skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm a cynic but it strains credulity that the miracle cure is also a laundry list of fad health trends from the the last decade. Gluten free, intermittent fasting, yoga, melatonin, probiotics, etc etc
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hyt24p4j43szpdi/logo.gif?dl=0
The craziest part is, the QR codes have all the data to be able to work offline. But the app requires an internet connection!
The fact that to this day people still trot out “4% kill rate” and make their kids wear a mask for a disease a kid isn’t even remotely at risk for… my trust in public health is below zero. Not once have these people done anything to calm people or tell them good news. Not a single time. It is disgusting how horribly these public health “experts” treat us.
>are renewables more likely to increase wealth gaps than other fuels?

Given that renewable generation solutions can be purchased by a much larger percentage of the world population than nonrenewable ones, they probably do a lot to decrease wealth gaps. Since they require more energy invested per energy paid back though, it's probably accurate to suppose that the total wealth in the system would be reduced by such a trend.
> I tend to believe Palmer Luckey has the ability to achieve daring innovations.

If you're talking about oculus, they 'stole' a lot of their development from valve because there were valve employees who convinced whoever was decision making there to just give oculus tech without any license prior to the facebook acquisition, and then those employees got hired by oculus once they had facebook money.

Oculus is the story of one of the biggest tech scams in VR and the scam was on valve by employees who took advantage of and betrayed valve.
Besides all the interactivity being gone, they never bothered to upload large chunks of the backlog.
Seems like it disrupts a class to me? What about the students who don't want to have their class disrupted? What about the teacher who has to catch up later?

What if these people don't want your sense of humour imposed on them?

I think it's ethically wrong.
The Rust metrics are interesting.

I've been getting around 20ms cold starts, 1ms warm exec on the 128MB ARM Graviton2 using Rust for the most basic test cases. Graviton2 was slightly slower on cold starts than X86 for me (1-2ms) but who doesn't want to save $0.0000000004 per execution? Adding calls to parameter store/dynamo DB bumps it up a little but still < 120ms cold, and any added latency comes from waiting on the external service calls.

Memory usage is 20-30MB, and I haven't done anything to optimise memory. I know I can get rid of a few allocations I'm doing for simplicity if I want to.

I've not always been the greatest fan of Lambdas seeing it has hidden complexity orchestrating and a blackbox for debugging. Re-visiting a few years on and with Rust, you get an excellent language, excellent runtime characteristics and substantial cost savings unless you really need more than 128MB memory, i.e. processing large volumes of data per execution in memory or transcoding. Any asynchronous/event-driven service I write, I'll just package as a Rust lambda going forward and pay fractions of a cent per month. I am still on-the-wall with HTTP exposed services as that's a big plumbing exercise and hidden gateway costs but not as adverse to it as I was.
#2 feels like a chicken and egg problem
Agreed to a point. Choosing where you work is a luxury however. In the software world, or at least, in the VC-funded software world, we are spoiled with an abundance of mobility. The same is not true for many other verticals and probably most other industries.
As well as NetBSD, and probably others, eventually.
The main point of contention is independence of the justice system. EU says Polish law gives the government too much power over justices and that this violates EU treaties about the EU justice system, which require an independent judiciary. Poland says that its constitution doesn't allow the EU to have that power over Poland. (specifically the trigger is some some new-ish committee that is allowed to remove justices from office etc.)
I kind of disagree on the Cambrian explosion of languages being a bad thing. While it has downsides, it has a massive upside of discouraging stuff like crazy custom build pipelines. Big companies love to burn money and time by reinventing everything. Bigco isn't going to try and implement their own build system if they need to support a dozen languages.
So THIS is why dogs don't like fireworks.
That's an unresponsive and frivolous distinction; the point is the same regardless of which magic word you insist is operative.
Man, that sounds exactly like something you'd see one of the guests on the Tim Ferriss podcast talking about.

What ever happened to ballroom dancing and bridge?
Same thing at Torrey Pines, if you are in San Diego.
Regardless of the vote participants had the choice of staying on the old chain. The fact that they didn't shows the fork was widely supported.
Sounds way overly complex for a high schooler to pull off. At least the OP sounded legitimate, the details didn't sound over the top.
Why is that crazy? The point is tracking movements, how would that be possible if the government can’t see your location?
I think they're the definition of a sunken cost fallacy for VCs. People already billions into their company hoping to get something or even anything out of it.
People Don't Understand NFTs
> google employed the folks who wrote the git clients and it was always technically possible to have implemented the monorepo with a git client

I think we're talking past each other a bit here. Piper's implementation could have been git-compatible originally yes (I think this is what you're saying?). The thing this article complains about is the turndown of the unofficial, unstaffed (20% at best) git-wrapper client around piper. That was a hacky not-fully-git-like but still well loved (I used it for a while!) tool. Doing it right would have been a huge undertaking and, as I understand, would have required building a totally new thing, while mercurial was hackable and extensible and could be used as a base.
> Why do we tolerate pranks?

As the author points out early on in this article, most school districts would not have tolerated a prank like this. In fact this is the only example I know about a prank this big that got the response of toleration the author documented in the article.

> You shouldn't be able to interfere with someone else and say 'just a prank bro'.

The students made a report of what they did and presented it to the administration.

I guess to be generous I could reinterpret your concern to be, "Do students in every school district in the U.S. get to avoid criminal prosecution under the draconian CFAA by constructing a complex hack tailored to avoid interrupting regular school business, then writing up a report and giving a powerpoint presentation to an apparently enlightened and tech-savvy administration to help them strengthen their network defenses?" In that case, point taken.
There is a water diversion indeed, to moronic growing of almonds in a desert! Where farmers claim more water 'rights' than physically exists.

It's like you guys looked at the Aral sea disaster created by USSR and said 'hold my beer'

These crops are dead, it's just a question of time, even if you diverted every drop of water and leave households to die. The sooner we accept it the better.

http://www.ciesin.org/docs/006-238/006-238.html
"The newly identified antibody was isolated using lymphocytes from COVID-19 patients."

So currently, the only people who have this antibody are people who have had COVID, correct?
Well, depending on the definition of completely. Clearly cell phones have had a large impact on stand alone camera. Larger sensor, better autofocus, better low light photography, etc are going to further swing the market towards cell phones and make it harder for stand alone cameras to fund the next generation R&D on ever lower volumes.

Seems like Samsung is going after Sony, which was the go to sensor for many platforms. I've heard they signed some $900M deal with Tesla for improved sensors and they seem to be making inroads into cellphones as well.

Can anyone compare the specs on this sensor to whatever the current Sony sensor is?
Long term projects often have the problem they are solving disappear out from under them. They become obsolete before they're done. Freeman Dyson famously pointed this out and suggested anyone planning ahead more than five years was fooling themselves (and he meant that in science, too.)

Fusion seems a good illustration of this. Work started on it about half a century ago. Its motivation was "fission will be cheap, but uranium will get scarce, so let's build fusion reactors that have cheap fuel!" Except fission didn't get cheap, the cost turned out to be dominated by the cost of the power plant, not the fuel, and fusion reactors don't solve that problem AT ALL.
I think the dilenation point comes in with whether they are an IT "person" or a school administrator.

Regularly, I would end up in trouble in my High School for things like bypassing the root account (using ShellShock), or nullifying their executable restrictions (because I needed to run my own executables for a work/study program). If I got caught, the IT admin would sit down and we'd chat about what happened, how they could improve their security and such. An administrator caught on to one of my shenanigans, bypassing the content block because I wanted to read a "hacking" article, and threatened me with suspension. Supposedly, she reported the incident to IT, and IT told her to not bother me anymore.
I'm sorry that's impossible. As you know, all candidates sign NDAs and FAANG tier developers have only the highest standards so they would never reuse a question - they would just make a new one.
I'm really kinda hoping it was a MyPillow so that my afternoon local radio ads turn into METEORITE PROTECTION
'pushing the envelope' is actually a term from the bird-racing nerds community for packing those things while staying aerodynamic
"This law highlights the significance of protecting the sensitive information maintained by schools across the country, and my Administration looks forward to providing important tools and guidance to help secure our school's information systems,"

While that's good. I wonder if they'll make any recommendations about student privacy. I wonder how much of the information is really necessary for the school to collect.
It’s not luck, though, right? They are man-made; selectively bred to cooperate with and have affection for humans.
Well, tbf, not uninhabitable, if you look at the region of Prypiat. It's just surroundings which select for the most radiation resitant.
You can't envision a use case for A.R.???

Took me less than 5 minutes to think of the following:

1. Educational aspects such as being able to copy choreography by watching a virtual expert do it and still be able to see your own body mimicking the actions which she would not be able to do in VR (this could include juggling patterns, martial arts, any kind of complex motion)

2. Overlaying any number of AR layers on top of physical hardware, think of the idea that you could look at a complex circuit board and immediately get tooltip pop-ups over each integrated circuit and how they work

3. Building things in the real world located at absolute GPS coordinates and having them persist so that other people who are on the same shared AR "layer" see them. You could create buildings wondrous castles creatures and effectively create new layers of existence, and these layers could stack and be as deep as you ever wanted them to be

4. Being able to do virtual reality in much larger spaces so you could take your AR glasses and walk out onto a soccer field and then project a game such as you fighting a bunch of storm troopers while moving around physically in a huge field
Its also the issue of housing affordability, if you have young families moving into small dwellings that they have to upgrade out of in <5 years time then most solar installations are not going to repay themselves in that timeframe. Therefore its logical to not install solar until you are in your forever home.
Just because you do not do the kind of work that necessitates being familiar with that solution doesn't say anything about the universe of programming jobs. Realize two things

1) many Leetcode style solutions are to problems that were at one time practical engineering problems; cycle detection infact is still relevant in cryptography.

2) novel implementations are required all the time in companies that have bandwidth for greenfield projects (ie FAANG). For example, if you search through the source of pytorch (or tensorflow) you will find implementations of the solution to https://leetcode.com/problems/merge-intervals/description/

So everyone always lamenting how useless Leetcode is, is pretty much telling on themselves re the kind of work they do.

Edit: though this isn't what you broach, people that think there's no meaningful difference between eg O(n^2) and O(nlogn) are also broadcasting to the world that they've never run code "at scale". These companies have power bills that are denominated in Bs not Ms and so improving perf by even 1% (on a critical hot path) can be worth millions to the company (and RSU refreshers to you). If you don't believe me then believe Andrei alexandrscu

https://youtu.be/ea5DiCg8HOY?t=175

>So if you shave 1% you've made your salary for 10 years alone
> The students made a report of what they did and presented it to the administration.

So what?

Can I push you down in the street and then hand you a report explaining how I was able to push you down and that makes it all ok?
Well, disproving consensus requires that the presented information actually, you know, falsify the consensus ...
I'm less skeptical. OP already mentioned that most things were not encrypted back then, so this was probably still in the days of transparent proxies, so OP could have "just" added one with some ARP spoofing. They were somewhat common in school and office networks, and like regular HTTP proxies (except the transparent ones had the traffic redirected forcefully to them) they essentially consumed HTTP requests and sent new ones out to The Internet. While mostly used for caching and blocking, it seems relatively simple to me that OP could have just replaced e.g. some stylesheets served back to the client.
Now all your trash sorta looks the same.
This is poor architecture, not Lambda's fault.

Same result would be achieved by paying tons of $$ for a high-end machine with dozens of cores, just to scrape one URL per core.

They could have implemented asyncIO within just a few Lambdas - heck even one Lambda could certainly handle hundreds, if not thousands of ASYNC jobs at once, just as a cheap machine, as you pointed.

They treated Lambda functions as threads or async jobs, while they should be looked at as core processors.
It wasn't that particular species at the time but a precursor.

Your grandad is/was hom. sap. sap. but your (50,000,000 / 20)th grandad was one of quite a few possibilities, mostly ape and no sign of homo. I'm using a simple 20 year per generation model here. That's 2,500,000 generations ago. Here in the UK on telly, a comedian was shown how his (2021 - 1239) / 20 = 39 or so generational ancestor was English King Edward I - "longshanks". 39 generations gets you to 1230 or so, 2,500,000 generations is quite a long time ago.

So, let's look at these geese. 50M years back, the "dinosaurs" flying that route - let's call them "Goosey" - already had phenomenally efficient lungs compared to say mammals. As the land rose, they simply adapted a bit. Given how efficient their lungs are I doubt there was much to do.

It looks miraculous to us but we don't have those lungs. We didn't evolve the double ended lungs and hollow bones etc because we simply didn't need them or the cost of some part of that mix was detrimental for our use case or "we" simply rolled a double three. Evolution is weird. Well, no it isn't, that implies a blind watchmaker/intelligent design or nonsense as I prefer to call it.

In the words of a famous bloke: "Evolution is as evolution does". No more and no less. There are some geese that are able to fly over some mountains.
They don't need to know where you are, they just need to know when you checked in/out along with a business identifier. Syncing the data later when you're back online would do this fine.

I checked my history the other day and noticed some businesses missing so there probably are some bugs in the process.
I agree with your first paragraph, but I’m still far from optimistic that the cost analysis will work out in favor of renewables in the near term unless perhaps we continue to keep nuclear costs artificially high. In particular, I’m not sure that 100% over provisioning (absent storage) gets us anywhere near the same reliability of nuclear.
>One of our top priorities was to avoid disrupting classes, meaning we could only pull off the prank before school started, during passing periods, or after school.
I suspect they're trading an obscene amount of space to save weight (because space). There's a reason (the reason being they tested this stuff 1.5 centuries ago) pretty much no armored vehicle or vessel uses armor with empty spaces in between.
> When the wind isn't blowing it will probably look rather cheap...

But of course with a guaranteed and indexed linked strike price, it will be running at full pelt for its entire lifespan, regardless of how much cheaper solar and wind is available at any given time.
Now you know you can't trust that person, because they're full of it, or too ignorant about what they were shown to understand it was bs and thus not someone to follow for news/advice/etc on it.

I personally believe that they raised a ton of money and the people behind that money wanted it to be successful so had friends of theirs in various media spaces hype it even more.

When someone has a positive magic leap review, including these throwaway comments like you linked, I assume its corruption. Just my opinion.
You have the same chance of hitting right combination if you enter 12345 or a random number chosen by a wall of lava lamps. But you have lower expected return since more people will use 12345 than your particular random number.

Expected return being size of the pot you can win multiplied by probability of winning. It's the first number that is lower when everybody has the same bright idea at once.
Once you have characterized an antibody that works, you can manufacture it.
I think the wrong assumption here is that we humans are completely fine with teflon overheating on the other hand. PFAS chemicals released really do mess with just about everything and anything in our body, the results just aren't seen on short time scales.

We really should be taking steps towards a worldwide ban of this yet another asbestos-ass miracle material which sounds too good to be true because well, it is.
Their own video literally shows a class of people watching it happen.
It sure is nice that google has tooling for updating code in their monorepo. I just wish that they would remember that those tools do not extend outside of google - Protobuf team I'm looking at you. I have spent countless hours in protobuf JDK dependecy-hell. So much for being dilligent updating schemas in a backwards compatible way, when the library itself will just kick you in the balls if there is an update.
This was 13 years ago so my memory is fuzzy... if I recall correctly, spoofed ARP replies were unicasted to every possible address on the network. It switched from machine to machine slowly, which is fine because they all served the same content.

There were several subnets at the school, each with its own gateway. I remember having to set up live CDs in several computer labs to cover each of the subnets.
Is this 'just' continuously blowing out from air stored in cheeks, while breathing as normal through the nose? I have said 'just', but it doesn't seem easy!
It doesn't seem to me that the lungs are being used differently (to normal breathing). I could be wrong.

(Edited to add text in parenthesis in 3rd sentence)
Here are a couple more recent papers exploring the efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen treatment and autophagy on Alzheimer's disease:
1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7293997/
2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7049408/
Also, fusion plants have inherent diseconomy of scale, from the square-cube law. There is a limit to the energy flux through the surface of the reactor, and because of that the volumetric power density of the reactor is inversely proportional to its linear size.
Here we get a PDF for our vaccination status. Easily faked of course, but they only really started checking them after we "reopened" 2 days ago when we hit the required vaccination rate for gyms, bars, etc.
History of Mathematics Project
If you need to access a DB in AWS, isn't the networking overhead on every single call going to dominate all cold start performance gains in a few occasional requests in Velo?
If what you're telling me is that eating healthy, getting enough sleep and exercising can halt or reverse Alzheimer's it's not going to exactly shock me. The real fad is how amazingly stupid Americans are about their own health.
I didn't say it was Lambda's fault. Indeed, I said Lambdas can be cheap if you use them well. The implication being that some people don't.
I'm not trying to offer it as a service. I'm trying to run my workload in a way that can scale from 0 -> 10,000 request/second in an instant and doesn't cost my company $5,000/month to do so.

It's pretty easy if you know what you're doing (or care to figure it out).
I would say its best to only think about any deployable thing as a service. "Microservices" is just the idea that those things do not have a minimum size.

Essentially, "is this enough functionality to make a new service?" is the wrong question.
Poll finds more than half of Bay Area residents plan to leave for good
Americans should limit use of daily aspirin meant to prevent heart attack
Chip shortages may force Apple to cut iPhone 13 production
Given that Americans work more than most other countries it’s a wonder how they get enough sleep or time to cook healthy.
I think most CRC libraries should have a rolling implemenation built in (i.e. as you read bit by bit, or word by word, it calculates the crc for the last N bits (i.e. a rolling crc32 would allow you to read bit by bit and get the crc for the last 32 bits read). Its actually relatively straight forward to do, and surprisingly useful, but post libraries don't implement it.

my practice code at implementing it for fun: https://github.com/sjpotter/window-crc32
Working in IT/tech for school district is the worst. My experience from many years ago - around 2002, I think:

1. First day on the job, email to boss: "Hey, the computer lab at Springfield High has a ton of known security flaws that are begging to be exploited."

2. Reply, 1 week later: "Sorry, we don't have any money for that. Just keep everything up-and-running."

3. 3 weeks later the computer lab at Springfield High got "hacked". All the computers displayed a popup window that said, "Miss Krabappel is a dyke!" (sorry for the offensive language)

4. Next day, email from boss: "The computer lab at Springfield High was hacked! Figure out how to fix this and make sure it doesn't happen again!"

5. A few days later Miss Krabappel filed to sue the school district. The local newspaper picked up the story.

6. Email from boss, in full panic mode: "I need you to figure out who hacked the computer lab at Springfield High so we can report him to the police!"

7. A week later an independent consulting firm was brought in to help identify the person behind the "hack". I heard they were paid $50K and found nothing. However, the kid got ratted out when he told all his friends. (It wasn't Bart Simpson! ;) )

8. Several weeks later: meeting to discuss working with a consulting firm that's gonna fix all the security issues because the current staff (me and my team) lacks the skills.

9. About 6 months later, I quit.