skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are attempts to fix this with e.g. Graal, which effectively does the expensive initialization and reflection at compile time, but there are so many downsides and pitfalls right now with Graal that I don't consider it a serious solution to the problem. It's basically creating a new ecosystem, which means one primary motivation--to take advantage of the Java ecosystem--is much less compelling.

I'm not sure I understand what the downsides are for Graal and FAAS. There are some pitfalls around reflection but even those don't seem to hard to avoid. Is that what you are referring to?
Ehhh, I don't know about that. Pick pocketing vs kidnapping, finding a place to cut the arm off, tooling, clean up, potential body disposal. I can't see that being worth a credit card number vs mugging or pick pocketing someone.
I like (and can relate to) your comment, and the attitude it embodies. But I tripped over

> "I couldn't rely on anyone else to ... get me out of jackpots."

Huh? TIA for clarifying.
They might as well replace the word Ponzi with "thing I don't like" because what they are describing has zero connection to Ponzi schemes
If anyone would like to work on a startup focused on Nuclear Propulsion, please reach out.
I'm always blown away by how high taxes are in the USA.

A federal corporate tax of 21% - and states can tax you even more?
Meanwhile you can incorporate in Europe paying 10% (or 5% in Malta, if you setup a holding company, or 4% in Canary Islands if you invest 50k-100k and hire 3-5 people).
The UK is taxing companies at 19% (even if it's due to increase to 25% to cover COVID's expenses).
>travelling across the country ravaging economies in its wake

What ravaging is happening?
"These are all examples of groups of memes that are replicated together. Dawkins calls such groups ‘coadapted meme complexes’, a phrase recently abbreviated to ‘memeplexes’ (Speel 1995). Memetic jargon is changing so fast and much of it is so poorly thought out and so misused that I shall try to avoid using it. However, ‘memeplex’ is a handy word for an important concept and so it is one of the few new words I shall adopt." -- page 35
This feels like the central limit theorem. Accumulating a bunch of random variables is going to produce a normal distribution, and a normal distribution has an infinite interval.
This is one reason why I'm bullish on Miami. Miami has to be the most YIMBY-friendly city in the US. I moved here last November and the density is so wonderful. I'm pretty sure that I can see more 40+ story buildings from my balcony in Brickell than exist in Northern California.
This logic makes me fear for the metric system
I do something similar with VMWare Workstation on linux (which is free).

I use the hardware IDs from my Mac Mini, that funnily enough is a Windows server, so that I can use it for iMessage.

No better setup having Ubuntu as the dev OS and the ability to test on MacOS and Windows at the same time.
There are a few companies collaborating in this space. More: https://www.vivokey.com/distributors

The fine print is that they are selling you an implant, but you need to implant it yourself, and then aren't promising that it works for anything.

FWIW, we microchip pets with a quick injection, so this idea is totally plausible technically.
Woob (a rebranded Weboob) 3.0 released
Hey, Alex Masmej here. Just wanted to say that I had no choice because I had no money in the bank. During the start of COVID, I lost my only (and very first) source income at the time, and I lost all my savings in crypto (DeFi is dangerous even to crypto people like me).

Financially, this ISA freed me instantly, and gave me a newfound legitimacy as a crypto innovator. This was by far the best way I could find to break out as an entrepreneur.
>They are pumping water into a highly radioactivity area to cool the rods, but making tritium in the process.

AFAIK the water being dumped isn't currently used to cool the reactor.
Certain kinds of attacks really are just that, unexpected, even if they are cyber attacks. See for example the recent attack against the US. The media was quick to praise the attack as unprecedented and sophisticated, when in reality, it wasn't anywhere close to something like stuxnet.
Hopefully snow is an obstacle for a lot of people into moving into a number of regions. (Although some cities in the snowbelt are already fairly popular/pricey.)
One of the big regrets of the arms control community, was that the JCPOA did not contain any limitations on missile development.

With the current arms race with drones, missiles, hypersonic missiles, etc... I think Israel is worried that Iran will begin handing these weapons out to their proxies in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, and escalate the war.

Iran's drone strike against Saudi Arabia's top oil refinery really highlighted that.

I think ensuring that no deal is better than the current format of the JCPOA. At least in the current situation, they can strike at Iran's weapons program to slow it down, and that there are no major inflows of money.

Personally, I think they'd be open to a new JCPOA that includes broader weapons controls.
He did not say anything about mass layoffs and the end of the research department. Who did he profit from the purchase of the pocket? Who made money out? And the tall salaries of it? This CEO is a shame. She is destroying Mozilla.
I believe that's largely a Central/Eastern European perspective, and doesn't apply as much to Western Europe. Countries like the UK, France, Switzerland started out with entirely private systems and nationalized them later (early 20th century).
Non-authwalled link: https://outline.com/ycjSSm
This introduction crystalized a lot of the subject/debates around that time to me: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/13108434.pdf
as long as the salary of CEO depends on something, you bet they will do anything to not change it !! It has been downhill long since these bean counters had been shilling against this community
I have no idea - I'm using Qt Creator on my Librem 5. For TypeScript I guess you would probably like to run something like Atom or VSCode anyway.
Internal Affairs used facial recognition software against NYPD cops
Well, the western countries also use an obsolete weight unit: the carat
>Another way to look at it is that people have a right to privacy, but not secrecy.

You seemed like were balancing things, then you ruined it by speaking out both sides of your mouth with that.

What you've effectively endorsed is "You have the right to privacy/secrecy as long as I don't care to look."

Everyone already has that. The entire point of a right to privacy/secrecy is to strictly corral what can be looked at/for/and how even when the People come looking.

You just threw out the entire point of the 4th Amendment there. No need for warrants, or to strictly define what the public interest is. Just define anything you're looking at as the public interest and have a party. Hell, you even threw out a workable implementation avenue of specifying that this carve out from the 4th only applies to legal fictions, which wouldsolve half your issues right there. Anything illegal would have to be done by a particular person or cohort of people outside the confines of legal fictions, meaning evidence lines should very clearly lead to individual parties; or at least until people stopped using corporate entities to do sketchy things plausibly like they do now.
Add a prefix to the if then.
Your example only proves your point if every instance of x is the same x, with the same objective value. i.e., what if x/x is actually (x=5.0)/(x=3.0) ?
Why post this here? You made 2 VMs, cool I guess?
Perspective Compression by a Telephoto Lens: A Myth [pdf]
That world cant exist. A flaw of anti capitalist alternatives is that they're non-natural.

Any alternative where trade didn't follow optimal path is due to regulation / force. And in most, the force required to steer humans away from their nature also kills innovation.

Ergo: you cant have a miracle chip in your pocket with no one using it to sell you potato chips.
Then you're computing x/y and not x/x...
Nuclear power is uneconomical, dangerous and unneeded. It is not the answer to the climate crisis, a solution that must work not just for rich countries with stable governments, but poor ones with unstable governments as well. The solution actually must work particularly well for poor developing countries as they are the biggest source of green house gas emission growth. Maybe it's just me, but the first thing I think of when I ask myself what a poor developing country with a potential unstable government needs is not Nuclear Power Plants.

If you can not see the price trajectory of solar, wind and grid-scale storage, then you need (better?) glasses, the price drops are Putting Moore's law to shame. The cost of nuclear has only gone up.
One place I still see point-and-shoot stand alone cameras is in construction/contracting.

When I've had companies come and bid on things like roof repair, for example, the person that comes to access the job and prepare an estimate will use one. During the job I see the workers using them to document what they are doing.

I know they have modern smart phones, because I see them use them.

My guess is that they use the stand alone camera because of the better interface. Smart phones can be a pain to operate while wearing heavy work gloves, or to operate one handed.

Just this afternoon I wanted to take some photos of the gutters on my front roof to see if they needed cleaning. That section of roof is only about 7.5 ft above the deck, so it is easy to just reach up to where the camera has a view of inside the gutters. Except on about half the shots, some part of my hand would hit some on-screen control and do something to mess up the shot, such as changing the mode from photo to video.

It would have been easier if I had used my old Sony DSC-P93 [1].

[1] https://www.dpreview.com/products/sony/compacts/sony_dscp93
The Elements of Value (2016)
I wish there were a little more examples of how this methodology deals with the stress/anxiety response.

The article seems to spend more time talking about why it thinks "thinking brain" CBT/talk therapy doesn't work rather than "surival brain" techniques which do work. It also brings up "mindfulness" as one solution, which I consider almost analogous to CBT, or at least a close relative.

It also seems counter-productive (to me) that the solution for one subject was to "strike out and defend himself within the safety of a therapy session". What is that person supposed to do in the moment? Ball up their anxiety and wait for therapy?
Sure, why hold back when it's going to be washed away by rising seas anyway?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/miami-is-the-most...

> Miami Is the "Most Vulnerable" Coastal City Worldwide
> Say x = 4.0 ± 1.0. What is x / x?

> It should be x / x = 1.0 ± 0.0, but interval arithmetic will give you [3/5, 5/3].

This is the “dependency problem” which is eliminated in many cases, and mitigated in others, by rewriting so identical (vs. merely in components) values appear only once; when you might need a numerical answer at one point (if possible) but to use the value in further computations, this can be done by storing and manipulating values symbolically and extracting numerical results as needed.
Firefox market share down 85%, during the same period the executives get a 400% raise. Then 250 employees are fired.

It feels like it's just the top brass getting as much money they can before the ship sinks at this point.
Looks like the maintainers took the rebranding seriously. The individual applications, many of which were controversially named, are now lumped in together into a single woob app. They also fixed the nasty language.

I hope the project makes its way back to Debian and sees an increase in popularity with developers.

It is currently one of the few ways of importing your data from financial institutions without having to rely on 3rd party services with questionable privacy and security.
I find the Reno thing bizarre myself. Would love to know why it’s not as big.
A move to Texas isn't in my future but I have thought about moving to Washington to avoid state income tax. With a 300-400K+ developer income I could basically take the state income tax I am losing and put it towards rent or a mortgage.

Plus for someone like myself who is pretty thrifty and doesn't buy much "stuff" I don't get badly penalized by the slightly higher sales tax.
Happens a lot with popular words. People use them in slightly broader and broader contexts until eventually the word can no longer communicate an idea as precise as it initially could.

Now that I think about it, I wonder if that's why writers like to use words that are uncommon in general conversation. Since they're not used casually, they haven't been watered down and thus do a better job of getting ideas across to the reader.
Yes, international law establishes the legality of actions which accidentally result in fatalities. I'm not sure how that is relevant to intentional killings by Hamas though
The Red Arrow bus line from Edmonton to Calgary is the best of both worlds. Pick-up/Drop-offs from city core to city core as well as other stops along the way, Free wifi and beverages on the bus, decent seats for working during the stress free commute.
Grew up with a father who was in a full-time wheelchair. Issue one was availability of spaces. It was amazing to watch people park, hop out of their car and jog in to the store (Dad would say, "being brain dead is a disability, too.). Second issue was having enough space to open the ramp (I'll never forget the time someone parked next to the ramp side door as we were leaving the store. I asked the guy to move and he said no. Fortunately, on my way out a police officer was coming into the store... the county impound moved the car). Third issue is that sometimes the distance between parking and store entrance was quite far.
I don't live in either place but have spent a fair bit of time in both. Especially the SFBA but much of California generally seems a more pleasant climate and more options for the activities I like to do.
They certainly are tied to a certain mode of thinking rooted in Mathematical reasoning originating in the West, but certainly influenced by other cultures. The thing is that the underlying computer architecture uses this reasoning, so it's difficult to see how you could program a computer without relying on that reasoning at some level.
Kudos to you. It’s a new and innovative technique, seems like it could help many more people, and you showed how it would work in practice. I thought being able to do the crypto trade directly on you website was a nice touch—definitely shows its easier and more accessible than the Bowie Bond example from the article.
You can basically take your state income tax savings and pay a not insignificant portion of your rent.
Is learning vim worth the effort?
Ask HN: Is open sourcing my personal SaaS project a bad idea?
I'm working on a SAAS project that I'll be releasing soon. It's a free service model with optional premium subscriptions.

I'm thinking about open sourcing the whole thing, including the front end UI, API server and database schema.

I would like to make this OSS if I can, however I'm concerned releasing the schema / server side could open the door to exploits, and I'm not sure someone wouldn't fork my product and put up a competitive clone.

I'd like to get others' thoughts on this.
Apple makes money on its products; Google doesn't.
Just what a modern-day Viking would say, looting and pillaging mid-sized cities in your electric-powered longboat!
>8000 km away from USA, how is Iran a thread to the United States exactly?

I'm confused. He is quantifiably one of the most evil people on the planet, with a long list of human right abuses. Yet, what business is it of the United States to kill him?

He's responsible for the death of thousands but you want America to turn the other way. And then America kills one person, suddenly you are calling them
out?

(yes, i am making a moral argument. No it's not the strongest answer. But it's a) the most compelling b) i'm not a general, but i'm sure there are plenty of strategic reasons too).
They posited a clever solution for the irresistible temperatures. They didn't plan on having any structural material survive contact with with the fuel plasma. The quartz inner wall would be protected by a vortex of neon. Most energy transfer to the hydrogen propellant would be as radiated visible and UV light through the gas boundary and quartz wall. (There would also be some direct heating by neutrons.) The hydrogen propellant on the other side of the wall would be seeded with finely divided tungsten to make it absorb 98% of the radiant energy. The propellant would be much cooler than the plasma fuel, though still blazing hot [1]. The whole concept is in the intriguing fuzzy transition zone that separates AM engineering from FM [2]. It seems more likely to go "boom" than "whoosh" but I Am Not a Nuclear Rocket Scientist.

[1] https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/4729955

[2] Actual Machines / Fucking Magic, from the Turkey City Lexicon: https://www.sfwa.org/2009/06/18/turkey-city-lexicon-a-primer...
Austin's property tax rate was just raised to approximately 2.2% of the home value annually.

Even though Austin's property values are lower than California, the percentage is much higher (California is approximately 0.7%). This is a large annual burden, especially since property values are re-appraised annually, so as property values keep going up, your taxes go up as well.

There is no state or local income tax though, so high income earners save on that.
If only I had read advice like this earlier, life would have been so much easier.
> “They just keep coming,” Congrove says. “The fleece vests, the tech bros—that’s definitely imported from California.”

Not sure if California or New York gets to claim the Midtown Uniform as its own.
Why the universal misuse of "weary?"
This presupposes that we take economists seriously to begin with.

I've met a few econ peeps in finance. All of them full of it and they knew it. Great peoples though. Spending a third of the time inebriated in some shape or form while making the best, most awful looking presentation about the micro-economics for a pitch to a huge fund. And it worked.
>Above all, this year has reinforced for me that sometimes a deeply held mission requires massive wrenching change in order to be realized.

Yeah, like firing your researchers. What good was that Servo thing anyways? Don't need no PhDs when you can write endless self-aggrandizing blog posts while increasing your own pay.
From WSJ:

“Google acknowledged in its responses that it had agreed to make ‘commercially reasonable efforts’ to ensure that Facebook was able to identify 80% of mobile users and 60% of desktop users, excluding users of Apple’s Safari web browser, in ad auctions.”
An upvote to those who upvoted this, every bit shows that more people are becoming acquainted with Heaviside's works.

BTW, a factoid just occurred to me that some may not know, which is that the earth's ionosphere—those ionized layers ≈100-200km above ground that reflect radio waves—is called the Heaviside layer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennelly%E2%80%93Heaviside_lay....

...And now some trivia straight from the almost-completely-useless information dept: somewhat strangely, the Heaviside Layer features in the musical Cats. It's at the point where Macavity the Mystery Cat tries to escape to the Heaviside Layer: https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/cats-and-the-heaviside-lay... https://www.themarysue.com/cats-heaviside-layer-real/

"Up, up, up past the Russell Hotel

Up, up, up, up to the Heaviside layer

Up, up, up past the Russell Hotel

Up, up, up, up to the Heaviside layer"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKH63cRJ3p4

Methinks, Heaviside would not have approved (but then, that's rather presumptuous of me).
It does not, but it will try to grab it anyways for the purposes of tracking. Given that this is trivial to get there is no reason to hide it from apps.
What can you do about politicians?

They're all sell-outs. When election time comes you vote your side, hope the other side doesn't win and then spend the next for year ignoring what your guy is doing or criticising what the other side's guy is doing.

Sure, you could vote the libertarian party, good luck going higher than 3%. Even if they were successful, what are the chances they won't become as corrupted as other politicians once they have the power?

In the last 200 years the USA government just got bigger and inequity has just increased.

Forget about politics, accept the leeches as part of life, joke that "Two things are unavoidable: death and taxes".

You can at least boycott large companies and stop purchasing their goods.
Haven't bio-hackers been shoving NFC chips into themselves for quite a while already? It's interesting that it is getting commercialized, but it still feels very much like a novelty thing for cyberpunk fans.
Calgary/Edmonton seem to get about 2x as much snow as Bergen (~48" vs ~24"). Also, temperature fall much lower in Alberta than in Norway...
Carving up your body just to stick it to Apple is a bit excessive. Also, there are non-apple options or watches with NFC payment.
Gradle has had reference-style API documentation for as long as I can think: https://docs.gradle.org/current/dsl/index.html
This is a non-sequitur. Irani-Saudi relations have nothing to do with Irani-Israeli relations.
I was really disappointed kdbus didn't make it into the Kernel (apparently for good reasons), as this would've solved so many issues.

What I'm still trying to wrap my head around is Varlink's [1] role in all this since then.

Is it supposed to make DBus obsolete at some point?

What level of compatibility towards DBus does it offer?

What's the driving force behind it's development?

How widely was it adopted so far (I've seen at least a few usage references in systemd, such as for the user/group API [2])?

[1] https://varlink.org/
[2] https://systemd.io/USER_GROUP_API/
Yes. The lab leak hypothesis is tightly intertwined with the idea that China is not acting on good faith with the global community.

The CCP prohibited the virus's genetic sequence from being published. After a lab published it, it was shut down.

>On 11 January, Edward C. Holmes contacted Zhang for permission to publish the virus's genome. Zhang granted permission, and Holmes published the genome on virological.org that day.[1][3] The Chinese government had prohibited labs from publishing information about the new coronavirus, though Zhang later said he did not know about the prohibition.[3] The next day, the Shanghai Health Commission ordered Zhang's laboratory to close temporarily for "rectification".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Yongzhen#COVID-19_pand...
You can, kinda: https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-web-apps/
There's also the "rugged camera" aspect. Some of the ruggedized point and shoots are designed to be used in the wet (most are rated for limited underwater use), to withstand drops from "chest high or a bit higher" onto hard surfaces without breaking, and generally tolerate levels of abuse that a smartphone, even with a case, usually won't put up with. I'll let my toddler run around taking pictures with a rugged point and shoot without worrying about anything beyond "Where on earth will they hide it when they're done?" I usually get something resembling a low FPS video of the house, mostly blurry, but they enjoy it!

There's also the aspect that, for construction documentation, everything is on the camera card. You don't have to pay attention to who has which photos, but, oh, their phone won't run the uploader app right, or their home ISP is slow, or... whatever. You use the camera, you take pictures, they're there.

And I'm still inclined to use a camera for documenting a number of my projects around the property. I don't have to worry about it getting beat up, I can use it in gloves, etc. Plus, the lens is better.