skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I guess this is getting confusing but the fusion bit is a counter argument to "we are definitely doomed." If we harness fusion, we're clearly not doomed, ergo that statement is false. It doesn't mean we necessarily need fusion for salvation.

The point is: the claim is just that, a claim. A big, sweeping, depressing claim, without any actual evidence to back it up, and which doesn't hold up against a bit of critical analysis.

To be clear: I'm not saying we need fusion to keep our environment inhabitable for humans. Personally, I'm bullish on more effective use of the resources we already have, first and foremost through pigovian taxes. I'm pessimistic about the politics required to achieve that. But I disagree that we're doomed. That's patently false.
You should post again on what you're going to change, because i (at least) read that advice both ways, and I want to make sure you're reading it the way that was intended.

If your database is open to 127.0.0.1/{8,24,32}, it is open only to the local host; that is the non-routable localhost address and it's not accessible to the internet.

If your database is open to 0.0.0.0/0, it is open to the internet and anyone can attempt login. This is bad. Presumably you also still need a password, but never assume. Always have defense in depth - at least two things need to go wrong/be wrong before you're compromised.
It’s classed as a moped essentially, which are also limited to ~30mph. It’s perfectly legal to go on roads, but not highways.

It’s a pretty good deal, I’ve been debating getting a moped, but the equivalent with a roof and a bit safer is certainly appealing
Indeed, it is not off topic when the topic is "Mapping Coronavirus, Responsibly."

One practical implication of grouping Taiwan with China is that Italy banned travel from Taiwan along with China, even though the situation in Taiwan is basically fine.

It's also not plausible that the author, a professional cartographer, just made a mistake about Taiwan.
Would be interesting to know how many of those billion+ are flat out bad/malicious.
Social anxiety? They'd make communication more difficult not less.
Scientists in New Mexico studying link between coronavirus and animals
Do these programs have an overarching name or a good reading point I could point others to? I think it's in the realm of the possible for me locally but I'm not going to be able to get it off the ground if I have to pull together success stories, plans, etc.
Teaching teachers: What this teenager is doing with Minecraft is mind-blowing
I find it comedic that someone called LaTeX error handling "phenomenally good".
A woman took 550 times the usual dose of LSD, with [..] positive consequences
Their main cost is outgoing bandwidth, AWS outgoing bandwidth is really expensive.
I don't get why C++ programmers like to keep the namespace prefixes around. I'd just add lots of "using ..." statements and make my code more readable. What's the chance of conflicts anyway when you are already dealing with a tiny fraction of the code in the current file?
not a book but you should definitely follow Martin Fowlers blog
That’s true, it all depends on the agreement with the university.
Why do you trust some companies and not others? Joplin supports nextcloud and that's self hostable if you want full control.
Yes, few items on the app radar and they have 2017 as the date.

Edit: No new videos on their youtube channel younger than 3 years, either.
Any idea why this is? I'm even more curious since you've singled out "cloud VMs" from all VMs.
Does it work the other way too, or does only the US get stuck with this expense?

For example, maybe Poland could fund a disease-control effort in 49 different countries, including the USA.

The USA could expect about 48 countries to do likewise. We could have our diseases controlled by Slovakia, Ireland, Haiti, Singapore, South Sudan, Denmark, Laos, Pakistan, Chile, Peru, Ghana, Estonia, and dozens more.
This is news to me as an iOS developer. I wonder what I’ve been doing all this time.
No. Even if proprietary, you can find very detailed datasheets and guides to program most of those. Try finding a Broadcom SoC datasheet and you'll quickly understand what I mean. They're protected like nuclear launch codes.
I believe another poster earlier reported that knuths solution was 140 times faster besides being applicable to building tools like the Unix tools.
> Modern computed environments can now receive and provide a wider set of sensory channels

> more powerful ways of thinking

> The body itself now becomes a designable structure

This reminds me of a novel called "Diaspora" by Greg Egan. The virtual human-descended main characters were trying to communicate with an alien species extremely different from humans - different to the point where their very thought processes were incompatible with any shared method of information transmission.

As a workaround, they created a chain of copies of themselves, each one slightly more like the alien from the last, but similar enough to be able to communicate with its neighbors. In this way, they created a way to communicate with the aliens through the chain of proxy-entities.

----

It's really interesting to see these kinds of ideas come up in experimental VR research. I do believe that that's the end-game of VR-style technology: not perfectly replicating reality and making the virtual world indistinguishable from the real world, but opening up the human mind to a broader set of senses/thoughts/experiences than are available through the corporeal human body.

> [...] designers will hamper themselves and their users by perpetuating old UI mechanics, turning VR etc into a rough simulacrum of the constrained physical world rather than the means for its transcendence.

I think that the human mind is an incredibly general thing and that it would be capable of existing in an environment completely separate from the body. I'm excited to see what kind of advancements we'll see in our lifetimes in the area of expanding consciousness through technology and moving past the previously insurmountable constraints of the human body within which we spend our lives.
It is scary knowing that the number of cases increases.
Oh, now I know why American car ads have those warnings that an ad is made under different conditions than normal driving.
Depends on the city.

Also, the scooters and motorbikes might be part of the solution, and larger vehicles part of the problem.
It's a header-only library, it would effectively add "using" statements anything that included the library.
The worst thing about Goodreads is that it is horribly biased by terrible people. The Historical Fiction category is exceptionally terrible. Unfortunately it is integrated heavily by Amazon.
> The generic implementation includes the arch specific one and lives in "lib/vdso".

Is this the shared object that gets mapped to the address space of each process?
He does not care about privacy as a principle, he cares about _his own privacy_.

More generally, Peter Thiel is not a good person.
The amount of energy required to move x amount of mass is a math problem, not a political problem.

We’ve already seen what happens to the world’s ecosystem when a very small portion of the world’s population lives a comparably luxurious lifestyle, and unless a breakthrough in thermodynamics is achieved in very short order, I don’t see how it can scale to the whole world.

All those new jet setters, car driving commuters, and air conditioned homes aren’t going to come without consequence. I’m not aware of any technological breakthroughs that can enable us to use resources without heavily altering the ecosystem.
Do they understand that or do they just hear email as Gmail, say "oh, ok" and go on with their lives?
And if you've ever led anything, you understand the value of "buffer states". Having those satellite projects, R&D investments, etc that you nurture in the good times, because you've seen hard times, and don't care to return to them.

Donations follow the same axiom as pricing: ask for what the market will bear.
It's just that Linux's eBPF system has been extended far, far beyond packet filtering.
Compiling code on your computer and then transferring it to your device?
Can’t you just type “1984” or “Alaska” while focused on the dropdown to select on modern browsers
Lol what a delightful story :)
The best way to get over a brilliant idea is to start working on it. Hopefully, that work inspires another idea and so on and so forth until you end up with something real.
Efforts to reduce the amount of food in landfills produce a lot of pretty infographics but very little change to a deeply flawed food system.
Ugh, fuck me, I wish I had converted to cash last friday.
Well yes, in those cases it doesn't make sense, but the article mentions things like date fields, where you might want a min of 1 and a max of 31. It can also make sense to use step="0.1" if you need value to include tenths.

Just saying there's advantages and disadvantages to each approach. I do agree with the article, their approach is better in most cases.
Besides the header issue mentioned in the sibling, sometimes the context is important too, for an example from Python, no one would `from os.path import join`— you always use `os.path.join` in its entirety.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/us/bloomberg-anti-semitis...

It wasn't photoshopped...

So you're one example was you mistakenly thinking something was racist when really it was the actual content that Bloomberg chose.

That's how sensitive you are.
> Months arguably don't have widely-used numeric names,

You forgot about east asian languages, which all use numeral months.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calendar#Month

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_calendar#Months

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_calendar#Months
ScholarMe (YC S19) Is Hiring a First Front End Dev in Toronto
I wonder, has anyone attempted to study whether any aspect of decision-making or reasoning fall along this frequency range? Waves could be something like a CPU clock cycling. Which may affect neuron function globally, representing different mental states like sleep.
Mormons, Hasidic Jews, Hutterites, the Amish. These are all US communities that have had fertility rates well above average for generations. Those are all culture bound groups. Even if they were forcibly assimilated

> The heritability of fertility makes world population stabilization unlikely in the foreseeable future

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10905...
I don't have Firefox on my smartphone, I still use Chrome.
Do you have any sources that modern servers which host dozen and maybe even hundreds of virtual machines are network bound? That doesn't seem logical at all.
My understanding is one of the reasons that the virtual time stuff in clouds doesn't work in a straightforward way is that your VM can migrate to another host, where reading TSC could give the appearance of discontinuous time, including jumping backwards in time which would be very bad. This is not a problem unless your VMs are migratory, which I guess is something I associate with GCE. And clouds seem to me to have more variety of hardware than I'd expect in my own private infrastructure, and that variety comes with a great many TSC quirks.
Looking at the composition of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, plastic straws don't qualify as a line-item in this[1] 2014 study (either by mass or count).

70.4% of the mass found in the gyre is from fishing-related items (with a whopping 58.3% of mass from fishing buoys alone).

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4262196/
Why are you going to server-side only? I've always held that client-side validation is important for UX as it provides instant feedback and doesn't need any extra work to preserve the other data that's already been input. Obviously the inputs still need to be validated on the server e.g. to protect against things that get past (or bypass) the client-side checks, or perform more expensive validation.
It's funny you mention air conditioning in NA - we are moving towards more insulated, energy-efficient homes which tend to mean much less air movement through the home. The problem with this reduced air movement is a reduction in humidity movement which can lead to mold and other health problems. As we improve our impact with our housing air conditioning actually becomes more important although not so much for temperature control as for humidity control.

Overall it would be fantastic if more of the population could be happier without the newest shiny and an eye towards the durable, the repairable, and the least impactful but it takes a lot of effort to incorporate that process. I don't think it can happen without a broader cultural shift, particularly by those with the most wealth (who many first-worlders want to emulate even if only in one small aspect).
>At the time, Sun was pushing Java hard. Netscape wanted in on that. [...] He'd have probably been taken off the project.

Can you elaborate on this? Was netscape owned/funded by Sun?
I'd go to the wedding and skip the rest of the trip. GDC is certain to be canceled (Facebook F8 was just cancelled)
This seems against the typical HN tone, so expect some tightpants to downvote this, but it gave me a hearty chuckle. Much appreciated.
The problem is much bigger than just transportation. The planet has been warming since the industrial revolution.
They have a UX team? The UX hasn't changed in years!
Congrats on 1.0! Feedback:

- Most needed feature: project-level fuzzy file opener. Hotkeys open a textbox that let me type letters in, which brings up files which match (ideally applying a Must-Recently-Used algo). (See Ctrl+P for VIM) ((Bonus: The fuzzy finder considers non-project imported files as well.))

- Debugger integration. (My preference is Delve.)

- Syntax error highlighting.

- Consider using https://github.com/fatih/vim-go/ as a list of nice features to add to your short(long)-list of ideas.

LMK, if I can elaborate on anything. I'll be watching. Thanks for your hard work!
Or you could have just found the site yourself and linked to it here like everyone else does.

OP: Paywall Link
You: Here’s the non-paywall link.

Not that hard. And if you think about it, OP typed the answer “Ruby on Rails”. Would you have downvoted if he didn’t provide a source?
No, LSD doesn't cure bipolar disorder.

I have bipolar disorder. I have taken LSD. It didn't cure me. I have met other bipolar people in treatment. A lot of them have taken LSD, some of them in huge amounts (e.g. while manic, when "no" is temporarily removed from your vocabulary) and as far as I can tell, the ones who have taken the most acid have the worst problems: more frequent cycling, higher highs, lower lows, more agitated depression (very bad because it can cause suicide), and more frequent loss of contact with reality.

And the article is pretty insensitive about bipolar disorder in general. It says literally nothing about what it's like to have it, or how to cope with it, or that you can lead a relatively normal life in spite of it. It certainly says nothing about the good parts to having bipolar disorder, that the disease imparts certain talents, and that some bipolar people would opt not to cure themselves if they had the choice.

In the article bipolar disorder is just this generic bad thing that sets the stage for the healing power of acid.

Frankly, my life, and the lives of the other people I've met, are just a lot more interesting than that.
After flying in space twice, Microsoft billionaire follows his passion
Happy to see my school getting mentioned on HN. Dr. Hu has a TEDx talk called "Confessions of a Wasteful Scientist" (https://www.ted.com/talks/david_hu_confessions_of_a_wasteful...) that talks a bit more about research he has done in this vein.
Mindly – Organize your inner universe
You mean Star Office? ;)

Anyways, Open Office still exists, it is now owned by Apache. But yes, Libre Office mostly took over.
I love this metaphor for working with legacy systems, along with “load bearing skeletons:” https://twitter.com/iamwithnail/status/1052300832371351553
In addition to testing of their stomach contents, urine, and blood (pp184-185), "A white flaky material (208mg) was confiscated by police and identified as the large quantity of powder used at the party. Analysis by thin layer chromatography, fluorescent analysis, mass spectrography and the melting point and mix melting point identified this substance as almost pure (80 to 90 percent) D-lysergic acid diethylamide tartrate." p185.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/us/bloomberg-anti-semitis...

It wasn't photoshopped.
> although they said scientists have estimated that a lethal dose in humans would be 14,000 mcg.

That's the equivalent of 140 tabs. We don't know the LD50 of LSD-25 but it's certainly far, far higher than that.

Pretty bizarre to make that claim in the same article that recounted a supposed story of a women ingesting 55 mg (55,000 mcg)...
BPF is extremely awesome. I cant wait to see more projects using it.
I see many good points to think about, but it seems pretty strange to have a whole article on food waste and to talk about a “shitty system” without a single mention of meat, which is by far the largest source of food inefficiency in our system...

> There is a rosy assumption that wasting less food would make it back up the supply chain in the most impressive game of telephone ever and signal to farmers to grow less food. But that seems unlikely in an agricultural paradigm staked by subsidies that incentivize the overproduction of four or five commodity crops

It’s a decent point that we have incentivized a few crops and over-produce it. However, it’s not like supply and demand is magical. A reduction in demand can and will telephone through the system and lead to less production, it’s not an assumption or particularly impressive, it happens routinely.
Yeah, perl borrows backticks from bash[3], so it's giving you syntax to do it directly, and it's long had strong support for opening a process using a very intuitive syntax.

Python's subprocess module works quite well, but gets extremely verbose[4] as you try to do anything more complex than "run a command and get the output" and has some nasty gotchas[2].

I forget the invoke syntax, but doit[1] is basically a make replacement so calling the shell is pretty easy:

def task_something():
return {'actions': ['ls foo/', 'rm -r foo']}

And you can use outputs from one task as inputs for another, it tracks what's been done, etc.

[1]: https://pydoit.org/

[2]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#subprocess...

[3]: https://perldoc.perl.org/5.30.0/perlop.html#qx%2f_STRING_%2f

[4]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#popen-cons...
> but wind, homeless, gravity, can all result in trash ending up outside of the bin

Tossing out "homeless" for a reason trash ends up in the ocean really undermines your point and makes you seem like an asshole. Maybe I'm naive, but I've never seen _anyone_ intentionally take things out of the trash and toss them somewhere else. I can't imagine this happening (caused by any human) on a scale where it is worth mentioning before mentioning negligent littering.
Very decent, readable coding style.
But it's not a real time system. You have to have a target and do a search. From Clearview's homepage:

"Clearview is an after-the-fact research tool. Clearview is not a surveillance system and is not built like one. For example, analysts upload images from crime scenes and compare them to publicly available images."

Do you imagine Rite Aid and Equinox Gym which are not exactly bastions of technology are developing sophisticated Minority Report type systems?
An Invitation to General Algebra and Universal Constructions
NAT punching is establishing communication without forwarding a port. Think like making a TCP connection with a connect() at each end (no listen()). The ability has been there the whole time, but I'm sure libraries have gotten better - again because of development effort.

The point about VPSs is that extra public IPs have been easily available. If simply being able to receive incoming connections was sufficient, the process of setting up a VPS would have been easily automated. In reality, server-based protocols such as HTTP/DNS are insufficient for decentralization, and developing replacements takes work.
Censorship and Privacy Tech
Wow. So the basic argument here is that since reducing food waste does not solve world hunger it's wrong to try to make the food chain more efficient.

We're not going to solve a lot of big problems if we throw out divide and conquer.
Does anyone know if a GLEAMviz [0] model for Covid-19 is in the works?

There's a H1N1 model here [1] that one could use as a starting point, I imagine?

[0] http://www.gleamviz.org

[1] http://www.gleamviz.org/simulator/models/
I am ok with copywriter being lifetime plus. Often a creator doesn't see benifits of their material til many decades after creation. And they created this so during their life it seems fair they can use.

Patents on the other hand I feel should be dropping in time scale. Technology is advancing more rapidly yet we extend protection no reduce it to match generally faster cycles of development. Shortening patents to 20 years type thing would be a far more important step. Also strengthening the rule that a patent is void where something has been created independently even if second to market so there isn't a race to patent first what is bound to be discovered soon by many.
Lol I’ve been binge playing it as corona virus. I lost a lot of skill on that game. Having trouble making it past bacteria level.
You could do that in .cpp files, but it's objectively bad to do so in the header files due to namespace pollution. And now you have an inconsistency between headers and .cpp files..
ARM Macs are coming, three years after Apple’s attitude change
My first apps ever were extremely customized VBA Access databases. I already knew QBasic so doing VBA was easy. It affords a ton of power. I was able to create an entire interface and workflow easily and have everything contained within one Access file. The only downside was when multiple users wanted to use it (I think one had to save/close to let another in). For small things (a workflow tracking a university's scheduling changes) it can be great. Filemaker is a similar tool and both tools allow rapid development and prototyping. It might not be that useful to seasoned programmers, but to people who just want to get something done quickly, and especially for people who don't program much, it's an amazing tool.
This is more about making fast short-distance connections.
Excellent!

Feature suggestion: Wiki support so one can link a note to another while writing.

For example, I want to write something like NoteTitle in a note and have the word automatically turn into a link to a new or existing note called Note Title.

I currently use nvALT on Mac synchronized with Simplenote on iOS. nvALT lets you type [[Note Title]] to create a link to a Note Title page, but you cannot do the same in Simplenote.
> C++17

> Works with or without exceptions

Is anyone using C++17 features with exceptions disabled? I thought the “no exceptions” people were generally only using C++ as C-with-classes?
Funny! ... I only looked at the blog page (my bad)
Nope - 4.9 million. I'm wondering - do they mean stuff like credit card processing fees, etc?
Git LFS
:) Not sure if you're joking or not, so I'll be more rude and ask if you've ever written a compiler for the fun of it.. That will gauge your real age ;)
All of Google's codebase, including Chromium, is OO C++ without exceptions.

https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Exceptions
This struggle is real! I, too, still get surprised when trying to explain to my work colleagues - who are in the tech industry also. Even when i can get some modicum of understanding from them, they rarely see the point of it all...they're almost totally brainwashed - i see no better term for it than this.