skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that anybody cares, but here’s what I’ve been wanting to do for hobbies:

Add some more physical hobbies. Rock climbing/bouldering, swimming/surfing, hike more often. Maybe even yoga. Right now I lift weights and jog on treadmills but I want more diversity. And I need more sun.

Start playing a competitive game again. Used to be into chess, Starcraft 2. I think this helps me decompress better than most other activities.

Read on my morning commute (25m train ride). Right now I mostly just browse the internet.

Work on a mobile game. Very bootstrappable side gig and I know little about front end.
The Odyssey, a couple of Plato's dialogues, The Aeneid, Dante's Inferno, and the Bible speak of a land of the dead that is within the earth. Probably based on the older cosmology that associated the elements with moral status of souls. Bad = earthy = go down. Good = fire = go up. In the earth is down, in the heavens is up. Souls go somewhere when the body dies, so bad souls go down into the earth and good souls go up into the heavens with the stars.

Also the reason for earth centered universes. Not because ancient thinkers thought humans were so great, but because they thought humans were so bad. Saying the earth (ball of dirt and badness) orbits the Sun (ball of fire and goodness) made no sense in that context.
Universities are now obsolete if you are an inventor, scientist, entrpreneur, etc. One can be more successful and better allocate time outside a university at this point, than in the rigidly retarded academic environment (which holds people back from true discovery and learning).
According to the K2x family guide, some devices have an hardware RNG available -- is it right this project uses a K20 without this?

It seems pretty bad that merely grounding 8 pins on this device will reduces its entropy to basically to a handful of noise bits from the ADC?
The trouble is both processor instructions and compilers have been optimized for C (well C and FORTRAN). So no matter how good or bad C is, we're mostly "stuck" with its PDP-11 computing model unless someone does a lot more work than just making a new programming language.
That's not true - the frequency spec hasn't changed in any way relevant to what happened. (I think there was some changes to rate-of-change-of-frequency disconnect specs for generators and possibly medium-term frequency accuracy, but neither of those things mattered here.) This kind of near-simultaneous failure of two large generators, tripping the low frequency demand disconnect, was always specified to cause a dip in frequency of a level those Siemens trains couldn't cope with. There was actually a very similar failure back in 2008. The only reason that didn't cause such chaos is because those trains hadn't been ordered yet.
An old quote indeed.

In modern world, any sufficiently complicated C or C++ program embeds a runtime of some higher level language. More often than not, that language is formally specified, well-supported, and fast.

Sometimes it’s indeed LISP like in AutoCAD, but more popular choices are JavaScript (all web browsers), LUA (many video games and much more, see Wireshark), Python, VBScript or VBA (older Windows software), .NET runtime (current Windows software and some cross-platform as well, like Unity3D game engine). These days, it’s rarely a custom language runtime, but it still happens, like Matlab.
The stock chart for Dropbox from March 2018 to now seems to indicate something pretty bad is happening.
Excel alternatives might be uncountable. Implementing spreadsheet basics is an advanced beginner exercise. But even Google’s billions only get it a distant second best because Microsoft is still working hard despite the lead. Sure Google and Apple can meet most needs most of the time. They’re good enough mainly because they are free beer. Not because they are open source. Obviously.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m a GNU fanboy at heart. But I dont believe in magically willing well engineered software into existence. It takes resources fungible with money. Projects with cash are at an advantage. Projects with cash, motivation and years of experience in the codebase are the ones that dominate. Not starting from scratch becomes a huge advantage.

A new project in a space needs to find an unserved market segment with resources fungible with money. That’s why successful developers’ tools are easy and CAD programs hard.

If you want to make an alternative, just make it and learn from what happens. Because what everyone wants is a free iPhone. Good luck.
How is this surprising in a world with increasing global labor supply and levels of automation?
I'm confused at the title. It seems like the Americans sponsored it outright and there is evidence the Soviets sponsored it as well.
It cost exactly 11 billion for Gilead to "develop" Sofosbuvir

(they bought Pharmasset who discovered the drug [1])

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofosbuvir#History
> willing to completely gut the Internet (net neutrality)

Oh please. The internet hasn’t been “gutted”. Far from it. It’s getting faster. It’s getting cheaper. It’s becoming more widely available. Do you have any evidence, anything at all, that the internet has been “gutted”?

And you’re going to tell me with a straight face that the internet has been “gutted” for the vast majority of its existence? Don’t be ridiculous.
I'm blind and play games. I have some residual vision to navigate some GUIs and use OCR to read blocks of text and magnification for a few other things, like detecting small buttons. I tend to pick a game and learn it well and play it a lot. I'm working my way through Disco Elesium right now, it's amazing.
Sure, sure. "...there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came ..."
If we are advocating revolution, the next thing is for Pakistan to actually meaningfully industrialize, and gain sufficient wealth — redistributing what already exists only goes a short way. In the ideal case this involves the world economy, and probably looks like outside investment building factories, and the factories paying Pakistani people mediocre money while the new government builds institutions suitable for a modern economy — courts that respect the rule of law, laws that provide a balance between the needs of capital suppliers and labor, laws that promote meaningful competition instead of entrenching well-connected political elites, and a modern education system.

The likelier alternative is they eschew participation in the world economy, building things from scratch themselves, doing it badly, without a rule of law, with a bad education system, with heavy state involvement that provides power to well-connected political elites, and a populist attitude which ignores the needs of capital, promoting empty slogans about economic justice instead of committing to the hard work and sacrifice associated with actually achieving it. The net result will be depressed capital formation, with an economy tilted towards state-run sectors and large companies which are friendly with the new regime. Since capital is important for productivity, the economy will continue to stagnate, though presumably it will see some improvement (it'd be hard not to at this point).
Wasn’t that kind of op’s argument? You can focus on beating yourself all you want, if yourself isn’t the best, then you will never win the Tour de France.

If you don’t have the potential to win The Tour, then should you even be trying to? Sounds like a lot of effort, might wanna invest it somewhere else or redefine your cycling goals.

I run marathons and I don’t beat myself up about winning because I don’t have the potential to be a world class marathoner. Even if I trained twice as hard as Kipchoge. I just don’t have it.

Same with boxing. I train 4x/week because I enjoy the exercise and mental relaxation. Punching people in the face is fun. But I don’t compete because I don’t have the talent to make the pain of competing worth it.

But when it comes to writing software and running a business, you bet your ass I’m giving it all I got and want to “beat” (hard to define) everyone else. Because there I do have the potential.
I don’t think video games are a problem as long as you have a good, balanced life outside of them.

If all your friends are from the game and you don’t socialize much outside the game and necessary things like work/family, I’d say that is a bit of a problem.
> The insurance company has already done the sums. It is a bad deal for you.

This is true if you are an average person. If you know yourself to be a higher-risk, it could be a good deal.
Obama was the "Poorest" president in 50 years at only something like 4 Million to his name when he took office. It's also interesting to note he is from the most corrupt district in America. He is still a good example.

Do you remember all the freely available information that showed Banks, Oil companies and massive corporations all spent considerably more on Clinton's 2016 campaign, yet somehow the media tells us Trump is "Big businesses" guy those companies worked hard to get into office? Easily verifiable to you right now. Are you going to go check my work? Opensecrets.org

Cognitive dissonance is never so strong as when we are telling ourselves it's not cognitive dissonance.
Or, you can look at the (say) 6 month sales cycle for an enterprise platform, and the internal political wrangling that may be required to get approval for the line item, as significant hurdles to moving forward with an ETL project. There are some legitimate, and some less valid, reasons for many engineers' (and engineering-driven orgs') bias against commercial options; and yes, sometimes this results in over-engineering.

Airflow can do some things many commercial tools cannot, though, so for some it is the right option.
Yes it can be import aliased everywhere. But my point is it’s not needed.
For Mac, I'm a big fan of Numi. You can assign results to variables, use those variables in more calculations, and if you go back and edit a definition, the changes immediately propagate to any other expression using that variable.

https://numi.app/
Getting a dozen people in and on a dropship in Tribes2 was a highlight of my LAN gaming days. Utter chaos. Superb fun. Too intricate a game for online play but great otherwise. Codename: Eagle hit similar notes.
Besides embedded applications, C is important because it has a simple binary interface. Libraries written in C can be used in any other language. This is not true for higher level languages, whether compiled or virtualized.
One way to resolve this is to pay vigilante students to remove and destroy these unwanted tracking devices.

>The launch was so sudden that some students were alarmed to see an unknown man enter their classroom, stick a small device near their desks, and walk away. The student newspaper, the Daily Tar Heel, reported on “an individual” entering class to install a “tracking device” and filed for school records related to the SpotterEDU contract.

This can be undone.
You can have multiple Linux Dropbox clients running if you point them at different home directories.

First run (installation): `HOME=/path/to/client-specific/home/folder dropbox start -i`

Subsequent runs: `HOME=/path/to/client-specific/home/folder /path/to/client-specific/home/folder/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd start -i`

Edit: Each "home directory" here can be any folder; you're essentially presenting a fake home directory to each Dropbox process. The dropbox processes can run under the same user.
Professors post slides and documents containing the lecture material online. However, some professors would purposefully leave out key words out of the slides to force you to come to class and fill to fill in the blanks
We've changed to that one from https://pwmarcz.pl/kaboom/ because it's a bit more informative and maybe more interesting to read first. Thanks!
Not OP, neither an Alpine user, but tried it once.

For me, the main selling point of Alpine is that it's not what RMS would call "a GNU/Linux distribution", since it doesn't use the GNU userland. This means, no GNU libc (Musl instead), no GNU Coreutils (Busybox instead), etc.

It became kind of famous thanks to Docker because an Alpine image is (or at least, was) only sized at 6MB.
Elon Musk wants to link brains directly to machines
Well I know people who take ambulances to the hospital, and have the dr prescribe formula and diapers that way it can be covered by their medicare. But that's a different ballgame than employer insurance. I suppose there's a lot of different kinds of people out there.
Synthetic magnetism leads photons on a 2D quantum random walk
Years ago (2006-2013) I ran a personal site that used Wordpress for its front page/blog, with the remainder using very simple hand-rolled PHP templating and text files. The front page was a constant source of trouble — if I didn’t stay perfectly on top of keeping Wordpress up to date I’d get hit with the same kind of hidden link stuff mentioned in the article. Crazy thing is that my site barely even had an audience to speak of… can’t imagine what it must be like for more popular blogs.

If I were to spin up a new personal site I think it’d be with something like gohugo.io deployed on Netlify, making it as static as possible with no room for exploits.
In the US, it's just a way for employers to offer tax free income to employees.

And nowadays, it's morphed into a crazy scheme where large Dental Service Organizations (DSO) offer super cheap cleanings to the insurance, and then treat their dentists and hygienists like sales staff who try to push bullshit like fluoride treatments and sealants with 1,000% markups that you have to pay for out of pocket.

It's crazy what the situation is, I stopped going to certain dental practices and had to find an independent one I could trust. I'd almost rather forego the employer provided insurance cleanings and pay cash just to makes sure the incentives are aligned and the dentists and hygienists aren't trying to scam me.
Free open-source IPTV cloud service
So now it seems like students are required to bring a smartphone with them on their way to class. So, if they leave their phone at home, this ridiculous system will mark them as "absent"? This is pure madness.
The seat is in 2.7 but the flush tank requires 3.5.
Yeah I was intrigued to just try a demo to get an idea of what it was about but closed it after I realized I would have to sign up for something.
Go back far enough in time (2004), and injecting an iframe into a third-party site is Selenium. I agree, using an iframe is a fun hack!
Thanks for sharing that personal insight.

My career is far from the place I want it to be and I've emotionally dealt with the setbacks by changing how I interpret failure.

I used to think of failure as lead bricks I'd collect and forever lug around whenever I didn't meet a goal. An infinite burden with no purpose.

Now I think of failure as a heavy work out. Rather than bearing a burden of failure, I fill the experience rips/tears with knowledge protein. It's a semi-silly analogy, but it's really helped me. Knowledge + experience = wisdom.

PS. Adioso is great.
That statement seems wrong in the strict sense, since the "Havlak" benchmark from your link has a more extreme difference between Crystal and Nim and was not included in the article's tests.

The word "bias" has several meanings. One of them is an accusation that those two benchmarks were chosen specifically to produce the desired outcome. Considering the above, and that Base64 and especially JSON parsing are very common, I think it would be fair to allow for the possibility that the article's author chose them accidentally and not with any intent to deceive.

FWIW I was surprised by the article's focus on interfacing with C, something I have not done in 20 years of programming, and was wondering if it was a (possibly subconcious) choice to set up Nim to win.
I do partially agree.

My riposte would be that $1M donations aren't uncommon - but million-dollars-in-bitcoins-from-mysterious-person are, they're interesting, we write this thread about them. Additionally it emphasizes where the money came from - this isn't a million shaved off a few billion of MS company stock. It's come from somebody who took a punt and it paid off handsomely. Equivalent to a lottery win. Finally he gave it to smaller charities and asked them to do something significant with it.

I'm not in the least religious, but taps into the tropes about reaping, sowing, sharing, blah blah - and as the article points out, it inspired others to do the same.
Just imagine it said at time of writing or time of draft, and move on
There are many, many keyboard layouts out there. Maybe it's time for an input standard that acknowledges this fact, instead of endlessly putting the onus on OS developers and users. Maybe keyboards should output UTF8 instead of messy keycodes.
To be honest the market for ZFS support must be quite small, and the semantics just different enough to cause unpleasant bugs, so I wouldn't blame them for that.

Interestingly, there are signs that they have been working on support for a wider range of file systems: https://itsfoss.com/dropbox-brings-back-linux-filesystem-sup...
That's a great question. In this case, the drugs are small-molecules (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ledipasvir/sofosbuvir) and they're complicated ones at that. So trying to make that at home would be impractical.

But you're on to something I've been personally interested in for a while. You can make proteins at home in cells, but to get them pure enough for injection is near impossible without expensive manufacturing equipment and testing equipment. I think the real win is going to be using mRNA coding for the protein of interest formulated in lipid nanoparticles. This type of idea would be easier to make sterile and have basically no risk of endotoxin/virus issues recombinant proteins have. I give it 10 years before garage biohackers start really getting this idea to work.
Well, they kinda do, sometimes at least. This is a slightly weird case, but Unity has gotten a bad rap recently for being host to a million shovelware and asset flip games due to its low barrier to entry, so much so that some people avoid things made in Unity entirely.
From a tax perspective donating an asset is much better than liquidating it and donating the cash. Charities don’t have to pay capital gains, you do, even if the money is eventually going to a charity.
I am sure this "misconseption" is what keeping Python programs so fast and efficient comparatively to ones written in C
But there is pointer arithmetic in Go, in the "unsafe" package. Like with generics the Go authors want to decide where and when these are used, but they actually made it possible for mere users of Go to use pointers freely, since it's badly needed from time to time, unlike generics which they hide fully.
1. Make it part of your routine. For instance, make it a weekly habit to have coffee on Sunday morning and update your journal. If you pair writing with another routine activity, (especially an activity that you enjoy doing) then you'll be more likely to complete it.

2. Hang a wall calendar in a high-visibility location and put a sticker/tally mark for every week that you successfully log. It's an easy visual reminder of your progress, and it can bug you if you don't log for a week.

3. This may not be the advice you want, but not logging for a week isn't the worst thing - it's okay to have a week now and then where nothing of note really happens.
Also quite a bad example of tech journalism in the really weird writing - repeating a couple of phrases multiple times verbatim, like it was written a bot or is SEO optimised or something.
In some cases we need to do an update-deploy-restart while a DAG is still running (not even the one being updated). Then several minutes or hours later the child processes raise a segfault and the jobs they were working on fail, requiring restarting any of those jobs. I imagine a graceful shutdown would allow the job to finish up and the DAG to continue with the remaining jobs.
I already have a lot of hobbies. So much so that at any given time there's just a "core" set of hobbies I can indulge in and my various hobbies flit in and out of this set depending on the circumstances.

For this year, I want to go for depth rather than breadth. For instance:

- I can already play the guitar reasonably well so how about going into music theory next?

- I can draw well but I've been mostly drawing portraits and human figures. So how about still lifes and sceneries? Or draw with color as so far all I've been doing is elaborate sketching.

- Maybe finally learn Copperplate.

- After doing Taekwondo since 2004, I recently just picked up boxing and kickboxing. Definitely a lot to learn here still, and even more to integrate from TKD! I wanna get good form on my head movement, get that explosive technique on my punches, throw all my body weight into my hooks, etc.

On to another decade of curiosity, I guess. :)
One of the best features of the airpods is seemingly not advertised: in transparency mode they automatically switch to active noise cancellation if there is some excessively loud/harmful noise.

I live in a city where I walk everywhere. The audio landscape of a city can be incredibly harmful. Notably the shrieking of brakes in need of replacement and the many awful sounds of construction. Walking around with transparency mode on, even when not listening to anything, has immeasurably improved my quality of life. I can still be aware of my surroundings without having to deal with anything but the first few fractions of these hostile noises.
Here's the crux point...

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...clinicians are now able to successfully cure at least 95% of patients with the chronic condition with oral medications that have little or no side effects.

"With such an effective means for cure, it only makes sense to universally screen patients," Cheung said. "Implementation of universal screening will also decrease the likelihood of primary care physicians forgetting who does or does not need screening -- and it avoids the sometimes uncomfortable discussion with the patient about why they have been labeled as high risk and needing further screening."
"""

I think the fact that high risk populations rock the medical boat so globally already makes medicine awkward regardless of avoiding uncomfortable discussions. All these blanket treatments and tests just paper over the fact that there are wide impacting subpopulations with poor health in our populous driving the need for these things in the first place. It's the next immediate question that gets raised when you evaluate 'why do I need another HIV test' or whatever other blood test it is that medicine pushes on you. Eventually it dawned on me that these blind blanket decisions are simply because these doctors don't know anything about a patient's personal life and what risky subpopulations they may or may not belong to. But from the patient who knows what virtue they live or don't live some of these tests just come off as absurd knowing your own life history and the absolute absence of risks you deliberately avoid in life. One step of indirection is not much to jump over for one who naturally asks the next immediate question.
Yes, I think that was my original point. If I get duped, then it doesn't hurt me that much. But there's a lot of people who are on fixed incomes, or just not that bright, and this hurts them.
They probably meant to differentiate from the Wordpress.com managed hosting.
The technology behind STIR/SHAKEN is relatively interesting, integrating certificate authorities into the SIP protocol:

https://www.atis.org/sti-ga/resources/docs/shaken-faqs.pdf

As the article mentions, there are some shortcomings. Caller ID spoofing is necessary for some services, as in the VOIP world calls are broken up into termination (dialout) and origination (dialin). If STIR/SHAKEN takes hold, the CID phone number for termination will have to be signed by the origination carrier. It should be fun to watch the carriers handle it. (There are 3 levels of attestation, but that's the gist.)

Bandwidth.com also has a good overview:

https://www.bandwidth.com/glossary/stir-shaken/
Building your own mini flight recorder