skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's _The Hobbit_. (I suppose Smaug gets mentioned here and there in LotR, and Gandalf makes an entertaining firework version of him...)
It appears to involve real money
https://earth2.io/tutorials talks about using paypal

Down the road sometime there is supposed to be a vr world and ways to develop your land. No idea when.

Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/earth2io/
California is heading towards a de-facto handgun ban as we speak.
Major platforms (like Uniswap) will be migrating to L2 in a month which should go a long way to reduce fees.
It's not the fault of Republicans. They're a big political party with positions on a lot of issues. It's the NRA's fault for allowing all these random controversies you're describing to get tied into the gun rights debate.

For a more concrete example, concealed carry has been a large and unambiguous gun rights success story, with shall-issue going from pretty rare in the 80s to near-universal today. What I'd expect an effective gun rights organization to produce is a roadmap for how to convince the holdouts. Illinois passed their shall-issue law with 76% in favor, and Washington has had it for decades; what lessons does this teach us about how to get left-leaning people on board? If a group of California residents wants to convince their sheriff to issue more permits or their assemblyperson to support statewide shall-issue, what should they say? I'd really like to see answers to these questions (please do send me links if you have any!), but as far as I can tell the NRA is wholly uninterested in thinking about them.
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>manufacturers

There’s plenty of room to criticize the NRA, but this doesn’t seem on point. The industry lobby is the NSSF. The NRA does far more than politics that is of practical benefit to range operators (insurance, startup and ops guidance), individual gun owners (training, safety, local organization), and sports (event facilitation, sponsorship, material support, rule-making). Many people outside the gun world don’t see that at all, but it’s what makes the destruction of the NRA all the more important to the gun control lobby.

I agree the NRA needs to “be better”, but let’s not forget that much of the gun community are enthusiasts, in that they are fans of the manufacturers the same way a comic book fan supports Marvel and DC. They want more product, they enjoy ads, they enjoy events. They are hardly victims of the manufacturers any more than a motorcycle enthusiast is a victim of Ducati.
Absolutely. And the lobby register is a step in the right direction. Albeit be it a small one.

More steps need to follow and strong enforcement.
> I think many companies (including mine) offer the "communicator" grow path. Where your role is more about talking/being a guru, but what if you are a good engineer and want to continue doing that?

If the company is open for R&D and experimentation, then you can pitch an idea, which ideally aligns with company business, and get an approval to implement it yourself or with a bunch of teammates.
There's another related concept I came up with thinking about this discussion (which I've had with friends as well): 'freedom of utility'.

The basic idea is, forget about what you think is beautiful or motivational. Suppose you could choose to be motivated by something. Would you choose to be motivated by superficial mystery, or by deep knowledge of how things are? Should you choose to find beautiful just the surface of the flower, or also the wonders of how it works, its structure as a system, the connections to evolution and theory of color and so on -- all of which could turn out to be useful one way or another. If you could choose, would you choose to be exclusively motivated by the immediate external appearance or by the depth and myriad of relationships as well?

Unfortunately, (unlike AI systems we could design) I don't think we have complete control of our motivation -- our evolutionary biases are strong. But I'm also fairly certain much of our aesthetic sense can be shaped by culture and rational ideals. If I hadn't heard Feynman, watched so many wonderful documentaries (and e.g. Mythbusters) and many popularizers of science, perhaps I wouldn't see this beauty so much as I do -- and I'm grateful for it, because I want to see this beauty, I want to be motivated to learn about the world, and to improve it in a way.
Sounds like Victor Borge.
Are expensive commercial textbooks an American thing or does it just depend on the university? I studied in the U.K. and I think we weren’t meant to be examined on things that weren’t either on the blackboard or in homework. A few lecturers had written their own books but they weren’t super expensive and no one bought them because the libraries had them and the material went on the blackboard anyway. I also feel like my professors wouldn’t want to teach a course that required an expensive textbook for moral reason, but maybe that’s just me thinking too highly of them.
> but freaked out the Soviet military to the point that they crashed the Soviet economy

No, that was not really the cause of the collapse of the Soviet economy.
quarter and half the planet away from UK respectively. geography matters.
Yeah, I find it bizarre how much people are reacting to that one line. If I had to guess, it's mostly white people because they feel attacked. I assume HN is mostly white males too.
I don't get why people are so upset that Wikipedia spends more money on personnel then on hosting.

Most internet organizations do that (free, charity or commercial). Good people are expensive. You need sysadmins, programmers, some graphics artist, probably more than a few lawyers etc.

And I wouldn't want them to use the cheapest, possible people that they can find for those roles. And asking good people to work for free or cheap, is just as shitty.

And a lot of free software and opensource foundation spend most of the money organizing conferences, so that people can meet in person and have presentations and working groups etc.. But when Wikipedia does the same its somehow wrong ?
That’s not a risk free rate. It’s an average return on a basket of assets.
Im just saying that they are automatically being included as pro gun whereas the measurement should be individual gun ownership. Not the household stat which is obviously used to make it look more impressive.

And remember it's not binary, a lot of people are indifferent and many want more gun restrictions and some want less

Back to my original point is the average american does not own a gun
I'm guessing that's Cruise Automation. They talked about driverless cars in specific neighborhoods, but I haven't anything formally happening on that front. So they're either still using drivers or it's geofenced.
> Beware though, often human intuition can be contradictory. This means that a formalization of our intuitive notions of type correctness will also be contradictory and therefore unusable.

It is my very strong suspicion that in almost all (if not all) of the similar cases in programming methodology, there have been not just arguments on both sides, but implementations and real-world lessons on both sides.

A veeeery minor example: I’m equally as sure that someone designed and deployed systems that specifically created errors when you tried to pass less than the required number of params as I am that other people (or even the same people) specifically designed and implemented systems where params were optional (most likely because they hated having to specify empty params every time).
I think it's because a lot of people with limited means apparently donate to Wikimedia thinking it's a small non-profit on the verge of bankruptcy. And in no small part because they imply this every year during their fund drives.

I doubt they'd do as well fundraising if your average donator knew that Wikimedia was pulling in $100m a year, is paying it's directors and above $200-400k a year, and the vast majority of their dollars are not spent on "servers and power" like their ads imply.

Personally, I'm fine with their budget, but I do wonder if their fundraisers are as ethical as they could be.
Happy childhood? That’s no guarantee for good mental health
It doesn't solve the problem, most of the issues are related to current prices with oracles instead of not knowing any price. Services in the DeFi space introduce solutions to prior iterations of complex products hiding the risk.

They aren’t trying to show how its better than traditional wall street, there is no one person or organization saying “eureka now we can offer the biggest CDOs since Lehman”, its new people picking up new tools building what the community wants, or else they dont have a community.
I'm not attempting to lay the blame on a specific element for the current situation, as we must look at the whole. Simply blaming the banks doesn't make much sense in isolation, either.

I'm just saying that at the final count we see our lives stay the same except when they sometimes get worse and this has and will continue to affect our sense of wonder and our capacity to be surprised.
So whats the TLDR of this?
Smaug is in The Hobbit, a different adventure.
Why is this interesting?

I ask with genuine curiosity. I don’t understand enough about computer architectures. Is it that you can run stuff compiled for 8086 on RPi?
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BB is more an art than a sport, Steve Cook articulates this idea very well and is partly why he has moved more toward CrossFit and other activities.

BB is primarily a competition with yourself for months and months with an expression of that work at the end that you hope is arbitrarily considered better than everyone else’s on stage by the judges (some of who may be trainers of other competitors on stage so good luck overcoming that)
nicbou

wants to try too

though he's hardly the poet

that'd make someone wet
> Insects win the 'smallest' title - the Fairy Wasp is 0.13mm

I find this photo mesmerizing. It's almost as if it was digitally rendered, or sculptured with metal:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Mymarill...
Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project
Internet Archive forever!
Sir Dang

The angels sang

Sheriff of hacker news land

Have mercy on poor Nick the magic man
As someone who's worked in security at a couple of quickly-growing tech companies and is now back to a non-security engineering role, I would suggest being introspective about what you find fulfilling about software development and think about whether working in security will offer enough fulfillment to go to work every day.

At its best, security is about seeing what systems _can_ do rather than what they're intended to do. On the offensive side, this means doing research on where systems are weak or simulating attacker behavior. On the defensive side, this means deeply understanding systems in order to control their behavior and mitigate risk, building automation to avoid human fallibility, and ensuring you have the necessary visibility into your systems to detect when your defenses fail or your assumptions are violated. This type of security work can be very fulfilling, especially when finding ways to improve the security of your systems in a more usable way (or at least not-less-usable then before).

It's worth mentioning that at larger organizations, the security team typically can't accomplish their mission alone, and must collaborate with other engineering and non-engineering teams to learn what problems exist, get to a shared understanding of how important each problem is to address, and then go on to solve them. This means that at larger organizations, security can't really be successful or a fulfilling place to work without leadership that sees the value of security and is willing to prioritize and support it. Unlike software engineering teams which are likely increasing revenue, reducing cost, or doing something else more visible and valuable to company leaders, it's easy to view security as a cost to be minimized because it's value is harder to understand or compare.

At its worst, security is more a risk management process than an engineering one. There may well be legitimate business reasons for this, but it makes security much less fun to work on. There are any number of specific failure modes here, but some that come to mind: security becomes focused on scanning, testing, documenting and prioritizing problems, doing the bare minimum to address the worst problems to CYA; security is tasked with dragging an unwilling organization along a path of risk reduction that makes everyone unhappy through the process; or security is endlessly reactive to incidents and vulnerabilities that arise, and has very little time or energy to make things better.

If you can do security work at its best, it's a pretty awesome field to work in. On the other hand, from the "at its worst" perspective, software engineering looks a lot more fun. As you wade into the security field you should be aware of the organizations and types of work you pursue to ensure you'll be able to stay motivated and keep growing regardless of whether you ultimately choose security or not.
Not exactly news then, is it?
Cixin Liu's Postscript for the American Edition for “The Three Body Problem”
Those are all historically true, but after reading through them I see no causal or factual link between the article being discussed and the list provided.
Two hardest problems in IT: naming, cache invalidation and off by one.
Not only that but the execs and many pay themselves a nice fat salary with all the benefits and perks of course that most small to medium enterprises would be appalled at for a "struggling non-profit" that we have of their image.

From the banners one might conclude that they are facing imminent shut down and getting by in an unheated offices.

no way I'm giving them money especially after reading the threads here and people attack h_anna for exposing the truth.
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Movie actors, fitness/underwear models, basically everyone on the cover of Men's Health or on a movie poster. Hell, very significant % of not so impressingly looking guys in your local gym are on steroids. Just Google for stats on steroid usage, estimate how many people go to a gym and think what it means. The mystery of Hollywood diet and training to lose 10kg of fat and to put 5kg of muscle in 60 days starts to make sense as well.

In many areas of the world it's completely risk-free as well as you won't get busted for possession of Testosterone or even stuff like Trenbolone.
TL;DR: It's more of a narrative than an article so it's not really feasible to abbreviate it. Best abbreviation, but it tells you nothing useful: Woman becomes interested in female bodybuilding, pursues it, and discusses the history and trends of female bodybuilding over the years intermingled with her own pursuit.
> The vernacular names for some group of animals (or plants) needn’t correspond to some clade that gets a taxonomical name. Eg broccoli and cabbage are considered the same species, whereas ‘crab’ may refer to all sorts of largely unrelated animals.

Broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis) and cabbage (var. costata/italica) are bad examples [1], since subspecies and varieties are well defined as ranks in botanical taxonomy and there are regulatory structures based on them. I think a better example would be hybrids like plumcots which are crosses of multiple species. Fitting them cleanly into natural taxonomy is a huge mess - over evolutionary timescales hybrids usually outcompete, converge with, or diverge from their parents enough to clean up their taxa for us.

[1] https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=brol - Subordinate Taxa tab
http://archive.is/hXc15
But "dropping trade restrictions, import taxes and need for touristic visas" automatically leads to production shifting towards the countries with the loosest regulation and the lowest wages. So, you need at least a supranational regulation body that tries to make regulations uniform across the zone.

But then, you need a supranational body of elected officials to jointly control that regulation body, by passing legislation.

But then, you need an executive body that sets the agenda of the legislative body. And some judiciary mechanisms to handle transgressions to the laws and regulations coming from all these organs.

And then... you basically end up with something pretty similar to the EU as we know it.

(I'm not saying the EU is perfect, mind you. Just that they didn't create such a complex collection of institutions just "for the lulz")
> it's trivial to go there and get a non-complying gun.

Completely false. It’s illegal for an out of state dealer to sell you a gun (or for any dealer to sell you a gun without a background check), and it’s illegal for you to bring a gun back into California unless you lived outside the state, or it was a gift from a parent or child.

If you are willing to buy guns illegally, you can do so more easily within California than by going out of state to do so.
Aiden n zero

Became a virtual an hero

By reminding the mods

To ban clerihew clods
I initially thought that a ban on 'assault weapons' might make sense, but after learning more about firearms technology, I've come to the conclusion that 'assault weapons' just doesn't make sense as a legal classification. It's mostly about minor cosmetic and ergonomic features (such as having a pistol grip) that look scary to large segments of the population. A Mini-14 Ranch Rifle is nearly as capable as an AR-15, yet nobody is trying to ban it because it looks like a traditional hunting rifle. And there isn't really a clear-cut meaningful distinction between rifles and pistols; a so-called 'AR-15 pistol' is legally a pistol even though it can be easily converted to a rifle by replacing the arm brace with a stock (but to do so legally requires a $200 tax stamp if the barrel under 16 inches long).
It has emacs and a modern browser and a compiler, what else do you need?
I've written this before: Jeff Bezos has a hobby, Elon Musk is a man on a mission. Bezos doesn't live or die depending on how his space venture pans out, he's not hungry for it.

To Elon Musk everything he's done in his life so far has been so that he could eventually do this space thing and that is what defines him. The two couldn't be more different. For Elon failure is not an option, for Bezos it very much is.
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Further, a lower price for meat may stimulate demand but it will more likely suppress production rather than increase it.

You might have missed the premise where the reduced prices in meat are a direct result of competition and increased profits due to better margins on non-meat products. The specific demand elasticity is irrelevant for this scenario - as long as pig hides and lard are not Veblen goods.

If more consumer money is put into the animal product market then there are two possible outcomes: either they all go into the profits of the manufacturers in a perfectly monopolistic market, or they go towards higher quantities being produced in a competitive market. It's economically impossible to depress production by increasing demand for the products of a certain industry - except very particular market anomalies, luxury and status goods etc.
CIO in financial services here. Most security activity is/will be driven be external forces. Auditors, regulators, etc. This tends to drive organizations towards “checklist” security. Real security professionals know that it’s not really about “can we check the MFA box” it’s about HOW we implement MFA. Unfortunately, that discussion gets squeezed in favor of “we have to close this finding by the next risk committee meeting...”.
You need an archival node to store all the states and also monitor unconfirmed transactions. The primary client go-ethereum (geth) creates archival nodes that grow 1 terabyte per year (7tb now).

Despite archival nodes not being needed for consensus, some people’s kneejerk response is that this means Ethereum is not sustainable, but really geth just has unoptimal coding.

There are other clients out there that have chosen different data structures and reduced this by an order of magnitude. Turbo-geth, for example can sync an archival nodes at 1tb and is working on other improvements.

There is more support for geth at the moment but this is also an area of development if you want to improve upon.

Its likely many nodes out there are using their own optimizations and are not offered to the community.
> The author feels there is a double standard where the “white” US perpetually demonizes black and brown countries corruption while excusing their own corruption under the guise of “lobbying”, “speaking fees” and “dinners.”

Its sad because many people are not happy with all this lobbying, speaking fees, dinners, etc., but the author ignores this and acts like people in the US approve when. They really just don’t have any say in the occurrence.
I see both Cruise and Waymo routinely and maybe one other I am forgetting the name of right now.
> Americans have this thing called a fundraiser where you put a pile of bribes on a table, wave a wand of asparagus over it, and it just disappears. Access is still bought, but somehow because people ate food, it’s not corruption anymore. The press will literally report on the food.

I don't care if a politician gets paid 100,000 dollars for eating a meal because there's no obligation to do anything in return.

Imagine if there was a car dealership where everything was full price but the salesman didn't have to give you a car after they take your money unless they felt like it. The author of this article is saying that business model should be illegal, but only if you're a politician.
>Like I said “only insular population of us living in harsh climates”.

Which is almost everywhere on the planet beside tropics and subtropics before agriculture came to existence. It was natural for humans to live on a predominantly meat diet for a lot longer than it became fashionable to live from plants only.

>To contextualize, 100 kg (average yearly USA meat consumption per person) is around 2 kg per week, that is around 150 grams per meal (given 14 meals per week). I would say that qualifies as meat in almost every meal.

The population of the USA is only 4% of world population and Americans probably eat more than 2 two meals a day. So no, on average we do not eat meat almost every meal.
If we were to use sodium on such massive scale, I'm wondering what we would do with all the chlorine.
A long-time personal favourite naming scheme of mine has been Pokemons (and by extension, Digimons).

There's a good selection, it's pretty varied and there's no shortage of em (assuming you don't exceed 100-200 new systems in a 3 year period). This also has an accidental side-benefit of not being tasked to name new hosts at work, unless your really want to call the new database server Stufful, for example.

Another thing to keep in mind with more descriptive hostnames like `database`, is to serialize them from the start. It's a very minor thing but after you have three hosts with one of them missing the serialization, it's going to stand out like a sore thumb and it could be a major undertaking on changing that name where it's used.

When it comes to project names, there is a certain level of permanence that name (or codename) is going to have. Once chosen, that name will be thrown around in the codebase almost universally. The same does apply to the hostnames, at least in part when it comes to configuration files (and by extension, certain hard-coded hostnames that could linger around in the code years after the host in question has been decommissioned).
Laravel Livewire: An Introduction
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