skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Someone wanting to build would have basically the same intelligence as a civil engineer today, they would just have a smaller set of materials and techniques.

Not just a smaller set of materials and techniques, but also a smaller amount of time around the requirements needed to just survive - getting food/shelter, etc. Advancements in civilisation makes the overheads to staying alive smaller, so more time and effort can be spent on advancing technologies.
It's a good article.

I liked this interview where the commentator (Peter Bergen) talks about the symbolism of the USA pulling out. It didn't matter if they were doing nothing, just being there was enough even with limited troops https://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2021/08/14/was-it-a-mistak...

Which this article plays too. The US left and the default became the Taliban, like a run on the bank.

The Taliban needed a free flowing network to get the run going, WhatsApp might have been it.

It's certainly an intelligence failure if WhatsApp wasn't considered in depth.
This is the opposite of what the UK is doing with home secret Priti Patel allowing Afghans that helped during the war into UK protection

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/more-afghan-interpreters-...

Much to what the opposition propoganda will have you believe that she's deporting people which is the opposite of the truth with deportations down to record lows since labour days
And the advertisers laugh all the way to the bank.

I think this is the phrase that captures most sibling comments.

And that is the truth to paraphrase the well known phrase. The software industry at least in the big central areas like the Bay Area is extremely prone to trendy tools. Case in point infrastructure, ML, web dev, crypto currency space: always jumping on the new tool that will be world changing with the underlying motives of the tools of course being making money one way or another by dominating and establishing a good enough solution that will drive people to them.

I would accept this statement to hold on more conservative spaces like aerospace but the customers and b2b relations are different there. Not my space but I would be surprised if there was a tool to sell and no marketing there.
React is inspired by the DOM and they split it before 1.0 IIRC, but that misses the forest for the trees. The main issue I had is that React, Three.js, and R3F are all hierarchical/tree-like (what you and Three.js are calling a graph). You can technically yes, build 3D scenes, but anything non-trivial will be very awkward.

Let's say you're building a game where you want a sphere to stick to whatever player you throw it at. How would you do that with a scene graph/OOP model? It'd be awkward, removing objects from one parent and adding them to another. Even more awkward if it's a complex object and you only want a part of that complex object to stick to the player. ECS + a constraint or physics system does a decent job (not perfect) of handling this in a relatively elegant and performant way.

I've used Three.js enough--built my portfolio[1] out of it, and then switched to Babylon when I realized how little I liked Three.js. For the record, I also dislike Babylon.

[1] https://tuckerconnelly.com
The ship has sailed on that one.

You would have to somehow transform 50+ years of suburban sprawl into a higher-density, less car dependent living arrangement, that's also _cheaper_ than the current one, and affordable to e.g. restaurant and retail workers.
No, because they are backed by Pakistan playing double game
While never popular, Metrum/MountainGate VHS drives and libraries saw significant use by at least a few large customers for a number of years, so were presumably more than a gimmick (source: personal tech support experience).

Note that, in spite of the recording media (S-VHS, IIRC, not D-VHS) used, these drives were rugged, expensive, rack-mount devices and were never marketed as consumer products.
Sounds good - something very like animal proteins without raising entire animals to produce them.

Beyond that though, I'm really interested in foods that could be created that don't mimic existing foods derived from animals or plants. You could imagine a nutritionist defining requirements - combinations of proteins, fats and carbohydrates, various micronutrients. Now add the aesthetics of taste, texture, consistency etc. Some of these would be "ready to eat," either hot or cold, but others could be raw materials for traditional cooking: shred a block of this solid stuff, fry it in that liquid oily stuff, and drizzle some thick spicy stuff on it. Marketers to invent names, of course. Maybe we even get food tailored to us individually, based on specific nutritional needs, fitness goals, religious restrictions or palate.

This doesn't sound appetizing, so I think it would be a gradual process, where new products
come out that aren't quite like natural foods, but are still acceptably tasty, and cheaper or more nutritious. Gradually we get things that are quite different. It would take a while, but I suspect in a few hundred years we'll have things that are unimaginable today but as accepted as cheese, beer or sausage. And with much, much lower impact on the biosphere.
Not even then, RFCs state that a CNAME may not exist with any other RR type, and your apex domain needs at least SOA and NS records.
A CNAME on the apex domain may kind of work, but it will present as broken in subtle and unexpected ways.
.lan should be OK, it has no it’s own RFC, but it is a reserved domain nevertheless: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6762#appendix-G
There’s a minor technical error in the description of DKIM “happy path”. Here’s what step 4-6 should be:

> 3. The Fastmail SMTP server generates a signature using the secret key, and attaches it to the email, along with a ‘selector’ (a string specifying which which of many possible secret keys key it used), then sends the email to example.com's receiving server.

> 4. Google email server receives this email. It's from sadl.io and has a fastmail DKIM ‘selector”, so it gets the DNS records for that selector in that domain.

> 5. The email has a signature and selector embedded, and the DNS records for the selector in the sadl.io domain declares a public DKIM keys which can be used to verify that signature.

> 6. That DKIM keys matches the one used to make this signature. So the DKIM test passes.

Crucially, there is no way to list all existing DKIM keys for a domain without knowing all the selector strings. Of course you could do a brute-force search and find a lot of them, but you could never know you found them all without doing a full zone transfer (or if DNSSEC is used with the old NSEC records, which allows enumeration).
That could be an option too.

... Or you decided to just make that random factoid up, or you read it from somewhere that just made it up, for the same reason as I mentioned before? I'm going to just go with that as the most likely explanation.
This should also impact the meat industry. I understand cows need to have calves to produce milk, these calves usually end up as food so the industry must currently have interlocked supply/demand between these somehow.

This interlock might mean a lot of pushback from the industry regarding this technology.
Those spiders bite to protect its nest in the high grasses. It was a uncommon danger in cereal fields, when people harvested in shorts with a sickle, but currently everybody use machines for that.
omg that's crazy. From mujahedin hero fighting the evil Russians to US enemy #1 and a pretense for two invasions no less.
I'm not from Meili, but I like/care about it. Meili team sent me stickers (to India!) for opening 1 or 2 issues.

Can you please DM me your concerns @rrjanbiah? I'll try to coordinate with the Meili team and sort them out.
Sure does load fast…
The Wikipedia article I found says that the court found it does create such an offer? (Or rather, an offer that can be accepted by buying and using a ball.)
This was beautiful. I never imagined the existence of a solution was always guaranteed, given that this includes the case where you are using point-particle blockers.
That's really not the traditional meaning of thundering herd, which is about waking up all the processes when a connection comes in, then they all try to accept it and it's a lot of work for nothing. You get much better results if only a single process is woken up for each event.

Your problem is a real problem though. Where I worked, we would call that backlog, and we would manage it with 'floodgates' ... When the system is broken, close the gates, and you need to open them slowly.

In an ideal world, your system would self-regulate from dead to live, shedding load as necessary, but always making headway. But sometimes a little help is needed to avoid the feedback loop of timed out client requests that still get processed on the server keeping the server in overload.
I was under the impression that the data eating RAID5/6 issues were patched "long ago", but due to the write hole issue, which isn't likely to get fixed anytime soon, which means your data is (probably) safe, except for whatever was being written during the "write hole", and your array may crash and become read-only.

The kernel wiki says the following :

RAID56

Some fixes went to 4.12, namely scrub and auto-repair
fixes. Feature marked as mostly OK for now.

Further fixes to raid56 related code are applied each
release. The write hole is the last missing part,
preliminary patches have been posted but needed to be
reworked. The parity not checksummed note has been
removed.
The solution is to promote the use of marsupial cats as pets. Everybody wins.

Pet lovers have a pet. Endangered species of marsupial cats increase its population and native preys face the predators that coevolved with them so is a more fair situation.
I've just watched that recently and it was bloody brilliant. One of the best mini series ever
is it not easier to simply buy carbon offsets, if that's your actual concern in the first place?

We will never replicate the real thing closely enough. Microbiome/proteome alone is going to be impossible, without all the small peptides and antibodies - it will never be the same.

Milk itself isn't the healthiest food either. Cow milk is the most prevalent allergen, but it's mostly chronic inflammation instead of full blown anaphylaxis and thus ignored. You do not have to be lactose intolerant, it is true allergy to proteins in milk.

https://www.arthritis.org/health-wellness/healthy-living/nut...

Humans were not supposed to eat it. It was just something that helped us survive in frozen wastelands.
I think you've had too many beersies
Urf I did go looking for this and found it. You’re spot on.

India is not known for looking at what can go wrong. There are many YouTube videos out there showing you how to make things with electricity which can kill you dead instantly. What’s worse is they never discuss safety and you only get to see the survivors.

My favourite is the (now removed) video of repairing a switch more power supply. The guy has a mains lead made up for his oscilloscope with no earth and is handling the probes and casing on live mains connected SMPS with no isolation transformer. One slip and he’s dead. I did wonder how many people he’d killed who watched it and did the same.
I noticed this with turkey bacon. It's a poor substitute for pig bacon, but it's pretty good as its own thing.
After having raised hopes of democracy in part of the Afghan population, the United States opens the door to the Taliban. Even the "democrats" will hate the US. This disaster is not a surprise: it was announced. I don't have the solution, but what Afghanistan is going through saddens me.
Worked quite well with an article. Good job!
To all the people saying it’s impossible — I’ve been bootstrapping an analytics company in ecomm space. From launch to 500k ARR took 9 months with almost entirely inbound. (Aka 0 marketing cost) I didn’t have an audience prior or spent any time at all on sites like Reddit. It’s not easy to do by any means, but here’s what I believe are the requirements:

- a true generalist: technical, product, sales, design.

- deep experience in the industry you are gonna serve. Hanging out on Reddit does NOT get you this. You have to have worked in the industry prior on high level roles. It’s what’ll give you credibility to potential buyers.

- design a product and business model that’s niche and painful enough for a large AND expanding TAM.

- there’s has to be sufficient dissatisfaction with incumbents. Customers are craving for better solutions and motivated to find one.

- you can effectively source and work with contractors to fill the gaps in your skills and time.

- the product must have near zero churn. Otherwise the leaky bucket is too much to fill without an actual sales force. This is possible, my business is exactly this.

- you know how to be capital efficient and can product low cash outflow consistently.

- you are not personally in need of an actual income for at least 3 years. Preferably more.

I believe the above are a must for a single bootstrapped founder to create a high growth startup. The optionality it affords you is tremendous and you will stand above the rest.

If you are interested in joining me (we are hiring) - lemme know! fei(at)sourcemedium(dotcom)
As a side-side note, if the cost is acceptable, there could be some uses to make some form of galalith a more common kind of plastic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galalith

Nowadays it is only used for buttons and some other small fashion accessories, but it has a lot of interesting properties, although the classic manufacturing process (curing) is very slow.
Clicking the "What's your DOMAIN NAME?" ad returns a MIPS binary? From 'string' output it seems like the the cgi-bin binary handling the redirect and writing a log file to /d/adserv/netgravity/logs/AdServer_log. I wonder how that got indexed.
A few days ago, I shared a couple of suggestions for Meili. I'm not sure if you received them. You may DM me at @rrjanbiah
> That... doesn't have much to do with the thundering herd problem. It also doesn't make much sense as a concept on its own merits -- say you come in to work and your inbox is full enough for three inboxes. Does that fact, in itself, mean that you decide you're done for the day? No, it just means you have a much longer queue to work through than usual.

If my SLA is 24 hour response time, and the inbox is FIFO, and I can't drop old messages, I'm most likely not hitting the SLA. If they all came in overnight, I'll hit the SLA for day 1, but I will be busy all of day 2 and 3 and never respond on time. If after day 1, I get a days worth of messages every day, I'll never catch up.
> And the advertisers laugh all the way to the bank.

They don't, marketing to nerds isn't very profitable which is why it is so cheap to buy ads for them relative their purchasing power.
It's not just about taking pride in knowing the details. Sometimes the nerd simply needs to know exactly what they are working with, because they already know what they need. If your product doesn't meet that need, it's irrelevant.
In most cultures with a majority of lactose tolerant people, there's a lot of lactose in everyday food, so people missing the mutation usually never complete their weaning before long in adulthood, when for some reason they “stop or drastically reduce [their] intake”.

Unless you know for sure that you have the mutation, stopping drinking milk or consuming dairies at some point in your life comes with a risk of not being able to drink milk ever again in your life. (I don't mean that going vegan is bad or anything, but I wish people knew it can come with a bigger commitment that what you may expect)
>don't mimic existing foods derived from animals or plants

But all good tastes we know and enjoy are from animals or plants. You have to mimic existing foods for people to like (and buy) it.
That article ended too early, I was hoping to get some insight into potential solutions.
Look you don't need to learn any algorithms because SQL will allow the computer to algorithm for you. SQL will guarantee ACID properties and also BASE properties. You are going to be rich. Simply buy Larry Ellison a boat and a bunch of ads on the back of the economist to socially prove to the finance world and the folks from Dave Graeber's actually very good essay that has not yet been followed up with the great american novel, and you are gonna be rich with no algorithms not done by the computer.
Don't worry, the computer is gonna take care of it, you won't need handwriting or food.
Here is a link to Mr. Graeber's high quality novel, "On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs": https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/07/i-agree...
Don't use SPF. It breaks mailing lists. DKIM does not, assuming a correctly configured mailing list.
Originally published in 2002 (inspired from djb's proposal on AutoIPv6):

https://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html
"They" here are 23.9% of PhDs. So 76.1% believe the experts. The rest are probably like other skeptics (or like most of us humans), they've come up with the conlusion and they've seen the proof that supported that conclusion and dismissed proof that don't.

Although as PhDs they should know more about confirmation bias...
> There is nothing inherently safer about using seatbelts per se.
In fact seatbelts can kill you. I have a friend that went out with his has car and a friend 20 years ago, they did drink too much and had an accident. He was expelled by the acceleration the car had(because he used no seatbelt) while his friend burned alive inside the car.

When assessing safety we can’t argue from anecdote like this. Getting ejected from a car is almost always fatal. Accidents involving fire are pretty rare. Your anecdote is so far from a norm as to be a ridiculous example to assess the safety of seat belts.
Thanks for the hint. The next thing to try would be to connect the tape head directly to the IO-Pins of a Raspberry PI and then use a simple manchester encoded signal ramping up the frequency. A Raspberry PI can push up to 1 MHz and has an internal Schmitt-Trigger which would be perfect for reading the data back.
Yes, you can. You can amplify small differences due to an additional gravitational field. Then you can run a model with this disturbance included and optimize the parameters such that the difference between the observation and model vanishes. This optimization landscape is not convex however and gets more different "valleys" with time and by knowing which valley you are in you gain information there are several caviats.

If there is noise in the measurement of the system this flattens the curve meaning it is harder to distinguish which valley of the object you are in. If there is noise in system itself this noise will amplified and more and more valleys become possible with time meaning at some point the system state holds almost no information about the system.

However as long as the system runs the thing under measurement should not move as otherwise gets way more difficult and less possible to optimise the difference between the observed and the system behaviour for a certain in parameter under measurement.

In general this approach is not advisable as the chaotic system would also need parts build to enormous precision for that not impact the system more than the signal that influences the system. So it usually better to go with a decently straight forward approach as there are different systems which also amplify small differences but are a lot simpler to work with such as the measurement bridge.
Who were based out of Afghanistan? Yes.

Clearly their national origin is not relevant. I was born in Moldova, but if I committed terrorism, no one would think blame a nation I have not lived in since I was 2.
> I believe that Functional Programming is far far better than Imperative Programming. I know this because I was willing to suffer for 3 straight months learning something I had failed at multiple times in the past just so I didn’t have to write in JavaScript.

Or, one could just swallow ones pride, learn TypeScript, and have the benefit of working in a sane language that transpiles effortlessly into Javascript.

(Not a bad word about Javascript wizards or its inventor. Given the constraints the results are nothing but amazing. I just wish we didn't have to suffer an untyped language for so long before someone came up with the obvious solution that is TypeScript.)
> I'd rather we had a system where that decision gets called prudent.

That prudence causes unemployment, business cycles and relative poverty. I would rather have a world without that kind of prudence.
I haven’t heard these slogans since I’ve stopped watching TV around 2009.
> It’s how the rich got their fresh air back in the day. Fuel bills were not a concern.

I once had a tour in a now-empty former Siemens office building in Munich (https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=de&tl=en&u=htt...) built in the sixties. This 75 meter highrise had the same kind of heating: cold air was sucked in through a mushroom-shaped structure at the side of the building, heated electrically in a huge room in the basement, and piped into every office room where it came in through vents under the windows. The "used" warm air was then collected and pumped straight outside again. Fuel/electricity bills were apparently not a concern for Siemens either - this was the pre-oil crisis era, plus they were a major player in the nuclear industry...
Female calves go back into the system, whereas male calves can go two ways: 1. Disposed of (in the dumpster until collection) or 2. Sold off like you mentioned, although not usually for human consumption as dairy cows are very different to cows for meat. Usually they are disposed of though.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/26/dairy-di...
Motte and bailey here, the argument was con artist. The parent poster argued that con artists easily con anyone, and the people who are the most sure they can't be conned are the easiest to con. I'd argue that is 100% false, and you retreating to the motte here only serves as evidence that I am right, cons are easy to spot for most people and they don't fall for it.
> Some here say that the difference lies in rational vs emotional appeal, with nerds being presumed to be more "rational." But I think the difference is somewhere else. I don't think nerds are any less emotional.

Nerds respond to being told they are more rational or otherwise superior/cool/etc. That is emotional appeal and conference organizers and such play on it. You can see it whenever you look for it - calling attendees smartest people there are and such..

Not that it would make nerds different then other groups. Others like ego stroking too, just differently.
> I'm really interested in foods that could be created that don't mimic existing foods derived from animals or plants. You could imagine a nutritionist defining requirements - combinations of proteins, fats and carbohydrates, various micronutrients.

This is what milk is, really. It's specifically designed to be the exact balance of nutrients needed -- by an infant. (And in this case, an infant cow.) It'll be hard to beat what we already have.
Mongodb should write a book on marketing to nerds.
Here is where our moral instincts make the difference. When mitigation fails we fallback on taking solace in a mechanism that plays a role in the mitigation aspect but its psychological effect takes a life of its own: punishment.

When a human makes a fatal mistake it bears the responsibility of that mistake and we have protocols to put in place to deal with that (including having somebody to blame and direct our anger against).

When a machine does a mistake it becomes much much unclear against whom direct our anger. The engineers who built it? The corporation that profited from it and could have invested more?
> once you get used to a lack of latency

How _do_ you get used to latency? Writing with a pen has no latency, so anything worse than that automatically throws me off.