skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canada probably doesn't need donations, they can afford to buy vaccines. Answering based on donations is a way to sidetrack the relevant metric with regards to Canadian issues (the # and schedule of exported vaccine) and replace it with another metric on which the US usually has less competition.

It doesn't mean the current vaccine donation program isn't a great thing, or that the US policy has been wrong. But it's annoying for people explaining a problem to see it reframed so that it shows feel-good results from the US pov.

(as for the numbers, [1] shows about >400M doses exported for China as of July 9th and ~350M from Europe as of May 6th, while [2] claims the US donated 160M doses as of now.)

[1]: https://dukeghic.org/2021/07/09/taking-a-closer-look-at-vacc...
[2]: https://www.state.gov/covid-19-recovery/vaccine-deliveries/
I'd suggest emailing hn@ycombinator.com. The guidelines say to prefer sending email for "meta" stuff like this, as opposed to making it a HN post.

> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com
In this day and age, if you don't own the domain, you don't own your email. It is worth the 10 bucks to get your self a domain just so you can have a long term email.
'Unusual' metamaterial could double capacity of wireless networks
Jesus... what a nightmare.

Were these all using your free plans?
The predictions for the future of computing, December 1996, had some truly prescient gems. And a few misses.

> We may experience a gradual drift into a surveillance society ...

> The merging of cellular phones, portable computers, and highspeed networked servers offers many exciting possibilities.

> The Internet will be as ubiquitous in our lives as cable television is today.

https://vintageapple.org/byte/pdf/199612_Byte_Magazine_Vol_2... - page 86 in the magazine, page 90 in the PDF
While I have no view on the book itself... What on earth would an unbiased review be? "This book has 471 pages, A5, 80g/sqm paper. The word 'vole' appears eight times. Its ISBN is 12345678. 0/0 stars, as stars would indicate bias"

Like, the reviewer is expected to read the book and give a subjective opinion on it; that is what book reviews are.
Can I say "Scunthorpe" under your platform?
Chris Dixon: Why Web 3 matters
Say you alloca(1GB), and alloca() is naive and gives it to you even though that 1GB spans several other stacks, and now you write somewhere in the middle. If you're lucky you'll hit unmapped space and trigger a segfault. If you're unlucky you'll scribble over another thread's stack or whatever.

But if you progressively write into the alloca()ed area in the direction of stack growth then you cannot corrupt other mappings, and you can only segfault if you exceed your stack's maximum size. Of course, there can be platforms with no SIGSEGV or whatever.
I get your point and have considered it myself. It is a big problem, but it is also a function of the rather rapaciousness of the US economic/immigration system and model itself. NOTHING would stop the US government to fund the opportunities in whatever country in question, but also, there is no reason why "immigration" could not be a kind of skill building/sharing and development plan where you are given the opportunity to go to the USA for a set number of years and/or cycles, and then you know you are going to transition back to your home country where you will then use those skills/knowledge to help and build your country.

It is actually extremely inefficient the way the rapacious American system in particular works (but also Canada and increasingly the overall EU). There is far more utility to be gained from making exponential strides and advances by the "human resources" as they are even referred to, by uplifting and developing their home country than to serve the US ruling class in ever more desperate search for "growth".

And then of course there is also the fact that immigration is short sighted and a pure measure of the incompetence and failure of government. If you are importing people, you have failed to adequately govern to meet your needs and it also will make you reliant on that immigration while you will ignore even building up any kind of domestic capacity.

Then there is of course the consequence of immigration dependence coupled with international development and growth too when the source of "immigrants" dries up because people will want to life in their home countries where they can be among their own and development has narrowed the difference between comfort levels in the USA. We will be seeing this effect increasingly in the near future as, e.g., Indians see no reason anymore to move to the USA because the US university is not even as good as a local university, let alone American society is crumbling and cracking at all seams. It will be compounding effect. I already see it happening.
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New programmable gene editing proteins found outside of CRISPR systems
Have you encountered issues with signing up with certain services? I know a few run checks to see if the domain is a catch-all (eg. sending to `pwgen`@domain.example and checking for a bounce) and will block signup when that happens.
Not involved with this project, but there's a couple big reasons most would care about this.

* Child porn and similar content that is a level beyond simply "NSFW"

* Uploaders of NSFW stuff are always in need of a new platform they haven't been kicked off yet, and newer platforms are likely to be dominated with this type of content. Unless you want your platform to gain a reputation as the place for mostly NFSW content, you probably don't want this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesi...
I use fastmail for this. It works great although my email address sometimes confuses people. For example, a small company I ordered something online from called me to ask why their business name is in my email address. I have 2 separate domains going to the same inbox, each domain can have any subdomain and email address I want. I can send emails from any of those addresses as well.
I've experienced this at almost every job I've ever had. Best case I can get two years of productivity and then suddenly I can't even start, no matter what I do. Nothing works. Not site blockers, not isolation, not pomodoro, nothing. It's as though I'm physically unable to begin. It's not just difficult, it's impossible.

I was told this is strongly suggestive of ADHD, which sounded preposterous to me, but after the third health care professional (none of whom knew each other or shared records) asked if I'd been screened for it, sure enough... I have ADHD.

Now I'd love to tell you that everything is fine now that I'm diagnosed and under treatment (a few years now), but it isn't. Maybe my meds aren't the right ones, maybe I haven't learned the right skills yet, maybe this industry is just plain fucking boring and I should accept that and move on. I don't know. I don't have the answer yet.

So, sorry I can't be more helpful, but maybe there's some comfort in knowing that this is a thing and it's not just you.
Thanks! Took me a year to discover the key nut there. L1 vs L2 regularization is not well described I found so I went nuts trying to nail it down.
I used a "Tell HN", but mine from 11 years ago is still going strong. :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1494362

That said, I think most of them die because of a lack of time and/or other interests come along. I can't even count how many folks have reached out about starting a similar newsletter and only one or two kept going for more than year. With side-project especially, it is hard to find users, and that can be pretty discouraging.
Totally true (and unfortunate) that so many founders go down that path. If it helps, we've never really seen a strong pull revenue-wise to go down that direction. We strongly prefer to make beautiful premium software that helps people. That kind of corporate spyware would likely need an enterprise product/sales team, and is generally a kind of race-to-the-bottom of price and (honestly boring to build) commodity features. As founders, there are plenty of more interesting spaces for us to work in instead of that and none of us are motivated to work in that direction.
Interesting. Someone should start a scientific inquiry into human mental state and behavior. HN engineer types would love it. We could call it "brainology".

More seriously:

> staying up late doing things you do want to do.

That's not revenge procrastination.

Revenge procrastination, and why it's bad, is "staying up late doing things you know isn't good for you, out of spite and a desperate need for a sense that you are in control of your time"
> Having multiple renderers is just a waste of everyone's time...

Unfortunately, Blink isn't openly governed. It's governed by Google, and if Google decides that they won't implement complex feature, maintaining that feature will be logistical nightmare. Imagine writing drivers for some exotic kernel, but kernel API or even very architecture isn't stable.
You wouldn't have to preallocate memory. Kernel should know better when it's good time to mark and sweep. Unpinning memory doesn't have to have immediate effects. I don't think sidechannel attacks would be possible, the only task for kernel is to deallocate at some unknown point in time dereferenced memory, which by definition should not be visible from the user space?

Maybe a bit far fetched but parts of the kernel (will never happen) or kernel modules (possible) could use it as well?
I probably should have mentioned that programming is not my job now. After that burnout experience I found a job that is not very demanding and I have no trouble performing that... except maybe it feels a bit boring after a few years and the desire to do something exciting once again grows inside me. However, so far I have not been able to. It's weird - I feel excited about something but when I try to work on it, the level of discomfort is overwhelming. I mean, I always had troubles with procrastination like every other guy... but this is whole new level.
> any concentration

I'm curious. If there's lead in the water, the air, the soil, the food we eat, is zero even possible? Is there a baseline "side effect of living on Earth" level, even if it's very slight?
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Watch out for dishes, especially older ones. The older Lenox dishes my family used for 40 years turned out to have heavily leaded glaze on the surface. By the time I was using them for my own kids, the glaze could turn a lead-check swab bright red, which means we were eating that lead.

After I discovered this I replaced all of our dishes with plain white Corelle. Corelle currently uses lead-free glaze; the plain white is just me being an absolutist.

Note that vintage Corelle and almost all other vintage cookware contains some amount of lead in the decorative glaze.

Here's a good resource for lead content in the household items your kids are likely to encounter:

https://tamararubin.com/
With almost no exceptions, pilots have exactly zero say in what fuel to use. Airplanes are certified to use certain fuels and that's what you have to use. At this point there is no generally approved unleaded replacement for 100-octane avgas (although several are in testing.)

A few engines, mostly low performance ones, have the option to use automobile gas, but even in those cases it's rarely available at airports so it's not really an option either.
And intellectual stimulation works much better if you do it during your waking hours, not when you are a sleep-deprived zombie.
The headline fact from this survey, of course, that is all groups heavily overesitmate the actual odds of hospitalization under every scenario.

But what I found a little heartening is that as wildly off as everyone is, the two largest groups, vaccinated Democrats and unvaccinated Republicans are the each the most accurate group out of four at their own group's odds.
I agree. I decided my chrome extension (Productivity Owl) should only store data locally because I didn't like the idea of managers abusing it. The owl is enough of an asshole to simulate a real boss for me.
Everything you stated suggests that News Corp is better at producing content consumers actually want. Maybe I’m just out of touch with the modern, dystopian total-state, but that seems to be a result of market incentives.
Impressive carve-out in the object storage market.
Dropbox's Drew Houston says the 40-hour office week is a thing of the past
That's why they must die. I heard that also kanguroos are a pest so they shall be killed also.

"This is it, this is a countdown to extinction"
> I didn't look at Taiwan but looked at European nations. US outcomes were poorer and the care was more expensive.

But that's very different from the statement than "healthcare in the US is completely broken" and the suggestion that patients in the US are being short-changed when it comes to time with primary care physicians.

Even if European nations have better outcomes at lower cost wouldn't inherently mean that US healthcare is "completely broken."

> I don't know any other first world nation, where managing medical bills can take this much time.

When I was in the US, I was a member of one of the largest HMOs. I never had any issues with medical bills. Of course, HMOs are very different than PPOs, but that too makes me question the "healthcare in the US is completely broken" sentiment.

I think a less hyperbolic and more accurate statement would be "healthcare in the US is big and complex and one's experience and outcomes can vary greatly based on a wide range of factors."
What're you using instead?
If you ask someone high on meth why they are doing it, they will say it's because it feels great.
> It wasn’t operational, it was being comissioned.

You're telling me that you don't see a problem with the idea of starting up a bleeding edge system intended to store incredible amounts of energy without the monitoring systems connected?

In general if you don't have a way to monitor an industrial-scale system you go in to your fail-safe state.
What an odd idea that FOIA requests are a waste of some employee's time, considering the vast amount of waste in the system already. Anything that can be released with an FOIA request should never have been locked behind closed doors in the first place. Locking public information up is shady and is the true reason that is wasting everyone's time.
Many browsers track chromium upstream with substantial changes, most significant of all would be Qt WebEngine.
Don’t you still have to deal with user reports, repeated spam, stalking, verbal abuse etc. ?

I’d assume a comment being visible to only one person doesn’t completely remove all the user to user issues the other platforms face.
I'm extremely happy with mxroute, pricing is great and support is quick. I even host the email of two small companies there.
Question: why would you run this?
No, tetraethyl lead, which is the form of lead found in fuel, is easily absorbed through the skin.
You need to have a really good relationship with your ISP and get their acknowledge prior to the scanning
Setup-PHP version 2.15.0 released
Great museum and a great exhibit! Really compelling description of folks remedies in a way that respects the construction of knowledge.

Unfortunately the museum is still closed due to COVID, but they've said they're not permanently closed...
"Server Side GTM" is a good starting point for for relevant information
Building the First Generation iPhone [audio]
pretty interesting interview with Tyler Mincey (Bolt VC) on working on the first iPhone
XSB System (Prolog Dialect)
Japan to lift all coronavirus emergency steps nationwide
An ADHD wiki that you can get stuck clicking around forever getting little bits of novel stimulation -- the ultimate troll.
I still theorize crowd-moderated platforms are possible, as long as there's really good gate-keeping.

My bet is some real-world tie, one which is time consuming and expensive to create. From there it should be possible to create moderation tools that keep the rest going.

An example of a real world tie would be a trust network that requires status with in-person communities and local businesses. And not just "accept the hot chick friend request," but an explicit "I'm staking my reputation by saying this person is real."

But once you let bots in, it's over.
People complain about ads , but browse any volume and count the number of ads (may be easier to count the number of non-ads). And you had to pay for that stuff.
Something that really helps me uncouple programming from burnout is having a strictly-non-collaborative personal project in a language/ecosystem I intentionally avoid in the professional world. It's still open source Free Software but I don't ever want a pull request or even a bug report because then it becomes work and means the codebase is no longer a 1:1 representation of my own brain-space/goals/style.

Not that I have received any of those things, but I have steeled myself to be ready to turn it down if it ever does. The social pressure is real, and Github doesn't even let you disable pull requests so I had to configure a bot to automatically be an asshole for me: https://github.com/dessant/repo-lockdown

Here's the message I configured in my `.github/lockdown.yaml`:

```comment: Please accept my apologies for your wasted effort in closing this pull request, but I am not prepared to accept changes on this project at this time, if ever. This is a personal project for my personal website that I'm happy to share, but I want the code to be all mine. I would not be able to mentally connect with my codebase as well if it were a reflection of anyone but myself, and accepting others' code complicates the copyright situation regardless of the software license used. Please e-mail me with any bug reports :)```
That's only because the most powerful reddit moderators are basically corrupt dictators.
> The second parent is metadata. The way a merge works is essentially to compute the commits you need to cherry-pick, then cherry-pick them without committing, resolving conflicts in pretty much the same way git cherry-pick does, THEN commit with two parents.

Good luck explaining an N-way merge with this approach, such as the 66-way "cthulhu merge" that is 2cde51fbd0f3 in the linux tree.

All parents are metadata, they do not contribute to the content of the commit other than their "parent" line in the commit object after the merge finished.

> A new commit containing merged content is created, as well as a merge commit with the second parent that documents that a merge happened and what was merged.

A merge only produces one commit: The merge commit, pointing to the tree of the merged content. It is a completely normal commit, having multiple parents like any commit can.

The tree of the merge commit may contain new blobs not present in any of the parents if conflict resolution was required. Otherwise, the new tree is simply a combination of the parents' trees.

> Rebasing is constructing a set of operations: <snip>. An interactive rebase lets you drop commits, add commits, edit, reword, or fixup/squash commits.

Yup, that's what I wrote.

> Squashing a commit is essentially doing `git cherry-pick --no-commit` of the to-be-squashed commit and then `git commit --amend` to replace the HEAD commit with a new commit that includes the changes staged by `git cherry-pick --no-commit`.

I think most associate squashing with the act of reducing a foreign branch into a single new commit as a merge strategy (as opposed to fast-forward or merge).

What I described was squashing commits on the current branch, while you're describing squashing a single foreign commit into HEAD. Technically neither is what `git merge --squash` does, as that doesn't produce a commit at all.

> Yes, it really is this simple.

Well, I find your description complex (and having resulting inconsistencies) as it tries to describe plumbing in the terms of porcelain, which is backwards and honestly one of the main reasons I think people are confused about git.

But each to their own I guess.
Can't say I've tested that one. Depends on how you have it configured, from a brief review of the docs: https://cleanspeak.com/docs/user-guides/cleanspeak-3.x.pdf

As I said, I haven't done much with this product.
Ask HN: Is every restaurant going to have a digital menu?
What's your best guess?

Are digital (so called "QR menus") a temporary thing, and one year down the road we all will be using paper menus?

Or is it just the first step, and every restaurant will have a slick online menu 3-5 years from now?

Anything in between?
I think the HDD vs floppies comparison is more sensibly analogized to SSD vs HDD. That was a massive change. I think the Apple Silicon vs Intel upgrade is pretty exciting (although a lot of that feels like promise of what might be coming in the M2 and beyond), but yes, it's definitely a different world than it was in the 90s which was probably the period of most rapid technical advancement in personal computing.
Introducing Echo Show 15
Hmm, AGPL is proprietary? This isn't aligned with the OSI.
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invt(inter) close rignipi for up coming i-note in golds and silvers coin to invt(inner) contract
The latest 300mm fabs use 10-50X the power of what the old 8" fabs used (I know this for a fact...). That power gets turned into heat and that heat has to be removed. I work at an "inefficient" 200mm factory that has pretty good internal recycling (~65%)...we still use 600K gallons per day.

A single state of the art EUV tool uses ~2MW of power...<0.1% of that gets to the wafer. Most of the rest of that is lost to heat...and that heat goes where?
Crossing a wide span of water (wider than the English Channel) against a determined defender is really hard. Taiwan is bristling with anti ship missiles and are very much against being taken over by the PRC.
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Oh. Thanks for clarifying.
Thanks! I'll do that.
> I can only think of giving the kernel the ability to force cleanup in low memory situations as a positive and for that you probably wouldn't have to put the entire GC into the kernel.

...but isn't "low memory situation" the only situation when you'd have to actually do it in the first place (at least thoroughly/more expensively but bail once enough reclaimed)?
What you want to do and what you know isn't good for you can be the same thing. Consider cigarettes or alcohol as obvious examples.
I imagine one could look to the JVM GC interfaces for inspiration. They seem to have made a pluggable architecture for GC. That said, I don't know how beneficial a system-wide pluggable GC architecture would be considering how much the tradeoffs vary for GC and how intricately those tradeoffs are related to the host programming language (e.g., Go's upfront allocations are quite expensive, but in exchange the collection is super low latency--that works very well for Go, but it wouldn't work so well for languages that idiomatically generate tremendous amounts of garbage (basically any functional language, Java, .Net, Python, etc).

You could have a system GC for Go, one for Python, one for Java, etc which is basically the JVM/.Net approach, except they extended it to the whole VM--not just the GC--however, in practice it seems like applications want different versions of the runtime and increasingly end up shipping their entire runtime with the app anyway (Go just went all-in and made this the default, which is actually really nice from a developer and user perspective).

So while a system GC (give or take plugability) sounds nice, in practice it seems like the ecosystem is moving the other direction.
I think it can depend on other factors too. For example, lead crystal drinkwater is considered safe as long as you aren't leaving the liquid in there for long periods of time. It's possible that's similar to the dishes.

Stuff like leaded fuel exhaust or paint flakes are more likely to be ingested/absorbed.
Which is not good for economy. I understand. So more children are needed to support the aging population in the future. My question still stands: is this sustainable indefinitely?