skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My kids’ school did it and the results were pretty awful until people pointed out that you have to explicitly tell second graders to make sure they are doing calisthenics in a safe place so they aren’t tripping over school supplies and knocking over lamps, or just flailing their arms into stuff that will hurt them. My kid broke her school-issue iPad on the first day because they didn’t even think to tell the kids to take their headphones off. They just said, “ok, let’s do jumping jacks.” Crash.

Edit: the scariest was when I was getting an early start on some dinner prep and my kid came sprinting through the kitchen in socks while I was going from one side to the other while holding a big knife. They were doing a scavenger hunt and each item would be announced and they’d have 60 seconds to go try to find it. I had to email the teacher about that one and ask them to be cognizant of the safety of what they are asking the kids to do, given that they have no clue what environment each kid is in.
>Finally there is an inclinometer - if the trailer becomes off level by a certain degree, the entire inside of the trailer is filled with expanding, fast-hardening foam.

The ultimate pinball anti-cheat switch.
> Seriously? Most of the Archlinux/Linux (where nerds congregate) automation and customization stuff is open source. Lots of people sharing their configs, and you can copy from them.

Yep! So tell me again why I should employ what the previous poster referred to as "hardcore nerds"?

> Also, why is it not okay for nerds to command high rates? Doctors do it. Lawyers do it. Politicians do it. And most of them suck at their job, by the way. So if a "hacker" could deliver on his promise, I think paying him a high white-collar rate is quite fair.

I'm responding almost entirely to the idea that "hardcore nerds" are the people to employ, and "muggles" are not. Paying for expertise is great! But really, as with all technology, I want to pay for people to make things easier for those around them. It strikes me as painfully obvious that, if you're crying out to employ "hardcore nerds" because "muggles" can't handle the work, you're also probably not the type to employ at all, either way. This is just my take, however.
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Like claiming SARS-2 CoV came from a lab before the mainstream media admitted it came from a lab?
I'm reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future[1], where one of the major plot elements is the introduction of a "carbon coin" -- a complementary currency issued for reducing carbon, backed by central banks. It's essentially a targeted form of quantitative easing.

This idea is inspired by the Global Carbon Reward here in the submitted link. Given the numerous threads discussing whether blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies are or can be overall socially beneficial, thought the HN crowd might be interested, and a link to the original idea seemed the most relevant link.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future
That seems like instead of a joke, it could be a really cool way to actually implement voice chat... just unlink the modem from the call and use a phone.
There's a delay before the reply button appears to encourage more thought as discussions get deeper. A HN thing.
Some types of code commonly written in C++ is intrinsically not very amenable to unit testing when designed correctly. And the unit testing that is possible is sufficiently trivial that it isn’t worth it because aggressive use of assertions and strong integration testing will cover the same ground more cleanly.

Of course, I am sure many of those survey results are people that don’t write unit tests when they could and should.
Just the title of that website makes me "allegic" to its content :) To be fair if people(the public) wanted to review these documents just digitize them. Google's book search project could probably do the whole archive in a day(they scanned rare and ancient books from Stanford and other top libraries) and make them accessible to all.
> Yet there's a large possibility that the preparedness will go to waste because it will never be used.

Human mistakes, hardware errors, and the increase of ransomware. That, and many companies relies on their IT infrastructure for their existence. I think backups are well worth it.
That's right, then I'd just have a mirror of the original problem. I could store empty lists to represent false, but that's not really any better.
The camera can't capture it fully of course, but here's the gist: https://imgur.com/a/zPGrkNp
Google is getting their count from a Nature or Scientific American article which mentions that the number of trees is calculated from "421,529 measurements from 50 countries on six continents". Fires also clear away old growth so new trees can have a chance, and trees native to fire-prone areas have evolved fire resistance. In addition, some pine cone seeds are released by fire.

As for the net loss or gain, you'd have to subtract how many trees died in the fires from how many new saplings there are annually. The world is a big place. It's perfectly possible for a billion trees lost in one region to be offset by a billion new trees elsewhere.
Ah, and looks like it's been submitted in the past, which I should have searched for first: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=carbon+coin
This tool uses the "drag and drop columns into the graph editor" pattern, which I've seen in a few other places too - Kibana Lens most recently: https://www.elastic.co/kibana/kibana-lens

I have to admit this interface doesn't really fit the way I think about charts. I'm interested in alternative UI designs for this kind of charting tool that don't use drag-and-drop - anyone seen any good ones?
That's really great, thanks for making this!

Any chance of extending it to support "visual" Morse, i.e. a flashing light detected by the phone's camera?

If such a tool became more common, embedded devices could produce almost user-accessible messages just by flashing a status LED.
Not really - many are still running it on legacy appliances like they have done for years.

There's also a lot of implications of moving CSFB type functions into the IT environment due to completely different security assumptions in both worlds.

That's not to say you can't do it, but the circuit switched networks are very often actual literal networks of legacy hardware that operators want to get rid of and take out of service.

The cost of keeping legacy systems going is also raised due to skills shortages and limited expertise. Another reason operators will try to get rid of it if possible.
In the UK we have the GCHQ and NCSC, which are in a sense what you're getting at.
Any that were non-fiction?
but apartment building owners didn't see a corresponding increase?
GCC 7 is available for RedHat 7 from an official package; it’s just not the default /usr/bin/gcc.
Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying. If you have my phone and it's still activation locked, then it was lost or stolen and should be returned to me or my next of kin.

My right to own a secure device massively outweighs any desires held by criminals, or downstream beneficiaries of criminal activity.
All a bit bs much? You can get a Volvo or you can get a Suzuki swift. A swift is cheaper, and most of the time it runs fine. The day your car gets pancaked you’re gonna know the difference if that day comes. But don’t for a moment try and request anyone to see the plight of the dead in the swift, because they literally reaped what they sowed.

Backing up your system for disaster recovery is something that has been known as expected for ages. If you’re too stingy or dumb to realize and do such processes (especially years after the first ransomware attacks) your business definitely deserves to die a horrible death. Only hope is innocent people don’t get affected by it. But they probably will.
C++ has evolved a lot in the THIRTY years that have (almost) passed since 1992.
This page shows how graphing polynomials can lead to factoring solutions.

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopen-collegealgebra/chap...
Indeed, I was using LTE as an example of the peak standards benefit, but in Europe this simply hasn't been a factor for decades. 2G and 3G were similarly uneventful and straightforward (for the most part).
Now I'm tempted to learn morse so I can have a embedded device blink an LED at me to give me weather/news/time notifications.
And if they cant raise taxes they'll just legislate your standard of living via bylaw then sick enforcement on you to the same effect.

"Rich but not Koch and Murdoch rich" people are f-ing terrible to live with. They give a shit about everything.
Is it something that is easy to do by ignoring the possibility of it happening - and therefore is the default?

Sure seems like it!
If the universe is finite, does that mean every problem is a constant time algorithm?
what kinds of examples do you want? A comment that someone bookmarked?

Maybe the Baader Meinhof syndrome will kick in and you'll start noticing Proton mail/vpn users or anybody that took drank some Youtuber's VPN koolaid trying to bargain for impossibly damning evidence about their particular service instead of recognizing the flaw in the entire concept
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Nukes are never transported by air. After some nasty crashes in the 50's and 60's, the DOE decided that air transport was a bad idea (the DOE owns all of the nuclear weapons).
Excuse Me… Some Digital Preservation Fallacies? (2006)
Only read the first 4 problems.
1 and 4 have no answer and I doubt teaching math by utilizing
logic fallacies does any good.
First depends on potential subdivision.
Fourth depends on the fill level of the vessels.
Don't think that is the right way to teach anything.
Disabling JS also works.
To be fair, I've skimmed a lot of tech books that were absolute trash. I would say the level of quality on blog posts and books are about the same; it's just easier to filter out trash books by reading reviews (unfortunately, I've worked in a lot of niche areas where it didn't matter what the review score was for a book, I just needed some resource to push me further).
Insulin at 100
Sounds like you are kind of playing fast and loose with the word “evidence”.

You understand Texas is literally the land of “hey, you need to winterize your infrastructure or people will die”, twice over, less than a decade apart?

It’s almost like they start with what they think should happen and find “facts” to match their ideals, not reality.

But sure, let’s say that our moron friends to the north in Alberta were a well run, functional democratic crew, and not a 30 year reign of clueless cronies, that still doesn’t say much about Canada as a whole, which mostly did better than Alberta. Noting that Alberta as a whole is as large as one of the suburbs shit out of a real city in the rest of Canada.

I can say that, as an Albertan living in the southern states.

But sure, we should all pay more attention to what you think should happen, smart guy.
That was my first thought too! Looks like it’s actually a command-line tool that scans backups though. It might get access to all your private keys but can’t install malware!
Fiction writers often create a compelling story by making something reality-shaped out of low-probability dangers.
> Malware/phishing/etc. is still removed, since it's illegal.

They are known for protecting DDoS-for-hire and Cryptolocker services.
My main complaints about C++ are lack of a good way to catch all exceptions and mysterious copying/conversions. In Rust, it is very easy to catch all panics and conversion/cloning is explicit. Copy is only implemented for types where copying is actually cheap/free by convention.

Another good thing to look at is how disgusting std::move is and how straight forward the equivalent is in Rust. Additionally, there isn't anything to prevent you from using some variable where you used std::move (which invalidates the contents of said variable). Rust will not allow you to use some variable if ownership has moved.

Finally, I personally despise that you end up needing so many constructors in C++ just to do basic things like the assignment operator.
Nobody is subbing out literally everything. Most people in-house half or more of their tasks for substantial savings.
Medical and ethical standards are in complete free fall in European pharmacies. I was told by my vet to rinse my dog’s eyes in sterile isotonic saline solution. When I went to the pharmacy to ask for it they didn’t know what it was. They suggested using chlorhexidine wound disinfectant instead.

My poor dog would have probably been blind or worse if I had taken the advice. But they don’t care, they just want to move products, whatever the cost.
Look for low ICQ numbers and you'll find them quick!
I just came from a Maine vacation. Trying to return bottles
to a grocery store were I bought them and get the deposit back proved impossible.

You would have to register with a company named clynk. (I think you need their mobile app as well.)
They provide an initial free batch of bags which you fill with you bottles, then drop off in a designated container and eventually the money will be credited to your clynk account. Once you have used up your bags you have to buy new ones.
Seriously, I started running through all those points he made and started thinking about other things he didn't mention and then halfway I was just like fuck it.
https://archive.is/1F35i
US NIH HPC Training Resources
I just imagine you could pull a Joe Dirt and duct tape yourself to it and create an incident if you were desperate. Although, these are real as opposed to a poop tanks.
Just go through Cloudflare's list of customers.
How is parler kicked off its hosting but a site plainly advertising criminal acts for hire is up and has a US domain name?
You familiar with government pensions and benefits? That's your answer.
I just have to wonder if people downvote this thinking it's not possibly true, or they just don't like what is said.

Link to relative info is posted on another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27884821) - but for those who have not read it, here is an excerpt from a 2019 cloudflare post/statement:

"...what we have done to try and solve the Internet’s deeper problem is engage with law enforcement and civil society organizations to try and find solutions. Among other things, that resulted in us cooperating around monitoring potential hate sites on our network and notifying law enforcement when there was content that contained..."

So I stand by the statement, I can't see any other way to read it.
There is a "slight" difference between getting/finding a nuke and a vurnerability.

There is also a "slight" difference in the difficulty of moving a nuke and a vurnerability across borders to launch it.

It's simply hard to know where data is coming from on the internet.
20 hours / day of fasting and 15 hours/ day without fluids is gonna take a LOT of adjustment for most people.
Typically only companies that had a disaster happen to them or their customers (like that insurance) will have the institutional awareness. All the rest will file the risk somewhere with alien abductions and toilet paper shortages. When you tell them what could and will happen they will just shrug it off like you are trying to sell them useless bs.
Do you happen to know any tips for good online resources for virt-manager and features like this other than tedious reading of manual pages and trial & error?
Reminiscing - I once worked on a "backup server" that ran NetWare 3.11 and QIC80 drive.

The customer was quite convinced their backup was fine. They could hear the QIC going with the standard weeeeee, tick, tick, tick, weeeeeee, tick, tick, tick sound every night as they were leaving.

When I ejected the drive, the tape was nearly clear. All the material have been wiped clean off of it, and was sitting at the bottom of the server in a neat gray, brown pile (at least that is how I remember it, & I am sticking to it).

Since they never had to restore, they never checked.
Hate to burst your bubble but we don’t actually live in a movie. I think.

That being said, the quoted line kind of raises the question: how do we know?

I suppose given the use of the word “feel” the GP doesn’t actually know, but that’s not really my point anyway. My point is rather – if there in fact were incidents involving these nuclear material couriers, would it make the news or remain secret as a matter of national security?
The parent comment made no complaints and their salary offers no implications on the greater health of the economy.
I simply found the resources available to be interesting, for anyone curious about HPC methods. Also, at the bottom are links to distributed MATLAB and Tensorflow tutorial videos.
One thing I've always wondered: How do you prevent ransomware from ruining your backups, too?

Lots of ransomware tends to be "delayed" – it can't encrypt everything instantly, so it encrypts a little bit each minute. During those minutes, isn't it conceivable that the now-encrypted files replace your old backups?

I suppose this isn't really a "backup" but rather a "mirroring strategy." But for certain kinds of data -- photos, video, large media -- can you really afford to do any other kind of strategy?

The other question I have is related to that first point: since ransomware can't encrypt everything all at once, how is it possible for your system to continue to function? As you can tell, I'm a ransomware noob, but it's quite interesting to me from an engineering standpoint. Does the system get into a "half encrypted" state where, if you rebooted it, it would fail to boot at all? Or does ransomware targeted at businesses tend to be more of a surgical strike, where it targets and wipes out specific datastores before anyone notices?

(It's the "before anyone notices" part that I'm especially curious about. Isn't there some kind of alarm that could be raised more or less instantly, because something detects unexpected binary blobs being created on your disk?)
lol yup you beat me to it :)
Move the decimal one place to the right if you're DIYing.

Most people are going to DIY 1/3 to 3/4 the stuff on that list depending on whether or not their checking account is fat enough to easily write the check in the first place.

Edit: move the decimal left.
> Who wouldn't be using a C++17 compiler?

Tons of people. Anyone using an sdk for embedded or targetting older distros or OSs where upgrading runtimes are really under-prioritized by PLM.
Ryan Dancey on the Acquisition of TSR
The point is you want hardcore nerds relative to your organization. At the coffee shop level that might just be paying someone 15$ an hour rather than winging it. It’s little different than calling an electrician rather than stringing extension cords everywhere.

At the other end, Fortune 500 companies have unique needs which requirer significant expertise. At that level trying to outsource most stuff is perfectly reasonable, but they still need internal talent to avoid being ripped off or suffering major disasters.
I've got just enough imagination to convert the black to void so it's a very helpful picture, thanks!
I suspect that was intended to mean "list price".
No need to stick to this specific plan. Just the idea of planning your meals at the start of the day (and, hopefully, sticking to that plan) is very powerful idea. It removes some of the bias of in-the-moment decision making.
Sprinkle some crack on him, Johnson.
This is false.

We have tons of direct evidence for 'Natural Origin' and there is no other competing theory that matches the evidence. While some details are still murky - our actual 'Origin' resembles something around the bounds of that theory.

We have no evidence of a 'Lab Leak'. It's just conjecture.

While lab leaks do happen with some frequency, animals do spread disease to humans (i.e. Zoonotic transfer) far more often and this has been going on since the dawn of time.

The previous SARS crisis was sparked in this manner, which is why, during the initial phases of the pandemic, this theory was 'most likely' even though it was also conjecture.

Moreover, it's another good example of how 'facts change'. The only reason the 'Lab Leak' theory has material credence or plausibility is because of the lack of evidence for it's competing theory i.e. no trail of Zoonotic transfer as of yet found.

If you have actual evidence about something, then make your public claim so that it can be scrutinized.

Otherwise, don't spread false information, especially on highly public channels.
Linux executables can be modified while still running, this is what differentiates windows updates, many requiring rebooting, from Linux updates. Once rebooted, then you realize your executables are tainted.
I think Tesla was counting on having self driving solved by the time competition started hitting the lower end of their market offerings. Self driving is no where near to being solved. I think they will need to focus on their luxury models until self driving is a possibility. If the chinese companies can produce a product at 1/3 then it will be impossible for Tesla to compete. Good luck to Tesla. They need it.
Yes that's the point. Apple enclosure + Intel CPU was worst one.
"usually better value for your money"
I dont like the process of moving, but the cleanup, and starting again is a wonderful relief from a previous burden.
> That is enough to confuse them and start googling around for that message.

I'm struggling to think of a reason why that isn't a good thing. God forbid an error message gives you something googleable and actionable rather than something cutesy and meaningless.
Hrmmm, have any of these agents ever been assaulted in connection with their official role? I guess we wouldn't know but also I guess not. Seems not too bad for personal risk.
Great, congrats, but it's better to drink more water than less.
> However, in terms of sophistication and convenience, Prolog is hard to beat, since it is a full-fledged programming language that can also be used to fetch, process and transform any available input in any way necessary to make it amenable to all built-in constraint solvers.

Surely the same thing could be accomplished in Lisp as well?
Thank you. I've just purchased it and am listening now.
Actually, Xiangqi has 7 types and western Chess only has 6, unless I'm counting wrong.
Totally agree. I do think most times I hear people saying "follow the science" they are saying it to someone that is being anti-intellectual. But at the same time the "follow the science" people usually give horrible counterarguments that contain straight up inaccuracies too. I don't know what annoys me more.

A fun one that circulated for awhile when the vaccines were first launching was "all vaccines are the same". They are decidedly not, and I don't think people are as stupid as that kind of messaging implies. It was weirdly taboo to say that you'd prefer a particular vaccine, even once we got to the point that there was enough stock to choose. It's true the clinical trial efficacy numbers shouldn't be literally compared to one another, but that doesn't mean we should pretend the vaccines are actually the same either. Somebody deciding to drive an extra hour so they can get an mRNA vaccine is not anti-science lmao.
> Move the decimal one place to the right if you're DIYing.

I’m not sure of this is a mistake or commentary on the cost of not doing it right the first time.
> That’s your baseline — you can expect that order of magnitude of bugs in the initial release of your rewrite.

My point was that the test suite you start with for your rewrite will be (or at least should be) a lot better than the test suite you had when you started writing the original code.

The spec will likely be better too. Also, you can learn a lot from the previous iteration.

These effects, plus the benefits of the new language, have the potential to reduce the bug count dramatically. Maybe even by an order of magnitude.

Having said that, you're certainly right that there are some steps back and the net cost or benefit is likely highly context-dependent.

It would be great to have more data on projects that have done this, to help people estimate the costs and benefits in their context.