skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No reason they can't put catalytic converters on.

The cost of the catalytic converter itself, plus the advanced ECU necessary to make it work properly would make gas-powered lawn mowers more expensive than an electric plus a pile of spare batteries.

> If we really want to be green, then why not require reel mowers?

Grow up.
That only explains it when the movie involves borrowed equipment.
That's really fun, got lost in that for a fair while.
That's correct. I believe one obstacle is the consideration that Google + one other (the policy in Safari, Chrome and Edge) doesn't look like a very neutral policy, but it would likely now be impossible to implement any other policy.

However, although Firefox doesn't check SCTs, I believe you can add an extension to do this with the same policy everybody else has. Also, in practice all CAs in Mozilla's trust programme more or less have to use CT because Mozilla's incident process assumes you have working CT logs.

But yes, it would definitely be better if Firefox just checked SCTs even if they have to suck it up on the policy neutrality for compatibility reasons.

It would also be be nice if all clients that check SCTs implemented a Gossip protocol, and some other steps to complete CT as originally conceived. As shipped, today's clients would not reveal e.g. a split horizon CT log visible only to some particular group. It's just that we have every reason to think that this tree is bare of fruit, and so meticulously searching the highest branches is a much higher cost for likely no extra reward.
This kind of testing isn't exactly cheap and it is hard to standardize because of all the variables and the fickleness of the process. The one you link is specific to one particular laboratory. These tests also tend to fail a few weeks or months after the infection.

Nor does it actually prove any immunity against disease. You can only assume that these antibodies probe prior contact to the virus and that this prior contact resulted in a robust response. The strength of the immunity cannot be inferred from such titres...
because iOS is considered a second-class citizen compared to native Android devices during development?
> Just look where the best and brightest CS graduates from top schools go to.

Yeah, it's not google or facebook. The people who go there today went to Wall Street/law firms 20 years ago. The shift started 10 years ago which is when it stopped being fun to work at google/facebook. Sure the people going there have the grades and cv but they don't have the brains.
> Are they, now?

They're not included in Standard Form 86, latest revision November 2016: https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf86.pdf

That's not to say it's excluded from polygraph questions; I can imagine a world where online associations are very relevant to an agency in need of a CI or full scope poly for compartment access.
A good role of thumb I use is — if you need a P-test to tell you your result is significant, there's basically no chance you have found something revolutionary.

Real breakthroughs are... obvious, both qualitatively and quantitatively.
A breakthrough CAD software on the browser
Inspector General Audit Finds ‘Widespread’ Problems with FBI’s FISA Applications
Ask HN: How do I sell my API?
I have looked at services like https://promptapi.com/ and https://rapidapi.com/ but not yet read about success stories by API sellers on the marketplace.

I want to avoid building a FE, payment integrations and user management so I can focus on data quality and latency.

Are there other places to sell an API (e.g. an API that converts multiple RSS feeds to analytics reports) or have you or someone you know successfully made maore than break-even on an API marketplace?
On top of that, the evidence is strongly suggesting that natural immunity is actually worse than vaccine immunity. COVID seems to mess with the immune system in a significant way and in doing so makes natural immunity a little shoddy. The vaccines give something that doesn't mess with the immune system, just provides it with the right target. This means the immune system is able to actually learn how to fight covid without fighting and being hurt by covid. Seems like a simple distinction that anyone who "does their own research" should be able to understand but alas, morons.
I believe list comprehensions would be much more readable if they were written the other way round:

[for x in [for s in strList: if isNumeric(s): parseInt(s)]: if x != 0: x]

Nesting them is still ugly, but can often be avoided using an assignment expression:

[for s in strList: if isNumeric(s): if (x := parseInt(s)) != 0: x]
That's just weird. Oh well.
I’m not saying I do know what the specific causes of this or that choice are. I’m just saying that if the principle cause is my state then it’s my choice.

However as I have already pointed out on this thread, we don’t get to choose our state. We can’t decide to be other than ourselves.
What frame buffer? There is no frame buffer. It runs in text mode, thus it's a TUI. Would you consider Norton's text-mode interfaces not TUIs because they would redefine some characters for window chrome and a mouse pointer?
>Soft propaganda is going to rewrite how the world perceives the sinosphere

There may be a bit of a Streisand effect going on. It's hard to avoid hearing about the Chinese communist party giving Taiwan a hard time when they are trying to censor every organisation around the world pretty much.
Edit: sorry for the confusion, "PFM" was meant to say PMF (autocorrected and I didn't notice) - product market fit.
> Whatever method he'd come up with, it was pretty badly mistaken. It's curious, historically, but almost certainly mathematically uninteresting.

He did not just stumble onto two correct primes in the 17th century by chance. He had used a seemingly now-lost process that was semi-fruitful. This should be worthy of investigation, not dismissed as "mathematically uninteresting".

Mersenne somehow figured out M(127)...in the early 1600s, and no one to this day seems to know how. How is this not mathematically interesting?
Why there is many things wrong in science and large number of publications is probably amongst them the premise of the argument here is weak at best. The authors essentially say because in established fields people cite established papers, therefore no progress is made. That is quite a leap, just because people continue to cite Newton does not mean that no progress is being made.

The argument seems to be that new "disruptive" science needs to replace the old, but that is hardly ever the case. Instead of replacing it it often extends it (see my Newton example which was extended by e.g. quantum mechanics).
The theory is probably that the characters must be relatable and therefore American. Films about British actions in the war often have random American characters thrown in too. (I’m not sure that is unrealistic though)

Perhaps another thing is that when the memory of the war was still fresh and people (at least in eg France) generally knew that the USSR had a big impact, McCarthyism was also at its height and there were strong reasons not to show communists in a good light. And then maybe later films mostly copied the trend.
You are completely lying. The vaccines weren't approved yet, end of story.

Trump admitted in interviews with Bob Woodward that he was lying about the pandemic. What more proof do you need for him to be completely untrustworthy on the topic?
I was literally just looking at JDK comparisons out of interest (I already have my app running under a JDK). But I'm still not convinced which is the "best" one.

What are some difference between OpenJDK, Adoptium, Azul, BellSoft, etc. besides company dependencies and lifecycle? Which JDK is the fastest, or do certain JDKs perform faster under certain scenarios? Do any of these JDKs have any special features, or can they not do certain advanced reflection (e.g. for efficiency?)

I use IntelliJ so switching JDK is very easy, and most apps work on any JDK. Plus I doubt anything I release would be relevant in the long term (at least without the ability to upgrade JDK). So I really don't have to depend on any JDK, and seems like I don't have to worry about my JDK getting obsolete. Is there still a reason why I would prefer to use one JDK over another?
For this one, JavaScript. For statically typed programming languages, it usually means ML-style type declaration, that TypeScript uses too.
Obtaining dual supplies from a single supply:-

https://sound-au.com/project192.htm
Tribal politics. I don’t know if it already existed, but it seems like in the past 10 years there’s a growing intolerance and outright hatred for people who don’t think or look like us, and it’s prevalent - at least here in the US - among both political parties. And the media is amplifying it 10x because at the end of the day, the most important thing is profit.

And secondly, the rate of growth and change seems to be working us towards a less resilient system overall. As an anecdote, my co workers are all highly paid, but in private conversations - everyone is burned out and cynical, even when the situation doesn’t necessarily warrant the cynicism.

Maybe it’s always been this way, and I’m just now seeing past my own blind spots.

I don’t know what the solution, and if there was one, I imagine it’s be a hard problem to get people to agree to that solution.
That's correct however the purpose of the project is not to become the next Windows or MacOS but to always be a hackable operating system.
I would absolutely love reading you blogging in details about this. It's a lost art, and one I've ever been good at. I want to lately, but people like you are always undercover and don't document their knowledge. :(
I'd image they will buy up as much old used equiptment as possible, rebuild engines, and even get equipment from out of state.
> a video somewhere of Andy Kaufman essentially throwing an entire Saturday Night Live audition

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oMjXZUKUQEk

I mean, aside from the obvious end-of-sentence punches, the southern accent isn't that bad. Especially for someone who grew up in NYC and Boston(?).
Smaldino & McElreath (2016) -- The natural selection of bad science

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.1603...

> Poor research design and data analysis encourage false-positive
findings. Such poor methods persist despite perennial calls for
improvement, suggesting that they result from something more
than just misunderstanding. The persistence of poor methods results partly from incentives that favour them, leading to the natural selection of bad science. [...] Some normative methods of analysis have almost certainly been selected to further publication instead of discovery. In order to improve the culture of science, a shift
must be made away from correcting misunderstandings and towards rewarding understanding. [...] To demonstrate the logical consequences of structural incentives, we then present a dynamic model of scientific communities in which competing laboratories investigate novel or previously published hypotheses using culturally transmitted research methods. As in the real world, successful labs produce more ‘progeny,’ such that their methods are more often copied and their students are more likely to start labs of their own. Selection for high output leads to poorer methods and increasingly high false discovery rates. We additionally show that replication slows but does not stop the process of methodological deterioration. Improving the quality of
research requires change at the institutional level.
There's probably a slower acceleration phase at first?
2FA would help prevent escalation of privileges in some limited situations. If you had my sudo password you still wouldn't be able to do anything unless I click the button of my 2fa device.
It's the same thing. You're paying for engineers to work with a service or you're paying for a service.

See how your comment ages in five years with kubernetes.

I've absolutely seen disasters with open source that bleed companies dry. Openstack is a great example.
I’ve been on both sides of this and some consumers are fine but some have no idea how to consume or initial setup is so broken, this is much easier
Hey, not just "impress", that's tons of upvotes!
> Or about the Guantanamo Bay?

Sure, here's one from this year:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4761112/?ref_=kw_li_tt

And here's the list

https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=guantanamo-bay
I liked the game
http://flythrough.space/
Small suggestion: The 'docs' link in the README should link directly to /docs rather than a place that shows less than where I came from.

Reading through the docs I was wondering 'why' as mentioned in another comment. I hoped to find it in the concurrency section and was disappointed to see that it's only single-thread async:

> Coroutines are light-weight thread-like objects allowing you to write asynchronous non-blocking code as well as handle errors in Senegal. The key difference between threads and coroutines is that a program with threads runs several threads concurrently, whereas coroutines run a single coroutine and cooperatively. A coroutine is not paused so that control can be given to another unless and until you tell it to.

There still was a section about C interfacing, but many languages do that. In the end, it seems to be about syntax which is the least interesting thing about a language. What can a new language do that an existing one doesn't do well? If it's a hobby project that's well and good. Only wasn't clear what the intentions/target is from the too brief README.
> I learned with Kano OS (kid's computer kit) running on a Raspberry Pi at age 12.

I wish I had been able to use a Pi at age 12. :) I had a Commodore64 that I LOVED.
Not really, but it was a couple of years before I discovered that climbing was a sport and there were climbing gyms. When I was a tiny kid, I’d climb trees and rocks like crazy. Used to scare the piss out of my parents.
Is the claim here that the US has organizations that actively work to prevent a movie showing Russians winning WW2?

It is easier for me to believe that a movie specifically about the Russians winning WW2 simply would not get financed due to low probability of earning a decent ROI due to American/English audiences not wanting to pay to watch it.

I was also taught in US history AP class in high school that a significant, if not necessary, element of winning WW2 was the Russians tying up the Germans on the eastern front, and it was stressed that the Russians suffered the most casualties by far.
SIS (MI6) literally have a page on their website for sharing dirt with them "securely"

https://www.sis.gov.uk/contact-us-form.html?lan=en
It's hilarious because China regularly steals trade secrets and intellectual property from any, primarily American, company they desire.
It’s more of a different kind of mindset you need, which is commonly seen from people with good math training. So much more tricky to say “how much” in this case. A graduate level of ability to abstract things and familiarity with abstract notations I assume?
I only read the beginning as it's pretty late for me, but I like the idea, and it innovative. I think you also did a great job at converting quickly the "why".
it's in human nature and in every industry. It's just a variation of gossip, which is what the majority of the news industry is based on. Almost all the news is "sources" giving a peek behind the curtain for everybody else, or at least the illusion of a real glimpse

humans are curious by nature
The “complex > real > int” thing is true in mathematics. In Python, `bool` inherits from `int`.
There's a difference between being anti-CCP and anti-China.
It depends on a) how many people know about it b) how much they have to lose if the information gets out. The latter is a particularly powerful deterrent if it will hurt the person who shares it even if the leak isn't traced to them.

For the tank manuals a) is likely hundreds of thousands of people, and b) is zero unless the leak is traced to them, and they possibly don't expect much even if it is.

For the lab leak, b) is a strong deterrent - every virologist working on even moderately risky research would face trouble (in the form or stricter restrictions and possibly bans on the category of research) if the theory got confirmed, and for the people working in the Chinese lab, embarrassing the Chinese govt is probably pretty far up on the "mistakes you don't get to make twice" list. a) is less clear: They might not even be aware of a lab leak if it was one. However, one piece of sensitive info that could leak would be "we worked on something that was more similar to SARS-CoV-2 than the previously known sample", and I'd expect that to be reasonably well known at a research institute.

However, that adds a third aspect: Verifiability of the leak. Even if a drunk scientist sat in a pub in Wuhan, telling his friends that it totally was a lab leak, and someone overheard that - what then? They post on Twitter "I heard some people talking that it totally was a lab leak"? Even if their friends say "hey, I know someone from the place and it totally is a lab leak", it'd at best be yet another unconfirmed and unconfirmable rumor that would be unlikely to make it far.

Just because there are many leaks, doesn't mean there isn't also a lot of spicy information that never becomes public. These leaks are news because they're rare, even when hundreds of thousands of people have access to a piece of info. Reduce the circle of people in the know to 100, and the probability of a leak drops drastically.
He didn't do anything wrong, or hide from his work, or opinions however. He's merely guilty of a wrong opinion, based on a bad call of a plausible future that didn't happen.

Let's not forget how close to war we came during the "bay of pigs" era.
Ask HN: How many people read the linked article or just the HN comments?
I have been reading HN for about ten years and I would say I read about 5% of the articles and the rest just the comments about the articles - is this normal?
Quite the opposite. People naturally feel more “important” and “knowing” when they have access to internal or “secret” information, while in fact they perform the work of a cog in the system. In 100 years — often much less than that — none of that secret stuff would matter, and it will become clear that someone's life was wasted on transitory things for the benefit of some bureaucracy or corporation.
I'm struggling to understand one part of the article. Could anyone expert in electronics help explain this, please?

> So what if we immediately disconnected the capacitor from the rest of the universe, including its power supply and ground? Well, if we did that after the capacitor was charged, we’d find a differential voltage on the power supply. What if we hooked up ground to the side that had -5V before?

Is this a typo - should this say "to the side that had +5V before?" (ie change minus to plus)?

I think I have a handle on the design, which is that it's charging a capacitor with +5V, changing the charging side to ground, discharging the capacitor through what used to be the input (you can tell I'm not an electrical engineer, I suspect these terms are very faulty) and causing a -5V flow that way. If that's true, I think it's a typo (?); if not, and much more likely, my understanding is flawed. Insight here would be much appreciated.
This is a much more substantial reply than I expected...and I'm quite sure I don't fully understand it.

But I think I have a half decent idea (of what you meant), and believe that it doesn't answer my question (at least in the way I intended it) which is how the statement "...a religious mind has an excellent firewall against everything except the religion believed in" applies to Taoism specifically.

The thing that I like about Taoism is that it is an extremely abstract religion, and its ~definition is....~recursively self-referential and self-"disproving" (of dogma), and all-encompassing:

The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.

The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.

Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.

Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.

Making "...a religious mind has an excellent firewall against everything except the religion believed in" stick to this would be an extremely impressive feat in my estimation. More likely, I suspect any such attempt would demonstrate the validity of the ideas (although it may not be realized as such, which would also demonstrate the point).
I was using smooth-on ecoflex, the wax was bought from a reputable seller. The result was a sticky uncured expensive mess.
What you described sounds like a pretty good situation.

I think I’m highly paid, in terms of US compensation. I also have a lot of stress and feelings of existential anxiety at times. The folks applying that onto me are simply propagating on the stress they’re feeling.

My last vacation - 2 weeks - was over a year ago. But again, on paper I’m building wealth. I just don’t have any opportunity to really enjoy it.

In my opinion, it’s not sustainable. In the role I’m in, I imagine I can do this for another few years - best case maybe 5 years? Once I hit my financial goals towards financial independence, I’ll probably drop out from doing this.
This is actually extremely googable and definitely happened way more than you think.
You're conflating some things.

The reason that people have the idea that "unless you get paid to do something it isn’t worthwhile" is because getting paid for something is reasonable evidence that you're creating value for others. That's important to do if you will be consuming the value created by others. Children raised without that feedback loop can easily be not so functional, in that will focus on serving themselves, not others.

If you have enough money to fund things like socially beneficial research, then you should just fund that. The MacArthur Genius Grants are a good example of that. There's no particular reason to think that your particular children are the best ones to be doing that, especially if they've been raised in an environment where their wealth has let them avoid serving others.
I wonder if the English words tempest and temporal have the same word root. (Edit: Indeed, I see someone posted this exact example in another comment thread.)
Why do you think other news outlets are not aware of this? I think they very much are. The question is, are there valid reasons for this.

TheGreyZone does not address that point at all, so they’re the ones dodging the real questions - what else should we be doing and why? What are the appropriate responses to the challenges we face? Mainstream media largely do challenge politicians on this and ask these questions.
map! would mean a function that performs a map in-place on the array by replacing the values. So it would depend on if the callback was encouraged to mutate the array or discouraged from doing so.
Yes. And thinking there isn't a difference makes you silly, not clever.
Ok. I actually could not find that, do you have a link?

This is still great, and thanks for sharing. I'm just looking for the perfect combination of durability, hackability and as free from commercial (ad vehicles) as possible.
imagine sharing classified information via an https webform. Yikes!
Twitch Leak Reveals Streamers on 'Do Not Ban' List
Mouse Jiggler
You don't have to worship fame or approve of it.

You might disdain or dismiss it.

Regardless, the role of fame in your community is to establish values, information flows, and priorities in economic and social matters that affect you. For that reason, it may be of use to you to know who is famous and who is infamous, and why.