skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a younger person who hasn't seen many of the celebrities I grew up with pass away, this is probably one of the first celebrity deaths that really affected me. I grew up watching Grant and the whole MythBusters crew. The show was hugely influential and definitely guided me towards an interest in science and engineering.

Whenever I think about the science of the MythBusters, I always bring up this xkcd comic.[1]

I think science tends to have an ivory tower issue, and those who don't get the resources growing up to be included in standard academic science may feel left out. People like Grant and shows like the MythBusters made the viewers feel included, and instead of just talking down to the viewer about a bunch of facts, the show included them into the process of discovery. I think that's really cool and important.

[1] https://xkcd.com/397/
For anyone wondering (since the linked article doesn't say):

> The reported cause of death was a brain aneurysm.

Source:
https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Grant-Imahara-M...
Or people don’t want to bet on volatility like consumer, and want to dump into high tech. Telsa sits at a weird overvalued intersection of having an influencer as CEO, a price point not available to majority of the US and a promise of something they won’t be able to deliver for 10 years.

Or what just park 20% of your portfolio in airlines and wait. Telsa is up 200% for no reason at all since crash. AAPL is up 27% YTD, because shutting down most of the planet somehow led to 27% growth.

Or we can look at it another way, since US printed ~25% of annual GDP in 'free money' and USD remains the primary method of exchange, we are all trading in dollars that are worth 25% less, so nothing has changed but a buffer to pad numbers on balance sheets until the wheels start turning. Something that was done too late in 2008.

And to disillusion people, its not that hard to pick stocks, and no the people at funds dont tend to be any better than you at their jobs. The industry is ran on finding and exploiting market inefficiencies, insider information, and hype. Watch MSNBC for a day and start guessing the days when DJI dips based on Covid coverage the day before.
Vietnam and China have never been "socialist brothers", and even just brothers. They are adversaries on the civilizational level, 17 big wars during the last 20 centuries, half of them for Vietnamese independence. The last armed conflict happened in 1989, when China occupied disputed islands in the South-China sea. Vietnam would side to anyone against China (source: I live here)
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Damn. I watched pretty much every episode of mythbusters, so this one hits hard.
I agree, I think there is likely meaningful immunity. But, it is very much up in the air on how long that immunity will last.

SARS immunity lasts a few years (1-3 years I believe). On the other hand, several extant coronaviruses contribute to the common cold, and my understanding is that immunity for these is only a few months or less. This is partly why one can catch a cold multiple times in a year.
Third world country here...

I live in a block with a bad circuit, and we have brief <5min outages at least once a week.

I dont like it because it makes my microwave's clock unusable.

Neighbours one block away don't have that many outages.
I have a massive AppleTV about 10ft away from where I’m sitting. Just a few more feet away a kindle and an iPad, and just down the stairs my laptop and PC sitting on my desk. Yet I’ve been squinting at content on my phone the past hour or so. Is it just convenience/laziness?
Why the world needs charter cities (2009)
In that case the lining could be heat and pressure treated wood, something along the lines of linoleum: https://flaxcouncil.ca/flax-usage/industrial-uses/what-is-li...
Yeah, now that you mention it, camshafts have quite a reputation for fragility. I always wondered how a rod of solid steel could fracture like that.
Very relevant and important issue. Like the other commenter in this thread we have also already started the process of renaming all our “master” branches to “main” for this reason.
Author here. Thanks for reading & the feedback. I'll try to unpack some of this.

> A lot of exploits are two-stage. Stage one is usually the vulnerability, usually written in C given the low-level and tightly controlled instructions required. The exploit breaks security to run an executable or otherwise gain control. Stage two is usually downloading a python executable to grab the goods.

This seems like a gross oversimplification & commonly incorrect. Often times a "stage one" vulnerability to gain initial access would be network code written in a high level language such as Python or Ruby (see Metasploit). And an executable payload to interact with the system would be generally written in a compiled language like C or C++. My article is detailing the uncommon rise of interpreted languages (especially Python) being used over the past ~5 years as malware dropped on an endpoint in an attack.

> Just seems like a minor observation, rather than some doom trend.

I wouldn't say this is a minor observation or a "doom trend." I'd say it's a very interesting and insightful observation that is worth keeping an eye on. Malicious actors are no longer operating in a world of slow endpoints and lack of resources. They instead are operating in a world of high-speed internet, very fast endpoints, and have a rich ecosystem of open-source tools at their disposal.

I find it highly interesting that malicious code written in interpreted languages, bundled with their interpreters into an executable, are finding their way into the arsenal of high-tier malicious threat actors over the past few years. Just as the web browser is slowly eating away at the operating system, interpreted languages are slowly eating away at compiled languages in a variety of domains- including malware.
Could the bitcoin network actually be used by everone in the world in five years? No. At seven transactions per second, and 157,680,000 seconds, the network doesn't have enough capacity in a five year period for every person in north america and europe to do one transaction.
You're missing the point; 8.8.8.8 was just an example. For any public IP assigned inside your network, clients trying to reach to the real address won't be able to get there, because they'll hit the internal one instead.
>using the lib-iio framework

You say this like it's a good thing. It's one of the most generic, do everything gigantic overhead drivers I've heard of. On the pluto it limits things to 4 MS/s when without that libiio overhead it can push double that over the USB interface. I suppose things might be different with top of the line AD transceivers.
How about not buying any product of Apple at all?

Whether its laptop, desktop, phone, watch or tablet - there are mature "replacement" for Apple and they work many times even better!
The novelty of the claim really wasn't my main point, nor was trying to make the US out to be the most democratic country. I don't even live there, and it certainly isn't just in the US that this claim would be seen as novel or unconventional. One would think someone who points out the ignorance of "Americans" would not resort to using it themselves in the same discussion.

See the Democracy Index, which rates the US as rather more democratic than India and has at least some semblance of a loose methodology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
I think that most hardcore Bitcoin aficionados (the group that's still in it, even now that the bubble has burst and you can't get rich off of it)

Um… you do know Bitcoin is up 75% since mid-March, right? You certainly could haven gotten rich from that [1].

There doesn't have to be catastrophic collapse… the US government is doing devaluing the dollar all on its own. The dollar has lost 40% of its value since 1985 and 80% since 1970 [2].

And now with COVID-19, we’re printing trillions of dollars to keep the country and the global economy afloat. The pandemic is out of control in large chunk of the US; we're hitting new daily infection rates nearly everyday.

If you look at the big picture, we're experiencing a slow-motion economic collapse. The Fed and the other central banks are trying to land this 747 without crashing while the plane is on fire and and the equipment ain't working so good.

Meanwhile, the only asset that can't be manipulated or inflated is Bitcoin and that's going to be looking pretty good once we land… remember, any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-12/jpmorgan-...

[2]: https://seekingalpha.com/article/137051-the-dollars-20th-cen...
Over the years that I published (in a humanities field), I was astonished by the rapid decline in copy editing quality at even top publishers like Oxford University Press. They stopped budgeting for specialists, and started contracting out copy editing to people who couldn't even tell apart common non-English languages. I started getting back "final" proofs with diagrams in the wrong order or with the wrong captions, and was so dearly tempted to just sign off "looks great!" like they were expecting me to. If only it wasn't my own reputation on the line if I let these things through.
To be fair, aluminum isn't typically case-hardened, at least for this application. While I lament the loss of the strength benefits from forging, they may be able to make up for a lot of them by using more material around the wrist pins than on a typical forged piston. 10% weight savings is pretty compelling, as the limiting factor in engine speed is typically con-rod stress.

3D-printed metal parts are already a thing in a number of aerospace applications--I imagine the reliability piece is either fairly well-solved for sintered metal printing, or the parts are expensive enough that we're willing to print each one more than once if required.
You bought insurance, got your claim certified by Apple, and refused to file your claim, throwing away $2000 to spite Apple, and then gave Apple another $2000?

Your accident was buying a computer from a company who didn't honor their warranty, or something that happened when you weren't watching.
I'm not even sure about Mac, but in Windows, there's no distinction, because there's no "client" and "server". But from developers' perspective, it's less about CSD vs SSD, and more about being able to say, "I just want standard window decorations, please and thank you", vs not being able to.

Gnome devs' suggestion to just use Gtk3 for this is not really equivalent, because on both Windows and macOS, the library that offers the window creation API is core part of the OS - it's technically a dependency, yes, but it's the one that nobody actually cares about. On Linux, Gtk3 is a dependency that people do care about, because it's not guaranteed to be present, and requiring it often means doubling the sheer number of packages that an app like that might need.

Gnome doesn't care, because they see themselves as a platform akin to Windows and Mac - so if you intend your app to run on Gnome, then you compile it for Gnome (and then assume that Gtk3 is always there). But, of course, this attitude amounts to saying that they don't really care about compatibility with apps for "just Linux". Which is exactly why they're getting so much pushback on this.
The “filtering” that seems to exist in meatspace interactions has many names including “white supremacy” and “the patriarchy” and “manufactured consent”.

There’s a rough road to consensus ahead for human culture as long as there’s this attitude that social media is “good” or “bad” rather than “inevitably chaotic”. if you look beyond the obvious bots you’ll realize these conversations are going to happen eventually with or without highly polarizing platforms designed to be addictive. our social media folks have only greased the tracks into conflict that was going to happen anyway.

Just a few years ago you could find plenty of opinion articles talking about the necessity of “the marketplace of ideas” for political discourse. None of that now....
Met Brent at the BigCommerce partner summit a year or so ago. I can't think of a CEO I've met who is more open and accessible. He sat down at my table during the keynotes and asked for feedback during the breaks, went around the room and chatted about the product during lunch. Definitely fostered that culture with the full team, his exec leadership team all were equally inviting and open to feedback about the product and strategy. As SEC filings go, this one certainly makes me smile.
This just reads like a list of excuses. You could swap “piracy” with “selling drugs” and “entertainment industry” with “big pharma” and it would read just fine.
It's nice that they get some use out of 3d printing, but what's the point of R&D in ICE cars? It's a dying technology. In twenty or thirty years their sale will hopefully be banned in most interesting markets, or at least strongly disincentivized.
This is such awful news. I looked up to him growing up
Yeah, I can't figure out what they're talking about there. There is no "SaaS ecommerce platform" category on BuiltWith (that I can find); none of the subcategories under the eCommerce category on BuiltWith has BigCommerce near the #2 position (https://trends.builtwith.com/shop).

They do note later in their document that their competitors include Magento, Shopify, and WooCommerce.

I almost scrolled by and didn't care except for your comment, which surprised me quite a bit. The number of Shopify, WooCommerce, and Magento sites I've had to do some amount of work on over the years more or less tracks with BuiltWith's stats. I've never worked on a BigCommerce site.
Ask HN: How to Work Harder?
I'm currently a college student and I struggle with self-motivation. I work hard to finish my work before a deadline, but after the deadline passes I go back to my usual ways.
How do I improve my work ethic significantly?

Some strategies I'm thinking about: Pomodoro, meditation (self-control), aerobic exercise (boost in motivational neurotransmitters), creating habits - working when I don't feel like working, paying attention to why I don't want to work and solving the root problem.
So sad! He was amazing on MB.
Because every manufacturer makes lemons.
Grant was why I decided to go into STEM. :(
I have ublock origin running on firefox on my andriod.
I'll have that status here in the Canadian province of Quebec later this year when my partner and I pass 1 year of living together. We'll be called common-law partners. That counts the same as marriage for many purposes, including tax and immigration rights within the Canadian system, but not for everything (e.g. no automatic inheritance and no need for divorce if we split). Many of the other legal differences can be reduced or eliminated by preparing contracts or documents like wills, but not all.

It's a great step before marriage, to provide recognition and protections for people who want a different bundle of legal consequences than marriage provides, for people who object to marriage on any number of reasons of principle, for people who want to defer the legally binding wedding until after the pandemic when their family can attend, to have less of a relationship hierarchy in polyamorous or open relationships, while waiting for just the right romantic moment to propose or to be able to obtain the right engagement ring, etc.

A lot of people either don't like marriage or don't view it as a valuable priority, even if they have a relationship. Federal government statistics from here in Quebec in 2016 show that only 34.3% of the province's population age 15 or over was married, and fully 22% of that population had a common-law partner. https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/as-sa/fo... (I'm not sure why they started that stat at 15, since the earliest you can get married in Canada is 16 and even that requires permission from e.g. a court or parent. Maybe it's for uniform reporting versus pre-2015 data where earlier ages were sometimes legal.)
You were talking about the borrow checker, which is mainly about memory safety, not memory limit issues.

In Python, C#, Java, JS... you are memory safe without dealing with memory management nor a borrow checker.

There are many languages running on top of those VMs for all kinds of tastes (OOP, functional, strict type systems, loose ones...). Claiming Rust leads to more robust software than any of those is an exceptional claim, but even if that were true, the key is the development cost.
The relevance of upgrading is that the latest version didn't crash. While they clearly don't test server changes against every version of the SDK, they hopefully at least test it with the latest.

The crash was just that a dictionary decoded from json sent by the server contained null in a place where the code expected a non-null value. The actual payload difference would not be very interesting.
File a chargeback on your credit card.

Or send the pods to FL and then file the claim.
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I've read some comments by someone that's been on scene since the start as one of the DC teams.

No ordinance is in the magazines. It's standard procedure to unloaded it at a pier specially designed for that task before extended port stays.

The fire has definitely reach the fuel lines you mention, and they're sustaining the fire. The team my commenter was a part of was one of the first to try to push inside. They made it about 25 feet in. The floor was so hot their team leaders boots melted. The writer said he had to stand on a pile of hose to avoid the same problem. The heat pushed them back out after less than half an hour. His opinion was that there was little choice but to just let the fuel burn off.
If your framework demands you make certain choices in your architecture that's a bit of a smell isn't it?
Wow, this cuts really deep.

This makes me want to take more risk in life, to live a bit fuller and care less about money.

Even at 26 I still don't have a great way to digest loss like this. The loss of someone who I genuinely looked up to and whom had significant impact on decisions I made my life. Who I thought about when I really hated myself and felt that I didn't belong in engineering at college. Especially Grant, since he was one of my childhood "heroes" who never lost his luster or genuine character.
Works fine until you want to connect to the network that owns that IP address in the real world. Unlikely but possible.
https://bgp.potaroo.net/ipv4-stats/prefixes_unadv_pool.txt
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Obviously the "elite conspiracy" angle is silly, but either way, I think framing it as a "convenient excuse" to fire and not rehire a lot of people is a little odd to me.

Individual businesses are full of inefficiencies that are easy to tolerate when times are good. In many cases, it's often a net waste of time to plug most of them, you usually have higher ROI activities to attend to.

But when a crisis hits and the economy slows down, the equation has changed, many higher ROI activities (eg. marketing or sales activities) are no longer higher ROI, and plugging your many inefficiencies remains one of the few lucrative activities you can choose from. So the organization focuses inwards and starts looking for cost inefficiencies.

Put another way, you wouldn't tell someone who just lost their job that they're just using their loss of income as a convenient excuse to cancel their Hulu subscription that they rarely use.
Halon being tagged out wouldn't have influenced the outcome here. Lower V is not Halon protected. MMR1 below it is, but not V. The next closest Halon compartment would have been FWD EDG, which would have been beyond too late once the fire reached it. The AFFF system would have made short work of the fire, had it not been tagged out / in IEM -- definitely affected the fire attack.

I did two years on Iwo, and BZ to the Bonny crew. They did all they could have with those fire trees with plastic nozzles until help arrived.
Yes, that is part of the surprising result. There is some difference and the article & study explains that difference across several experiments, if you read it. Since the claim is that the old famous violins are higher quality, the expected preference - if experts could reliably identify the old instruments - should be in favor of the old instruments. But the experiments found that while experts could see & feel some difference between new and old instruments, they could not reliably identify which was which, and tended to prefer the new instruments. Both experiments, about preference and ability to distinguish, are damaging to the narrative that experts who know what they’re looking for can reliably identify the old ones and that the old ones were higher quality.
Apple’s margins are wayyyyy higher than any of the other companies you mentioned.

You’d think they could sacrifice some of that margin for a better customer experience when it comes to repair, otherwise what’s the point of buying an Apple device.
Correct. I don’t think most of HN understands that. Migrating massive jumps in class are a form of internal immigration.

Low social mobility, a safe homelife, and good schools are only for members of the lucky sperm-an’-egg club in the US
A friend of a friend once took us along to a Yelp Elite meetup / party. It’s what I imagined a Twitter party might be like, along the lines you described, if Twitter had a way of collecting cliques together IRL and letting them socialize.
When talking about journalists, HN comments generally seem pretty antagonistic and hostile. Why is that so? Yes, a lot of cable news is driven by outrage cycles, its what attracts views and the ad industry follows the views. Unironically, the online media properties of these firms are huge influential operations precisely due to the adtech industry that Silicon Valley has built/enabled ...

Journalists that work for non-cable news outlets generally do a pretty good job of reporting on current events. These are very smart folks, trained in the profession of Journalism who often put themselves at risk to report truth to power. And they present it in ways that are easily understandable for their readers... its not an easy job, and there is a spectrum of capability in journalism. I bet readers of HN would be pretty upset if they were similarly stereotyped based on a narrow but vocal minority (e.g. movie-style hackers?).

Both Journalists and people in Tech use twitter to have reasonable discussions about current events. It depends on who you follow: you get to select the corner of twitterscape that you want to inhabit.
Cherry picking a single word? Really? That’s your criticism?
Yes arguably it's a problem with what your society and government values. The US seems to value profit over people and that's how you end up with insane university costs / debts / loans etc.
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Let me also add that (a) I'm a US citizen (b) I'm dating someone who's not, and we're in a stable relationship but not ready for marriage yet (c) if my partner cannot stay in the US, I'll consider moving to her country because it's dead easy for me to get a visa and work there, and I'll be happy living either here or there long term.

If they want to keep this US citizen's talent in the US, they need to make sure their immigration policy is up to par.
A brilliant man who elevated Asian representation on mainstream American TV. Rest in peace.