skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The area being full of restaurants and bars that may have been pushed into hard times or have gone out of business because of overzealous COVID policies made me think of the possibility of someone doing this for insurance money or to cut their losses somehow.
Legally speaking, corporations having the same rights as people is the novel concept
I got 66:06 while now() == 06:06
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It's true. What a world we live in.
If you want to work on how to do this rather than "could", come join AirMiners...kind of like HN for carbon removal. http://airminers.org
to be fair that's what happens when you listen to your pastor on matters of egyptology...
If you pay the energy price you can upgrade it to almost anything you want. But that is the question, how many joules of energy do I need (end-to-end) to spend to store one joule in a synthesized hydrocarbon.
University didn't go super well for me, but in retrospect the experiences I treasure the most are the ones I never would've sought out on my own. If you see college as a long form of `#import book`, sure, but that's exactly what it shouldn't be.
Bitstamp Stops XRP Trading and Deposits for U.S. Customers
I ask myself: Could any pf these findings be conflated with psychopathy? And or are any of the anecdotal evidence provided here by commenters actually not due do acetaminophem/paracetamol, but rather psycopathic personality distortions? I am genuinely curious. We will never know of course, at least not about my second point. The first can be tested with more rigprous science.
No active reactor but 53 million US gallons (200,000 m3) of high-level radioactive waste stored within 177 storage tanks, an additional 25 million cubic feet (710,000 m3) of solid radioactive waste, and areas of heavy Technetium-99 and uranium contaminated groundwater beneath three tank farms.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site

Federal government promised to clean up but failed.
Cleaning Up the Cold War’s Nuclear Legacy at Hanford
https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/military/a-glass-nightma...

"During Hanford’s plutonium-production heyday, workers discharged some 1.7 trillion liters of waste liquids into soil disposal sites, which developed into vast underground plumes of toxic chemicals, including the carcinogens hexavalent chromium and carbon tetrachloride [PDF], that infiltrated aquifers."
Correct they are pattern builders and in repetitive sequences they have trouble terminating similar to recursion without an endcase.
> the patent system stifles innovation.

Patents protect inventors and encourage innovation. There's no better way to encourage invention than to protect those who came up with the idea.

I don't like it when they're applied to software but that's another story.
Fauci acknowledges moving goalposts on herd immunity from Covid-19
> This attack screams anti-government militia with it's technique

What makes you think this? Vehicle bombs have been used by Islamic bombers, IRA bombers. Doesn’t seem that unique to me.
I wanted a way for a Lisp operating system to be able to use OpenBSD or NetBSD hardware device drivers without modifying the driver source code. NetBSD hackers started writing their device drivers with well-specified interfaces between the driver and kernel (eventually that turned into the rump kernel idea https://wiki.netbsd.org/rumpkernel/), OpenBSD hackers borrowed a lot of the ideas (like bus_dma) into OpenBSD drivers. The Lisp operating system runtime would need to implement the applicable kernel functions used by the drivers, and designate certain pointers (hardware registers and buffers) as real memory writes/addresses, and the drivers should "just work."

Obviously this is also useful for userland stuff.

There are other approaches to this, but Vacietis maps C data and pointers to Common Lisp data structures, so they are inspectable but still memory safe (and you can run a bunch of things in a single address space if you want), and C functions are just Common Lisp functions so all of the development and debugging tools "just work."
Isn’t this comment and the Pink Floyd quote a bit patronizing?
I believe Dr. Rhonda Patrick says that it can increase risk of stroke and heart issues after prolonged use. I would look her up and see because I might be wrong.
Wow super cool. Doesn’t seem that far off either
“The Omagh bombing was a car bombing on 15 August 1998 in the town of Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. (...) Telephoned warnings had been sent almost forty minutes beforehand and police inadvertently moved people toward the bomb.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omagh_bombing
Most certainly, well most of the time anyway unless it was particularly botched.

I'm actually not meaning to claim that this particular incident is political at all.
NestedVM works pretty well. http://nestedvm.ibex.org/
Are you kidding?

Safety margin on aspirin is huge, you tend to notice your blood is very thin before you get any worse symptoms. Massive doses of aspirin have also been used to treat various illnesses.
This incredibly stupid take is actually pretty common on HN whenever vegetarianism comes up. I don't know whether they're simply mocking the serious thought many people have put into the ethics of eating animals or what, but it's manifestly false and patently ridiculous to claim that eating plants kills more animals than eating animals.
Simple ports to small systems are actually very easy. To run Linux all that you strictly need is a timer driver and an interrupt controller driver, assuming the CPU architecture is already supported and there is a compatible MMU. On small systems, those drivers can be very simple.

I was bored one evening and ported Linux to run on the Wii's IO/security processor (not the main CPU, that's Wii Linux). It only took a few hours to get the kernel booting to userspace.
Six Life Lessons (Learned the Hard Way)
Mycoworks: which makes leather from mycelium. Will see products 2021.

Brightseed: uncovering the medicine that’s in our food. Uses AI to identify bioactive molecules found in common food crops that can regulate genetics associated with health. Imagine safe drugs that only take 24 months to get to market.

Atomo Coffee: Makes molecular without the coffee bean; made from sustainable agriculture side streams. Best coffee I’ve ever had.

Disclosure: These companies are in our portfolio so obviously on our watch list.
lol at HN downvoting your facts because they don't like them.
I have enormous expectations for the next chapter in Half Life series: HL3 and I hope when it comes out it'd live up to the hype. :)
Here are some critiques of the famous poverty graphs:

https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinker-and-global-...
Sounds like something Yahoo might have said when they declined to by Google. Maybe it’s a good time to start a search engine.
> "When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent ... Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, 'I can nudge this up a bit,' so I went to 80, 85. We need to have some humility here .... We really don’t know what the real number is. I think the real range is somewhere between 70 to 90 percent. But, I'm not going to say 90 percent."

It seems Fauci's experience with downplaying the value of masks to prevent a run on PPE early in the pandemic did not disabuse him of the idea he should be telling noble lies in order to influence the public's behavior.
Oops, you're absolutely right. I completely forgot that the array variable was being modified itself.
Materialize

V lang
I think those numbers are suicide attempts.

Aspirin causes blood to thin and could exacerbate ulcers and such, not good to take for cuts and bruises etc
It's absolutely framebuffer here. Games that draw directly to the framebuffer. I assume they meant sprite-based games that don't require 3D drivers, for example.
> It is either institutional incompetence, or malice, or laziness.

If so it's endemic. I think many of us in the "telecom infrastructure" adjacent industries are thinking of more than a handful of much more impactful and less hardened targets.

Certainly a sobering Christmas.
That's how it should work, but there have been ~15 or so reactors built there, with many of them in the 40s and 50s before there was adequate safety.

There was also the issue of "waste" being removed from those reactors for processing into more than 60,000 weapons.
Cattle eat more plant calories than the resultant meat. All those plant calories include the “vegetarian suffering.” Purely grass fed meats with no farming will be too inefficient to provide meat to everyone.
I write about it on Twitter a bit, and should probably upgrade it to an essay at some point just so people who share my intersection of interests have a convenient entry point.
FWIW I use a greasemonkey script called "google hit hider by Domain". I used it to manually permaban all pinterest domains when they appear and now I almost never see a single pinterest result in my searches.
After years of using statically type checked languages like Haskell, I’ve observed that I am quite lazy. If I went to a language without static type checking today, I wouldn’t trust myself to provide the right function arguments in the right order all the time, or to send the right message types, especially after refactoring. It would be a nightmare for me to have to write unit tests for this. Maybe that would improve over time, or maybe I’m just a crap programmer.
I don't think my heart is in the business of things. I look at people like Linus Torvalds or Larry Wall and see guys who developed their own projects and somehow made a living doing so. What is that "somehow"?
Lessons of Die Hard from Nakatomi Plaza - if the services go down because of emergency procedures following a playbook (ie shut off gas & power as a standard response), that's as good as taking out the gas & power directly, and is just as targeted.
https://github.com/cloudquery/cloudquery
See also this (user flagged story) about the WHO changing the definition of herd immunity:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25527443
Days are shorter in the winter and the weather patterns are different. Summer is much hotter and the trade winds blow stronger. Winter storms come from north of japan and bring north swells. In the Summer storms near Australia send swell up from the south. And it rains more in winter as another hner indicated. I recall it rained for about 3 weeks straight one year.
a large operating system kernel + GUI is too much. You're not loading NintenDOS with Mario 64.
Terahertz technology. Has big potential in communications and sensing, particularly in the medical field.

Starship, $50 per kg absolutely changes a lot of assumptions and has definite 2nd order effects around transport, satellite orchestration, communication monopolies, network latency. A big "holy st" moment I had lately was pack a starship with autonomous drones, combine it with the Adama Maneuver from Battlestar Galactica. If you can drop a squadron, anywhere in the world for X $M within 2 hours, why would the US military ever need super-carriers any more? Or Island carrier theory if you stretch out that logic. Which then why would the US need as close relationship regional allies to contain neighboring countries? How does that affect the US-Israeli relationship with the middle east? Or the US-British with Europe one? Or the US-Japanese one with China?

Pure fusion weapons. It's a true pandora's box for nuclear proliferation if nuclear weapons no longer need enrichment facilities.

Atom Interferometry. Potentially, GPS level location tracking without the satellite / radio component.
You'd be surprised, but it often comes to "nobody knows how to build that 10 year old piece of firmware anymore".
obviously people stayed up at night before the invention of electric lighting (there is a reason we call it burning the midnight oil!). People generally however, didn't have open fires in their houses. For one thing, in the middle east, the southern mediterranian, India, and southern china, you don't need to burn fuel for heat. An open fire is also an inefficient way of heating a houser. People used enclosed ceramic or metal stoves, or put screens in front of open hearths to prevent energy from being lost as light. Also, while cutting wood isn't terribly time conusming, much of europe, particularly in the south and east, and almost all of central, southern, and western asia lacks good wood to burn for a fire! People, especially the poor, needed to conserve firewood for cold days, when they needed to be active, and couldn't bundle under covers
Ask HN: Why C’s compiler is not as smart as Rust’s
I get that language syntax and explicit keywords is a must for smart compiler but how come there is no something good that enables C safety in compile time? Like adding some custom keywords while maintaining compatibility with bare C? Logically, there would be an attempt at this of which I am not aware, but still, how did it not become massive enough(relatively to Rust, how it gained popularity with safety + performance)
This question is not aimed at roots of C but why it did not evolve in this direction. I was wondering, is there a flavor of C which guarantees safety, and if there is, why is not it as popular as rust

Update: also, what would be main problem in taking goodness of rust and putting it in C’s new compiler
Most people seemed to be having lots of fun roasting Cellebrite for that awful article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25520481
Self-modifying code is just one example. The point is there is no way to positively identify all basic block entry points on x86 (especially due to its variable-length instructions). That means that there is always the possibility that the AoT didn't catch everything, and then your plug-in takes a novel uncached codepath at some point, the JIT fires, and you get a real-time constraint violation and a drop out.

Also, audio companies sometimes like to use "fun" DRM/copy protection systems.

Besides, audio apps themselves doing JIT would not be unheard of. For example, that'd be a very efficient way of implementing a modular synth. Those apps could JIT in a realtime-safe way; Rosetta can't (it doesn't have enough info).
While we're talking anecdata, for the first ~30 years of my life I found absolutely no relief from acetaminophen for anything from illness to injury to random headaches.

A couple years ago my wife cajoled me to try taking it again, and I went from bed ridden to feeling poorly but able to function. Not a miracle cure but really helpful a few times a year. Is there any known association of age and acetaminophen effectiveness?
having worked on a professional but very low volume product, ordering took about an afternoon. all the rest of it took months.

and there are already assembly companies in most major cities that will take your money and files and just make a thing happen. not clear how this is different enough to change anything.

getting it made just isn’t the hard part for anything interesting (and small).
I know these exist and I could as well write uBO rules to hide unwanted search results, that's why I said non-hacky ;)
I heard that Matrix have already made some design errors that significantly impacts its scalability
hey thought I'd share these communities, thank me later

1: https://chat.whatsapp.com/Dy4ncep1xUo2l9QFpYm6mN These guys share a ton of free VALUE related to growth hacking that could be extremely beneficial for SAAS founders specifically , feel free to join and thank me later (join before it gets full)

2: https://microconf.com/microconf-connect Looks pretty good to network and socialise with likeminded individuals within SAAS , feel free to join.

3:https://www.saastock.com/join-the-community/ these guys probably have an amazing and big community of SAAS founders but overall more on learning how people made it, and did it, as well as strategy wise ,the first group is probably your best go.

Thanks.
Bertrand Russell's conjugations. I am a freedom fighter, you are an insurgent, he is a terrorist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotive_conjugation
I'd be interested in seeing some sample input/output examples.
"Central Office" is the wrong term for it, but I've worked in a couple switching offices that were built to look just like another house in the tract. They were RSUs (Remote Switch Unit), that trunked everything back to a parent CO.

In both cases it was a housing tract that was allergic to ugly buildings or something. The vast majority of RSUs looked like smaller versions of the CO. Gray cinder blocks and asphalt.
You need to fix your certificates.
I agree, but if you take uninformed users (or users at random, that don't subscribe to a Google related forum) they would be happy with the Pinterest results because the results look nice at first sight and they don't have time to learn about the problem. Google using this signal would conclude that Pinterest is OK for the users.
I tried both and found the UI to be better in Roam. The WYSIWYG aspect of Roam is real nice, vs having unrendered markdown in one pane and the rendered version on the other side.

Also, the “daily notes” feature in Roam is really useful, it’s a small UI thing but it gives me a nudge to make a daily note when I do any thinking, rather than having to file it manually in Obsidian.

Obsidian has most of the core stuff that Roam does though.
Didn't downvote, but terrorism is a subcategory of political violence. So the term, while somewhat vague, is not inaccurate. 9/11 was a particularly horrific example of political violence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_violence
I could see this being easier than FFI to use some algorithm implemented in C in a one-off lisp script.
> It’s hard.

It requires some effort, sure. But it has to be weighed against the suffering and killing and polluting that not doing it is responsible for.

Looking after children is hard. Studying is hard. Working for 40 years is hard. And yet we manage all these.
>between now and the inauguration

Why the inauguration?

>This attack screams anti-government militia

What about it screams anything identifiable?

Are you sure your biases aren't creeping into your analysis?
30 years away if properly funded.

It has never been properly funded.
Why does everyone have to become vegetarian?

When everyone stops eating meat and turns to "healthy" meals like corn based vegetarian burgers I think we are all worse off.

Variety, locally grown produce, locally raised animals is the best way to keep diversity and quality. The vegetarian food available now is good because it's not as mass produced.
FYI there's a typo in the title ("procastrination"). You could fix it now, or maybe just do it later.
No need for the games you have all the material on youtube.
I live at basically the same latitude. That's thing... this is about as cold as it ever gets, and it was 70F here two days ago - 30 currently.
Patents both encourage and discourage innovation.

- If I invent something and patent it, I can assure that I am the only one that can benefit from it for a period of time; to recoup the costs involved.

- If I invent something based on someone else's patent, they can deny me the right to use their patent if they think it would negatively impact them (for example, if my version is better and nobody would buy their version once mine was available). In many cases, it's just not worth bothering to even try innovating in an area because of this (and similar reasons).

Patents have both good and bad points. Presenting just the good or just the bad, and pretending it's the only valid view, is disingenuous at best.
Anecdotally I used to be less empathetic but I took some steps to change that long ago.

But, high pain tolerance would still describe me even after that point... I've had broken ribs, broken fingers and toes, broken hand and wrist, chipped teeth, broken nose, seriously infected abrasions, large boils (now these fucking hurt), torn labrum on left shoulder, surgery on right shoulder with a really uncomfortable elastomeric pump, a few minor head injuries, minor fracture in one foot, cigarette tattoos, high-speed bike crashes with no protective gear, a perplexing squishy fluid sac under the sole of my foot from sprinting, etc.

I still feel pain but I would have to imagine that a pain-sensitive person might not get up to the same stuff that I do. It really depends on the type of pain.

The two most excruciating were dengue fever and a couple bouts with moderately-sized kidney stones. Dengue was worse, definitely earning its local name here of "bone-break fever" due to the intense and constant aching. Near the end there is a characteristic rash, which is mercy compared to the first 3-4 days. The whole experience left me physically destroyed for months! I returned to lifting weights after I thought I had recovered, but my one-rep max lifts were halved on every single movement and it took another month to return to the level I was at before.
actually its not hard but the current demand of meat etc makes it hard. Go to supermarket around half of food is non vegan. And its hard to convince parents if children wants to become vegan because they think they may not get enough nutrition. And on another hand meat and dairy industry try to hide everything using marketing strategy like drink milk to become strong, McDonald food are high quality and rich people eats there etc.

Its just like palm oil which has become ubiquitous before 5 years we could avoid that now its hard.
There was also an explosion at BGE building in Baltimore two days back on 23rd
My advice to you, as someone with 20+ years in the industry:

Look at each job as a college course or internship you also happen to get paid for. Try to learn something new at your job every day. If you go several weeks without learning anything new, start looking for another job. Even if you're only a few months into your current one, doesn't matter. The job market is great, and you can spin it in a positive way. I've been asked about it in interviews, and my answer is that I work hard to make a positive impact every day I work somewhere, and to ensure that even if I work somewhere just one day, they are glad to have hired me.

While you're doing this, start looking for a problem that you want to solve. This is typically born out of your own pain point, or someone close to you. Start working on it, and looking for a way to solve it in a way that is beneficial to you. Typically, this means providing support for your software in return for something else, either money or barter.

Do not allow yourself to invest emotionally into your money work, because, as you have seen above, it is disappointing. Remember the college course strategy above, and don't allow yourself to be upset by work bullshit.

While you're doing all this, minimize your lifestyle expenses and save your money. This will provide you with runway when you're ready to lift off your startup, while at the same time extending the length of runway each dollar provides.

Good luck! Based on how you described yourself, I believe without a doubt you have what it takes to achieve happiness in this field.

BTW, I noticed your other post about textfile-driven development, and I am working on just such a project. I use SQLite for an accessible index, but I insist on human-readable text for both config and data for the base. You can learn more about it via my profile.
You can conclude all of that from one attack?

Where are the other infrastructure attacks? Or targeted assassinations?