skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had something like this happen on an even simpler level this last week. I got a Chase credit card but when I initially did the signup called my brother to ask him if he wanted to be on the account and it timed the sign up session out past the account creation but before finalization.

I got the card eventually but now I cannot create an online account with it. I called Chase, got transferred 5 times, and then told I would need to go to a physical bank to verify my identity? to create an account. Absolutely not one of them had any clue what "a broken account exists associated with this card in your database, I can guarantee it, forward me to your technical support team" but thats all above a bank reps pay grade.

The nearest Chase bank is 1.5 hours away, by the way. Probably just going to cancel the card after cashing out the sign up bonus.
NASA should’ve kept producing the Saturn V. Over time, the production costs should’ve come down.

The shuttle was a rather mediocre trade off, in terms of LEO payload capacity.

Although granted, the shuttle landings were pretty cool.
Reading through the performance reviews, it's clear that performance on M1 laptops is CPU bound, not GPU bound.
Oh, sure, I've seen it too, which is why I had to add that caveat. "Yes, outdoor dining is much safer!" "..uh, maybe not like that."
I really wish Apple would just sort out their graphics APIs. Proton & wine makes gaming on linux genuinely surprisingly performant: I have enjoyed several AAA games (and am continuing to do so). I really don't know why they do not like Vulkan or don't want to provide a compatibility layer for it. One of the games mentioned is Fallout New Vegas, which apparently gets 15 FPS outdoors, at the lowest graphics quality settings, in a game >10 years old. I've literally just finished that on my linux box, under proton, with the gog copy installing brilliantly under lutris and with a 3rd party higher-resolution texture pack. Apple are really shooting themselves in the foot.

Also, from the article on a call of duty online game:

> Everything felt smooth, works flawlessly in highest settings available, but only few minutes until your account get banned :( SoC power consumption is around 3.5W

I'm not surprised that perhaps many devs naïvely assumed that if you're not running x64, you're a "cheater" [or in a VM, which apparently is often also "cheating"...sigh]. I'd be interested to know how many of the god-awful DRM schemes that BigGames like to run (like Denuvo) take to being emulated in crossover-or-wine-running-under-rosetta. I bet they don't like it!
> "...silence those who try to raise an issue with Han supremacist"

You're not being silenced because you're raising issues, but because you're insulting people. Tone that down and you can raise whatever issues you feel are important
>15 FPS, playable

That's funny.
Yup, I'd been having issues with twitter, wikipedia, and sometimes duck duck go but never google.
Tesla is trying to be the Apple of cars. The market opportunity is more or less the same: a sort of default luxury brand for people who do not particularly care about cars but just want to own "the best one" without having to put any thought into it.
So judging Tesla by their technology portfolio is going to lead you astray. They are banking a lot on building their brand and they have really good PR and I think they will succeed.
That's the point. Under absolutely no circumstance would any one (I mean this literally), describe a modern day shooter at 7-12 FPS to be playable.

Does playable mean, it starts and loads? Or does it mean playable in the sense that, you feel satisfied and enjoy the experience?

It's absolutely the latter when talking in the context of video games. And not the former.

Edit: it even says so in the right hand side, Notes column.

"Very slow and blurry, only 7-12 FPS, Effectively unplayable"

That isn't "effectively", it absolutely _is_ unplayable.
I doubt it has anything to do with the prize, the classic "What To Do When The Trisector Comes"[0] seems applicable across a lot of mathematics problems and situations. Geometry of course, perpetual motion machines, prime number finding, quantum physics interpretations...

I guess if you're offering a financial prize rather than "merely" trying to teach mathematics, you're probably in too deep for any of its recommendations though.

[0] http://web.mst.edu/~lmhall/WhatToDoWhenTrisectorComes.pdf
> Rome will be able to replace Babel, ESLint, Prettier, Yarn, and webpack.

What are all these things? Why is JS development so complex? Can someone ELI5 this for me?
Because people absolutely refuse to learn from history. The gravity of the situation is the same as it always is: OSS projects have created a hard dependency on a commercial 3rd party service because it was given to them for free. Free service is now going away and they're screwed because they have no plan 'B'. The issue isn't that they haven't gotten off of it already, it's that they likely never should have gotten on it to begin with. Seriously, with all the OSS projects building workflows on Travis CI / Slack / GitHub (I'm talking about the non-git parts of it like issue management) / etc how do they think this will all end? Even YouTube is sending signals that the free ride (for unmonetizable content) will likely end.

OSS projects should not have dependencies on non-OSS infrastructure unless they are prepared for this eventuality. This has happened, in various forms, to most 'free as in beer' services given enough time. Companies typically provide the service as some combination of crush the competition / building goodwill / altruism / the prospect of eventual conversion of some small fraction of OSS projects to a paid version. The reasons tend to vary (in this case, new ownership) but eventually the bottom line tends to win out. Often you won't be given much time to transition when the free ride ends.
That is what components are for.

Nobody is writing "random" styles, we just found that selfs sufficient components are more reusable than something that's split out across technologies.
Each individual microservice becomes simpler, but the whole system becomes much more complex than an equivalent monolith with a single DB.

Microservices have their advantages, but simplicity and testability aren't part of them.
Thank you for that excellent resource! Much food for thought.
https://www.smchealth.org/coronavirus

This is directly from the horse’s mouth. This is San Mateo County’s health website.

Also Nextdoor.

Also if you subscribe to emails from your city.

Also the local news.
Not everyone involved needs to be trustworthy.

Eg the shipping operator doesn't have to trust the customers: possession in nine tenths of the law, and the former already possess the latter's cargo.

Similar, the declaration of value is somewhat self-enforcing: if you declare a high value, you get paid out more if your stuff drops into the ocean. But you also pay a bigger share, if someone else's containers drop in the ocean.
Difficult to raise interest... before covid.
Structuring a Cloud Infrastructure Organization
"Roughly 30,000 restaurants have already closed for good across the country, with more than 110,000 expected to shutter in the next month, according to estimates by the National Restaurant Association. ".

How did a virus cause businesses to close permanently? This doesn't happen during flu season or even with the h1n1 pandemic.
Chuck Yeager: First pilot to fly supersonic dies aged 97
And you can reach out to a (re-)insurer to cover losses that exceed some threshold.
You might be right. I’m suddenly reminded of the grim legacy of Bhopal disaster (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster).
Meh, do I really need continuous integration for my OSS project?

Although inconvenient, it is possible to run these tests on my own computer before publishing.
In some sense, the space shuttle was a step to the side. The original idea was to get travel to orbit almost on level of airliners, reasonably priced and with short turnaround times, a mission every week or so.

The final design of the space shuttle was not able to support this kind of use. Very expensive and refurbishment demanded a lot of human work. So it sapped a lot of money and workforce from the space program.
"how to incorporate science into the concept of operations for the crewed mission to the lunar surface"

I wish I knew what this meant. I guess operations are a purely conceptual exercise for NASA?
Yes, all bits are being flipped. TLS connections drop because the message can't be authenticated, HTTP or other plaintext protocols will continue on with bad data.

So yes, it is blowing up all sorts of traffic everywhere. You just don't notice when it is plaintext.
We’re not going to see the real capabilities of these devices until the apps and games have been optimized for them, and I’d guess that most developers won’t have the resources to do so when porting from somewhere else. The big game engines like Unity et al probably will though, so it’ll be interesting to see what they manage to do in the coming year or so.
You can read https://web.archive.org/web/20120526080523/http://www.justic... to see that the prosecutor's press release in 2011 said, "If convicted on these charges, SWARTZ faces up to 35 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, restitution, forfeiture and a fine of up to $1 million."

That was before they added nine more felony counts on September 12, 2012. As techdirt said at the time in https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120917/17393320412/us-go..., the theoretical amount that he could have been put away for was 50+ years with a fine of up to $4 million.

That's the lifetime that I was talking about.

The fact that they were seeking a far lesser conviction, didn't stop them from throwing around those figures. And I'm sure that Aaron Swartz had to think about those numbers.

Incidentally Aaron Swartz wasn't even the first programmer to commit suicide while being prosecuted by a team including Stephen Heymann. That dubious honor goes to Jonathan James in 2008.

All of this notwithstanding, the important point is this. For most of US history, plea bargains were illegal. The way that they now railroad people into pleading guilty en masse demonstrates that they should still be illegal. And the fact that our plea bargaining system is so lopsided means that the right to a fair trial is more theory than practice.

As a double check on that, consider https://innocenceproject.org/bad-drug-test-leads-to-wrongful.... Widely used roadside drug tests that are inadmissable in court have been found in practice to be wrong more than 1/3 of the time. And yet, 90% of people charged wind up accepting the plea bargain.

The state literally has no evidence that they can present in court. And knows that a lot of those people are actually innocent. But they all get railroaded.

Welcome to justice, American style.
It's hardly a small problem either. I can see it unfold every single day in my code base.

I've spent weeks trying to make minor changes to code like that because I'm afraid changing one variable is going to backfire because it's used in some unexpected way somewhere else.

On the other hand I've also been the bad guy before, too. I've realized how much work refactoring is going to be, and instead of making the project managers mad at me I just slapped in some additional cyclomatic complexity.

Everyone wins... in the present. We get to check off our to do lists. Everyone in the future loses. Technical debt is an apt metaphor.
Same. It's not just you.

Smoked pot for a while in my twenties and it was crazy how I immediately became aware how much of my daily life was just stuff I was doing on autopilot.

When I haven't smoked pot in a while I sort of lose that awareness of it, and the autopilot just blends into the noise of everyday life.

It's a little scary when you think about how unaware we normally are of it.
You're missing the point. The entire societies are more left-wing.
“Definitely” is a big word. Less than two months ago, another attempt at a universal flu vaccine failed in Phase 3 clinical trials [1]

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-companys-bid-for-unive...
What should be and what is are different.

News at 11.
>looking forward to hailing a Starship in the Uber app

Not totally unreasonable, according to another quote:

>The cargo version can also be used for rapid
point-to-point Earth transport.
Idk. Pre-covid, I probably used Uber/Lyft two days a month.

Some people do "Uber Everywhere", but I mostly biked/baywheels/muni.
https://warisboring.com/space-marines-with-jetpacks/
You are substituting instructions for information. I lack information. For example:

Has anyone in San Mateo caught covid eating at a restaurant? How many?

Has anyone in San Mateo caught covid grocery shopping? How Many?

Has anyone in San Mateo Caught covid exercising outside? How many?

Has anyone in San Mateo Caught covid at school? How many?
> Try cancelling your mobile contract in Germany early

Don't many operators offer mobile phone contracts that are effectively a subsidy for the low up-front cost of the device[0] ?

"Apple iPhone 12 for £49.99 upfront cost" plus you pay the rest of the cost of the phone over the life of the contract.

[0] https://www.carphonewarehouse.com/mobiles/pay-monthly.html
i know what brevity means. i choose to call it 'elegant' for the purposes of comparing it to his essays as the article mentions. his essays can sometimes be more rambling before it gets to the point. albeit precise. imo.
They don't like it because allowing users to run in a VM would be amazing for cheaters. A VM provides direct memory access to the game frmo outside the VM and a trivial way to create a new computer if you are banned.
Interesting, I've never thought about it this way — thanks for pointing this out.
Uber Is Giving Self-Driving Car Project to a Startup
We had the vaccine the whole time
This is questionable at best and harmful at worst.

This isn't science, there are no data which support this "vaccine" as having any immunity effect.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/29/1005720/george-c...
Encrypted messaging putting children at risk of abuse
The first time I heard about a universal flu vaccine was in the documentary "Pandemic" on Netflix [0] . The documentary talks about a company called Distributed Bio [1] which is developing this. Interesting to see that many different firms/labs are pursuing this path. Covid should have surely accelerated funding and focus to this area of research. Fingers crossed!

[0] https://youtu.be/fPs90HZbSVQ (Trailer)

[1] https://www.distributedbio.com/
This is the major reason I deferred my Evergreen Librem 5 order for the Fir batch (set to ship in ~1 year), which will (a) have a smaller process size (14nm vs 28nm currently) and (b) allow for more time for optimizations.
Perhaps old people should take it but young people would be stupid to do so: flu might act as a protective system for the immune system

We don't know very well how the body works on the higher "interconnected" level of how "X affects Y down the road over time" so preventing it from getting midly ill from a simple flu once a year might end up causing severe unexpected issues down the road.

[EDIT: I see it's getting downvoted a lot: do you really belive that you can just eliminate a completely harmless to young people disease and assume you've done so in complete isolation of all other factors? Nothing is ever done in isolation in the human body, everything is always interconnected and you cannot predict how this will affect the body many years down the line. Don't be suprised if young people will then also start having severe issues all of the sudden that were once reserved only for the crtiticaly ill and very old.]
archived for future reference: https://web.archive.org/web/20201208065007/https://applesili...
Isn’t existing hydro already utilized? I don’t get how that helps us scale it up to replace fossil fuels?
I spoke with a nurse while at gym I attend. She spoke about how the hospital she's at is not close to be overwhelmed. She also talked about she doesn't wear a mask outside of her job as they have training and n95 masks which work in a hospital setting. But outside of a hospital environment the masks provide little protection, especially cloth masks.
Reminds me of what Bill Gates said 2010. Crazy how prescient he was.

> Just ask Bill Gates. If he were a teenager today, he says, he’d be hacking biology. “Creating artificial life with DNA synthesis. That’s sort of the equivalent of machine-language programming,” says Gates, whose work for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has led him to develop his own expertise in disease and immunology. “If you want to change the world in some big way, that’s where you should start — biological molecules.” Which is why the hacker spirit will endure, he says, even in an era when computers are so ubiquitous and easy to control. “There are more opportunities now,” he says. “But they’re different opportunities. They need the same type of crazy fanaticism of youthful genius and naèFvetè9 (sic) that drove the PC industry — and can have the same impact on the human condition.”

http://web.archive.org/web/20110814132419/http://www.wired.c...
Much like nicotine, the addiction seems to be highly dependent on the person.

I can drink coffee for weeks and weeks, and the stop abruptly and suffer no ill effects. Same thing with oral nicotine pouches. I can use them for weeks and weeks, and then stop cold turkey and have zero craving or desire.

I know people who do the same and the withdrawal absolutely wrecks them.
Why these countries value happiness over endless economic growth
It is dense,
multi family housing and having to work at jobs that expose you to other people. It isn’t directly race or age.
Does apple really care about cheaters in desktop games? That’s something for a games publisher or studio to care about. Especially in paid games cheaters would make apple money because they’d need to purchase new accounts to keep playing.
The only real benchmark for me is Football Manager, where M1 seems to do really well: https://community.sigames.com/topic/515765-fm20-performance-...
Without knowing how representative the 18 shipwrecks they picked are, it’s hard to know whether their conclusions are widely applicable.

Also, from their research paper, some of the ships they mentioned had been torpedoed or ran aground, SIX collisions, etc. A first guess would be that men sometimes survive more than women and children simply because they were more physically able to overcome the dangerous environment. If a group of average men and average women are thrown into the ocean and left to their own devices, after a few hours more men will be left just because of physical strength. Nothing to do with sexism.

Also, it seems like the authors are going out of their way to say that chivalry actually doesn’t happen much, that men didn’t want to help women, etc, so that makes me think they have an agenda and I’m less likely to believe their conclusions that are counter to my intuition and experience.
Hmm, I would not underestimate the convenience of having them out the outside easily accessible, especially when you consider that switching off radios at the moment should also help with battery consumption? (<- this is an assumption; I don't own either device and cannot test this)
I was saying exactly the opposite of what you thought I was saying! We agree!
A fantasy that exists since OpenMoko, released in 2007, 13 years ago, just as long as the iPhone exists in the market.
No, it hasn't made anything uglier - you don't really notice the infrastructure unless you're specifically trying to look for something to get annoyed by.
> These countries you mention are vastly different in terms of population size and geography.

Yes, South Korea and Australia span the gamut. So do Taiwan and New Zealand. The USA is somewhere in-between.

> Also, pretending that there are no costs associated with strict lockdowns is terribly flawed.

Those costs are largely suffered by this lockdown-reopen-lockdown cycle, without the benefit of getting rid of the disease. Indeed our trajectory is worse economically, because there's no light at the end of the tunnel.

Life in Taiwan and New Zealand goes on pretty much uninterrupted right now. We could have had that. We still could, if severe actions were taken.
The one that quickly banned travel from China or the one that said to go visit China Town?
His book “designing data intensive applications” is one of my favorites. I didn’t know he also had video lectures. Thanks for the link.
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It also seems quite easy to verify this hypothesis with scapy:

>>> p1 = IP(dst="192.168.mac.ip")/TCP(dport=1984,sport=20001)
>>> p2 = IP(dst="192.168.mac.ip")/TCP(dport=1984,sport=20002)
>>> p2.show2()
###[ IP ]###
version = 4
ihl = 5
tos = 0x0
len = 40
id = 1
flags =
frag = 0
ttl = 64
proto = tcp
chksum = 0xf905
src = 192.168.linux.ip
dst = 192.168.mac.ip
\options \
###[ TCP ]###
sport = commtact_http
dport = bb
seq = 0
ack = 0
dataofs = 5
reserved = 0
flags = S
window = 8192
chksum = 0xb836
urgptr = 0
options = []

>>> p2[TCP].chksum = 0xb836 ^ 0x8 # mangled checksum

>>> sr1(p1, timeout=1)
Begin emission:
Finished sending 1 packets.
....*
Received 5 packets, got 1 answers, remaining 0 packets
<IP version=4 ihl=5 tos=0x0 len=44 id=0 flags=DF frag=0 ttl=64 proto=tcp chksum=0xb902 src=192.168.mac.ip dst=192.168.linux.ip |<TCP sport=bb dport=microsan seq=1671494800 ack=1 dataofs=6 reserved=0 flags=SA window=65535 chksum=0x6039 urgptr=0 options=[('MSS', 1460)] |>>

>>> sr1(p2, timeout=1)
Begin emission:
Finished sending 1 packets.
.....................................................................................................................................................................................
.....................................................................................................................................................................................
....................................................................................................................................
Received 494 packets, got 0 answers, remaining 1 packets

My Mac silently dropped the packet with the mangled checksum.
I have no idea what the comment you replied to had to complain about.

However: an industry being heavily regulated often means that it's not well run for the customers. Just the opposite.

The insurance arrangements in global shipping are likely under lighter regulation than most countries' car insurance.

Btw, in general insurance doesn't have to work on the basis of formal averaging. Averaging can just be a useful and simple shortcut in certain situations (or when the law requires it).

But in principle, each individual insurance contract is an independent bet and can be valued individually.

Goldman Sachs or someone at Lloyds will be happy to sell you insurance for arbitrary one-off risks, as long as you are happy to pay them enough.

See eg Warren Buffett's March Madness competition https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1931210-warren-buffet-wi...

In essence, if you could have predicted enough basketball results, Warren Buffett would have given you a billion dollars.

That was a special, one-off risks to Warren Buffett if every there was one. But it's rather simple to price and write an insurance contract for.
I almost always edit Clojure in emacs with aggressive-indent-mode enabled. Effectively, what this means is that the buffer is always formatted: every keypress triggers reindentation of the entire buffer and emacs “knows” about these semantic indentation rules. With this setup, the rules are pretty trivial to enforce and other environments, such as Calva or Cursive, can be configured to approximate this pretty closely. I dislike this style in other languages, but in lisps, the two-dimensional layout it creates is very useful for quickly scanning code and understanding its structure.
Apple doesn't care at all, game companies care so they block VMs.