skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody serious sees the Coronavirus as an existential threat to humanity unless it mutates in a way that really enables it to wipe out most humans.

Climate change and the collapse of global ecosystems can absolutely manage that and according to every serious scientist we are pretty much on the worst case scenario path according to any peer reviewed model.

The rise in nationalism and authoritarianism around the world is another phenomenon that could unleash forces of global conflict which might lead to cataclysms like a nuclear war or another world war at least.

Of course pivotal moments in history can only be declared as such in hindsight. But the forces leading up to them usually gather steam decades before. It looks as we have no shortage of those in our time.
I think the point is that there's often a lot more to server access than just looking at logs. The article offers a solution to that.
I was wondering recently why fines are not scaled to income. A $200 fine is no big deal for a wealthy person, but devastating for a poor person. Why shouldn’t the wealthy persons fine be equally devastating? $2000, $20000, $200000, maybe $200,000,000 for Jeff Bezos.
I just dont see how any point in time exist could exist "stored" in some form to be traveled back to.
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It nice! Does it support external peripherals?
...as did Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne. FOW was never an "important" band, but Welcome Interstate Managers is a masterpiece that surely has a place somewhere in the top 500.
I conceded that by stating that both were axiomatic positions. I also feel my position is more justifiable. Language in this case is a formal system of using and manipulating symbols to enable implication. If the ‘laws of physics tell us’ some hypothetical alien being ‘would discover’ Pi, that just means said aliens had to discover a logically consistent meaning of the natural numbers, and I would contend any species sufficiently abstractly intelligent enough to do so would also ‘discover’ Boolean logic. The fact that some species can reason using implication on the Natural numbers or some isomorphic inductive structure does not mean that the logic which enable those implications is anything other than the product of the mind, i.e. an invented thing.

If following the logical inference chain that leads to determining the geometric concept of a circle and then inferring the ratio between the circumference and radius is a discovered thing, then any and all logical inferences which can be proved are then discoveries, but I don’t think that argument can be taken seriously.
I'm surprised none of the responses here are discussing climate change. Unlike other concerns, higher average global temps are baked in for centuries, even if we stopped all greenhouse gas emissions today (which, obviously, is not happening).

I put in a "yes" vote for the hinge of history simple due to the fact that our inability to drastically restructure our economy today will severely negativity affect billions in the future. Keeping global warming below 2°C is a pipe dream IMO, and the big question remains to be seen of whether we see big positive feedback loops that result in greatly increased warming (8°C or so). If that happens, WWII will look inconsequential by comparison.
True. But very few people knew on September 26, 1986. There could be equally large catastrophes avoided today that we don’t know about
It’s weird that you call Visual Studio snappier/faster than CLion. From my experience VS 2019 was extremely laggy even on small-size projects. I’ve heard from some gamedev veterans that VC 6 was the last “usable” version and performance/usability/responsiveness went downhill after that. (Here’s a famous rant by Casey Muratori who later compares the load times of VC 2019 and VC 6: https://youtu.be/GC-0tCy4P1U)

To admit, it has one of the best debuggers though. But CLion seems to have catched up in that department, and seems to have way better CMake integration than VS does. CLion still needs more work on performance (as well as support for other build systems), but it’s still the editor that I’m optimistic about.
I think the schools and other public places are just built around the center of it's surrounding population so it can serve everyone best - since everyone is already spread out in rural areas, the schools have to do their best to accommodate the most households they can so that no child is without education. I couldn't find anything about what happens if a school isn't available for someone that building a house in the middle of nowhere, but I imagine state education departments have to make an effort to service all households with public school.
How big is the community as of now? Looks promising though in terms of offerings but is the audience even 10% StackOverflow?
Out of curiousity, is WinRT / SurfaceRT sold at all anymore?

I thought that died and got buried a while back.
Not everyone gets bail. Releasing defendants without bail is called release on "own recognizance". It depends on how severe the crime and how likely they think you are to run. Keep in mind criminal law is handled at the state level, so historically it was really hard to catch people who just moved to another state. Bail pays for people like "bounty hunters" to go find you.
Pi, or the ratio between a geometrically defined circle’s circumference and radius ONLY holds as a truth in so much as one is discussing geometric circles. Pi does not describe the physical world, it describes a relationship between logical objects.
Thank you. I would like to support MIDI input / output in the future. Can you tell me about the equipment you want to use?
I agree - the media constantly posts these “other countries look at USA in bewilderment” articles as if anyone in the US should care what others think. I’m constantly amazed that Europe has insanely high taxes, low growth, and tiny innovation yet no one every speaks of my bewilderment.

Everyone has cool stuff, but there are bad things to say about every country in addition to good things.
this looks basically like an electric Kei car.
I worry that we’re at a point at which technology can permanently entrench power in the hands of the few, and that the world’s largest democracy is currently in thrall to people who would like to see that happen.
Value judgement need to be made against an agreed upon standard. I think you'd need to argue that that the the suburban lifestyle is a poor way to the achieve the values that that those who currently like a suburban lifestyle actually have. That might be possible, at least on a margin. I suspect many in the suburbs would actually prefer something more like a "small town."
I dunno. I certainly keep my comments family-friendly and clear, but these comments resemble my own in their dry wit. I also use emojis as icons in internal tools, since they don't require finding images, but this had the side effect of people reporting "sad cat" errors and the like.
You're saying that in cases where the penalty is monetary, the punishment should fit the criminal rather than fitting the crime.

I think you should consider some of the ethical implications of imposing vastly different punishments for the same behavior.
There were a great many other close calls. Rarely did it boil down to one person, but all sorts of things brought us dangerously close. And those are only the ones we know about. Who knows what mistakes have never been made public.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200807-the-nuclear-mist...

>>As it happens, on this occasion there was no imposter – at least, not a human one. The figure skulking around the fence is thought to have been a large black bear. It was all a mistake. But back at Volk Field, the squadron was still unaware of this fact. They had been told there would be no practice runs, and as they boarded their planes, they were entirely convinced that this was it –World War Three had begun.
"Because DOM is slow"

DOM is not slow, in principle.

What makes updates slow is the fact that each mutating DOM function must left the DOM in consistent state - rendering trees invalidated, etc. This creates significant overhead on massive updates. But:

element.innerHTML = "new content";

is significantly faster than sequence of appendNode & Co. because element.innerHTML mutation is transactional. Browsers do not need to notify observers on each element parsed - only whole subtree at the end.

I have tests of different methods of DOM updates in Sciter (https://sciter.com) see: https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk/blob/master/samples/te...

The test shows that these two methods:

element.html = "new content"; and
element.content( vector-of-vDOM-nodes );

are significantly faster than anything else as both methods are transactional.
Many years ago I took the Dale Carnegie Sales Course. It and the Xerox course were the ones everyone talked about back then (90s). It was practical and I used the material each week (I was also a company founder, but by the time I did that we were doing a couple of million a month).

The students included a couple of guys with a T-shirt stand on the beach, a woman who sold ADT security systems and a couple of people, who sold semiconductor manufacturing equipment. I didn’t just learn a good model and get practice with it but the fact that much of what we learned applied to all the sales cycles (from 3 minutes to 3 years) was itself quite enlightening. I still use today what I learned back then.

Also, later: I “carried a bag” meaning I had a mortgage in Palo Alto, a wife whose visa didn’t allow her to work, and lived on commission. Really taught me to sell!

Like riding a bike, you can get tips from books and video but you just have to get out there and sell.

(I have never become comfortable with cold calling, though I can do it)
Agreed. Every great power today was profoundly molded by it. America & Soviet Union became the sole superpowers. It basically decided the communist government of China. It eventually set free the other next great powers, such as India and Nigeria, from colonial rule. The impact on technology was equally profound. The computer, radar, the jet, the turbo pumped liquid rocket, the drone, the atomic bomb...

I mean, an entirely new source of energy was first harnessed (really the first since the invention of fire) and the first human made object was sent (briefly) into space...
Thank you. That's a good idea. I definitely want to implement it.
In the US you can get clocks that auto-set by tuning into the NIST radio signal WWVB. They come in both digital and analog, with various designs. They don’t need Internet; just some regular batteries.
This has been a systemic issue reported on for years; e.g. reported by the Intercept in 2017 [1] and Atlantic in 2019 [2]. Not really made clear from the story considering the Economist headline is almost identical to the Atlantic one.

[1]https://theintercept.com/2017/11/02/war-crimes-youtube-faceb...

[2]https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/facebook-a...
Show HN: DevUtils.app – Developer Utilities for macOS
This is a project I've been working on since the start of Covid-19. I built an app so that I don't have to put data into online tools like JWT debugger, JSON formatter, URL decoder, etc...

https://devutils.app

The app works entirely offline and is open-source. I'm selling the pre-built version of the app to earn some revenue for my time. If you want to try the app but can't afford the price or don't have XCode to build the app, drop me an email (my profile), I'll be happy to provide you a free build.

I would love to hear all the feedback/suggestions. Thanks!
There's a possibility that the third sentence you wrote is tightly coupled with the second one.

On a personal level I mainly agree with you (we're on track for much worse than the RCP2.5 that everyone is barely even attempting to make goals for), but the complexity of the system seems to bring people to vastly disagree about this somehow.

I think what really has become a turning point of our civilization in the last few decades is that specialization and the complexity of the world are absolutely entirely outside of the reach of any single person. The expansion of diversity and knowledge in the last few hundred years is much like the expansion of the universe, in that we can't seem to be able to beat it at all in terms of speed no matter what we do.

Any sci-fi device that could perhaps offset that eventually (e.g. a future neuralink-thing being able to "upload" knowledge into you) is not the kind of thing I would bet my savings on in terms of time constants when compared to much more immediate events like climate change wrecking our modern civilization.
I enjoy this. I have been using binaural beats via sbagen for over 10 years to get me in the zone. It’s incredible.
Not yet. I would like to support it in the future. Thank you!
No memory was involved.
Who Is to Be Blamed
Scientists Predict Potential Spread of Giant “Murder” Hornet
I completely agree. I was pretty terrified until I opened the letter and saw a check. I assumed it was an audit.

The thing that is often ignored, unknown, or forgotten, is that it doesn’t have to work this way. Some countries send you an end of year report on how much they collected from you and you can audit them as well. It’s less laborious than our system. I am blissfully unaware of the complications of such a system but I’d like to think that it works better. I’d like to think the people of the IRS would prefer that too.
I believe so, at least on the software side. For example, the macOS EULA states:

> C. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE APPLE SOFTWARE AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE”, WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND

https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOSCatalina.pdf
Does anyone have a citation for this?

I expected this was a big reason for the seemingly illogical behavior, but am curious how it shakes out. Where does money they recover go?

It would seem to make sense to seed a high income investigative unit, checked by the courts, and then allow them to retain a substantial portion of their recoveries to self-fund.
Some places do this! Here’s a 54000 euro speeding ticket in Finland [1]:

> Finland's speeding fines are linked to income, with penalties calculated on daily earnings, meaning high earners get hit with bigger penalties for breaking the law. So, when businessman Reima Kuisla was caught doing 103km/h (64mph) in an area where the speed limit is 80km/h (50mph), authorities turned to his 2013 tax return, the Iltalehti newspaper reports. He earned 6.5m euros (£4.72m) that year, so was told to hand over 54,000 euros.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-31709454
Hingey times are defined in retrospect. I do think covid provides an easy event for future historians to point to as the narrative of this time is written.

As people living through it we know the reality is far more complicated - there are wars, rising popularism, the rise of China, a hyperactive media and a million other factors. COVID will be the convenient way to explain the big changes to the world order that are already underway, just as we were taught the assassination of Franz Ferdinand kicked off World War I.
I'm not 100% sure this is right, but if there's anything that can be called a Unix API it's POSIX, and libc is part of the specification. So I think the answer is yes.

OP references Illumos, but I also think the only way you get access to syscalls on macOS is through Apple's libc.
I think a question is: is the same dollar amount the same punishment? Jeff Bezos doesn’t need to think twice about a $10k fine but there are plenty of people for whom that would be ruinous. Arguably, the “sameness” has to do with the impact of the fine, not the amount.
Not GP, but there's a type unsoundness bug with the fact that you can assign an array of a subtype to an array of a super type (apologies if my syntax is off; I haven't written Java in a while):

class Animal {}
class Cat extends Animal {}
class Dog extends Animal {}

Animal[] cats = new Cat[1];
Animal dog = new Dog();
cats[0] = dog;

This will compile fine but throw an error at runtime. The only possible way to avoid runtime errors with assigning a Cat array to an Animal array is if you only put Cats in it, at which point it would make more sense to just use a Cat array, so it would have been better design to make assigning a Cat array to an Animal array a compiler error.
In the USA, two weeks. Don't give earlier notice than two weeks unless you have a close, long-term relationship with your boss, and you're absolutely sure that won't create a problem.

For example, by policy, some companies would require your boss to advise HR and terminate your network/building access as soon as you give notice. In that case, your early notice either leaves your boss violating policy, or leaves you unemployed with two weeks pay in lieu of notice (of them terminating you). If in doubt, and if you have that close relationship, you may want to discuss your departure on a general and hypothetical basis first before discussing specifics.

Still try to avoid surprising your boss, as much as you can. For example, you could try to take on more maintenance and documentation work, and fewer new projects. A good manager may get the hint, and will appreciate the consideration in retrospect even if not. There's also a small but non-zero chance that a bad manager would turn this into a reason to fire you, so judge the tradeoff against that long-term relationship carefully.
>Cygwin is no longer needed when you have real Linux.

I'd say that depends on your use case.

For many folks, WSL is an excellent idea. I've played around with it and it doesn't give me anything over what I already have using Cygwin.

Also, Cygwin+userland is much lighter weight than an integrated VM like WSL2.

A lot of the question is what you want/need. I need a decent shell with a fairly complete unix userland. X is nice to have as well. That such functionality seamlessly integrates with Windows is great.

But I don't need a dev environment (although Cygwin provides that as well) for unix on my Windows box.

I'm sure there are other use cases/software that requires a full blown Linux kernel/environment, but they don't apply to me. I just use VMs (on separate hardware) for that.

And unless you actually need a full-blown kernel, rather than a specific set of tools, cygwin provides a lightweight, mature and well supported alternative.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not claiming that Cygwin is unix. Rather, I say that for a significant set of use cases, Cygwin can be a superior solution.

It all depends on your requirements.
And I would disagree with your comment on similar grounds. There is undoubtedly a lot of nuance and experience in sales, technical requirements depending on the industry, but forgive me, I’m not going to outline everything in a comment.

I am arguing that a book won’t cut it and may do more harm than good. Advice from great salespeople must be taken with a grain of salt. Because the core of sales, making deals, is more feeling than logic.

I’ve seen people sell extremely well with zero experience as well as seasoned pros who are inherently terrible at the job. Salespeople overthink the strategy and lose sight of what really makes money: making that motherfucker say yes. If you want to do that then you need to really embrace your role properly and forget about being a shark or a shooter or whatever. You are helping someone or some organization either make more money, save money, or do their job easier than before. Everything else is bullshit strategy for guys who don’t actually believe in what they are selling.

Edit: that reply could be misconstrued as aggressive but I’m set in my ways, which I know work best.

If OP doesn’t want to mentor under a sales manager in a business and learn the job that way, then as a practical suggestion:

Skip the self help books. Zig Ziggler and how to make friends and influence people, etc etc. Skip all that.

Get a College textbook on being an Entrepreneur. Something that will help you with the nuts and bolts backend stuff.
Possibly; I don't know the law. I didn't mean that as any kind of legal defence, just a note that the discussion around direct transcription/reproduction doesn't have so much direct relevance here.
You could just have an sshable account without shell privileges, only able to run grep or some small set of controlled utilities and with filesystem access restricted to read only access to the log sirs.

Anyone who needs access could remotely run a command that would return the results of whatever permitted query they submitted.
https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/118369454816928454-c...
Do you honestly think that if the IRS successfully collected more taxes that politicians would reduce taxes?

And in my example I'd think that the lumber would come from privately owned land/lumber operations. Not sure what you mean by ease of contract.

See my other comment in regards to taxes in general.
Congrats the popup that you can close have just reduced my visit to 2 second ... I don't care about your story
> OP references Illumos, but I also think the only way you get access to syscalls on macOS is through Apple's libc.

That's right. In fact this was a source of a time-related bug in Go on Mac OS. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/17490 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16570
this.

if you have access to all your machines through public internet you're doing it wrong (ie stop solving a problem that you should not have in the first place).

The proper way to do this is to have a bastion host (or a jump host) where you strictly control access. Someone leaves you revoke their access. (extra: have the access be protected via 2FA that depends on the person having an active [LDAP/corp] account)

There is another layer to this where the access to the bastion is allowed only from the corporate network (ie you need to VPN into the corpnet to be able to access the jump host). You leave, you no longer can access the bastion.

the ultimate level to this is that you should not ssh willy nilly into your production hosts (to the degree that this should not even be possible). you should have a solution for pushing the logs + instrumentation (ie metrics) that makes it so that you don't need to do this in production.
Can you imagine what it would be like if you had to report all of your bank statements, credit card transactions, and cash transactions to the IRS and have it all reconciled?

Seems like that would be easier. They tell me how much they think I owe, and I either send it in or file an appeal.
Of course people assume that everyone who moves to Colorado from California is going to being California with them, so it's the same thing really.
> Keeping global warming below 2°C is a pipe dream

I think/hope it's possible by a war-mobilization type of effort, where industries start working together for the goal.

We not only have to stop all emissions to zero, but should probably start removing co2 from the atmosphere as well:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/carbon-dioxide-remov...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/wanna-limit-global-w...

But there are a lot of social issues going along with this: Up to 8% of greenhouse-gas emissions come from concrete, so building things.

I cannot imagine a world without construction, there are so many business processes and jobs involved with that.
Popups can be annoying, but please do not break the site guidelines like this, and particularly not the Show HN guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Internet forums tend to slide by default into people being jerks and assholes to each other, and that is particularly poisonous in response to people who are trying to share their work. We don't want a culture here where they get attacked and flamed for doing that.

If you wanted to respectfully share what was troublesome about a popup, that of course would be fine.