
The priorities currently for Mars seem to be gathering correlated data to strengthen or weaken the case overall.

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/instruments/
Solar Rotation
It isn't hard to argue that this is a taking in the 5th amendment sense. Similar arguments have been made (and sometimes won) about ecological designations - a taking doesn't need to deprive you of _all_ use of property to be a taking.
the tools needed to create WinPE - that shipped in the OEM preinstallation kits (OPK) - did do some work against the original files to make the magic happen. it was mainly around the special registry dB needed to get it to boot, not changing the files themselves. we also did a ton to try to slim it down, originally to get it to fit on a CDROM or RIS/PXE boot. well before USB sticks got larger than CDROMs.
That at least is permission for that transaction and then you're on the other side. Cash cryptocurrency ATMs could be considered one way if they don't require anything more than cash.
I often wonder why these are always auxiliary conversations. Ever since I was young, like most kids (I have 4), I also had this deep yearning for knowledge on life external to earth. Wonder why this never has gone mainstream.
I don't think Levin is making the claim that NASA knows that there is life on Mars and that there is a conspiracy to cover it up. They both are looking at the same results and (honestly) coming to different conclusions.

Part of this is that it's expensive to do experiments on Mars, and space is limited. Each experiment you choose to do excludes you from doing others, so NASA has evaluated the evidence and doesn't think its the most efficient thing to pursue right now. Levin is trying to convince folks that the evidence is sufficient to warrant pursuing further experiments that would clarify what is going on here.
Or just block port 8333, or implement DPI and null route anything that looks like a block header or transaction, or any manner of things that can be done when the "virtual" currency still has to traverse very real public infrastructure.

Will it stop it completely? No - but put enough chicanes in the way and the incentive to use it will drop below critical mass required for it to achieve its actual long term goal, which is to undermine the power of a state to control the issue of currency (and with that, taxation).

Short term goals of facilitating grift by corrupted authorities and their crypto con artist enablers will remain largely unaffected.
Please give an example from the document that applies to Goroutines. (The best I can see is the bits about issues with split stacks, but it was resolved.) I think my reading of the document holds up.
The follow up [0] to this essay tells how he didn't want to explicitly claim anything as an "unsayable truth" today, but that he snuck this one in anyway. It's...controversial, not PC and quite possibly wrong, but it has some chance of being one of those truths.

> Actually, for illustrative purposes I did include a few things you can't say, but I stuck to domain-specific ones. Within university faculties, this is the great unmentionable. And look at how much trouble I got in for bringing it up...

> Try this thought experiment. A dictator takes over the US and sends all the professors to re-education camps. The physicists are told they have to learn how to write academic articles about French literature, and the French literature professors are told they have to learn how to write original physics papers. If they fail, they'll be shot. Which group is more worried?
[0]
http://www.paulgraham.com/resay.html
It does yes. However, they still do not seem to be making the claim that goroutines are a bad idea. The name conflation is unfortunate, but almost all of the problems are C++-specific, and their conclusion fails to be precise about this.
That's us. Big win last fall, right back where we started. And it's not like we stopped working on things in the middle.

Every feature request is adding more logic to the code, and it's not uncommon for the business to ask for code that affects every single path.

I've noticed this before, but it's very true on this project: management is very hesitant to create new 'areas' of the application, and so more and more functionality shows up on the common paths through the code, with all of the attendant uptick in computational complexity that goes with it.

Long ago I had a job where they couldn't understand why the whole site had gotten slower. Well, apparently when we told them that putting an expensive call in the header on every view, that everything was going to get slower, they didn't believe us. Nobody needs that kind of data, the ones who do don't need it to be accurate to the millisecond, and every penny you spend on information the average user is unaffected by is wasted money.

There is no big picture. There is only hill climbing and getting stuck on local maxima constantly. And no I'm not bitter, why do you ask?
warning -- the phrase "without humans" is an invocation of primal fears and anger amongst every sort of human mind that reads it.. It is a fairy-tale story intro, like "Once upon a time" .. the truth is, close to eight billion humans now live in every corner and crevice of this Earth.. there is no comparison to that, that is rational; instead we labor under stories like this..
Given the political leanings of the Strand's audience and the leanings of the books they showcase, I would assume the owners are likely left leaning as well. And it's weird to think that they may very well have supported landmark laws in general... until it applied to their building.

The real issue here is corrupt politics in NYC. Why should owners of the Strand and other old buildings have to pay (through decreased property values and development opportunities) to keep the "character of the neighborhood" when others are allowed to build high rises?

My understanding is that this new historic zone was created partially to get other large developments approved.
It would be nice if they did.
Is sex trafficking of children really a significant problem? (Yes, everyone has heard of the Dutroux case, but the depths of that won't be plumbed by face aging algorithms.)

Altogether the line of reasoning sounds like the usual hype you put into grant applications. Your line of work is highly strained hydrocarbons, so when you apply to the Department of Energy you say in the distant future you won't synthesize 100 mg, you'll prepare hundreds of tons to put it into a rocket to increase its payload.
That’s why I said they aren’t true SaaS companies. There are thousands you’ve never heard of in every major city with a few super niche customers.

And scaling beyond 2-3 real customers does make a very big difference for any legitimately good company.
All problems can be solved by adding a layer of abstraction.

Performance is improved by removing a layer of abstraction.

Lather, rinse, repeat.
I wanted to do everything in Excel lately, but it (at least 2013 that I'm stuck with) seems to be a horrible frankensteinian mishmash of features that don't work together. For instance, there almost seems to be the infrastructure for building a virtual database in a spreadsheet, but there are a million different things that trip you up, like the not-quite-integration of PowerPivot, the use of DAX instead of SQL, the missing VBA interface for crucial things. I still don't know why you can use OData from Excel, but then you add something to the data model and try to get to it from PowerPivot, and you don't have permissions for the exact same URL and then the whole thing gets corrupted.

Within Office, it seems more practical to do ambitious things with Access, although that has its issues too. I apparently completely corrupted a database I've been using just by pasting part of a SQL statement that was >= 1024 characters as part of a VBA script.
> Giving everyone freedom to transact purely in untraceable cash takes away freedom to transact how you want, and also enables fraud and money laundering.

So we should ban cash because it’s used for money laundering?
Against Murderism (2017)
Neither conservatism nor progressivism is necessarily correct or better. Sometimes conservatism is worse because it preserves things that we should change for the better. Sometimes progressivism is worse because it doesn't fully understand why society arrived at a solution so progressives try to change things in a way they think is better but then there are all sorts of unintended consequences that turn out to be worse that what progressives were trying to change for the better.

For example, at one time progressives were trying to end segregation and promote judging someone on the content of character and not the color of their skin while conservatives fought them on this. Now progressives are trying to reinstitute segregation and promoting the idea that people should be judged on skin color and not content of character while conservatives fight them on these changes.
Not the investigation, research. They fund all sorts.
> ...as for banking they seem to go down rather quickly...

I do think that Switzerland might have a problem with banks soon or later, but currently I don't see such situation clearly developing (rather more in Germany with Commerzbank & Deutsche Bank?).
There's plenty of reasons to be skeptical of the article, but this isn't one of them imo. It's pretty easy to find a few locations that fit that description, here's one: https://goo.gl/maps/GpJLjQBiLHvpQGA1A

(Note: the comment mentions a "jersey barrier", while the article describes a more generic "highway barricade")
The gender ratio worldwide is currently somewhere around 101 female to 100 male (this is a bit hard to quantify, because in this group you’d also have ~3.4 intersex births). However, it is estimated that in the 17th century, somewhere around 1-1.5% of women giving birth died. So I would not take it for granted that the gender ratio was the same hundreds of years ago.
I recently transited through Istanbul and noticed two things:

1) You can't get an internet connection at the airport without giving up PII - either your ticket info, or your cellphone information.

2) They block Wikipedia in the airport and on the in-flight WiFi on Turkish Airlines.
we're happy with http://bonsai.io, which in my experience has really good support.
If I recall they've restructured things a little.

>https://www.aerospacetestinginternational.com/news/industry-...

The Engineers now report those concerns to the company Chief Engineer, who reports to Mullenberg/the CEO. There is also a committee tasked with oversight and investigation of anonymously submitted concerns.
Is there a way to detect if you have data loss? It sure looks like Mail has my emails, but I'm not sure…
Statements like these are STEM vs. Non-STEM version of "why does Twitter need 4000 software engineers? I could make that in two weeks!"

Didn't Paul Graham write an article about that?
It's the correct dose. See https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/12/did-a-melatonin-patent... for the sad background.

TLDR: MIT did a study and patented Melatonin usage with reasonable dosages. Manufactures just increased the dose 10x to get around the patent. The patent is expired but the damage remains.
Ιταλία vs. Ελλάδα, για την υπέρβαση στο Ολύμπικο
>If you're worried about kids being able to run arbitrary python scripts on your network, then the security problem is not the kids, it's your shitty network.

How is this even possible? Unless your CMS runs on python somewhere and does eval() a lot. Then yes, that is a huge problem. Moreover, why would that stop anything just not called .\+\.py?

If your CMS does `python ${fileIjustdownloadedfromuser}` in a shell then we are in serious trouble.
https://www.oerlikon.com/en/industries/aerospace-industry/

The medical-related area has probably others, but I personally have no clue about that.
Running a 32 bit OS won't prevent this from working, as it's a boot CD.
Some features, like syncing and group chats can be made more convenient in Telegram because it is not e2e encrypted. For me that doesn't feel like a very good long term compromise.
Fascinating story, what kind of books do you send to yourself?
What are these? I've never heard of such a thing.
This is exactly my position. I have job where I can get most of my daily work done in 2 hours. I spend the rest of my time on my side projects.
Yes, just that. I struggle a lot with getting engaged. Especially if I'm uncertain how to proceed. Or if whatever seems too difficult. Too big to imagine.

But once I do get engaged, especially if I understand (or at least, think I do) how to proceed, I won't stop until it's done.
Section 3.6, page 8, talks about the FFI overhead of Go.
I’ve always found it very interesting. Do you have a good resource that explains how it really work?
The preference of channel size being unbuffered or just 1 is interesting. That seems like something specific to a problem domain; for instance, in projects I am working on now, having a large buffered channel (1000s deep) is useful for worker queues of thousands of goroutines, that all read from a task feeder channel. This type of queuing seems go-idiomatic, and negates the need for additional synchronization. In this case, the backpressure blocking on writers is a feature.
Perhaps if the mail database were blockchained or at least merkle tree linked or otherwise metadata secured.
The paper states that fibers, including goroutines, are a bad idea. The part that is not specific to C++ is the FFI cost (cited as 160 ns in the paper).
Baby wearing is definitely a thing. I much prefer carrying around my kid in a pack or sling to pushing her in a stroller. She seems to prefer it as well.
The swiss rolled over after 9/11. That's when I knew the supposed and "renowned" swiss "privacy" and "discretion" was bunk.
Parent was referencing flat tax. I’m aware that lower incomes do not pay anywhere near 25% on average.
"Now progressives are trying to reinstitute segregation and promoting the idea that people should be judged on skin color and not content of character while conservatives fight them on these changes."

That's quite a statement. Could you go into more detail?
> Offering is any time the token is issued, like on launch.

The Securities Act defines “offer” to include any attempt to dispose of a security for value.

In order for anyone - Telegram or Joe Schmoe Gram investor - to “offer” a security it needs to be either (1) registered or (2) exempt from registration. Since Telegram filed Form D and the SEC has brought charges alleging an unregistered offering it would seem the SEC does not agree that the ICO was exempt and so Telegram was not in compliance with federal securities laws.

But even if the ICO were by some miracle exempt, without a registration statement the securities can’t be offered for sale to the public - regardless of whether they were new issues directly from Telegram or existing securities being offered for sale in Telegram’s new marketplace by Telegram users.
Site should be called interesting-but extremelybadlywrittern-engineering.com] Most of that made little sense, as written. "that consists of zinc metal icons" wtf? proofreading? And what is this: "As the CO2 molecules approach the material, which has a propeller-like molecular structure, they [the CO2 molecules? no, wait, it's the propellers! no, wait..] rearrange and rotate [like.. propellers?] to trap the CO2 and change [oooh! what?] the molecular channels [a term I often use at the grocery, what?] in the PCP. That enables it [you know, that thing, the PCP?] to recognize [it's sentient now?] molecules by their size and their shape." Aaand.. that has what to do with what? Why are there so many sites like this? Where do these people come from? Northwest Georgiaforniastan?
AI for Explaining Decisions in Multi-Agent Environments
"Must be willing to own a device that can get you disappeared" is not a realistic solution to state-level censorship, despite cypherpunk dreams to the contrary.
I think so, at least in some ways. I've shipped a project using PowerShell to script Windows Server/Hyper-V, and it was a pretty pleasant experience. Having a scripting language that not only does typical scripting stuff (wrangling text, etc.) and understands your application's objects is excellent.

Some differences:

* You can actually write your whole application in Elixir, whereas I could not see doing that with PowerShell

* In Erlang/Elixir, instead of objects you have processes. Think of your application as a microservice architecture on steroids, using the Erlang RPC protocol as a means for inter-process communication.

Because each process just sends and receives messages, your script can just send messages to any of the processes that make up your application, as if they were your own service. All you have to do is connect to the remote application using the Erlang Distribution Protocol (to connect different runtimes over the network).
Qt/QML is the obvious choice. Xojo is another option.
Ask HN: Opinions of Online Only Banks
Shopping around for a new bank as my credit union doesn't have a good presence in the area I moved to. I was considering an online bank or credit union. Are there any favored or geared towards tech workers?
It is still under same law, i assume. Non-public material knowledge.
Regarding Last Weekend’s Hearthstone Grandmasters Tournament
PG moved to England, afaik.