skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the United States.

It's really not any different here. For good or ill, this is the Twitter-nature.

I deleted my account and made a 'connection-less' one so when I follow links and see tweets directly on Twitter, there's no further engagement to be had, beyond looking at whatever is 'trending'… which is literally, what you describe, localized. I am looking at whatever third parties are trying to promote as the 'vox populi', with a certain amount of organic interaction/reaction with it.

It's the twitter-nature. I know you're not wrong here.
Sweet, how about hosting websites via Tweets?

https://twitter.com/rafalpast/status/1316836397903474688?s=2...
Higher fuel taxes can be part of the solution in the short to medium term but will become less effective over time as the fleet gradually transitions to BEVs.
We count flu deaths as 'with flu' instead of 'from flu', so counting covid this way keeps it as close to apples-to-apples as possible.
What's with the licensing issues? Can't I do with my device whatever I want after I paid for it?

And if not, can we have a law similar to the first-sale doctrine here to limit the control of the manufacturer?
Are you sure NiMH has better capacity? You have to look at mAh * voltage (or just mWh) for a fair comparison.

NiMH is safer, and cheaper for now, but those factors are irrelevant when 1.2V is insufficient for a particular device. If a device accepts 3.6V with overdischarge protection, then regular Li-ion makes sense, but there are a lot of 1.5V-3.0V AA/AAA devices out there.
What about relief pilots on long trips or in the event of incapacity?

We could keep going I think: there are numerous downsides to maintaining an egress unreachable from the cabin and, given the ability to lock down existing doors, few superior benefits to justify it.
Understood, though I'd point out that other insurance schemes will have similar sorts of calculations (either directly or indirectly in the form of premiums/annual limits in the US), so the specificity of the NHS isn't particularly helpful here, as it's one model among many.

Also, based on my casual skimming of this article: https://www.nice.org.uk/process/pmg6/chapter/assessing-cost-..., this particular model evaluates other factors beyond age (such as health history) and is in the context of providing specific treatments for specific conditions rather than broader actions for disease prevention.

But yes, my question was rhetorical, in the sense that I've read far too much casual acceptance of the deaths of older people on HN, as if this ~15% of the population [in the US at least] are freely expendable.
In what world is taking possession of a ship/train using violence and offing everybody on board not terrorism?
That raises some interesting legal questions.

If you pay to someone who "can't verify their identity" you are basically paying some anonymous person or institution.

Is that legal? In the US? In Europe? I have no idea. Anybody in the know?

I know that in Europe, depending on which country you pay to, you have to do different types of paperwork. So someone in country X in Europe has to do different type of reporting whether they pay someone in X, some other European country, in the USA or in Ireland etc ...

I wonder what the tax authorities would say if you report payments to an "unknown" person in and "unknown" destination. There probably is not even a form for this that you could use.
I thought this was a solved problem for at least a decade with CPU instructions like `RDRAND`
Indeed, there have been experiments that demonstrate fertilizing some parts of the ocean can increase carbon uptake in plankton blooms [0].

[0] https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/fertilizing-the-ocean-w...
That's a good point - I was speaking from experience with KSM on x86, but having a dedicated coprocessor on system Z for this application would make a lot of sense and fix many of the problems I've seen on x86.
I'm glad you see more and more people voicing how insanely wrong this all has been.

For more than a year any counter of the narrative would get vitriol and the same talking points in a very political/religious zealot way
When a productivity app raises $50m at a >$2b valuation, they have to focus on very large teams / enterprise.
> If you raise the price of that, all goods become more expensive, from the simple Mars bar up to construction.

You can just change e.g. income tax accordingly so expected tax load stays the same-- only now your citizens are financially incentivized to save electricity...

Also you have a convenient excuse (as nation state) for protectionist import tariffs hitting all countries that don't practise Co2 taxation themselves (which might be nice for local economy)
It's already happened.

Hard to say how many people recognize that, but it's long since happened.
Immortality in a mainframe sounds great right up until your brain scan appointment is over.

"Well Mr Henderson, that's it. We've scanned every synapse and uploaded your consciousness. Now if you'll just step into the vaporization chamber..."
BunnyCDN works like that.

I prefer to be billed whatever it costs but have my service up all the time.
Schwarzenegger says atmosphere of this year's recall looks the same as in 2003
Probably because we can't see much evidence of airport security doing anything.

And vaccines and etc are backed by science?
I mean you can do TSA PreCheck and then only 10% of the time you have to take your shoes off.
Isn't that what's happening if you use any managed database product? They have probably colocated everything as much as possible and used various proprietary tricks to cut latency, but still.
> This aligns with lab tests showing that surgical masks have better filtration than cloth masks. However, cloth masks did reduce the overall likelihood of experiencing symptoms of respiratory illness during the study period.

What is it that you think you read in this article? What you have said is not supported in any way by the link you have provided.
Maine is relatively dry. My house generally stays around 40-60% humidity year round except during the coldest parts of the winter, independent of the outdoors in both extremes.
Ah yes, Chick Tracts. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Jack_Chick
Finding a bit strange the overall tone of this thread.

Running a mainframe comes with the challenges of finding specialists, relying on a single vendor, having to buy at least two in two different data centers for disaster recovery,etc...But purely from performance point of view, as in throughput, and also quality of service, the case is
clear for the mainframe.

Spend some time reading the Z15 technical guide, and marvel
at what is today the state of the art in computing. We are talking about sustained, full on 5.2 GHz, all the time. Massive IO bandwith, ECC memory everywhere, massive caches, native crypto co-processors.

All this, while your x86, most likely, spends most
of its time waiting on memory...

"A Crash Course in Modern Hardware by Cliff Click"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFgxAFdxYAQ

IBM z15 (8561) Technical Guide

https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248851.html?Open=

https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248851.pdf

What cloud vendors are doing is using, sometimes, custom hardware to create a mainframe at cloud scale. Its just
due to the sheer incompetence of IBM management, that they were unable to leverage their mainframe technologies, and
offer cloud offerings that would be competitive on
a price per compute or storage unit.
It's not that it's funny. It's that it's obviously false.

It's so false and wrong, I think that the people who bought it from him are more criminals than he is. You can't buy a tricorder from star trek for $60k.
> The safety protocols have managed to protect airports and planes from further attack...

Sorry, but no. The DHS performed a study on the TSA's effectiveness[0], finding that the TSA missed concealed weapons, explosives, and other contraband 95% of the time. The reason the shoe bomber[1], underwear bomber[2], and the UA 93 hijacking[3] were unsuccessful was because of the passengers and crew on the flight. The TSA did nothing.

A TSA tactic that isn't as well known is the TSA SPOT program[4]. Basically, TSA agents stand around in the airport looking for "suspicious" activity which naturally leads to profiling (particularly for those of Middle Eastern descent). A score card from the program has been leaked[5], and with the sort of criteria on it, it would be easy to justify searching anyone at the airport.

This is speculation, but I suspect that giving passengers a false sense of security would make them less likely to notice an attempted hijacking, bombing, or whatever else. But at least they'll be more comfortable, right?

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigation-breaches-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_shoe_bomb_attempt

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Airlines_Flight_253

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_93

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPOT_(TSA_program)

[5] https://www.papersplease.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/s...
Let's trace the Amazon supply chain
PCIe and USB cards like this are available, generating TRNs using quantum optics:

https://www.idquantique.com/random-number-generation/product...
> What about relief pilots

Well try to use your imagination - them and their sleeping compartment would also be in there.

> or in the event of incapacity?

Etc.
Show HN: An Interactive Jq Tutorial
Maintain It with Zig
And then this comment got posted on the Lemmy site and the circle was completed https://lemmygrad.ml/post/33925
The GT200 article that this one links to is even more absurd (horrifying), especially the Thailand part.
Depending on the machine this might cost you more in electricity than a VPS. 100watts continuous costs something like $7/mo in a fairly low electricity cost region of the US.
Taleb calls this Minority Rule in his book Skin in the Game. The most intolerant wins because of asymmetry:

"The minority rule will show us how it all it takes is a small number of intolerant virtuous people with skin in the game, in the form of courage, for society to function properly. "
Wildly reinvented wind turbine generates 5 times more energy
$60k buys you a lot of probable cause, I guess.
What would be a use case for it? https://www.os-js.org/ is around for long time already. But, no wide usage yet...
Do you think it's an important feature for their paying customers?

I think it is.

A few jobs ago, the boss of my boss got fired for a cloud service overage. Not a huge amount; the number on the grapevine was around $10,000. But it was enough.

For many (numerically "most," probably) companies, the IT department is a black box to upper management, and any unexpected budget overages are a serious problem.
> Why would the administration willingly relinquish such a useful tool for managing the population?

Who is this administration?
I would posit there's little correlation between hate speech laws and hate crimes.

For example, the United States has no hate speech laws. In 2017 there were 2,024 anti-Semitic incidents in the United States. Germany has very strong hate speech laws, both applying to private citizens and obligating online networks to censor them. In 2020 there were 2,032 anti-Semitic hate crimes in Germany. Despite restrictions on hate speech, Germany has four times the per-capita anti-Jewish hate crimes as the US, a country with no hate speech laws.

How about the UK? They have strong hate speech laws. You can get arrested there for teaching a dog the Nazi salute. In 2018 there were 1,201 Islamophobic attacks in the UK. Despite having a rabidly Islamophobic president at the time, the US only had 223. That's over twenty-six times the per-capita Islamophobic hate crime rate.

Citations:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/816732/number-of-anti-se...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/germanys-laws-ant...

https://thehill.com/regulation/international/499762-anti-sem...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/20/record-numbe...

https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2019/topic-pages/victims
Why fixed-price aerospace contracts are so important
The Power of Electric Flight
My uncle is an Industrial Engineer. He has worked for every company imaginable, setting up their production lines and fixing all manner of problems. He can fix or repair anything, and probably has.

This past weekend I saw him walk around the yard with divining rods. I asked him about it later. He said he was using them to find where the sewer pipe was run. He told me a story about how he got his first job in maintenance after passing a divining rod test. Said he always keeps the rods in the back of his truck.

Wasn't sure what to say.
Well if they just kick out all the ivermectin overdoses then there'll be plenty of room for covid patients! What's the problem?
Facebook Says It Doesn't Read Your WhatsApp Messages. It Does
I did a similar thing -- set up AQ sensors in the house.

I used the sps30 from sparkfun, CAD'd up a panel mount, 3d printed it, built a wooden box for it + a pi, set up all the networking and hosting, and packaged my utils for debian.

Anyway, the AQ is fine, HEPA filters work when in-line with the A/C, and there's nothing much to monitor even when AQ is mod/bad outside. Boring, but nice to know, and fun to learn all those new skills.

Just don't burn incense.
Yes, because the ones oppressing the refugees may be the ones posing as refugees. Of course nothing is as clean and easy we would like it to be.
without seeing numbers you don’t know whether it’s good or not for them, it’s possible that they get plenty of growth through these channels
Not all of them got their money back, and those that chose to keep their money with them appear to have still been screwed.

https://medium.com/@svenema/sec-powerless-against-crypto-rug...
You seem to be confused about the relationship between FINRA and the SEC. FINRA is not the equal of the SEC, they are subordinate. FINRA is a self-regulatating, non-governmental organization to whom the SEC delegates some regulatory enforcement authority, however the SEC is the government, and the SEC is always the (first level) of appeal if you don't like what FINRA says.

If the SEC says no, FINRA can't say yes, because (to a first approximation) that's their boss.
Unless you are paying a premium (and need exceptional employees), getting mediocre people qualifies them for being a good hire.

So those people not leaving is a good thing.
Too bad that browsers are depreciating both RSS (ie, firefox removed feed rendering support) and HTTP (ie, firefox pushing HTTPS only). And HTTP3 isn't even tcp anymore it uses the google-mostly QUIC on udp.

For the corporate web RSS and HTTP are dead. But as a non-corporate human person I'll be sure to keep RSS and HTTP alive on my webservers.
There are. You can make a complex JS browser application that's completely accessible if you follow every single recommendation, and ARIA-tag every element that needs it.

That said, a lot of what you are doing in a browser application is re-implementing your own version of stuff that the browser already does, and the browser's version of it is accessible by default. So a JS-free application is almost always fully accessible for no extra development cost (as long as you check it for things like foreground/background contrast).
Isn't WebSphere a web application server? That really doesn't look like the sort of extreme vertical scaling and integration that mainframes are supposed to perform well at. We would expect hyperscaled commodity hardware to perform best here.
Postcard Printing Online Tool
I know, just saying it's not a good example to make the point about "risk of loss implies need to register as security".
LOL, perfect right down to the lowercase i and lack of concluding period :)

That said, I don't know from what angle you're deadpanning, or which elites from where you mean, but… heh. noted. how nice for us
That's not very reliable revenue anyways.

At the scale of Joe's Chicken Shack, accidental revenue is not reliable. But at the scale of a Google or an Amazon, while it will fluctuate month to month, a certain minimum revenue stream should be statistically predictable.
> How did you first get into programming?

I stumbled upon a book titled 'The magic and mysteries of the command line' when I was ~13 and I've been hooked ever since.

> Were any books, blogs, forums, or people particularly helpful for your growth?

See some of my earliest posts, they are hilarious[1][2][3][4]. In each case kind strangers provided valuable insight, for which I am very grateful.

[1]: CMD pls help

[2]: Is in this code something wrong, my CPU is that bad or its normal this code

[3]: Hello, I have tryed to code simple aplication for calculation of linear equation (like x + 1 = 5) but i ended cca here:[...] but dont know, how to finish it and above all i think it isnt coded werry good. Please, can you help me with it?

[4]: Hi, I have disassembled virus (which btw stolen my WoW password few years ago) using W32DASM to get it's includes, and it contains only one function (KERNEL32.ExitProcess). I'm sure that isn't the only thing the program does. Is there any way to get real list of functions of the program?

I also had a great friend whom I met while playing World of Warcraft. He was about 15 years older than me and we exchanged >100k messages about programming. When I mention this people assume some ill intentions but I wanted to meet him in person and he wasn't interested, and we're still in touch. What a kind man. He even wrote a PHP tutorial just for me. There were a few more experienced developers to whom I reached out who had a significant impact in the early days.

I can't think of any books other than the aforementioned magic and mysteries that had a profound impact. The source code of major projects is the best resource. Learning Scala had a positive impact, even though I don't use it these days, because it enriched my vocabulary of programming paradigms. It also helped to complete all the standard theoretical CS courses at university which is also more about learning to think than being able to solve some concrete problem. Anyone can take these courses for free thanks to MIT OpenCourseWare[5]. MIT OCW is the most valuable resource other than source code.

> What is it about coding that got you hooked?

It was during a rather unfortunate period for my family and I was certainly trying to escape reality. It was an escape, an alternative reality that was much more interesting than the real world. Part of it is also my curiosity about how things work which I probably take from my father who is an extraordinary craftsman and a self-taught expert in many areas.

[1]: http://programujte.com/forum/vlakno/5618-cmd-pls-help/

[2]: http://www.rohitab.com/discuss/topic/28776-cpu/#entry1002881...

[3]: http://www.rohitab.com/discuss/topic/30229-linear-equation/#...

[4]: http://www.rohitab.com/discuss/topic/36006-w32dasm-includes/...

[5]: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/
b2b is where the money is so no wonder
Sure, that's in the 2008 update. But OP was lamenting that the original IEEE-754 didn't encode qNaN/sNaN with the sign bit, no?
It's a useful signal though right?

This being written in Rust tells me it's probably going to be fast/lightweight. Go would be a similar expectation. If it's written in Rails I'd have different expectations. Python or Node might fall somewhere in the middle.

This project is a webserver you can host yourself, so having an idea of the resources required is very helpful.
I started fixing PCs when I was a kid, I even started a PC repair and networking business. This all happened because my parents had a PC and I would tinker with it, break it and have to fix it before they got home from work. I also had a few friends of similar aptitude so we would all work together.

Quickly moved on from Windows to Linux systems. Got a job at 16 writing bash and Perl scripts as well as HTML for the local University. This was right around the time of the web taking off in 1997. I was lucky to have early Internet access at home etc... I then picked up python at some point. It wasn't until University that I finally grokked C++, Haskell and later Java. If anything I had too much hubris but in reality, I had always been afraid of programming because I felt it required too much math. I was also deeply unaware of the business opportunities in retrospect at every level... I think I thought things were supposed to be harder or difficult to be a real business. PC repair and networking certainly wasn't scalable though.

Today I work in machine learning after going through grad school. The best part of grad school was being exposed to the problems and working with really smart people. This was in the early days of bioinformatics. Today I think there's even more opportunity but it was foundational in retrospect.

Today my kids are working on Roblox games which I hope will motivate them to learn programming. Maybe we will build some robots too. I hope the ability to see the code in action will inspire them?

I bought them iPads and chromebooks and they seem to be doing well with them. I hope they will ask me to turn off the parental controls and some point so they can get into the internals of the chromebook at some point but right now they are a little too young and are just learning to use the mouse and keyboard after the whole touch experience. We probably need touch screen chromebooks I guess.
And books before the vinyl.

Fortunately, I never got sucked into the 8-track club.
Exactly. I'm being tongue-in-cheek when I say he shouldn't be charged with fraud.

But if people died because of this, he definitely should not be considered liable for their deaths. That lies strictly with the people who bought this without thinking about it for even two seconds.
Could anyone advise of the best way of getting hold of the PCB? Looking at the air gradient webside they provide "Gerber files", do these need to be sent to a PCB manufacturer to create? If so, does anyone have recommendations of which to use? It is something I would like to learn about but I am rather new to.
I got vaccinated to protect myself, not fan of natural immunity through suffocating. 2 days pain in the shoulder, 1 day of a mild fever and affectionate feelings towards Bill Gates is a great bargain.
Taiji [1] springs to mind. It's very Witness-like in its mechanics and methods of conveying information. It's only been a short time (3-4 years) compared to the Witness (7 years) and Miegekure (12 years), but it looks like it might not be out for a while. The developer does post a lot of updates, though, so it's clear development is ongoing.

Jonathan Blow also has his untitled Sokoban game which he shows on Twitch [2] (5 years).

I was also waiting for Infinity: The Quest for Earth [3] for about 12 years before they pivoted to being a battle arena rather than an open-world game like Elite Dangerous or No-Man's Sky.

[1] https://taiji-game.com/

[2] https://twitch.tv/j_blow

[3] https://inovaestudios.com/Battlescape
A friend of mine was in the Marines and witnessed a guy blow his hand off after someone else bet him that he wouldn't hit a 50mm round with a hammer.
I certainly wouldn't post a news article from behind a paywall. But this is essentially a press release intended for wide distribution, and people are having trouble accessing it for technical reasons, so I see no issue reposting it as a temporary fix to the problem.
What software would that be? There are not technological solutions to social problems.
You're right, I didn't pick up on that, thank you.
I love fun projects like this! It seems like you're restricted to 5mb (Imgur's limit), perhaps there is a way to chain multiple images together? I wrote another project in the same scope [1] where it uses Discord files and compiles everything to a massive blob then splits it up into many smaller chunks, giving an (in theory) infinite upload cross domain. Seems to be still going strong.

[1] https://github.com/5ut/DiskCord