skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True self-improving general AI would put all labor out of business. Incomes would then be determined by only the ownership of capital and government redistribution. Could be heaven, could be hell.
KVM is stable, small, and well fuzzed. I'm not super surprised this CVE is in the nested support since it's complicated and in flux. Last time I ran CLOC on x86 KVM it was only ~50k lines, but that was years ago.

The amount of context necessary for virt is sort of silly. IMO most of the complexity is not from the code style (though kernel code style doesn't help). It's mostly that reading KVM requires thorough context on the underlying architecture, and its virtualization features.

That said, I'd really like to see parts of KVM replaced with rust code (particularly the x86 instruction emulator). Shoving it into a safe language would give me some extra faith.
The article is talking about multiple possible uses for mRNA drugs, including prophylaxis and non-prophylaxis vaccines (you would not take a vaccine for a cancer before you get it, unless it is to prevent an infection that could cause cancer (HepB, HPV, etc)), and mRNA therapeutics, including ones from protein replacement. For protein replacement, you would have to take the mRNA often, because mRNA degrades. Your immune system has memory, but you won't keep making random proteins after the mRNA goes away.
In the recent Netflix documentary, "The Edge of All We Know" about the project to capture the first image of a black hole, there is a segment where they talk about what two black holes colliding might sound like, and they play a simulation of that sound. It was quite interesting.
Don't test in prod. Really!
Sequoia Capital names 23 startups in Surge's fifth cohort
There are a number of states where the largest insurer is a not-for-profit organization.

There’s not one simple fix for this. If it’s truly going to be fixed, it’s going to require a lot of very tough fights against entrenched interests to eke out 5% here and 3% there.
There's a lot in that idea to cover and I would actually think that it may be worth academic study. I see parallels to how institutions and governments are created etc...
I lived in HK 2018-2020, leaving around the passage of the “national security law”.

I think HK is a perfect case study of a line of fallacious thinking popular among westerners: the idea that peaceful protesting or rule-abiding political opposition is generally effective.

This is wrong for at least two reasons. The first mistake is failing to recognize that many governments (case in point) are not nearly as vulnerable to bad PR, so generating a bunch of sympathetic imagery (photos of student protestors getting gassed or whatever) might not actually be useful in swaying political outcomes.

The second mistake is assuming that most (putatively) peaceful protests in the western world are actually the impetus for political change, and not just part of a legitimization strategy for political changes that were already in development before the protest started.
> but all successful people are talented and hardworking.

Citation needed.
Similar experience, similar conclusion but I ended up with a system around todo.txt. A note gets an todo entry and a reference to a note (in markdown). Updates sometimes get a new todo entry w/ link to the same note. Some notes are structured in a diary-like fashion.
I'm confused by the screenshots, maybe someone else who knows more about the app can explain? In his tweet he says he was delivering for 3 hours but the trip history shows he was online for double that. If true it's misleading how much you can earn in 3 hours. Secondly it shows he received 45 points for 10 trips but you only receive at most 3 points per trip so I don't understand why the app shows that.

Edit: I was wrong about receiving at most 3 points per trip. "1 point for every completed delivery, 2 points during lunch hours from 12pm to 2pm, 6 points during dinner hours from 5pm to 9pm." In his screenshot of his latest 6 trips, he received 1+2+2+1+6+6=18 points, so somehow he received 27 points in 4 trips before 11 am. I'm still not understanding.
It's a toctou bug, so probably not.
> Poverty is far from solved in Canada

At no point did I say it was. Please don't jump to strawman arguments, it doesn't help anything.

I simply said there is much less poverty in Canada that in the USA. I think that would be very hard to argue against.

> Plenty of poor people who get kicked off welfare or get penalized for getting a job.

Every single one of them has perfectly acceptable heathcare, which is a HUGE step above the USA's poor.

Yes, Canada has poverty, but it's not nearly as severe as in the USA.
Just use CW (Morse code). Next to nobody knows that these days.
the risk is real but it doesn't justify the price of existing drugs continuing to go up & up.

it feels like it's this guy & assholes like him running the whole industry. for profit not progress. https://arstechnica.com/tag/shkreli/

his real crime was against humanity. so are many others.
What did his parents do?
Why don't you ask Google/DDG? This is exactly the kind of things search engines were built for and would yield you better results than asking something this specific on here.
Drummers do tend to be good drum programmers, but I believe they're a small fraction of the pool of pros. The drum machine made percussion feasible for lots of people living in dense housing for whom real drums were out of the question. (Also drummers tend to dislike using drum machines, because the real thing is more expressive.)

AI will be similar -- it will not just give more tools to people already in a given field (programming, writing, whatever), but also bring new people in, and also create new fields. (I personally can't wait for the gardening of AI art to catch on. It'll be so weird[1].)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwtVkPKx3RA
> But when they seem to be pushed by a different incarnation of the same person every time, I get desensitized

That's a problem. And I think that's more on you than anyone else. Ignoring something with potentially significant consequences just because its proponents are annoying doesn't actually make it insignificant.
What does it do for shades that aren’t those 8? Does it apply any sort of dithering?

Maybe it just needs a better lookup table or some preprocessing.

I’ve seen some impressive 1-bit displays, so 8 shades shouldn’t be harder than that.
You're about right. the mRNA vaccine introduces mRNA, which is taken up by cells. The cells then use the mRNA to produce the proteins of interest, which then can be presented to immune cells to start the immune response.

mRNA is sort analogous to code that compiles to proteins
The article mentions in a side note that the spider doesn't consume much of it.

"When a spider catches a snake, it will often spend hours or days feasting on such a large prey. Spiders have an irregular feeding pattern. When a lot of food is available, they eat in excess, only to go hungry for long periods again afterward. They store excess food as energy reserves in their body and use it to tide them over longer periods of starvation.

"Still, a spider often eats only a small part of a dead snake. Scavengers (ants, wasps, flies, molds) consume what remains."
Significance? Simply, retro computing?
I was looking at https://github.com/github/semantic for providing semantic diffs a while back and I still think it would be a good fit.

By looking at the diff between trees, you can ignore a lot of the extra noise like indentations, spaces and other styling changes.
It does, because this is ultimately a discussion about allowing municipalities to operate their own broadband. The questions of whether the state and federal governments should be handing out grants to build out these issues would be separate legislative issues.
No, they were 10 days apart and it would take many billions of millenia for something to cross the known universe and come back.

But the universe does loop back on itself, presumably. All matter and energy will eventually slow down and reverse course and be drawn back to the center.
'Fool's Gold' Contains a Newly Discovered Type of Real Gold
With DDG on my phone in incognito mode (my normal usage) I get nothing at all related to bending over backwards.
LVM makes encrypted swap (and thus encrypted hibernation) way easier.
ah so jerk off?
> no view source! that broke the basic treatise of the internet.

I was pretty young, but I'm pretty sure I remember opening someone else's swf file in a decompiler in middle school. It was a little weird but I was able to make the changes I wanted.

How editable is WASM code, really?
"Who control the past controls the future". Same is happening in Belarus at that moment. Most popular portal "TUT.BY" is removing everything from their Telegram channel.
It's a feature not a bug. Copilot also assists with HN comments!
There are 4 tiny RCTs with split results.

There is one medium sized almost randomized trial that shows a strong result. I'm not interested in small retrospective studies. There are 50 retrospective studies that show HCQ is an amazing drug against covid.

Clearly since there is little downside to given vitamin D to people who have low levels, it can and probably should be done, but that is very far from proving that it is a "potent inhibitor" of covid. There also is a clear bias for the person who makes that site since they also want it to be true. Maybe they don't look as hard for studies which disprove what they want. It isn't an overwhelming case.

There is more than enough evidence for a big RCT to actually confirm, but given the safety considerations and low expense it probably makes more sense to just dose everybody and hope it works. But I don't see how you could make grand claims with this evidence.
What? My state pays more into taxes than we get out. And my high income is definitely what funds welfare.
Right? Im getting heavy astroturf vibes from these repetitive, nearly perfectly phrased, corporate sounding paragraphs of pure praise.
The best way to put pressure on the Chinese Communist Party and help pro-democracy voices in Hong Kong (and the reduce Uygher genocide) is to avoid buying Made in China goods where possible.

This means buying Western, Korean and Japanese brands that aren't manufactured in China. Eg, a Samsung phone over Apple (made in Vietnam than Made in China), a Western Digital hard drive (made in Thailand) etc.

There are an increasing number alternatives to Made in China, across all product lines as manufacturing moves to Vietnam (and the rest of South East Asia), India, Bangladesh etc as wages in China rise.
There is seemingly a lot of evidence for Ivermectin. I agree with you that people making a claim should provide evidence for it - but people asking for evidence shouldn't just assume there is none. It's like if I said I don't trust the vaccines because I don't trust one guy's anecdote about using the vaccines and not getting sick. That's not what vaccine-advocates are basing their argument on.

https://covid19criticalcare.com/ivermectin-in-covid-19/
Usually when I see a story like that it goes the other way. The friction of integrating ${nice_thing} with ${everything_else}. I'll take your word for it for now, but it seems like your honeymoon period with FP-heavy programming just coming into industry.
The politicians understand that the size of the bribe is directly proportional to the amount of public pressure against a measure.

Lobbyists know to cough up more money next round.
In this article, I was surprised to read that anyone thought "freedom of the press" still existed in HK at all.

Once they took the boss of Apple Daily it was pretty clear.
HK is governed by one system.
Nitter definitely worked without Javascript being enabled and is an excellent solution for me. Thank you.
> I can’t help but think that the problem for Apple is that they’ve grown so large that they’ve wound up hiring a lot of people who aren’t a good fit for Apple, and that it was a mistake for Apple to ever hook up a company-wide Slack. Companies are not democracies, but the employees writing these letters sure seem to think Apple is one. It’s not, and if it were, the company would sink in a snap.

I do agree with this sentiment, especially when it comes to keeping personal politics out of the office. It can feel distracting, unfair, and suffocating for productive workers to be surrounded by loud, aggressive activists who seemingly don’t care about the company and its mission as much as spending their hours on letters, political discussions, and activist activities. That said I somehow feel differently about the “remote work” topic, maybe because it feels like it directly pertains to work and productivity and employee retention. This article feels a bit too dismissive and verges more on a blind defense of a potential policy misstep.

It seems that Apple already responded and is sticking to its decision per https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/29/22556615/apple-response-h...
A very relevant thread from four months ago about why e-ink is so insanely expensive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26143407
Looking for some advice.

We have written several microservices primarily for websockets in Elixir. They are great with literal zero maintenance costs..but how do Elixir developers handle the following when going all in:

1. Long running workflows - there do not seem to be popular frameworks like camunda, jbpm, temporal or cadence for elixir

2. Integration libraries - similar to apache camel

3. Inbuilt scripting engines to run user scripts like nashorn, graaljs or groovy

We really enjoy working with rails and would like to go all in into elixir. But the ecosystem of available frameworks seems to always come in the way and makes us choose spring boot or rails.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27684205

Related story just published by the verge
This is silly. The concern is that government chooses winners and losers. I lose, you win.

This isn't fixing global warming, this is giving some people discounted internet and leaving the rest of us with nothing.

How should we decide who gets my taxes for Internet?
I pay for these. The city didn't pay for the internet, I did.
Like Apple, more money can probably be made as an anti-recycling company than an engineering company.
and even a minor fender benders result in cars being declared a total loss due to Teslas fantastic repair ecosystem.
With the 50k I pay in taxes per year, I'm sure I can pay for toll roads.
"The New York Times warns that a particle of carfentanil as small as a grain of salt or piece of dust can be deadly and that the drug is lethal in a dose as minuscule as 0.02 milligrams. "

so about 1/50th of a milligram is deadly... not sure what's the maximum dose before it kills you
Paper menus on request seems like the obvious middle ground. Not defaulting to putting menus out reduces the scale of all those problems, while also not alienating customers who for whatever reason don't want to or cannot use the digital menu.
In the 200Xs, the BEAM VM had a clear performance advantage in dealing with high-concurrency network loads. It has never had a raw performance advantage in terms of the bytecode that it implemented, that is, the Erlang/Elixir layer (it was generally faster than Python/Ruby, but that wasn't saying much, especially back then, but it had clear performance disadvantages vs. C/C++/Java), but it had a superior internal runtime that could make up for that in performance benchmarks, as long as you didn't try to run too much BEAM bytecode. Much like how NumPy is very fast, as long as you don't try to run too much pure Python with it.

However, since BEAM doesn't have access to unique CPU instructions that nobody else has or anything else, and since a lot of focus across a lot of languages has been put on that problem, that particular advantage has waned, and Erlang to my eyes has indeed been outright passed on this front by multiple languages. In the 200Xs, I did not see people talking much about NIFs as a solution for performance; that talk has started as an effort to keep up with things like Go and other languages that have taken advantage of BEAM's lessons and explorations of the space.

Personally, while I think a lot of the hoopla surrounding Erlang/Elixir isn't wrong per se, I do think a lot of it is outdated. They'll say "We do X and nobody else does!" but while that may have been true 10-15 years ago, it isn't anymore. There's no performance reason to pick Erlang/Elixir over Go, for instance, and if you take the models of memory access back to Go there isn't a huge organizational reason either. What Erlang/Elixir force you to do, you can voluntarily do in other languages too. And I think that's become true across a lot of other of the putative "advantages"; it isn't that Erlang/Elixir aren't nice in some ways, but I do wonder how much of the recent push is stemming from people who are experiencing some of these capabilities for the first time and trusting the Erlang/Elixir storyline that they're unique, when in fact they are increasingly just table stakes for a new language nowadays rather than special characteristics unique to the BEAM family of languages.
Better yet -- the jobs of those specialists got better, and the people who would have done similar work did not end up unemployed, they just do some other kind of programming.
I'm not FAANG material (nor do I desire to be), but boy am I glad I get to code my little marketing front ends from home for my team of three, if I so choose.

While I can understand one might see some reasons for remote work to be 'pandering,'* it's deliciously like the smug, hip Mac stand-in from the Mac/Windows commercials to suggest that a reduction in commutes and environmental improvement is "pandering." Again, if this kind of scorn is what people face for asking for a chance to self determine where they are productive, I'm all the more happy to be outside of Silicon Valley.

* while not Apple's problem, for those outside of Apple, I've heard that many disabled workers have had to fight tooth and nail for accommodations. Props to Apple for accommodations being easy, but - is it pandering?
https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco... ?
This article is surprisingly hostile to workers organizing for better working conditions against the world’s largest corporation.

It’s not like their pre-COVID work conditions were harsh. I think Gruber’s point is that the group that wrote the letter seems quite entitled, especially given the lengths Apple has gone through to accommodate their employees.

Like it or not, what Gruber wrote is true: companies aren’t democracies.

The average worker in America would love to have half the amenities and perks these folks get.
It doesn't have it all.

https://forum.k9mail.app/t/k-9-mail-is-not-sending-format-fl...
>Getting back to the original question (about developing intuition) I was living in a stream of "coincidences" that happened all day every day.

Some people with schizophrenia experience exactly this as their principal symptom (it may vary with medication and other unknown factors). This is where paranoia comes from - the coincidences can seem to form a compelling pattern unless one's mind is sufficiently tranquilized.

It's a misconception that hearing voices, hallucinations, or multiple personalities define the illness.
Many of these things are not exclusive to elixir though. Scala and Akka come to mind
I said goodbye to local development and so can you
Amateur Radio gets access to a large chunk of the radio spectrum for free. In exchange, they are expected to provide a pool of those knowledgeable in the art of communication in the event of conflict or emergency.

Amateur Frequencies can not be used for commercial use, nor can communications be encrypted. There are a wide variety of modes in use, from old fashioned Morse code through all the latest SDR driven techniques.
The prices seem very reasonable even accounting for inflation.
It would be funny if after the AI automates away "all the boring stuff" we're left with the godawful job of writing tests to make sure the AI got it right.
he can vizualize fully formed images, to the extent that some of his work is just transcribed directly from what he sees in his mind.

FWIW this is sort of a thing that the process of becoming an artist trains you to do. I have been a professional artist for a couple decades and it is much easier for me to do this sort of thing than it was when I was a kid. There's a lot of steps involved in projecting a mental 3d model onto a 2d plane that I can just do in my head now because I've done them so damn many times.

There's definitely an innate level of doing this as well, some people start with a big boost, various psychoactive chemicals can help (I have done so much work while slightly stoned for the performance boost it gives my visual cortex), and then there is that story about one 1940s animator at Warner Bros. who got in a car accident that involved a degree of head injury, and could suddenly just "trace" stuff directly off of his mental images onto paper once he recovered.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/05/07/blob-abide...

> The term emerged from a New York Times Magazine profile of Ben Rhodes, Barack Obama’s foreign policy amanuensis. According to Rhodes’s account in the story, “the Blob includes Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates and other Iraq-war promoters from both parties who now whine incessantly about the collapse of the American security order in Europe and the Middle East.”

> The term soon became omnipresent in foreign policy discussions as its definition expanded in scope. It came to mean the foreign policy “establishment” that included those working in government, think tanks, and academia. Four years later, the term, like “globalization” or “neoliberalism” or “populist” or “elite,” tends to obscure as much as it reveals.
Here’s a good one to get into deeper comparison with Python, Go and Elixir. It’s one of the few that I’ve seen that does a good job of showing more than just straight line speed.

https://medium.com/@marcelo_lebre/a-tale-of-three-kings-e0be...
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Yep this is just gruber's commentary on Verge source article.

main discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27684205
You can sandbox native apps as well, without buying into all the complexity and unplanned obsolescence (have you tried browsing on an old 32bit computer?) that web browsers come with. Also, sandboxing web apps is incredibly limited; how do you restrict a web app from accessing the network?

Web apps also provide no degree of trust. You can't know what will be loaded in advance. Native software can allow you to inspect source code and modify it beforehand without resorting to maintaining a web server for self-hosting. Hell, Debian's working on reproducible builds and F-Droid has had it for years, while the web just figured out script verification with SHAs (entirely controlled by the vendor, which misses half the point).

> Gyroscope, accelerometer and compass APIs allow me to install fewer crappy small ad-packed native apps that I'll use one in a blue moon.

Even better: let's try to build a world where people don't have to run proprietary malware, on the web or otherwise.

> A built-in PDF viewer allows it to update frequently along with the browser and if properly sandboxes is probably more secure than installing some random PDF viewer setup.exe from somewhere.

Better idea: have a PDF reader that just opens documents without any scripts or internet connection. muPDF is a good option. Also, don't use random apps (native or web); distro packages are a good start for some trust beyond the vendor.

We've reached the point at which running two web apps cuts down battery life twice as much as me running my desktop, mail client, editor, newsreader, music player, and IRC client combined. The only "native" programs that come close to this level of resource abuse are Java IDEs. Web browsers are so complex that they essentially can't be forked or created anew without hundreds of millions of dollars in annual funding. And with the increasing footprint of web apps, it's no wonder people feel the need to turn their computers into e-waste every N years.