skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Andromeda Strain makes a good story, but viruses and bacteria tend to evolve with their hosts and environment. It is unlikely that any virus or bacteria brought from mars would have a serious impact on humans or our environment. We probably aren't good hosts to something that's been evolving in martian conditions.
I'm a PhD candidate studying Mars, happy to debunk any structures you can supply.
Maybe after initial terraforming you could also seed it with a specially engineered retrovirus to help evolution along by tweaking genes associated with prosociality.
The creator of C++ would disagree, as C++ was devised as a compile-to-c language.
Arrival was a good attempt at that
2021 Planner for GoodNotes that works like magic
What Will It Take for Dogecoin to Hit $1? Jeff Bezos Backing
LSP is a great leveler, for that. From what I hear, vim has great LSP support, these days.
The NCAA Erased My Career
'Humanity first': Pakistan offers support to India in Covid fight
Tether themselves issued a shady statement saying something like they where backed 70% by dollar holdings, or crypto equivalent. Essentially meaning that as long as they don’t pocket 100% of the money you pay them. And as long as they mint twice the amount of tether using one to back the other, well they they are technically not lying. But reallity is that if enough people tried to withdraw dollars for tether the coin would collapse and the masterminds would suddenly “die of some obscure disease in India” with all their wealth disappearing with them.
Personally, I don't believe in the great filter hypothesis. The universe is incredibly vast enough entire civilizations can likely go through millions of years of births and deaths without ever having contact with another alien life form.
Humans have a huge bias to feel "special".

We've only been broadcasting radio waves for a few decades now, and even that would just be lost in the background noise at large distances.

It would be extremely surprising if we even find any life outside the solar system for at least a few centuries.
Fuck yeah, great idea. Let's meet right now at the Hotel California! Such a lovely place.
:) /s
We are probably in different locations but we can get there instantly by astral travel. It's free, too, beggar.
Go go go! /g
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P.S. Do you also usually say "pretty please, with cherries on top?"
Mwahahahahahahahahahahahha.
Ffffrrrriiiiggggttttaaaarrrrdddd ....
No and I agree. Saying that we’ve regressed in rocket science or concrete in any capacity is a fantasy. However, if things go stale then we could be forced to invest a lot of money to discover things we’ve already discovered.
or having relatives to BKP
There's an old version here https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/30489/paketto-1.10.tar...
Outdoor transmission is incredibly rare. What’s your causal evidence linking certain people or certain actions to what’s happening now, and how do you separate that from the advent of new variants, for example? Or as you put it: blaming the government or those events is as trite, as generic, and as content free as one can get.
There is no reason to rent out some of the most valuable real estate in your city for $1/hour. If people from outside want to drive in they can use a market-rate parking lot.
If I had to guess: planets are big, rocks are hard, and if there is life, it’s vanishingly rare or hard to find.
A standard weed dealer is not on the same level as the person that would get the license. A standard dealer is part of a very large organization. They're the equivalent of a person working a cash register. I expect it's extremely hard for someone who starts out working the register at a McDonalds to become a franchise owner.

That's not to say that getting a license isn't harder than starting a fast food franchise, but the metric of difficulty we use here shouldn't be the typical weed dealer.

Probably a better comparison would be an entrepreneur trying to start a liquor store. Even then, it makes sense to me that as society tries to figure out the best way to do this, it goes carefully & with a lot of scrutiny to figure out how to do it right. It's not the sort of thing that should have a "move fast & break things" approach.
> like Mozart

I am reminded of Maria Anna Mozart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Anna_Mozart

Before she approached "marriageable age" and was forbidden from performing, she was an equal musical talent to her brother, and sometimes received top billing.

None of her compositions have survived.
Biden Needs to Come to India’s Aid Now
Whoops, look like this has been posted a lot of times, but not got much traction in the past. This looks like the thread with the most discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3267187

Somehow I'd not stumbled across the list before.
> What is "hidden physics"?

Physics we don't know about. Our cells are doing that as we speak – though we'd probably call most of it “hidden biochemistry”. I think it unlikely that we'd stumble upon such “hidden physics” unless we were evolving objects at close to the atomic scale, but it's possible; perhaps there's some way of getting phonons to interact with each other that behaves like Brownian motion, and then you can get metaphonons?

The author doesn't try it probably because the author doesn't know how. I don't try it because I suspect it's not possible with the technology I have access to.
Hardware Lottery
Preprint from Barany's website: http://mbarany.com/Chalk.pdf
At least during my time there nobody was introducing breaking (at compile time) api changes wily-nily. What did happen was people would deprecate (or “sunset” as pms loved to call it) a runtime api that ppl depended on - i.e shutting down some servers. So splitting the monorepo would do nothing here unless you’re willing to run those services yourself.
What kind of standard of proof do you expect, beyond "convincing to a jury"?
Ask HN: Why is there sometimes a black line at the top of HN?
Every few months, there's a black line across the top of hackernews. It's a <td> with a static black gif ("s.gif") in it. It's typically there for a few hours or days before disappearing.

What's up with that?

Example: https://imgur.com/KOy428e
System Recommendations

Intel Pentium® processor-based system, 60 MHz or higher
Windows* 95 or Windows NT* operating system
Half-duplex sound card with speakers or headset
Microphone for voice input
Client: Modem, 28.8 Kbps or faster
Server: ISDN or higher connection to the Internet
An Internet service provider that supports TCP/IP*

"real-time, multi-party audio chat over the Internet" was possible 24 years ago. Meanwhile, on a two-year-old computer, I still have frequent trouble getting Teams audio chats to work without stuttering and breaking up on a 50Mbps connection...
after further research, you are correct that AGPLv3 is a "stronger" copyleft license. LGPL3 is a "weak" copyleft.
This is a lot of words but I wonder if you've ever worked with a debugger with watchable variables or immediate mode code execution. I find it odd you say print debugging is more flexible.
I’ve taken to using <details> in markdown docs on github to make them more concise to read.
That part is something they have in common.

The differentiation is about monetary policy, BTC's policy is in code via incentives and PoW. It's decentralized and not controlled by a government. The currency is scarce and the maximum amount is predetermined. It's deflationary.

I'm not an 'inflation is bad' person. I'm not a hardcore anti-government crypto-anarchist. I think government monetary policy has a place and the QE policy after 2008 clearly worked based on the rapid recovery and loan repayment. I think when you have growth you need more currency to support that growth and newly created wealth. Some inflation in monetary policy is desirable and creates incentives you want (investment) vs. hoarding cash.

I am not an economics expert and people are often way too confident in this kind of stuff when they shouldn't be.

The reason BTC is more like gold than like fiat currency is because of the things in that article, but a quick summary:

- It's hard to actually trade with for goods (nobody is bringing little gold flakes into the 7/11 for a chocolate bar).

- It's scarce and takes a lot of energy to 'mine'. The supply of gold on earth is limited by nature. The supply of BTC is limited by code and math.

- People use it as a place to store value beyond its inherent value. Gold is shiny and has some utility as a metal, but its market value is mostly entirely unrelated to that.

- In some ways BTC is better than gold as a value store. It's easier to store and easier to transport.
I used to work in intelligence. "Secrecy creep" has long been a serious problem inside DoD. How information get classified has largely been left up to low level federal bureaucrats, people my father used to angrily refer to as "big haired women from Mississippi". Basically, they are low level federal office drones, with minimal knowledge about the actual content of classified programs, who re left to determine how they are classified. They start with the core information of a project and classify it "Top Secret". Then they take all the peripheral information of that project and classify it TS as well, just to be safe, because it might overlap with the core info, but they have no clue because they're a GS-4 clerk from Boogerville with a high school diploma. Later as more content is generated in a program, stuff peripheral to the previous peripheral data, which realistically should be classified "Confidential" at most, it too gets classified as TS because of its proximity to the previously over-classified peripheral data. Lather-Rinse-Repeat for a few decades and you have huge swathes of widely known, utterly inconsequential information classified Secret or Top Secret.
You misunderstand the impact of the dams on the ecosystem. Salmon are hanging by a thread in the Columbia, and only a very aggressive hatchery program has kept them from collapse.

Essentially all buildable sites have already been built, and there's a growing awareness some existing damns need to come down. The Gorge is not some great untapped resource for pumped storage that people were too distracted by wind power to discover.
https://archive.is/tNi7d
Solar and wind can meet world energy demand 100 times over
I don't know how much a typical house weighs, but assuming 100t, raising it by 30m will give you potential energy of ... 8.2 kWh, or about $1.6 in today's electricity rate.

Gravity is weak.
Print debugging is not that different from setting logging level to DEBUG and those logging calls should already be there in code and give meaningful insight so I don't get printing being often ridiculed.

For over ten years of commercial work I used a debugger only a couple of times and in most cases it was against someone else's code, usually when things were completely broken and I needed to get backtraces from multiple deadlocked threads or lacked debugging symbols and things like radare were also required. There were also times when I manually called a syscall using gdb.

My opinion is that if you can't reason about the code helping yourself with just a couple of additional messages the code is probably broken/too complicated to begin with and requires serious refactoring. I've never understood people stepping through a program hoping to find some mysterious creature somewhere along a huge stack of calls. In my career I have often seen people always debugging an application as a whole instead of separated modules. Dividing a problem is the key. The same key that allows me to still program using vim without autocompletion, keep APIs sane and coherent, and avoid dead code.

One really useful exception is when dealing with electronics. My friends programming hardware use debuggers all the time and in this case it actually makes perfect sense because there is no way to print anything and things like hardware interrupts come into play.
"I was lucky to collaborate on DNS issues with Dan when he discovered a new form of DNS cache poisoning"

A really good, and really detailed, overview of what Kaminsky found: http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/iguide-kaminsky-dns-vuln.htm... Kaminsky references this from the sidebar in his blog.
> Internet Party Line queues each person's statements and plays them serially, which allows each person to talk without interrupting the others

This would be a game changer, for those of us who are a bit deaf / have trouble picking out multiple voices. This is harder on normal voice conferences because they're not spatial; everyone's speaking to you from the center of the stereo pan.
wait, so you're from Wainwright?
China reveals moon station plan with Russia, openness on Space Day
Agree. I think a great hobby for us programmer types is woodworking. It's less art and more science. Follow the plans, be precise with your measurements and cuts, and do the tedious sanding & finishing work, and you will create beautiful custom pieces for your house or as gifts that you can be proud of. It's very relaxing to do some woodworking in your garage shop after a day of sitting in front of your computer.

You can get away with a basic shop for under $1000 (or even $500) worth of tools too. Table saw, some clamps, random orbit sander, skill saw for plywood, a screw gun or small finish nailer. It doesn't take much to get started. Add a miter saw and thickness planer later. Check out Woodworking for Mere Mortals on Youtube. Great place to get started.
I don't get the negativity. This is indeed an emerging field, so just going to throw in a few examples:

- Google using RL for chip layout optimization [1]

- Stanford profs optimizing lenses end to end with image processing [2]

As for the "diffractive deep neural network" paper it is not really a deep network as they don't implement the non-linearities in the optical domain. That still is the hard bit, so maybe the monocle is not realistic, but fortunately there are ways it can still speed up computation.

There is a general consensus that GPU-s enabled the current deep learning revolution and perhaps as argued by the Hardware Lottery paper [3] backprop is really just the current lucky ticket. So why not try to evolve hardware with ML for other algorithms too?

As for the questions raised, I do want to know your answer to this:

> a question for computer scientists, what single question would you ask if you have a dedicated computer that was [that multiplier] faster?

[1] https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/04/chip-design-with-deep-rein...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJdsxXOfqvw

[3] https://hardwarelottery.github.io
https://archive.is/Iq3zy
I've used details for optional or dynamic html forms, as they gracefully degrade even for mobile browsers from the pre iphone era that can't use JS. They work pretty well.
While the Young Turks clearly had some more interest in making the empire more Turkish, before WW1 pretty much anybody in the government called themselves Ottomans, not Turks. Turk was mostly use for the poor elements.

And they were not military men, they were the civilian government of the empire.
I met Dan at BarcampLA, and his talks stuck with me. I’ve relived moments from those talks throughout my career, and I’m a more security conscious person because of it. He was one of those rare security folks that still retained his fundamentally optimistic view of humanity, though I think that may be rare of any human now that I think about it. If Tomorrowland were an actual thing, Dan definitely would’ve been invited. I hope he knew how much he inspired.
> Seems to be asking for some sort of optical FPGA thing with the hope that light will be immensely faster than electricity. Maybe not knowing that it's not?

But really it is. Except for interconnects or analog RF stages, ICs aren’t built as if they were solid states waveguides. Indeed speed is determined by how powerful the charge pumps are in moving electrons, not quite the speed of EM propagation
That’s the founder of DEFCON and Black Hat.
It's strange that we have to speculate about if life could have emerged on Mars, without really knowing for sure how it emerged on Earth.
Google something like “mars viking life experiments”
https://www.google.com/search?q=hacker+news+black+line

Mourning band, I assume for Dan Kaminsky.
I watched the embedded video but I don’t remember if it mentioned destroying the internet or not. But I think even if it didn’t say it that’s a fair summary of what would have happened.
Ask HN: Did anyone make it after 40?
Has any of you "made it" in whatever matters to you a bit later in life?
I created https://no-thank-you.de/en/ for LinkedIn SPAM.

Recently I got a recruiter email to my work email, scraped from my GitHub profile. The company had a German entity behind it, so I reported them for GDPR violations.
I love Apollo but I am very annoyed that they don't allow side scrolling between posts. I just find that much easier to do and it somehow bothers me when I don't have it.
I’ll answer your question with a question. Would space exploration get more or less funding if we settled a fundamental question about the existence of life outside earth?
Just to clarify the title. It was not a deliberate backdoor on the part of Passwordstate. It was a supply chain attack. There is some history to their security holes (most of the known ones being patched).

https://twitter.com/juanandres_gs/status/1385689464329187329

https://github.com/NorthwaveSecurity/passwordstate-decryptor...

A potential issue in the password management space is that Francisco Partners (owner of NSO Group) owns Lastpass (and LogMeIn).

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

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/08/31/208621...

Note: I work in the IAM and PAM space and designed dashboards for saas pass.
> Other webassembly runtimes are JIT based, rather than being interpreters.

Do none of the notable ones do normal compilation?
@mkI In San Francisco where I am violent crime has absolutely exploded since theft under $950 per day has been reduced to a misdemeanor. Adding fuel to this fire are opioid addicts stealing to feed their habit, a toxic combination of extremely violent attacks coupled with endless petty crime. The big Walgreens drugstore chain Walgreens has closed ten stores in SF primarily due to rampant crime, with a lot of small retailers also closing to protect staff.

https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/criminal-def...
Show HN: QSL – A quick, simple, and flexible image labeling tool
I developed QSL because I found myself appreciating existing labeling tools (e.g., VGG Image Annotator, labelImg, VoTT) while also wanting additional features (e.g., remote file labeling, batching, keyboard shortcuts) that didn't all fit neatly into any one of them. Would greatly appreciate feedback from this community, even if it's just to say that I've needlessly re-re-invented the wheel.
That is incorrect:

> The EEOC enforces Title VII, which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Having a criminal record is not listed as a protected basis in Title VII. Therefore, whether a covered employer's reliance on a criminal record to deny employment violates Title VII depends on whether it is part of a claim of employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/enforcement-guidance-consi...
I remember when I was a kid the EMP trucks went around to keep the nano swarms down, but most of us got bot-lung anyway.

Even rogue nanoswarms are less worrisome than mosquitos as a vector.
> I don't know how a hardware description language could implement a Lisp variant btw.

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6334
Fiat Lux (1998)
Imagine if an alien lifeform had terraformed earth this way. We would not have existed.

(There is a hypothesis that life may have been introduced this way to earth, known as the Panspermia Hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia)
>patriarchal and racial structures in society have historically suppressed artists who weren't white and male

This is plain false. Those non-white and non-male artists who have reached sophistication and virtuosity comparable to Mozart and Beethoven were and are still acclaimed. Don't try to shove a narrative where there isn't one.

Also, this doesn't add anything to the discussion about why audiences prefer dead (!) white (!!) male (!!!) composers like Mozart and Beethoven over the works of early experimental electronic composers. The answer is simply because most people don't like listening weird noise.
There is a very good book on the origins of life on earth by Eric Smith, called "The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth."

Here's a YouTube talk with some of the arguments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cwvj0XBKlE
My understanding from doing a bit of reading is that there are at least two things codegen-adjacent that an accurate collector will want (even if you stop the world while collecting):

1. The locations of pointers inside of allocations.

2. The locations of pointers in the stack (into which you may need to spill registers).

I can think of ways to do these (e.g. perhaps each stack frame contains a bitmask at a certain offset), but I'd love to learn what the best practices are.
Actually, wireless ISPs are very common around the world. Yes, line of sight to another node or a tower is always necessary.

There's such an odd divide between tech geeks who like to sit around and think about "p2p wireless decentralized mesh networks", and don't know of any network that doesn't use those buzzwords, and wireless ISP operators who actually build them in the real world despite never having heard the word "mesh".

Generally the networks started by the mesh geeks perform much worse, and have few, if any subscribers, despite the fact that topology and equipment are identical to a wireless ISP.

Source: was a mesh geek, started a company making open source software for p2p mesh networks, now it serves wireless ISPs, who tend to have 100x the hustle and professionalism of the mesh geeks.
One past thread:

Data Organization in Spreadsheets - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17790545 - Aug 2018 (27 comments)
Ha! “Unmarked white van” is the WiFi name at my local dog daycare. I got a good laugh.
In GitLab you can diff the states between force pushes of a branch, which is a feature I love and really miss when working on GitHub.
Because determining a yes or no answer requires running tests and examinations of Martian subsurface soil samples on Earth.

Part of Perseverance's mission is to take those soil samples and deposit them to be picked up and brought back to Earth on another later mission.

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/sample-handl...
I read comments like this and wonder whether--after I die--everybody will mock me for every moment I forgot my wallet.

I maybe forget my wallet once per year, but I'd like to think that my friends have forgiven me for it. (And I always Venmo my share of the bill anyway.)
The post is linking to the comment section of the article. Can you strip the URL of the query string?
Of course, if you point Hopper at itself it gives you a lot of lorem ipsum selectors and dummy code as part of its amusing anti-reversing.