skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A $2.2 billion loan to a country with a concerning GDP [1] and a third of its population in poverty is one way to expand your reach. China is really busy.

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/egypt/gdp
> High on the hog by the standards of the big coastal cities, or high on the hog by the standards of Midwestern or Southern small towns?

Does it matter? Coastal cities have been rich for a long time. DC pulling away from the median dates to 2006.
>AFAIK peppers are native to the Americas

You are right, the oldest proven use and origin of pepper is from Mexico, exported from the portugese all over the world...but the chinese and india peppers are still a bit of a mystery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chili_pepper
Check Eduke32.
Really liked the introduction, it resonates a lot with what I've been thinking for a while.
You could have something generating a sequence, say PI to infinite digits, and then 'executing' instructions based on those digits. You'd have to design the 'language' very carefully so that any errors or nonsensical series of instructions were ignored or recovered from. Some way of avoiding infinite loops. Hmmmm. It's probably not possible to guarantee that it wouldn't get stuck in a loop eventually (which would mean complexity would no longer increase).

My bet is on this being impossible to continue indefinitely due to the halting problem implying that it would fall into a loop eventually.
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That's the sort of bug you suddenly wake up and think of a week after the game has shipped.
Second start of fire (smoke) in SBG1 datacenter at OVHCloud
You can find it and play System Shock and its sequel Skynet using Dosbox. It was a clear breakthrough at the time, as was UUW2.
Right. VOA is pretty much a mini American BBC nowadays.

I think people that call it propaganda are judging it based on the Cold War era VOA.
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> However, again, size per drive is a red herring. What matters is the capacity you can fit into a system, whether it's a laptop or a server.

I agree, but the argument I'm making is about cost per terabyte. I'm not inappropriately clinging to terabytes per drive.

> What you're now suggesting is no more than what I suggested nearly a day and several posts ago (look for "drive manufacturers could help"), which you and "others" took issue with.

I didn't take issue with smaller or multi-component drives existing, I just don't think they are necessary for all use cases. I was referring to what you said before on purpose, but disagreeing with the conclusion that "mostly we'd all better get used to higher drive counts". I got the impression you were treating it as a temporary transition measure.
I think the catch is that you aren't keeping the number normalized. Significant digits somewhat assume scientific notation. So that last number is 9.9e-1. Two digits.
This seems pretty elitist. I think being able to communicate effectively and concisely is important. When Abraham Lincoln gave his famous speech it was noteworthy for lasting minutes when normally politicians would go on for hours. Many critics said the same thing about the Gettysburg Address as you are saying about memes. For the time, that was so much shorter than a usual speech, it was effectively a sound bite (and hey, people are still talking about it today, wadda ya know?).

If someone can use memes to communicate effectively, awesome. Most people suck at discourse in general, it's not limited to memes.
Yeah of course they're not. My post is about not being able to contact an embassy (or any other critical service) that offers only a web interface, when you have embassy-relevant business to discuss. It happens that the very time when you most might need the service of an embassy coincides with times when you are least likely to be able to access the internet: freshly arriving on foreign soil. The post is not about expecting the embassy to fix your internet connection, just to anticipate your lack of it.
Do you have a counter factual?

It seems to me too early to predict a lot about Eastern Europe. < 20 years is not a long time. 2007 means that the first children born after Romania joined the EU are 8 years away from leaving university.

You could very well be correct, but I'd want to see some countries that tried this a lot longer ago.
In terms of feedback on the title, I'm going to say that I feel really burned by the phrase "think globally, act locally"

I was around 8 years old when I first heard the phrase (in the 80's)

We've known for longer than my entire life that carbon was a problem. That it was an existential threat to life on this planet.

But the politicians and the lobbyists cooked up stories and slogans like that to try and obfuscate the problem.

They tried to convoy people that if we all just recycled a little bit better we had a chance to save the world.

I've lived my whole life believing that the small steps I was taking were what it would take to make sure the world wouldn't end in catastrophe.

This was a lie then. It is a lie now.

One container ship sailing from China to Vancouver spews more carbon than I've produced in my whole life. Many times more than the amount I've saved via a lifetime of small "think local" effort.

We don't need "think global, act local" we need draconian legislation that forces the big players to step the fuck up and pay for the shit they spew.

The theme of the article itself sounds to me to be more about "preparing for the coming decarbonization gold rush" ... And making sure it happens.
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Developer behind the FlickType Watch app sues Apple for anticompetitive behavior
then all student loans would be be via the government, as why would any financial institution loan the money at 0% even more so now, with the level of default that high?

Is that possible, certainly, is there enough will from the people of the U.S. to make it a priority to pay an increase in taxes, no.

I think people should be responsible with their choices and that these sort of debts should require a class be taken before you have access to this level of debt.
Here is an extreme example: suppose you are an HIV skeptic who believes that AIDS is not caused by the HIV virus but rather by drugs [1]. How large a study would you need to falsify your hypothesis?

Answer: one HIV-positive subject, left untreated, would be enough, if that person were otherwise healthy. If that person died of AIDS, that would leave one of two possibilities:

1. HIV causes AIDS, or

2. Something else causes AIDS and that person JUST HAPPENED to have that other causal factor AND a (harmless) HIV infection.

The odds of #2 are low (because AIDS and HIV infections are both uncommon) so that just leaves the first possibility.

As a side-note, that experiment was actually done by an HIV skeptic, on both herself and her unfortunate daughter [2]. Needless to say, both are now dead.

[1] http://duesberg.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Maggiore
The libraries that make my job easier are in python. A language ecosystem is often more important than the language itself.
Clicked link but found no info. Is this some clever new marketing trick?
It's less whether you're a conservative than that almost all of the people pushing this as a story are, and they're doing it with the intention of politicizing it so you really want to look for primary sources and make sure that critical details aren't being removed.

Librarians are generally quite opposed to banning books and I haven't seen any sign that this is different: some large systems (e.g. NYPL) have said they're keeping them in the general collection and others (e.g. Chicago) have said that they're temporarily removing them from circulation while deciding what to do long-term. I would bet that the major of local decisions will end up being along the lines of either not shelving them in the children's section or having some kind of contextual note for people who request it.
So old
There were rumors that minor disruptions could cause shortages but supply was still having no trouble meeting demand (that is until COVID)
"Pretty handsome" is relative. Pewdiepie is a good-looking guy, but his analogues on Instagram are 1000x more so. And I can't imagine someone like Casey Neistat becoming remotely as big an Instagram star as he is on YouTube.

It's also telling how male the list is.
I think you missed what they found weird. The subject for that was that 0.0491 only has three significant digits. It is not obvious why, if you don't normalize the number.
> The vaccine (...) uses messenger RNA, or mRNA, to carry instructions into the human body for making proteins that prime it to attack a specific virus.

I love how this technology turns a medical challenges into a software problem. Being able to code medicine will open up an affordable way to personalized drugs, instead of the current day "one size fits all" solutions. What a time to be alive!
There isn't law that mandates they split security updates from feature updates.

What if they rewrote a component to have new features and it also fixed a security issue?

What's the difference between a security patch and a bug fix?

At the end of the day if someone gets so angry that Microsoft added Paint 3D in an update that they disabled updates.

What's the obligation here?
They chose not to update their computer.
A bunch of people quit and now I'm the most senior engineering person around. But I'm not senior _enough_ to stop the non-tech founders and other C-levels from doing the wrong thing, and it feels like most of the stuff we do day-to-day is just feel-good theater.

It's not fulfilling, and the company is in massive disarray, but I stay because: I like my direct reports and other engineering colleagues; we have a fair bit of runway and the pay is decent; and in practice I have no immediate boss at this point, so things are pretty flexible for me personally.

I'm thinking about taking a pay cut and doing something more interesting though.
You can add Tobacco too ;)
Wouldn’t a body of matter of any kind need to be considered as single object across all time of its existence and never be considered without the context of its past and all potential future states? (as time and space are relative to the observer) we really haven’t ruled out that there is some sort of temporal version of entanglement that we will run across that allows for entanglement of two objects separated entirely by time. Something like this if true, might help explain why randomness appears to be a thing.
In the retina, there are photoreceptor cells that take in light and emits excitatory signals to other cells in the retina that then do some basic pattern recognition and send the signal to the brain (Some of this pattern recognition is re-done in the brain but that's not really relevant in this instance).

You can excite neurons by giving them electric pulses via electrodes.

Some people are blind because their photoreceptor cells can't convert light into electric pulses (Retinitis pigmentosa). These people can be helped by artificial implants that do this conversion step, like the one proposed here. The device is split into little compartments and when light reaches one of them, the compartment converts the light into an electric signal, with an electric contact right on the cell. There seems to be no amplification involved, it's only living from the energy of the light. The tissue then gets that signal and processes it as vision. Cool, isn't it?

Disclaimer: not an expert, so correct me if I'm wrong.
The time that mRNA vaccines will save compared to the effort people had to do to optimize data to fit in an adenovirus vaccine in itself can speed up science significantly.

About 50-100 different sicknesses are being targeted right now (a lot of them in secret), so we can't know the biggest winners yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av3gmXBuBS0&t=557s
Indeed it's quite sad to see a whole new city built from scratch, and designed to car-centric models from the 60s. Cramped buildings with little space for life to happen, wide crossroads. A 10km block of grass does not alleviate those problems.
> See how TSMC (Taiwan) and Samsung are free to buy ASMLs EUV machines, while China is blocked.

That's because of geopolitics: These countries are small enough that they cannot be a threat to the US. In fact they are dependent on the US.

China, on the other hand, is a strategic adversary irrespective of their IP laws (and enforcement of those laws) or even of their political regime.
it is difficult enough to target a cell and deliver to the cytoplasm, when you attempt to move further and deliver to the nucleus this is further difficulty.
if you are certain you have a specificly targeted delivery that stays away from non cancerous cells you can use mRNA to create labels [antigens] on the cell surface that the immune system interprets as pathogenic, thus immuno targeting oncocytes for destruction.
> Why would you want Rust to target lowest-common-denominator developers and become new VB or php?

Rust wants not that I wants. It seems people replacing NodeJS with it.
Goddamn, I loved System Shock. But if you try to play it in modern times, it's just impossible. Someone, please make a mod where it uses standard WASD + mouse controls.

Very few games set the imagination on fire the way System Shock did. I'm still not sure why. It was almost a standard-ish horror game.

It was a combination of story, mechanics, and art, I think. The old-style graphics really added to the immersion (though you can't say this without seeming suspect).
> the correct protein to add to the chain.

Slight error: it adds an amino acid to the chain. The chain itself is/will fold into a protein.
https://www.cloudflare.com/case-studies/wikimedia-foundation :)
What would you recommend for a membership system, thinking about this route since waiting for Shopify's subscription API's to mature but time isn't on my side on this.
Off topic, but this is a few spots below "Hacker's Guide to Numerical Analysis" on the front page right now. It makes the naming seem pretty silly.

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That's exactly the issue we had at the office. So someone in our team built https://github.com/doctolib/code-tours-github we use it to help new joiners get into the codebase!

Nota: It was previously pushed on HN (without to much success): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25823697
Thanks, that's good feedback I can act on.
You are not wrong, Brasilia has a large population, but the poor regions can't really reach the center of power just by walking (it's an extremely pedestrian-unfriendly city). It also has a flat landscape, unlike Rio that has lots of mountains - which makes this city of city planning much easier.
prefsniff is a tool that can monitor defaults changes on macOS if you want to see what default key underlies a particular setting:

https://github.com/zcutlip/prefsniff
If you'd like to read more, Ars has an well written article about the same diplomat.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/a-maya-ambassadors-g...
That's sad :(
But understandable.
Congrats. Are the companies the same size/industry/etc, or did you totally switch it up?
I mean, in theory that's possible.

But in practice: personalized medicine is impossible to tests. We rely upon giving tens of thousands of volunteers medicine ahead-of-time to prove if medicine is safe.

While the technology theoretically exists to make and distribute personalized medicine, the ethics and safety questions of doing so remain unanswered.
I don’t know the biology, but mRNA vaccines has been used for cancer for some years now. I wish this message was louder and clearer because people seem to think covid is the first use of the technology.
In case anyone else is nostalgic about System Shock 2, I can highly recommend checking out Prey [0]. It's a much more recent game designed by a different studio, but it's very much inspired by the old Looking Glass Studios' games and managed to re-create the atmosphere and gameplay of System Shock 2 very well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey_(2017_video_game)
Even easier to dl today and play with dosbox.
Just out of curiosity, did you guys move all of your internal docs stuff to SO? I'm surprised it's still being used, I was the first mod for it and it wasn't clear if people cared. There were like 4 main KB softwares in use and a few of us wanted to push to use SO primarily. How well did that plan end up?
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Uhm yeah, but it also opens up ways for hackers to code all sorts of biological stuff and put it in our bodies. All from behind their keyboards.

Imagine "if dna.get_race() == $RACE then kill();"

Or how about some biological ransomware?
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> "without copyright there will be no writers"

Just recently had a bit of a good laugh about this. I decided to read Caesar's notes on Gallic wars, and downloaded some random .fb2

It turned out to be a preview fragment, which ended with a stern warning that it is illegal to break copyright laws and that this book can be legally purchased via provided link. I'm sure Gaius Julius is very happy with how these guys protect his interests.
Huh. While I was using Twitter I was mostly exclusively following people I agreed with. I was still angry all the time, because those people were posting stuff like "another cop kills another civilian" or "the US military defended freedumbz by bombing more brown people, yay!".

Following only people you want to chat with doesn't necessarily mean talking about nice things.
Things are even more problematic than tariffs keeping the people poor.

Developing countries do not have hugely diverse domestic industries with top of the line offerings. How can one create a successful business if every niche or high quality product you have around costs a lot more for you than for your compettitiors in developed countries?
A) that is hilarious, and B) not that I have heard.
Well, there is a very obvious limit to the fidelity of your simulation if presence is your goal: human perception. You don't need to crank up any details beyond what you can possibly perceive when using the simulation. Gravitational space distortions are the least worrisome effects in that regard. Light diffraction and polarization play a much larger role in our environment, although not often and if it happens, the untrained eye tends not to notice. I am talking about things like birefringent materials (quartz crystals) and diffraction effects like light reflected off of a CD or shining through a thin piece of cloth.

You can repeat the same process with each kind of sensory input a human can perceive and get to pretty hard limits on the requirements to get "perfect" realism. Human perception hasn't been researched in enough detail yet to give accurate bounds in all cases, but this is actively being worked on. The known bounds are mostly really conservative ones.
It hints but doesn't outright say that these attacks were highly targeted to specific people, and not the general public; is that known?
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Not sure Flash has to come back, lots of obvious problems and evolution dictated otherwise.

Someone mentioned "web is for coders, not artists"

Unfortunately true. And moreso very recently.

The influence of engineers and dev culture on "web design" has turned it into a very dev-heavy, over-engineered, coder paradise -- and killed a large chunk of the 'art' of web design. And taken flash with it of course. There's no tools for the artistry that Flash provided and so it's gone to the wayside. Hopefully moves with animation libraries and webgl etc will change that, seems to be a growing movement/increase in capabilities as far as ease of use/tools etc...
Slave is the more descriptive word. These aren't my definitions. They have been around for ages. You're the one changing descriptions for your own amusement.
That's really not how mRNA works. If DNA is the source code of our body, then mRNA is the machine code that exists in L1-instruction cache. (There's another process out there that copies DNA into more readily processable RNA)

The way any of this mRNA stuff works is by throwing instructions into our body to create certain proteins in certain configurations. For COVID19, the vaccine is... as XKCD-put it... a set of blueprints to build a "fake death star" without any weapons activated.

https://xkcd.com/2425/

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mRNA further has a "innate safety" mechanism, in that it degenerates. That's why our body uses DNA after all: because DNA does not degenerate, even though RNA is what's actually executing so to speak.

So any mRNA medicine will have to be strictly temporary, and get its job done in a limited timeframe. The COVID19 virus gets around this fact by self-replicating. The instructions that our cells execute are to create a new COVID19 virus. The original "quine", COVID19 (and all viruses) "print themselves" as part of their execution.

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The "vaccine" is a set of blueprints for the COVID19 "spike protein" (and ONLY the spike-protein). Since it is missing all the other parts of COVID19, it cannot self-replicate. Our body then gets trained on recognizing the COVID19 spike protein, and is ready when the real thing attacks our body.
Yea, Zope was weird. I learnt python in around 2000 and immediately fell in love with the language. Then I needed to to do some web stuff and wanted to move beyond simple cgi scripts and for some reason decided to pick up Zope. Almost stopped using Python all together then and there.
> Disable the sound effects on boot

As someone who grew up using an old school Mac in the 90s, this is blasphemy! That triumphant chime is essential to the Macintosh experience (just kidding but kinda not).
That is true, thanks for the correction.
I thought long about buying another N9 second-hand, but in the meanwhile MeeGo/Harmattan has been abandoned, and I never succeeded with installing the Mer [0] project (revived Maemo/MeeGo successor). I'm using my phone regularly to program and run simple applications for my own use. For this I've used Tclkit [1] a lot on the N9 (and the N770).

I'm now more thinking about continuing that using AndroWish [2] instead (Tcl/Tk on Android).

My N9 in better times did exactly that when someone called, but now the screen stays black and nothing reacts (it still rings though). I don't know what causes this, because out of the sleep mode then touchscreen works fine. I have to pull out the SIM everytime as such, put it back in and log back into the network (and then often call back myself ofcourse ;)). Not going to bother anymore, but I suspect a software problem. It also started to crash/hang it's applications from time to time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo#Mer

[1] https://www.equi4.com/tclkit/

[2] https://www.androwish.org/
Because the topic is annoying rhetoric. It doesn't do anything to solve the problem of racism or prejudice or poverty or socioeconomic imbalance or guard us against a police state or whatever it is people seek to "fix" with these inane changes.

I'm also very tired of being a labelled a Nazi, hence the tone.
ReclusiveLemming on Youtube took thousands of chiptunes, formatted them as videos and uploaded them.
Unfortunately he disappeared a couple of years ago leaving no trace, but his channel is still there.
There's already a mod for that and a GOG release with the fixes included
You could with a little work in June 2019, not sure what the picture is like now but it might be possible. I've used nix quite a bit on WSL2 which was surprisingly good.

https://blog.simos.info/how-to-run-lxd-containers-in-wsl2/