skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone working on ship design for a few decades I can attest that this site is an amazing resource for whacky concepts and also new concepts, internationally, that were/are being experimented with but were/are fairly under wraps. I have no idea where the owner gets the info from - probably scraped off of remote corners of the web (non-english posts), but a few times a year someone sends me a link to this site and something inevitably blows my mind. A lot of times very good concepts are abandoned due to a technology gap (e.g. control computers, materials limits, etc.) that no longer exist.

I think our industry likely owes a great deal of debt to the site owner for helping to consolidate and document this history so we don't waste time/money reinventing the wheel (saving us from iterative condemnation).
I dig the universe-is-a-simulation theory, given how we live in an era where our own computation power and simulation accuracy has only continued to increase for the past 70-odd years. Which is a tiny amount of time on a galactic scale.

I wish suspended animation and the like was a thing, I'm super curious about the future and development of humans. I can imagine that within a thousand years, assuming we don't hit a cataclysmic event that wipes everything out, I could no longer understand anything that's going on anymore. (I mean I'm starting to struggle with the younger generations' stuff already... is this it? :o ).
blame/responsibility is a red herring here. mugging is already illegal and, if caught, the perpetrator faces imprisonment. the salient question to ask here is what changes we can make to reduce the unwanted behavior.

possible actions:

politely ask the general public not to mug one another

increase penalties or rate of apprehension for perpetrators

encourage people to minimize their ATM visits, not walk around with debit cards, etc.

give people money so they don't feel the need to mug other people
Isn't the answer to this better accountability? Incentives without accountability usually lead to this type of outcome.
Next level, spectate could turn you into a ghost (boring), restart, you will live your life again (if you don't like risks, choose this), but next level is something new.
I just discovered this for a v book i'm starting. pretty slick and it uses markdown instead of docbook.
Nonono! Need to have the holy and heroic enforcers of the righteous path embedded and experience it with full sensorium, to conserve the glory of it for all eternity, and bring it back to be rememberd as it really happened(TM)!
Updating privacy details don't require an app update. You set your details and immediately publish them on the console — there's no means by which Apple can "hold" their updates.
Speaking for my cousins who live in one of these towns, the rich English are moving in, buying up swaths of land that was farmable or whatever, and using it for private vacation homes that they don't use that much. They ship things in rather than buy local. They don't try to speak the language. The list of complaints goes on and on.
A thought-provoking question, thanks for asking.
> Has big tech supplanted the media?

No.
"Immigrants are just here to sign up for welfare"

"People from the south are racist bigots"

"Minorities are lazy criminals"

"White people who disagree with my politics are white supremacists"

These are all different flavors of the same poison.

Just how you can use your antidote to justify your statements of prejudice against groups of people you don't like, equivalent people from the right will citing FBI crime statistics until they're blue in the face to justify their prejudice.

In that respect there is parity between the right and left.
AnimXYZ – A composable CSS animation toolkit
We study ants too...

Go to the ant, thou sluggard;

Consider her ways, and be wise
Completely correct. Like Instagram in its early days, they are doing the same thing. All you have to do is ask how are they going to make money. They don't have a clue.

The value of Clubhouse goes down as more users join. Exclusivity through invitation to a social network is not a business model.
Internet providers bring in insane amounts of cash and deploy as little of it as possible. If you ban infrastructure improvements in one place I doubt they deploy that money elsewhere. If the other project were profitable they would have done both to begin with.
I get what you're saying. However, I think this is nice a compromise. The closed-source client is pushes out continued development of the bridges for a little longer than it otherwise would. The client only matters insomuch as it has good bridges, so the bridges must naturally come first.

In the longer term, if a project like this succeeds, then all messaging clients become defined by their feature set rather than their vendor lock-in. If Facebook Messenger wants to compete with Beeper, then it better be able to connect to Hangouts, etc.

I welcome a player that pushes chat clients as a whole towards interoperability and commoditization, and am happy to (as a side effect) support a proprietary client that helps drive additional platform support over time (eg, I don't see Airbnb on the list of Beeper messaging bridges yet, etc).
Children of Time & Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The first chronicles the development of sentient, space-capable spiders. The sequel follows the development of octopuses. I found both to be quick, easy reads - perfect for vacation or a rainy weekend. In both, the psychology of the species, and how humans can relate, is a plot point.
Definitively a poor choice of words. What he really meant was "I funded ARPANET, the basis for the Internet"
At those time scales though, the whole world's population would not only have forgotten, but probably gone extinct and re-evolved multiple times over. Humans have only been a thing for a few million years, if that.
Many employers already provide incentives (including cash) to participate in "wellness" programs, and many often will perform drug tests prior to and even during employment.

For most of the things you mention, it's possible for the employee to control the impact it has on their work hours. You can drink while ensuring you're not drunk or hungover at work, for example. For COVID, it's not possible to control the impact; if you have COVID, you do not work. Additionally, you can spread COVID to other employees prior to a positive test or symptoms and consequently affect the business outside of your personal availability. That's not really the case with drinking or a refusal to exercise.
>I bet you less than 10% of them even know that Apple released a new MacBook and MacMini.

And fewer than 10% of those do any work that would stand to benefit from the new chip.
Lol we’ve all been there, if only eating too many sweets.
That’s fair, I gave an upvote to your earlier comment. Though at that point what’s the policy: suppress housing supply and keep areas burnt out and crime ridden to deter outsiders? Not so great for quality of life or the tax base

I’m not American so I forget how stark things are there. We have gentrification in Canada and it happens even without neighbourhood revitalization. People will move into an area and raise prices as long as it’s near a transport line. Generally every place is safe enough to do so or becomes safer over time.

I’m assuming this does happen somewhat in america even without redevelopment. Are there places that with no construction in popular urban areas where prices truly don’t rise?
>you would think if life was so prevalent in our galaxy that there would be some sign of their technology.

There's a big problem though, I've written about it here https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2014/11/30/this-jus...

Basically time + the vastness of space = an insanely low probability that any two intelligent civilizations would overlap within a detectible sphere, especially with our current level of technology.

If we assume 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 planets exist in 100 billion galaxies and that 1 in 100 of those host single cellular life, that 1 in 1000 of those host multi-cellular life, that 1 in 1000 of those have animal life, that 1 in 10 of those has sentient tool-building species you then have 10 trillion planets with tool-building species.

If we assume an even distribution that's 100 tool-building species per galaxy spread out over 12-13 billion years.

Oof.

Even if you make far more generous assumptions, and that 1 in 2 planets has single cellular life and that 1 in 2 of those have tool-building life. That gives you an average of 25,000 tool-building worlds per galaxy, something like a 1 in 20 million change any star in our galaxy has a tool-building civilization.

If you remove the first billion years of the galaxy you get 12.21-12.51 billion years.

Again if we assume an even distribution and assume 140,000 light-years in diameter for a galaxy, that gives you something like 1 tool building civilization per 600,000 square light-years spread out over 12 billion years.

:( :( :(
For the same reason I smoke weed. They clearly love it and it has no adverse effects (just don't let them eat it, use it in toys).
Reminds me of the old FactoryFactoryFactory joke [1]

[1] https://gist.github.com/nkbt/4691b1ae3e78a6141aea
Atul Gawande's Checklist Manifesto has some good discussions of complex care situations that are more or less driven by runbooks.
Oh there must be, but that's assuming they have means of actually finding and reaching us.

At the moment, the only thing I can imagine that would be like that would be a deep space probe that has been traveling for thousands of years, moving so fast it can't actually slow down and make contact. What if Oumuamua was one of those, or the melted slag remains of that? We'll never know.
> Are the vaccines really free in the US or will hospitals still catch you with copay, deductibles and other stuff?

Yes they are free and there can be no cost sharing of any kind in the USA - insured and uninsured get if free. Same goes for most countries in the EU.
How many years have you been using it full-time?

Do you ever miss the global commands not implemented in VS code's plug-in? I still do sometimes, like this: https://youtu.be/46Evprns18M
Man, those Dylan Beattie's videos are out of this world!! I laughed way too hard on a number of them -

You give REST a bad name - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSKp2StlS6s

We're Gonna Build a Framework - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm2h0cbvsw8

Enterprise Waterfall - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq1MD5qXI08
Your comment is orthogonal to my comment.
Can't find the link to download this app, can someone post it.
Professor: "Computer Science is to Math as sex is to masturbation"

Student: "Do you mean both are good but one is ultimately empty?"

Professor: "No, I mean you will spend most of undergrad doing math"
And yet the linked article describes a useful application for this "forgotten code".
My take on it would be that people see cars for example as a physical item. And that item comes with real expenses. Fuel, parking tickets and whatnot. Your conditioned for this when you get your first car

Mobile phones apart from the device itself are seen as free. Your conditioned to expect to get apps for free, I expect content to be free.

So when you start asking for money; there is no association between the price wanted and a physical object. Only an application which was free.
Other gave sources. Just adding it’s not a concern. It’s the body’s immune reaction. That’s how the vaccine works, and it’s pretty common with vaccines.
Trusting Reddit
I think it's hilarious while staying on point (almost, ending tissue might be too much)
> e.g. a language doesn’t need to have strings, multiple numeric types, operator precedence, or even have expressions containing multiple operators

Can't you make anything look easy by reducing it to an unrealistically limited example?

Building an F1 car is hard. Building a soap box car is easy.

Building Google is hard. Building a simple web scraper and grep is easy.

Seems like a redundant thing to point out. When people say something is hard they obviously mean 'for a useful actual application I care about'.
The “Rent versus Buy” dilemma (2018)
Some UK GPs are salaried. I don't know the proportions.

https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-roles/doctors/pay-d...
Poorman way of application localization with GoogleSheet
The Year of the Container CDN
My life as a developer would be much easier if every user actually upgraded their apps within a month of updates. In my experience, a substantial proportion of users either have automatic updates disabled and only manually update individual apps when they break, or don’t habitually connect their phones to Wi-Fi, and thus don’t get automatic updates.

It’s why apps like desktop Chrome have extremely aggressive automatic-update schemes which are near-impossible to disable if you’re ever connected to the internet.
I have no strong opinions, I learned as I went so it was natural for me that I couldn't do thing in an idiomatic way and my structure was messy.
I respect the fact that you can be surprised by that. But even rewinding a bit: where are the data plotted, e.g. time vs failures?
> Is it to see them have fun? Is it so the owners have fun?

Yes
...except this is open-source and self-host-able. I mean I am always here for "all your base" memes, but it doesn't apply here.
I read it instead as the outgoing president determining that the cost to him of making this call had dropped to zero.
How about more first hand reports from nurses that I know? All had a day of mild to moderate flu-like symptoms.

Not data, not a large sample size, but very consistent and from knowledgeable observers.
It's apples and oranges a bit: instead of linux you're going to need a bare metal or RTOS like FreeRTOS. Linux is not always the right platform.

That said, your point about power is well taken. I haven't looked at the Pico. What is the power draw in sleep mode?
In the early days of the internet, when technology was strictly the domain of engineers, we had such a utopia. When the "normal" people joined, all the problems started ...
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure"

commonly known as Goodhart's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law) although credits should go to Marilyn Strathern for this formulation.
Letters Close Enough to Touch
Bitcoin pump and dump.

1) Slowly accumulate bitcoin.

2) Mint stable coins and "loan" them to certain big customers (i.e. players in this scheme). Note that the only "backing" of these coins is just a promise --- not USD.

3) Big customers/players use "loaned" stable coin to buy bitcoin --- thus inflating bitcoin price.

4) Small investors/speculators see rising bitcoin and jump in to buy inflating price even more.

5) All together now --- sell bitcoin at inflated prices. Profit!

6) Stop minting and "loaning" stable coins. Bitcoin drops. Naive small investors get screwed.

7) Repeat at step 1.

What facilitates this scheme is people accept the fiction that the stable coin is 100% backed by USD.

Doing this in any "regulated" market would subject you to a huge fine, prison time or both.
Not all humans view drugs in the same manner. In some locales, it is accepted to use drugs recreationally. Other places deem that same usage unacceptable. If you look at the similarity in the gov'ts that deem that usage as unacceptable, there's a common overall belief that is not scientifically based.
The impact of recreational drugs is often seen as destructive, in terms of basic physical health, or behavior (e.g. addiction).

If catnip isn't destroying cats' lives, what's the harm?
> uptake is embarrassingly low

I wonder if this is secure partially because of the "security through obscurity" factor, in that case. More eyes are on Signal based on usage and promotion, that's for sure.
Ah, yes I suppose. I meant the email analogy in the sense that you can communicate with people who aren't on your instance.

> I didn't join radical.town or whatever, so I don't really feel like I'm a part of that community.

That's fine, and you aren't required to feel so anyway. They're just other people on another instance, who are also in your timeline.

> Does that make sense? I don't think I've fully processed this stuff yet, so it might not be a great answer.

It's alright! I understand it can be slightly jarring at first. I run a single-user instance so it's truly quite like Twitter -- there's no "community" that I'm a part of, and the feed I see is something I've curated for myself by following people across the fediverse.
I've always loved the thing about solar eclipses and auroras:
in order to see an aurora during an eclipse, the moon has to be the exact same size as the sun (when viewed from the planet). Earth has this (for a while at least - the moon is slowly moving away from us), and it makes us special.

So if you want to find aliens, look during a solar eclipse. It's a rare phenomenon and if there are alien tourists, they'll want to see it.
try:
wicked --help

... but the beautiful thing about yast, is you get the interface via gui or console and it's largely identical.
>The only reason we have "trade concerns" in the first place is because we don't want to be beholden to jerks.

No, it's because the US don't want to be beholden to anyone, period. It's about keeping control (and profit, greed, and other less high ideals), not about moral contempt for the CCP.

>and wasn't engaging in domestic ethnic cleansing and wasn't trying to create 1984 we'd have no problem being economically joined at the hip with them.

Somehow that was never a problem with people from Pinochet to Suharto and from Nicaraguan death squads to Saddam (when he was still a handy ally), or when there are "homemade" bombs doing the killing...

>If China wasn't bullying everyone it thinks it can

This is beyond ironic. The US has been bullying and strong-arming the whole globe for over century, toppled democratic regimes (from Mossadeq to Allende and on), had supported countless dictators in their countries with funds and arms, treated Latin American countries as banana republics, has invaded and occupied four countries just in the last 20 years (plus countless bombings), keeps torture camps (from Abu Graib to Guantanamo), and maintains hundreds of army bases all over the world, not to mention global surveillance. It's only the only country that used nuclear bombs in wars ever (on civilians non the less).

It's only the idea that their shit doesn't stink, and the belief in some "manifest destiny" of the US to carry the light and lead the rest 96% of humanity (in need of guidance), that gives people in the US the gal to dare to criticize another country...

It's more the case of a pitch black pot calling a new and upcoming black kettle black, case...
nobody asks how to make money if you already have a hell lot of money and a growth rate like clubhouse. there is plenty of venture money available, more that can be spent.
> This unnamed vendor was, in late 2017, preparing to launch a new device running Android 5.0 which was EoL and had not seen an update since late 2015

The issue is that in order to get a license for real Android your devices has to meet some minimum specs so if you want to create an inexpensive device that doesn't meet those specs AOSP is still a reasonable choice for your OS. I'm not sure if its still true, but it used to be that if you were shipping any AOSP based device Google wouldn't give you an Android license for any of your other devices so manufacturers that were interested in serving more price sensitive markets (e.g. India) will sometimes use it across their whole product line.
That seems as though it could be solved by making very short trips back and allowing the local gravity to continually correct your velocity and positioning until you reach your destination.
Git-Bundle
You still don't want to be dragged through the system especially if you are working in any low margin sector.
I had the same question until I realised it meant Google Cloud Messaging (or, this is how people seem to interpret it) - my initial thought was that it was about Galois Counter Mode (an authenticated encryption mode), and was curious why not using it was considered a benefit.

Threema does seem to use XSalsa20 + Poly1305 for authenticated encryption (not AES in GCM), btw.
I don’t think this really gets at the paradox. What if you shot yourself?
Who will give the Chinese Communist Party a voice now they have been censored? What's that? Oh they own all the newspapers, TV, radio and internet in the country of China.
Yes, 100% of those in my network who have received both doses (sample size of 6) have all experienced this. Mostly Moderna, but a couple Pfizer as well.
it is sort of funny that the argument for lack of intellectual curiosity in aliens is being made in Scientific American.
Kind of unrelated but when you mentioned Soviet shoe factories, this scene from HBO's Chernobyl takes on a whole new dimension:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idb_qsAAe1c

"I'm a nuclear physicist. Before you were deputy secretary, you worked in a shoe factory."

"Yes, I worked in a shoe factory. And now I'm in charge. To the workers of the world."
What does it cost to get this vaccine in the US?

Has anyone here paid for it? How does this work with insurance?
There's a big caveat here: Middle-eastern engineers will have significant problems working with more liberal/woke companies. They have a strong tendency to be homophobic/transphobic/misogynist.

Last year I fired an off-shored team of 10 otherwise excellent Egyptian engineers because their homophobic statements on LinkedIn and in Slack made people in the company uncomfortable.

If your company's engineers lean more right-wing/republican, then middle-eastern engineers are probably a great untapped resource. If your company is more of a Silicon Valley company, they are a liability which can get you sued.
Alternative to wire nuts for connecting wires
The means are vastly different? Use the power of government to force private companies into some strange, complex, government-backed content policy, or let people realize they need a variety of trusted media in their diet and don't use one platform for all comms.
New cat? Is it young? This could be the issue. And like others have said, a minority of cats just don't care for it.

Neither of my cats go as absolutely nuts over it like some other cats: That said, they both know which toy has a pile of the stuff in it for them to eat freely and somewhat regularly have some bites.
You still haven’t said — why can’t you look at the clinics?
Is there a list of such scores by domain anywhere on the net i.e. name of the domain and the metrics applicable to it?
e.g. for agricultural drought there is the palmer drought index
Secret Ingredient Found to Power Supernovas
Along the same lines, does it gives cats a “hangover” of sorts afterwards? The article describes catnip as similar to heroin for humans. I’ve never done heroin but I would imagine the withdrawal is really unpleasant which is what then causes addiction. Do cats experience the same come down? Can cats get addicted to catnip if they have access to an unlimited supply?
Employers in the US can:

- require routine drug testing, even for drugs that are legal in your state

- require routine credit checks

- mandate attire standards

- dictate grooming standards

- require employees to routinely expose themselves to hazardous materials

- require travel to hazardous locations

- perform duties that are known to result in serious injury or loss of life

- require vaccines for things like the flu

- require employees to sit still in front of a computer for 8+ hours at a time, for months on end.

The remedy in the US for people who do not like these factors is to not work for employers that have different tolerances for physical safety than does the employee. I don't see how conditioning employment on receiving a vaccination for Covid is materially more dangerous than requiring an employee to work on sea-based drilling rig or in a coal mine.
There's a black and red edition of The Princess Bride.
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