skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a common thread in many discussions (esp. on Reddit) creating a false dichotomy between the greedy private sector and the taxpayer-funded basic research that comes with all the important new ideas.

While not an entirely false picture, the real situation is far from that clear and scientific struggles of Katalin Karikó, who finally left the academia for private sector (she is now a vice president in BioNTech, one of the vaccine-producing corporations) is an illustration of the perils of the contemporary grant systems.

Truly revolutionary concepts are often indistingushable from bullshit. At least from the grant committee point of view. Your best chance to snap up a grant is to come with a project of marginal improvement that produces one or two papers in a reliable timeframe.

Marginal improvements have their indisputable value, but they mostly appeal to risk-averse people; whoever wants to work on something really outlandish, must rely on other sources of financing, often private. After all, there is a risk of utter failure = not producing even that one paper that is, these days, a basic unit of wealth in the Publish-or-Perish world. Or of a delay that breaks the original time plan.
> As long as the theater is a complete metric space, we don't really care about its structure.

I agree with that, but I fail to see how that means that traditional math studies primarily infinite countable structures.
Certificate revoking has a completely different level of reliability from the normal certificate management. There are theoretical flaws that can not be fixed.
And now differentials are basically obsolete - not needed in electric cars.
Four Morning Habits to Win the Day
If you could look back on your life 100 years from now, what consistent habits will have the greatest effect on your overall success?
It even works on non-Steam games running through Wine/Proton on Linux. All other features work as well, like In Home Streaming and Big Picture
Author here, hello.

The post glosses over some aspects of the implementation, for example to fit some executables into an image you can optionally compress the data with gzip and encode that instead

It also supports encoding at two-bit and four-bit levels but obviously the grain starts becoming apparent in the output images

Also it puts a 40 byte or so "header" in the encoded output so the decoder can see how many bytes to read up to, validate a hash and check a magic. It's a bit basic but it's enough to get it to work.

Anyway this was fun, thanks for reading!
The biggest steel mill in my state is switching to locally sourced green hydrogen. Written out, that sounds pretty funny. But it's produced with local solar energy farms, so it's pretty accurate.

This is one area where carbon taxes are the obvious solution. Cost and availability is the biggest driving factor for industry. Furnace coal is available and cheap, but if you tax it heavily for it's emissions enough it won't be. Will steel become extinct? Of course not, the mills will switch to the next alternative, which is hydrogen. It will be ripe with opportunity, with solar farms and hydrogen plants popping up around steel mills.

Already we are seeing coal plants written off as unprofitable and future mining projects are becoming less attractive to investors in an unpredictable future. Even without a carbon tax, we could see the cost of coal go up enough to make a local hydrogen industry make more sense. But we can speed the whole process up with smart carbon taxes.
Uk GDPR will apply, and they will have to comply- all rules have been inherited
Austria, Greece and another EU country have already adopted the same software. I believe there are some exceptions to GDPR when governments are involved.
One solution I think to this is to find a government job or something easy and then do all your work for the week in a few days, then work on your own stuff.

Another is to have super low living expenses and take a year off every few years to work on your own stuff.

I got into software thinking I would be able to build cool stuff too but alot of the work is maintaining CRUD apps with a constantly expiring skill set. I sometimes regret this career and wish I would have gone into another field but trapped here for now with golden handcuffs.
https://www.axios.com/moderna-barda-coronavirus-funding-disc...
that one developer made some big commits on frida and pushed them to prod.

then went on vacation
If I cannot use my eyes because they are too tired, they are “killed” for the day, in my book. As the other comment says, your own source makes the opposite point that the one you were probably trying to make.
the problem is social engineering, no? there’s not much you can do about that technically unless you want to implement some sort of authoritarian internet ID system
TD Digest #160 – 2020 Reflection
Nice question! We left the field for uploading photos optional, if the photo is not uploaded, a different layout and design will be applied to the menu. I also assume that it will not be bad if we implement photo search using photostock services, such as Unsplash. Do you think this will work? Thank you
Looks amazing, but the fact that `make qemu` uses docker to run qemu and the readme almost (there is a warning about image size) fails to mention it is somewhat off-putting.
Whats worse is it doesnt have to be complex if all standard email clients let you manage PGP keys in a simple and user friendly context with an option for ‘advanced settings’ just give users a padlock icon and show any emails not sent using PGP with a padlock thats red if they go over HTTPS. Hell something like Signal for email could work with its forward secrecy I am not saying Signal itself just the approach.

I am still sour that KeyBase got sold off I was hoping they would add an email client and we could all get @keybase email addresses and they would charge for the service finally. I would easily have given them $15 a month for a small family plan (for me and my wife) just cause KeyBase is beautifully done. It could probably be fine tuned but it was great.

Edit:

Please if someone from KeyBase ever reads this, please make your efforts open, some sort of open source foundation that fully owns the rights to KeyBase and is allowed to later on go commercial. It's a damn shame a decent tech is going to just perish. Do not open source it when it is far too late! All your users who know you've sold off the project have no strong confidence in it anymore.
Emacs is the 2D Command-line Interface
LinkedIn but not Signal? Isn't this a problem with a clear solution? Use a phone number with Signal.
Choosing to pursue a practical career instead of one’s passions seems like a universal thing to me. That doesn’t seem particularly controversial of a thing to say, but apparently for many, “producing invaluable goods” is more important than their fellow humans achieving self-actualization. Not to mention that said goods are by definition not invaluable if the jobs to produce them don’t exist anymore.
> It's essentially plug-and-play

Doesn’t it require a cloud service subscription to drive, or failing that, locally hosting their cloud service to drive?
As an aside, this thought experiment is currently being prepared in real life. In 20 years when emigration, drought and storms will have started to cost serious money, what will people do with those that even now continue to say 'the sea level is not rising'?
Repair and reuse is great, though can be time consuming. It's harder now that I have kids. My extended family here in the US expect to buy new things for them on the regular. No amount of explaining has changed that. And I'd rather not cut them off over their bad consumption habits.

The culture in the US seems to be that 'new' is always best. Pollution and slave labor are just boring details, meant only for Dateline specials.
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I would be grateful to everyone who can support the project there. If you like it, of course.

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/scanly
Ask HN: How to create a third party JavaScript installable plugin?
I wan to know how can I create a plugin using javascript that can be installed on other website. For ex, like Google provides javascript code to install Google analytics for the website. I want to build such plugin, what can be the steps to achive the same.
Not doubting your experience, because from what I've read when Apple fails it often really fails. I also think people rightly expect a perfect experience from Apple. It's the bar they themselves have set.

With that said, what part of the failure mode was user-hostile? I have an ATV, various Chromecasts, and Amazon streaming devices, and the ATV is by far the best, most reliable experience. My only complaint is the price, and if they were cheaper they would be on every TV in my house.
Not true, only if you have each wheel powered can you dispense with a differential. Since that is not efficient (granted it sounds cool - that old pen/paper car wars game cool) most BEVs run one or two engines.

Remember, the idea is to handle the situation when torque on one wheel is not the same as the opposite wheel. Now it can be done with an electronic LSD which applies braking force
> She is almost as entertaining as the Reverend Billy Graham

Can someone explain this to me? Billy Graham is... the last person I’d think of as an amusing figure.
The client doesn't have to implement it, you can write a plugin for most clients and charge $$$ for businesses to install it. The fact that it's not been done yet is just a missed business opportunity.
> Embarcadero Dev-C++ has a low memory footprint because it is a native Windows application and does not use Electron.

Seems like they're using it as a VS Code offering/counter.
Exactly. Dev was so light, CB seemed clunky and dated to me. I had Dev on my flash drive and all my projects (didn't know about VC 2007).
> It also supports encoding at two-bit [...] levels

Excellent! That was going to be my question after having just read the blog post and comments. Nice work!
> I'd argue it is impossible to imagine a world where 1 + 1 is not 2.

Actually, you've probably done that yourself, in a programming setting: integers modulo 2, where 1+1 = 0. It's useful in places and the consequences aren't too ridiculous in this case.

Following through figuring out the consequences of rule changes is a key thing mathematicians do. E.g. do we need this rule? What if this was weaker? What if this was reversed? What if we had this extra restriction?
You’re applying a market analysis to a place where it doesn’t belong. Kind of ironic, considering my original comment.

Popularity or consumption is irrelevant. If someone is satisfied by writing books that no one reads, why is that a problem? Surely we all have hobbies that we enjoy for themselves, not for their social consequences.
Once upon a time, some iPhone 6s has TSMC and some has Samsung A9 Processor. Can we call this "cpu/chip lottery"?
Ask HN: What's better to learn first: front end or back end programming?
Even then it still relies on knowledge that the certificate has been compromised.
True, but that might not be a limitation for some implementations, such as authenticating employees coming to specific jobs.

Blind pilots or surgeons aren't a thing.
A universe where 1 + 1 != 2 is a universe filled with self-contradictions and so cannot exist.

It's like imagining a universe where True == False. It's not a hypothetical, it's a logical impossibility.
With that weak of a definition of math, you might as well say any first year high school subject is a prerequisite. If you didn’t pass any of those, chances are you’re not a great programmer either.
Same here. Although do they have a way to block certain sites?
The expiry time of Certificate Authority root certificates can be nominal (or n
Wonderful. Caffeine (and many stimulants) either give me panic attacks or trigger manic episodes.

A cup of green tea is enough to ruin my day and possibly the next week.
"steal" is a misleading verb here. Even the content of the article agrees with me--

> tricking writers, editors, agents and anyone in their orbit into sharing unpublished book manuscripts

This is "copying without permission," "illegal access," or simply "phishing" which everybody in 2021 understands.

The sexy but ambiguous "steal" doesn't make clear whether the author still had access to the manuscripts.
> postmodern intellectual elites

Please spare us from the far-right dog whistle
Fossil-Free Steel
When working with CSS/design I used subtraction, multiplication and division. When working with e-commerce/finance I used algebra. When making a 2d game I used geometry. When making a 3d engine I needed to learn about vector, matrices, etc. When working with weather forecasting there where formulas involving sin,cos,atan etc. So while you do not need math to get started in programming/development, you will definitely stumble on it. And you don't really know your math until you put the wrong formula into programs/production used by thousands of people.
The caveat is that the portion of solar energy between 350 and 360 nm is very little.
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Sorry, meant to reply to root, but my app on my phone has issues with that apparently.
An almost pure fusion bomb is technically possible and has been done multiple times. Usually it is not done for weapons designs since you got all those neutrons and can just double the yield by adding some 238U outer layer.

But e.g. the US Castle Bravo test or the soviet Tsar Bomba tests were almost pure fusion. For the Tsar Bomba they left out the 3rd fission stage. It was the cleanest bomb ever detonated in terms of radiation per yield.
Block Level reference is a huge advantage.
Obsidian supports page based reference.
Byzantine Fault Tolderance – Consensus Protocols in Distributed Networks
This is most welcome, as I recently started looking at LLVM, and I was not finding it easy to get a clear picture of the project's organization.

I see that your username resembles that of the entity hosting this guide - I'm guessing that's not a coincidence!
Is this true in urban areas too? When I last visited prices seemed higher than the Midwestern US by at least 30%
iphone

dislike because of: Any sort of synching to my PC is made as difficult as possible, i imagine so that I will feel the need to break down and buy a mac.

I would switch to android if imessage was cross platform. have seriously considered using mac stadium to use message forwarding in order to keep the damn blue bubbles.
I see my sarcasm didn't go over well. Replacing search results with quips from websites is parasitic as fuck.
What’s the density of hydrogen using this method versus compression?
Why is that? Tesla Model 3 for example uses 1 or 2 motors, not one per wheel, so they still need to add variable speed to left vs. right wheels, right?
https://laravel-livewire.com/ Implementation in PHP
Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking
I don't agree with the point you made about groceries. These costs are always fixed. No matter how much you earn. And therefore they are irrelevant to the opportunity cost.

For reference, if you earn 20k a month, your grocery expenses will roughly stay the same to earning 5k a month. They won't be 35% of your income (that would be 7000€ of groceries for 20k of income). Working more hours does not result in higher grocery costs.
e-ink tablets and displays
On occasion, others will force push their feature branch that's associated with a merge/pull request. In that case, running git fetch origin and git reset --hard origin/branch-name to get your local tracking branch in the same state as the remote is the appropriate thing to do.
It's less likely there's a genetic component to infection rates (though possible!) than a population-immunological one.

It's been experimentally verified that various pre-pandemic coronavirus antibodies are reactive against SARS-CoV-2.

It's a fact that different world populations have to deal with different endemic disease profiles.

Consequently, different populations have different pre-infection susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2. [0]

[0] https://www.ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9712(20)32310-9/ful...
Yes, that.

Though I wouldn't necessarily consider it "muddying the waters", but taking another criterium as important in the distinction of physics-like or not.

Namely, not whether it concerns the study of the material universe, but whether it involves experimentation/discovery of in place structures, and other such physics-like processes (which they think it does).
Yes, peroxide being liquid certainly is nice, being a light gas is certainly one major obstacle in using H2. However I am surprised that the peroxide reaction would be more exothermic, as you would have to break the hydrogen from the peroxide first.
1 million litres of H2 are just 90kg though, that isn't that much for a ton of steel.
Wow! Using fingerprints for voting! What kind of crazy country uses that?
Created an account just to say that. So brave.
That is a number system where 1 + 1 isn't 2, not a universe. At least I can't imagine a universe where the concept of 1 + 1 equals 2 doesn't exist.
It's interesting to me to learn about novel targets for phishing attacks, and it's probably even educational for book authors and other trusting folks to learn that they can be targeted this way.

The answer to your second question of course depends on your own idea of what constitutes "bad news"; but I think it's not hard to imagine why some people might not consider it a good thing when folks are getting duped into revealing information outside its intended audience.

It's curious that I can't resist writing this when you likely already knew and ignored it when you wrote your comment.
Indeed, purpose was illustrative hyperbole - I am used to frustration. Consumer devices come with less expectation of frustration, a justified expectation setting up Android devices, games consoles, Chromecast-type things, etc.
> a secretive artificial intelligence outfit founded by a Trump-backing billionaire

I'm in no way a Trump-fan, but sentences like the above immediately puts me into the opinion that this article is going to be one-sided - and hence I stopped reading. I don't read www.opendemocracy.net (first time I've encountered it), so perhaps that's there thing?
Typical American/prominent meat diet population: Obese, cardiovascular issues, cancers, highly dependent on meds, health outcomes determined by income

Most Asian/plant based diet population: quite healthy, live longer, less pill popping and more homeopathic traditional meds.

Forget googling studies. Read about the China Study: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Study

Even without studies, ask yourself why you most likely have a relative or know someone who's died from heart disease or a cancer and that likelihood plummets when looking at those that eat less or no meat? Then look at populations where meat consumption has gone up in the past few decades and certain cancers and cardiovascular diseases have gone up in tandem?

Buuuuuut can't let anyone stand in between you and your Whopper®, right?!
Several people who work on WebKit at Apple are regulars in HN comments, fwiw. You may just not have noticed because they may not advertise that they work at Apple.
It sounds cool (or perhaps, hot), but steampunk photo/video transmisson? I don't see it.

Just send an RTG and enclose the main electronics in a peltier chamber or other heat-pump. With plenty of radiator surface.
It's closer to 150 ms. mpv only lets you increase or decrease delay in intervals of a hundred milliseconds, as far as I know.
This HN title is dangerously editorializing. The story says it was an explosion, not a bombing, but that the police are suspecting it was intentionally caused.

When "media" (yes HN you are media too) starts to drift the narrative, people latch onto it and they stop looking for evidence-based facts, and instead start looking for anything that supports their preferred narrative. You'd think 4 years of Trump and decades of Fox News would've been a lesson.
My mother always pushed ibuprofen for menstrual issues, though I suspect that will still be a portion of this 25%. Chronic pain of some type is an issue for most anyone over 40.
Thirty five years ago is a long time culturally.

He was so popular he even got to meet the queen of england when he was in the UK:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bNXzzzvXMuQ

(This is dramatized in Netflix’s Crown Season 2 Episode 6)
Indeed, I forgot that I have `git fetch` also disguised under my `git mr` alias :)
Flex+yacc and llvm are for separate steps in the process. The former are for parsing the source code into an AST and the latter for generating executable code from the AST.

That said, somewhere else on this comment thread user "finiteloop" posted the scaffolding for a toy compiler using yacc+llvm. You could check that out.
> It’s a long, ascetic journey, undertaken with an existential resolve that cannot be explained. But once an eel reaches the Sargasso Sea, it has, once again, found its way home. Under swirling blankets of seaweed, its eggs are fertilized. And with that, the eel is done, its story complete, and it dies.

I know this should be read more as poetry, but the existential resolve can be explained perfectly well: if an eel lacks it, it will never reproduce and its genes will be lost. Thus, only genes which guarantee that resolve are left in the pool.
Everybody disgusted by politics should watch"Mr Smith goes to Washington". It may even bring you some hope, it's that good
They aren’t needed in fossil fuel based cars either if you have an engine for each drive wheel. But most electric cars still employ a differential on one or more axles, even Tesla. Typically, due to cost, packaging, or performance, you have more drive wheels than motors and a differential is necessary.
loved "My Cousin Vinnie". The scene where the relevance of "positraction" is explained is a classic, not just of law but of the application of good science. Thanks for the reminder.
Simdram: A Framework for Bit-Serial SIMD Processing Using DRAM
Telcos infrastructure is so broken. Why does an outage in Tennessee somehow affect areas in California and Texas (depicted in that outage map by the yellow areas)? ATT and other big telcos need to be broken up, and municipal run ISPs need to become the norm.

These outages should be local to the city and not ripple across the nation.
I once watched someone crash every fingerprint reader in an extremely high traffic border crossing. The police kept asking him to try the next one, much to the dismay of everyone queueing. The machines would BSOD and they'd shut that kiosk. At the time, I joked that his fingerprints were malware or specifically designed to cause a buffer overflow somehow.
Not a theory, fact: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db390.htm#:~:te....
I think you're confusing me with someone else as I don't believe I've ever posted that link before.

> So the myth is true, unless for some reason you don't consider eyestrain and tired eyes "bad for the eyes".

I was replying to "monitors eventually kill eyes and brains". I would equate "kill" to "permanently damage" and not "temporarily tired" so maybe we're just disagreeing on definitions?

And how bad is it really? Do you have anything to back what you mean and its severity? Most activities cause temporary fatigue after several hours so what makes this special?
I hear LiveWire for Laravel is pretty decent, even if it's not quite the same. I quite liked this Elixir podcast episode where they interview the creator of LiveWire (and Alpine.js): https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/020-liveview-v-l...