skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am pro-nuclear, and I think it would be a mistake to assume this article is also pro-nuclear. Heck, the very first six words ("U.S. fusion scientists, notorious for squabbling") prime a reader to see those hardworking people as bickering nerds working on fleeting, individual, theoretical interests.

I sincerely doubt we will see any uranium-based energy technology ascend to dominance/ubiquity while over half of Earth's known uranium deposits are in the Afghanistan/Kazakhstan/Ukraine region alone. Nobody would want to buy crude (priced exclusively in USD in most markets) if nuclear were widespread. We might have to lay off a few Stuxnet malware developers then too. Takin' their jobs :p

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_p...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_r...
We could have avoided the bedlam of javascript hacks if browsers had supported XSLT2.
"Anti-cheat" making their AIOs or fans stop seems more like virus like behavior instead of telling the user maybe they should update or buy different hardware (which even then is shitty behavior just for some damn game).
I can confirm Spotify GNU/Linux client appears to use libcef. I was surprised! I had read some old Internet posts that claimed Spotify GNU/Linux client was using Qt. (I have no idea about old versions of the GNU/Linux client.)

When I run command "ldd" on my Spotify GNU/Linux client binary, I see "libcef.so". And, I can see:

$ ls -l /usr/share/spotify/libcef.so

-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 147980856 Sep 15 06:13 /usr/share/spotify/libcef.so

That's a big library!
I am not so much looking at what people are saying rather I am looking at how people are behaving. People are much more relaxed and take time to shop. Some downtowns are quite busy with foot traffic. Those areas have people walking around without masks (supposedly eating or drinking). It is hard to socially distance in those areas.
Frankly I'm not sure they were listening from the beginning because I read this entire editorial and I didn't see any evidence that the editorial board of the Idaho Statesman grasps the other side of the issue.

> Many reasonable people are convinced that the health order actually wouldn’t have done nearly enough to slow the spread of coronavirus. And yet, here were the anti-maskers, who apparently just won’t be happy unless we have absolutely no regulations at all.

Perhaps they were not enthused about the prospect of the board enacting restrictions that were considered (by many reasonable people, no less) not to have the desired effect. There might be an argument for effective restrictions but these guys are arguing for restrictions that they admit may not have done anything. Seems like both sides have lost their minds actually.
The only thing that protects you from is other users of your computer who snoop through history, local cache, etc. -- stuff that your computer would normally store, but doesn't due to incognito.
The amount of maintainance with virtual machines images or container images are mostly the same nowadays.

I will argue that there is less maintenance when handling virtual machines images, because it uses less bandwidth and need less tooling around it comparing with container image based infrastructure.

But in general both are nothing more than the golden image concept.
People might think developers should be able to make a living from their work, but that doesn't translate into thinking that developers somehow "deserve" to make a living selling apps on the App Store. One is a job, the other is being an entrepreneur. Most entrepreneurs fail, of all kinds. I don't think it's a value judgement on art or music.
This guy is really inspiring.
if no comments submissions never reache the top how are people going to discover them?
Yes sorry! Unfortunately too late to edit :(
Well, you do have to give China’s financial regulators credit here.

Jack Ma’s Ant Financial was doing some really shady business practices.

Like keeping essentially 0% money on their books for collateral.

And they filed to go public, in 2 months. Which is incredibly fast, that nobody had the time to review what their business was all about.

And even when they got approval at the lower levels, the higher levels didn’t get to think it through yet. So they decided to pause Ant’s IPO at the last minute. With the requirement that they have 30% of the money held back as collateral.

The Ant business model had a serious possibility of destabilizing the entire financial system of China, and possibly the world.

Nobody really cared when Ant was private. Make all the money you want. But being a public company is a whole different ball game.

I think China dodged a bullet here. It’s better to be safe, than sorry.
+1. I wish the app had a high performance mode that'd cache all blocks of recently opened pages in RAM. May be had to implement and still retain collaboration on pages, but possible if the mode would also write-lock those pages for the period
Correlation and convolution are adjoints.
Or simpler to buy from a brand I trust?

Seriously- who is more likely to put app ads in my start menu (candy crush and friends) when I pay for the ‘pro’ version of their os? Apple or windows?

Can you guarantee my Samsung TV won’t start showing me ads? Hint - they already do.

My next Samsung smart phone from Verizon won’t have trash bloat ware on it and won’t prompt me endlessly for Samsung pay?

That I can get an item fixed easily at any of their retail stores?

Sure - stuff out there works - but figuring out the perfect phone carrier / phone provider for example is annoying. Where is download boost on Verizon? Oh, it’s disabled.

Even apples phone experience is much more consistent across all carriers. Why these other folks bundle 10 Verizon and another batch of junk themselves as user value enhancing boggles my mind
It's not related to comments, it's based on votes and time - i.e., the vote count is downweighted as the time since posting increases.

So, a small number of legit votes soon after posting can easily get it to the top of the page, but then if there are no more votes it will drop quickly.
Lost 22 pounds of weight. I was obese but now I am just slightly overweight.
Centos was always a free alternative to Redhat. I and many other people used it because it was a way to get the benefits of Redhat without paying for it.

This is a really smart more on their part to get people to stop doing precisely this, and getting them to pay money for RH. Pepople who are not willing to pay (me included) are now rightly annoyed, but we were never their customers in the first place, so we don't really matter.
"In my opinion"
I commend your modesty. In most CS (and EE) courses I'm familiar with, the homework is not mindless busywork but a path to mastery, though perhaps your school is different.

At many universities, students can also customize their course plan with department approval.

Usually you can take graduate courses without having completed the undergraduate prerequisites if you talk to the instructor. Perhaps you might find that more your speed.

If graduate courses are trivially easy for you and you've exhausted them all, you might consider taking the Ph.D. qualifying exams and moving directly into research.
> All Starlink satellites have been launched via ridesharing missions, with ~60 satellites per launch (and sometimes with satellites from other companies!).

Actually aside from the first couple of Starlink test units, it has been the other way around. SpaceX launches dedicated Starlink missions on a regular cadence using previously flown boosters, and offsets the cost somewhat by offering rideshare opportunities. There will be 60 Starlink satellites per launch, but sometimes less if they find a rideshare.
Go. And I'm glad I did. Feels like a sweetspot between performance of C++ and ease of development of Python.
>the only difference being the severity of symptoms between the vaccinated and unvaccinated

seems kind of wrong to me. The main difference they are hoping for is the number of cases of illness between the unvaccinated and vaccinated. If you get 100 cases in the unvaccinated group and 1 in the vaccinated it doesn't really matter if the symptoms are a bit better or worse.
I’m not falling for this again. I spent enough time playing The Witness.
You can contribute. :)
> Doesn’t Trumps loss mean damage for TX given the oil industry?

That is exactly the kind of "theoretical" harm that is routinely slapped down by courts as unactionable. In general, harm must be direct and specific, not indirect or generalized. Biden could move to push for legislation to combat climate change that harms the oil industry, but until that legislation is enacted, no harm has been suffered, and no suit could be brought to remedy that harm until that point, since it is only theoretical and speculative until then.

> So does this not answer why the suit was filed after the fact?

No. There are a couple of mechanisms that will let you challenge election procedures before an election. I'm shaky on the actual legal justification behind it, but my recollection is that it is based on the idea that a voter experiences harm when the election procedure denies them the right to vote, even if an election has not actually been conducted that would deny them the vote.

I should point out that there was an awful lot of election procedure litigation prior to the election, with heavy media coverage, which was mostly not shot down due to lack of standing or lack of controversy, so it is not reasonable to be surprised that this pathway exists.
> Specifically, one order had approved collection of logs revealing which computers “in a specified foreign country” had visited “a single, identified U.S. web page.”

Anyone want to take a guess at what this could be about?
It looks like they got a confession out of a wheelchair-bound 75 year-old without a trial. I wonder about his mental state, and if it was even the right person.

Besides that, the two ancestry database sites said it was a breach of privacy.

So you tell me if justice was served.
Sorry for double reply, I did not do heavy research but just going through Amazon’s recommendations and identifying good audiophile brands, here is what I found:

$200

https://www.amazon.com/WH-1000XM3-Wireless-canceling-Headset...

$300

https://www.amazon.com/Senheisser-Momentum-Cancelling-Headph...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08K3TWS4W/ref=sspa_mw_detail...

$500

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07RHWDY9N/ref=sspa_mw_detail...

I really really don’t think Apple is going to make better headphones than Sennheiser and Shure, or even Sony. I’m particularly intrigued by the Sony XM4’s battery life of 30 hours, and 10 minute charge that gets it a 5 hour charge. The worst thing about all day use of wireless headphones is that it will just die on you if you have a podcast or music on in the background all day.
Not everyone has trouble with AGPLv3 being the core of their SaaS business.

Just because your core business software is AGPLv3 doesn't mean any other business will be able to build a coherent business model atop it, look at Kazoo by 2600Hz or Iris by Lowes.

Knowing how to properly configure and maintain said code in production, creating integrations with third party vendors (that your competition likely can't interact with on the same terms) and marketing to build mindshare among potential customers is a common way to offer your core software as AGPLv3 yet have no competitors or few competitors use your core software.
But At What COST?!
We are well beyond material scarcity. If you need something, you can buy it on Amazon, made in China, and it will do a great job of brushing your teeth, boiling your tea, or whatever. But it will not be unique.

And so, every need met, our lives are hollow. Hollow and without objects of meaning and power - nothing that your distant offspring will inherit, that will make them think, “holy shit, my ancestors WERE INTERESTING PEOPLE!!!” No totems. Just disposable Apple ear buds with dead batteries glued forever into plastic shells. No diaries. Just tweets that were lost in the great lizard war of 2031, when the data centers were turned into lizard egg incubators.

So, people hunger for robust, interesting wares. Maybe most don’t know it, but they’ll buy those things anyway.

Based on this lizard-apocalypse thesis, I listed stuff on Etsy: custom CNC titanium pistol grips, solid metal wood keys, childproof jewel boxes milled from scrapped train knuckles, and etc. I listed all kinds of stuff I made when I wasn’t filling “normal” orders for big industry titans like Boeing. Just whatever the hell I felt like making, as long as it’s something I would be proud to own. And it all sold. Every weird thing I make eventually sells on Etsy. Etsy has featured my stuff in big advertisements, because my thesis is correct.

There is a new kind of scarcity, because of the upcoming lizard war.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/HenryVIIIdotSpace
Ah, I did not know about this extension. Thanks for sharing!
But nothing is known, we have to believe a company trying to master a PR shitshow right now, saying that the attackers were extremely sophisticated. Maybe it was, maybe they are "inflating" the sophistication of the attack to avoid looking bad.

Besides that, I care little about "attribution specialists" and what they say (sorry if anybody is in the audience :p). Evidence can be faked, it's all bits and bytes in the end (and some server locations, usually rented boxes) and things have been misattributed constantly in the past and will be in the future. I think the most you can infer is the general sophistication of the attackers and their resources, but that doesn't require an "attribution specialist". Attributing it to some specific nation state is guess work at best based on mistakes they made in their camouflage (if those mistakes aren't a deliberate or accidental red herring; e.g. [1]). And such "It was China/Russia/North Korea/underpants gnomes" claims are made by people claiming to be "attribution specialists" all the time. It's extremely rare that there is compelling evidence to supporting such attributions.

So if FireEye provided evidence or at least a reasonably detailed post mortem backing their claim of a sophisticated attack, then I'd probably believe them on that. If they made claims about a particular nation state (and so far they did not, as far as I can tell) then I would find that a dubious claim to make.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2017/03/08/wikileaks-files-show-the...
I dislike Ubuntu since it started adding advertisements in the motd :P
I thought that iptables was the easy way to do it? (Both for IPv4 and IPv6.)

NAT66 is an experimental (10 years old IIUC!) RFC for one-to-one IPv6 mapping. While there's no RFC specifying an official method of masquerading behind a single address, AFAIK iptables "just works" (as long as you aren't running FreeBSD).
This is precisely why I use f.lux[0] on every computer. As the blue light is reduced toward evening, the screen becomes much less bright. Works great for eye comfort and is maybe even beneficial for sleep.

[0] https://justgetflux.com/
Don't be a slacker. You have to bring in one at a time. If they kick you out you gotta move on to the next UPS store.
.title My concerns with the point made by Hacker News user gumby

If you were to write something like HTML, how would you do so in a manner that didn't involve raw text? Sure it might be [emph shown] in a marked up way, but then doesn't your LaTeX editor do this?

And if your editor does this, how can you be sure that the new markup language for documents are not, in fact, superior in readability and expressiveness to LaTeX?

I mean, the made up formatting I tried to show in this comment is more readable and extendable than LaTeX (in my eyes, anyway), but it is still raw text.
> Even better is that the company should have its own internal ordering system.

This always becomes a war where the seller wants you to send orders 1 way, and the buyer wants to send all orders another way.
Sure bro, fedex it to me.
Oooooh Nooooo, they are done listening!!!

Don't get me wrong, I'm pro mask wearing. I'll probably keep wearing one now that it's allowed.

But gimme a break, statements like "We are done listening" is probably the dumbest thing they could say.

Pronouncing unilateral policies against segments of society breeds violent activism.

You're done listening huh? So what makes You think they will listen to You?
hey me too, I saw this movie back in the early 90s when I was discovering international films and experimental music.
I was a big fan of El Topo too.
> In no way is this a comparison to the Altwork Station, which has ten years of development, five generations of prototypes, and three generations of production hardware, all adding up to 80,000 hours of design and engineering. The creations themselves are apples and oranges...

Off-topic: Am I being overly sensitive today or could Altwork have responded better to this?

Don't get me wrong, I love the write-up going through the different prototypes, it was very insightful. But the above paragraph seems very defensive. Paul in no way attacked Altwork, merely stated that their products are beyond his budget at the moment. Instead of saying that Paul's DIY project is "in no way a comparison" to Altwork's products, they could have commended Paul on taking this project on in the first place, highlighting the difficulties it comes with and how their product solves them. Just seemed unnecessarily defensive.
Industry uses three-phase power unlike residential (USA perspective anyway). You'd need one of these for your solar farm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-phase_micro-inverter
> "In my country"
> "In the US, it's very different"

If I had a dollar for every time someone on HN who doesn't live in the US nonetheless weighs in as an expert on American life I could retire.

Do you think a data scientist who had ethical concerns about covid data manipulation is a violent murderer? Do you think America in real life is like a movie with gun fights and explosions?

There is essentially zero risk of someone shooting a cop in a routine situation. They weren't raiding some druglord gang headquarters or ISIS terrorist operation.
I'm the founder of Life360 which is the biggest player in this space for families (over 25 million active users, 100m+ downloads and over 80m ARR).

What we have found is that the average customer doesn't really understand privacy. They would likely not understand the difference between this and any website that puts the "256 bit SSL encryption" blurbs on checkout.

We are not a privacy first service per se, but do want to give users full control over their data, so let them opt out of things like a partnership we have where we analyze their driving data to match them with car insurance. Very few users take advantage of these settings.

I don't say this as a knock on the idea at all, but am sharing my experience of serving consumers outside of the tech scene. I wonder how you could package this value proposition for an ordinary user?
^ this

Also: what would forking have to do with anything? If youre compelled to put a backdoor in code to be able to intercept messages from a particular person, a better argument would be to just say "lol idk how 2 do codez" as opposed to "lol im gonna fork, fuck off"
I specifically mentioned hovering not flying. We have a humming bird feeder right above a table, them suckers buzz us a lot. 50db my dishwasher is 48db (measured). Humming birds significantly louder when hovering.

Drones are always hovering currently. Yes they can likely get a lot quieter. Planes are still quite loud, they've had 100+ years of work? Birds, they still make noise, and they've had millions. They seem to switch modes of flight to be quiet.
Filled up with La Croix.
So many programmers with back disc issues, including myself. Love seeing alternative work-ergonomic prototypes/products.
Don't forget the literal Trillions of dollars big oil gets annually, just from the U.S.

Take that away and the wells lose their competitiveness really quickly
PS: if you like solving tough technical challenges related to location we are hiring! Our HQ is in SF but we have moved fully remote so hire from anywhere. https://www.life360.com/careers/
If so then why would VC's fund new competitors? The answer is they would not. VC's may throw their free money at new unquantifiable opportunities, but for this niche the financials will have become well known. In other words there would be less risk premium.
Started my longest running, most ambitious and most valuable side project to date
Probably something like Iran and google. Somewhere controversial enough to get approved and a site common enough to be able to track the entire world.
The "tivoisation clause" also in many cases makes it against the law to use GPLv3 software in some consumer products, or parts of the products.
For example much embedded software that comes under radio transmission laws, much software in safety critical applications such as rail, or automotive use, software that have environmental impact at leat in the automotive industry. At leat in the way that automotive legislator reads the laws at the moment.
I switched to Bing for search, it's great.

> it could utterly devastate all sorts of players in the market

That's the risk you take if you bank your entire business off of your search rank on Google. You should diversify accordingly.

This fuzziness you speak of has lead to massive overreach in the past, and it needs to stop.
>As soon as vaccinated people start flaunting their freedom of movement

That could be a big factor. At the moment there's nothing - no vaccination certificate that lets you fly easier or something like that. But it could be a big motivator if there was.
Are we really looking at a months worth of returns and trying to draw any conclusions here?
I had a hell of a time with the floppy drive on my IIgs, too.
Official New Zealand Covid Tracer app open sourced
I'm surprised that the most used theme is the default theme
And often is based on Debian, like Google's distroless.
One of the most beautiful charts you’ll ever see (Science FTW)
The article image is of ARC, the predecessor to SPARC.
You made the claim that "Covid itself is a result of such accelerated selection performed in that Wuhan lab - what is called 'gain of function' experiments." Not "might be". You said "is".

When I asked you for evidence, you try to reverse the burden of proof. No, you made the claim, you're the one who's supposed to prove something.
"Space Force" has become the butt of jokes, but when you actually look at the numbers it clearly is the future of American military dominance.

(Not that surprising, considering it was a bipartisan idea that predates Trump.)
> The only thing you can say for certain is that reducing the amount of components and complexity in the system often results in better outcomes.

No, there are a few other things that you can say for certain:

Watch out for positive-only feedback loops, you absolutely need negative feedback as well - or only. Eg. exponential back-off.

Sometimes, you just need a decentralized solution, rather than a distributed one, and you don't have to have the same answer at every scale (eg. distributed intra-datacenter, decentralized inter-datacenter, or vice-versa).

Loose coupling is your friend.

Sure, add an extra layer of indirection, but you probably need to pay more attention to cache invalidation than you think.

Throughput probably matters more than latency.

Reducing the size/number of writes will probably help more than trying to speed them up.

Multi-tenancy is a PITA for systems in general, and distributed ones are no exception (aside: there is probably a huge business for multi-tenancy-as-a-service, if anyone manages to solve it in a general-purpose way), but a series of per-customer single-tenant deployments may be worse, especially if they are all on different versions of the code. Here be dragons.

Don't overthink it. Start with a naive implementation and go from there (see loose coupling above).