skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quilkin: A non-transparent UDP proxy written in Rust
:-)

Yep. I'm glad others are aware of this. There were certain manufacturing processes that needed to be sustained for "national security" reasons. GF was an imperfect solution but it was better than the alternatives at the time.
> Looking at inner cities, where most cars are, I don't see the opportunity to put enough charger stations in for everybody. Most cars are parked on the street.

I see a future where autonomous EVs will drive themselves to charging stations, often in the middle of the night. Tesla will get there first.
Copernicus Emergency Mgmt Service Forecasts, Warns, Monitors Devastating Floods
I should perhaps have said "at least" minimum wage there, but the point stands as this only makes it more expensive to build.
Direction finding is usually done with antennas which have large null regions. (Highly directional). You point them in a direction and if you get a signal you mark that down.

Then just repeat 3+ more times.
Problem: "Raft protocol described and analyzed in English has problems."
Solution: "Here is a modification to the protocol, described in English, that does not have such a problem."

Seems like there is a common failure mode of "describing distributed protocols in plain english and thinking this is a proof"?

The actual problem here is not "There was a problem in the Raft protocol, and I figured it out and provided a work around". The actual problem here is "Reasonably experienced software engineers reviewed the specification and didn't see any problems." This actual problem has not been addressed by the article.
Politicians aren't "captured," they're "grown."

Captured implies a change in behavior or an outside force acting on them, and that isn't accurate.

Only politicians that fall in line are given the support necessary to succeed.

To me, the term captured reduces the agency which is our responsibility to exercise as citizens (at least in the U.S. where I'm based.)

/steps off soap box.
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We are talking about a one-off event that happened in a totalitarian country with a huge penchant for purging undesirable information.

Even experts are on a shaky ground when almost all primary information sources are controlled by a non-cooperative party. The only thing concerning the origin of the epidemics that is beyond reasonable doubt is the genetic sequence of the virus. We do not even know for sure who the first covid-19 patient really was and when.

Of course it is hard to speak with confidence in such a situation.
I don’t believe a consequence of the axioms discussed is that there exist natural numbers with no “written form.” Do you have a proof or citation?
Sure, there's a price difference across regions. That's nothing new.

The important thing is that insulin prices haven't been going up. You can continue to get the same insulin as 50 years ago for pretty much the same price modulo inflation.

And anyway, the Netherlands getting cheap stuff is a side-effect of innovation here. America builds for America, driven by American needs, and you guys benefit as a result. There's a reason recombinant DNA tech (which backs modern insulin) came from the Bay Area and not the Netherlands. NL has twice the pop of the Bay and a fraction of the inventions. A single university here has like 5x as many Nobel Prize winners as that entire country.

I mean, I'm glad you're able to buy insulin cheap but we're richer and we're the ones driving progress, so we'll keep at it because we want a better life for ourselves (and if you benefit, it's fine). You're not capable of making that for us, yourselves, or anyone really.
Table of Contents, https://www.pbr-book.org/3ed-2018/contents
Had a fun one just happen to me in the last few days. I got contacted by an agent out of the blue.

"Hey Sean we've got a role that you seem perfect for, just sign this NDA so we can talk." I look at the NDA and it includes a noncompete for the duration of the project + 12 months after. The nda is also not mutual so the noncompete and nondisclosure is only binding on me not the other party. In fact I don't even know who the other party is or what they do. Only if I sign this then for an undisclosed period of the project + 12 months _whether or not I get the job_ I can't compete with them whatever they do.

I get back to the agent and say there's no way I can sign a noncompete until I know what it is I'm committing not to compete with.

The guy spends several days trying various desperate negotiating tactics "I spoke to my boss and he says there really is no risk to you if you sign this, it's totally standard"... "I spoke with our CFO and you have to sign for us to proceed"....(That's great for your boss and CFO but I'm the one on the hook here if I sign, not them) "The noncompete really doesn't commit you to anything, but you have to sign..." (if it doesn't commit me to anything there's no downside to you removing it) ... "The client is so secretive and the project such a big deal we can't risk it leaking..." etc. At each point I just held firm and said there's no way I can sign a noncompete unless I know what I'm committing not to compete with.

After one more go of "there's no way we can go ahead without an NDA in place" (even though I've already said I'm happy with the NDA as long as they strike the noncompete clause) I said "OK well in that case it's 'no thanks' from me".

24 hours later they get back to me with "What about if we tell you who the client is, will you sign then?". I'm just letting them marinade for now...
Many markets are zero sum
Maybe Google is taking the view that anything even remotely controversial which could cause someone to look negatively upon the company, is a cancer that must be removed immediately.
That's not really a good example since a cart with two wheels and a two handles anticipates under 35 U.S.C Sec. 102 a cart with a number of wheels and at least one handle.

But yea generally you want to describe things with a billion examples, but no statements limiting the scope of your invention.

The most devious strategy is that you disclose vague and probably impossible embodiment. Wait 10 years and then write claims that that narrowly target big products that you really couldn't have invented ten years. But the burden is more or less on the accused infringer to provide you didn't describe the new invention in the old patent.
I can only see a first-order argument in saying "I will not pay for anyone else."

There's a second-order argument of the form "We will all be better off if we invest in healthcare. Society is not zero-sum."
It just stopped being fun.

It went from being a mostly euphoric, relaxing and sensory-enhancing experience in my teens and early 20’s to one mainly characterized by anxiety and paranoia.
If you like this, you'll very much enjoy this exploration of color and chroma keying in cinematography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO3JgPUJ6iQ
Austin was 'the winner' of Covid tech migration. What happens to Silicon Valley?
You really shouldn't, that's the entire point.
bors solves a similar problem, but we've found that enterprises require a lot of additional features to get their dev teams to actually use it, so we've focused on those to make this production-ready. Specifically:

1. We focus on being "no-maintenance", since our primary value prop to customers is "you won't have to spend eng resources on merge problems any more". This means: a one-click "set and forget" install, no additional config files to maintain or DSL to learn, unlike bors.

2. We have all the security and access-control features you'd want (we're Soc2 compliant, offer on-prem etc). This is important since the product interacts with our customers' source code.

3. We offer various customizations on merge workflows to help our customers optimize the exact parameters they care about (eg: developer wait time vs CI costs vs time to identity bad PRs in a batch, optimistic merge heuristics etc)

4. We offer a whole host of useful analytics to show you merge bottlenecks. We initially just put these as a nice-to-have, but we've now got customers who use us specifically because of these analytics!

We're also constantly adding new features based on customer requests (for instance, the flaky test features we're piloting originally came from customer requests we kept hearing over and over!). Speaking of which, if there's something you'd like to see that you don't currently get from your existing system/bors, do let me know :)
Just because it's classified doesn't mean it's valuable. Lots of stuff is classified for bureaucratic reasons. Also, there's little about the Challenger 2 that opposing forces couldn't have researched. The tank itself has been around for more than 2 decades, and the Soviets/Russians have been consistently able to penetrate British security for the last 70 years.

The gun is nothing special, and it's performance is well known. Chobbham/Dorcester armor has been around for quite awhile, and isn't unique. The US has sold M1s to Egypt, Iraq etc with Chobbham armor.
Personally, I really enjoy working with Clojure+ClojureScript via the Luminus framework. The Caveman framework for Common Lisp is also fun. It might be my first choice if I planned to make a web app with very little JavaScript.
Modern civilization is extremely dependent on fossil fuels. We've already passed peak conventional oil production, and we're now surviving on EXTRAORDINARY technical means of enhanced oil recovery.

If we can't make the complete transition to renewables in the next thirty years, it's game over for a VERY long time. Future civilizations won't enjoy the benefit of Spindletop. Cheap energy sources won't be available near the surface of the crust for another > 50 million years.

We won't go extinct, but it will be the 18th century for a very long time and nobody will leave this rock during that time.

The Great Filter is right here, in front of us, in our lifetimes.
==When 5k US troops were being pulled from Germany, that news wasn't greeted with applause, but with Merkel shitting herself.==

==Spending $15b on the world that just loves to take a shit on us==

Which is it, do they love to take a shit on us or do they welcome our help and shit themselves when we leave? Maybe things are just as complex from Germany's perspective as they are from the US perspective.

Per capita humanitarian aid by country (US is 17th) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_development_aid_countr...
Peter Pomerantsev: Information Sovereignty
The two aren't really related. It's a bit like saying "we were able to build computers, surely we can also build <insert arbitrary tech thing>". Still waiting for that high-temperature superconductor.

As far as I understand it, the biggest problem is getting the manufacturing precision good enough. The more you scale, the more precise the manufacturing needs to be, which was never really a problem with microprocessors.
I hold a security clearance. That's not what you assume. The clearance exists for the purpose of preventing disclosure and they take breaches very seriously. I know a guy who had the book thrown at him for causing a (fairly minor) breach.

Some stuff is "over classified" but the definition of classified data is that which if disclosed is harmful to the national interest, and they actively seek to prevent leaks.
Coffee detox is fully worth it. Afaik most people just need about 1-2 days every 2 weeks or so to keep a optimal coffeine intake.

For cannabis however it takes weeks, it's not something I do as often as I probably should
I support decriminalization, but I'm completely against its use. It makes you less intelligent, both in the short term and long term. I've experienced it myself and seen close friends get lost in a haze of confusion, drop out of college, and mess up their lives. It's especially dangerous for teenagers and college students, which seem to be the main demographic that uses it.
What if I write a paper disputing incorrect information, and cite the incorrect information's source? Now I am censured.
Did the Time Machine system alert you when the drive failed? I'm wondering how important it is to proactively replace an old drive if it's just used for backup and I can deal with the risk of the drive failing at the exact same time as I lose the main copy of the data.

I guess the question is how long of a time can there be between when some of the backup is not actually recoverable and when you find out that fact. Murphy's Law aside, I need to recover data from backup so infrequently – if the system regularly verifies the backup, I should be able to just wait for the drive to start failing, right?
I went back in time and heard this in my mind while I was waiting for the print job to complete. Thanks, person who made this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEJYNtI2ul4
There's difference between investing out of your own volition and being forced to by threat of violence.
GANTheftAuto – The Neural Network Is the Game
A bit of context to this factoid:

- The US backed a coup that put Fulgencio Batista in power

- Batista murdered over 20,000 Cubans (not my words, that's what John F. Kennedy said)

- Cubans were in horrific poverty exactly because of US policies

- When Cubans overthrew the dictator who was murdering them by the tens of thousands, the US attempted to invade them, the most likely aim being another US-backed dictatorship

The US embargo is purely sour grapes over losing access to a country's natural resources it wanted to exploit coupled with, as you point out, a dysfunction in the way US elections work. Pointing nukes at a ruthless, amoral enemy with vast resources was a perfectly valid reaction for Cuba given the context.
Blue LEDs and black lights show this effect very clearly. This is e.g. described much more succinctly in the top comment here: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/3c1qsg/why_do_b...

> 2 reasons: 1) You don't have the nearly as many short wavelength detecting blue cones as you do red and green in your fovea. 2) The angle of refraction is dependent on wavelength and short wavelengths get refracted more than relatively longer ones by your eye and therefore focus in front of your retina if you are myopic (nearsighted). The black lights are throwing off a ton of very short wavelength light and when coupled with the larger pupil you have in the dark it sets your eye up for a bunch of chromatic aberration. They should look clearer if you are hyperope or overcorrected in your myopic prescription, or if you view them at a closer distance.
Most type 2 diabetics have the opportunity to improve their health now and eliminate insulin dependency and continuously choose not to do so. At least SS has the argument that it’s too late for people who failed to save to change their behavior.
> We know many people with diabetes struggle to manage the financial burden of this condition

There is no financial burden to diabetes, there is a financial burden to living in the US where healthcare is a privilege.
The things you describe aren't all cheap in every part of the country. Some parts of the country actually have somewhat limited access to fresh vegetables/meat or have to pay a premium for it.
> Error handling: language specification has no mention of word "error"

Errors can still be handled even without explicit provisions in the language; some languages offer exceptions; in my 30 years of C++ I actually use them very rarely; Wirth decided against such in Oberon and I followed him in this respect. It's always a delicate consideration which elements should be part of the language or part of the library; from my point of view topics like threads or exceptions can be covered well via library. Oberon is supposed to be "as simple as possible". Here is some rationale: https://oberon-lang.github.io/2021/07/16/motivation-for-a-ne....

> Oberon+ has garbage collection! Nice!

The predecessor language Oberon has a garbage collector since 1987 (see https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-005363226). Oberon+ is just an extension of it (with selected new features to keep it as simple as possible while being nevertheless useful - at leat from my point of view).
Just goes to show that the idea of climate change affecting everywhere equally (and thus meekly) is the biggest blind spot of climate change deniers.

More than ever, I keep reading about how hyperlocal water systems are, and IMHO it shouldn't come as a surprise anymore that the way we're going to experience the effects of climate change is in the form of more extreme versions of the things each region already had before (be it droughts, rain, heat waves or cold waves)
Hardware (Originator) timestamped for ordering on the receivers end at the encrypted package unwrap point plus the SMS solution of "delete/discard any unsent/undeliverable messages after x days?" Does that solve both issues?
Social security is a savings plan. You don't get social security if you don't work, and it's in proportion to how much you earn. This is, in fact, the point of social security. It came about as a response to old people dying in the streets. It exists for people who either through bad luck or lack of financial education couldn't save enough.

The idea is that if you worked through your life, then shit hits the fan, you shouldn't be knocked down below your contribution to society as measured by your level of success under capitalism.
This is amazing to see. We should use this for image optimization. When we compress channels, we should compress the blue channel to like 30% while keeping others at fairly large 80% and it might appear better than a 60% compressed image.
The handle/touchpoint is not full user journey, let's pull back and explore the approach, the threshold navigation, the bio-mechanical motion & timing — the bigger picture: "How to open a door - Finnish instructional video from 1979"[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wof0xPUmW38
Show HN: Ghost Game
Does it really outweigh the benefits? It automatically splinters the internet into regional little nets. All those things that are currently possible, because internet exists in its current form cease to work.

And what countries are we at war with? Please be specific. This is not a trick question.
I’ve never used it, but the way others do, here and on Reddit, I think of it as the “disagree” button, rather than “downvote”.

It can be frustrating when people use it in lieu of a comment, though. It means that, of all the arguments at their disposal, the person decided to expend only the minimal effort required to produce something that still qualifies as a reply. The communication via binary responses is a great illustration of the decay of modern discourse, if you believe in that sort of thing.
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It's probably equally true for Effective Go.

In general, buying a book teaching you about a topic is often going to be much cheaper than acquiring all the relevant experience on your own through trial and error.
The Pharo 9.0 vm from —

https://files.pharo.org/get-files/90/pharo64-linux-stable.zi...

— is the same as Pharo 8.0 —

5.0-202002121043 Wed Feb 12 11:06:45 UTC 2020 gcc 5.4.0 [Production Spur 64-bit VM]
It also doesn't help that this game has been used in the past to spread trojans to user's machines.

As a War Thunder player thru Steam, I quit playing when my system monitors flagged an update from War Thunder as a malicious trojan. That was a couple or three years ago.

Cool game though.
They work MUCH quicker, which can be the difference between a mild headache and going blind for some people.
This strategy doesn't eliminate procrastination. You still pay the price but it evens out the peaks and valleys of productivity/unproductivity.

For ex: You need to spend 3 hours and write a 5 page report that is due on Monday at 9:00 AM.

You spend the whole week not working but feeling guilty about not making progress. Then suddenly in the last minute i.e a few hours before the deadline i.e around 5:00 AM to 8:00 AM you start panicking and make progress. You turn in less than stellar report.

With a contract based strategy you still procrastinate. But the end result is much better. i.e You need to finish 2 pages by the middle of the week or you pay $25 per missed page. Another 2 pages in the second half of the week. This way you still procrastinate and occasionally you pay the penalty but still you would be done with the essay/ report 2 days in advance rather than the last minute where the consequences are way higher in terms of getting a bad grade/losing scholarship/not graduating/ not getting into a better career etc.
The difficulty is going to be who represents the deceased if the estate agrees to allow the deep fake against the deceased's permission. It's both of a question of who has standing to sue the estate and who is going to fund the legal costs involved.
That doesn't compute. In some revolution you'd ignore the regulations.

Prior to the revolution the regulations give you ample freedom to use the radio to become expert at using it.

This is doubly true because ham licensees are permitted to build their own equipment or modify their equipment and use the modified equipment on the air.
"Many other people wish to manufacture and sell cheaper alcohol/paracetamol/antibiotics/COVID19 vaccines"

To maintain this standard of living you're always going to be dependent on someone, it's not a government problem.
Hello. We are a group of 5 friends, and are proud to present the Ghost Game at https://ghostgame.io

We used to play this spoken word game in college. It was a fun way to pass time as a parallel thread in our conversations. We bring this now in its digital form, for the pandemic world.

We worked on this as a neat little side project. It's built on simple FE stack (HTML, CSS, JS) and uses Firebase in the backend to maintain the game state and logic.

Get on a call, create a room, and play with friends, family and coworkers. Remember, the conversations are an integral part of the experience!

Let us know how you like it.
What do you think the folklore stuff is? Folklore.org, it's stories from actual engineers that were there. That one was from Andy Hertzfeld if I remember correctly.
If the non-compete is just a part of the overall employment contract, that means you are working without a contract. That can be problematic if the contract establishes benefits for you, like your salary, your bonus, your vacation, etc., etc.
Ok, but that isn't how an Apple Time Capsule works.
The Organization Behind Chaos Engineering
Oh boy, I don't think you've seen many interrogations.

I've spent the past two weeks watching JCS - Criminal Psychology on YouTube. Lies are clearly a core part of interrogations. I haven't ever seen one where lying wasn't a core part of the strategy of the interrogator. Go watch some videos on that channel. It's really, really interesting.

Never talk to the police.