skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Them = the buildings. This is pure conjecture but you could plan a cycle like the following:

Build new housing development

Sell all properties on it with 99 year leases

When 50 years to go on lease conduct on block sale (maybe developer pays)

Demolish and rebuild and restart 99 year lease cycle

This keeps construction industry active on scarce land resource

Keeps buildings fresh with latest materials and engineering principles

Gives property owners an exit on their 99 year lease so household wealth doesn't evaporate

Strategy folds when Singapore is no longer a desirable place to invest/build
It's like an epidemic of fraud
Western concept of freedom, on philosophical and moral grounds, makes perfect sense - for humans. It doesn’t make much sense when applied to corporations.
The response to that is, yes but who is yesenadam?
The issue here is that these fancy tower fans don't have a mechanical on/off switch. So just switching the mains voltage does exactly crap.

...well not crap, mine beeps a few times when the power turns on =)

The ESP32 fiddling is required to fake button presses on the touch sensitive buttons to make it actually start.
I have a couple of thousand followers on Twitter[1] and I'm pretty sure at least 1800 of them are dead[2]. Twitter engagement is nowhere near what it was 5 years ago. I'm surprised to see a new service targeting it instead of one of the much more active, newer social networks.

Maybe it's only dead inside my little bubble though.

[1] Follow me! @onion2k obviously. Although I have no idea why you would.

[2] Dead accounts, not actually dead. Although statistically speaking a few of them probably are actually dead.
Not to belittle your project, I'm all for hackers hacking on interesting projects, but I really am confused why such an API exists within the browser. The MDN page talks about browser connected 3D printers and boards like the ESP32, but boggles my mind that time and energy was expended to enable this.
Sure. Because power centralised around a few flawed humans is so much better. /s

I agree that Coca Cola, amongst others, can suck it. But reducing an individuals freedom as a means to do so is nonsensical.
> I don't think any of us working as DoD developers give much of a crap what cloud provider you force us to use.

I thought AWS's Security & Compliance features[1] was the reason why it was selected before for such purposes. Do any of the low-cost alternatives offer similar security and compliance levels?

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/aws-overview/...
I'm Daniel Kehoe, interviewed by Richard MacManus for his article. I suppose we can nitpick semantics, but I think it should be said that Lit is properly a library (and a small one), not a framework. Significantly, since Lit relies only on the component model defined by the HTML spec, a web component built with Lit can be used as if it was ordinary HTML by any framework (except maybe React which doesn't play nice). Yes, as you observe, instead of using a framework for most web things, you can "use the platform." The newest features built into the browser allow us to do almost everything we would do with a framework. Glad to see this getting some attention on HN!
I've been helping an organization that hosts retreats (yoga, qi-gong, and other types) and I still think a lot of these practices still suffer from the New Age era, and it still ripples to these days because some people read those funny names and bind it to "oh that's just some crazy people/cult/weird/hippies non-sense".

So I'm beginning to wonder if we shouldn't drop the names completely and call them for what it is: like you said, assisted meditation. Or just rebrand them into something more contemporary.

Don't take me wrong, a lot of people still seek these events, but the masses will always frown upon them.
>>You can be certain that you end up in a database if you use a foreign SIM card from a non-KYC-country for a long period of time in a residential area. Your only defence is your network provider not cooperating unless forced by law.

I've literally been doing this for the last 11 years, guess I'm screwed then :P

>>They were already taken when you had¹ to get the ID in the first place.

Yes, and the mobile operator doesn't get them, while in the article discussed it's the "private" operator gathering all this data.

>>SIM cards are used for transmitting voice in an insecure fashion, so you can't be sure.

The difference being, that here it's done openly and in a visible fashion "either you do this, or you can't play our games".

>>¹ The federal republic directly adopted laws from nazi germany requiring ID for every citizen.

That sounds about on a level with an argument that since Hitler was vegetarian, all vegetarians are nazis. Your country adopted a lot of laws from the Third Reich. Mine adopted a lot of laws from the communist republic it once was. Neither fact makes those countries anything like their predecessors. The law that every citizen has to have an ID is a good one IMHO(wait for Americans to chime in and say this is against their personal freedom or something).
Worldcoin is taking notes on this. Somewhere in the world.

But again nothing scary about what Worldcoin, Tencent and others are doing right?
> All the evidence shows...

There is no such evidence. There are those who benefit from inflation (and only if it's predictable for them) but the majority of people don't. Unless you define economy as something only the wealthy can benefit from - no, inflation is not good.
Well we are four people in the household. I guess that does increase consumption.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27526063
Note that the vaccines can also cause strokes via blood clotting, disability and death. It is not a huge surprise because the mechanism of action for the mRNA vaccines is quite similar to that of the virus itself. The primary difference is in the controlled dosage, as the mRNA does not self-replicate (at least not yet - some researchers are working on "self amplifying mRNA vaccines").
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
This is bound to come up some time, how would you differentiate yourself from Clubhouse/stereo type apps? I like leveraging twitter network effects to bypass the community seeding stage, that is an interesting angle. Do you even see this as a clubhouse competitor?
Web Serial API
> - the Chinese Communist Party is not communist

You're just playing with words.

- the CCP is communist compared to the Nationaists

- Mao looked up to Stalin and was an enemy of the US

- the CCP is a one-party totalitarian state just like the USSR, where the societal structure was reshaped, killing millions in the process

If you mean that it's not a workers' paradise, communism never is, except for the top officials. The CCP has all the worst traits of communism, therefore it is.

A third (400 million) of mainland Chinese people are struggling financially today, and hospital care is cash-in-advance for non-CCP patients. So China doesn't even have the socialist health care available to most Western countries.
"in mice". stop wasting our time with this junk science
Maybe also look into unison ( https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison ) instead of rsync so you get 2-way sync :)
Good point, I am not a MacOS user. Users can authorize unnotarized executables to be run according to a quick Web search. So what would prevent malware from authorizing its unnotarized binaries?

In the Kaseya case it seemed to have elevated privileges already, because it was able to install bad binaries.
Sure. But setting a goal of eliminating it with the purpose of driving elite importance as low as possible seems to me the most ethical way of dealing with the problem of elite overproduction.

Additional measures may be useful as well, of course.
That assumes that the user wants to avoid HN in order to have healthly relationship with it

Also anyone who's been doing something with web dev can probably workaround this with just 5 clicks
You're quite right on both size of buildings and also survivorship bias!

Although the prevalence of old housing across the UK suggests (to me at least) that something systematic has changed. The fact that people can have an obsession with tudor, georgian, Victorian style housing tells me that things were built to last in a way that might be less true today.

As you say, the technology to build so high is a recent one, I note the Empire State Building is only 80 years old which is pretty young when compared against Notre Dame for example
Yes.. Jack Ma got to the top doing business in China, but then proves himself to be a bad judge of the situation by making speeches against the Chinese authorities. I don't think so.

I think Jack Ma is just a figurehead (like most business people) - an actor that is there to raise the profile of the brand. I don't think he owns what they say (though I'm sure he is well remunerated).

All we can really say I think, is that his role came to an end, and he has stepped off the stage.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210707083417/https://www.nytim...
It always creeps me out when someone assumes that people will keep aging and dying in the future, including very far into the future, and would thus need "generational ships" despite all scientific advancement required to make such ships possible in the first place. Right now we're standing on the verge of ending aging. It won't be much longer until it becomes optional.
How to Use the Solid Principles in Your Code
How to choose recruitment software – Recruitment Software Benefits
Mozilla conducted this research using RegretsReporter, an open-source browser extension that converted thousands of YouTube users into YouTube watchdogs.

Research volunteers encountered a range of regrettable videos, reporting everything from COVID fear-mongering to political misinformation

Like videos discussing the lab leak theory?
elvish sounds to me like a lot like that Lao-Tsu thing:

Do nothing and nothing will be left undone.

p.s. Where "nothing" in above isn't absence of any things, but "what is not a thing" i.e. probably everything:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190319105206/http://www.alangu...
Assuming the crash doesn't cause the process to completely exit, you could indeed use `scope-capture` for this. This works well for local dev. In theory, you could use `sc.api/spy` in production code, and then attach a remote repl to diagnose any crashes. I wouldn't recommend this though, I think it would be best to use a good logging library like Mulog: https://github.com/BrunoBonacci/mulog
> I'm surprised to see a new service targeting it instead of one of the much more active, newer social networks.

I honestly cannot come up with what other social network can be targeted apart from instagram, but honestly I am out of touch in this space anyways. We can't use a audio visual social network like tiktok, club house etc nor the ones which target short face to face conversations like snapchat.
What's the source for this claim?
"Pedantic"?

If you just consider disallowing 3rd party modules to be a "microkernel" all while the kernel itself still loads most if not all (approved) drivers such as PCI bus, storage devices or filesystems in the same address space, then _all_ current major operating systems are "microkernels".
I imagine it varies depending on the drug, the patient and the dosage. I was recently on heavy doses of morphine for 10 days and was left unable to eat normally for 4 months afterward, so it can happen quite quick.

But the point is, whether you're addicted or not, you cannot stop taking the drug. If you stop alcohol or smoking you might experience light to severe withdrawal symptoms depending on your level of use, even hospitalization. With opioids you will experiences months of crippling pain and inability to eat normally with the only remedy being more opioids. And you might not even know it's the opioids doing it because the doctors give that garbage out like candy and don't warn you about these side effects.
> No one is taking your voice print and biometric details

Some Italian cell operators do. For example, when you are buying a new sim card for Iliad, you do this in front of an automated kiosk where you have to scan your ID, then face camera and say outloud "my name is Insert Your Name Here, and I would like to make a phone service contract with Iliad".
HolyC and Whitespace.
Comparing foods and saying they’re the same thing if they’re made from the same ingredients only proves my point that you don’t know what you’re talking about.
> If it delivers to an intermediate MX for filtering or archiving or ??? and then redelivers to google, it's not visible.

That is
a) a very odd and theoretical setup
b) probably would cause Google's MX to reject most messages for SPF failures
Elegant load balancing algorithm to reduce servers consumption
Ok, I stand corrected then :-) Had no idea this was a thing.
Knowing that Chromebooks exists should give you the rough answer why does this exists.
I've been saying this for a long time.

I'm sure the computer security industry wouldn't like this.
The lab leak may have been in there (you can probably check in the appendix to the report).

But to be honest, it's pretty irrelevant. Content analysis is usually performed using the current state of knowledge. It is to be expected that known facts and what is perceived as truth changes after the fact. This does not invalidate the analysis itself.

Here's the explanation from the report, which I find pretty reasonable:

> Over the course of three months, the working group developed a conceptual framework for classifying some of the videos, based on YouTube’s Community Guidelines. The working group decided to use YouTube’s Community Guidelines to guide the qualitative analysis because it provides a useful taxonomy of problematic video content and also represents a commitment from YouTube as to what sort of content should be included on their platform.
You'd need some sort of standard library, even if not the normal userspace one. The kernel has a pretty sizable "lib" directory which includes all the string functions etc. you'd expect in normal userspace C. For the Rust-for-Linux work we're using the Rust standard library's libcore and liballoc, just a slightly forked version of liballoc with the goal of getting any changes upstream once we get some experience about what works well. (Along those lines, the kernel has a non-allocating printk() that works like userspace printf(), and we provide non-allocating Rust wrappers that mimic userspace println!(). C++ in the kernel would want a non-allocating iostream, I think.)

I think you could address this point by using a slightly forked version of a C++ standard library that marked all its allocating constructors and allocating conversion functions with the "explicit" keyword. (But you wouldn't be able to upstream this, ever.)

I'm not sure if there's any other case where you'd have implicit allocations that you wouldn't be able to avoid. You may be right that this is doable entirely with library changes provided you avoid RTTI and exceptions.

One specific weird case is the copy done when capturing things into a lambda: https://godbolt.org/z/Y7fG5hjqq I expect the first allocation here because I'm explicitly calling the constructor, and that's fine, but the second one surprises me a bit, because the copy constructor is marked "explicit". Maybe people who work with C++ more regularly than me find this less surprising.

But that goes back to the problem 'tialaramex raised, about how "How many allocations does this do?" is a quiz question. Distinguishing zero from at-least-one is important, and you can do that by avoiding any heap-allocated-container types entirely, but so is distinguishing one from more-than-one.
People who spent years in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (or are still there, after 20 years, without being charged) might disagree with you on that.
> back door in the phone operating systems

If there is a generic backdoor it's certainly not in the OS but rather in the modems firmware. The scary part is that all modem manufacturers are based in countrys that are known to violate human rights in organized ways.

> What you’re suggesting is certainly possible, but the idea that it’s been rolled out to the average person doesn’t seem likely.

It's a known fact that government agencys of certain states hack devices of people they target. An "average person" is still affected by this since they can be targeted "by accident" for multiple reasons. (e.g. through friends, being at suspicious locations, wrong vacation destination etc.) So it doesn't even matter if a device is backdoored.
> On the other hand, I don't think this is related to Hinkley

My bad; I'm mixing up EDF projects.

> The country needs more new power plants

I'd agree with that sentiment. I'm disappointed, however, that a proposed (wishfully thought, perhaps?) approach to nuclear tech that I read about many years ago seems not to have been realised. Slightly off-topic, but I remember being excited by a Wired article in 2004, Let a Thousand Reactors Bloom [1].

This discussed modular, pebble-bed reactors (and even speculated on low-cost hydrogen generation as a byproduct) while being ultra-safe by virtue of the physics of its design:

Physicists and engineers at Beijing’s Tsinghua University have made the first great leap forward in a quarter century, building a new nuclear power facility that promises to be a better way to harness the atom: a pebble-bed reactor. A reactor small enough to be assembled from mass-produced parts and cheap enough for customers without billion-dollar bank accounts. A reactor whose safety is a matter of physics, not operator skill or reinforced concrete. And, for a bona fide fairy-tale ending, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is labeled hydrogen.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2004/09/china-5/
The isolation is made to keep the house hot. About 10 degrees hotter then the outside (without the heater on). This is usually not a problem as temperatures are around 15 during the summer and you can open a few windows to let the hot air out. It does become a problem however when we get extreme temperatures like +30 C as you cant lower the temp by opening a window. Compared to south europe and other warm climates where the houses are built to stay cool.
> I’m not sure what benefit any further effort at discussion or standardization would bring.

It'd allow them to come up with more bullshit excuses to not implement it, that's what.
And all that was supposed to be read into

> Is there any operating system left now that isn't riddled with bugs? I blame Agile.

?

I think not.

If anything, that deserved even more patronizing replies.
I'm Daniel Kehoe, author of the cited article (or polemic, or rant, if you like). "We've been busy doing web development an older/harder way so we haven't even noticed there's a new, easier way." Six months since I've written the article and there's a slow growing awareness that web components have some value. But by and large, many developers will still spin up create-react-app to build the simplest web app.
Thermal cycling is a big part of PCR. My understanding is that the cycle length is related to the length of the DNA/RNA you want to amplify.

At some point there's just so much noise you'll probably find carcinogens everywhere.
Join Fleta Connect, a Multi-Chain DeFi Service for All DeFi Users
What is "- trained on past data (which by definition includes all the "isms")" supposed to mean?
When the Next Animal Plague Hits, Can This Lab Stop It?
Would it though? We haven’t had this tech for that long.

Has it made things better or worse when everything, including non-priorities, can be a distraction.
lol, I will never figure out how you can stan rayiner so much. He's an obvious reactionary and a notorious cherry-picker.
Direct arXiv pdf: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.05093.pdf
Considering that the top quartile venture capital as an asset class generally performs at ~20% IRR and outperforms public markets, it's empirically not true that the system funds hustlers over builders. The better VCs fund builders. If they aren't funding you, it's not necessarily that they're just ignorant and busy funding businessy hustlers; it's perhaps that there's issues with the deal that make it not investable (from targeting a market too small, to missing critical skills on the founding team, etc).

(I'm a VC)
Of course not.

They'll just fabricate lies, label you a terrorist or a "Russian spy" and put you in prison.
> But not because some government official suddenly decided they should

You mean like this guy, for example? https://www.npr.org/2020/12/11/945565473/u-s-clears-for-rele...

Or the (by now, likely in the thousands) people killed by US drone attacks?

I don't want to play the whataboutism card, but let's not pretend that the US is somehow exceptional here. In fact, I'd consider it one of the more troubling countries, with the kindappings, Guantanamo, and the "grey area" on the borders, where your constitutional rights do not apply.

The world is not a nice place, and the US is no exception, unfortunately.
> Given how much analytics garbage phones regularly spew out

Thank god¹ android is open source.

¹ Not religious, I just don't want to thank google :\
I imagine that this is because those non-Chinese outlets that vilify China bundle the CCP, Chinese businesses and Chinese powerful individuals into the same entity, all with Xi on top.

Presenting this as anything but an "internal conflict" doesn't fit their narrative and agenda and therefore it isn't interesting.
I've heard good things about debug-repl, although I haven't used it myself. From what I understand, it fills a similar niche to scope-capture. However you do it, being able to capture the state at a certain point in the code is essential.
> given that he doesn't mention it, I conclude that he didn't do enough research

> I'm too lazy to check how many of them are reposts of old pictures

You just proved his point - plenty of images available from 2019 and earlier. Plus he used to have flashy appearances that would be reported on international media every once in a while - the lack of those alone tells us something has changed drastically.
How is this different from Twitter Spaces?
i you haven't yet, check MoQ (metaphisics of quality), starting with Pirsig's Zen&art.. and Lila . The www.moq.org seems functional again.
That's a caricature. We sometimes use words for summation, e.g. Python's sum and fsum functions. I do wonder though if people had to write like that before the development of modern mathematical syntax. Even the '=' symbol is relatively young. Wikipedia tells me it was invented in 1557.

SQL is another 'wordy' language. There are many, many things wrong with the SQL language, but I wouldn't say its wordiness is one of them.
cool article.

here's to the people that see the first paragraph tilted thanks to the tilting of the initial plots ;P
A minute's googling revealed that, yes, it's million gallons/day, and it seems both Imperial and US gallons are commonly used, so depends on author's nationality which is meant, I suppose.
These days I assume mobile Computer Vision is smart enough to recognize fake face.
Interesting reflections. It probably goes hand in hand with the US culture where individual mobility (both geographically and economically) seems to be highly regarded (which also has many positive effects). I live in Sweden. Since the late 19th century or so, and especially after WW2, we’re very influenced by the US and I can see the same tendencies here.