skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you know that some developers intentionally add "time bomb" bugs and introduce bugs that trigger after certain period of time - just so that they knock it off with the hammer in one minute an justify their "maintenance support" contract.

there was a story about one european company and an Excel spreadsheet with VBA code that would stop working after 3 months and a developer who would "unlock" it for another 3 mo if he has a maintenance contract
Average age 40, as you said yourself. And then as the authors of this paper find, "Risks were greatest in, but not limited to, those who had severe COVID-19."
NASA releases new 3-minute video of rover Perseverance landing on Mars
Thanks for writing this up!

Ad the pilot of the plane with two 285HP piston engines with an MTOW around 5,700 pounds, I am curious: what kind of endurance could I get if I replaced my fuel tanks with about 1000 pounds of batteries and used your motors? Assume operating at 225 HP during climb, cruise and descent and full power during takeoff and initial climb out (5 minutes or less). Thanks! (Reference Cessna 310R for more details.)
As someone who worked in this field. Offering "options" when a vast majority of the user base don't even understand that their data is encrypted, is often a poor approach to take.

Users will forget their Master Passwords even and because they forgot them they will believe they've been "hacked" and blame you.

Users on Hacker News and similar sites where users actually understand the underlying technology to some degree are the exception, not the norm. Adding options does not help a vast majority of the user base and it complicates your codebase further. Imagine making that change and less than 1% of your users actually use that feature?
Different people are into different things. Some people are really into music and know all about many music festivals around the world. Others are into board games and know about board game conventions. Others are into e-sports and know about all the tournaments to go to. Others know everything about a sport or sports league.

Not being well-versed in the others isn't necessarily being sheltered, but a consequence of having a limited set of interests.
This method has been used twice, it is nowhere near human rated, hence why its called the 7 minutes of terror. For all the engineering, it has to be perfect or splat
You’ve got a pretty hostile nature to the way you reply to people.

Facts actually always tell the story and the “why” is more facts as well.
What if there were really good devs on StackOverflow in developing economies that were willing to take on $45/hr consulting because their day job pays them $20/hr?

Just because Silicon Valley developers want $300/hr doesn't mean the whole world regards that as a standard.
Two parties are both controlled by the same establishment elite cabal. They also control Big Business, Big Labor, Big Media, Big Tech, etc. It’s all in the open and there’s no question about it anymore.
FLoC: Google’s Plan to Kill Off Third-Party Cookies
This is a matter of administrating the law. If they're unwilling to do their job, they shouldn't have that job.
Microsoft, EU publishers seek Australia-style news payments
Some promises of Haskell.

Rust is still a very low level language, but if you like Haskell, you won't go into anything else when writing some low level program.
A default list (for core iOS) would be nice. I imagine the entire possible list could be infinite given Shortcuts and app-specific key phrases.

Edit: found a list online [1] - seems to cover a lot of default commands

[1] https://www.sparhandy.de/apple/info/siri-commands/
I myself been thinking, is it possible for the anti-stokes shift to take away more energy, than is spent on generating the original photon.

An idea for a cool glowy cooler
Structure is great for a well understood problem space, but this is not usually the case when working working something novel. As a researcher your focus should be on learning and problem solving, not creating a beautiful code base. Imposing too many constraints early on can negatively impact your project later on. In the worse case, your code starts to limit the way you think about your research. I agree that there are some general best practices that should be applied to nearly all forms of coding, but beyond that it's a balance.

The same thinking should be used when adding regulation to an industry. Heavy regulation on a rapid developing industry can stifle innovation. Regulation (if needed), should be applied as our understanding of the industry increases.
It's called a metaphor; most people learn about them in primary school, I believe, certainly before getting out of grade school.
Porsche Says Its Synthetic Fuel Could Make Gas-Powered Engines as Clean as EVs
Deriving two separate keys does indeed improve the situation, but still not ideal, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26230259
Hence my belief that it ain't a natural monopoly.
$45/hour is a good rate for Ukrainian developers, I think. Or Philippines developers.

That’s about USD $90,000/year.

This is good money, if you live remotely in a lower cost of living, foreign country. But it’s a mediocre salary in the United States. You can barely pay your expensive rent with $90k/year. Actually, you’d be at poverty level. And there is zero possibility of affording a house with this salary. But you might be able to eke by if you live in the less competitive Midwest.
Back in the late 90's a bunch got released early due to Y2K. So it balances out
If it is TOTP/HOTP based rather than U2F (6-digit codes), it is vulnerable to real-time spoofing.
I think it is mostly based on OOP paradigm, like principle of least knowledge.
Interesting idea.

When I use Fiverr to hire a dev, I often have to contact multiple prospective devs to figure out that their skills are a match for the problem I'm trying to solve. I'll chat to 5 (all who advertise python) and give a one line intro about the problem, and it's immediately clear than only 2 can or wish to do it. E.g if I need someone who specifically knows the Selenium package.

Do you have a similar mechanism that can help to match the right dev with the right customers?

Also, $1/minute is more expensive than Fiverr. For my quick projects I would still use Fiverr due to the cost savings. I'd expect to fork out $60 for a two hour project there. On the other hand, others here are saying that it's too low for their hourly rate. Some price flexibility might be a good idea?
This is incredibly impressive. I can't imagine the complexity and the effort it took to make the sky crane maneuver at the end possible.
Is it foolish to extrapolate that:

* we are at 20%

* we need to reach 80%

* we have 60% to go

* we got 6% in 22 days

* 60% / 6% in 22 days = 220 days until the country can reopen?
I hit this problem when contemplating exposing the API of the application I work on to customers, to be used in their automation scripts.

We quickly realized that expecting them to learn our data model and how to use it efficiently would be much more complicated than exposing every plausible use-case explicitly. We could do this on the "API front-end" by building a set of high-level utilities that would embed the GraphQL queries, but that would essentially double much of the work being done in the front-end (and more than double if some customers want to use Python scripting while others want JS and others want TCL or Perl).

So, we decided that the best place to expose those high-level abstractions is exactly the REST API, where it is maximally re-usable.
Bidens head of national security has ties to palantir. She consulted for them and then erased them from her website. I'm all in on palantir. They will get a fat contract within the next few years.
It got sent back via orbiters ranging from the ESA's Trace Gas orbiter, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter or Mars Odyssey. Through those they can get up to 2 megabits per second [0] back to earth but that depends a lot on the orbiter it's talking to at a given time. The TGO is doing a lot and is one of the early high speed relays for the data from Perseverance. [1] There's also direct links to and from Earth but they're significantly slower.

[0] https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/communicatio...

[1] https://scitechdaily.com/nasas-mars-2020-perseverance-rover-...
The trouble with your example is that it conflates common knowledge and expert opinion.

No one would question a parakeet trainer now if he claimed dogs respond to Pavlovian conditioning, because it is common knowledge that dogs respond to this type of conditioning.

However, if Pavlov had been a parakeet trainer and simply asserted dogs respond to Pavlovian conditioning rather than discovering and researching it, it would not have been an ad hominem argument to state he doesn't know what he's talking about... because he didn't until he studied and researched it.
> You may, and indeed we have, shut it down if a large part of the population were at risk of hospitalization or death

I wouldn't really call 1% of the population "a large part" of it. It's just, our healthcare capacity relative to the size of the overall population is miniscule. So even a disease that threatens .1% of the population with death and 1% with hospitalization is enough to overwhelm the healthcare system. And apparently policy makers aren't willing to let people die due to overwhelmed hospitals - they would rather shut down the entire economy than let that happen.

History will tell if that was the right decision. Almost nobody notices or remembers blips of abnormally high "excess deaths" for a particular year, but everyone notices and remembers economic depressions that last a decade.
Does Mindfulness Make You More Rational, or Just Happier?
They told people that they did have enough data, and that it was only “8% effective” in people over 65, which was 100% bullshit.

Preprint data on hospital admissions seems pretty encouraging for AZD-1222: https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n523
Isn't this what USDS and 18F are for?
Reader View for Chrome with Phrase Highlighting
The Sino-American War of 2025: A future history
We use the Neo4j graph database quite extensively, so a Neo4j driver / client SDK would be nice. And for intra service messaging we need a google cloud pubsub client library.
Happened here too.
Ask HN: Are you experiencing kernel panics on your M1 Mac?
I got an M1 MacBook Pro in January and I have experienced a couple of kernel panics.

One or two happened when the machine tried to go to sleep. The other happened during normal work.

I have the Docker Desktop Tech Preview installed, which mentions that it may cause panics. But the Docker VM was not running when the last kernel panic occurred.

Now I am wondering whether something is wrong with my machine or if this is a common issue with the new machines and just Big Sur being buggy?
This is a straw man. No one is censoring flat-earthers. We’re not burning people at the stake for practicing witchcraft or fucking stuffed animals or engaging in BDSM. This is about murder and terrorism. Be clear about what you’re defending if you’re so proud of it
No way! I am happy to have upgraded to 14000 ... about a month ago :)
A language being easy to write has no relation at all with it being easy to learn.
You can hedge power spikes, it’s the normal fixed cost pricing. Costs a bit more per kWh until it doesn’t.
Not at this time. Sequencing is cheap and easy, but hymenopteran genomics is a young field with many more open questions than answers; morphological taxonomy is much more mature, and aided besides by highly specific genital configurations which are, in no small number of cases, the only way currently known reliable of telling two macroscopically indistinguishable species apart. Too, in order to evaluate genomic relatedness precisely enough to update taxonomy, you need your sequence database to be broad as well as deep - unless you already have a broad and deep sequence database of other solitary bees, for example, it's hard to get very precise results out of a given solitary bee's genome. It may not even tell you anything you didn't already know.

In any case, it's not rare in the literature to encounter whole genera categorized almost entirely through analysis of the males' aedagi, with microscopic imagery and line drawings included to highlight features by which distinctions are made. Some of these features are only easily distinguished at SEM scale, so that's what is used.

That said, it's thought among at least some taxonomists that these unique and incompatible genital configurations may be the only thing that prevents interfertility among individuals of these otherwise separate species. So it's going to be really interesting to see what comes out of genomics as applied to the Hymenoptera over the next decade or so - something else that's not rare in the literature is to encounter reclassifications and rearrangements of large branches of the family's taxonomic tree, as phylogenetic research heavily revises prior results. Beyond that, there's a lot else coming out of genomic research into the family, including a rare example of heritable mutualism between a virus and a eukaryote in the form of Bracovirus [1] [2].

So, while yours is a fair question, there is a lot going on with hymenopteran genomics and phylogenetics these days, and my understanding as an interested amateur who does a great deal of reading in the literature is that, for the moment at least, established taxonomical methods still are likely to provide a more precise, albeit still provisional, placement of an otherwise ill-characterized species. In a decade or two, though, that might no longer be the case.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracovirus

[2] https://jvi.asm.org/content/87/17/9649
Yes. Part of the value prop of these services is they have experts who are better qualified to make these decisions than I am.
Video shows Perseverance rover's dramatic Mars landing
Maybe it's either-or. Or, the "what a government can do" could be limited in such a way that it also includes imposing aggressive antitrust law.
While I agree with you on the familiarity across different projects (and I applaud ideas like gofmt) - it's also very verbose code (due to the simplicity of the language).

That makes it very hard to read go code and build a mental model in your head.
That was an extreme example. My point was more that it's technically possible to enjoy your car and have privacy. There's just no incentive for car manufacturers to not control your data. If there was user friendly was to have control of the data by running on either your own computer or have it hosted somewhere without having to think about it that would be ideal.
There's been some recent discussion as to whether tree-sitter grammars can be used to parse markdown with some hacks or not (currently it's being done by working around all the tree-sitter machinery, resulting in a lot of problems), with no consensus among plugin authors:

https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/issues/87...

Could you possibly chime into that discussion and help them with any possible insights you might have on that? That would be really awesome! TIA <3
> This article seems to suggest the answer is a fully automated smart home, with some kind of AI to intelligently manage your power usage. Sounds awesome, but I don't think that's ever going to be a reality outside the valley.

It's not the answer yet. But I'd be very surprised if it wasn't the norm in developed nations in 10-20 years. It's an obvious response to inconsistent generation from renewables, and the technology itself is straightforward.
It's important to clone cute animals. That's how you do a social media campaign. No one wants to see endangered ugly bats (although they're probably important for some purpose).
I mean, except you can do the latter. The whole "must cover pre-existing conditions" thing. Market still manages to function, and even without the individual mandate. How exactly? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Agreed, plus the day to day answering developer questions is going to be a little more tame than if you were in a job constantly putting out fires or maintaining a tight and stressful schedule
IMHO, just use GitLab.com or GitHub.com's personal private repos options.
Yes, I think especially so in industries the average person doesn’t understand well, like electricity spot markets.
There’s not really much data on what the most effective interval is, though I think some data might come out of Israel and the NHS will probably try to conduct some randomised controlled trials. The choices made in the phase 3 clinical trials were driven by trying to pick a sufficiently large dose that the trial would succeed and as short an interval as reasonable to make the trials take less time. For other vaccines, larger intervals have been more effective. Given how unwilling politicians were to speed up rollout, I think aiming for maximum efficacy with minimum trial latency was the best decision the drug companies could have made.
I think something like singer.io can be "microframework of ETL" or rather ELT which is a better idea anyway. But of course, it has its own challenges.
Indeed, that's contradiction in terms worthy of textbooks.
No need for it, from your perspective, sure. It totally solves a lot of shortcomings your API is forcing on its consumers though.
The ATF is giving out machine guns, whether you want one or not
Actually in many suburban and exurban places, more chemicals are used in lawns than in farms. On farms they have to watch their costs since they have very tight margins. A person spraying their yard every so often may get 2x or 3x what they need, just to be "safe" and then go ahead and spray any left overs until it is all gone, because why not. Same goes with fertilizer.

This isn't to say that farms don't have this problem, they definitely do.
>>Video calls? Skype initial release was in 2003.

The first commercial software application for point-to-point video calls is CUSeeme and it was released in 1992.

The first concert to be live-streamed over the Internet was in 1993. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbone
Maybe not giving big anything tax breaks or funding would help solve some of the problems.
Sorta but in a lot of TikTok niches the endgame isn't really a video, that's just how it's presented. All the hobbyist communities make videos that show off their work and inspire others in their bubble. Like sure the video is "entertainment" in that it holds your attention but that's pretty much the extent of it.

Like hobby TikTok is genuinely just a bunch of nerds being genuinely excited to show you something they're passionate about or something they made. It's so god damn refreshing. Like the early days of Tumblr.
The reviews are actually listed/linked at the bottom of each product page.
It's not so much the "fingerprinting" - it's more that there are some words ("type 1") that have many relatively frequent words that sound like them, and there are other words ("type 2") that only have a very few other words (and infrequent ones at that) that sound like them.

Type 2 words make better potential wake words.

(That's not the whole story, but I think it's good model.)
So, a syntactic tree is a list of elements, grouped by their ordering, which are to be parsed from their arguments, as they appeared in the input. Or a grammar tree, which is a set of elements.
There's many things we can do to make Tree-sitter simpler to read and write. Perhaps, like in Perl, there are syntactic categories of types that make it much easier to find things like nodes in a tree, since they're the ones that come in the input. Or I'd be willing to say that maybe, like in Haskell, certain aspects of the language, are syntactic categories, like the parser. So some things that might not be obvious in code, like what the syntax for a class of names is, might be obvious in theory, too. Or, at least they might be obvious in a particular way. Or some aspects of the compiler are really special, and we can infer those in terms of what the compiler does.
Or, of course, we can do all these other things, too. We can rewrite the parser, or the compiler, to try to do more or less anything that the parser does. Or maybe we can make Tree-sitter a lot simpler in general. Which I think is probably what you've been thinking about.
> Send numbers as string [...]

Why? Why not send a number as number (double) and treat it as hostile in the backend? I dislike sending numbers as string because I think the different data types exist for a reason.
Sorry about that! I'll try to be more clear:

Patients see improvement in symptoms after 6 months, with some patients reporting improvement as soon as 6 weeks.

If patients stays on drops for 5 years, they can expect significant decrease in allergy symptoms for decades, even once they have stopped taking a daily allergy drop.

If the patient stops taking their allergy drops, they will still see a reduction of their allergy symptoms, but it won't last for decades -- it may only last a few months.
I suspect the original poster was being sarcastic. But maybe not.
Recognising creativity is also creative. Art is in the eye of the beholder (not necessarily the creator).

Something can be authored that was unintentionally interesting, but amplified by the creative recognition of some weird facet. For example cat videos - the cat isn’t trying to get likes! Edit: or a security camera video where there is zero intent to create, and the art is in the recognition of the clip by everybody.
Results need to be refined so that the way they were first formulated doesn't get in the way of their replication. At scale, this too becomes a cost to industry.

In the small, this isn't different from taking a lab notebook and making it clearer and better summarized so that it can be passed on to the poor sucker who has to do what you did after you move on to another project.

Furthermore, software projects that are put under the same iterative stress you imply for R&D inevitably go through a refactoring phase so that performance isn't affected in the long run.
It’s high risk, low reward too. The upside is a small reduction in my monthly power bill. The downside is ...this. If you want griddy+calls, you can get that already in the form of a traditional electricity service.
There is a SF novel that taps into these ideas:

The Player of Games, by Iain M. Banks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(Black_Mirror)
And it’s been continued, to an extent, by folks like Deadmau5 and Marshmello.

I wonder if any groups have stand ins ready to don the mantle for live performances if there were ever, for whatever reason, a double booking.
The How and Why of End-to-End Testing
It’s how it looked to the virus that really matters. Large urban populations, massive global movements of people, no vaccine. I think from an epidemiological point of view it really wasn’t all that different. Was it really all that different in terms of day to day economic contact either? Urban sprawl, shopping centres, industry, trains, trucks, telecommunications, global freight. Businesses losing workers and customers had basically the same problems.

Sure the Chinese government can’t be trusted, but there are plenty of foreigners in China these days, including journalists. My wife is Chinese and we’re in almost daily contact with family over there. When it comes to general movements of the population and public or industrial policy these things come out eventually.
This has always surprised me, since I learned it.

What are the features of Smalltalk that allowed this to happen? Conversely, what is stopping this from existing in more modern dynamic languages?
They aren't getting disconnected, the power is going out because the operator didn't add enough margin into their system to handle abnormal events. In the race to offer the lowest possible price per kWh they made the system unsafe for sensitive groups.
Had not thought of it that way.

I am just overly concerned about internet congestion ...

... but, as somebody upthread rightly points out, it's all video anyway.

(Porn, I posit ...)
What Does a Photon Look Like?
Definitely a cuteness bias here.