skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What?! I did not expect that spin.

I expected something like "ambition used to mean being a polar explorer, or world-record setter. Now it means something working to get 10,000 followers on your Twitch stream."

That wasn't it at all.

The "ambition" here is strictly "professionally ambitious", that is, following "the well-trodden path to the top of a corporate pyramid" - "a linear journey with intermittent pay rises and regular promotions that signify professional progress", even if it's bad for your mental health.

That might have been a Boomer tradition, but my generation - Gen X - supposedly already didn't follow it, to the point that we were derided as slackers because of it. Books were written about how we had no ambition.

Indeed, quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X , "'they were reluctant to grow up' and 'disdainful of earnest action'". Then,

> As the decade progressed, Gen X gained a reputation for entrepreneurship. In 1999, The New York Times dubbed them "Generation 1099", describing them as the "once pitied but now envied group of self-employed workers whose income is reported to the Internal Revenue Service not on a W-2 form, but on Form 1099".

Hardly "the well-trodden path to the top of a corporate pyramid".

But, meh. Gen-X gets forgotten again, film at 11.
Yes. The reactor could more than pull out the carbon equivalent to its manufacture and then many many times more.
You really don't need a conspiracy for the government to pay large sums to domestic industries. It's what governments do. That it's also used for global power projection is without question.

To believe in good intentions, you need to also believe in complete idiocy. "Hey, let's just remove the authoritarian leaders and watch countries descend into civil war, that'll surely bring about democracy, right?" is a weird idea.

> You think China doesn't do that?

No, I'm not aware that China buys German Muslims from Pakistan's military in order to illegally torture & imprison them.

See, the whole spiel would be so much easier to believe if the acts would at least roughly align with the stated intentions. But they generally don't. I don't believe that the US government is made up of idiots, so "they meant well but were misguided" isn't on the table.
I think that Picard actually witnessed the event.
thanks. i can’t delete this for some reason.

dang, if you see this, please delete this so we can concentrate discussion on the home page thread.
A single laser fired through a keyhole can expose everything inside a room
Fortinet VPN hacker leaks 500k users’ passwords
Anyone know any good metrics or analysis about trends of Kubernetes vs other ways to run containers in the not-huge-scale dev world which is 99% of software?
Eh it’s not that bad, it has plenty of weird structures but from afar it has a feeling of giant bugs.

It’s huge (for the time) but reconstructions of its various cousins (the other radiodonts) look way, way weirder.
> I do want to see a return to native apps but there are no worthwhile incentives to do so outside of "our customers demanded a native app."

I work in the public sector of Denmark, which has always had native Windows apps for most of our systems. The past few years of suppliers moving to web based solutions have been such a blessing.

Out of the around 300 it-systems we operate, the ones running in a browser are build on a web-front of some sort, electron, included are by far the favoured experience among our 10.000 users. We’ve run a benchmark on our major systems for the past decade, and the only ones to break a 8/10 rating among 500+ users are based on angular, react, electron or vue.

One of our old documenting systems has a Windows application and is also moving to a web-client. The old application scored a 1.2/10 the web client scored a 8.5/10. Covid had a massive impact on this, as the native client worked horribly over a DNS, but it never scored a rating over 5/10.

You can certainly put up the argument that Danish development houses should get better at building native applications, and that’s a fair point. Reality is that they aren’t, however, so the fact that these same developers are also building the new and well received web-based UIs is a good way to show how the impact goes far beyond developer experience.

I think Microsoft is the only company that has continually scored well on native applications that see massive usage, because the office package has always been popular. But isn’t much of the modern office UI build with react?
He's not the only one. I read about him recently that's why I was able to remember his name. There were/are others like him.

Even more, in Canada there're memorials dedicated to nazi war criminals, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shukhevych
It's not exactly specific to the image preview code, but rather the code that handles the notification when receiving an iMessage.

The attack mentioned in the Wired article[1] relies on iMessage asking the sandboxless Springboard[2][3] to deserialize a maliciously crafted field, included in the incoming iMessage, to escape the sandbox. This specific vulnerability doesn't appear to apply to other apps.

[1] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-fully-rem...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpringBoard
[3] https://iphonedev.wiki/index.php/SpringBoard
This seems rather standard.

The fact that she was allowed despite rather well known criminal charges and jail time points to rather high likelyhood of her appeal being successful. I think that is highly unusual.

This is probably just a campaign to generate some favourable publicity.
Question from a layman: how will the energy from a fusion reactor be extracted and converted into electrical energy? As far as I understand, the plasma inside a tokamak is isolated from the surroundings by the use of very powerful magnets. I assume in a reactor that is supposed to generate electricity there would be some interface between the plasma and some kind of heat exchanger that would generate steam and turn gas turbines?
And one of the previous members of the order, Aegirocassis, is estimated to have reached two meters.
> Were you planning on offering Elasticsearch as a managed cloud offering?

What can make me certain I won’t ever need it? Ecosystems without monopolies tend to be more robust.
Perhaps this is naive but i don't think that would apply in the cancer case. I assume it wanes for covid because the body slows down anti-body production after it appears that there is no more disease (well still remembering how so it can ramp up quickly, ramp up quickly is much better than start from scratch but not as good as antibodies already ready). I assume for cancer that wouldn't happenunless cancer is gone. However it would maybe wane for other reasons discussed in the article.

IANAD
Tiananmen Massacre Vigil Organizers Arrested by Hong Kong Authorities
https://archive.is/n5kfF
I would not dismiss so easily the potential environmental hazards of electromagnetic pollution. It's not just about humans, but whole ecosystems. Starting by insect population collapse. BTW, even if you think those applications are not relevant, satellite-based internet is on the rise at record speed.
This sounds like the Von Neumann Extractor.

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

It's purpose is to remove bias: the propensity of physical random processes to produce more 1s than 0s (or v.v.). Unlike some whiteners (AES?) it can be implemented with a handful of gates.
The ThinkPads lost their reputation shortly after the sale to Lenovo.
Another great Firefox example is the shortcut for "close all the tabs" (ctrl+shift+q), which also happens to be adjacent to "go to previous tab" (ctrl+shift+tab). Depending on your preferences, there won't even be a warning popup if you accidentally press it.
Did you see that the top post on HN for a decent chunk of yesterday was celebrating that they were getting 200 rps? 200 rps was not something to brag about to your parents 15 years ago, but half of HN seems to have never heard of serving a static file through Nginx.

I don't want to be overdramatic but it confused the hell out of me and it made me worry about the industry. How can you have all these people cargo-culting into frameworks and languages and they don't know the fundamentals?
> For example Objective-C / swift has a GC-less memory model which just means we get to do more with less memory. This is how iPhone typically ship with lesser RAM than Android phones, yet do everything that Android phones are capable of surprisingly well.

You forgot CPU that's light-years ahead of anything that Qualcomm or Samsung have. But, please, keep thinking that it is about Swift/Objective-C, lol.
Arguably the two most iconic dinosaurs, T. Rex and the Brontosaurus family, are far larger and more aggressive than the rest of the group. Iconic does not imply representative.

Though I do agree that this creature wouldn't seem mind-boggling to those only familiar with the period's "iconic" species, in fact this creature would be mind-boggling to the vast majority of creatures alive at the time.
>In the case here for apple care, I'm not sure. What apple charges for repairs almost definitely has markup, so it's possible that they can provide insurance that averages out below the expected "cost" of repairs but still makes apple money.

If you only take Apple's word for it. Their lawyer said in court they do not make any profits for their repairs. And may be running at a lost. Apple then also did a few PR pieces on how they lost tens of millions every year due to repair fraud.

I wouldn't say it is a flat out lie, but it is definitely a spin if you know anything about BOM and operation cost.

The AppleCare Services itself of course make additional profits, it is often the money making item for 3rd party resellers. Selling AC makes more profits for them than iPhone or Mac. If Apple can pass those on to retailers, you can guarantee Apple is making lots of profits on it.

As a matter of facts this is all just Insurance and Data Science. You can buy similar protection from other insurance companies, and you should immediately notice the price difference.
>this story has nothing the hell to do with Chelsea Manning

I mean, no need to debate it, who knows, but I think you're exaggerating your certainty. It's possible that this has an additional political dimension, even though similar things can happen without it.
From 24 down to 6 a day, and soon... 0.

If this observation doesn't convert you over to our teaching about the one true slippery slope, I guess nothing will. The nanny state doesn't have a point at which it is satisfied, it's drunk on power -- as are the people who repeat the decreasingly "reasonable" dictates verbatim.
I work in this area currently, it's super competitive, but very lucrative if you can find your niche, so I wish you good luck!

I'm sure you've looked into it before, bu https://www.carbonads.net/ is a good starting place. There was another ad platform I had seen awhile back that shut down, that was very similar to carbon ads. The premise was pretty simple, it would be a script tag that would inject directly into the page. Essentially just an image wrapped in a link without any other tracking.

If you are looking to be a replacement for existing ad units, then you may want to look into IAB standards and ad sizes: 300x250, 300x500, 720x90, etc.
No. This attack is specific to iMessage, since iMessage can access the springboard (the singleton class, not Springboad.app), while apps downloaded from the App Store cannot.
The vaccine is working. Not everything the government and pharmaceutical companies do is bad.
I just read an article about this tonight on Sciencex.com I believe. It was impressive.
> some automatic transmissions require the brake pedal to be depressed [to start]

Hmm, I was always told to do so when I was learning to drive. At some point I stopped doing so and it’s never been an issue, should I be stepping on the brakes when starting my car?
Moose make a great learning experience to demonstrate scale. They're goddamn huge. Nobody expects moose hugeness.

Compared to the average size of creatures of the time, then, this thing would be like the biggest ever moose to us.
It does have a cost it's just hidden. The cost is that it increases your bounce rate because of bad UX.
I just read an article about this tonight on Sciencex.com I believe it was. It was impressive. It reached 20 teslas in their test.
I guess the difference would be the skull and bones label.
doesn't work to bypass paywall
I tried micropayments three years ago but transaction fees of up to a dollar forbade 1 cent payments. Is this solved now somehow?
A study on feasibility of lunar He3 mining https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014cosp...40E1515K/abstra...

Not as bad as I expected but not yet feasible economic wise. Assuming the fusion part exists.
I think it's less about specific times and more a form of curation.

The streaming options out there either tend to be "you wanted to watch one episode of this show, so here's every single other episode of it, followed by the German translation" or a seemingly random walk through the catalog that ends in Elsagate.

The guy running the schedule at the local broadcaster is a little more intelligent than that, and can make a better selection.

I'd love to see a streaming service that let you build "channel-like playlists"-- pick a few favourite series and it would populate a sequence to watch, not just those shows but also closely-correlated other programs. You'd only see one or two episodes of a given series in a row unless you intentionally skipped around on the list.

Ideally, the suggestion logic would be smart enough to identify "randomizable" shows versus "serial" ones, and pick appropriate episodes based on those rules.

There could be various UI refinements-- "I enjoyed Blah, but I've already seen up to Season 5, so skip all of those, but still weight it for the recommendation component."

In the end, it would be like network TV all over again: sit down at 7PM, press one button, and you'll watch four sitcoms and an hour-long drama, before switching over to a news product.
gumroad

they were featured on hackernews early this year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25673275

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25686678
That isn't necessary. That's what hnrss.org is for. It will do searches, and filtering by points.
Nah, they compete on merit and they have the clear better product. But AWS has the inertia and massive user base.
You're making a much too extreme dichotomy.

The situation is that American police are generally there to enforce the law, generally follow policy but, depending on area, are infested with a minority of types who use or threaten violence whenever it makes their job easier or simply serves their ego. And these forces also tend to have a much larger group who won't say anything about the overt criminals - out of conformity, alienation from civilians or because the intimidation factor is convenient to them. This situation, that is effectively well publicized at this point, fundamentally changes the way police and civilians relation because it goes a lot of police actions a threatening quality and so, as I said earlier, it's hard to have question appear "optional" to the average person stopped by the police.
Visual effects artists and embedded programmers are very niche communities (former embedded SW engineer here). Probably something like 90% of people just need a browser 90% of the time. It's kind of a no brainer from a business point of view. If your app can be browser based and still functional, it should be. Of course there are drawbacks but the economics are in the browser's favor.
No worries! Just wanted to make sure people didn't think Docker was a necessity.
I just read this article tonight on Sciencex.com or .org. It was quite impressive. They reached 20 teslas in their test.
Our telescope is already as wide as the Earth, so there are two main ways to improve it: one is to launch some satellites, the other is to add more telescopes so that we can see fainter things.

Sgr A* does have a lot of stuff in the way, and it's intrinsically fainter than M87*, but we will eventually publish about it.
Time to take up baking and juice making? Need lot of sugar, some special yeast and this special pan...
Although you could use rss.app to filter the feeds as well.
Don’t forget that the CIA had to pinky swear not to use vaccine campaigns as cover for spy operations (anymore).

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/05/20/314231260...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27489045
im sure city infrastructure worked even before cellphones. Higher bandwidth allows for far more things to be done where value can be extracted. Google has already tried their Sidewalk Labs, not going to be the last attempt.

as for self driving cars, fully 3D mapped city roads will be eventually needed to improve ride quality, and they will be constantly uploaded/downloaded by vehicles.

Here is one example: https://www.clearmotion.com/

"This “digital chassis” consists of four electro-hydraulic “activalves” installed on the shock absorbers at each wheel, and it collects and stores road data in the cloud for analysis and retrieval at a later date."

more use cases, more data, etc etc.
> A major cost of the most utilized existing power plants (coal and natural gas) is fuel.

Coal is dead. The competition is PV, and to a lesser extent wind.

> Renewables don't need fuel but their construction cost is fully linear, you get no economies of scale. If you want twice as many solar panels then you need twice as much land.

Yes, and you use odd bits of land close to consumption sites, many of which will have simultaneous use for other purposes. Edit: the linearity is an advantage in that it enables mass production, and gets the benefit of the manufacturing learning curve. So your suggestion of overbuilding on cheap land a long way away from cities applies even more to PV.

> If you want to double the size of your fusion reactor, you build an eight story building instead of a four story building on the same piece of land.

Quadrupling your construction costs. Edit: mainly in the finance cost of the time taken.

Also, making your generators much bigger than current practise increases project risk and therfore cost.

> An obvious solution is to build them out in the ocean.

Quadrupling your construction costs again, and decreasing reliability, capacity factor and productive lifetime. Seawater is nasty stuff.

> And the good spots near population centers are already taken. Some big lake a hundred miles from any city won't be.

It will be used for productive farmland, though. Again, why aren't fission or CCGT plants being built in those places? How is fusion different?

> [High finance cost is] only true for the first one. If it's hypothetically ten times more power for the same money, that'll get one built even at a high interest rate. Then once you have it running it's proven technology.

It's about time to cashflow for utility finance types, and they also tend to want a longer track record than "it worked once". The linearity/modularity of wind and PV is an advantage in the time to cashflow aspect.

Edit: I haven't so far seen anything significant in your replies that doesn't also apply to fission. Utilty project financiers are hard-headed; they'll finance fission if it makes them enough money soon enough.

You are fiddling around the edges rather than demonstrating an order of magnitude cost reduction from PV.
Fun fact: Insurance companies lost more money in the 2008 financial crisis than they had ever made in the entirety of human history.

I'm not sure if this still holds if you account for inflation. They really screwed the pooch on that one, so it wouldn't surprise me if it did.
A. The point of the exercise was to calibrate intuition for trends and intensities, not to talk about damage models.

B. I've read a large number of papers in this genre and this appears to be another. Just like I feel my time is wasted every time I read another mouse-in-a-microwave study, I feel my time is wasted every time I read another "we built an antenna out of bio parts" study. And no, it's not "published in Nature," it's published in Nature Scientific Reports. That's an important distinction. It puts the paper far above kooky youtubers, yes, but it doesn't really filter for impact in the way Nature would: for example, I would expect to be able to easily get a mouse-in-a-microwave study into Nature Scientific Reports, but not Nature.
It looks like you expected a study answering the question "Is 5G harmful or not" to which the authors have no pretense. Instead, they address a different topic: how to precisely assess the effects of the radiation on tissue. They present at least one conclusion: that the method of using gel for assessing it in other studies is not as precise as it had been thought, and that studies using it might underestimate the effect.

The study is more for having a more precise base for further studies and discussion that could answer key questions and help to establish safer SAR levels for device manufacturers/policy makers.
The soviets had a very strong space program and arguably their rocket designs have had a significant impact on spacex…
Work at a shelter or kitchen for the homeless, assist a disabled person, read books to the blind, or just have a sincere conversation with someone who seems lonely.

Helping other people tends to take not only your eyes off a screen, but also your mind off yourself. That helps you develop more empathy and tolerance for others, which in turn helps you.
I don't even care about the memory footprint personally. I can buy more RAM. It's that every Electron app makes up all of it's own navigation paradigms, doesn't integrate well into the OS, and always feels slow.
What I learnt when I was supposed to be learning how to surf
Parroting Shellenberger will never make you look like a serious participant in this discussion.
@zhovner - Kudos to you guys for making this great hardware toolkit. I am one of the backer from kickstarter, eagerly waiting for my kit to come :)
At week 4 the embryo is the size of a poppy seed. It's technically alive, but it's not an actualized being.

Your concern may be genuine but it is misplaced.
They did; it’s called the iPhone Upgrade Program.
Have you considered basing your characterization of 2.5 billion people on reality, rather than your own twisted mental gymnastics and fabrication of their beliefs?
Command-line C-application is "simple". But if you want to give access to your centrally managed (and updated) app to anybody in the world who has browser and internet, it gets more complicated. It gets complicated because you have to program both the client and the server and make sure it works on multiple browsers including cell-phones.

So even though basic command-line C-apps are great in terms of maintainability they also typically do less than modern web-apps.
I'm an existentialist, not a nihilist. Not even at my core. I never, really, believed in God despite being the son of a religious couple and the grandfather of a preacher.

I don't know that there's a way to escape heat death either, but my answer to that is: So what? I don't see why that should make me a nihilist. Nor do I really see why deciding to try to prevent suffering through veganism should follow from any of the above.

Instead I'd rather continue to muddle along my path. Leveraging what ability I can to make enough money that I can do whatever it is I feel like doing and end up going to bed happy. And that involves eating delicious things and having good times with the ones I love and doing drugs and drinking and contributing to charity and whatever else.

It doesn't, really, solve any of my problems. It doesn't, in and of itself, make me 'happy'. But I'm okay with it.

What makes me happy is the drugs.