skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not just an idea anymore. They've started experimenting with it since last year. Gwynne Shotwell said in April that third generation, yes third generation, of laser intersatellite links would be launched in "the next few months":

https://spacenews.com/spacex-adds-to-latest-funding-round/
Genius. I would sign up for your Patreon if you had one for this kind of thing.

The vampire pun is great.
We don't. Nature is great at self maintenance, much like forest fires we have to let it clear out the dead wood, and suffer when we don't let it. We don't like that because we like to espouse every life is precious and to accept the alternative stabs a whole lotta sacred cows.
I think the SECC1 design was more based on practicality of cache that was available at the time; While the connector was 'proprietary,' the Bus design itself was probably a more protect-able part of locking AMD out.

FWIW AMD's original Athlon used a Slot connector as well, for similar reasons.
Wow, I don't know how you arrived at the conclusion that coding is somehow easier than excel. Excel/Google sheets is tabular wysiwyg and about as simple as it gets... even for children who get acquainted with tabular data relatively early (reading simple scientific graphs, etc)
To be fair, the OP started with "I have 239 twitter followers!", not "I wrote a NES emulator"

I think the point was clear and you missed it.
Maoi in tobacco smoke is the suspected active ingredient
we canned our Kubernetes implementation after actual years of trying to glue together tools at a medium sized company with a small engineering team. we switched to Nomad and are very happy.

I am of the belief that there's an inverse bell curve of support for Kubernetes coming from 1-3 person teams and large companies. either you've got a 1-3 person engineering team who understands the whole thing, or an enterprise that can support it with a team of SREs helping keep the manifests in order. anywhere in between can become chaos quickly if you can't support training your department on it.
I don't see much value in arguing over the definition or intepretation of the word "modesty", beyond the degree to which that started this subthread in the first place.

I'm suggesting that either you can interpret modesty as a positive trait (moderation, unpretentiousness) that is perfectly compatible with what this article suggests, or you can interpret it as a negative trait, or you can interpret it as an entirely unrelated trait. But anything that suggests you shouldn't publish your work is unhelpful and not something to admire or aspire to.
I doubt Apple cares about people that need to "work" on their machine anymore. Those people will buy PCs because a lot of industrial software is still Windows only and Apple shows no interest in changing that. Modern Apple products feel more like toys for adults (in a non-lewd way).
Being gay and a catholic priest is not a problem at all. Enjoying a special social status as figure of moral authority that renounced to sex in public, while looking actively for casual sex in private, is the real problem.
> I can think of at least one counterexample of a person who was extremely prolific with blogging and giving talks at conferences who happened to be absolutely garbage at their role.

My employer once hired someone into a leadership role who we all knew from conferences and press coverage. We were pretty excited to land such a high-profile guy.

Turned out, he spent most of his time prepping and going to conferences, and working on his press coverage. Very little actual work got done, and we quietly parted ways with him in less than a year.

In retrospect, it’s a bit of a “well duh” moment, connecting the dots. But at the time, we all just assumed that there must be incredible substance for him to have such a high profile.

I took a big lesson from that: people who are good at building an audience would be a great hire if you need to build an audience. If you need something else, don’t assume the audience (or conference organizers, or reporters) have actually vetted that person for the skills you need. They probably didn’t.

Ultimately, he ended up as an executive at another company, with responsibility for raising their profile and finding new clients. His skills and inclinations are perfect for that.
Fascinating; do you know what the logic was behind that?
Sure if you don't think permanent social distancing and mask wearing is not a problem.

The severity of mild covid is still potentially long lasting and I'm willing to guess elderly aren't going to handle it well.

Letting covid become endemic could reduce our life expecty considerably.
They may be paranoid because marijuana amplifies paranoia. Nowadays, doctors can prescribe some highly effective tranquilizer medication that can stop schizophrenia and paranoia. Maybe if both you and another person they know simultaneously visit them, advise the same-thing, and ask inquire if getting the brand name medication would be more trust-worthy?
It's worth it if you go join one of the fast growing start-ups and make a good number of connections.

I've lived here 7 years, and recently spent 12 months away because of covid. You'd be surprised how the basic knowledge of building a product and getting a company off the ground has not really permeated elsewhere. There are small groups of people elsewhere who seem to know what they are doing, but not writ large like it is here.

So, come, I say. You can always leave.
VHS also wins for network effect. Betamax doesn't allow rental tape but VHS allows.
I think running pledge(2) on Windows is quite difficult. :)

(At least, I'm assuming the question here is "What should Windows Defender do?" I agree that the answer to "What should OpenBSD's built-in antivirus do?" is "Literally not even exist," which it already does.)
What I find interesting is that this is very modern thinking, putting the individual's priority for themselves ahead of the group. Other societies/philosophies would disagree, and state that the individual should accommodate the best for the group, even at high personal cost.

I agree with it. Group powers are abused by the individuals in charge, and frankly I just value the individual above the group. But worth noting the distinction.
Certainly I find

if (key_data_.has_value() && !key_data_->label().empty())
return key_data_->label();

to be less readable than:

if let Some(label) = key_data_ {
label
}

It's notable that people complain Rust adds too many odd punctuation marks, and yet in this example it's C++ with an exclamation mark, question marks, and two different structure member operators (dot and arrow) while Rust just does the pattern match.
Not long ago, we had apologists explaining why it's impossible for some portions of the population to get government ids for voter verification.

The same argument isn't used to excuse people who won't vaccinate.

Don't get me wrong-- I am completely in favor of vaccination, and completely in favor of government ids for all vital functions.
> The [first] generation of gamers never really stopped

I get that this was an off-the-cuff statement, but worth digging into. Video gaming has morphed so much.

I used to game through the night (Quake through Starcraft, Civ, Diablo, etc) but pretty much gave it up when I had kids. I've found social media and online "edutainment" (inc. HN) to fill that life niche (escapism?) so much better, and even when I've made an effort to try to play a game, it never holds my attention that long.

On the other hand, casual gaming has absolutely taken off. I see so many older people even (60+) playing random games when they're waiting for something. My wife and kids do the same.
You’re committing the “Summit Fallacy”.

It’s not okay to discriminate against 99.9% of men because 0.1% are privileged.

That’s the organized misandry I’m calling out: you can’t abuse most men because of a few — that’s fundamentally sexist.
so old. How about some newer sources?

Further discussion:

4 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13965302

8 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5877973
My website has been successfully selling digital goods direct to consumers for the past 13 years. youseff, it could be fun chatting to you if you can see my email in my profile?
There's also ISO/IEC 21320-1 (https://www.iso.org/standard/60101.html, available as a free download at https://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/in...), which subsets APPNOTE.TXT by forbidding several less common features of the file format (like multiple volumes, encryption, or compression methods other than DEFLATE).

Unfortunately, as far as I can see even that standard doesn't forbid self-extracting archives, non-empty zip file comments, or local file headers which don't match the central directory. It would be great if that standard were updated to also forbid these problematic features of the ZIP format, so that archive files created following that standard could be parsed without ambiguity. Then it would be a matter of updating other ZIP-using standards like OpenDocument to reference this simplified standard.
I don't believe that public creativity is required for a good engineer.

I do believe that candidates with public creativity are more likely to make for a promising interview. Thinking back, I can't remember many cases where a candidate with some evidence of public creativity bombed the interview completely.
I need to add "peacocking" to my HN bingo board asap.
No. The most valuable part of sun at the time was arguably the SPARC chip architecture and Solaris which gave Oracle a vertical compute platform to compete with IBM Db2 on POWER running AIX. In our new cloud world this is now quaint and irrelevant but it was a big deal when on-prem was the only way.

There was also Java.
>> If you're selling to a team, don't. Sell to the person buying products/tools for the team, the one with signing authority.

While buying decisions are made on top, initial usage/trial decisions are often made by expert team members. I'll say, first soft-sell and get expert team members to try out your product, and soon-after ask them to connect you to the manager or decision-maker for further discussion.
I have. Especially before Excel released their dynamic array features. I love the sort function in gsheets. Combined with filters it allowed me to automate things that relied on vba in Excel.
The IBM CS 9000.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_9000
When I interned @IBM in the mid-80s we had a (computer) lab full of these things. Each had a 68K CPU with (I think) 128K of RAM, a little mono green monitor, and external 8" floppies for storage. All of them running the multi-tasking CSOS operating system.

I never hear them mentioned these days which strikes me as odd though it may be just that I'm not really plugged into the vintage community. It could also be that there are simply none to be had anywhere now. I never hacked on them myself - we already had quite a few 1st-gen PCs in the lab and I worked on those. I seem to recall that our CS9000 app devs were coding in some version of Pascal (possibly cross-compiled from a mainframe) and that there was some form of proprietary connectivity with the site's local System/370.

At some point the lab also obtained a "portable" PC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Portable_Personal_Computer) which was a god-awful, big, heavy beast. However I can't say that I find those "interesting" and IIRC most of the devs even then were mainly interested in avoiding having to use it.

I used to think it was strange that, considering it was already selling CS9000s, IBM didn't base its entry into the general-purpose PC market on a stripped-down version of the hardware and on CSOS.
it was infrequent but it was really pleasant to use. it was just a frontend to the internal websites that did the same thing though, so it was more of a feature than a product.
Seaborn in Python to make matplotlib pretty by default + plot some uncommon graphs. `%matplotlib widget` to make matplotlib interactive. Plotly in Python if you want decent graphs that are also interactive by default.

Observable if you want an interactive, hosted visualization notebook (and all their libraries are open source, except their UI). Plotly, Observable's Plot library, or D3 if you don't mind JavaScript. Can bundle libraries + data + visualization into a single html file and deliver that as an interactive report; once you have the base template down it's decently ergonomic.

Plotly is my current default when I'm working with Jupyter, though. Sane defaults are nice.
The million dollar questions include:

- Long COVID post-vaccine. >10% of people have brain damage visible on MRIs, including mild cases.

- Future mutations. People have been overly optimistic for 15 months now, and believed bad things couldn't happen. They do. There's no reason to believe Delta or Gamma are the end, or anywhere close.
I think you're taking the post's 'it doesn't take much' too literally, and the 'I have 239 twitter followers / wrote an emoji generator' reads like a straw man argument. Of course that wouldn't be impressive. The article mentions putting screenshots into a README on a project, but doesn't mention what the project would be... clearly if you're being judged from public information, the less impressive it is the less impressive you'll sound.
Ask HN: Which tools are you using to build a SaaS landing page?
What are folks using these days to quickly build a saas landing page? Just the standard, flat designs which are common.

Wordpress? Something else?
That says nothing about whether what they did was also illegal in the US which I think was his distinction.
Are you planning to charge for this in the future? Seems to be getting really high traction.
The fact that merging zip files with cat and do not produce error is amazing by itself. Now we'll wait until someone find / use a way to distribute hidden files using this method.
There multiple problems.

One is the fire intensity for people who enjoy the outdoors and using them. High intensity fires destroy the natural resource and some will take a century to grow back. This is especially worry some because we are essentially locked into all of our forests burning down at this point.

Impact on people and homes is an entirely different one that I honestly care less about, because it affects me less.
> I'd guess it would be up to business programs and accounting programs and all these other college majors to actually teach classes in python and R, rather than what they do now which is teach classes in excel. Imo the entrenchment in excel is rooted in ignorance to other (often simpler) options available with python or R, than in any actual critical proprietary features offered by excel.

Every time a business user sits at a computer, are they going to spend 10 minutes getting it done, or 30 minutes trying to figure out how to get pip env configured so they can maybe eventually get it done? If by some miracle they are supernaturally gifted at programming and succeed after some weeks, they now have:

- a nonstandard file format that will eventually break
- no real time feedback of formatting or calculation as they input/manipulate data
- no charting
- no GUI
- no "undo" button
- no import wizards
- no support (but I guess someone light years ahead of any dev talent I have ever seen wouldn't need it)

And all of this for a single use case.

Microsoft (and I am no fan) has the best tool for data manipulation that exists for most of humanity. Excepting the awful ribbon UI redesign, you could take any Excel 97 user, put them in front of the latest M365 version, and they could get the same work accomplished in the same amount of time.

You cannot say the same thing about almost anything else in the tech industry. Excel is terrible in a lot of ways. But it's a mostly reliable tool, has worked approximately the same way for 25 years, so people are going to use it and teach it. There's no point in wasting someone's valuable time with the horrifying fragility of the python/R/whatever ecosystem.
Why are Americans more likely to get vaccinated than most other nationalities?
That may be but it’s not a particularly useful definition on an individual level.

If I’m sick in bed for two weeks I can’t work or take care of my family so those mild symptoms very much would be a danger, not to mention the dangers from long COVID which hasn’t been ruled out in vaccinated folks and the dangers of exposing people who can’t be vaccinated.
ZIP does have bad ideas like mentioned there.

I think is better to use a separate format for archive and for compression (like .tar.gz is, and some others).

(If you do not need the metadata, I like the Hamster archive format, which is: It is a sequence of lumps, where each lump consists of: null-terminated ASCII filename, 32-bit PDP-endian data size, and then the data. (That is the entire specification.))

(Another thing about ZIP: If you have a truncated ZIP file (possibly due to a disk error on a floppy disk), I have found that bsdtar can read it; other programs I have tried are unable to read truncated ZIP files.)
Teletext helped learn me English, I always turned on subtitles whenever I was watching BBC.
There is nothing here yet. They literally said:

> Many researchers hypothesize that cannabis use may be a "component cause," which interacts with other risk factors, to cause the condition.
brain damage after vaccine, or "mild" disease in vaccinated people?

can you point to that MRI imaging? curious to see.
Rkflashtool: Tools for Flashing Rockchip Devices
I am sorry but nothing about your posts give me any re-assurance. From your username (What is next?, John-Facebook and Louis-Microsoft?, that is idea for you budding SF writers, usual surnames will be replaced by corporation names) to the the condescension you have treat outsiders in the comments.

The article makes lots of very good points. QC is in a hype stage, it does not mean that there is no valid research or actual physical machines doing "computing" with a "small" number of bits, it means that the distance between what it is promised now explicitly or implicitly and what it can be achieved realistically from now to the next 20 years is so huge that it can easily be considered a lie.

Current QCs are only good for one thing and one thing only: "Simulating" quantum systems. But in that same sense, a wind-tunnel is a fantastic "fluid-dynamics" computer providing a "realistic simulation" of how wind flows through a wing. Nobody is solving any actual optimization problems with a QC in any meaningful sense and even less there is even 1 single problem in OR that can be actually solved now only by using a QC.

BTW the company you work for has a long history of making grandiose claims which are later totally refuted forcing you to backtrack, as anyone who has read Scott Aaronson's blog knows.
Making of the Computer Graphics for Star Wars Episode IV (1977)
For some of us, that is recent.
Really? Why? It looks like a static image in the movie.
If I wanted to try out examples in the book, can I try in the Pharo environment?
> Spreadsheet evolution has been slow though.

Excel has to contend with nearly 40 years of backwards compatibility (MultiPlan, the predecessor to Excel, was released in 1982) and a deep userbase that literally has decades of experience and muscle memory with the software. The Symbolic Link "SYLK" file format introduced in MultiPlan is still supported in recent versions of Excel, leading to the infamous CSV "ID" issue.

Many of our users still run very old versions of Excel and Windows (e.g. Excel 5.0 on Windows 95) because a change in a future version of Excel caused problems or gave different results.
There were lots of things like the Internet (in this sense) before the Internet. Go look at Genie, Prodigy, America Online, the Well, BBS systems, and many more. All centralized systems that were displaced by the decentralized Internet, which has since become much more centralized.
25 million meteors enter the atmosphere every day! Almost all of them are burnt up. You're certainly breathing "vaporized space object" ash constantly. The danger of satellites burning up to air quality is negligible.

http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast121/lectures/lec18.html
I really don't like the idea of a native app unless it's a 10x improvement. Beyond privacy concerns at install time there is also the fact that it could be phoning home and log your activity or even send your session cookie who knows where. Even if the code is open source and it can be trusted today what if tomorrow it autoupdates after a hacker seizes control of the repo?
Lets think for a moment: if there's actually a team of spies using this technology it could be a production level tech, or prototypes with somewhat strong science behind it.

Then they would know much more about what exactly are they doing with people's brains. Wait for it..

What if all these cases are just the failures? The actual damaged brains are others, and the damage is much more specific, like in high energy based strong psychological conditioning, making those other - invisible, not detected yet - targets, think and pursuit goals projected to them by the adversary forces.
Let me talk with you about the simplest product I ever built
Church guidelines direct Catholic seminaries to exclude candidates with "uncertain sexual identity; deep-seated homosexual tendencies; etc."[1]

[1] https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccatheduc/d...
I went through this. It was one of the hardest things I've done in my career, but it has proved to be the best strategic move I have made. I am much happier and my scope of influence in our organization is still wide, just more technical.

It really depends on your team. I hired my own boss to replace me, and worked with him on transitioning me out of management. As the new guy, it was in his interest to keep me happy. Worked out really well.

Totally depends on the the people though - your boss, your reports, the senior leadership team.
MinIO liberates your storage from rebalancing
So... What can we do other than avoid like the plague?
New Analysis May Have Just Solved a Decades-Old Mystery of the Space Race
"tautology"

Added to HN Bingo
SemVer did not introduce major / minor / patch, that was standard usage in free and open source software for decades beforehand.

Example from 20 years ago:

> The most popular version numbering scheme stems from the <major>.<minor>.<patchlevel> scheme

— https://ask.slashdot.org/story/01/01/05/0054230/version-numb...

Example from 1997:

> Python versions are numbered A.B.C or A.B. A is the major version number -- it is only incremented for major changes in functionality or source structure. B is the minor version number, incremented for less earth-shattering changes to a release. C is the patchlevel -- it is incremented for each new patch release.

— https://web.archive.org/web/19970501012343/http://www.python...
An image is some bits. How do you enter it? Copy and paste? Why not just use a cryptographic key, as mentioned by another user. If the image needs to be exact then JPEG compression will be a horror show; many people copy images by taking a lossy screenshot.

If it's more like a barcode or QR code (and JPEG resistant) that actually just encodes the real password, you're still relying on a camera, or the ability to copy-paste image data. This probably runs against the grain with what most users expect. I've never had to use an image file or webcam stream as a password before. I'd probably muddle through; but I'm not sure my mother would.

That said, I wouldn't mind more passwords and one-time-keys especially on printed materials coming as QR codes. Why do I need to type in a 24 character key from a gift card?
Most CEOs might be men for the same reason that under 17 men’s teams routinely defeat professional women’s sports teams:

Humans, like other apes, are sexually dimorphic.
and OP already shared this again 5 months ago
> I'm reminded of allegations of the K-pop industry basically being a soulless meat grinder because it has no trouble finding kids who will do anything to be a K-pop idol.

That's most of the music industry. Startups play the same game by paying in lotto tickets.