skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they could have turned around and fly all the way back to Russia had they desired to do so.

Not sure if it's that simple, the plane has limited fuel and if they are banned from most of Europe's airspace on the way back it might become inevitable to choose between unauthorized entry or crashing down. And that's assuming Russia would also not ban them, which is also a risk when you're already in the air.
Thanks for the Friday fun.

Bug report: Me and another player happened to spawn on the same spot, locking us in place and producing a satanic screeching sound.

Other than that, great mechanics!
Livewire's creator here. This problem is so bonkers and such a pain to deal with.

For your amusement. Here's the code that was SUPPOSED to fix the bug: https://github.com/livewire/livewire/blob/0b3feda46a9dd6ad19...

https://github.com/livewire/livewire/blob/0b3feda46a9dd6ad19...

And here's the podcast I recorded a while back on what a pain it is: https://laravel-livewire.com/podcasts/ep65-safari-sucks-here...
Why does it not make more sense to cultivate local talent, instead of effectively poaching from other countries, and creating negative wage pressure by expanding the labor supply and importing people who are willing to work for far lower wages?
> try creating a one person company and raise capital

She did. The team she hired was possible after raising the capital as a solo founder..
Reflections on Black in Computing – April 2021 – Communications of the ACM
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v1: “Supercentenarians and the oldest-old are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates and short lifespans”

To me, that looks pretty damning to the theory that blue zones somehow are good for longevity.
> With a compiler (not jit), the whole bytecode would be further fully compiled to some C apis before being executed, making it effectively an "ahead of time" compilation.

This hinges at least on the question of what you mean by "the whole bytecode". If the source is made up of N functions, and you compile all N functions ("the whole bytecode" of the entire program) to machine code before you know if any of them will be executed: Yes, I'd agree that that's a form of ahead of time compilation. Is this what full-codegen used to do?

On the other hand, if the source is made up of N functions, and you only compile "the whole bytecode" of each of them to machine code one by one, only those that will actually be executed, and only when you are preparing to actually execute them: That's JIT compilation. Even if it is the very first execution (i.e., you have never even interpreted), even if the compilation doesn't use fancy profiling or sophisticated code generation or whatnot.

> since the code never was executed, there is very little static information to work with, so the compiled output is often just a giant unrolled interpret loop

I think you mean "dynamic" information. And "the compiled output is often just a giant unrolled interpret loop" is pretty much the definition of what a baseline JIT compiler produces.
This is the fundamental flaw with open research and open source. You can't have both open access and working intellectual property protections, especially when there are jurisdictions that don't care about your laws, or are even actively encouraging theft.

It's easy to complain about China but that's what the Mainland Chinese system is designed to do. If they're able to break ours then that's just survival of the fittest. Adopt of perish. Who says you have to roll over and simply let them get away with it? Why are our universities collaborating with these "researchers"? Name, shame and blacklist them.
Same here, with such an offering I'd find a subscription attractive. But then again I'd also be more willing to subscribe in general if Twitter didn't try to sabotage my experience and timeline at every step already in the first place.
Ah, I see "linked" profile not "linkedIn" profile as the input label.
Sailing around Africa is actually quite easy to do. If you're a qualified sailor and have enough supplies, you can even do it solo in a simple 20 ft single sailed sailboat - no navigation equipment needed.

I read a story of a 16 year old girl sailing around the entire planet - totally solo. Sailing is easy.
Very interesting problem.

I wonder, why not have a real time clock capture time stamps for different inputs for same frame, like one when written to memory, one when the trigger for the frame is done, etc and have a comparative analysis. Discard the process when there is a discrepancy, and re-start the captures from beginning, and go into a default hover state when such a fault is found.
> results in Z% more fraud

They would probably not measure fraud but just losses directly.
>What I would enjoy would be a button to hide all the accounts that post more often than once per day. Because chances are the people who talk too much have no time to think about what they're saying.

I've always felt like HN should display the upvotes/comments ratio rather than raw karma. It would be like the accuracy number in xonotic's insta-gib mode: you shoot carefully and precisely rather than spraying and praying.
The claim that the virus originated in the lab? Yes.

The claim that the virus might have originated in the lab? No.
I've noticed that other platforms like Facebook have been doing something similar. (not that I use Facebook much at all). It used to be a feed of things I've chosen... now half of it is stuff from meme pages, businesses, and animal rescue videos I've never shown any interest in. If I remove one of them, it just finds some other bullshit to push in front of me.

It's like a subtle admission that these platforms are on their way out and they're throwing their own Barnum & Bailey circus just to keep anyone around.
Twitter (and nearly every "social" media platform) is like democracy: a sewer hose of manufactured consent, ignorance, mob stupidity, disinformation, and bot-automated propaganda that you'll need more than a shower or 3 to rinse-off.

I gave up and blew up all of my "social" media because they didn't serve any purpose.

Maybe an invite-only platform could have higher signal with:

- multiple "vouches" of others to get an invitation

- frequency/reputation micropayment cost to post

- reputation/karma that isn't apparent or chased, and granted some with the invite

- elimination of pile-on

- multifaceted voting based on specific aspects of relevance, agreement, and insight

- humor voted/tagged and filtered by readers to avoid using dv for that

- dv has moderator-visible reasoning to double-check and prevent spurious dv

- prevention of dv retribution

- reduced anonymity (first name and picture) for higher-quality interactions

- mediation and de-escalation facilities such as pre-comment emotional content scanning (AI-based sarcasm detection would rock), posting delay of 2 hours, and side chats

- login required to view content, no search engine spidering

- operate as a sustainable nonprofit to avoid pressures of corporate profiteering

- servers and legally based in a country the US and EU cannot control
The "whole of human experience" is a formal concept, since you surely don't believe any of us can informally experience it. Societies formalize it by collecting data and debating theories. And big human stories are the ones which are difficult to intuit.

There are those who do nothing more than collect information on homeless people, documenting them for various organizations or gov't agencies, sometimes paid. They are doing the fundamental work of demonstrating a phenomena whose scale would otherwise be belittled or denied. Some would say SF is actually pretty nice, with only a small homeless population.

When experiences disagree with each other, how should we move forward with discussion? With personal experience or with data?
That's a good example that proves my point and the reason why I said "even if think it is justified", it doesn't matter if it is a cap/tax/whatever, it only uses the same mechanisms of money laundering because it is money laundering (they are trying to hide that that money is not clean/legal, that the reason it is illegal is because it was not supossed to legally leave the origin country instead of being drug money, makes no difference to the law, but morally could be ok to some).
That's what I'm wondering. It costs energy to move electrons
I'm looking at it like this: if I have to _prepare_ for an interview after being in the industry for almost 6 years, then the interview is testing different skills than what I'm using in my day to day job.

Edit: clarifying a bit: in an ideal situation, my preparation for the interview would involve going over all the work projects and reviewing how to talk about them.
There's an astonishing amount of I mean in his comment history. I mean like a lot.
My bad - will be more careful next time.
Well, these mid-thread tweets can still be taken out of context and used to create sh*tstorms.
I'd argue that the problem isn't secrecy laws but just general incompetence and unwillingness.

Sure, banking secrecy laws could be a problem for large-scale frauds totaling millions, but smaller-scale operations typically stay within the same country where the law most likely already allows this kind of tracing, but it's so unefficient that by the time it's tracked down the money is already gone for good.
I feel like I must be living in an alternative reality from the Twitter deriders in this thread, I've had almost the exact opposite experience. I've made more friends and acquaintances on Twitter than any other social network. It's also easily the most intellectual social network. (If that sounds crazy, really compare it to the others. They're either not intellectual or [youtube] not really social.)

If you care deeply about something, you will find other people on Twitter. If you work in public, people will find you. Someone right now I met from Maine is currently drawing up the plans to teach me to timber frame a structure I just got approved. About 20 people I met from twitter have been over my house (for dinner, etc) at different times. Far more people read my work because of Twitter.

If you don't use it as a political mouthpiece it's incredible and there's nothing like it. And that's really up to the user.
Well, that was your personal opinion and interpretation on just a quote. Appreciated, but will see how HN reacts.
There's an open source distribution of GNAT for macOS here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuada/files/GNAT_GCC%20Mac...
oh sorry, one other thing, jkaplan, are you THE Jerry Kaplan of Go? The writer of the fantastic 1994 book "Startup" that I have on my shelf?
Secularism is its own religion and gets quoted often around here. Guess you’ll just have to learn to be tolerant.
I am glad your move worked. But for others I'd advise to not underestimate the importance of your life's continuity of narrative. Moving to NV broke that since it was simply because of lower taxes and that's not meaningful enough. When I lived in the Bay Area I had an identity, long time college buddies, neighbors who would knock on my door, I was a member of the tech and scientific research community, an angel investor, and I had visitors since so many people pass through the Bay Area. Now all I am is that rando millionaire next door who WFH and likes skiing.

Every morning I wake up and I do not recognize the man in the mirror. I disintegrated into a collection of discontinuous random stories that feel like they happened to someone else. It easily diminished my productivity by 10% which means this move didn't save me money.

Now that I want to move back to Cali the homes are priced much higher than when I left. Beware.
Then moving the capital is not legal.
Twitter is the only social media I use. If they have to do this to make a profit then I have no issue with it. I'm surprised more large social media companies have not done this since there are so many outside services that will do things like this on their platforms.
The StackOverflow thing is a bit weird, because what the owners have and consider valuable is "a place where people feel comfortable coming and asking questions", but what the core community values is "high-quality curated content", and they're very willing to do aggressive gatekeeping, thus conflicting with value 1, to preserve value 2.
Even within the US, you can't legally just have a nominal postal address somewhere and then live wherever you want. States want their money. A friend of mine was telling me their company is going to start auditing business travel records to make sure that appropriate tax filings are made.

If you're not filing expense reports, will a company "know"? Possibly not. But it seems pretty precarious to expose yourself and the company at risk this way.
Having never used Mako the appeal to me over Jinja is that it allows you to use real control structures. Jinja is a bit of a pain to debug and develop because it does some things slightly differently than you'd do in native Python so even though I can setup breakpoints and evaluate the application state I can't easily convert the code changes I make in the debugger back to the template. I get that there are reasons why Jinja and other templating systems guard against this, but it does have a cost.
also this just in - charter exists to make money!
Long ago when I was working as an editor, I thought about proposing a new diet book called the 'eat real food and get off your ass diet."

1. Eat reasonable amounts of real food.

2. Don't eat too much junk food.

3. Get off your ass once in a while.

Followed by 180 blank pages. I never did it, though.
> my electricity is primarily provided by nuclear and hydro. Kind of weird to think of mining as a way to reduce your carbon emissions but in some cases it certainly can be.

I think you are likely mistaken, although it is a surprisingly common misconception. Most places in the world, if you are using an extra kWh of power, the system needs to generate up to an extra marginal kWh from coal or gas.

Example 1: France generates power 70% from nuclear. However if a French person uses an extra kWh during base load, that could easily lead to one less kWh exported, which would most likely mean one extra kWh is generated from say coal somewhere else in Europe.

Example 2: New Zealand generates 60% of power from hydro. If I use an extra kWh of power at the moment (even at cheap rates), then if we have a drought in 6 months time, then an extra kWh needs to be generated from coal in 6 months time. I am presuming the coming critical storm[1] this weekend won’t fill our hydro lakes[2] and that the predicted long term dry weather pattern[0] will occur. I am a New Zealander.

You could be right if you are only using your power when it is cheapest (which usually implies the usage of base load nuclear), although it is surprisingly difficult to actually figure out whether you have generated zero extra carbon.

[0] https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/441393/hydro-power-more-...

[2] https://www.transpower.co.nz/system-operator/security-supply...

[1] https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/05/rare-red-...

Edit: on second thoughts in NZ I am sure our lakes can’t fill that quickly from one good storm - the inflow rate is limited by the size of the river and the inflow rate is small compared to the storage size?
Why put it on GitHub and a web page if you don't care about other people's use cases?

I have no problem with people writing code for themselves. But if that is what you do, please don't post on Hacker News about it.
This comment assumes that improvements in longevity will come by themselves with no quality of life improvements.

There were plenty of people in their 60s and 70s riddled with cancer and decrepit old bodies from back breaking labor before our lifetimes that probably were waiting for death too.

Now that's the age of retirement and a time to explore hobbies and the world for large portions of the population.

Personally the one thing I fear is that it will be discovered that it's possible to pause/slow aging but not effectively reverse it. If you start taking the aging pills in your 20s maybe you look and feel 50 when you're 100 but if you start the pills when you're fifty maybe you're feeling like a current 100 year old by your 150th birthday.
There are multiple sections of Twitter and some communities are extremely toxic, but it’s also the single best place to follow breaking events. If you follow the right people it can be extremely informative, and highlights how often news bloggers get basic facts wrong.

One recent example, there was a news report that famous short seller Michael Burry had taken a $500 million dollar bet against Tesla. This number came from a basic misreading of Burry’s disclosure, but the news media ran with it and an article with this number showed up on the HN front page. If you followed the right people on Twitter you knew the number was wrong within minutes, while the news media has still not issued a correction. This situation happens all the time.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2021/05/17/genius-behind-the-...

https://twitter.com/Keubiko/status/1394351225316028420?s=20
> unfortunately the false positives with our PCR testing is abysmal

This is nonsense. The vast, vast majority of positive PCR tests are positive after < 30 cycles.
But how much energy is used percentage wise for mining?
Sort of tangential to the discussion, but what a fascinating conceit: that any individual (on earth) has a right to wealth and comfort, such that the people of the United States should be obliged to expedite the fulfillment of that right, by allowing that individual to settle there.
Ask HN: Feedburner Alternatives?
Feedburner is "going into maintenance mode" [1]. Are there any good alternatives?

1. https://support.google.com/feedburner/answer/10483501
There are many people who can think critically who also happen to use Twitter just as any other public space. Frankly your comment comes off as condescending and aloof so I can see why it didn't go well.
Show HN: terraform-provider-factorio
this person gets it.

who wants to live to 150 is you’re in constant pain, take 150 medications/day and you cannot move?

now, let’s say that at 90s you could do what a 40yo can do. GAME CHANGING!
Should I treat them as brain gymnasiums such as Number Theory which few people ever needs for their career, but could improve problem solving ability in general?

From my understanding those brain gymnasiums make your brain work harder and you have to concerntrate for longer period to get them solved. They also open new ways of thinking about the world.
You can interpret Hemingway’s writing process such that he really could tell you what he did yesterday and what he’s going to do today.

Not that I’m particularly fond of this current incantation of Agile.
… in other words, something that is unlikely to materialize any time soon.
We'll start needing some kind of notation… maybe we'll have to adopt the Knuth up-arrow. Awesome↑↑-list
How much money are we spending?

I’m sure it’s getting some research but compared to other medical research I don’t think it amounts to much
It depends on the type of the work you do. Whenever I have to cast ints to floats because I want to use something in math library, I want to claw my eyes out.
The trick is never to look at the main feed.

Create lists of people (just one if you want the main feed-like experience, several if you want some order and structure). Only look at those lists.

They are chronological, and without the random "suggestions" Twitter likes to put before you.

And then you may come to like tweetdeck.twitter.com, where you can see all those lists side by side, and even have sensible keyboard shortcuts.

(Unfortunately, Tweetdeck may become a paid feature, there have been rumors bout it for quite some time)
There's also the fact that users willing to pay to cut adds are probably a very large chunk of Twitter's ad revenue.
> Some criminals undertake what is known as “chain-hopping” — jumping between different cryptocurrencies, often in rapid succession — to lose trackers, or use particular “privacy coin” cryptocurrencies that have extra anonymity built into them, such as Monero.

Its kind of hilarious that an article in mid-2021 treats this as novel, or that it is novel to many people reading it now.

To me this is like reading about bearer bonds from a 1950s heist.

Chain-hopping is as old as crypto exchanges. It has some folly, because even if a chain analysis firm or armchair blockchain sleuths aren't inspired enough to consider or look on another chain, the records are still permanent.

Hopping over to XMR or privacy chains has been available since 2014. Even with older versions leaking some rings, the best practices from back then still mitigate that, and rotating anytime since 2017 ensures mitigation through now.

The article lacks anything coherent, providing maybe a tiny spark of inspiration for investigators and people enamored by the crypto phenomenon, but wasting everybody's time because there are other techniques fairly unique to the crypto space that are more accessible and efficient and not secret at all.
Wow, is that paper saying what I think it is? Previous papers only found a negative energy requirement (pg. 12) because they only considered interior spaces which could reduce down to a point-like region? That's an extraordinary claim, and, I hate to use the phrase, but "big if true".
Tom Cotton has made bombastic statements for years. He makes a another seemingly bombastic statement and rightfully gets ignored, ridiculed, or scorned - and now I'm supposed to be concerned that happened? Tom Cotton is the boy who cried wolf. He has earned the privilege of being ignored. I'm not going to blame the media for ignoring him.

Now a year later and we still haven't determined where this virus came from. People who haven't earned the privilege of being ignored are now starting to present evidence that perhaps the Wuhan Lab was involved in some way. The media is paying attention to those people. They're also paying attention to Beijing being less that forthcoming in helping to get to the bottom of the issue.

I honestly don't see a big smoking gun with the media's coverage of this issue. Certainly nothing warranting the term fiasco.
A set that contains all things must contain itself by definition.
Yeah by "sell ads" here I mean "do the whole data collection, targeting, whatever" deal that the platforms do.

Discord... definitely different. It's hard for me to believe that Nitro really can be paying for Discord but I guess it's possible?
The first image, from the Perseverance rover's MastCam-Z, is at least as much "true color" as any ordinary camera. (That is, the precise color might be slightly off due to differences between the camera's sensitivity and your monitor's spectrum, but it should be pretty close.)

The video from Ingenuity itself is taken by a black-and-white camera and has no color information.
Tax fraud.

You would not benefit from it you would loose money
Let's dispense with the "right or wrong" aspect of this, because I don't think it's helpful towards moving the needle on this, and instead evaluate this as a matter of complementary perspectives.

Does reputation matter? Yes. This I will openly concede. Do I think credentials are meaningless? No.

Where we disagree is "thinking that this matters". I still think it absolutely does, and think the analogy is a poor one. You clearly think it doesn't, that's fine, but I don't think it makes either one of us less or more wrong. Perhaps that's all there is at play here, a difference of opinion in how an organization prosecutes the search for a qualified expert in security, medicine or law; and I think it's revealingly disingenuous to frame such organizational decision making and risk tolerances when seeking professional services with rigid and inflexible absolutes of "right way" or "wrong way" or whether or not method A matters whereas method B doesn't.
On the contrary, we could finally raise the voting age to 60.
I played Joust a lot as a kid, the character movement looks a really good reproduction of the original to me.