skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Qntm has some great long-form sci-fi novels. Ra in particular was excellent.
could a synonym for "more not-noob" perhaps be "more esoteric"?
This whole discussion here shows that the best time to introduce a linter/autoformatter is at the same time as the language it's supposed to lint/format (like Go did). Otherwise you will have interminable discussions and everyone will want their favorite style supported. I'm afraid that ship has sailed for SQL though...
Where was this study done? Was it done in a place with mostly sunny days, or mostly cloudy and dark?

In the location where this study was done, what kind of lives to these people lead?

Do people living in more relaxed, sunny, quiet, dark-at-night environments sleep better than people who live in cities with constant street noise, much less direct sunlight, and more light pollution at night?
Hence the anchor being "#StolenCopy".
It's not only about bugs, but if you know your workload and your systems you can do some tricks a general purpose kernel can't do to tweak it for your needs and get a benefit here or there for your code.
Nova the Squirrel – an open source NES platformer game
Curiously the torrent is labeled part 1 so my guess is there was a wide breach and this was just some of the data they wanted to put together.

There are devops tools, soc tools, and a ton of random things here, I guess we'll have to sit and wait to see if more follows.
I agree – the number is probably insignificant, but I don't think you have to restrict your estimate to people who hate AMP. Basically an average iOS user (likely using Google as it's still the default last I checked) who in the past installed an extension to block unwanted content (ads/malware/etc) may be blocking AMP links without even knowing what they are.
I would imagine the dyes were referred to by the materials used to create them, cochineal for a red dye, woad for a blue/indigo dye, etc. The etymology of purple does come from a shellfish or a fish and purple dye did historically come from a sea snail but the name for that particular dye likely didn't come from the same root as purple.
Bose's "hearphones" seem to be trying to make inroads in to that space. What's your view on those?
Switch OLED review: Nintendo’s nicest, most nonessential upgrade yet
SRE Doesn't Scale
Twitch Leaks “An Extremely Poggers Leak”
'With real estate composing 30% of the economy, domestic spillage into other areas of the economy is inevitable. In the end, it boils down to one thing that has been a long time coming for a decade, crisis.'

With the power and inflation crises in the west, my concern is superpowers war.
There is no antimemetics divison needs a TV show.

Pretty awesome ideas.
I'm fairly sure they were speaking about the meaning of the word were their assertion is correct and makes sense. The urban legend part is "2.4 GHz is choosen because it's a resonance frequency" after all, not "2.4 GHz is what's used in microwave ovens".
Insofar as there would be legitimate worry, it would be of new money creation made procedurally more available by the move. And also worry about other people's worries, legitimate and otherwise.
Let's build the simplest ALU ever
Relaxingly Starting Your AWS Journey
Adding your credit card to your own AWS account feels scary, but there are ways to get free credits so you can sleep better in the beginning.
Yes, despite knowing how to do it right those damn comma issues always come up at the worst time and to add insult to injury they're reported by most of the tools I have available like they're totally insoluble to the computer (even though far more taxing things are routinely fixed automatically).
How are iPhones still findable even when turned off?
The first animal could measure 2-4 cm easily. The second one would be like a rice grain. Both can be seen with the naked eye.
I would sharply disagree with this. The ability to bring proper force into play is not with corporations. Looking at the 20th century, state actors are the ones that could and did kill millions.
> The ideas of truth and logic literally are different than the western understanding of truth and logic. Truth in China isn’t something that is necessarily proved, only suggested. Absolutist understanding really has no place in a world that embraces relative ideas of the truth.

Very interesting. Seems to me 'the West' is slowly moving towards a more Chinese world view.
Ask HN: Resources for learning about type-checkers?
Can HN kindly recommend resources for learning how type-checkers work?

I'm looking for entry-level resources geared towards curious engineers. I have tried to read a number of academic articles on the subject, but I think I am lacking some concrete grounding to make sense of the theory.

As such, the ideal resource would involve implementing a non-trivial type checker. A live-coding course similar to [0] would be ideal, but I will happily accept video lectures, books, blog articles, or any other format.

Many thanks in advance!

[0] https://youtu.be/7pLCpN811tQ
And no to that too. RDAs try to be one-size-fits-all guesstimates.

For Vitamin D3 in particular:

"The model developed for UL derivation was summarized in 1998 (IOM, 1998), and it acknowledged that the lack of data would affect the ability to derive precise estimates." [0]

Furthermore, an RDA and a UL doesn't work for D3 because the ranges across people don't harmonize to specific "safe" or "adequate" numbers for a given demographic. 1000 IU is too much for some people. [0]

Blood tests trump RDAs. I need over 10k IU per day, but this could cause hypercalcemia, calcification of tissues, and/or calcium kidney stones in other people.

0. https://www.nal.usda.gov/sites/default/files/fnic_uploads//T...
Are there studs in your brick wall? Interesting.
Do you format your code this way by hand or does your IDE help you? Also, I can only imagine how noisy your diffs would be when you make changes and have to indent everything.
iPhone Macro and Halide: A Big Day for Small Things
AI Usually Amplifies Bias. This AI System Reduces Physician Bias
I think it's good the way the Rust API guidelines lay it out. It will also introduce additional lightweight documentation (in form of a type) and reduces amount of raw booleans in the code, and will get the benefits of the advanced type system too, and somewhat future proofs it that way too.
For whatever reason, SCP is some of the best sci writing out there, especially the short stories outside of the (already incredible) entity wiki entries.
Tweet displayed in a non-cancerous UI:

> We can confirm a breach has taken place. Our teams are working with urgency to understand the extent of this. We will update the community as soon as additional information is available. Thank you for bearing with us.
This is it. The Corsair 1000D is actually a dual-system case and just has massive room. Two quad radiators and a triple 140 in push-pull, plus 2 rear fans. The two quads support one cooling loop (for one of the systems) and the triple supports another.

https://imgur.com/gallery/U2KZD07

(I don't actually keep the fans lit up like this all the time, this was post-build in a very dark garage.)
My bad! Assumed the discussion was mostly around drywall anchors.
The Strange, True Story of John Williams and Charles Pennock
Sounds neat! I'd like to read a writeup on your build if one exists.
I’d be in favor of banning facial recognition as evidence used in trials, but still allowing it to aid in investigations. I.e let it help narrow down suspects when faced with grainy footage, but can’t be used to actually make a conviction.
As with a lot of people here, one of my first thoughts was, "yes, but how do I browse the web?". So after reading a bit, then skimming and skipping a bit, I found the section on mothra and abaco. By far my favorite line in the article is:

Recently, NetSurf has been ported to Plan 9 by the 9front developers. The browser is slow and glitchy with a ton of bugs, and thus provides a fairly convincing web 2.0 experience.

Based on this alone I think I shall give Plan 9 another try in the not too distant future!
UBI as a means of eliminating and consolidating most other government welfare programs under a single umbrella. It would eliminate a ton of federal agencies and bloat in the process.

Additionally, having it conditionally tied to overall government spending so that excess spending cuts into UBI would ensure that every American at any level has a reason to combat new government spending and inflation.
Aside from the obvious problems with SPACs, I wonder if they wind up having more of a chilling effect on the overall tech spaces than not.

A lot of nascent technologies run in cycles - quantum, ai, synbio, vr all have had hype cycles in which a lot of money floods the field and a lot of progress can be made, even if the underlying technology isn't ready for the mass market yet. At some point it becomes clear there's no market yet, and the investors flee, and we have to wait for another cycle.

The SPAC seems like an obvious way for one company to make a boatload of cash - Rigetti stands to take in a few hundred million, which is a hell of a fundraising round, and bully for them, but it also means the market's taking a closer look at them an awful lot sooner than they would otherwise, because there's no way they'd be going public via the traditional method at this point. I can't see that being good for fundraising elsewhere in the quantum sector overall right now, and I wonder if it presages an earlier retreat from the sector than would otherwise have happened.
Historic go-ahead for malaria vaccine to protect African children
Yes but realistically, save for the code that someone who's really inexperienced or sloppy would write, fixating over whether someone is writing

select a, b, c
from foo
where bar = 'quux'

rather than

SELECT
a,
b,
c
FROM
foo
WHERE
bar = 'quux'

is petty and immaterial to what the code communicates.

Worse if it's about details within the roughly the same style.

Edit: but if there's a code formatter that can be seamlessly added to the development environment, it makes sense to use it. It's just that if there's no tool support, such things are of little contribution.
Interesting idea. Will you be adding other languages?
A company cannot out-engineer bad management nor out-manage bad leadership.

A lot of people who worked in giant tech companies can tell you stories of talent being wasted on tight deadlines for unnecessary projects.
In English, generic "red" used to mean something very close to orange (thus red hair, red-breasted robins, etc.). Blood red or rose red were usually called out. These days, outside of colour spaces, we distinguish between crimson (cold/bluish) and scarlet (warm/orangish) when it actually matters, and the default "red" is somewhere in the middle, probably because we added orange to the lexicon.
Princess Haya: Dubai ruler had ex-wife's phone hacked – UK court
Antimemetics division is a fun book, but I think you need to go in with some familiarity with the tropes of SCP because it definitely leans on them.
Exactly. Deleting is giving up control over your account.
Infecting someone with a deadly disease is not an ethical medical intervention. Vaccination is.

The requirement isn't to achieve the maximum level of immunity that is possible. It is to achieve the maximum level of immunity that is possible without incurring significant risk.
> (Take away the farms and give them to the workers).

Why not just adopt the damn land value tax or just do plain old ground leases? Come on. Why does everything have to be solved with some stupid repossession thing where people get free shit that they don't want to take care of?
>On a laptop or desktop PC, you don't need to power cycle in a near-OOM: use the magic SysRq key.

Thanks for the tip! If my Linux were ever to start locking up regularly, I will apply it.

But right now (so I don't have to give up the use to which I currently put my SysRq key) I would prefer some method for determining after I forcefully powered down the computer, then powered up again, whether the lockup or slow-down that motivated the force-power-down was caused by a near-OOM condition.

Do you happen to have a tip for that?
> Um, WTF? Can you flesh this out at all?

Ha, sure.

Let's say that you have a very-basic NoSql schema for a chat app:

chat_app/person/<person id>/msgs/<chat documents>

so for each <person id> you stick chat messages in the <chat documents> separated by date or something. Conversations with different people end up in different <person id> paths. Chats have metadata like timestamps in addition to the message content

You can also represent this as a SQL table with something like:

Person_Id (uint) | Timestamp (timestamp) | Message (string)

Now the classic argument for NoSql is that NoSql is the best representation for this since you don't really care about doing complicated queries over the chats. You just want to be able to index in and get a persons chats. Maybe sort by the most recent chats so the <chat documents> have the timestamp in the key. That's what I mean.

Where I get frustrated with NoSql is that you inevitably end up needing to redo a lot of SQL logic anyways. A basic example is mapping the person_id -> visible name. The NoSql way is to have a meta file under <person id>, like chat_app/person/<person id>/<meta file> where you would have the user name under there. Then you can look up easily what to display when showing chats for <person id>.

But then you add group chats. Now you need to also have a group chat section and you need to go back to the person_id path to resolve the visible names. Having a relational table with:

Person Id | Visible Name

seems like a more elegant solution to me. Once you need to start gathering stats on the data as well, relational tables become more easy to gather information on how often you are talking to various people or lengths of conversations with people. Most of the functionality for statistical gathering and other use cases can be replicated in NoSql but it involves extra effort that SQL just gives you.
This is a bit old, but to answer your question.

You need a pi-hole hooked to your open source router that runs traffic through a VPN. You need to use cash or stay at a credit union that doesn't sell your information (if anyone has found one of these please let me know).

You need to not use a cell phone and stay off of most social media.

You need to not utilize credit. You need to use single-use email addresses for everything you sign up for, and furthermore to trust the system you use to create those addresses.

You need to use an OS like TAILS or QUBES and never stay logged in to any platform, reject all optional cookies and flush non-optional ones. There are going to be services that won't let you operate this way.

You need to get stuff shipped to a PO Box. You somehow need to stay out of the healthcare system.

There are some stuff that's out of my expertise like having a good lawyer to make sure records of your activity are expunged and that you are aggressively wiping your credit score if anything does pop up.

A good way to achieve some of this would be to found an LLC and buy your house and car through it instead of your personal name.

It also would be a good idea to live somewhere where you can obstruct wifi and cell signals from your house without getting into a bunch of trouble, and make sure your guests simply don't bring their devices into your home.
Private entity and individuals come and go at a much higher frequency than government. You still raise a valid point but there is reason the focus is on government. I'd also go as far to say that at least on HN there is a lot more discussion of anti-privacy and invasive practices in the private sector facebook/google/amazon/messenger platforms/etc than in the government.
Gen2, even with weird designs (so Fukushima included) are individually safer than any coal plant ever built, and the whole generation will kill less people, even counting those dying in a shameful, unprepared evacuation, that the new "clean coal" plants (with flue gas discharge) built in the western world since the 2000s. Not taking into account the GHG emissions. Number of death/GW is in the favor of nuclear for any power station, even when counting dislodged people as "dead" (in this case, hydro is actually the 2nd most deadly)

For the nuclear wast beeing a non-problem: i don't agree, but i understand where he is coming from.

There is basically 3 type of nuclear waste: low-activity waste is waste that we could ignore, and the most present. radioactivity levels are what is find in granitic area. Often indirectly contaminated materials, or very long-lived isotope (radioactive decay is long, the the material is not very radioactive). It can still be dangerous and create radon gas if poorly stored (as do caves in granitic areas). We have no good answer to that. Maybe separate long=lived isotopes from the rest, store it, and reuse the contaminated materials after waiting a dozen years, mixing it with new cement or something.

intermediate-activity waste: still extremely dangerous, its often contaminated material (filter, pipes), or active (and dangerous) isotopes, with a half-life of up 500 years (i think the most present have an half-life of 200 years, and you need 10 cycles basically to be rid of it). Those are not direct fission byproduct (i don't think so, i don't remember exactly, maybe a small number is?).

High-activity waste: This is the real dangerous stuff. Those can stay hot for years. There is to kind:

- direct fission byproducts. Some degrade not in stable isotopes, but in the intermediate-activity waste, so even with a short half-life, they take as long as the intermediate ones to get rid of (since they degrade into it. If i'm over-explaining, sorry). Some degrade into stable heavy metals that also poison the environment, in a different way.

- transuranic elements. The graphite from Chernobyl could be counted in this category? (not sure, if an expert is here, can you infirm this?). I do not exactly understand this category, but its basically elements from the reactor core that are not fission products.

The reason why GP said "Nuclear waste is basically a non-problem" might be because we are able to re-use some the fission products, and to deactivate the rest. Both technologies are at an experimental stage, the first one could be in commercial use in the decade if China doesn't fail. And since the fission product decay is what's create the most troublesome waste (half-life between 100 and 500 years mean the wast stay dangerous for between 1000 and 5000 years), its a "non-problem".

I don't have the material on hand, i learned that in 2019. i could find it again if you wanted (probably mostly be in French, sorry), and to be fair, i might have oversimplified things i did not understand in the first place.
If you had access to that kind of information you wouldn't want to take advantage of it in any way that might become visible, because you'd get busted.

It's like how John Walker only sold month-old crypto keys from the US Navy to the Soviet Union

https://news.usni.org/2014/09/02/john-walker-spy-ring-u-s-na...

Had the USSR been decoding US Navy messages in real time, they might have used that information, making the US Navy suspicious about how the USSR knew what it did, and causing the leak to be exposed more quickly than it was.
https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/85/1/6/4649294
My father and I built a solar powered dog house heater in the 80s. We got the idea and plans from a Detroit area newspaper. The “cell” was simply plywood painted black behind a piece of glass with room in between for air movement. It successfully raised a fully sealed box (perhaps almost 1sq meter) to 40 deg C in the dead of Michigan winter. It also got me a blue ribbon at the science fair. I’ve been intrigued by solar power ever since, but only in terms of tracking the science progress.
It should be clear by now that Google serves the state. The government knows Google collects all this information and they also know Google never deletes this information. Both Google and the government have an ongoing relationship where information is provided on demand. One can easily imagine that the government is very protective of their relationship with Google. They even invested in Google during the early years.
In the case that you're providing an explicit id as an argument, yes. If it were a query, no. It's dangerous to use an empty value for all failed lookups, as you can't differentiate between "not found because it doesn't exist" versus "not found because the database went offline for a minute".
I also greatly enjoyed reading it online - so much so that when they were published in harcover a few months ago, I got my own copy!

https://www.amazon.com/Ra-qntm/dp/B096TRWRWX

It now occupies an increasingly crowded place of pride on the face-height row of my main bookshelf, in a way that feels remarkably different from my favorite fiction bookmarks folder.
This article with sweeping generalizations about very complex issues has been written by someone that thinks that "behemoths" is written as "bemouths" and has not been proofread as far as the third line.
> If you use basic statistical methods and realize that murders are more likely to occur in this location between these hours and adjust your police force accordingly, is this bad?

It depends - These models are often non-transparent in terms of how they calculate, so what if the AI/model decides/calculate that a higher percentage of minorities in an area is a high predictor of crime, thus indirectly creates a policy that, for instance, areas with high levels of ethnic minorities require higher levels of policing or harsher restrictions (i.e. curfews, more CCTV e.t.c.).

If it's just a basic 'well murders happen between these hours on this street so we will put a police officer there' then of course that should happen, but that's not really policing based on AI/ML, it's just based on basic statistics.