skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true, but frankly, would you tell this joke during a conference? Personally, I'd prefer not to, even if it was relevant.
Yes, the word "Borange".

Defintion: A Borange is a word created for the sole purpose of rhyming with word that doesn't have anything that ryhmes with it. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25858732
My sudden hopes to start a book collection, dashed
Were you ever mobbed by cats while using? I could see that effect really freaking someone out who wasn't ready for it. Like a scene from Hitchcock's The Birds but cats.
Yes, it's only funny when you play the dumb/silly guy and people know "Paf le chien" (which is already absurd). French people usually pronounce Path and Paf in the same way and "Chemin" and "Chien" sounds alike.

What usually happens is the IT guys look at me, sighing and non verbally confirm to non-IT people that the joke is way too stupid and geeky to explain.
Patoshi: Bitcoin Stash Proves Satoshi Is Still the Biggest Whale
"A recent report by blockchain tracking and analytics provider, Whale Alert, revealed that the miner known as Patoshi mined over $10.9 billion or 1,125,150 BTC during Bitcoin’s infancy in order to protect the network from a 51% attack.

Patoshi has been confirmed to be the anonymous Bitcoin creator known as Satoshi and the early blocks mined by Patoshi also include the first BTC transaction to Hall Finney, a well known developer and early Bitcoin contributor.

Whale Alert was able to come to this conclusion by reviewing previous research conducted by independent researcher and cryptographer Sergio Lerner. Lerner coined the term Patoshi miner back when a cryptographic pattern that revealed most of the early Bitcoin mining was done by one individual with access to modified mining software."
> It seems somewhat silly on a non-realtime OS to grab one frame, request a 15ms wait, and then grab another frame, when your deadline is 16.6ms

A couple reasons this isn't as silly as it seems

1) ~All buffers in Android are pipelined, usually with a queue depth of 2 or 3 depending on overall application performance. This means that missing a deadline is recoverable as long as it doesn't happen multiple times in a row. I'd also note that since Netflix probably only cares about synchronization and not latency during video play back they could have a buffer depth of nearly anything they wanted, but I don't think that's a knob Android exposes to applications.

2) The deadline is probably not the end of the current frame but rather than end of the next frame (i.e. ~18ms away) or further. The application can specify this with the presentation time EGL extension[1] that's required to be present on all Android devices.

[1]: https://www.khronos.org/registry/EGL/extensions/ANDROID/EGL_...
And that full page NO.

Works best in the hardcover where the text doesn’t leak through the page.
Prove me wrong: there are too many programming languages.
https://careerkarma.com/blog/how-many-coding-languages-are-t...)

Resumes are built on knowing “the next great programming language.”

Too much productive time is wasted at work and at home chasing and developing new languages.

How’s that for a controversial issue?
Its a common mistake to assume strings are UTF-8 but it is a mistake.

This is not a defence of Go but more of a warning to Go programmers.
It’s Time for Justice, Not Healing
Free will is a nonphysical illogical concept. It's impossible to define free will inside physics in a way that feels "free".
Any idea how effective copper is vs chemical disinfectant (alcohol, I guess?).
Well... would this satisfy you? (I removed the _add part for convenience. You could still argue that `_concat` is not a literal... if by literal you mean a primitive provided by the language itself. Note that i'm not claiming that this is a dependent type system. But you can emulate some features of such a type system.)

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play?#code/C4TwDgpgBAggTnAPAO...
How do you know if you have it? When trying different wines all I can notice is how strong the alcohol tastes. The same thing about vodka and other stronger drinks. I can notice change of flavor in beer and food more or less fine.
> I have no idea how you're going to accomplish this with centralized economic planning, but there's a much better shot at it with a free market approach.

1989 called, they want their dichotomies back.
https://twitter.com/imrichvalach/status/1351935706097135617?...
What about it doesn't make sense? Companies can mandate wearing safety gear in dangerous environments (e.g. fall harnesses when working at heights) or for public safety (e.g. hairnets to prevent food contamination). Countries can mandate public health requirements (e.g. disposing of human waste through sewers). What makes vaccination any different?
New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects
It sounds like different people have different concerns then.

I only fly on business, and it's rarely a big deal if I have a several-hour delay because of a missed connection.

However, I'm tall, and have a bad back and knees. So legroom and elbow room are very important to me. I also had one important trip ruined because (I suspect) I picked up a bad cold during the flight.
Back in the day, playing /usr/games/hunt against other people would hone your VI movement keys muscle memory rather quickly.

On the multiuser Unix systems at Purdue, it was typical to have at least half a dozen people on the server, with explosions going off like fireworks. We ran the mod where you could collect 200 ammunition for the nuke, which would destroy a third of the screen.

https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man6/hunt.6

We also had Larry Wall's (yes, that one) video game Warp, which was a lot more action-oriented than the original Star Trek video game. It also used the same hjkl movement keys.

http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/misc/unixarchive/PDP-11/Trees/...

And of course there was Rogue and Nethack, but those are a lot better remembered these days.
Yeah we've built 6 games on solar2d. It's fast to develop on, has numerous plugins, and an active community on discord https://discord.gg/8bmuq94r
In a weird way, I love tackling these kinds of bugs. It can be frustrating but it’s an exercise in logical thinking and you often learn some interesting details of lower parts of the stack, debugging techniques, etc. as you go.
So you trade mosquitoes for cats...

Sounds like what Israel did but with rats for cats... in a different way hehe

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/concerning-cat-population-in...
Ants are interesting because of the complex behavioral systems emerging from their comparatively simple biological systems, reminiscent of the game of life.

Seeing the insane complexity of the human condition (look at the amount of scientific disciplines we come up with) and thinking "nay, this won't be interesting to a higher mind" feels awfully dismissive.

sure, depending on the leap of sophistication we may appear like... rocks, I guess? But I can't even begin to conceptualize to what in comparison we'd appear like rocks. Anything of that complexity probably is multiple magnitudes beyond our comprehension anyway, and therefore not really part of the discussion
How does the carbon footprint compare to fiat networks like SWIFT for example ?
Consider this chapter on assessment from the Trauma Nursing Core Course (1). The full provider manual may be hard to obtain, however.

(1) https://notendur.hi.is/thorsj/gogn/TNCC.pdf
100km in some circumstances, and 40km easily? https://www.cgg.com/technicalDocuments/cggv_0000027562.pdf
That's a pretty loud "noise" though.
Do the ants in your example know they're being studied?

When the European powers explored the pacific they wrote off a lot of islands as being devoid of anything useful. Now a few hundred years later these islands, mostly untouched by humans, are a gold mine for various niches of biology. Human presence is still infrequent enough that the seagulls don't seem to notice.
Another refreshing sign of competence from the new administration. Yellen would be well aware of how destabilizing deflationary cryptocurrencies could become to the macro economy.

The more a cryptocoin is used as a savings asset, the more it gets tied to the real economy, the more it can become destabilizing.

When gold had too much ties to the real economy, it caused enough instability to cause the great depression.

This happens because people, businesses and banks start hording tokens instead of investing in building and maintaining the production capacity of consumables so the ratio of value of tokens meant to buy consumables vs the actual production of consumables gets out of wack.

When the music stops, people realize that other people are sitting on tons of seemingly valuable tokens but stuff to buy with them is getting scarce because capacity is not being maintained, they reverse their trade, prices of stuff go up, volatility ensues, and the destructive cycle resets.

Too much savings being tied to tokens instead of assets that create real value is an economy wide coordination failure, a terrible Nash equilibrium. It can be hard to solve because it's a prisoner's dilemma where the first people to invest in real production are disadvantaged so everyone hoards tokens instead (the gridlock in the production market this causes ends up hurting a lot more overall).

This is what central banks and sound currencies are designed to prevent (as Yellen would know). We don't want cryptocoins to cause another great depression like gold tied currencies did almost a hundred years ago.
There's something about strcat there somewhere.
regular people just trying to get by

Regular people don't fly that much, even in America half of the population don't fly in any one year.

This report [1] Finds that 1% of world population emits 50% of CO2 from commercial aviation.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802...

Climate change is a product of wealth.
> I think it would be nice if something held my head and neck straight so I could doze off.

Have you ever tried one of those inflatable around-your-neck pillows that are sold at airports? I've always wondered if they were worked.
I wish it was a bogeyman. The Donglegate happened because someone overheard a joke between two friends. Then people have been fired. I'm very, very careful about every joke I tell and who is around.
I'm writing a kids story (with my son, its quite fun to discuss the story and plan the laser fights) about an alien that is visiting earth to complete his Alien PhD - I am going to get some sarcastic jibe about backwaters and wasting years away from any decent fun etc.

I think we might consider that level of interest lucky. :-)
You'd be better off reading the response here:

https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver/issues/354...
Exactly. "Good" is a very context-dependent term.
Still niche, Rust is not up to the stuff that app developers expect in terms of tooling and D still has quite a few @safe bugs to sort out, among its current adoption issues.

Unfortunely regardless of their own reports regarding CVEs, Microsoft, Apple and Google keep turning to C and C++ for their bottom layers + managed languages, instead of going full speed in some of those alternatives.

So it appears to be the long term solution to mitigate security issues, while keeping compatibility with existing code and tooling.
Not for emotions, but House of Leaves makes excessive use of different fonts and typesetting techniques to interesting effect.
LOL. Apparently not organized enough to include “Item #2”. But I do agree that Notion is great.
Check out House of Leaves. Some sections have text in every orientation possible. A engrossing and difficult, but rewarding, read. I now want to read it again.
Hi! We’ve tried SiteInspector and it works great. However, it crashes when we try to scan a site. I filed an issue on GitHub regarding it: https://github.com/siteinspector/siteinspector/issues/6
I didn’t know this kind of attack before but wouldn't any sane backend system confirm the permissions of requesting client first before handing out admin pages?

I mean you need to have a client-id and their permissions for any outside request coming to server.

I’m using Golang in my webserver but it wouldn’t hand-out secret pages as requesting client wouldn’t have authority to do so.

I feel like Golang's UTF8 handling is the least of the worries for these kinds of attacks, it points out that entire backend system was constructed wrongly, number one rule of any backend systems: You cannot trust the client.
Amen. The thing that always drove me crazy was that when you were going to miss a connection - it’s your responsibility to fix it, which is absurd. Don’t make me call some phone number or wait in a long line. Just automatically rebook me, and if it’s a long enough wait, automatically get me a hotel. Why should I have to deal with the craziness? It’s their fault I’m late, they should make it as convenient as possible to get me to my destination.
Only governments can put barriers of entry into a free market, usually through regulations.
Why do you think the details matter? She works at a different level that deals with the flow of money and various investment/trade devices. Do you think her decisions would be different when learning the tech details vs treating them at black box stock tickers?
And if you have this stuff in a fireproof box or filing cabinet, those are not concerns, provided it's not in the basement.

Also, water damage from pipes or roof leaks is categorically different from flood damage. Homeowners insurance covers roof and pipe leaks, but you need flood insurance for actual flood damage (basically water from any other sources).
Does some text generating tool exist which takes a badly written piece of prose (perhaps even in the form of bullet-points), and produces a high(er) quality text? (E.g., richer in vocabulary by using synonyms, removing repetition, rephrasing sentences so they don't all have the same general form, et cetera.)
I've enjoyed Avi Loeb interviews on Lex Fridman and Joe Rogan. He has a refreshing perspective
And if you want a perfectly cast voice in your head for him, play Discworld II for the PC.
Indeed, Ants do some pretty fascinating stuff, TIL we have stuff like "Ant colony optimization algorithms" [0].

Even if we are as the aliens were 2 millions years ago, there must be something of interest in what we do? I mean, we'd be interested in life 2 billion years ago. I find it more likely that they just don't want to interfere.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization_algori...
The anxiety I feel about flying primarily comes from anticipating the things I know will make me miserable. The cramped seats where no position is comfortable. Knowing that every movement I make to try to get comfortable is bothering the person next to me. Getting sweaty because of how high the heaters are running. Trying to sleep while every seat, empty or not, has bright flashing advertisements that no one bothers to turn off(they don't exactly make it obvious how to). And when you do have a tight connection, everyone ahead of you on the plane goes so incredibly slow.
Ubuntu 21.04 To Stick With GNOME 3.38 Desktop
As usual: If you can't measure what's important you declare important what you can measure. That wouldn't be so destructive if management at least was aware of that problem. But they aren't. They'll have their report of metrics which are green or red. Green is good. Red is bad. End of story.
So this is essentially magic.

Any self correcting mechanism implies magic.

How does 'universe' know what needs to be done to fix timeline?
CD Projekt Red’s Iwinski apologises, gives insight into Cyberpunk 2077
"What Do We Want?"

"NOW!"

"ASYNC FUNCTIONS!"

"When Do We Want It?"
> I feel it is likely that it is highlighted because they feel that “race” is more meaningful than it biologically is, and are attempting to draw inferences from it.

Try telling that to sufferers of sickle cell anaemia.

They’re not making a general statement about race, they’re relating it to a specific thing. “Race” may be an overloaded, and often misused term - certainly a misnomer - but it still can be used as a shorthand that is useful especially in medical contexts. Here, it’s probably to warn against generalising beyond whites, though the meaningfulness will be borne out by research with regards to this specific virus, not through your feelings or inferences about possible inferences.
Also previously posted on HN a month ago, with 200 comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25426195
This is basic law: Stuff is allowed unless forbidden. Because of that, employers generally have the right to require things of employees, and the exceptions are what's specified in law.

So if your employer wants to require of the people in your team that they know C++, speak Swahili or carry photo ID, that's allowed because not forbidden. But the law does have provisions for religious discrimination (in most countries, perhaps all) so requiring your team to be Pastafarians is out (if that's what the law says, the law might make an exception for the Pastafarian Church).

Requiring vaccines might also be forbidden by your employment contract. But is it? I doubt it.

Your contract also could say "the employer cannot permit you to take paid sick leave if you're ill on the day after a vaccine" or "the employer cannot permit you to get a vaccine on company time" but both sound far-fetched to me.
This sounds like a very fun idea to do! May try it as well :)
The point is that we're one of (large number) of ant colonies and there's nothing particularly interesting about us vs. any other ant colony.

Even if ETs study ants generally, there's nothing unique about us to give us a greater than 1/(large number) chance of being studied.
I'm not sure you should extrapolate that on all passengers. For me terrible torture-chairs in economy are much more annoying on long flights than some small delay on takeoff or landing.

I once spent 5 hours on plane waiting for takeoff in Frankfurt, but it was due to lack antifreeze and engine heating machines (whatever they are called correctly) and I don't see a way how airline could have influenced that. However, having more space and comfort during that time would definitely be nice.
> Levandowski (the crook that stole the self driving docs)

Why is your username 'foss user' when you're showing you are for intellectual property rights by calling this person a crook?
>There are professions that study ants.

Not only that we've incorporated armies of scientists in to the public realm to advise on such envoirnmental/biodiversity policy issues. It's possible an Interstate Freeway project may not happen because an bunch of endangered ants live along its planned route.
The idea that just increasing supply enough would make rent cheap forever does not bear out. Not only do you need massive supply increases for modest decreases in rent, as the article points out, but if you look at the real world, even extremely dense cities like Hong Kong have extremely high rent as rent eventually catches up.

You cannot increase supply forever. Rent still continues going up.

The solution is to increase supply and have rent control.
I had to scroll down the page to see if Ultraleap is a product, a company, or some kind of open source project, and whether it has anything to do with the Leap Motion Controller. For those who were as confused as me, Ultrahaptics bought Leap Motion, renaming the resulting company to Ultraleap.
At some point you have pneumonia.

Was super sick once. Was informed that a child was pouring chocolate milk on my laptop.
I couldn’t have cared less at that point.
Maybe it's because I'm cynical, but I assume that's how lots of American industry is run.
The difference is entropy/uncertainty. You can change anything whose effects are too small to measure or distinguish from equivalent energy states.
I suspect like most things in nature it's a bell curve; of varying responses. My cat responds, but not super enthusiastically. I've had other cats that just ignored. And other cats that went crazy for the stuff.
I'm glad they shipped this today, rather than in n years time when RISC-V might be a real option.
> Fermi’s paradox is pretentious in that it assumes we humans have some sort of cosmic significance.

I don’t at all think this is the issue with Fermi’s paradox. I think sentience is an interesting enough phenomenon that others with sentience will be interested. As soon as you understand the mind of the other, there’s a basic interest in meeting other minds.

The real issue is simply the vastness of time and space, and perhaps an underestimation of the difficulties involved in bridging those. Especially economic costs of space travel.

And it’s kind of like the point made in this clip about the silliness of Fermi’s paradox... it’s like assuming if no lobster shows up to your dinner party, lobsters don’t exist.

https://youtu.be/TK0vmOCHiDs
In general we don't assume that of everyone. What we do assume is that at least some aliens would be interested, because we assume intellect comes with innate curiosity. In an advanced culture, even a small number of individuals exhibiting an interest would be enough to form a field of study, just as it is here on Earth.

Asserting that nobody us studying is because we're uninteresting to every single alien creature is a baffling statement, given the odds. The odds are far greater in my opinion that we're alone or at least functionally alone, even though I must admit I hate the notion.

We also don't assume everyone builds megastructures or emits huge technosignatures, but it throws us off that apparently nobody does.
Even with their voice in the matter, the voice is speaking nonsense and trying to snow the reader (as your response seems to indicate. And that's being charitable and assuming you're sincere). Giving that voice oxygen is making the matter worse.

Cinnamon tried to re-invent the wheel. They made it very sparkly and shiny and colourful and forgot that it had to be robust, round and capable of rolling.

Jesus wept, you criticise other people for not reading the entire discussion, and yet you somehow missed the part in JWZ's post where he explains that Cinnamon-screensaver was NOT written from scratch. So congratulations, you hypocritically own-goaled yourself there too. Which again, makes me question the charitability of assuming sincerity.

And JWZ is supposed to "work with them" when their code fouls up for the Nth time? No, the idiots should've been writing modules for JWZ's engine, seeing as JWZ's is the one that a) they did indeed steal from and b) still screwed up.

Yes, he's voiced his valid criticisms before. And the damn Cinnamon tards STILL KEEP MAKING THE SAME MISTAKES. This adds to the discussion. It adds useful, educational history that the Cinnamon morons are so stupid that they repeatedly, in the face of history, keep making the same goddamn stupid mistakes.

I get to "the other side of the road" just fine with JWZ's screensaver. I just FIFTEEN MINUTES AGO had to step the housemate through replacing her new Mint install's Cinnamon screensaver with xscreensaver; because what a surprise, it's 2021 and the $hitpile that is Cinnamon screensaver lock would NOT RESPOND to keyboard or mouse and wouldn't let her log in. And either she had to either magic-sysrq, or I had to ssh in to the root account to kill the stupid pile of crap that is cinnamon-screensaver.

And I found this ridiculous comment on this thread, because I was trying to show her a reference as to WHY Cinnamon-screensaver is stupidly broken in its principles and why xscreensaver should be used instead.

Clement Lefebvre has some pretty big balls to have written what he did; and that's good. Because it'll make it easier to repeatedly kick him in them as he deserves for this. And defence of his positions is... not particularly defensible.

I don't wish to be rude to you; but I finally stopped lurking on HN after years and created an account for the purpose of telling you these things. And by years, I mean that my Slashdot ID is in the 500,000s, rather than say the 60-millions.
That's my very point: there are people who will find it offensive neverheless.