skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally speaking organisms of today retain the adaptations of their ancestors, at least to a measurable degree. Whatever organism that ate plastics back then is unlikely to have gone extinct but rather gone back to whatever it was eating before, while retaining the plastic metabolism. Within the span of hundreds of thousands or millions of years (e.g. when a prior evolved primate would have had their technological period) those adaptations would probably remain intact and their descendants would be munching away on plastic today. If we suppose that the plastic culture existed further back than that, then there might not be organisms with intact metabolisms, but nevertheless there'd be some residual proteins that had an enzymatic decaying effect even if the organism didn't make good use of it. The fact that plastics have shown no deterioration at all for extended periods of time seems to indicate that nothing which survives today in contact with plastic has any lineage back to organisms which once consumed plastic in the past.
> I cannot find any compelling use case for the system

"Fact checking" is probably the magic word du jour for getting grants and funding.
Looking at it this way also makes it easier to remember/understand function pointer syntax, as well as attributes like const and volatile when placed between asterisks.
pint wrapper that does fuzzy matching: https://github.com/jakeogh/unitcalc

unitcalc 50stones kg
unitcalc 1lightyear nm
unitcalc 7fortnights decades
unitcalc 99mi/sec fathom/month
unitcalc 3.14radians/fortnight degrees/ms
unitcalc 0.2W eV/century
unitcalc 0.2J/ns ton_TNT/month

Pint is excellent. If you put in units that need a dimension to convert, the exception says what is missing, it could ask for that value, but havent figured it out yet; obviously dont want to parse the exception message.

The framework to tell it physics exists, so stuff like:

unitcalc 0.2eV femtograms

should be possible.
The Sad State of Happiness in the United States and the Role of Digital Media [pdf]
I call that "locking in your losses".
If those checks don't determine enabling the feature would impact the user experience or security, they do supposedly announce and ask whether it should be enabled, otherwise it's kept disabled. At least for "the US rollout", which I assume is currently the only rollout rather than only US users being asked. I don't quite see what's "ouch" about that, although personally I won't enable it.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https
I'm assuming there would be costs for the bank once you get into electronic transfers. (or did we just think of the next unicorn payment startup idea??) As a simpler solution, what if banks offered checks that didn't have any identifiable info on them and didn't require a signature, etc. And instead of account/routing number it have a hex value that is decrypted by the bank?
Define "naturally"

Without human intention: yes.

Without repeated patterns of humans activity: no.

If meat agriculture, and meat-eating in general, were almost nonexistent, the risks of evolving a pandemic would be several orders-of-magnitude lower than exist today.
> I want a language that can check at compile/check time that none of my pointers will have invalid addresses.

This is incompatible with pointer arithmetic, as it would require to solve the halting problem. You could, still, verify it at run time.
That seems totally different than my experience as well. Especially the part about the battery life: mine seems almost immediately empty so I have to bring battery packs, cables and/or multiple devices. I did address this with MS support, sent it in for repairs (twice) but nothing wrong with it so the light work I use it for apparently is very different from what you do. I do the same on the iPad pro (although that was not the intention: I wanted to do more dev on this one) and that one has 20%+ end of day while the Go shuts down within a few hours. Not even 6 months old. Useless...
Thanks. You are right in saying that you can save tax with 44ADA.
But it has an upper limit of 50 lac and you have to get a GST number. There are other things as well except taxing. But again different things might matter more or less to different people. I have written in detail the problems based on my experience at https://kishansagathiya.github.io/blog.html#remote1
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Well, the author learned the difference between syntax and semantics.
Or maybe there was a whole lot more fossil fuel in the past.
I tried running Go HTTP servers bare to the internet (after Cloudflare promoted doing so in a blog post), but went back to using a reverse proxy the next time.

The main benefit seems to be convenience. I can upgrade and graceful-restart nginx instead of having to rebuild and redeploy the Go server (involving a full app restart). Not having to worry about goroutine leaks because some jerk decided to send the request line @ 1 byte/sec is just an added bonus.
Is Houston Less Affordable Than New York?
The second thing I tried was:

"The square root of..."

I'm sure I've started sentences that way many many times. The results are pretty funny:

"The square root of four (e.g. 1.6 or 1.18) is 1,913,511."
UBC study links living near highways to risk of neurological disorders
The daily mail is not a reliable source. Especially not for anything involving foreigners.
The article is a rebuttal to a previous submission that got some comments and discussion, "Houston's sprawl drives up transportation costs (texasmonthly.com)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22095609
I know there is some science backing the general approach, but doesn't evolution tend to pressure the virus developing different vectors, when faced with eradication? There is probably a good subset of the 2997 other species that could serve the purpose.
Port 25 is SMTP, it needs to be allowed in outgoing direction. Otherwise you will be locked to proprietary web mail.
Indeed, I think listening to rich people for wisdom in non-business topics, with the assumption that rich = smart, is quite specific to the US.
If one is writing cross platform enterprise software, any aspects of the underlying OSes get abstracted away and replaced with logic specific to your product's business cases. It is not unheard for an enterprise vendor to promote specific hardware, OS or other environment aspect because their software has been developed with knowledge of error and performance situations native to that configuration. In many ways, a mature enterprise application is software that has been written to include all popular hardware and software environments.
as i spend all of my energy to build a great product i dont have any energy left to convince co-founders or co-workers every few weeks. i wouldnt ever found a business or project with someone not as committed to it as myself.

so: if you have to convince someone of co-founding, he/she is probably not a good match
«it's highly likely that there are more unreported cases than unreported deaths, which means that the actual mortality rate is lower.»

I don't think so, because deaths lag infections. When the outbreak is rapidly growing, if it takes about 5 days for the virus to kill, then even if you knew all the stats perfectly, you actually need to look at the ratio of "deaths as of day D" over "infections as of D-5" to calculate the mortality rate. If you do this math right now (291 infections as of Jan 20, 56 deaths as of Jan 25) you find the mortality rate is 19%. Assuming infections are underreported by a factor of 5, the mortality rate is still high at 19/5 = 3.8%.
SQL-like joins.

Fx, joining the sum of sales by store ID from the sales table with the table of store names on the store ID. That is a major reason why people use pandas.
By far my least favourite aspect of DEET is that it merely deters mosquitos rather than hurts them.
Life in the Baby Universe: The Physics of Babies (2014)
A lot of the most commonly run software out there doesn't use the large, complex instructions offered on x86, so a bunch of pristine silicon goes to waste. Use the space taken by AVX512 etc to make more, simpler cores, and you get more performance for the same price, or less cost for the same performance. Simpler cores are easier to clock higher with less voltage, and less likely to have defects that would pull down yields.
They did for Hololens 2.0 [0], so they have some expertise, but that's a different segment.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjxpMZUqu6c
I’m not sure if I consider that an ad, but I got the same after scrolling way down. I’m on Mobile Safari.
CloudFlare itself offers request buffering, so you should be good on that front.
> What happens if I have four plates and put one cookie on each?

>> I have four plates and put one cookie on each. The total number of cookies is [24, 5 as a topping and 2 as the filling]

After playing around with AI dungeon for a bit I noticed that the types of mistakes I saw were very reminiscent of common logical errors in human dreams.

For instance in dreams, clocks and signs are inconsistent from one glance to another, location can change suddenly, people come and go abruptly, sometimes I do things for reasons that don't really make sense when I wake up... etc. Things just follow some sort of "dream logic".
Is it not also likely proximity to green plants reduces stress, and blood pressure? And mood improvement might shave years off exposure of risk to Parkinson's insidious side effects on mood leading to later or post death (postmortem exam) diagnosis.
There's a dedicated SMTP submission port. Try dialing e.g. gmail's MX record on 25. It might/should probably block.
As you say, capital gains are not "only" due to speculation, but just sometimes. You also assumed that your risk capital was originally "earned" implying that you paid full tax rates on it. Unless your original earnings were from investment or, ahem, luck of birth (I mean, inheritance).

Do you consider being lucky enough to be born into a wealthy family to be doing something productive?
Try typing when casting for a visceral demonstration of the latency. Also you might not see it but that casting is generally very compressed video
> In that case, should we encourage such behaviour at the cost of making lives of many people worse?

What behavior are we encouraging? Founding companies? Why shouldn't we encourage that?
You can’t copyright a cocktail, so what’s a creative bartender to do? (2019)
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You genuinely chose where to live on the basis that living in remote proximity to other humans could perhaps lower your chance of catching an illness from them?
If you mean port 465, it is the port for SMTPS, not a dedicated submission port.

I received timeout, not block, when I queried gmail on port 25. If it were blocked, I would get a TCP reset.
Improving communities through documentation (2019)
Heh, nice touch with the word "oxymoronic" (instead of oxymoron). ;)
My tech lead is an idiot
His code is terrible, and he’s intuitions are usually super wrong.
And to top it off, he is not very productive — our junior engineers are lapping him on tickets closed.

Yet this guy outranks most our team by two levels.
But my manager is not very technical, so he can’t detect his BS (and he is somewhat of an idiot himself).

But this guy is very gregarious and extroverted — the business folks like him.

I am super annoyed because I have to fix this guys bugs, and ACTUALLY do the technical leading myself — yet I get no credit. I’m ready to quit this job or make some kind of lateral move to another team. What should I do?
Inheritance taxes could remove that factor without also removing the incentive for entrepreneurs to take risks.

If your problem is with inheritance, tax inheritance. Don't tax capital gains, which are only sometimes related to inheritance and also affect people who don't inherit anything.
In New York, not only do you not need a car, but I imagine it's also much easier to rent an off-the-books corner for a couple hundred a month.
President Trump Just Delivered a Death Blow to Amazon (Anti-Counterfeit)
I run https://jsonip.com on linode. I push about 5-6 terabytes of data outbound each month. Linode is a dream.
Which companies stand to gain most financially from this growth in a new market?
rather, if the "annual checkup" was actually a weekly detailed review or audit; which is already possible right now for people who can afford it
The government won’t protect our elections, so private companies are doing it
Yeah... I'm wary of microservices sprawl...

Also, infra like email service, payments etc can probably fit into a 2 week rewrite.. but core domain is usually more complicated (since it's less well understood)

I've generally had more success with few, chunky services... The few times I've worked with teams that had a large number of small services, it never ended well (in one case, a 40 member Dev team - groups of 8... Ended up with each team maintaining about 3- 5 services)..

To me, micro services is more about scaling teams... Other than that, They seem to cause more tech problems than they solve.

Otoh, what do I know... There was some Uber talk where they had thousands of services...
This is great news for India as more people are gaining access to the Internet. However, this is only one side of the story. The ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) in India is around 72 INR which is approximately 1 USD per month. For the US, it is approximately 50 USD per month. This figure makes a big difference as far as the revenue opportunity is concerned. This affects telecom operators a lot more than mobile phone manufacturers. India is also one of the fastest growing economies in the world. It is expected that not only more people will come online but also the per capita income will grow rapidly that will make it more lucrative in the future.
How to automate your personal finances in Australia
Right, but another option is to eschew pointer arithmetic. Iterators in many languages address many usages of pointer arithmetic, and can be designed to compile to the same sort of code as pointer arithmetic-using C compiles to.

C wouldn't ever be able to take out pointer arithmetic, so I worry anyone envisioning a new language as some diff from C is probably going to get stuck on that sort of thing too. I'm a big fan of the original referenced article by Eevee for bringing this sort of thing up.
Right but I think in terms of interstellar colonization there can’t really be a concept of an outpost how we think of say bases in Antarctica or the ISS. If you’re sending people to another star system, it has to be a minimum viable colony or nothing.

In regards to fossils, excellent point. The problem is that despite all of the fossils we’ve found, overall it accounts for less than 1% of all species that have ever existed on Earth. The odds of finding even a single fossil from an animal from a non-terrestrial colony are exceptionally low. Not zero, but so low as to be extremely unlikely.
South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal' sale of .amazon
http://archive.is/6FWjg
I guess the real benchmark is whether they'll put it to use with Lambda, Fargate etc.
What does it mean that the malicious video was delivered via "an encrypted downloader hosted on WhatsApp's media server"?
The same way the AMT started as a tax on "the rich" and now regularly affects middle class earners
Port 587.

Not nearly all consumer isps block port 25, but a lot do.
> I'm a huge fan of languages with non-nullable references as the standard, like Kotlin, Typescript, and Rust.

What about C++ references? They cannot be null, have to be initialized, and cannot be reinitialzed or made to target another object.
Keep the money flowing.

Nothing else matters.
> but after cooking are entirely indistinguishable from the eggs at the store.

I can personally feel the difference both when cooking schnitzels (I use the same meat, but the "crust" tastes different depending on the eggs used) and when making pancakes (I use the same milk and flour).
Though I'm not surprised by the results, the one that sticks out most to me is the content language:

> Content language <0.01% en-US,en,bg,es

Bruh... 0.01%?!!? Seriously?!?!?
an article about a virus?? color me skeptical that it's the rule rather than the exception
> One part of why Microsoft's ideas didn't really catched on was that we developers just didn't get it. Most of us were amateurs and had no computer degree.

Well if you only look at the web and exclude the bulk of enterprise software in the 00’s.
Ouch... Firefox Focus includes:

chargingTime : Infinity
level : 0.77

Yes that is indeed my phone's current battery level. And no matter if incognito Brave, Firefox Focus or Chrome browsers, I am unique to the site.

Even Firefox Focus which is meant to be good for privacy by throwing the entire session each time is leaky as eg with the audio context.
Where do you get that from? It's simply not harmless in every context, just like basically anything out there.

Do you realize what it would mean if we'd stop using all the things that can be harmful when used in certain ways?

It's a nice headline, though.
In what situation WOULD you be able to expect to extract "something useful" about "our cognitive fucntions or our brain disorders"? It seems silly to think we could learn anything about such complex things without understanding something simpler first, hence the approach of validating models of simpler structures.

What would you recommennd?
That's a really long document to say that they weren't able to find much of anything. They think his bandwidth usage went up for a long time after he got a WhatsApp message from MbS' number and couldn't actually analyze any malware. I have to wonder why they'd hack him with a video flying their own flag.

The thing about the women looking similar is really reaching and doesn't make any sense. We already have other reports that Bezos' GF showed texts to her brother who sold them from other reports.

Finally, what's with really rich people sending their electronics to 3rd party security firms and not letting the Feds analyze anything directly? You'd think that if this was really some matter of national security or whatever, you'd want an investigation by people with subpoena power. But I guess that doesn't matter for some reason?
I should probably just read the study but I wonder if it controls for varying levels of income
GNU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Project
Somewhat related, to get optimizations into Wirth's Oberon compiler required the optimizations to 'pay for themselves':

Compiling the compiler with a version the optimization added had to be at least as fast as without, so the speed improvement it provided had to outweigh both the extra code it added to the source, and the runtime complexity.

It didn't serve to make it optimize well, but it served its purpose in keeping the compiler lean and simple to understand, and ensuring fast compilation.
There is pretty much no actual evidence here and at least a few indications that they are not iOS forensics experts. Bezos did not choose the right company to handle this work.

Some of their assumptions are really stretching, especially the bit about the picture of the woman looking vaguely like his girlfriend, as if that’s an indicator that they know about her. They seem to be working backwards from their conclusion and trying to stretch the evidence to the explain what they want to be true.

I actually was more convinced that MBS was involved before reading the report. Now seeing this, plus the story that AMI paid her brother 200k for leaked texts that WSJ saw and verified, really has me doubting.
Ok, so, first, there are some diagnoses that are known hard to diagnose. Celiac disease, mycosis fungoides, diabetes insipidus, among many. Half of medicine is rare diseases. The typical physician may see a case once in their career, maybe less. I can say, as a pathologist, the doctor who lives at the far end of many of these workups, I have seen some truly rare diagnoses, stuff that's not in any textbook. And I know good doctors who have missed common diagnoses, myself included.

I submit that this attorney in the story was fortunate that this neurologist saw him outside his regular clinic, was a neurologist, and had the luxury of reviewing the chart, probably at night or over a weekend, without ten patients in the waiting room, three stacked up in the clinic rooms, a nurse he doesn't quite trust, a front desk clerk who showed up late, and a note from radiology in his inbox that landed 5 minutes before clinic started notifying everyone that the CT suite is unavailable for urgent scans because the technicians' contract wasn't renewed in time so they're simply not coming to work.

In medicine, days off are so wonderful because they're the only real chance to catch up work.
Since users of evergreen browsers will have frequently changing version number strings, the history of snapshots of these fingerprints is time sensitive. This serves to artificially inflate the uniqueness, as an identical device using the same evergreen browser 1 month, or 2 week ago, will not match you now, but would match if they revistited with their now updated browser.

To be useful, fingerprinting techniques need to somehow be robust against always increasing version numbers of evergreen browsers in ways that this website is not.
If you can load a font on the client, the loading can fail. If the load can fail you can catch the error. If you can catch the error you can store a list of fonts without being able to actually do an enumerate request. And it wouldn't be much of a browser if it couldn't POST data to an html endpoint.

As soon as you introduce a programming environment you introduce the ability to do all sorts of things that aren't builtin.

It's generally not the browser saying, here's the list of my settings, you asked for, but rather a program being executed that pokes around at all the things it can interact with to squeeze out info.

But I agree, that javascript should not have access to audio device models numbers with or without permission, nor should it have any kind of access to the browsers chrome.
Yes, but also expose the information through:

+ A new set of optional HTTP headers

+ A new JS API
ice ages are a cycle and happen about every 100,000 years. although we are likely triggering the next ice age a little early with our environmental impact.
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If HIIT training is what boosts endurance, why don't any elite marathoners train in this way? Why do they run ~100 mi or more each week, mostly at a low intensity?
“The most intriguing question of all may never be answered. Only Randy Constant knows why he did what he did, but at age 60 he took his own life last August. Three days earlier he’d been sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud. He was ordered to forfeit $128 million, a fine that he almost certainly never would have been able to pay off.”

Intriguing? On what planet of pretend do I need to live on, in order for a statement like this to not sound like a dystopian sci-fi story where autistic serial killers who go to church, for the networking benefits, are the ones writing newspaper articles?

.... it gets worse

“I know Randy was deeply ashamed of his conduct,” his widow said soon after his passing.

Yeah. No kidding. Also sounds like your marriage to him was just splendid.

“Despite Constant’s faults, former business partner Glen Borgerding remains sympathetic and remembers him fondly.

“The reaction you get from people after hearing of his suicide is that he deserved what he got,” he said. “But I don’t feel that way. There was a lot of good in Randy and the real tragedy is that he went down this path.””

Most people think he deserved suicide... what world do we live in ?

Was his business partner the only human being with a functioning soul in the entire town?
Here’s the research claiming that SARS jumped from horseshoe bats to civets to humans:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1236580/
by downloading the pdf, will my iphone get infected? :)