skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HardenedBSD August 2020 Status Report and Call for Donations
The issue here isn't that the California power grid has deteriorated, but that there's an extraordinary heat wave. I don't think it's fair to tie this into a grand decline narrative.
That is the idea behind Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, hypothesized by the titanic Roger Penrose. [1]

However, he has considered a couple different possibilities:

[Possibility 1]

The last eon's heat death determines the big bang's character which in turn determines the distribution of matter-energy in the universe, ie. cosmic microwave background distribution

[Possibility 2]

There is no information able to pass from universe to universe, ie. the state of the big bang is essentially {}, a null state. Any asymmetry in the big bang is due to purely JIT QM.

Nonetheless, the crux of the theory is that a heat death is the conformal equivalent of a big bang, since there are no particles with mass, thus no clocks/time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_cyclic_cosmology
There is a lot more that goes into learning an entire stack than “documented APIs”. Are you saying that because I know C# I could go out there and start developing games in no time since Unity is well documented?

So you would really hire me to be an Android developer who has only written 20 lines of production code in Java over 15 years ago and the only mobile development I’ve done is on ruggedized Windows CE devices almost a decade ago, over an experienced Android developer?

Let’s say I know AWS pretty well (which is the truth I work there as a consultant), and I do most of my AWS related scripting and development on top of AWS in Python. How useful would that combination of knowledge be if you told me to do the same type of thing on Azure or GCP? I wouldn’t even know where to start, I don’t know anything about either.

On the other hand, if you told me I had to build the same sort of solution in Rust, a language I’ve never even seen, I’m sure I could pick up the language in a weekend, include the appropriate SDK and be just as efficient as someone who has been working with Rust for years building the same type of solution on top of AWS.
> It doesn't mean Adams isn't nuts

To paraphrase something Scott Adams said about Mike Cernovich, another "alt-right lunatic":

"You might not like his style, but he sure is right a lot"
Tools to build walls

Tools to put up lights near walls

Tools to break down walls
Has this been merged already?
You don't need to add a disclaimer on Stallman having said bad things on a totally different subject to be allowed to mention him. People quote Mahatma Gandhi all the time without mentioning that is had some problematic views when it comes to black people, they quote MLK without adding something about his attitude towards women, etc. Stallman is no saint [1], neither are those who denunciate him. He said many things which ring true when it comes to data freedom and should be seen in that light, not in the light of his more disputable utterings. Cardinal Richelieu had it right when he stated that he'd find something to hang the most virtuous of men within reading 6 sentences written by him.

[1] https://stallman.org/saint.html
We already have that for most jobs, especially in software. You just have to pretend to work the other 1.5.
A better use case for this engine would be Electron replacement.

Much easier to get adoption if you can demonstrate performance benefits and electron apps are more performance sensitive than webpages in general (who really cares about Wikipedia rendering speed - it renders fast enough)
There's two aspects

1) Punishing those that did the illegal thing

2) Punishing those that profited from the illegal thing

If a mafia boss profits from getting a goon to rough up a shop owner for protection money, both the goon and the boss are punished.
Discussion on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/i9mdqg/ntfs_readwrit...

When exFAT was announced about 5 months ago Paragon Software posted a rant against that.

Rant is posted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22688058
I really liked NeXTSTEP machines we had back in the uni - everything about them was thoroughly exciting except for the logo. It just stuck out like a sore thumb. Like someone forgot to replace a placeholder before signing off the design into production.

So as much as I like Rand's work (and as cool as his business card was in its audacious minimalism), the Next logo is just too full of itself. As it is actually detached from the very product it was designed for.
> Any code that does not involve Python objects

And does not involve running Python bytecode. Yes, numpy and other packages that provide C extensions do this when they are doing computations that don't require running Python bytecode.

> no matter whether it makes system call or not

Yes, you're right, my statement was too broad.
He has had decades of brilliant insight into how people, companies, and government work.

People really need to start considering alternative view points. Like perhaps maybe he is right on a number of topics.
> C extensions like zlib release the GIL while (de)compressing requests/responses

Yes, you're right, my statement was too broad.
domains are split by the dot, from right to left. what is not visible is that the top level domain is not really the first one. the first one is the root domain (or root zone), which is represented by an empty string. you can try it on any domain, add a dot at the end. it will resolve, but the web server may not be configured to respond to it with the right website.

if you want to query a dns server for a top level domain, you have to query the dns that handles it, which in our case is one of the 13 root dns servers.

read more here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_root_zone

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_name_server
> if everyone else manages to show up on time but one person does not, I wouldn't assume that the organization is at fault

I was once denied entry to a $350 class (with no refund or chance to defer), because the address for the company on Google Maps (it was out-of-date) differed from the address on their website linked in the scheduling email.

They had a similar no-exception policy that missing any of the class meant you had to pay again and start over. When I pointed out the mistaken address they also said "everyone else managed to show up here".

This kind of thing does happen sometimes by mistake, or due to reasonable lapses in communication, but the punitive feel of the organization's response made me never want to do business with them again.

It seems like this puts organizations between a rock and a hard place, because on the one hand they cant make exceptions all the time, but on the other hand it alienates people much more in the few cases where honest accidents did happen.

I have no conclusion or argument to make here, other than to say maybe it's an opportunity to make the docs even more explicit so that such a mixup is less likely to happen in the future?
A bullet journal to review previous day and overall goals.
I initially read this as _Rand Paul's_ next logo, to which I thought... who gives a f*.

But this was great.
“Minds are what brains do, like beats are what hearts do” is my favourite summary of that.
If you're interested in writing a browser from scratch, you may be interested in the book I'm writing on the topic: http://www.browser.engineering/

Really cool to see someone trying to build a new web browser. It is certainly sad that the number of browser engines is shrinking rapidly.
Sure but it's a hack that has a lot of popularity, even if only because of the web.
I think only one correct answer should be possible, I dislike questions with multiple correct answers.
> But what if you didn't have to implement all of them?

People will very much tend to prefer using browsers that are fully capable. If your browser only works on 90% of sites, that's not good enough to keep users, it's exhausting to keep switching back and forth.

To escape the modern web, you have to offer something that the modern web can't which people are willing to go out of their way to get.

Some ideas: privacy, anonymity, no tracking, no DRM, global identity (pubkey based). I don't know if any of these would actually be sufficient to drive a new market, but I think creating a new market is the only way.
I don't they'd ever deprecate Objective-C when so much of their internal software and the biggest apps are still 100% Objective-C. Objective-C support is a good counter-example to Apple supposedly deprecating things.
To use modern lingo:

Corporations are people-fluid. They can chose to be people or not. Forcing people-ness onto them would be corporate-phobic.
sOftWarE aRchITEcTurE

`rails g scaffold questions question_text:text answer_a:string answer_b:string answer_c:string answer_d:string like_count:integer dislike_count:integer correct_answer:string correct_answers_received:integer incorrect_answers_received:integer`
Problem is the "towables" won't hold as much cash as built-in ones at a branch. And you still need to break into them later.
That's just your human brain succumbing to its recency bias. As someone who has been around for way too many decades, it was like this in the 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's.

And corruption is way down from say the early 1900's (don't even talk about the 1800's where it was odd for a politician to not be corrupt).

And your "save the world from fascism" happened at the same time most of the US was segregated.
Depends on how dependent it is on the javascript engine. Servo unfortunately was inseperable from js.
As it's a fairly long report, do you mind pointing out where in [1] your first claim is demonstrated?
You can use ++ on an iterator. Indeed you often do, e.g. in loops. ++iterator is preferable, and for consistency/so you don't have to think about its often recommended in C++ environments to just generally use pre-increment.

(Copying an iterator might be a lot more expensive than just copying an int, and might not be effectively optimized out by the compiler - e.g. if someone builds an iterator that's referenced-counted to an owning object or something)
I think parent didn't talk about consciousness, but free will/randomness generated by the brain.

We already know that consciousness is lagging the decision processes in the brain (we have decided to go for vanilla ice cream 30ms before we are consciously aware).

It also seems obvious to me that the human brain can generate entropy somehow (we can unpredictably go for chocolate ice cream). While I am sure that we will be able to measure with sufficient accuracy any brain process that leads to such decision while a decision is being taken, it seems that any suggestion that we will be able know the outcome of the ice cream decision a time x prior to presenting the choice (say 60 seconds) is impossible.
> “I asked him if he would come up with a few options, and he said, ‘No, I will solve your problem for you and you will pay me. You don’t have to use the solution. If you want options go talk to other people.’”

Surprises me Jobs would ask this, a demand for options, especially three options is usually a sign of a weak creative director lacking confidence.
Customer rants have no place anywhere in any company. They are unprofessional and toxic.
> If the first day is marked mandatory, then any scheduled events on that day should be assumed to be mandatory unless stated otherwise.

This is OPs description of the calendar

> The last thing I remember from onboarding was a link to a shared calendar, to which anyone could create a new event. There were already quite a few on there, such as a weely meeting for people trying to learn more mathematics, another weekly meeting for a ML reading group, a daily leetcode practice time, “office hours” held by various RC staffers, some fun stuff, like a streamed cello practice on saturdays, music / book clubs, and many more.

Certainly not every event on the first day was actually mandatory. Not clicking on the event at 7:15am in the morning just in case doesn't seem to be an offense that deserves this level of punishment.
Don't. Don't plan anything unless you absolutely have to. It's OK to not always be under a timetable.
Very interesting, thank you very much! I know the lockstepped R5s and the dual execution feature of the Carmels (close but no cigar for ISO26262), but not that one. Gonna ask our FAE about it eventually. ;-D
I don't think cultural perspective as much as pure philosophy. As a coder, I once realized that the entire universe's events could be an existing stack, and in that stack exists the events that create the universe, because of the requirement of consistency. Us experiencing time would just be those events being popped off that stack.

This stack view is equivalent to what you are saying, and there is no reason to believe it can't be the case since it does make consistency easily satiable.
and + `tags:text` ofc
Numberphile and PBS Spacetime too.
A 8086 processor requires approximately a maximum power of 1.8 watts, it means if you want to power the CPU from the power of the clock, the clock signal generator needs to be a radio transmitter with an output power of 32.5 dBm, not including insertion loss and power conversion loss at the load. This is beyond the maximum transmitting power of Wi-Fi allowed by the FCC. And it's a square wave clock, a 1 MHz clock can contain frequency components up to 100 MHz (or 1 GHz in modern digital logic), blasting out RF garbage everywhere. Just imagine the electromagnetic interference.

A typical crystal oscillator has a drive level of less than one miliwatt, 3 orders of magnitude lower.

But in principle, yes, I don't see why it's impossible.
meh. Ray tracing is hype. I don't think it's omission is that big of a deal.
Hmm, but as I understand it neither ELPA nor MELPA can be rolled back.

https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/28731/easiest-way-...
They were an ungodly mess, in my view, compared to modern approaches which is what matters in the context of this discussion. The issue also wasn't XUL but everything else related to how extensions functioned (same JS context as literally everything else, no processes, internal FF methods were being patched by extensions, etc.). Their power came at a great cost and their approach is inherently infeasible in today's security conscious world (even if you ignore the stability and performance issues).
You might like these videos by the US Chemical Safety Board: https://www.youtube.com/user/USCSB
A robust infrastructure should be able to handle surge loads. This isn't an extraordinary heat wave after some other natural disaster has directly damaged the power grid; it's that the grid as designed and built can't handle this load.

It's hardly conclusive for a "grand decline" narrative, of course, since this is just one anecdote for an entire society.
That doesn’t negate my point that you still make more than most developers in the US outside of the HN SV bubble writing CRUD apps or bespoke internal apps that will never see the light of day outside of the company. Go to salary.com and pick any major city not on the west coast.
Bill Gates and Elon Musk are two of the best examples of effective social entrepreneurship.

Bill Gates made the money and then spent it socially on vaccine research, reducing disease, improving education, etc.

Elon Musk's efforts are more directly social-entrepreneurial. He's helping to move the entire world away from gas powered vehicles (Tesla/Solar City), reducing urban congestion and improving rural life (SpaceX/Starlink), and trying to back up civilization on other planetary bodies (SpaceX).

I think the idea of "social entrepreneurship" is plagued by the problem of "serving two masters" when you really need focus to be successful.

Elon Musk clearly is clearly doing social entrepreneurship, but in practice that just means running successful (and relatively traditional) capitalist enterprises. Gates was even more conventional with his path. Both are doing a lot more good than most people who call themselves social entrepreneurs.
I'm now genuinely curious if it's possible to purchase an old atm to hack around with (solely educationally of course)

Was shocked to recently find semi-modern (mid-2000s) gas-pumps for sale cheap on eBay so who knows.
I've been using Linux for a lot longer and on variety of hardware. I don't have this problem on my desktop, but the laptop and the trackpad are rather fresh, so maybe somewhere there's a bug or something. For some reason whenever there's a problem it's always Firefox, and rarely if ever Chrome. Example of another problem I had recently - websites like whathifi, tomsguide and a bunch of others were using 100% of one CPU core on Firefox, no problem on Chrome.
I was always more of a SpeakerDeck fan, far less spam.

Back in the day, it was a very neat Web2.0, skeuomorphic kinda deal, and that style (which I frankly was a big fan of) persisted for a looong while until recently when they gave it a far more flat look.

The last thing that had me gravitating towards SpeakerDeck was that all the cool kids were using it, sharing their keynotes on twitter etc..., so a more impressionable, younger self felt the "coolness by association" factor.
I think once the Pinephone's keyboard case is released, it could be a great option for a device that you can buy brand new with active development/support.

Also, for anyone having to use SSH on a more unreliable network, like slow/spotty 3/4G, I highly recommend Mosh[0], it's been pretty much essential for me.

It keeps the connection open even if the network drops, and automatically reconnects when possible. Typing without lag is also nice (it even shows an underline below text that hasn't yet reached the server), although you'll want to use screen/tmux if you need scrollback.

The only annoyance I've had is that you need mosh installed on both ends, as well as the same font encoding/locale (don't really know much about this).

[0]: https://mosh.org/
I work at a small cooperative. We do contact management for non-profits (from large professional associations to small activist groups). It's an area where Salesforce is present, but there is a huge potential for growth, especially outside the US (data sovereignty).

We're a small worker owned coop, meaning we are basically a few partners doing hosting and consulting for the CRM. The CRM is open source, and we are many companies and organizations working together. They have become a very big family (with the good and sometimes the bad).

I like being my own boss and getting to chose my projects, while getting to work with really nice people (whether the clients or colleagues). Of course, no illusions, at the end of the day, we have to get the job done, on budget etc. It's not all rainbows, but I like it. You might say it takes a certain personality to be able to collaborate with alot of people on the long term. We all have weird personality traits. It requires patience.

In the same day, I might work with folks in France who work with animal shelters, people in Turkey who work with oppressed teachers, and small activist groups in the US who hide migrants from ICE.

Money isn't the end goal, but we still have salaries in the higher average, in our area. CRM isn't super exciting tech, but it quickly provides value to users.
Covid-19 Changed Americans' Internet Habits
Scott Adams has fueled many conspiracies on the alt-right, COVID conspiracies, and recently has show his true colors as a racist, claiming he got his show pulled because he was white. Naval Ravikant appears frequently on his show and also fueled COVID conspiracies.
No FB user here. Is it possible to get myself labeled on FB-posted photos with my full name by some FB user?
Saliva-based Covid-19 test funded by NBA gets emergency authorization from FDA
Yes! Look on the DEFCON channel on YouTube and watch several live demos with ATMs that were purchased second-hand.
From what I understand, that might just be a problem with the README. You might have to set your compiler to enable experimental feature flags (thus setup a different compilation channel).
Wouldn't it be better to have standards that weren't so complex or more readily lent themselves to security?

A big part of the browser mess that we are in comes down to just how much you have to do in order to support all modern web applications.
Here's Conway's Game of Life by Arthur Whitney (creator of K):

life:{3=a-x*4=a:2{+(0+':x)+1_x,0}/x}

I'm guessing a numpy implementation would be between one and two orders of magnitude more verbose, even if you're just comparing the number of operations.
I would hate for vmception and lisper to learn about the European heat wave of 2003, which killed 30,000-70,000 https://www.vox.com/world/2019/6/26/18744518/heat-wave-2019-... .
Maybe the incentive should be extra pay for not using the snack room.
The correct definition is Anonymous Indian
Mozilla can take government grants or even subscription money to become a Cloudflare for consumers. Enable uses to content rate any content including youtube videos and protect each other at massive scale. As a parent I would pay for a safer browser experience for my kids. The Disney of browsers if you will. Provide a leader board of sorts for top contributors who have given time to rate content, money to the foundation, code contributions, etc. They don’t have to sink down the advertising hole either. This is just the tip of the iceberg of ideas I saw in 5 minutes. A corporation paired down to focus on consumer problems or government contracts related to internet security can be nimble and beat the FAANG model precisely because they don’t have to bend to the will of advertisers.
I don't think it's that easy to game LinkedIn accounts. Faking the account age and number of connections is non-trivial, for example.

I don't think it would limit the high quality participation, at least not by very much, and that could be mitigated. Maybe users that do not link their accounts could still comment but not vote?

There would definitely be some trade-offs but the current wholesale domination of corporations on HN is a huge trade-off in one direction as well. It seems a very high price to pay IMHO.
I can accept that if we include the trend that combinations of renewable tech are clearly closing those gaps.

It seems reasonable that policy discussions about future energy should be increasingly dominated by renewables. That the worth of fossil fuels will steadily diminish toward a niche value ought to be a universally accepted understanding.
I wish the massive financial bailout money could be used to build and improve infrastructure. There doesn't seem to be a lack of money but it never seem to do anything useful.
My hunch is that the USA has low employment due to its terrible healthcare for poor people; I get the impression that people there get sick and then fall out of the labour market permanently.

I think we may be consuming different media. The narrative I hear is (prepandemic) "the UK has record low unemployment but this is bad because it is low quality work with high underemployment".
After change of demography in Jammu (which Patel and Mehrchand Mahajan went about “anjan banke” no wonder they had shame to not ask Nehru for plebiscite)