skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CERCLA, DERP, FUDS, and other programs all relate to clean-up after the fact, they don't control how the military handles hazardous waste while a base is active or under activated conditions. As I pointed out, nearly all the closed military bases that were shut down through BRAC (around 350) after the Cold War ended are now on the SuperFund list (which is administered under CERCLA). All the older FUDS sites were converted to SuperFund sites if they hadn't finished cleanup (most hadn't).

One specific example that's local and relevant to me was the shut down of Kelly Air Force Base as part of BRAC, and the dumping of firefighting chemicals for aviation fires that contained PFOAs and PFOSs that contaminated local groundwater: https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2019/09/26/last...

Kelly was closed under BRAC in 1995, and then partially re-opened in 2001 through BRAC as a re-alignment to become Kelly Field, part of JBSA Lackland (previously Lackland AFB). During the closure in 1995, firefighting chemicals which contain toxic PCBs, including PFOA and PFOS, were dumped directly onto the ground where they ran off into the Leon Creek watershed, and still cause the waters to be toxic for swimming, fishing, or drinking today... that watershed feeds drinking water supplies for a significant portion of the city, a portion that happens to be one of the poorest areas of the city. Most of the firefighting chemicals dumped were from the 1970s but were still stored "just in case" until the base got BRACed and then they dumped them... in the 90s, well after PFOA and PFOS were established to be toxic (although the case against Dupont surrounding them was still ongoing and undecided until 2005).

So yeah, the Air Force and EPA have committed to a clean-up. Fantastic. No ETA, and the reality is that it's /extremely/ difficult to filter PFOA and PFOS out of water, even reverse osmosis isn't 100% effective. Meanwhile there are hundreds of thousands of people who are drinking contaminated water, swimming in contaminated streams, ponds, and lakes, and being exposed to contaminated fish.

Being obligated to do a clean-up "eventually" is not the same thing as being regulated from doing the dumping of toxic waste in the first place. That's my point.
The simple existence of the second mRNA doses is similar. Almost all vaccines do better with a booster. They didn't know whether they needed it or not, and it was an entirely new technique, so they went with a conservative choice.

In fact we know now that single-dose mRNA vaccines work at around 70% effectiveness, which is great. That's essentially the way they're being deployed in the UK and now Canada, people get one dose and then go back to the end of the line. And this is working extremely well, quite a bit better than the vaccination regime in the US, which is "wasting" all those early second doses on comparatively much less effective booster shots.
Unless you're in a very small company, the "big picture" probably involves people on different floors, in different building, and in different locations--continents even. In many respects, communicating remotely can break down location-based silos in many cases.
No, the patents on these have expired and nobody will make any money if we promote them. Also it would have been near impossible to get emergency use authorisation for these vaccines if we had at all listened to the science on these.
I have found Huberman podcast incredibly helpful - in detail explanation(too much sometimes) of how brain works.

There are 4 episodes(1.5h each) dedicated just to sleep. The whole podcast is great.

https://youtu.be/nm1TxQj9IsQ
Look, I'm just saying it how I've seen it.

When I create messes I get fired.

When I fix messes my boss gets promoted.

This has been the case anywhere I've gone. It is the reality most places I think. Companies that operate differently are the exception.
One problem is pitbulls are not really a standardized breed so a lot of mixed breed terriers get mixed in here.

Though this is an important metric. I don't think pitbulls are inherently more likely to bite, but I do think they cause a lot more damage when they do bite. Minor bites are unlikely to always be reported. Note that all of the dogs listed are big powerful jawed dogs.
Any C++ vulnerabiliy caused by copy-paste compatibility with C is by definition a C vulnerabiliy.
They had 1/3 more employees than desks, but frowned on WFH?
> Fiat is backed by weapons.

What does this mean? It's the currency of a country that has weapons. If someone steals my USD, will US use their weapons to get it back for me? If the value of their currency drops substantially, will they go to war with some unknown power that's causing this drop and reverse the change? Countries also change currencies, often during times of inflation.

This is an effectively meaningless statement
35-60 year old women drove that segment. They are actually really good(if you can get past the facebook part). Far better than the really expensive cisco board room systems.
The reason this pattern is so common is that most people take their cues for what to care about from the media, and the media take their cues from a presumably small and difficult-to-identify group of thought leaders (some combination of editors, PR firms and people with extremely respectable positions).

It is basically a self organising system around a very small pool of original thoughts. It is pretty remarkable how stuff can completely slip the general discourse because it never catches on in the in-group.
In all seriousness, I don't think there is much overlap in people who know about Wapp and those who know about WAP.
you’re thinking of “normal money” failing as a on/off switch. Things are going degrade over time and there needs to be mass adoption if crypto is going to replace fiat currency.

so in reality I think a transition to crypto is possible/likely if it’s indeed a transition and the incentives to do so will be aligned with what the people in power want.
They think they’ll be able to exchange their funny money for real money, just in time, and stash it in their bug-out bags along with bullets and beef jerky.
> The idea that every able bodied person has to work is not supposed to be the way our society functions; at least not in the last 100,000 years.

So the fruit of who's labour exactly are they entitled to then? And can I also get in on that action? I would like to get something other people made without working any more. I don't see why I as a productive member of society should get less than someone who festers in their own bodily fluids.
> We talked about this during the outage before but any API requests related to account information should not be going through a cacheable CDN.

That is simply not correct.

The entire reason why Fastly is so popular is because it lets you cache the API using cache-bust on write. Between the request collapsing, shielding, and a near immediate cache invalidation caching API allows one to accept enormous spikes of traffic that normally would bring down the origins.
Of course, the fact that the threshold has to be so precise is because that's the rules, not because of anything related to aviation. That's a human-enforced quality. A threshold at 100 probably has about one significant figure, sometimes less.
The consensus on the 1992 thread (including a really great comment from 'Animats) seems to be that `popcount` was generally not added to architectures at NSA's request --- that people familiar with those archs knew the actual reason `popcount` wound up in the ISA, and it preceded NSA purchases.

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.arch/c/UXEi7G6WHuU/m/Z2z7fC...
It has a gui and works on Linux/Windows/MacOS. Also has both deduplication and compression.
I agree with your last part, but not the reasoning, exactly. :)

If you started your own currency it would be worthless because of the lack of demand for it.

Right now Bitcoin has a market cap of about 800bn USD, which (coincidentally) is about the same value as the CHF M1. (M2 is a little over a trillion USD.) These are crude indicators that there's substantial aggregate demand for both assets.

What's interesting is how Bitcoin got to that point. Quite a few years ago, it wasn't worth much at all, and you could only use it to pay people who were ideologically motivated to accept it—your crazy coworker who'd let you pay him back for beers in BTC, for example.

Then you add in the people who will use it for practical reasons (they're criminals, they are underbanked, they want payments under the table), the people who will use it for reasons of mass delusion (they think they'll get rich), and suddenly you have substantial aggregate demand—enough that you can reasonably assume a BTC will be worth something in the future (though highly unstable demand still).

This seems to be (to my knowledge) an uncharted path to creating a "recognized" currency.

But as to your point about fiat: if the US government were nuked, you'd have massive economic disruption for other reasons. But this isn't per se why the USD is valuable (anymore?).
I just put on a twitch stream and listen along until I fall asleep. As you say it just allows my brain to switch off and allow me to sleep.
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I couldn't understand what it does and I'm working on something not too dissimilar (I think)
It is called gRPC nowadays.
PoW - proof of work (computationally intensive), https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_work

PoS - proof of stake, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_stake
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What does "you personally hearing" about anything have to do with a success of a major corpo product?

I mean, media is reporting it as a success: https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-portal-is-a-hit-during-th...

What does your personal experience mean here? Or to Facebook as a whole? Bubbles are a thing you know and it's good to get rid of this bubble-restricted thinking.
This right here. People move cross country or even internationally for a chance to be in the 1 hospital who is running a trial for some non-proven drug for their disease

Being able to get the drug wherever you are in the U.S is a good step, and every patient/doctor can decide if they want to try it
> 2. Significantly lessen the instances of Ransomware, since companies will have no legal mechanism to actually pay.

That sounds backwards. I'd rather have hospitals and companies learn some hard lesson in cybersecurity through the threat of cryptocurrency-enabled ransomware than banning a medium of exchange altogether. Finally people are starting to care about backups and best practices.
I love how people are vilify Facebook like they are almost hiring forced labour and willfully collaborate with authoritarian regimes...

Oh wait that is Apple which people follow like a cult...
Color me shocked....

I am not going to defend Facebook, but this is ridiculous how people here are willing to look through pink-eyed glasses for their "favorite" companies.

Downvote away, that is the best counter-argument :)
His wife was probably already flagged on the SEC system as having access to Amazon financials. It seems fairly likely the trades were marked as potentially suspicious and once the volume hit some threshold they were escalated to a human investigator.

My wife has a series 7 security trading license. The SEC requires our personal trading accounts be flagged with this information along with information regarding my employer. Any trades I make in my employer's stock take additional processing time (along with standard blackout periods etc). I would assume people with restricted access to corporate financial statements are flagged and tracked similarly by the SEC.
The FDA doesn't prevent people from taking herbal supplements, given the supplement doesn't make misleading claims. Assuming this drug doesn't make misleading claims about the evidence for its effectiveness, why should the FDA prevent its sale?
This is a bit unfair.

You might say that Apple makes too little investment in the app store now, or that it is full of dark patterns (note that they hide the search box on both the Apple Store and Google Play to push you into whatever is being advertised today), etc.

You can't say they make 'zero investment'.

It is like the banks with the credit cards (who take less than Apple.) They take 3% off the top and that goes to various nontransparent places such as reward programs, risk management (say you don't pay your card or you have a dispute with a merchant, or the merchant doesn't pay their debts, ...)

The banks do something of value, we just don't know exactly how much.
These ideas aren't so bad when they are voluntary, but that is never enough. There is inherently a power behind this where a small group needs to force a large group to do what they say.
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> "Cryptocurrencies are essentially neither money nor a financial product, but an example of what Nobel laureate Robert Shiller calls a 'contagious narrative': a contagious story in which people believe because other people believe in it."

Which is exactly what money is, to begin with.
> I suspect all of this is primarily cultural first, and not related specifically to work, the economy, pricing of good or services like buying a home and starting a family, which would come second.

Hmmm I think you're wrong. It sounds like you've got survivorship bias, big time.

Most people want to contribute, but the economic system fucks them and makes them dependent. Examples include: the intellectual property regime and monopolistic parasitism of the knowledge commons [1], neoliberal philanthrocapitalism [2] and the completely disgusting and neocolonial division of labour under global capitalism [3].

Can you really look at the Blackrock disaster [4] (Wall Street slumlordism), or the IRS papers or the Panama Papers and tell me that the system doesn't harm people?

[1] https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/01/abolish-silicon-valley

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals... and https://anthempress.com/kicking-away-the-ladder-pb

[3] https://anti-imperialism.org/2012/09/18/understanding-and-ch...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27448175
I must admit that I found that difficult to believe, but you are right. One of many links I found with a google search:

https://money.cnn.com/2013/02/28/news/economy/illegal-income...
> Also find interesting that, even with would not be ( for the time ), a state of art radar, the missile operators were able to clearly see the supposed "stealth" airplane 15 miles out, lock on and target it. Bad news for modern "stealth" airplanes ?

Not really, stealth generally means smaller radar cross section, not invisible and 15 miles is pretty close. A regular jet depending on the radar can be locked on at over 100 miles away provided it's flying high enough.
It’s not. The person I responded to was.
You ever used auto_ptr?

In 1992, I was working on the Taligent project, probably the first major C++ operating system. (It failed.) I remember when the ARM came out---none of the compilers we had available could really do templates. Or namespaces.
So many effective measures in the world aren't all or nothing, but still help substantially in managing risk.

60-80% reduced probability of transmission is huge. Sure, you're going to want to be careful not to go to a rave and then get on an airplane before visiting your immunocompromised relative for whom vaccination is contraindicated, and you might want to watch infection rates in your community, and perhaps even take other measures. But that's approaching an order of magnitude reduction in risk.
New content keeps me awake.

...but it also cannot be the same content every night, so I have a few hundred hours of several old shows hosted on my Plex server that I play each night.

It's novel enough that it keeps my brain occupied, but not so new that I care about missing anything.

It's a nice sweet spot.

My next step is selecting very specific episodes that I think have good stories that I actually want to reinforce. I find I really internalize certain scenes if I happen to be in the correct part of my sleep cycle while it's playing.
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The answer to both your specific questions is yes. Although a war won't necessarily restore the value of a currency.
Nobody has “brow beaten” you for anything. As far as I can tell you have been happy to make these statements.
That's a great talk. Thanks for sharing it.

He does well to explain how PEP 8 can be good but some people focus on it because they may not have experience to contribute otherwise.
Wouldn't charging $56k / year for a drug that not only doesn't work, but has a high chance to induce brain swelling be considered fraud?
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By the metric we're looking at, where a drug gets approved despite a unanimous thumbs down from the official advisory panel? Of course they're less corrupt. This simply doesn't happen unless the FDA is captured.
Perhaps. But this kind of psychographic profiling is used in labs to craft better adverts. Video games are another example.

The Left 4 Dead director was trained on player emotions and designed to improve the game, which was a huge success.

Having access to it in the field has real applications.
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This is going to sound harsh, but the fact that other people (government/tax payers) are paying for it makes this even less defensible - wasting your own money on treatments that is likely to not work is one thing, but this risks diverting a shared resource from treatments that _do_ work.

I recently lost my grandfather to vascular dementia, so I understand the feeling of hopelessness, but this is not a solution. I'd _perhaps_ support your right to buy the drug privately, but this would open others up to scams and treatments that have no chance of working (or are in fact harmful). This isn't the same as the war on drugs, where people wanting to buy a particular drug are stopped for (largely) moralistic reasons - this is about ensuring the drug does what the company claims and protecting desperate people from being ripped off.
Isn't it based on the lightning network? Does the wallet only connect to a single preapproved node?
Nitpick: it's the related "count trailing zeros" operation that is useful (in combination with movemask) there, not popcount itself.
I stop drinking water 2 hours before bed so I don't need to pee while lying down trying to sleep
Ooooh! Neat!
When WFH I would like to have a good external display for my laptop. Ditto mouse and keyboard. I would like to be comfortably warm in winter. Being cool enough in the summer is just a matter of opening windows where I live. I would like a decent desk and chair, or standing desk etc. These all cost money. At the moment some of this is born by my employer and some by me. If WFH lasts as a widely available option for several years I expect that the balance of who pays for what may change. Of the costs I listed, heating is by far the biggest deal for me - I live in an old, hard-to-keep-warm house.

But... WFH also brings savings. I used to spend significant amounts of money commuting, which is funny given how much I hated every second of it. That money stays in my pocket now. I know that the option of bringing lunch with me every day was always present, but it is the case that I eat a lot more home prepared food now my office is in the same building as my fridge, so I certainly save a bundle there.

Where I live, there is some provision in the tax code for WFH expenses, but really its so small that it might as well not exist.

What my point in all this? It is that I don't think the issue is nearly as clear cut as you make it out to be. Maybe WFH is a cost of living increase. Maybe it's a saving. Which depends on the nature of your work, the distance you used to travel, the size of cost of your living space and a host of other factors.
> You can think of it like going around the top of a hill

I always wondered: a ball is not stable on a hill since you have to balance it on the top, but a ring is. Could a large ring-size space-station be stable at these points by having them at their centre?

EDIT: looking here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZj9zINN3e0 it looks like more of a saddle. So maybe a space station of 2 parts tethered together with their centre-of-mass at L2? Since space is frictionless (as opposed to an actual saddle surface) I guess there will still need to be station-keeping, but only in on direction: maybe my allowing synchronised "ballast" weights to fall in/outwards.
>It's not an existential threat

For the human kind, no there is no doubt that we will survive.

But don't act like it's nothing.
Here's one of many examples https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3322

>Around 30% of the world’s population is currently exposed to climatic conditions exceeding this deadly threshold for at least 20 days a year. By 2100, this percentage is projected to increase to ∼48% under a scenario with drastic reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and ∼74% under a scenario of growing emissions.
I guess it could be a very course analog for "Feeling" in any direction. You could make guesses on what exactly that feeling is based on some context.

At any rate, getting an add that said "Always running late? Try Uber!" after running for a bus would be super creepy, I don't want any of that.
It’s sort of like when women entered the work force and built careers. They started to get married later and having kids later.

Men are now reverting to the mean a little bit. This could be a natural normalization of a situation where men were exalted as industrious, and women were literally left at home. Both extremes are bad.

One day we’ll just have two 30 year old stay-at-homes get married and not think twice about it. No expectations or judgement on ones job and aspirations, or gender specific duties. Just two genuine deadbeats.

What’s so distasteful about it? Truly nothing, but yet, why doesn’t it feel right?
A neat one for large, sparse integers is:

for(i=0; !x; ++i) {
x = (x-1)&x
}
return i;

Which runs only a number of iterations equal to the number of 1 bits. This works because (x-1) actually just flips the rightmost 1 bit and all zeroes to its right, then the & zeroes all of those.

It's not that fast unless your integer is really sparse (since it has a branch), but I've always liked the bit hack.
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The biggest question for me is whether this will hold up with variants, particularly delta. My understanding of the data from the UK is that the effectiveness of the full two-dose regimen against delta is quite good, but the single dose less so. There are a lot of unknowns here, but if there is greater chance of vaccine escape, we could be playing with fire.
Thank you both, this gives me additional options for my search space.
Perhaps I am. Surely if good paying work was easier to find and homes were approachable more as a commodity then I'm sure this would sort itself out.

I've spoken about what REITs do for years on HN. I've worked for them a couple of times as well, so I've seen what goes on first hand.
Of course they would. Everyone has to use banks now for electronic payment and crypto disrupts that.
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