skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most common response (or at least gentle complaint) I've gotten was, "Why did you leave out...?" From DECUS (one of the oldest groups) to Melbourne PC User Group (one of the largest), people have been sad that their favorite wasn't included.

But the story isn't about the groups' size or age. It was about the experience and what they meant. The whole point is that these were worldwide, in tiny towns (like my own Deer Isle Maine) and in huge cities.
You can get 64GB this with Hetzner for less than $100 a month I think if you need the higher level of precision.
And again for an Adobe creative product all this is still fine. Not losing your data is a solved problem and it's called a backup.

On this point, I just can't agree. Regardless of whether or not users have effective back-ups -- and we all know that for various reasons, sometimes they don't, even if they believed they did -- it simply isn't acceptable for someone to push out a software patch that destroys data incorrectly.

I don't think it's a trivial thing if someone loses data of great personal value, whether it's wedding photos, or a video of your child's first play at school, or precious footage of a friend or relative who is no longer with you, or just a personal project you've put a lot of work into. These things matter to people, and even if they didn't arrange for effective back-ups, it's not their fault that the data was destroyed in this case, it's 100% on Adobe for screwing up.

In some analogous cases with ignorant customers the state steps in and creates consumer protection regulation, but its usually only for really dangerous stuff that can kill you or make you sick, like food safety, not just delete your wedding pics.

I don't know where in the world you are, so maybe that is the case for you. At least here in the UK, and in Europe more widely, consumer protection laws tend to be quite strong and quite well regarded by the public, and they certainly aren't limited to life-or-death kinds of issues (though of course we have specialised safety regulations in those kinds of areas too).
I read an article a few months ago about how the import restrictions (or maybe that there's just fewer international shipments) from Covid were making it harder to smuggle things into the US.

I wonder if that is having an impact on the quality of street drugs and causing overdoses. If fentanyl is so much more compact than heroin, I wouldn't be surprised if drug smugglers prioritized fentanyl given the limited quantities that can be smuggled. That would make street doses far more dangerous.
Building a productized service platform
> Remember, only AMEX verifies cardholder FIRST LAST. Use your VISA/MC.

Do you have a source for this?
Yes I'm sure because these people clearly weren't intending to pirate anything.
Parquet is kind of a royal pain in the ass compared to CSV/JSON/plaintext mostly because it uses a ton of Thrift encodings, resulting in mostly terrible/broken implementations anywhere outside of the Java/JVM ecosystem. If you're running Apache <Whatever> then sure, it'll probably be fine, but I'd recommend avoiding it if you start having to go down the rabbit hole of implementing support for things in your language du jour.
I got curious about this one and read about it on the wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn#Incident...

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffi

Those only do only mention the elephant jumping out, but nobody else.
Ok, then it makes sense. That age group is still considered very young adults, and most are still studying and not even exposed to full time jobs yet. As soon as you receive important emails from banks etc you start checking your personal e-mail regularly.
> Your satire rings very flat because it doesn’t happen much in person to person communication.

Of course it does. It is just harder to audit and record. That's why they call it "high school like" behavior - you put a bunch of people in a room together every day and you get gossip.
This article suffers from a misconception of efficiency. A car that gets more miles per gallon than another is more fuel-efficient, not more efficient. A system of local optimums is an inefficient system. The author asks us to make life more efficient by considering efficiency in a broader scope. Efficiency is still good.
This is especially infuriating since reddit's video player on any Android mobile browser is utter garbage. It hangs constantly because of its poor performance, loads the video extremely slowly, and doesn't support seeking in any audio-less video because a click maximized the video instead of showing a seekbar.

But not being able to seek isn't actually that important because either clicking there straight up doesn't work or it takes you to a position in the video that often enough is more than 50% of the video length off the position you clicked on.

Meanwhile the native video player in any browser on Android supports not only Google Cast but is also extremely fast, has a dedicated volume control, and supports seeking down to pixel-perfect accuracy. They also don't create seizure-inducing flickering when you try to maximize them.

Whoever gave this video player the green light for production use needs to be forced to use it for everything they want to watch until they made it usable.
That's exactly the pitch for Kafka - using it as the data backbone/nervous system for a company.
CNN sympathizes with their cause not their organizations.
Usually "breeder" indicates a reactor with a fully closed fuel cycle that generates more fissile fuel than it consumes. A Pu-239 breeder would need to begin with critical mass of Pu-239 to begin this fuel cycle, in addition to the U-238 feedstock you are wanting to bombard. Kind of puts the cart before the horse. Additionally, the engineering for a liquid sodium or molten salt cooling system (water is too strong a fast-neutron moderator for this application) goes beyond the means of the hobbyist or extremist group.

I don't think this is what you meant, though. Why can't [an independent actor] recover Pu-239 from the core of a uranium reactor? I'll admit I don't know a lot about chemical reprocessing, but the proposition here is using a series of highly corrosive and/or explosive chemicals ([fuming] nitric acid, tributyl phosphate, hydrazine) to extract Pu-239 from very radioactive irradiated fuel rods with unknown actinide concentrations. Chemical reagents for this process (e.g. for PUREX, tributyl phosphate) are controlled and monitored by non-proliferation agencies. Chemical re-processing will not separate the Pu-240 from the Pu-239. Pu-239 is unsuitable for a gun-type weapon, as it is so fissile that it will blow itself apart in a partial detonation ("fizzle") before the slug and target are brought together--this means you need an implosion-type ("Fat man") weapon to effectively use Pu-239 as a fuel. A high concentration of Pu-240 exacerbates this problem. A fizzle in a populated area is still very bad, but not bad in a way that couldn't feasibly be produced by conventional explosives and/or chemical weapons much more easily. In order to produce enough Pu-239 to form a weapons core within years instead of decades or centuries (provided extraction is feasible), the independent actor probably is looking at a >1 MW reactor with the cooling towers and infrastructure that surrounds a project of that scale.

It is really only a viable threat for a terrorist organization if that organization has the clandestine support of a nation state.

EDIT: Or otherwise enough financial support, technical expertise, and freedom of activity to engage in serious construction projects and industrial chemistry. The point is that it's not something you can put together in a basement lab.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PUREX
My initial impressions of OpenCore for modern Hackintoshing
I agree that may be an outcome. But don't put the cart before the horse (in this case, the horse is the question: "what is the nature of the relationship between Uber and Lyft" and possibly even "what should the nature of the relationship between a company and an employee and/or contractor even be").

I think it might be helpful to define what "simultaneous" means in the context of drivers. I stated that I believe it would only be simultaneous if a driver had passengers from multiple rideshare companies in the car at the same time. I agree that this would be unacceptable. I don't believe it's unacceptable for drivers to canvas multiple rideshare apps for fares as long as they drive them separately.
Sure it would be nicer if good products were automatically successful on their merits alone. But the world is a very, very big place. Therefore a major part of the problem resting on your shoulders as a business owner is getting your product into the attention spheres of people who will pay for it.

IMO it's better not to fight realities you can't change. The best you can do — from both a business and a mental standpoint — is accept that marketing is a necessity and find a way to enjoy it.

I'm a programmer who's been indie for 10 years and I treat marketing as a series of open-ended experiments; this arouses my intellectual curiosity. I also gamify it by gathering real-time stats; this emulates the dopamine hit I get when a piece of code compiles.

I've vlogged and blogged a good bit about marketing from a programmer perspective, so if you'd like more on my take, check the links in my profile.
My favorite story about unintended consequences of process improvement is the Vienna Sausage Factory: https://medium.com/dangerous-kitchen/vienna-sausages-a-guy-n...

Punch line - Sausages coming from a new modern factory didn't taste the same. The new, more efficient building removed a long transportation step where the partially finished sausages picked up flavors and scents coming from different parts of the factory. They had to create a new process to manually add those flavors that they were accidentally getting for free from the old factory layout.
Reading permutation city right now. Egdan is a master at what he does, just don’t except strong characters, that’s not what he’s about!
This is all information in bad faith.
The protocol and all Telegram is open source. Are you a cryptographer?
And who "rolled" the Signal protocol, Moxie Marlinspike? Did he not design that himself?
Whatever hypothetical you're posing now is too far removed from this situation and too obscure to spend energy working it out here. It's best to take a page from the Supreme Court and consider what's relevant to the facts as they actually exist for this situation and avoid unnecessarily burdening ourselves with imagining counterfactuals.

The code was published under a public license, it has been available long enough to garner thousands of commits from over 192 "contributors" (albeit some of whom work for MetaMask), and it has over 1.5k forks. Also, there is no contract.
> If you participate in the community, you can be a boon or you can also be a drag (if you just use the software in the privacy of your home, report problems and ask questions, without every giving back in any way, not even by answering other folks' questions).

Whether problem reports are a help or hindrance depends strongly on the type of report. A low information "it broke" post is a hindrance. A high information post giving steps to reproduce, having looked for similar bug reports, giving system details needed to reproduce the report, should be a help.
I didn't tell you to fire anyone.
Record EOS measurement pressures shed light on stellar evolution
I think I'd agree with the end of the article. If the only reason you're paying them is to prevent a data leak, what's to stop them from accepting the ransom and still leaking the data?
Sounds like they are leaving the site up but not writing new content? That could actually be worse than just taking the site down as it will quickly grow outdated.
> Why would it change cache line size? GPUs also use cache lines in the range of 32-128 byte?! I think that is independent of the bus system/width.

I just assumed that bus width = cache line size. I guess I was wrong.

Sorry.
And you will also soon be able to read the source at

https://github.com/dicekeys/dicekeys-webapp

We're just figuring out whether to use an MIT license or a license that forbids use in stalkerware applications and anti-citizen surveillance applications.

Some of our code is already public at
https://github.com/dicekeys

(We welcome contributors)
Just take a pic with your phone.
Nobody will have a clue what it's for.
Anybody using the Actor Model for games these days?
Note that MDN is a collaborative site. The members of the MDN Product Advisory Board[0] gives an idea of the organisations involved in maintaining it. It's bigger than Mozilla. See also the 2017 announcement[1].

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/MDN_Product_Adv...

[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/10/18/mozilla-brings-micr...
Fascinating and impressive - nice work and nice solution until the day comes where the identifier length is increased by default
Yeah I think Telegram, like Whatsapp, is adopted broadly enough not to bias too heavily in one direction. Definitely not 90%, and especially not if that “bias” matches the word on the street.
Because I was told by my dean of STEM that "it's not advantageous for this position that you're a white scientist" followed by "You came from a well-educated family right?". My lower class farmer dad that that was funny. I was forced to get up to speed pretty quickly and strongly motivated to do so.

people don't understand how far this is gone in the college system right now, and how that is now being incorporated into every curriculum and taught to every student as what seems to me to be a secular morality that you would be an immoral person to not agree with.

Check out table a and B from the following Berkeley initiative. there's a clear biased towards diverse candidates and diversity is simply defined as non-white straight or male.
https://ofew.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/life_sciences_...
I am not sure I understand where you're coming from. Is your issue that it takes more than building a good product to get people to buy it? Do you wish you could build it and they would come? This is a fantasy that some people subscribe to, and that I have failed to hit repeatedly. In fact, I would say whenever I enter into building anything with this mindset, it's the biggest red flag of impending failure. There is a difference between being an engineer and being a product maker. You wouldn't expect a baker to be an amazing cook even though they both make food would you? If you want to be an engineer without the 9/5 and without the headache of marketing / sales, get a cofounder.
The Stadtrecht phenomenon is what makes people call Dutch cities cities too. Legally, the term 'city' ('stad') doesn't even exist nowadays here, so it mostly a term used intuitively and according to historical legacy.

Interestingly, the Dutch province of Frisia famously features eleven cities (all historically holders of Dutch stadsrechten) of which the smallest has just over 700 inhabitants, whilst the biggest 'village' in the province boasts over 45,000.
At this point the government agency should perform some of those attacks, extort the money, make it public and then delete the data so the victim is out of data and the money.

Paying ransoms is terrible for the world. We will have more attacks on more targets. There needs to be heavy incentive to not pay.
> A comment full of cliché. If France is so bad, move out.

Please don't do nationalistic flamewar like this on HN. (This also is a cliché, and a nasty one.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
arch linux, artix linux
This is sad to see.
Don’t worry, there could still be somewhat smaller less detectable objects nearby.
It's my daughter's shirt. She didn't approve of any of my shirts. The front has Bugs Bunny.
Sure, preparedness has costs, but the article makes the point poorly, IMO.

Many of the arguments are non sequiturs. The last example is particularly bad. On an icy road, it doesn't matter if a car gets 100 mpg or 10 mpg - speed and traction are far more important factors.
Yes and it goes as far back as Saga Dreamcast. And the technique itself is now used in pretty much all of the current GPU from Nvidia to AMD and ARM.

Still a little pissed at how Apple handled IMG / PowerVR.
> Both AMD and Nvidia drivers are dumpster fires in terms of stability (and for Nvidia, I've tried both nouveau and the binary drivers)

I've had great experience with the mainline amdgpu driver, and find it ridiculous to group AMD and nvidia together in this context today. With amdgpu AMD has moved much closer to intel on the mainline linux gpu support front.
> We recognize that our tech writing staff drive a great deal of value to MDN users, as do partner contributions to the content. So we are working on a plan to keep the content up to date. We are continuing our planned platform improvements, including a GitHub-based submission system for contributors.

Looks like they won't write new content themselves, but will have a system for keeping content up to date
Improving spatial skills in children and teens
"But Amazon showed losses for years" is probably the most used argument of the decade to defend unprofitable startups.
Palantir is 17 years old.
> Personal liability in an accident is potentially unbounded. This is an example of an unbearable loss that must be protected against, even if it costs money on average.

Why it is "unbearable loss"?

There is saying about that:

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

That may seems unethical, but if you think about it - it's reach people, who lives in our society, who needs to be careful to take care of their risks.

Of course, if you have assets to lose - you need to protect them (by buying insurance), but if you are "individual with limited resources" - it's not much different with / without insurance.

What I often hear is that poor people (with limited resources) needs to buy extra insurance to protect reach people from their risks. I disagree.
I believe you might be fine even without proper timing.

Merely viewing the license/repository does not constitute acceptance of said license (it's not even a clickwrap contract.) While what you can do with the code without accepting said license is quite limited, by publishing publicly to github in the first place they've presumably agreed to Github's ToS, including section D5 ( https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o... ), which at least grants github users the right to view and fork the repository.

Which, presumably, grants users the right to view the repository in it's older states - where I'd argue the old license still clearly applies to the old code. That said, they could always flatten their git history tomorrow or yank the repository outright, which would leave you relying on pre-existing forks.

I'm also less sure about what you can do with old MIT forks of the software if you implicitly accept the new license terms by, say, using the new software. Does "The Program" refer to that exact version? All versions going forward? All versions past future present and in alternate histories?
Crew Spending Weekend in Station’s Russian Segment – Space Station
This site works awesome. hats off to you truly.

there is one things that would make this site as useful as youtube and thats having the to and left site side fixed so they don't go away when you scroll down. this is how youtube has their site and i'm sure that's who are trying to mimic and that's what people are used to.
So about a quarter of a percent of their tuition income? That's pretty massive, considering this is an unexpected cost.
Could we live on a brown dwarf?
That’s like saying Target has a monopoly on selling Target store brand merchandise.
It's really poor, you need at least hydrogen for seasonal energy storage.
> Given the parallels between starting companies and playing games, I like to recall the title of an excellent book on the early days of Nintendo. That title? Game Over. Press Start to Continue. Words to work by.

Maybe that’s one of the reasons wealthy people succeed more often as entrepreneurs because they can afford to re-play (no, I don’t have a source for that).
> So in a crash situation, if the ammonia ruptures, you're probably dead, and everyone else in the vicinity.

I think the assumption is these would be mostly used for stationary power generation / marine vessels, not on-highway vehicles.
Because labor law says that if you're ready and prepared to work for an employer, you have to be paid whether or not you're actively involved in something. Waiting around for a ride counts as "working", so you get paid for it.

It's the same reason that an employer can't make all their employees clock out when the factory production line stops to fix a problem.
In the status quo, drivers are able to turn off their dispatch whenever they want. They can drive 20 hours one week, 2 hours the next, take an indefinite break, then drive 40 hours. There's no boss, there's no clocking in. There's no getting "fired" for flaking.

An employment contract would allow Uber/Lyft to enforce hours and contiguous schedules. On top of that, it's extremely trivial for Uber/Lyft to include exclusivity clauses in employment agreements. It's in their best interests to do that, since they have entire projects dedicated to handling "multi-appers".

Keep in mind that traditional taxicab drivers were able to go "off-duty" whenever they wanted because they, too, were independent contractors.
They should have said "near Mars", it would have been more exciting.
> Yes of course, without recording technology, in my view, we would not have successful type of investigative journalism that project Veritas has delivered.

Your "successful investigative journalism" is more widely recognized as a "right-wing disinformation outfit". O'Keefe and his organization have been repeatedly shown to have fabricated stories, solicited fraudulent activity, and deceptively edited recordings. Their activities are politically motivated propaganda, not journalism.
Add some clear casting epoxy and it would be a cool project to show all your friends. Oh wait.
That's an incredibly narrow definition of success.
> but also a cohesive high trust society

Can a diverse society not be a high trust one? It has been shown that more diversity is associated with less trust both among and within ethnic groups [1], but it still puzzles me why that is the case.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Putnam#Diversity_and...
This typing tool is nice!

I learned I've been pressing the [Y] key with the wrong finger.

The profile page has many charts and statistics.

ps. If you have FLASH active in your browser, check out the zombie shooter themed typing game "ZOMBIE TYPOCALYPSE". // or on steam check out the arcade game "Typing of the Dead: Overkill" (game play video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jslf5hJMtvs )
Ask HN: How do you jump domains, industries, etc.?
I've been doing the same thing for several years and I hate it. Ideally I'd like to switch to something else, but it seems like so many industries want many years of experience specific to a certain domain, or in some extreme cases, experience with certain companies.

It feels futile to apply to stuff when my resume is effectively not much better than that of a new grad, if not worse.
It's more like 90%.

On existing processes, standardizing collection has been nearly impossible unless I promised that it would be easier, it will take less time, and I'll do all the setup. It always takes leadership backing, and if I don't get it from one leader, I go over their head to the next.

On new processes, if I jump forward and volunteer, I find I'm given leeway to do it my way- that is, a standardized way.

If this sounds ruthless, it is.
Does anyone know why the favicon for this site is the emblem of the PLA and the Red Army?