skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To make the truth seem like an acceptable parallel universe, and then join it.
Teleologically speaking, that's one of its uses... But I think the whole point of sci-fi is more about story-telling through "what-ifs" of varying feasibility driven by vision and imagination. It's easy for that to become ideological commentary, even propaganda because our visions are affected by our worldview. But personally, I still wouldn't say that commentary defines any genre of writing besides commentary.
Wolfson up in scotland did design for fpga which booted apple into a different place then apple disintermediated wolfson
Eh, the US so incredibly mishandled the pandemic that we ended up with >400k unnecessary dead. The fact that school weren't handled well is just one aspect of the failure.
The Post-it was but a cache.
Phash.org: the open source perceptual hash library (2009)
Other people are thinking along the same lines:

https://graymirror.substack.com/p/tech-solutions-to-the-tech...
> If nothing else, can you actually imagine a politician celebrating houses going down in price

This is a big part of the problem imho - its a treadmill that you can't get off. With an ageing population that all own houses and getting generally more conservative, I can't see it changing any time soon. It strikes me as odd that everything is getting cheaper except houses - and you may say its land, but if thats the case apartments should be getting cheaper.
Platform customers pay for a managed hosted instance whitelabeled to their brand for them to run Singlelink on, which usually they make modifications to to set it apart from Singlelink. For example, tinypage is built by a marketing agency that provides Singlelink building as a service, and we also have a “Singlelink for hairdressers” platform customer with custom features to export your profile as an app to show their clients.
For most of us 2FA as it is works fine. Until I become a CIA operative or drug dealer I suspect the current setups are fine via companies like authy, 1Pass, and google auth.
The prohibitive cost of nuclear plants is driven by policy- not economics. Obviously the world built a plethora of economically feasible nuclear power plants in the 1960s. It's not like we collectively lost that technology.

Instead what happened is that anti-nuclear activists put up arbitrary regulatory barriers to construction. Three-Mile Island provided the political catalyst for a massive regulatory burden on new construction. Most of these burdens have an at best minor impact on safety, but at the cost of astronomical impact on cost.

Now maybe you can debate about whether loosening nuclear regulations to decrease cost is acceptable or not. But at the very least that's at least a debate we should be having. It's certainly the case that a lot of people will die from unmitigated climate change. Not to mention the enormous economic and environmental toll. Against that, I would gladly trade off a Three-Mile Island incident every decade or so.
Let’s redesign the laptop for a work-from-home era
This isn’t true, you could still mine (poorly) with reduced RAM by recomputing as needed. And I’m not sure what you mean by “clocking-in” a share in a useful timespan. Compromised devices aren’t people, so they don’t care if a particular machine can’t get regular payouts. If the whole network can reliably find a low diff share solutions anywhere it can make money.

It would be horribly inefficient however a network of tens or hundreds of thousands of low resource units can absolutely make money since the costs are zero.
How do you guarantee the coach is going to give me value? As far as I can tell, there doesn't seem like a cap on the number of people in any group, there could be a dozen or a few hundred. What is the coaches value to me if I'm one of the few hundred people in a group?
>How does that solve the problem if there is enough primary residence demand to push up prices to unaffordable levels?

That mostly doesn't happen because sid countries don't generally have California style zoning (though their byzantine permitting and regulatory compliance processes are just as good as CA or NYC's when it comes to raising construction costs).
This may shock you, but kids do exactly the same kind of thing in regards to clothes, food, and even inanities like brands of pens and pencils.
The event they're talking about killed 2 and critically injured 14 more when WP was used over an in use UN run school. I'm not sure how you attached to the property damage component, but it's not a core piece of the argument being made by me or Amnesty International.

Here's a better complete overview of the topic: https://www.hrw.org/report/2009/03/25/rain-fire/israels-unla...

Edit in response to your edit: It's not the incindiary part of WP that's an issue, it's the chemical toxicity to humans and animals. Hamas has not used anything approaching chemical weapons by any definition against Israel, despite your attempt to deflect.
Yep, I sensed a similar relaxation when reading this. But whatever, don't be silly, title it long enough as it is.

Anyway, what I'm actually thinking when something like this is disclosed is how many more similar things must be known to a team of malicious professionals at Unit 8200 or whatever. I don't think I would reasonably suspect "git clone" being capable of something like that. How many more things I don't suspect to be dangerous actually are? It feels almost pointless to worry about it.
Good for you. Now try getting a job with that on your resume.
Switchbacks Science: Explaining Parker Solar Probe’s Magnetic Puzzle
We couldn't find a commercial model for stdlib.com alone; which means we couldn't support a team to build it. We learned that we needed to be able to provide significant value upfront instead of asking developers to rely on an unproven standardization scheme.
Remember, the CDC was utterly compromised for the last four years. It was being run by a quack and its researchers denied access to epidemiological data. Expecting it to be functioning again immediately after years of assault and damage is unreasonable.
That's an interesting take, and I considered originally mentioning an AI that could auto-tag groups of messages. I honestly wrote this as a starter simply because I don't think there's nearly enough attention on innovation in chat-related spaces.

To some degree that means our present products do a good enough job, but at least from observation, I think those products lack a bit of out-of-the-box thinking that I tried to present here.
Serious question: what can you do as an accredited investor that you can’t do otherwise? Why would you be way wealthier? PreIPO companies, sure, but where do you even trade that stuff?
Not a health professional, but seeing the success of the New Zealand lockdowns, I don't think I agree with this stance. Long lockdowns of many months surely have huge impacts to mental health, and business viability, especially when governments don't step up with financial assistance to allow people to stay at home.

But I can't move past the idea that if the entire world had just locked down, all together, for 2 months or so, we could have stopped this whole thing dead.
OP here. You don’t, and that’s not what I wrote about here. You’re comparing bare metal
mainframe-like architecture to the cloud serverless paradigm. The “Pricing” section in the article might give an idea.
I've heard from teacher friends that the year a boy hits puberty is basically a write-off academically
> That’s spreading the cost of one plant, once incident. There are a lot more plants and Japan isn’t the most geologically stable place.

I think it would be worth comparing to the costs of incidents with other energy forms. Deepwater Horizon comes to mind with a cost 2 or 3 times that number (not counting fines). To say nothing of all the spills/incidents we don't hear about with tankers spilling/leaking on the open waters, just far enough away nobody notices.
I'm coming around to the position that pure "async" is OK, and pure threading is OK, and green threads (as in Go goroutines) are OK, but having more than one of those in a language is not OK. They do not get along well.
More in general, they're so big they won't fail, there is not much pressure on making the right choice but in showing someone we thought about things.

Also, the bigger the company the duller the job. After a while you just implement the damn button and stop caring or looking for improvements.
Interesting. Seems like that would be a fire hazard, or was there a hold-to-escape type crashbar?
Hey there. I'm on a 1366 x 768 chromebook and I couldn't see the yellow dot until I zoomed out. I was confused for a while :)

Very fun, looks great!
Git Clone Vulnerability
Sounds like they are attempting to stop the unauthorized/compromised versions from working with legit versions, or some sort of validation routine such as keys only provided to the client if installed via legit means and passes some sort of local audit (yes, all defeatable, but making the process harder).
Actual experts have studied this. Full decarbonization by 2050 with <2% GPD spending per year. No new, and phasing out existing nuclear. Overprovision renewables and produce carbon neutral synthetic fuels with excess power production. Nuclear will never power chainsaws which many across the world depend on.

https://www.evolved.energy/post/2016/02/16/deep-decarbonizat...
This seems like a fake story with a moral message: Don't invest in metals and things, look how it turned out for this guy who's clearly richer and more intelligent than you are.
The headline oversells it but your comment undersells it.

The specific person and set of other employees were "a group of men in leadership positions on the sales team", including the "sales director". When found out,

> Verkada CEO Filip Kaliszan gave employees in the Slack channel [i.e. those involved] a choice: leave the company or have their stock options reduced. All of them chose to stay and take the stock option cut, according to Vice. “I was shocked. To me that’s not just a fireable offense, that’s a career-ending offense,” one employee told IPVM.
... this too, though most people we met were polite enough to not argue this point too aggressively. :)
The Andromeda Strain continues to offer context for considering possible futures
Of course there are legitimate cases that want to use these features, but I have my serious doubt there's enough legitimate market to support such a price.
If your question is specific to the Ars Technica subscription, there is no authentication. Each subscriber is given a unique feed link (for whatever they want to subscribe to) so any fetch operation for the link is tied to the subscriber. Ars says that it monitors the use of feeds and will take action if any abuse is detected, but doesn’t go too deep into explaining that part.

Some other services like Stratechery follow the same model, AFAIK.
Isn’t the Go solution green threads on top of hardware threads?

Lots of green threads get load balanced on top of a thread pool. Isn’t that the whole unique aspect of Go? So in essence they do both.
This link sends me to Medium's sign-in page.
Where Did Gmail Labs Go?
I'm not sure "switched" is the right word. Minecraft is still massively popular.

Anecdotally, the elementary school crowd my son plays games with play both with regularity.
> not-totally-unreasonable workflows that do clones as root

Uh... really? Like what?
Noobskin is a phrase used in a similar situation. If you didn't pay for your avatar people notice.
That's too bad. Makes you wonder if they shouldn't cancel or delay for another year (with a reset to the timing of the games that follow) while the vaccines get rolled out and we see how much normalcy can be regained.
Biden Flashes Warning to Big Tech as Antitrust Team Takes Shape
> Ok, so solar and wind are great, but now you're building massive batteries to store the energy at night. That's expensive, no?

Yes, but remember that any nuclear plant whose construction is started now will not be available for about 10 years. So it will be competing with the storage technologies of maybe 8 years from now. Given the rate of improvement in cost, it's very likely IMO that nuclear will be more expensive than just synthesizing the equivalent baseload source from renewables and storage.

https://model.energy/
That's an evocative title.
There’s certainly overlap, but more accurate to use them towards counting toward herd immunity.

Recommendation is to get vaccine, but the site isn’t for vaccination, it’s for herd immunity.

So right now it’s really off because it’s missing ~20M people who count toward herd.
I think the idea is that they do not present as competing paradigms.

Go green threads or go routine are the only visible constructs to users. Whereas the hardware threads are not usable to users.

Edit:
From the perspective of mutli-paradigm, C++ is truely a unique language. It not only has multiple paradigms, and largely contains them in a relatively harmony state.
I've also gotten back into running and love, I look forward to my runs, but gyms offer much more in the sense that you get access to equipment.

Running is cheap, and I happily pay for the nice things I use to run. $200 shoes every few months, no problem. $60/year for strava to track my goals, runs, best time, and be competitive with my friends, gladly pay that.

Paying $100 for a 3 months training program in person is different than a large group virtual training program for about the same price. IMO the economy at scales should make this app much cheaper.

I guess I also just don't understand how this works as there's not really any good videos, or demos on what exactly a session looks like. On the flip side of that, to cancel the trial you have to email them
No evil intent is needed. You think an 8 year old won't point out that they're "better" all on their own just because they have something another child hasn't?
We leave that out because it's irrelevant to whether nuclear or renewables should be used to replace fossil fuels.
IIRC, one of the main people at Ars (Aurich?) dislikes RSS a lot and believes that it’s painful to support for Ars’s format and articles.
When Microsoft Exchange servers were hacked a few days ago, people on hacker news were talking about how most companies are not capable of securing their own on-premise systems and they should have used Office 365. There really isn't a perfect solution. There are trade-offs.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resolut...

> The following is a list of United Nations resolutions concerning Israel. As of 2013, Israel had been condemned in 45 resolutions by the United Nations Human Rights Council. Since the creation of the Council in 2006, it has resolved almost more resolutions condemning Israel than on the rest of the world combined. The 45 resolutions comprised almost half (45.9%) of all country-specific resolutions passed by the Council, not counting those under Agenda Item 10 (countries requiring technical assistance).

Are you seriously claiming that Israel has committed about the same amount of atrocities as the rest of the world combined?

Just one example from one country that is not Israel: an estimated 500k civilians have been killed as direct result of the Syrian regimes' atrocities over the past decade alone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war

How many Palestinian in total, including combatants, died in decades of conflicts with Israel?

Fewer than 10k according to the highest estimates.

You are welcome to keep believing that this is all fine, and there's no bias or Antisemitism here. This is certainly the convenient and politically expedient belief to hold.
That's such a zero sum attitude.

Google gives back much more than most companies. Who cares how much they make from open source? Its not like open source comes with a price tag.
One of OVH's datacenter in Strasbourg, France is literally on fire
Is there a place we can see the source for that Halo API binding?
I really loved CODE. Some of these suggestions are more similar to it than others, but they are all worth reading or viewing:

-"Gödel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter is more whimsical and meandering, but has a similar technique of building from the ground up.

-"The Code Book" by Simon Singh is more of a history book, but it has some of the same "feel" in the progression of complexity, even if it will not truly teach you much cryptography.

-The Feynman lectures on physics, which are probably as close as you'll get in tone: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

-And this is a video, not a book, but it stands out to me as a fantastic piece of science communication that is worthy of mention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKqof77pKBc (34C3 - Free Electron Lasers)
You've given a much better explanation of it than I have. I was trying to think if there is some interesting property of the generalization of this (generalize the quotients/generalize the directions) or if it is all just a trivial consequence of primality.

I guess the generalization here is choose a set {primes}, create a shape (I believe that would be called a prime lattice or something?) w/ Product({primes}) sides and all primes > Product({primes}) are of the form {Product({primes}) + Set_of_Primes/{primes} mod Product({primes})}. I'm not sure how to get the inductive proof that these moves converge within the lattice for all {primes}.
> At the same time, they have not served to control the epidemic in the places where they have been most vigorously imposed. In the US, they have – at best – protected the "non-essential" class from COVID, while exposing the essential working class to the disease.

This particular point is bad. Lockdowns have been imposed much more strongly in several places, and they were effective there.

I agree that the US/Europe's half-assed lockdowns are probably doing more harm than good.
One difference is it increases the supply, no? With shareholders selling existing shares it's more of a zero sum game.

I don't know if that's an important difference, but it has a different feel to it.
Such a shame that we didn't get to have super cheap, nearly unlimited power by proliferating nuclear because people are stupid and panic over statistical anomalies like Chernobyl and politicians/their constituents purposely made nuclear too overencumbered with BS to be profitable half the time. No doubt fossil fuel companies et al played into this because nuclear was such an existential threat to them. We could have been living in an energy utopia but we weren't ready.
Yeah exactly. I sometimes use it to view documents in a pinch but vast majority of everything I do is on a desktop/laptop. When I backup all I have to do is copy one folder over to my desktop and that folder also gets backed up to icloud. Iphone also obviously will reinstall the apps that I use if I need to switch devices. It works pretty well. my phone isn't the center of my world and in general I don't care about keeping old conversations on chat apps and such. Some people want to keep all their data into perpetuity but I don't.
Procedurally generated things are not always as expected:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG_ErhAeROU
this coupled with deep fakes... could make things go really wrong in our societies. Demographic collapse inbound in 3,2,1.
It is not yet confirm that vaccinated people are not able to carry the virus and pass to others. One could still be infected after vaccinated. Please correct me if the latest study or vaccine shows otherwise.
As I read through the database example, I saw that the compiler just caught a multi-threading bug for the author, and instead of being thankful, he’s complaining that Rust is bad.

I think he should use a higher level framework, or wait a few years for them to mature, and use a garbage collected language until then.
German Underwater Robot Lifts Victims to the Surface When They’re Drowning
https://tt-rss.org/ host your own RSS server
No, it's because nuclear fell out of the running economically. In large part this was due to the steady advance in gas turbine (and combined cycle) power plants. The capital cost of these plants is just incredibly low, 10-20 times cheaper per kW than a nuclear plant.
One way you can find what’s interesting to you from the HN crowd is to go to hn.algolia.com, search for stories by date and enter keywords like “Ask HN”, “recommend”, “blog”, “follow”, etc. Over the years there have been many “Ask HN” posts about what sites to follow. You may initiate one too, preferably after narrowing down on interest areas and including examples of what you’ve found.
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Americans should be made aware of how much cheaper it is in e.g. Europe. Companies are robbing us because most people think this is normal
Yes and the fatal accident rate for commercial airlines, based on some quick googling, is 0.27 incidents per million flights.

We’ve had at least 3 nuclear disasters (Chernobyl, Fukushima and There Mile Island) and Google suggests there are 440 reactors in the world (current; so add a few more for decommissioned).
As far as I know, all versions of the vaccine reduce symptoms for the vaccinated, but they can still catch covid and transmit it to others. That’s a risk to a large unvaccinated local population.
He says you can't "combine" percentages, not that you can't "compare" percentages, "you can't add and substract between them".
>>for 2 months or so, we could have stopped this whole thing dead.

The virus would have survived somewhere in the world, and quickly began spreading once the 2 month lockdown ended.

New Zealand has a very low population density, including in its largest city, and is geographically very isolated. What applies there doesn't apply in most places.

New Zealand also has had to close its border completely for over a year, and even recently Auckland had to do another lockdown because there were new cases.

Locking down the entirety of society, to stop a virus with a 99.6% survival rate and with the under 70 cohort severely underrepresented among the fatal cases is not reasonable.
This is how we become doctors. And we don't have the excuse that a swashbuckling frontend dev could literally kill people.
And are predominantly in the age group most at risk which will surely cloud their judgement
That’s largely because Coal had fallen off a cliff almost everywhere else. China got 80% of it’s power from coal in 2010 and that’s down to 57.7% in 2019.
> Who uses those for desktop applications?

I do.

> AFAIK there still aren’t many quick provisioning tools for e.g. VMWare

I use VirtualBox. I boot just about any Linux distribution's live Desktop image without any hard drive attached (so, ramdisk only). Then curl a script to download and install any dependencies. After a few minutes I'm off to the races.
See "xenon poisoning".
defacto monopolies in the US is robbing basically everyone there.
I'm surprised Rust went with a Scala-inspired async/await considering it wasn't well-liked outside of PLT enthusiasts. JavaScript adopted it as I don't think you could bolt any other type of sugar on top of the event loop in browsers... but Rust shouldn't suffer from such baggage.
It says a great deal about the CEO's character and judgment that he even considered for a moment not firing everyone involved.
> We need nuclear because closing the gap between 80% and 100% clean energy

Nuclear would be terrible for this. The last 20% of demand not served by renewables is highly intermittent, a market for which nuclear would be a very poor solution. If one is not using nuclear for base load, one should not use nuclear at all.