skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since no one else has mentioned it, I feel compelled to mention thermonuclear catsplosions.

My understanding of the legend is that a player began experiencing a catsplosion, and wanted to find a way to get rid of the cats. So he started tinkering with the game a bit, and eventually tried setting the blood temperature to a very high number. This killed the cats, but also had the unfortunate side effect of setting them on fire. And the cats were multiplying faster than they were dying, so there was a massive, expanding fireball of burning cats.

If this legend is wrong, I'd love to hear another version.

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Catsplosion
Need Zealand has major shipping issues. Our ports are overloaded with container ships having to wait to dock. We are far from all major (and minor) markets. Why they would ship them here is beyond me.
I think this is exactly right. Speedrunners (and film editors) can perform actions with frame-perfect precision when they can plan those actions ahead of time. It might be similar to how musicians can perform notes with extraordinary temporal precision, as long as they know ahead of time what the timings will be (and in some cases as long as they have external references to resynchronize with).

I don't think there are any speedrunners who can be expected to give a frame-perfect response to an unexpected event.

The observational astronomy version could be that a human being could synchronize two clocks to less than 0.1 second difference (by starting one when the other reached a specified time, maybe), but still not measure an uncontrolled natural event to the same precision.

I'm not sure how this works with timing human athletic performance using a stopwatch, but I think I would actually be wary of trusting a stopwatch-measured time much below 0.1 second precision, even if the stopwatch displays more decimal places. I think athletic records in the timeframe this book is talking about were reported to the nearest 0.1 second and not below, and having more decimal places in our measurements has required video replay and, later, other electronic timing methods.
I never said that vaccine material was singular; my intent was for "material" to represent the totality of all material content in the vaccine dose, save perhaps for the water molecules it is suspended in.

If you want to go down that rabbit hole of "long lasting impacts" then you must equally accept that everything you eat is a risk. Everything you wear against your skin is a risk. Every breath you take. Every move you make. Every bond you break. Risk is everywhere.

Running away from a Komodo dragon carries the risk present in any form of physical activity. It's possible that you might trip, fall, and hit your head in a particularly nasty way. But the fact that running isn't entirely free of risk doesn't mean running away from a Komodo dragon is a bad idea.
I would imagine saying "Copyright (c) appropriate rights holders on planet Earth" wouldn't satisfy most license attribution claims if they were ever tested in court.
The fact that the hedge fun researching this Hydrogen powered company is named "Hindenburg" is hilarious.
> has a huge issue with false information around vaccine efficacy and dangers

It is fascinating your viewpoint here, as the false information identified in the US is true information elsewhere. The reason for this is precisely the censorship and information control.

Reasonable censorship is an oxymoron
Probably more to do with the fact that everything is moving towards virtualization. Oftentimes these NICs dole out VFs directly to VMs via SR-IOV, in which case I imagine the NIC controller has some safeguards to keep the host and the rest of the guest's safe from denial-of-service and other attacks from a malicious guest driver.
As an IBM employee, my condolences to anyone who relied on ustream.
I was a member at Hacker Dojo for a little over a year. It was A LOT of fun, but when they expanded in late 2011 or early 2012, it was my que to leave. I smelt the "Save the Dojo" crisis long before the city of Mountain View told them they had to be ADA compliant.

It seemed the dojo was trying to be "everything for everyone" at the time. They wanted to keep membership dues low; but many people were coming everyday to use it as a dirt-cheap co-working space. They expanded to meet space needs for people who came everyday; but membership fees weren't enough.

I would have happily remained a member while I was in the Bay Area if the expansion was better planned. I just didn't want to get involved in fundraising to support an under-funded co-working space.

I still miss that place!
For people who know Berkeley paths, I believe the first path in the article is mislabeled. It's the Tamalpais Steps, not Covert Path. I walk both of them regularly.
You're correct that the quality of programming books is all over the map. Some of them are really bad, and are essentially rehashed SO answers sandwiched between some prosaic filler.

There are essentially two kinds of tech books:

1/ Thorough, in-depth technical discussions of programming languages, software, or apps that dive deep enough to enlighten the reader on how they work under the hood

2/ Rehashes of already existing docs, the latter of which do the job more directly without forcing you to read filler text. These books are primarily written to boost the author's reputation

Obviously, you should learn to be selective and buy only the #1 type of book. It's not hard to figure out what kind of book it is from looking at the TOC and remembering the type of books you've read from the same publisher.
> most countries won't pay any attention to what the US Supreme Court decides

Copyright lawsuits across nation state lines are pretty much non-existent and not worth it. What matters in the U.S. is pretty much as far as anyone who cares about copyright is going to care about.
I think in some cases it can be planned, in the sense that Walter Murch talked about frame-perfect cuts in video editing (which apparently is common and other expert film editors can do it too, not just Walter Murch). In that case the details of the video you're reacting to would literally be different for every cut, so the ability seems slightly more generic, because it's not aligned to exactly the same sensory or physiological cue each time it's used.
> To promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and enacting a national sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.

Let me guess, this "sales tax" would mostly apply to things that poor people buy, and not the things rich people buy (like legislation).

No, if you want a "fair tax", let's look at how much the median American pays relative to their net worth. It's about 8% per year, which means there should be a wealth tax of 8% (with a tax-free allowance on the first $100m so that 99% of people are exempt).
President Biden wants $100 payments ‘for every newly vaccinated American’
Teams doesn't work reliably from Linux either
Of all the crypto-quadrillionaires out there, I trust Vitalik the most to not be just in it for the cash. He really does have a vision for Ethereum's place in the world, whether or not you agree with it.

He's conspicuously burned or donated hundreds of millions of dollars (albeit not super liquid) in other crypto assets basically because they were a distraction. He's given away billions in Eth, and has approximately 0 conspicuous consumption.
And m4 works in combination with a bunch of C code. Virtually any system with m4 can come with an interpreter for a higher level language without running out of space (I can't imagine many uses for m4 at runtime on systems where, say, a perl interpreter wouldn't fit). Why is relying on such a runtime a problem?
Just submitting a link here for visibility, hopefully it'll come up in someone's google search later on and help them. The blogpost is about a list of filters I came up with to try and make websites like Twitter and Reddit less stressful. (List of filters at https://github.com/shijithpk/hide_like_counts_with_ublock )

You copy the filters into the adblocker uBlock Origin, after which all elements on their webpages that show any stats, eg. like counts, retweet counts, karma points, upvotes etc. get hidden.

This is mainly for desktop users. You could possibly use these filters in adblockers other than uBlock Origin, not tested it though.

Hopefully, Twitter and Reddit will introduce settings like Instagram/Facebook have to hide like counts, but till that happens, this filter list is a handy option.
After 5 years I got a pinched nerve that has kept me a bit sidelined this year. Watch your spine people, be careful.
Testing a cure for sickle cell using a autologous stem cell transplant with CRISPR modified cells has now been performed in the US.

That seems like really huge news on many fronts?
Even going by volumetric energy density, hydrogen is still higher than li-ion batteries.

You can make hydrogen tanks a structural member. They're made out of carbon fiber after all.

Modern fuel cells have extremely high power density. You can easily have >300hp in a car. Even higher for large vehicles.

Hydrogen could easily replace batteries in nearly everything. In fact hydrogen cars already have more (real-world) range and 5 minute refueling. You have to get down to laptops and cellphones before the complexity problems makes hydrogen less desirable. People are just deluding themselves by saying hydrogen can't make sense in cars.
Replacing hardware does not make old hardware incapable of FSD.

To give you an example, ImageNet for image classification required for many years a descent computer and GPU to run inference. Today, an improved version called MobileNet, runs in phones with no GPU from advancements in AI training with half-precision and why not.

So, how can we be so sure that FSD can't EVER be ported back to HW1?
I’m creating an account just to reply to this, and for some context: I’m a big Cal Newport fan.

He isn’t arguing against the use of email, but the non intentional default to emailing instead of work. Yes, your ideal scenario- communication between employees will get work done. But in Cal’s scenarios, that one person is having multiple conversations like that through email, and is waiting for the other person to reply. And instead of producing deliverables, they are having these slow conversations.

You mention just get to the email later, but rarely does the application or notification go away after the info is gathered. So your plan of checking email 1-3 times a day is right inline with Cal’s thinking.

Some of his solutions he hand waives away complexities with “we’ll rock and roll” but the idea is email won’t be a springboard for work. It sends pdf’s and reports and minutes great, but planning a project is better done elsewhere.
I'd like a way to get bulk new notifications pushed to me as a small popup in the bottom right of my screen once every 1-2 hours, if there's new emails during that window. That eliminates the need to check the time to see if it's 9:56am yet and I need to check my email.
Diehard Tests for Measuring Quality of RNGs
You could use anything derived from hydrogen too. Ammonia, methanol, synfuels, etc.
It was received as a typical Stock, Aitken and Waterman product, very, very, very similar to Jason Donovan, Mel&Kim, Kylie Minogue and the likes. It was like a train of one hit wonders: one smash hit, a few less popular songs and then forgotten. By the end of the eighties, most people had enough of the Stock, Aitken and Waterman formula.
And then for some reason, Rickrolling happened.
Love2D is an awesome opensource 2D Lua gamedev engine. Super fast for prototyping and great dev UX. I think it also supports mobile now as well.
Yeah, that's also along what I was thinking (as noted later), but also I think you can also get close or achieve if you can prime yourself because you know the event is coming, and get the timing down. Sort of like the cyclone arcade game (if it wasn't a scam[1]). I think there's a huge difference between hitting a random 100ms time and hitting a 100ms time that's coming at a set time that you can see and judge. That's what I meant by "planned", even if it poorly encapsulates that.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXBfwgwT1nQ
This has actually gotten better since covid I feel. Seems like people have gotten a lot more practice at joining online meetings
> Again, you're using appeal to emotion, which is not a solid argument.

Nah. Appealing to emotion would be like e.g. if I told you you should visit somebody who's lost a loved one to a collision with a pickup truck and tell them to their face that there would have been no "clear and compelling benefit" to reducing the odds of that tragic outcome.

If you think (and you evidently do) that simply stating we should endeavor to save lives where we can is an "appeal to emotion", well, I don't even know what to say to that. It's absolutely asinine, almost unbelievable.

> Way to cherry pick from your article.

If anybody here's cherry-picking it's you, by failing to respond to the point I actually cited the article for. It's great that things are getting better! But do you seriously have nothing to say to the 2.5x figure?

Come on. Respond to it, I dare you. Tell me there's no "clear and compelling benefit" to keeping those vehicles off the road in cases where there was no good reason for them to be on it in the first place.

2.5x.

Also, I actually live in the US. I think your takeaway from that other comment (about my UK citizenship) and its context is quite telling.

> I don't want a ban in the US

Yeah, I noticed.
> Truth is power.

No, but mindless post-modernist drivel is annoying.

“Vaccines work” happens to be true. It’s not “the establishment” being afraid to lose power, it’s sane people taking an interest in others’ survival.
> Unvaccinated people are literally like drunks.

There are a number of assumptions underlying this perception. And under each of these assumptions, there is some information that you base on trust on some entities.

And if you vary this trust, the perception changes drastically. So you cannot change things like this objectively.

But with these kinds of mandates, it effectively impose your trust, onto others.

I don't think that is ethical.

Also, going by your reason, every other human being on this planet is a potential source of risk for you. Does that mean everyone should drop dead to make you feel safe. Sure I know you mention this "avoidable" thing.

But don't you see that for a person who is concerned about the vaccines, vaccines are this "avoidable" thing?
He’s one of the very few ones I merely disagree with.
To me, a significant part of the commonality is the preciseness of the text, and how much of an impact that can make. Many legal cases hinge on the exact phrasing of a law, and sometimes you don't realize the choice of a word is significant.

Another part is that it's hard to program them in a sane way because the rules are arbitrary. It's possible to code how the rules are, but it's impossible to guess how they'll change in the future. Two things you assumed would never interact might need to interact in the future. Two things you thought would never stop interacting might suddenly stop.

I'm not an accountant, but in the Magic world, you would assume that the turns go in a set order, right? Nope, there are cards that reverse the order of turns permanently. You would assume that a player always controls their own turn though. They don't though, there are cards to let you take someone else's turn. There are also cards that let you play the cards out of other peoples' hands.

I looked at coding it, and it turned into spaghetti pretty quickly. Everything has to have ways to interact with everything else, and testing becomes incredibly difficult because of the sheer number of ways these things can interact. And it's hard to make even the most basic of assumptions because they're liable to change at any point. There are no "laws of physics" that at least define a set of possibilities.
I meant human ticks, not server ticks.

Still, it only goes to show it matters at so many levels.

Like, if using a 60Hz screen with 30ms latency, you're always almost 2 frames behind, so you always react 2 frames late, compared to another 60Hz screen person at the same ping with, say, 2ms latency.
Can accomplish same thing with IR camera under smoked glass counter.
It's important to remember the history here. In 2015 social media was basically the wild west. You could get away with saying all sorts of crazy stuff and nobody cared.

After the 2016 election all of the big social media CEOs were dragged in front of Congress to testify about fake news, Russian propaganda, etc. They were directly threatened by lawmakers that if they didn't shape up by censoring us that lawmakers would bring the hammer down.

What we are experiencing now is 5 years of development on that threat. The social media CEOs are in a position where if the media manages to make a big fuss about some sort of "misinformation" then Congress will respond by dragging their butts back to testify and/or regulation.

This has turned the social media CEOs into slaves of the corporate press. All it takes is a few tweets from the right people asking Zuck why he's platforming "Nazis" or whatever they are calling moderate Republicans and anti-war leftists these days and these companies will jump.

This is the censorship that the government demanded, and they can't escape. I'm not sure what the answer is, because if we all jump ship from FB/Twitter/etc onto a "new" platform, it won't be long until that new CEO gets dragged before Congress and is given the same threats.
HN isn't your personal notepad...?
as much as I think vaccination is a good idea, the more they incentivize it, the more suspicious it looks. TANSTAAFL.
I mean, if we accept completely deprecating non-TLS connections, then there still would be no problem with STARTTLS! Servers would just need to only allow the STARTTLS command, and refuse any commands until after the TLS handshake. I believe that many server programs allows this configuration today.

It is only when we allow backwards compatibility that something is needed to differentiate to the clients whether the server is new enough to allow TLS or not.
Censoring that is in your control is filtering. Yes this is needed.

Nobody wants censoring that is not in your control.
Ask HN: What Are Your Problems?
Last time I asked this was in the year of 2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6559477

A lot has changed since then. For example, I have lost some hair, have changed continents and still figuring out what to do with my life.
so, you're saying it doesn't work then?
The dev is pretty chill and does answer email. A nice product to support.

Had not heard of di.fm, will have a look.
I worry about that too. I guess the idea is to tell them: you own this, you can deliver faster and better than some central data team.

But it is indeed a hard sell. I wonder if there are real success stories with no caveats. I'd love to learn about them.
Its very clear too, looking at the cryptocurrencies with the highest market caps. Very few are inflationary because the goal is to make the founders wealthy.

Take a look at any subreddits for these currencies too and you'll find the same sort of thing too. For example, I think the tech behind polkadot is a neat idea, but go to r/polkadot and all you'll find is discussion about prices and staking rewards.

I have a lot of mixed feelings about the space. A lot of the tech is pretty interesting and is pushing distributed consensus forward. On the other hand, 99% of people involved are trying to make a quick buck.
I’d worry that the extra headcount will just get sucked into operational priorities.

The payroll engineers are always going to prioritise fixing payroll problems over supplying data scientists. More engineers could easily just end up being used fixing the backlog.
It’s not currently deflationary. It has less inflation over time yes but the two aren’t the same.

I don’t see why you think anyone is lording this over someone. The blog just addresses that the gini coefficient doesn’t fit well here. You can agree or disagree with that but you just seem to be hurling insults for whatever reason.
Technically you are right, but the fact that defendants knew they were at high risk of losing means such licenses have teeth.
I am capable of suing Microsoft in the UK for violating my UK copyright without requiring any involvement with the US legal system

and the UK has essentially no concept of fair use

and the same will play out across every country in Europe and the 90% of the world that isn't the United States
If you mean "how can Docker containers based on Linux run on Mac/Windows hosts", they don't. There is a single VM running Linux and the containers run inside of that.
Fantastic Fungi on Netflix
> He's given away billions in Eth

Source? Also, is it "billions" ...of ETH? ...of dollars? At present market value? Or market value at the time of transaction?
Someone else has already noted this: Don't use the native Javascript Number type for calculations involving currency. There's some great reading available online on this subject.[1][2]

There are various libraries around that can facilitate precise decimal arithmetic in Javascript. A well known one is BigNumber.js (https://mikemcl.github.io/bignumber.js/)

A great quote that I found on StackOverflow regarding this issue and wrote down:

"When you are dealing with things that are measured (speed, distance, weight etc.) rounding is OK as the accuracy of the original measurement is probably less than the accuracy of your calculation, and users accept that the final number is still an estimate even if its a good estimate.
When you are dealing with things that are counted (money, people, ICBMs) rounding errors are a disaster. There is always an arithmetically correct answer, and, often the accuracy of this answer is enshrined in regulation, treaties and tax law. Providing a slightly wrong number gets you a free ticket into the Kafkaesque world of auditors, tax collectors and government inspectors; you may never escape with your sanity intact." - James Anderson

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3730019/why-not-use-doub...

[2] http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2014/09/floating-point-and-...
At least we’re on the same page because I never said they should be able to.
> When you look at the actual fraud (like Theranos) silicon valley funds are nowhere near it. The people that get duped are usually outsiders that are more easily manipulated.

might not have been valley insiders, but if you look at theranos bizarre board selection, they were certainly not just random joes and certainly had the wherewithal to know they needed do proper due diligence before attaching themselves to the fraud, unless of course they were also party to it...
Tailwind in Production Is Impossible Due to This Year Old Bug
This is a great use of a new stimulus. That's $33+ billion, if we expanded it to the whole US population. He wants states to do it but the federal government is better position financially to do it. It's expensive but it's certainly less expensive than going around in circles dealing with never ending outbreaks and never getting back to normal because we can't attain herd immunity. I hope it happens.
Camera vendors might not have, but DNG kind of got us there. DNG has gone through iterations, but at least it is not owned by a single corp like CR2 or NEF for example.
Most speedrun stuff is just planned. You don't need muscle memory to get the timing right.
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18 dollars sounds very reasonable!

Down here in Puerto Rico a mid-range haircut is minimum $20. A low-tier, make-do barber shop cut is easily got at $10. A higher end cut can go up to $40.

$18 sounds like a great price, especially for a vetted professional. Rooting for you folks, let me know when the Puerto Rico beta opens ;)
Charm meson partical alternates between matter and anti matter