skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Megabytes more?

Megabytes more in total, or megabytes more per binary?

> On this disk, about 15% of it is executables, and I have a lot of crap in my executable directory and just deleted a lot of junk data.

Is there any study on how this might change if we moved from dlls to statically linking everything?

> no one's seriously proposing that core libraries that everyone uses be statically linked

If we agree that shared libraries are fine for the common case, and there are n number of existing solutions for distributing applications with tricky dependencies, what are we even talking about in this thread? :\
I don't think that's a protective measure, to me it just looks like a convenient way of tracking the liquid level in the cartridge. I don't think that a hack like this is harming the company or cuts into their revenue - most people wouldn't bother resetting these thing to refill them manually - the labor investment probably isn't worth it. Their target audience would pay for convenience, they already do by opting for cartridges instead of manual addition.
This might shed some light:

https://www.businessinsider.com/new-hiv-vaccine-could-be-mod...
In praise of Beyond Compare (2005)
Did someone ever actually made a real Famicom/NES game based on one of those covers?
That would be the stage right before the RUINED comments start rolling in.
> Paying to not update is usually called "extended support."

I haven't seen anyone demanding extended support, people just want to click "No" without having to pay for that privilege. No support, no extra sauce, just a button for the users who don't want to risk breakage in that moment.
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This is a legitimate question, so I don't know why it's being downvoted. Especially given the statement in the abstract of the paper that says, "We show here that S protein alone can damage vascular endothelial cells (ECs) in vitro and in vivo...."

That being said, other people on this thread have provided reasonable mechanistic explanations as to why the vaccines would not have this effect, but I will also add we have _empirical_ evidence that the vaccine does not impair endothelial function (or at least it is extremely rare) because we have millions of people who have received the vaccine without impaired endothelial function.
Free and Open Source network access control (NAC) solution
iPhone mini exists. It has lackluster sales though so I think Apple will kill it in the next iteration.
You reminded me of Watchy[1] (which I completely forgot about). It is a good contender.

[1]: https://watchy.sqfmi.com/
At least the other site ending in *pedia has a list of sources.

I don‘t know anything about investopedia, but I see a lot of numbers and not one source for any of the numbers at all. Not going to trust it.
I'm agreeing with you here for the first part: that's another great well-meaning dev explanation.

The ball-dropping is sales/product/leadership not being aligned on user advocacy. "Our velocity & sales > breaking user environments" means either the former is overly prioritized, or the people making decisions are too far from users (developers) to understand their daily needs. Managing docker versions for dev/prod drift isn't "1% of devs 99% of the time" but "99% of devs 1% of the time", so it's a real miss.

In an alternate org where the user advocates lead might look more like:

* <reject early on the current feature plan proposal as user hostile and instead...>

* free: default to auto-update (or not)

* free: flip

* pay ("Pro"): one-click to switch to another version, both forwards & backwards

* pay ("Enterprise"): centrally managed update schedule, version tracking, audit logs, etc. for all devs in your org

Folks there are some of the best, so I'm sure most of this was considered, and thus it's an org/process problem
Your body is non-stop taking damage every day. Its when the body can't compensate fast enough that its a problem.

The load from an mRNA vaccine is miniscule compared to severe, or moderate covid.
Vinod Khosla: Be Wary of “Stupid Advice” (2015)
I would say those AirTags will be with the iPhones of their respective owners. Mine report as “With you” so perhaps they don’t advertise themselves in this state. The phone will be frequently updating its own location to Find My anyway so no extra power draw.

However if you’re walking by a set of left luggage lockers or through some similar environment where lots of AirTags not with their owner then there would indeed be some overhead. If you work in baggage handling in an airport would probably be telling.
This all depends on the frequency which the AirTag reports itself and the frequency where your iPhone listens out. I suspect the impact would be negligible considering the power draw of the U1 in the AirTag is of order the power draw that the phone must commit.
Genuinely curious why? Isn’t it just a large http server for static binaries?
NetBSD already has pkgsrc [1].

[1] https://www.pkgsrc.org/
Show HN: Grim Tales – a book written and illustrated by AI
Closing a switch is akin to nothing and I've never been given a good answer from the many rabbis I've asked. It's abundantly clear to me that all the answers anyone gives are post-hoc and iirc rav shlomo zalman auerbach ZT"L agrees with me.
The Tile is much more compact than the kitted out AirTag. Shame that Apple had to pander to the twin gods of accessories margin and fashion.
Canada Will Require Using a Vaccine Passport for Entry
And one of the disasters should be a craze for Bitcoin mining.
Or when you have obvious problems!

Take it with pile of salt, I am not some big expert. I just did it with some projects. But it seems to me that in nearly all cases there are glaring issues that would be detected with any amount of testing at all.
Tavistock whistleblower David Bell: ‘I believed I was doing the right thing’
A few weeks ago I was playing around with some generative art and created an image of the Grim Reaper on vacation. I found it amusing and I couldn't stop thinking about other scenarios for Death to be in. So I decided I wanted to write a book using AI. Of course that had already 'been done'. So I wondered if I could create one that was cohesive, with an actual plot, and could I illustrate it using AI too?

Grim Tales is the result. It's a short story about the Grim Reaper in paperback and as an ebook. It was exciting to see the text and the art getting generated and coming together. As far as I know it is the first book both written and illustrated by AI.

The art was created using a modified version of the 'Aleph2Image' notebook (created by @advadnoun on twitter) which uses OpenAI's CLIP and DALL-E. The text was generated using a writing tool that utilises OpenAI's GPT-3 API. I've already written an article on the site about how I generated the text for the book. I'll follow that up with a similar article about the art, and discussions on the quality of the writing and how AI could be used as a tool for writers in the future.

Happy to answer questions!
See the link in my original post. The other things I'm aware of are ridiculous behaviors of npm packages, like create-react-app, which feels the right thing to do is to spawn my $EDITOR when it sees exception in the log (which it hides), except that the whole terminal session freezes because vim and create-react-app fight for the tty. And there are other things where authors pull in insane amount of dependencies to log in their own colorful fancy way.

But then again, I'm not that well versed in nodejs to judge by that experience alone. As I said in the middle, I'm not trying to dismiss author's work. I'm sorry for the tone of my previous replies. This comment thread I spawned is also very off-topic.
I don't think the opinion of the Linux foundation matters. Linus likes mail and so does many other people so that's what they use.

There is an article explaining why they refuse to use modern code review systems https://lwn.net/Articles/702177/
Most of us in software engineering have, at some point, encountered someone who does not see a difference between technical criticisms of a system and personal attacks on its designers and authors. This is an understandable error in a junior engineer, an irritating bad habit in a mid-tier engineer, and a problem in a senior person. In all cases, the answer often winds up being finding a way around them, much as this describes.

I've been places where such people have found their way to technical leadership. Finding ways to improve things can rapidly become exceptionally difficult.

At this point my only way forward is to have a personal blocklist of people whose technical leadership decisions I refuse to ever be subject to again. It's a shame, because some of them are also brilliant engineers.
Sure but not everyone is a "free software only" person either. VSCodium comes at a price if you invested time in learning those extensions which won't work in it.
In what way? I perceive it as a gui for S3.
Great summary, thanks
ITT: really really really insecure white dudes. You all spill more ink on "activists" than your shitty ass bosses that dehumanize you and exploit you on a daily basis.
No, I'm really not.

Docker doesn't have to support anything they don't want. They can support only the latest version and just refuse to support obsolete versions. They can even deprecate API endpoints for versions they don't want to use anymore and ask users to upgrade. They could even sell support for those obsolete versions. This is how a large part of the industry operates and a great strategy for making money.

Docker Desktop is an app that runs on local computers. Just as everyone doesn't want Google or Apple forcing things on them, I also don't want third-party software developers doing the same and risking breaking my workflow because they didn't give me the opportunity control and be careful about my upgrades.

This is entirely possible. I also work on a company that sells Desktop apps, but we sell to non-technical users. All those users understand that upgrading to the latest version is routine when you have issues.
They calculated a savings of over $200/year.
Tick-borne diseases are not all similar but many of them are very, very nasty and Lyme Disease is not the worst of them.

I’d love for my kids to be able to play in the weeds and woods with abandon the way I did.
What Happened at LendUp?
I remember LendUp being a great company with an amazing team and top investors, however I recently looked at glassdoor reviews of the organization and it appears things are not going well at all. The bios of the C-suites are underwhelming. The COO and HR are heavily criticized on glassdoor, and the CTO has no background in technology whatsoever. I am wondering if anyone has more information about what happened since they should still be well funded and had all the makings of a great company at one point.
But the Normans are a real people going back over a thousand years.
India’s vaccines supremo escapes to UK after Harassment
I sometimes think I'd volunteer (for money to my family's name) but it's not possible even if I want
Surely it makes no sense to compare the median home price to the lowest paying jobs? We don’t really expect people who earn the least to be buying the median house. (And it’s silly to think that 100% home ownership is some kind of ideal, it has a lot of negative consequences so we’re better off with many people renting).

This claim would be stronger if you compared to the bottom 10% of housing, say.
Probably not everyone. But for me, after spending $1400 I’m putting it in a case. My Xs Max is nearly two and a half years old now and I took it out of the case for it’s scheduled cleaning and after wiping it down and getting the built up pocket crud out of the crevices where the case and phone meet, its like brand new.

I’m hoping I can get at least another year out of this thing. Battery is excellent. iOS doesn’t seem slow at all.
They’re also incredibly adept at reading human body language and emotional state. Horses with the gift of clairvoyance read subtle shifts in weight of their rider and know to jump or turn left before the rider says so or uses the reins.

I forget which book it’s in, but there’s an often-repeated tale of a horse who learned to do sums and could add numbers even without his owner in sight. It was eventually discovered that he read the anticipation of his observers and knew to stop stomping his hoof once they relaxed after peak tension.
You could model economic systems as alternating layers of centralized and decentralized decision making. Individual teams in a company make decentralized decisions about how products should be made, but the centralized decision about what the company's strategic direction should be is made by company executives. Likewise, individual firms compete in a decentralized economy, but the government makes centralized decisions about what sectors are crucial to national security and are subsidized.

The USSR had no decentralized layer of decision making at the firm level, all firms produced according to quotas made by the central government, and were ultimately less efficient than the US's decentralized layer of competing firms. This does not mean that centralized layers aren't necessary. Both the US and the USSR had a layer of centralized decision making at the government level subsidizing key national industries during the cold war. Both kinds of layers are necessary, but after the cold war the US saw that their decentralized layer of firms made them more economically successful than the USSR, thought that was the whole formula, and tossed national economic strategy out the window to let the firms do whatever they liked. Now the pendulum's swinging back to correct this misconception with China growing quickly using a layer of centralized national economic strategy that the US discarded.
Why did you say non-ironically?
>and where a large pot of money is buried

This is obviously the problem here. When you say to a gentile "it's dark in here", you're not actually telling them that you want them to turn on the light for you, when they do so it's their choice entirely. If you said "Anyone who turns on the lights will be paid", that would actually be prohibited. I think the following article is pretty good (https://www.halachipedia.com/index.php?title=Summary_of_Amir...).
> Shame that Apple had to pander to the twin gods of accessories margin and fashion

I feel like that's...what Apple is?

If you don't like it, that's fine, and they have lots of more-utilitarian competitors in every space they operate. I personally don't currently use any Apple products; I'm not really the target market either.
Are we seeing the return of the closed-door office? I hope not
But then why not just use the VM itself and lose the container?

Whatever restrictions you want to apply to the Docker, can be applied to the binary as well when invoking it.
It's a question hacker mindset would ask. What follows from first principles given the headline; it's not an unreasonable question, even if there is no empirical evidence the vaccines are unsafe
Ingenuity's mission proposal makes sense here; It was developed as a tech demo as opposed to an operational one. A significant part of the drone was using COTS components (namely a Snapdragon 801 of all things) that weren't even rad-hardened and was exposed to all sorts of radiation for an extended period of time in space. With most missions the tradeoff is typically between risk and reliability, and even one flight on this thing involves a very large risk - 4 initial flights seems relatively reasonable.
Git pull requests were invented by the Linux people and they were invented in a context of people sending mails
Exactly. I find it this ironic it is the same phrase that Bush used, and now the left has taken it over too https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_are_either_with_us,_or_a....

Really this whole controversy is asking for their political views to be the only ones discussed at work, what happens when someone from a more conservative background or country voices their views?

IMO really don’t want to talk politics at work it will just lead to problems. Also SJW is not a protected class.
The same is happening with automobile UX design. Everything is going to touch screen interfaces when physical buttons are so much more practical. I want a car manufacturer to buck the trend and go full Cherry-MX on all of their buttons. It might not get me to buy the car straight away but it sure would be a big bonus.
I also find git’s branching model to be far superior to subversion’s.

I assume that this is due to its design center around distributed repositories and patch files. But it’s still there even when using a central repo and a monorepo structure.
The other thing that isn't fantastic is the use of crypto to facilitate all manner of crime from illegally selling weapons to trafficking humans.
So podman-compose is really not where it’s at. This is coming from a long time ex-user. It’s a simple project with 117 open issues and 37 pull requests going back to 2019 (very few/no comments). There are many missing features and incompatibilities. I’m an ex-user because as of podman v2.2 there’s support to emulate the Docker socket which allows one to use Docker-compose.
It's not a Bob Ross painting until it has happy wheelbarrows and friendly trees.
> The winner will be shown on TV and newspapers, a random citizen who accidentally hits the jackpot and got lifted to being a king.

I’m not aware of this happening in HK. Mark six (lottery) winners are not shown on TV or in newspapers. Winners are announced, yes, but it doesn’t include their identities.
I’m not sure about the process when you win millions of dollars, but you can buy tickets at the track, which are anonymous, and you just cash them in later. Of course, my experience is only winning a few $100s.

> It's not acceptable socially or politically.

Socially, I more expect it to be the other way around. Other gamblers will probably applaud them for finally doing the impossible. This was also in 2001, nobody would even consider this to be politically unacceptable. Even now, that wouldn’t be the case.
Sure, but while it's great that pkgsrc is already multi-unix, neither NetBSD or SmartOS are known for GUI support!
Well…there is state sponsorship, via the NIH.

https://www.nccih.nih.gov/nih-pain-research-center/research-...

“Pain” is almost never the disease. (OK, maybe CRPS.) There’s a lot of things that cause pain, almost self-evidently, so it’s not one particular thing to attack, unlike a virus.

(Also we are at 36 states now with medical marijuana, so I think the “pharma wants to block this” ship has sailed, especially when you consider big-hitters like California and New York have full recreational marijuana now.)
How do you spell "guitar"?

It's not spelled like it sounds, and not every English speaker (never mind people who can't speak English) is going to know how to spell it. Some may try to spell it "gitar", "geetar" or even "getar", for example. While these maybe be "obviously" wrong spelling for skilled spellers, they're not so for everyone.

Even with a simple word like "ball", it's not obvious that it should have two l's at the end. Someone might spell it "bal" when they hear it.

Spelling reform[1] movements have pointed out these and many other issues with English spelling, but unfortunately the alternatives they've come up with are just not widely known, and at least some of them still have their own problems (such as lack of standardization due to different phonemic spellings for words spoken by people with different accents).

Even were there some magical alternate spelling system for English that was widely known among English speakers, it would still be a stumbling block for people who don't know English, as would the words of any other language.. as long as there are people who don't speak that language.

So any word-based system is going to be problematic and error-prone for some people.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_reform
It’s in the Proof of Work. The „..difficulty is determined by a moving average targeting an average number of blocks per hour.“ The more nodes, the faster the hash rate the higher the difficulty. Here is a nice (exponential) graph showing difficulty over time since 2010 http://bitcoin.sipa.be

And „The average work required is exponential in the number of zero bits required and can be verified by executing a single hash.“

The difficulty of a unit of work can be practically limitless, the difficulty to verify a unit of work is practically nil. As long as work needs to be performed and as long as the network keeps growing, both the total amount of work and the amount of work per unit of work increase. The required energy of the network increases with them as long as the machines do not get efficient faster, which is highly unlikely.

Currently, the energy footprint of one BTC transaction is estimated to be 612 kWh and the estimated electricity demand increased over 10.000 % between 2015 and 2021. Digital currencies reportedly account for 112 TWh energy consumption per year in the top 10 countries. That is in the ballpark of the total electrical energy consumption of all 41,500,000 German households. (https://www.institutionalassetmanager.co.uk/2021/01/20/29466..., https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/ and https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c... and https://www.statista.com/statistics/464187/households-by-siz... ).

Blockchain currencies with alternative consensus algorithms are better in this regard.
The ifixit folks are really good at getting people invested in understanding what’s going on inside our gadgets. A little bit of humour like this is especially fun.
A couple years ago I trained GPT-2 on Magic: The Gathering cards and it worked extremely well, however it was overengineered due to the limits around GPT-2 at the time.

Now, with much better AI text generation tooling, I trained a bespoke tiny GPT-2 (~1M parameters) on encoded Magic card data using aitextgen and its schema capabilities. Anecdotally the quality of cards generated is much better than the RNN approaches of the past. The cards follow the color pie now!

I was able to make a Colab Notebook with surprisingly little code if you unnest it, including the card decoder. The model is small enough that you can run locally on a CPU if you download the notebook.

Let me know if you have any questions!
The mining is not needed at all for verifying transactions, it is used to secure the network and to create new block of transactions.
Met a few engineers involved with the project, they did mention they ran into a lot of issues internally since the teams on Perseverance gave significant pushback to make sure that it didn't jeopardize the mission. Ingenuity's only a second priority on Mars 2020
The AirTag transmits every 2 seconds. The iPhone should scan every 2 minutes for 2 seconds in order to capture the AirTag. BLE scanning costs about ~20mW. So the average power consumption is 20mW * (2sec / 120sec) = 0.3mW.

Over an entire day, it's 7mWh. The iPhone 12 battery is 10000mWh.

Conclusion: it's neglibile.
TMON (2010)
Or you could just ... put everyone in offices?
Nobody over the age of ~20 I know in low income brackets even think about buying a flagship phone. It’s barely on their radar.
I'm going to write an unpopular opinion. I really dislike when anyone in my team writes documentation...

First of all you now have 2 sources of truth, both rot and only one of them is the actual truth.

Besides that I expect us all to write code the same way so after you are onboarded and need to learn something you should just dig into the code. In fact your job is to dig into the code and iterate it.

Own that code even if you weren’t the last to touch it you might have to be the next.
i've realized that when i entered the url.. :D
Your dishwasher was designed to be used without a pre-rinse and is good dishwasher. I’ve had not-so-great dishwashers with pre-rinse slots that were essentially required.