skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Check out the startup Branch: https://www.branchfurniture.com/collections/office-chairs

They're the same quality as Herman Miller but quite a lot cheaper

(disclosure: I'm an investor)
That 6% Flash statistic is for Adobe Flash, a now extinct software plugin.
> does Super Mario World have any "single-room" fixed-width gameplay areas? I mean, it must, right?

Yes. The have the bonus room after you get 100 endpoint stars. They also have vertical segments like a bonus room and a special world map.
The whole thing still runs in and has to interact with the real world where everything is governed by time and state. You can't avoid having the impedance mismatch somewhere in your stack.
I genuinely don't put any faith in education. Every phishing education program I've seen has effectively said "look out for weird emails, (perhaps with misspellings) and if you see them report them to security!" I haven't seen any which went into the real specifics which might actually educate users:

- A phishing email which can pwn you without user interaction is basically unheard of.

- Even malicious sites generally can't do anything bad simply by visiting them. (and yes, I'm aware browser exploitation exists, but it is exceedingly rare)

- Ultimately, it's entering your credentials in a malicious site which is what puts users at risk. A user must click a malicious link (sometimes two) and then intentionally enter their credentials into the malicious site.

Between this, and the fact that users must read emails, visit sites, and enter their credentials over and over, just to get through their workday, I believe the outcome is that user education doesn't amount to much. It would be much better if a normal user's workflow didn't usually require clicking on email links and then entering their credentials. The fact that this is required means that even a savvy users will eventually be tired / rushed / working on automatic and get owned.
I think for all the innovation that gets attributed to Rust, the governance model is even more profound and will have longer term impacts in society. There really should be a documentary about Rust.
The book "Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging" discusses similar dynamics with returning combat troops, and others that have lived through war or extreme challenging scenarios. The surprising finding is it's not the memory of the event that causes PTSD/depression, but returning to "normal" modern, atomized and isolated life of relative peace and stability.. and losing the excitement, adrenaline/thrill of events arguably humans have been adapted to thrive in: challenges and struggles, especially alongside a group of people facing same challenge together. Many people have been polled as being happier in for example war time London facing bombing raids, death and destruction, than peacetime after WW2. It's a good read.
First, my sincere condolences. That is terrifying.

> Think about the people you know who learned Java in college and then never learned another programming language; chances are, your doctor is that kind of person.

Ooof. That is a really good analogy.
top500 is a super computer dataset, it's not really relevant to general server market share

you could even look at Red Hat, one of microsoft's competitors, who showed microsoft's market share at 49.6% in 2017: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-continues-lead-linux-...
I await our enlightened future where we can run programs that have differing state that can be simultaneously true.

What one thread on my CPU calculates as true is it’s truth. Other threads might not agree, because it’s not their truth.
Suppression of dissent.
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The warranty is based on a label at the bottom of the seat. If yours still has it you should be able to get warranty, using a serial number that's on the label.

Source: previously owned a used aeron. currently have an embody. Never had to use the warranty, but looked up this info when purchasing a previously owned chair.
On the contrary, I enjoyed it and read the whole thing with interest.
For me it’s different. It’s not a chair to relax in. It encourages good posture, but I would not call it comfortable. I still think it helped my back pain. It’s comfortable enough to sit on it during work days but I feel the need to stand up quite regularly. But that’s a good thing. A note for tall people: This chair can be extended higher then any I’ve seen before, even if you don’t get the extra high version.
The US does rate pretty high in "traffic deaths per 100k people".

But they also lead the world in how much they drive. 8,800 kilometers per capita, versus 4,300 in Canada, 7,000 in Germany and less than 1,700 in Japan.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/12/13/why-the-u-s-trails-th...

I'm sure there are other factors, but that would explain most of the difference vs Canada. Twice as much driving means twice as many traffic deaths per capita.

Edit: Yes, I agree the US has work to do either way.
You really don't need any quality to immigrate to Canada (unless you are white).
There's often dozens of Windows servers installed on site in millions of offices around the world, doing various tasks (email, active directory, file storage, etc).

I'm sure if you looked at "servers installed in a data centre" then it would be closer to what you expect. But there are so many servers doing "boring" jobs in cupboards youll never see it totally skews the figures.
command-F capisco

Sitting on one right now, and—this is wild to say—it makes me feel human. I feel like I'm sitting in a tree, full-freedom, and am able to work in whatever position I want, in real-time.

It's not the kind of chair to sit back and watch a movie in. But for getting work done, it's really something special.
I'm definitely using FANG as FAANG without Amazon. So does everyone else that I've seen use it on HN, Reddit, and Blind.
Technically their closest neighbour is the British Virgin Islands. Gdp per capita is about 45k there. It's only 32k in PR right? But that's not really fair of me.

I think its hard to find a good comparison here. Even my choice of PR is deeply flawed (population 3m vs the Philippines at >100m).

For me, the question is mainly political. Its not "could the US have made the Philippines a richer more developed nation" because the answer to that is YES. The question is "would the US political system and electorate every have permitted the project to happen". That's a much harder question to say yes to imho.
Servers aren't generally delivered with an unwanted OS, or an unwanted Windows license.

If it's going to run Linux, you tick that option when ordering. Or you tick "no OS".
I'm so sorry this happened to you and I'm glad you are starting to feel at least somewhat back to your old self. I definitely understand where this opinion of docs is coming from as there are definitely some incompetent docs out there but don't you think that your opinion is largely based around an anecdotal experience that is probably pretty abnormal? Medicine as a field is still pretty unscientific in a lot of ways. To me it feels like docs are like alchemists before the discovery of the atom/modern chemistry. They're doing the best they can with the tools at hand but their field has some fundamental gaps in knowledge. Is that really the doctors fault?

That's just my two cents. Obviously this doesn't do much to help folks dealing with poorly understood illnesses but I hope it helps balance out the "all doctors are idiots" opinion that sometimes comes up in threads like this.
There was ransomware before crypto currencies. There will be ransomware after crypto currencies.
If anyone has suggestions for a good chair for overweight people I would appreciate it. I'd love to get an Aeron like others suggest but I'm over their limit and would worry about breaking the chair. The options I've found for big and tall have left me unhappy and uncomfortable.
I would like a system that produces “true,” “false,” and “enthusiastic” results. Enthusiasm left as an exercise for the implementor.
People are digging on power companies, but this is likely the future of America- and Texas will be on the leading edge.

For power generation, infrastructure is the BIGGEST cost. All of the power lines and generators are sized for the single hottest day of the year. So companies pay big bucks for big power lines and generators that are under used 95% of the time. And "peak heat" only lasts for a couple of hours.

There are 2 solutions to mitigate this:

1) Solar. Local solar panels can take the edge off of "your house needing power from the grid" - and this helps everyone

2) PRE COOLING houses. Our houses can act as storage. At 3:00 pm, 50% of the houses cool down 3 degrees. At 6:00 pm their AC turns off, and the other houses turn their AC on. Thus distributing the load over time.
Over 30 years of using GNU chmod, and only today did I learn about "chmod -R a-x,a+X" to avoid constantly doing two "find | chmod" commands.
>So sure I don't think we'll ever see one launch off Earth's surface

Are you saying you don't think a nuclear reactor powered spacecraft will ever be launched into space on a chemical rocket in the forseeable future, or that you don't think nuclear powered rockets will ever be used to get from ground to orbit?

You're probably aware, but nuclear power in space has not been limited to plutonium powered RTGs that output a few hundred watts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US-A

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BES-5

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RD-0410

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_space
I have good news for you. Ignoring the small chance that you're actually a figment of my imagination, I can confirm you actually do exist.
A recent paper on this:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-020-0534-9
Smallsat retail launch prices on Falcon 9 are published. Even if SpaceX is making money hand-over-fist at that price, they are still the cheapest ride in the business.

https://www.spacex.com/rideshare/

~~disclaimer~~ ~~disclosure~~ excited bragging: my strtup is launching a payload on next week's transporter mission. We payed full retail and have no regrets.
No idea. All we know is that antidepressants probably don’t work by increasing serotonin levels.
Do any of these commenters have experience designing small "helicopter" "drone" avionics systems using off-the-shelf hardware, as in Ingenuity? For instance, you mention "aerospace grade" inertial sensors, yet Ingenuity apparently uses COTS components in that role^[1].

There are smart people on HN, but unless they have actual professional experience designing similar vehicles, I'm inclined to give the JPL folks the benefit of the doubt. It's also worth considering that they are the only team that has ever flown such a vehicle on another planet, which imposes constraints that even other experts may not be familiar with; that they were working with a limited budget, and making heavy use of existing open-source code; and that, generally speaking, we weren't in the room.

On the other hand, maybe they really are incompetents whose avionics system is "designed wrong", and who do need these things explained to them so that they can learn faster, as the commenter you linked so delightfully put it. In that view, I guess their groundbreaking achievement is probably more dumb luck than anything else--maybe JPL should do some firing and hiring so that things don't turn out worse next time!

^[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/aerospace/robotic-explor...
Not all servers are web facing or live in data centres. There are tons of small businesses that run servers in a backroom. Those are predominantly Windows.
I've been thinking that I'm the only one I know for sure 'exists'
My mother died from a traumatic brain injury. She fell down the basement stairs in the middle of the night and smacked her head on the floor. They tried to fix her up at the hospital but as is common with TBI her brain began to swell.

They tried trepanation. It did not work.

She went brain dead. I was half a world away at work. My father made me make the decision. The doctors pulled the plug on her 52nd birthday.

That was 20 years ago this very year.

I do wish they’d put a warning on these types of articles.
"Here's Daniel a guy who struggle to keep his open source project used by millions working in very important big tech projects. Despite the fact that big companies use its project, he mostly get funded by ordinary people who can pay a few bucks"

"But Daniels destiny is about to change, a ORG that funnels capital from big tech companies to make software more secure is about to give him a grant"

"Here Daniel, we have a grant so you can fix your security bugs"

"Oh great, now i can invest in more unit test and have people to fix them.. and.. "

"But you will only receive the money if you or someone we pay for write those parts in Rust"

While Daniel is being payed, this is not actually/only focusing on security as an end goal, but is using security as a pitch to rewrite popular software in Rust which in the end will probably have more bugs giving the older software were much more battle tested..

So we have people with foot on big tech collect money through an org to rewrite software in Rust and not to ACTUALLY help the people doing software with very low resources to fix their software.

Daniel is saying he will still keep doing it in C. So why do this org tried this approach giving i bet whatever you want that this money invested for them to focus on security even in C would make it have less bugs, because the real problem here is economics and less the language.

Its a pity that an ORG is being used as a facade to create implants of Rust in popular projects, instead of helping out open source developers with money that would probably reach them if they did not act as the middle man to those important projects.

See their goals here, is not even about security as a whole, but memory safety, and while they cite other languages, this is clearly biased towards Rust.

https://www.memorysafety.org/docs/memory-safety/

Please dear ORG take the money from big tech, invest part of it for new projects in Rust if you wish, but really help the open source maintainers to fix their security bugs in the technology they use. Note that you are receiving this money using their projects to receive the grants. Really help them make their software more secure.

If you are really into the Rust hype, so create a fork in Rust, show that you were right.. or at least be open when collect the money to invest what your real goals.

But its a pitty, a project like OpenSSL for instance wont see a dime of this money. So sorry if i dont feel happy about this..
I agree that it takes time to properly evaluate a chair, but doing so in a showroom as opposed to repeatedly ordering and returning from an online store will save you a lot of time and effort.
Where I work, we looked at the performance and ordered AMD. I haven't thought about it since, until now.
Seems like coinstats.app is a more polished solution as a portfolio manager. Some of the other features could be interesting though.
Take a look on this vod: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1059403286
Seems like something that should be rectified - the entirety of american society should be redesigned to reduce the amount of driving required.
Bought a Steelcase Leap for my home office almost 10 years ago and the chair looks just as good as the day I got it.

How did I make the decision to buy it? I went to a store that specialized in ergonomic office furniture and asked them if I could work from the store for a day while trying out different chairs. They said sure and that day I tried four different high-end chairs from Steelcase and Herman Miller while sitting on each one for about two hours. This trial helped make my decision easy and I readily went with the Leap with confidence. Interestingly enough, I strongly remember, after that day, leaving with the impression that the Aeron felt like sitting on cement for two hours.
You are talking about direct costs that are priced in, and I actually disagree about including personnel and training costs in this specific instance because they are all - to an extent - fungible in the military or navy, as there is no shortage of souls and people will be trained for something for some duration of time.
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Sound's like Orholam's Glare from the Lightbringer series.
"The solution is to just use gnu sed with https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gnu-sed)"

Problem for me is I use more than just MacOS and Linux. I would have install GNU sed on every OS I use. I make small OS images for booting from USB. I use a non-busybox multi-call binary as the initial userland to conserve space, part of filesystem embedded in the kernel (sort of like initrd on Linux I guess). Early in the boot and setup process I use sed in scripts. Thus I would have to make sure there was a copy of GNU sed installed, preferably added to the multi-call binary. Not sure the work is really worth it just for a few convenience features. I can do anything I need to do with BSD sed just as well as with GNU sed.

Instead, the solution I chose is to write sed scripts for NetBSD's sed. These work on Linux, MacOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Plan9, etc., old or new. There is one feature it has that GNU does not: "-a"; it can be used to do true (but limited) "in-place editing" without creating a temp file. Not sure why but NetBSD has since changed their sed to be more FreeBSD and GNU-compatible, e.g., adding "-i" and "-g/-G", to enable automatic temp file creation then removal^1 and GNU regex, respectively. However if we start using these "features" everywhere, then our scripts may not work with older userlands.

1. This is often called "in-place" editing, but if one examines the source code one will see there is still a temp file (tmpfname) created. We are being spared the step of manually creating then removing a temp file, but we still need the requisite filesystem space available for one.
No, you are clueless and twisted.

The US, as the only superpower, is forced to consider geopolitics. You can look at the dissolution of the USSR to see what the alternatives are - Communism was rejected by all of Russia's buffer states.

China has been in a Cold War with the US since both the Korean War and the Taiwan Straits wars. Most of their weapons are either pointed at the US, or our aircraft carriers - while financed by the West.

The minute the US becomes isolationist, other countries will start planning WW3, as happened before WW2.
That's not how a sovereign budget works.
That's not really very useful. Of course you exist! You share sufficiently many properties with other things that we would say “exist” that it is more useful to consider you extant than non-existent.

What you mean might be a more useful, meaningful concept, but what you've said is kinda nonsense. If you don't exist, who wrote this comment? I'd be interested if you could elaborate.
I've been a very happy patron of Vitor for months. I'm elated that this project is finally out in the world.

He has a framerate improvement patch for Starfox in the works that I am beyond excited about.
I've been using a Haworth Zody for 7 years, and I like it pretty well.

Nothing wrong with the Aeron, but I find the Zody is (1) a better price ($200 used for mine, or $650 new[1]), (2) more attractive, and (3) the adjustment mechanisms are smoother (armrests in particular).

The Zody has pretty much all the same kind of ergonomic options as the Aeron. Although, the backstop and forward tilt option is not standard on all Zody chairs for all time (mine has neither)

1: https://store.haworth.com/products/zody-office-chair
Honestly it’s because I’ve never had enough tokens to qualify for the minimum. So I just leave stuff in my wallet and transfer every once in a while.

I would prefer a wallet that I have control over, but I kind of ignore the BAT stuff and just use it because it’s a clean browser that’s easier for me than managing adblocker plug-ins. The tokens are just a bonus.
I think chairs is all pretty individual, but for what it's worth I replaced an Aeron with one of these, happily. The Aeron was only ever "pretty good" for me, no matter the adjustments I made.
Kinda surprised on the server chart, consider most of my Linode and Vultr instance are running on AMD epyc CPUs for a years for now (at least since I last checked). I believe the market shares for AMD is much higher than the chart shows consider how low the cost per core is for a CPU slot.
This is not really an alternative to reddit. I don't care about online users, and part of the point of using reddit is comment chains. Having a linear chat breaks that.

There have been numerous reddit clones. But the main issue is the lack of a community. People who like reddit... still use reddit for the most part. It'll take something like reddit killing the old ux to finally force enough people to move to an alternative such that a good, sizable community is formed.
Satya Nadella Elevated as Microsoft Chairman
Look through the past couple hundred or so of Vitor's tweets; he's been one-by-one reprogramming all the troublesome rooms and screens for a couple weeks.

https://twitter.com/HackerVilela/
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1059403286
Annotate – Web Based Image Labeling and Segmentation Tool
Report finds phone network encryption was deliberately weakened
Try ZGC, sub 1ms pauses

https://malloc.se/blog/zgc-jdk16
Did you just compare passing data to passing functions?

Because absolutely nothing about transferring data is specific to the program language paradigm chosen.

Here's a task for you: Build a graph of objects holding state with your chosen OO language.
Now write that state to disk and read it back in - guaranteeing a consistent state.

Oops, a thread mutated some of the state while writing to disk?

Damn it, need to add a some synchronization stuff. In all my objects.
Oh now all my mutations need to go through a semaphore?

No, wait I'll implement the Memento pattern for all my objects, that will help?
(nope, it won't, you still need to synchronize across threads)

If you operate on immutable data, that exercise in a functional language is literally two lines of code.
> it's unreliable enough that it's not particularly useful.

Any machine or black box that law enforcement can use either as pretext for doing whatever they want, or as something to point to to absolve themselves of responsibility, has value.
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The first example is a real-life example. The other two are speculative, because I've heard a case where it wasn't the first example.