skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When a user establishes a TCP session through Boundary, a Boundary worker node seamlessly proxies the connection.

Boundary sounds like the perfect mash-up of Google's bastion-less SSH access to GCE instances and actual IAM. Exciting!
Tracking the smoke of California wildfires using the new HRRR Smoke dataset
This is great. And I can see that the general reaction from the news cycle isn’t consumed with ridicule of this declaration. The timing seems quite appropriate given people’s acclimation to the pandemic. People aren’t as panicked as they were in March so they can digest this proposal.
The data shows that hours-long waits are not and haven't been the norm, as I stated.

There is data on wait times from 4 elections in the article, none of which supports a claim that the wait times shown in the BBC article are at all normal.

It's obvious that you're looking to draw a very specific conclusion regardless of the data presented, so best of luck with that.
I think the main idea is to realize that aging is a disease we all have and it's lethal and we aren't doing enough to combat it. What's the budget for senescence research and why isn't it two or three orders of magnitude more?

Why isn't every ninety year old automatically enrolled in an experimental program to reduce senescence? Eighty? Seventy?

We should be desperate and taking desperate measures to fight aging tooth and nail. Instead, we seem to be casually studying it.

If we applied the world's productive and research efforts, and obliterated redtape, how much progress would we make?
Any reform will come from outside the system. Said from experience.

I share your frustration. I worked on election and voting issues for a decade, fulltime for two years. I was slow to realize that my Mr Smith Goes to Washington folk theory of politics has no basis in reality. The only successes me and mine achieved were thru bringing pressure.

I highly recommend Camp Wellstone's training for organizers. (Please share recommendations.)

Electeds, leaders, and partisans to effect change is a misunderstanding of what they do. They are in a neverending knife fight for power. Any actual policies are merely the playing cards in the game. Sure, many pols do hold one or two firm positions, for which they will expend "political capital".

Leah Stokes' recent book Short Circuiting Policy is a very good, data driven explanation of policy formation. I collect books about politics, policy, etc. Mostly to better understand and learn from own experiences. Many very good.

That said, Stokes most closely matches my understanding of how legislators behave wrt policy.
Have you ever used FaceID? There are a lot of false claims in your rant.

My favourite was the room being illuminated (by IR light?) when using FaceID in bed.
There's like a $25k difference between Google L4 in the Bay vs in Boulder and with considerably less average years of experience. That's less than the COL difference.

https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Software%20Engineer&s...

https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Software%20Engineer&s...
Sounds like we should just go to the earths core. Those pressures are maintained naturally
Sometimes I feel like Netflix takes an idea that was pitched as a movie or 1-3 episode mini series and asks the creators to stretch it longer. If they aren't going to commit to finishing these things, write in arcs that wrap up enough that a second season is possible but not horribly annoying if its not.
Thanks! Your answer reinforces my personal preference for wires to supply power :)
There’s no way breaking one entanglement breaks all others across the universe, right? So what I was saying is, just have 50 different pairs of entangled bits. You could only send a 50 bit message once, but bam, you have FTL communication.
Adding slightly to it: they use Brier scores to say how "good" someone is at prediction. Because these predictions require a probability of confidence, you can punish those who were confidently wrong or reward those who were confidently right.

So if I predict "aliens will land on or before December 1st" with 100% and no aliens appear, then my Brier score is 1 (the worst). If I say 0% confidence, then my score is 0 (the best).

There are dozens and dozens of ways of scoring prediction ability, as it happens: https://www.cawcr.gov.au/projects/verification/verif_web_pag...
Everything Dijkstra says makes sense if you believe that computing cannot scale without correctness. He was wrong about that one thing, and to be fair to him, it's still a little amazing in retrospect, even when we can look back over the decades of history through which we've created a society dependent on vast, unimaginably complex, world-spanning computing systems built out of pieces that are virtually all broken.

And it's not like he was a lone crank railing against the 99% who were moving forward with a well-founded idea of how computing could scale indefinitely by composing incorrect programs. Just like today, 99% of programming, including programming for government programs and vital infrastructure, was done by people who were only hoping to make their own projects succeed well enough for the next six months to three years. I'm sure there were brilliant people who made intelligent arguments against the need for correctness, but their arguments didn't carry the day. Complacency and short-term thinking did.

In that context, Dijkstra's pessimism and his use of harsh, attention-getting language makes a lot of sense. How many people at the time really understood that in 2020 every part of our civilization would depend on code compiled by compilers with bugs, linked with libraries with bugs, in virtual machines with bugs, on operating systems with bugs, on CPUs with bugs in their microcode, and yet it would still all mostly work?
Room-temperature but earth core pressure, lol. But still very exciting indeed!
Here is a story that's currently not getting much traction on HN:

70.6% of people who were infected with Covid-19 “Always” wear masks [pdf] (cdc.gov)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24777029
I played with this app and it's a great experience, I didn't have to install anything and have shared it with a few people who (in a few seconds) were happy creating stuff. None of us professional artists (like millions of people out there).

For me, that's amazing. There's a lot of value in having options (with low friction) for casual creators like myself.

Agree with your point about dev experience being painful though.
I don't think any platform will fund a creative project without a stated beginning, middle and end. It's just that Netflix pays upfront for the idea, so the writers and directors don't have control over when to finish the story.

If they're told to space this idea out over 5 seasons and paid by the season, what else can they do except to live the dream of making original content and hope for the best?
Gotcha. Thanks for taking the time to explain. I'll add some hotkeys (+/-) to initiate a zoom, but otherwise this is a result of my pure laziness.

Not that you can zoom like this now, but you can pan if you hold the ctrl key down and left - click + drag.
Aerosol research instrumental in getting musicians back to playing safely
MRI scanners, tiny and mobile, used like ultrasound whenever, wherever at a tiny fraction of the cost. This would be one 'extension' of something we use already.

But the notion of cheap 'extremely powerful' magnets extends into other things - you'd see 'maglev' type stuff everywhere.

I would imagine some kinds of major computational leaps if it could be done at that small scale.

The efficiency of electric generators changes tremendously without resistance - if built into your local windmill it would improve generation quite a lot.
Webster’s Dictionary changed the definition of “preference” TODAY
A lot of phones have almost enough metal to stick to a magnet. I bought this car mount a while ago and while it came with metal plates I found that my Nexus 6 would stick to it without anything. I later upgraded to a nexus 6P which weakly stuck, it would kinda hang off the bottom but never fell off.

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01AMGFY5M

I was thinking that it would be nice if we could just standardize something as simple as "stick an iron plate in the back of the phone" but I guess now I see that it would be nice if there was some sort of standard for a Qi charging location relative to whatever metal/magnets are there.
Hello, I found out about the "Purchasing Power Parity" thing on your site and I want to thank you for that consideration, it helps. Also thanks to all the people who think and then act on such ideas.
> There is no need to equivocate the criticism that "what Zionists are doing to Palestinians is similar to what Nazis did to Jews" to a very different claim that "the Holocaust and the Nakba are wholly the same."

I think they are in the same area of related-to-reality-ness. Are civil wars usually bloody and terrible? Yes. Is it reasonable to compare that to the holocaust? No.

> We are horrified that Israel would commit ethnic cleansing against another group of people. It is especially horrific given they did so immediately after having been dealt the same atrocity at the hand of Nazis.

Is it? It's not to me. Quite the contrary: having just barely survived the murderous intentions of somebody who was aftery our life will probably have you very vigilant and possibly overly defensive against the murderous intentions of another group that's after your life.

> You can narrowly criticize Israel for these historical and present-day actions, and you gain credibility by standing firmly on that point.

You can totally criticize Israel for the treatment of the Arabs. Yet when you fail to criticize others for similar treatment of other Arabs (or the same Arabs, even, in the case of Fatah and Hamas), it suggests that your issue with Israels treatment isn't a question of ethics, but of ethnics. That is: had mass-immigration to Palestine from Turkey happened, and had these Turks declared a new state and everything else had happened exactly the same way, you wouldn't criticize them, because they aren't Jews.

And if you would: why would you limit your criticism to Israel, and not apply it to all offenders? "Oh, but you must start with one", sure, sure, but why start with the smallest one that offends much less than others and focus on decades ago instead of today? And why join ranks with terrible governments in doing so, who mock the very idea of human rights? That just doesn't make sense to me in a way of "I'm really equally against all bad things, I've just chosen to be vocal about this particular one for no specific reason whatsoever".
Have you used Sunnah.com API or manually scraped the data?
Why die? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C25qzDhGLx8
...Are you suggesting sacrificing the old in order to save the old?
And probably unlikely for the same material to occur naturally.
You didn't need to be directly connected to the internet. Dialup UUCP feeds were available starting in the late 80's. I had a UUCP feed of about a dozen groups when I was in high school, around 1992 or so. I used AmigaUUCP and dialed up to a local internet provider. I also had 4 or 5 other sites dialing into me and indirectly had a few other upstream UUCP connections. Fun times!
> The USA is technically not a democracy and is instead a representative republic

I have a degree in political science, and I've never seen anyone who knows what they are talking about use the term "representative republic". The US is, in theoretical structure, both a federal republic and a representative democracy, albeit one with very unequal representation. In practice, it tends to work as something like a plutocratic aristocracy, but its considered impolite in many circles to the point that out.

> I also only get to pick between 2 old white guys every 4 years

That's only true if you choose to restrict yourself to participation in only Presidential general elections, and not all the elections for other offices or earlier parts of the cycle (and also requires an unusually broad definition of "white" [e.g., including Barack Obama, 2008 & 2012] and "guy", [Hillary Clinton, 2016] and "old" [prior to Trump, the last three presidents were elected at ages 46, 54, and 47--though in the first and last cases their opponents were significantly older--which is certainly middle-aged but hardly "old" for a head of government.])
You find some sort of physics that do most of the work for you.
>Aside from LXD and that family of technologies, which are criminally underused.

Criminally underused indeed. I have no idea why it's not more popular for 'average' users/orgs. I don't know what issues may come up with scaling this up, but in our small org we've been running 20-30 (mostly unprivileged) LXD containers in production for several years now for all sorts of intranet and external-facing services (auth, DB, web, etc). Sure, it requires a bit more thought to set up than Docker, but it's well-documented (for most people's uses at least), secure, stable and lightweight.
I prefer the vintage Z80 manual from 1977: http://www.bitsavers.org/components/zilog/z80/03-0029-01_Z80...

In general, if you are interested in old manuals, be sure to visit bitsavers.org. For instance, lots of Z80 manuals at http://www.bitsavers.org/components/zilog/z80
About half the mass keeps going or moves upward, but half moves down. A small amount gains altitude but loses velocity (so it will fall to earth or go eccentric, which might be worse)
> Is the political class as a whole 100% on board with authoritarian, privacy invading, controlling America?

You might be shocked by how many regular citizens are fine with and support systems like these.
How is a company selling the same thing for the same price "abusing the consumer". They don't sell essential goods and they had no competition. Where does the expectation come from that they would just cut prices for no reason?
you can easily take this into account too, and my calculation did. Assuming your tenant is staying for 2-3 years, you can really only afford to let it set empty for a few months. Your yearly rent increases are just a couple percent (tenths of pecents a month). Every month it sits empty is 8% of your yearly income for the unit.
My hypothesis is that they have imperfections in them that lead them to be structurally weaker than ones crafted by the natural pressures of the Earth.
That doesn’t preclude them from using it as one factor in their abuse detection models.

Whether it’s a good idea or not, geolocation is a common factor that these models take into account.
Hours-long waits to vote are not the norm: https://medium.com/mit-election-lab/insights-into-voting-wai...

Having a single early voting location in an entire county that size isn't the norm either this year.

I do not in any way support the closure of polling places or other attempts at implicit voter suppression, but mischaracterising what is happening in the BBC article (which is describing early voting) isn't helpful.
Show HN: Starboard – Python support for fully in-browser literate notebooks
Cables will just have to be wrapped super tight.
Developing ReactJS Global State Library and Atom Abstraction (Asayer Blog)
I've been around long enough to see previous attempts at 'VR' and those definitely were gimmicks. However, I think calling even the first generation of contemporary VR a gimmick is an exageration.

There are some legitimately good experiences to be had in VR right now. Beat Saber is fun as hell, and SUPERHOT VR is great, from personal experience. However, the hardware is still a bit clunky and asks a lot of the user, and developers are still working out what how to design for it. Unfortunately that means a lot of titles are, in fact, pretty damned gimmicky.
I struggle with this.

Without the US engaged in intl cooporation, then it's even more guaranteed that climate change and ecological collapse will crush us all.

I do consider finding a better place for my family but the safety may be short lived.
Issue with flywheels tends to be containment when they explode, flashing a MWh of metal due to containment failure I would hope to be safer.
Additionally a superconductor wouldnt have gyroscopic forces to worry about.
Researchers synthesize room temperature superconducting material
As the oceans warm we can help out by seeding corals in areas that were previously too cool to allow for coral survival. Corals can be easily "fragged" (branches broken off and glued onto other rocks can grow - this is often done in the reef aquarium trade) and moved to areas that are not as warm. Under natural circumstances this kind of migration would take a while but perhaps humans can help speed up the migration into waters with more favorable temps.
What do you mean? The HTC Vive, non-pro version only costs $599 with base stations. Where are you getting $900 from?

I agree with the high total cost though. Most people pushing PC VR, will forget about how much a real VR ready PC will cost. It's easy to spend close to $3000 even when people loathed to admit it.
I don't really know how people do their spamming, but these may be long automated and forgotten systems. It may be that nobody has bothered to stop these systems or exclude usenet from being a target because there's no gain in doing that effort.
This is amazing, interested into the insights of continuing to use Electron even after finding out macOS is the more lucrative market to target. Was it easier to develop rich interfaces? Do you have any dislikes for native macOS development compared to Electron?

Asking as I'm also wanting to spin up some side projects focusing on macOS apps.
Looks to me like there's a whole lotta tracking going on there. We have GET parameters, a redirect to medium, then a redirect _back_ to itnext.io.

Sorry, but I'm giving this a miss.
I think that is a lovely solution for a couple reasons. First it allows the project to optimize for its goals (dev latency), this allows the team to have more local control and autonomy.

Second, it puts _less_ pressure on LLVM to have both a low latency version and a highly optimized version. If the LLVM IR could be more of a common format, I think it would provide a medium for tools to compose better. Eventually we will get there, compiler gods willing. I think LLVM should be the place for the massive-engineering-effort optimization passes.

Lastly, it provides for differential testing of both backends, this makes Zig's homegrown one AND LLVM better.

Thanks for sponsoring Zig!
In practice I have never observed a single domain in which Python's language constructs are terribly insufficient.
If you believe that a dead post should not be dead, you can click on its timestamp and then click the "vouch" link. That will bring it back from the dead.
Also if you buy it on a credit card, the CC company is usually your friend.
You are missing the point. There is a set amount of Representatives (435), and the smallest district by population is Wyoming's at 577,000. In California the average district population is more like 745,000. That gives a Wyoming voter a disproportionate amount of power, and obviously Wyoming and California are just the two clearest examples, this concept plays out over the entire country.

So even in the House which is supposed to be most representative of the majority - the minority has a significant advantage.
Because it makes you uncomfortable? Or because you have reason to believe otherwise?
Is Spotify on Airplay 1 still?
Better yet.. SideQuest?! (Just got funding) please remove the login requirement as a mod.. or make another OS for it (like Lineage).

This would work really well for SideQuest, since that would give them greater control over new features they can ship.
You have a validation error on your Complimentary Copy page:

https://imgur.com/cE29tg3
I moved out of there just before all that hit, and straight to GA where I got to see their version of it. Now I'm in CO, and my ballot showed up over the weekend. I'll fill it out tonight and submit it by this weekend. Much smoother experience. It's pleasant being somewhere that doesn't seem to be actively disenfranchising its residents.
Flooding land for hydro power generation can also release significant amounts of natural mercury:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bay_Project#Mercury_poll...
If companies weren't making millions or billions of dollars in pure profit, I'd be more inclined to agree with this line of thought.

But their profit/cost ratios are high enough to offer more customer service than they currently are.

And ultimately, it's not the customer's fault that the business is not working from a sustainable business model.
> I use debian:buster-slim as base

this image has been upgraded "39 hours ago".. so you have to check 1-2 month later

debian buster-slim f49666103347 39 hours ago 69.2MB
Even if death is on balance a good thing, the process that precedes it of your body and mind deteriorating over several decades is not. It greatly decreases quality of life and increases medical expenses. A world where people enjoyed 80 or 100 years of good health and were then painlessly euthanized would be a huge improvement.

Also, COVID-19 would be barely noticeable if everyone had the risk profile of 30 year olds.
Oh, no. They'll make sure to tell everyone of how successful their operations were through "anonymous government sources."

It seems a lot of people continue to be very naive about this issue and have a "trust the government by default" stance, even on a forum of more educated and more well informed people like this one.
Sign up to Facebook?

Just don't use the account for anything else.
There is absolutely nothing special about `latest`, it’s just a tag like any other. It simply happens to be the default tag when omitted, just like how `origin` is the default remote name when performing a `git clone`.
A history of Spotify’s journey to the Cloud
This is actually not true! This was was true maybe 15-20+ years ago but since then lab diamonds have gotten very pure. So pure that now Big Diamond markets their flaws as "natural characteristics" that make their diamonds unique.

Pretty funny if you ask me.

That being said, lab diamonds are not necessarily that cheap, depending on the dimensions and qualities necessary.
It's incentivized like this:

[At a party] A: What do you do?
B: I work for $BIGTECH.
A: You suck dude. I bought one of their products and it never worked once.
No, I'm not forgetting that.

In my experience, most market rate units turn over every 2 or 3 years. 15 years in sf apartment leases are unusual except for people who cannot afford to move out.

If you assumption, as a landlord, is that the next person into your unit isn't moving for 15 years, then yes, the cost calculation moves. However, that calculation is very different from a 7 year calculation, which is very different from a 2 year calculation. So how much are you going to hedge against not losing money in the future, when you're losing concrete money right now?
The dragon is whatever you want or need it to be. I saw oil/natural gas the first time I read the story. Disease and cancer the second.
When metal tears, there’s a shockwave that sends most of the energy of the initial tear across the material. Like a martial artist breaking board, most of the effort goes into the initial break, and the rest is a much smaller input.

It’s why structural members on planes and the feet of the Starship prototypes have holes. It arrests the fracture.

Satellites won’t have as much material that behaves this way, so I wouldn’t count in too much KE being converted.
Underrated comment.

For those not from the UK, "leaves on the line" is their #1 excuse for late-running trains.
How do you get around sometimes needing root inside the container to build things? For example building a container with buildroot inside.