skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone in the 2000s: "I bet that in about a decade Java will be owned by Oracle and they will host the source code on a Microsoft website using Linux and git.

Me: Hahahaha, yeah, sure…
Memento, not momento.
In lower density areas, you'll have fewer contacts, so "herd immunity" numbers (with some interventions) are lower
> At the end of the day the Sun will destroy the Earth

Maybe not. Our descendants might just move the Earth, or fix the sun to prevent it becoming a red giant. We've got billion of years to work it out.
Looked at a haphazardly chosen sample of his work, spurred on by the above comment, but none came close to even Larson's worst, in my opinion.
Can I just say, people have been eating bats for millenia, and there's never been a global pandemic arising from bat eating in recorded history. In fact, in recent history, there's never been a definite zoonotic global pandemic even 1/10th as serious as covid. Swine flu and Bird Flu weren't close in severity, and came from eating common farmed animals.

Perhaps eating certain animals should be curtailed (I'm no expert) as long as it doesn't result in low protein intake. But, the anti-China sentiment is xenophobic.
Twtxt.net – A Decentralised Self-Hosted Twitter -like. How and Why
As a person who loves to dance, I think there is also a distinction to be made between freestyle and structured dance. I used to make up moves on the spot depending on the music/beats etc and that requires being completely lost into the music and tapping into your instinct - my brain was practically doing nothing else but imagining the moves that would be fun to match the music. Considering the feeling of euphoria when a move turned out well and/or when my partner mimicked or matched then with their own, it had to have significant impact on the brain activity. The highs were truly high without having to involve any drugs.

I'm sure specific-style of dancing also produces plenty of such feelings but the structure/grammer must impose some additional restrictions too. Though it might be a different sort of pleasure to invent something new and see that work well within that framework.
There might not be. The USDA is a ghost town. Trump’s Ag Secretary abruptly (and possibly illegally) moved all of the research to Kansas City and a huge number of scientists didn’t make the move.

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759053717/critics-of-relocati...
The moment you start seeing regular people as terrorists, that's when you've lost the plot ;-)
> but however sexy that sounds from technical point, they are after all a public company and need to play by the rules. Unlikely to take on such a massive intrusion of your privacy, knowing that eventually it would get discovered.

You completely lost me here. We’re talking about Facebook, the company with a near infinite supply and history of privacy issues. Facebook has shown that rules don’t apply to it for as long as it can get away with it. Behind the scenes, it laughs at fines imposed by governments because they’re too tiny to have a material impact on the future of the company and its earnings.
This isn't the "reversible computing" I covered at school. To me, a reversible computer was one that could absorb energy to perform a calculation that could be recorded. Then the machine would reverse, releasing the energy as it returned to a ground state. This would effectively mean calculations would happen without energy consumption. The whole thing bordered on perpetual motion, calculations happening without energy loss.

Electronic computers would not be good at this. They churn up too much heat. The only practical path would be something mechanical, powered by gravity... or a quantum object bouncing through a tiny rat's maze to solve a problem before returning to the ground state.
It is still a community driving it even if the configuration is different.
Googling for limestone stone tools came up with plenty of hits, like this one.

https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/science/mysteri...

This article shows a much more comprehensive collection of tools from Chiquihuite.

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/stone-tools-chiquihuite-...
They don't have the X is infected part and the data is also aggregated.
Unless....

They are sending these seeds to many people in the US, aka PRC supporters. Or even those pressured to do their work.

And they simply got the address wrong, a few times out of thousands.

Invasive species can destroy an economy. Devastate it.

I'm not saying the PRC is doing this, but if I was trying to harm the US.. I'd do all sorts of evil things like this.
Fake news does pay, it seems.
While I get the intent of what you are saying, you should know that the US is the only space faring nation that is trying hard to be collaborative and inclusive in the peaceful exploration and utilization of space and space exploration.
I know this one. They make such phantom sales to increase their standing on the platform (ebay, Aliexpress). The platforms do not know it, they put people to make those fake sales so randoms in US and Europe.

In most cases they send hairpins and such stuff, but in this case it happened to be seeds.

If the government response is so heavy handed on this stupid issue (sellers trying to trick the platform), imagine how silly other investigations could be.
Love the collection of tiny, standalone EXEs from Windows NT 3.51 that still run great under Windows 10 (described at the bottom of https://gekk.info ; download directory: https://gekk.info/nt351/ ).
This feels extremely creepy. Part of it is the idea that there’s not an enormous amount of authentication with the mail. Any actor could send be sending these — there’s no reason to believe it’s the PLA.

My favorite form of this tactic was from The Three Body Problem, where alien invaders make use of remote sabotage to pit nations against one another, in an attempt to weaken human society.

If you ever want to invade Mars, first go to amazon.mars and order a bunch of seeds from one country/mons to be delivered to another. You’ll start a diplomatic incident — a war, hopefully — and crush the ecological system at the same time, leaving you a nice weak planet to invade and terraform at your leisure.
I am hoping they launch the Pixel 4a then.
It looks like a good contender for my needs, it has a finger print reader.
Although the title is bit misleading, power plants on mars is exciting. Everyone has been thinking about living on mars but I see that building infrastructure first before sending humans is the right way to go forward. Power is the first step towards it.

It is like water/river on earth. Civilizations are built and grown around them.

Hopefully we can find a sustainable way to dispose or recycle the waste from these reactors. POssibly for terraforming?
I didn't mean to imply you had. We're all trying to figure this out together.
Both. If you want to learn about a specific subject / gain a new skill, then books are the way to go. They tend to be more informationally dense and comprehensive as compared to blog posts. Books tend to be of a higher quality because of the economics involved. It's much harder to get a book published than to create a blog, so there's more curation of what gets published which is for your benefit; there's a higher standard for the content. Also, a lot of blogs are used as marketing channels, trying to sell you something. this can corrupt the information in the blog post because they're trying to sell you something other than the blog post. With the book, you're paying for the book so the incentives between you and the author are more aligned.

But, periodicals, blog posts and forums are good to keep apprised of new things going on in the industry and they can be used to get new ideas like you said and as jumping off points to read books. I often see something referenced online, want to learn more and then buy a book on the subject. I like to think of blog posts as more like op-eds than factual works.
It makes no sense. Curiosity was powered with solar cells.

The totality of Voyager’s scientific output is... low. Like most space exploration. A nuclear accident that distributes enriched plutonium as fine particles throughout the atmosphere would cause thousands of lives if the generally accepted theory of the harms of radiation (linear with exposure) are correct.
It can't do whatever it wants. It can make responses for requests that would go to that particular website without actually making the request, that's it - that is, the website can provide some code that makes local responses on its behalf for things it could respond to anyway. It can't intercept (or even see) anything for other sites. That's a significant difference from installing executable code in the form of a standalone binary.

I do agree, more broadly, that there's a place in this world for a s web-like thing that only lets sites provide text and minimal formatting and doesn't let them run any code at all, even in a constrained/sandboxed environment. (https://gemini.circumlunar.space/ seems like the most promising thing in this space.) But the web hasn't been that since 1995 when they released LiveScript.
I'm holding out for when they start using virtual players and ditch the real teams.
Why would it be a long con of his? It's not the same comment, it's a similar comment describing the same thing - I mean in all the U.S there are lots of people who work at McDonalds, probably a good portion of those in the late 80s coming home from work watched Letterman.

The comment is of course on a video showing exactly what was described, Letterman dubbed into Spanish with subtitles.

on edit: Or even better it's the same person making a similar comment on two different platforms many years apart on the same subject? Still not seeing the long con aspect under those conditions.
My wife's fashion sense is put-together with a "Stilbruch." I guess I should ask her about it specifically, but I've always taken it to be fashion-punk, to "épater la bourgeoisie" by demonstrating that although it would be within one's means to match the entire ensemble, one is not so herd-bound as to actually do so. Compare sprezzatura.
”For agony and spoil Of nations beat to dust, For poisoned air and tortured soil And cold, commanded lust,

And every secret woe The shuddering waters saw— Willed and fulfilled by highh and low— Let them relearn the Law”

Exerpt from Justice, RUDYARD KIPLING 1918

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57432/justice-56d23af...
I got to comment about the intro video.

I think tells too much about the problems and not enough about what the product is and how it's going to solve these problems.
Ultimate Food Hacks Compilation
It’s because the people interested in exploring and settling Mars are private citizens. Nuclear power is the domain of governments and/or highly regulated entities.
We shouldn’t ruin Planet A in our attempt to switch over to
Plan B.

The amount of geoengineering needed to make Mars hospitable would solve all environmental problems on earth five times over.
I agree completely. I do salsa and every time I travel (which was a lot pre covid) I would look up dance venues and you're always guaranteed a great time. It's also amazing how diverse the salsa community is, there are people from 20 to 80 of all social and ethical backgrounds dancing with each other (I saw similar things in the swing community when I tried it out)
Seinfeld's skit, "who doesn't want to wear the ribbon?" couldn't have been more true and poignant.
I only see “white supremacy” when I look at a Karen. I don’t see any people named “karen” being conflated with a “karen”. I would only use “Karen” on a woman if I saw her manipulating some authority to her ends.

Personally, I would only be worried if the “Karen” in question was comfortable calling the cops or “speaking to the manager” in a way that would reflect negatively on staff when they don’t deserve it. I don’t see many calling a white, middle-aged woman a “karen” for complaining about an overcooked steak when she ordered “rare”.

I am sorry people named “karen” are caught in the crossfire, but I would treat any resulting conflict as meaningful until you are able to listen to people using the epithet.

If you still have concerns, I probably do not wish to interact with them or you.
Dumps are pretty deep. Not that many are going to grow and ... still seems way inaccurate way to do a thing.
Because those things go hand in hand, the large majority of developers aren't doing HPC, Fintech or work at FAANG, or even posting on HN and Reddit, rather they are the so called "dark matter developers" whose applications must run on those Core i3 and i5 used by the consumers at large.

As such most developers only bother to use what they already know and take very little effort for adding any form of parallelism or concurrency to their applications.

Android and UWP since the start have taken architecture decisions that forbid synchronous code, because both companies came to the conclusion that if that would be available, the developers would write single threaded code as they have been doing for years, so they took that option out of the platform.
The examples in that article are pretty poor, possibly selected because someone is shown handling them. Here’s a more comprehensive selection of tools from the same site.

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/stone-tools-chiquihuite-...
“It’s totally save! See here, were it says ‘nuclear-rated’? That means nothing can happen. They forgot this plaque at Fukushima, which is why the accident happened”
Food subsidies poll extremely well and the US votes for them. They are one of the least controversial public policies and not because of "powerful donors." Almost all countries subsidize food production and there are strong reasons why this is so. Primarily, countries want a robust domestic food surplus for social stability. High food prices or lack of food leading to famine are one of the highest causes of social unrest.
Yes. This will ensure that other countries also will stop fighting and take climate change seriously. And of course, every country will also learn to sit tight instead of racing to explore space while USA figures out climate change.

/s
If it is an attack and we stop it, I suppose the next step is embedding seeds directly into biodegradable cardboard packaging. No one will think twice about tossing that without cooking to neutralise it.
Sun imploded because Google screwed them with the Android Java games, and then let the company sink, hoping no one would buy them.

So if you have any problem with Oracle, thank Google in first place.
"With some 33k lines of new code, hardware AV1 decode acceleration is in place for Intel Gen12 graphics" - that would be some tight GPU code!

GPGPU implementation of AV1 would be a useful thing though. Anyone know of implementations?
> The media team do not know and should not be expected to know the exact minute details of how URLs

Someone paid to communicate via digital media should understand the limitations of these media. The rule is pretty simple, old and does not require "exact minute details": Don't follow URLs with punctuation characters.
10 hours ago they linked a ridiculous and ridiculously short FAQ in this tweet https://twitter.com/GarminFitness/status/1287101514750754816
FSB tactics, on the other hand, involve doing almost everything they can to signal that they were the perpetrators while at the same time denying responsibility.

It’s a weird way to flex, братан, but the diplomatic and psychological impact of the attack is far more effective than the attack itself.

Example: Russian poisoning suspects say they were only visiting cathedral

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/13/russian-tele...
It definitely seems like the humor is in the same vein, but what I notice is that Larson seems the better cartoonist - for example this https://www.gocomics.com/kliban/2012/03/21 strikes me as something that Larson would have improved, I haven't seen anything funnier there, but what I saw seems as funny.
I would love to try it out but the sign in was a turn off for me
At least it's only 12 more years until the patents on OCB3 expire. We're almost at the halfway point.
“Puritto” a story about a recipe that saved a Mexican restaurant from bankruptcy
I can imagine sports tapping into that kind of potential .. i get you
I like to imagine that when history looks back on the crumbling rubble of the 21st century, Beat Saber will be recognized as our crowning achievement.
EU countries have like one space agency among the 20 of them, which looks somewhat collaborative.

They also did not recently create “space force” to militarize space and pander for votes in the most obnoxious way possible.
We know from history that bad guys sometimes have terribly poor opsec.

But again, if I were in charge I would never ever give the people packaging the seeds in China any address in the US except the parcel consolidation service address, or any idea that such other addresses may exist.

And look, I did not serve in the secret service a single day. I bet people in the Chinese secret service department that works on clandestine operations abroad are at least as qualified as me.
I disagree with your evaluation of this piece. I had previously defended a note by Ioannidis arguing that the the epidemic might not have been as severe as thought, when it was posted on HN.

The primary criticism of the article is obvious and correct: Ioannidis advocated for an unorthodox position in public policy without the evidence that would support his position.
sun imploded for a lot of reasons, android games wasn't a huge factor. their ridiculously expensive hardware and consultants? much bigger.
What about juggling a soccer ball?
I used, and selfhosted, TT-RSS for a long time but eventually gave up due to it braking at almost every update. I was furious.

So I found and tried FreshRSS. I have been using it for years now, without a single hitch. I always chose apps that run SQLite over full fledged DBs these days. So much easier to manage, migrate etc.
Sierra Club apologizes for racist views of ‘father of national parks’ John Muir
Like you, my judgement was very subjective .. the dancing i had in mind was “for fun”, rather than a performance.

How do you feel about the difference between dancing to have fun and dancing to preform or teach? How big is that difference would you say?
Data Hunter-Gatherer
Disagree! I cannot stand seafood and I think it's a genetic setting of some sort (similar to those cilantro people) and deep frying doesn't help at all :(

It's only ever been palatable twice in my life - as plain white fish at a chinese restaurant with a lot of soy sauce and other stuff. It's probably neutralising a chemical that triggers my warning systems.
You're quite right; it depends on the ratio. For reference mine is 21:9. A higher ratio might prove more useful.

> Most operating systems make it unnecessarily difficult to use a large display effectively out-of-the-box, though. On macOS, Magnet is the saviour,

1000x yes. I've always liked the freedom of a standard window manager combined with tiling shortcuts. On macOS I'm still on the defunct Spectacle, though. Is Magnet a worthwhile (having to re-learn shortcuts) upgrade?
It bothers me that they repeatedly write about a migration "from Mercurial to GitHub", rather than "from Mercurial to Git". It seems to imply that GitHub hosting is the only way to run Git.

It's perfectly fine to say that they are moving to GitHub hosting, but not to put it on the same level as Mercurial: Mercurial and Git are applications/protocols, while GitHub is a hosting service. You should compare application with application and hosting service with hosting service.
You should have a demo on your website.
Capital networking any number of factors unrelated to the tech, this is a common theme in historical invention.
It's like the physical delivery version of the photos I've seen of a single human operating 40 budget $100 Android phones, all on different VPNs and Google play accounts, to do review stuffing. It is its whole own industry. Kind of like how online game gold farming is an industry.
It actually makes me really happy to see more positive comments on a thread about PHP. It is an incredible workhorse, and doesn't get the credit it deserves.

I'm often amused by developers that revile PHP, while going on to use another language, which suffers from a similar set of problems to PHP, oftentimes with poorer performance and more complex toolchains.

PHP deserves a little more love, imo.
I was doing UNIX/Windows cross platform development during the first .com wave.

So I had to deal with Solaris, Aix, HP-UX, and Windows NT/2000.

We also rented servers for in-house development.

Their rates were just like everyone else on the Fortune 500 world.
If he is running haveibeenpwned, he is probably purchasing through a company with instant asset write-off.
Hahahahah wow... "M S, 7 years ago" That's me. Totally forgot I'd even seen this on youtube.

Well, at least my story was consistent -- like that line from Glengarry, Glen Ross, "tell them the truth, it's the easiest thing to remember"

Yeah, I don't know why this episode made an indelible memory for me, but it sure did.
I live in California, and received a suspicious bag of seeds in the mail after ordering something from Amazon. Happened about one month ago. The seeds were sent in their own small package, with Chinese characters on it.

I had heard about these types of shipping scams, but had never experienced it personally until this. I was so intrigued that I immediately planted the seeds for fun (I think they’re cucumbers).

I now realize that I was extremely ignorant. I wasn’t aware of the danger of invasive species.

Maybe I’m paranoid, but I decided to rip up the plants and throw them away.
..which is why I am somewhat convinced that Github single-handedly increased participation in OSS by orders of magnitude.

I never figured out the processes to submit patches in the dark time of sourceforge and mailing lists. Since Github standardized this, I frequently contribute.
NASA will launch a balloon the size of a football stadium into the stratosphere
New York Times Front Page with Art, Saturday July 23, 2020
This is also happening in Utah.

https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/utah-department-of-...
For most people it is.

Just like we can discuss all day about POSIX, UNIX and various implementations of them, while most people would relate to Ubuntu.
yes, unfortunately a brutal self-takedown.

although he's kind of right about global variables.

the rest is more or less "meth is a hell of a drug"...

R.I.P. hope he's gone toward the vic-20 in the sky
Not sure why being conformist or not is important. Isn’t the more desirable thing is how you reason that your belief will lead to your desired result? What evidence have you taken in account and what risks you are aware of? How do you deal with uncertainty and how do you strive to get additional evidence.

For example, if you believe in vaccinations, are you conformist? These 4 quadrants even applicable universally for wide variety of topics for any person?
You mean, I should _write_ a book, right?
I also remember having to exit into DOS on my parent's PC running Windows 95 whenever I wanted to run MS-DOS games. I remember a PIF setting that allowed booting into DOS, directly running the program, and immediately rebooting into Windows upon closure, which bypassed the need to use DOS commands to execute the program. I was just a kid at the time, and I remember my dad buying cheap DOS games at the 98 Cent Store, which became the Dollar Tree sometime around 2000. One game I remember was a shooting game named Kiloblaster that I enjoyed a lot, and I also remember some educational titles, one teaching history and geography (I forget the name, unfortunately), and another teaching fractions. I also remember a MS-DOS version of PacMan.

If I remember correctly, Windows 95 was able to detect whether a DOS program would run well while Windows is running, or if it required booting directly into DOS. QBASIC was well-behaved and thus did not require a reboot.

This article brought back some pleasant childhood memories.
Wtf man, go do your propaganda someplace else..