skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are 28.8% of Debian stable packages currently "pending"?

The stats on reproducible-builds.org say that "29595 packages (95.7%) successfully built reproducibly in bullseye/amd64."[0] which may not be accurate for the reasons given in the grandparent post, but I note that the situation seems to have improved significantly[1] since that mailing list thread.

[0] https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/bullseye/index_...

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=900837#17
In many cases, a 26-page report documenting the incompetency of a team would not be taken kindly.
calories or kilocalories?
No, I'm saying don't sit around talking about how this will be ready for commercial deployment in less than ten years until after it has been demonstrated to actually work in a production environment.

The first commercial production system will be an alpha build. The second and thirds are betas. It's only after those are completed that there's enough information to make commercial plans.

As of now, this system the GP is talking about hasn't even been built yet and won't be operational until at least 2025. And even when it is built, it is just a lab experiment designed to run in 10 second bursts. There are numerous more steps after this design phase before we get to commercial application.

Ten years is a pipe-dream for commercial application.

I'm excited to see progress in this field. But we are doing it a huge disservice by spreading misinformation about it. There are still a lot of problems to be solved before these are ready for prime time. And these problems will require a lot more funding to solve. If people sit around and talk about how this will be ready to go in 10 years, then who is going to want to fund it into year 11?

Scientific funding is directed largely by politicians. And there are many, many political opponents to science in our current Congress. Giving them ammo in the form of empty promises doesn't do advocates for fusion energy any good.

The honest answer is, we still don't know if tokamak will ever make for a viable commercial power plant. Best can be said is that it has been demonstrated to produce net positive energy for short periods of time, and that there is confidence that improvements can be made. That's it. The viability of commercial application has yet to be demonstrated and may never happen.
Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) be the next big thing after the Internet?
...depending on your legal department, it might be to ward off out of geo liabilities or expectations of support (whether actual or simply perceived).
Dont worry, registrants will move to offshore locations and that's how it's gonna end.
Was expecting to find a mention of Metamask and Infura. They both run on AWS and are the infrastructure bridges powering the majority of dApps. Oh and 50% of both are owned by Joe Lubin.

So without mentioning mining/staking pool centralization, you've got centralization of both infrastructure and ownership.
What does DeviantArt have to say about all of this?
I used poor wording. Support is definitely work. I just mean that MOST people doing day-to-day work USING tools (vs supporting them) only deal with one at a time.

A UI's utility isn't determined by whether or not it's shared with other tools. It's determined by *how well users can get work done with it* which is why a host of non-CUA interfaces persist today.

Text-mode CUA was and remains horribly ugly and clunky. If you want that, go use a GUI.
Hopefully everyone here has seen the movie Hackers, where a similar, but slightly more destructive prank involving the school's sprinkler system took place.
For email threads, fwdeveryone.com. (Attachments are temporarily disabled for most users, although I can send you a workaround if you need that in the short term.)

For individual emails, posthaven is the successor to posterous.
Doesn't any event in which people die reduce life expectancy?

How is this not a simple tautology?
Dunno, depends on your interest. Sure you can pay $1000s on a nice rig, but you can also build a small radio that fits in a altoids tin for a few $10s.

40M CW radio (bare board): $12.69:
https://www.amazon.com/Qianson-Shortwave-Transmitter-7-023-7...

Here's a kit that does 80m, 60m, 40m, 30m, or 20m for $40:
https://kc9on.com/product/foxx-3-cw-transceiver/

Here's an easy kit for $55 that can do 5W (quite capable for digital modes) for 80, 60, 40, 30, 20 or 17m bands.
https://qrp-labs.com/qcxp.html

Or pay a bit more and get one that can run on 4 bands for $80 ($60 if you want to make your own case):
https://qrp-labs.com/qdx.html

Or if you want a 2M 50 watt FM radio, alinco has one for $170.00, designed to sit on a desk or mount in a car:
https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-008739

The above are far from the cheapest, and smallest. There's quite a few solutions under $100 and smaller than a deck of cards, just depends on what you want.

Personally I wouldn't consider any of those particular expensive, big, heavy, or bulky.
They may not be legally able to. It's likely that Flash includes some 3rd party code that they've licensed under commercial terms from other vendors and which they can't release.
Both the FBI and DHS ought to be on the terror list themselves.
Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner has died
All you need is one variable sufficiently large that you can change until you find a collision, such as a comment (which about all languages allow) or a meaningless number.

You could even vary whitespace until it fits, like spaces at the end of lines.
I think this helps us get here, When a few thousand NFTs are created and have a hard time selling... eventually it'll work itself out.

I also believe its a Digital Tulip, even more so than Doge coin. Even BTC (when tulips bulbs were a thing they were trading high too, it doesn't mean they have real long-ish term value)
Hit the nail on the head with this one.
The pinging approach incredibly more cost-effective than provisioned concurrency.
If you’re interested in what’s possible atm, check out the Varjo XR-3. No screen door effect.
a printable version of your link, in case someone want it as well:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.01528.pdf
It's all fun and games until someone creates a pandemic for political reasons and you're denied the ability to question it at all. Don't read too much into that statement, I'm not referring to the current pandemic but give a sociopath (which most politicians are) a tool of great power and they will abuse it. Give them a tool with no check on that power and you're begging to be squashed by it. Creating a "Pandemic Exception" is all they need to wield that powerful tool and never ever give up power ever again.
Applies to domains.
Not just websites.
Even phone number in whois required.
I really dislike the academic language used in the article

> A pervasive ontology of sameness, rooted in notions of essential humanity and nascent sensitivity to cultural relativism soon developed. The Ottoman enemy and its Christian opponents became, over time, integrated parts of a discernible, albeit internally contentious unity, revealed by that great equaliser, war.

Why do people have to write like this?
There is no such thing as fractional reserve banking in Bitcoin.

Say you have a wallet with a balance of 10 BTC and decide to act as if you're a bank. The first lender comes, requesting a loan of 30 BTC.

You don't have 30 BTC, and it basically already stops there. You can't transfer the 20 extra BTC to the lender, since that BTC does not exist. You can't make up your own BTC as it's all on-chain.

You can make up however much fiat money you want. You can own 10 BTC and loan out the USD equivalent of 30 BTC in USD, but that's traditional fractional reserve banking, which has nothing to do with Bitcoin.
Uniswap censored tokens representing stocks some months back. This is 100% mutable behavior of the project.
> SRE doesn't scale because it's an every now and then thing, ...

That's the part that doesn't scale... tacking on SRE at the end, or doing it every now and then. The reason people don't care about the software being a "well-built corporate citizen" is because they care more about shipping features. If you have an SRE team that will say "no" to you when you try to ship new stuff, you'll eventually figure out a way to build new things in a way that the SRE team will say "yes". When I say "no", that could be a hard pushback like "no, that's not getting shipped" or it could be an answer like, "no, the SRE team will not support that, yet."

These kind of decisions need to be made at a high level, because everyone in the institution is typically operating with the wrong incentives. That's why you end up with a random pile of containers and scripts. It doesn't have to end up that way, even when you have microservices.

> That's what the articles is discussing. Not the rest of the everyday normal software development rushing-bedlam you describe.

I disagree with the article, so necessarily there are going to be differences between what I'm saying and what the article is saying.
The government cannot easily quickly ban the buying/selling of a certain thing like that. Just not how it works, far too slow moving.
No particular disagreement here!
Do you want Venom? Cause this is how we get Venom.
And Coinbase is helping its users acquire/sell/trade these digital trading cards how?
> Given that the vaccine doesn't work to stop transmissions,

Nothing is perfect, but vaccination reduces transmission significantly:

> Two studies from Israel, posted as preprints on 16 July, find that two doses of the [Pfizer] vaccine ... are 81% effective at preventing SARS-CoV-2 infections. And vaccinated people who do get infected are up to 78% less likely to spread the virus to household members than are unvaccinated people.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02054-z
I dunno. Assault that permanently injures someone, rape, kidnapping, and trafficking are lifelong scarring for the victims. I may not rank computer hacking or selling drugs as deserving of a permanent record, but there are lots of other violent crimes short of homicide that do.
Nazi prison guards of our algorithm world war.
The ASKAP scans at 888MHz. From the paper, which luckily is publicly available:

> It exhibited
a high degree (∼ 25%) of circular polarization when it was visible. We monitored the source with
the MeerKAT telescope from 2020 November to 2021 February on a 2–4 week cadence. The source
was not detected with MeerKAT before 2021 February 07 when it appeared and reached a peak
flux density of 5.6 mJy. The source was still highly circularly polarized, but also showed up to 80%
linear polarization, and then faded rapidly with a timescale of one day. The rotation measure of the
source varied significantly, from −11.8±0.8 rad m−2
to −64.0±1.5 rad m−2
, over three days. No X-ray
counterpart was found in follow-up Swift or Chandra observations about a week after the first MeerKAT
detection, with upper limits of ∼ 5.0 × 1031 erg s−1
(0.3–8 keV, assuming a distance ∼ 10 kpc). No
counterpart is seen in new or archival near-infrared observations down to J = 20.8 mag.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.00652.pdf
I don't think people assumed that it was coming to the US, but covid was definitely in public awareness by late January.

Some proportion of those people are disaster preppers that bought a ton of masks, just like the toilet paper people.
I thought google hasn't use perforce for years but something called piper[1]. Aren't migrations good on some aspects such as force engineers to stop using insecure libraries? I would say you could do internal migrations without having to change external apis, maybe google should care about the customer more? or is there some other reason for these external forced migrations?

[1]https://research.google/pubs/pub45424/
IME, the notifications do work. I downloaded .apk directly from WhatsApp.
Why does the meteorite have the energy to crash through the roof of the house, but then stop on a pillow (without damage to the pillow, as far as the picture shows)?

(I'm not sure why we have this bizarrely sequential headline—surely no-one would say "crashes into house, bedroom, pillow" in conversation—when the actual headline, "Woman rocked awake by meteorite chunk crashing into her bedroom", seems (if punny) just fine. But I do like that the article leads with a picture of a meteorite sitting on a pillow. You know, as proof.)
Cool product. We split our test pipeline into multiple because it was taking a significant time. It would be nice to consolidate them. Regarding security, what hardening are you doing to ensure code or secrets aren't compromised?
Here's an article about why fusion is a bad idea [1] and its from the bulletin of atomic scientists so they should know. I'd love to hear it refuted but doesn't seem to have happened.

[1] https://thebulletin.org/2017/04/fusion-reactors-not-what-the...
The American has good reason to distrust science (see my other comments), but Thalidomide is not one of them. To its credit, the FDA did not approve thalidomide at the same time as other countries thus mainly preventing the birth defects.

Of course, then you read about Diethylstillbesterol, and your faith in american public scientists is once again crushed.
Whenever I work on a fully OOP codebase, where everything's an opaque "service", I run into the problem that it's very hard to articulate, much less enforce, contracts with stateful entities. If I call method A a second time with the same arguments will it change state again? Or err? Or is it idempotent? What if I change the order of calls A and B; are they independent, or intertwined? Or if I remove the call to A right here, will that break the call to C that happens somewhere completely different?

There's this notion that state is encapsulated and so you don't have to care about it. But actually, really, you still do, because it changes the contract you're working with over time.

The Actor model seems like it would have the same problem. At least in this case there's a very clear benefit you're getting in exchange: dodging most of the challenges of concurrency. But is the contract problem addressed at all, or do you just bite the bullet so you can get these other benefits? Asking as someone who's only ever read about Actors
I don't think it's the record's duty to keep you from being employed. That's the employer's decision.

Even if I agree that it's a dumb practice, you're proposing a world where employers are free to refuse your hire if you (eg.) were fired from a job 26 years ago, but not because you were convicted of a crime.
The presentation layer has nothing to do with he protocol layer...

If you pump some serialised binary into a browser it will still render wrong.
Google employees allowed to sue for bans on talking about work issues
Why not? If people are willing to throw away money on glorified text files, might as well cash in on it. Any useful functionality of NFTs can be achieved using public key cryptography or digital signatures, but we're not gonna get rich with that attitude.
Interesting context, thanks! Cool tool, will be glad to see it get tuned further :)
for someone who worked in this area, you have an unbelievably short term view.

humanity either has fusion reactors or it doesn't. imagine what we can do with them, the spacecraft we can build, submarine cities, one in every home. Mars, Europa. It's not where we'll be 10 years after we do it, but 100 years, 500 years. To get there, we've got to step forward now.
Compound had a huge bug which lead to the CEO (lol decentralized) to threaten users that got the airdropped tokens he will report them to the IRS. This is decadence at the highest level of this "new era".
Record 4.3M workers able to find better jobs in white hot labor market.

Would be curious the new roles people are moving to-are they finding better retail or moving into tech?
Many criminal cases require establishing intent. Pranks may be harmful as you allude to, but the intent still matters.
I can imagine the output of program space. That's pretty big. All possible universes in fact.

It's an issue of probability and bins. While natural data is infinite, there is vastly more unnatural data. At some point you have enough metadata (e.g. natural vs. random) to know that the original data came from Earth to pick out the right needle from the needle stack.

Unless the data is from a completely alien source, we are close enough to that source for our heuristics to be of a manageable size.
This makes no sense. Sure: you can generate an X.509 certificate that says whatever you want, but the point is that you can validate the signature and see that it's a forgery. In the case of a hash-addressed system like git, the problem is that the signature is over a collision, so it no longer certifies the thing its supposed to certify. Git uses the hash as a shorthand for a revision, including its entire history--so yes, it is using the hash that way.

By that logic, would MD5 be fine? MD4? CRC32?
> Yet sick Chinese people were free to spread over the world for months with no response except down-playing it. They practiced the opposite of the precautionary principle and horrendous risk management.

At what point did the spread in the US stop being driven by sick Chinese people? I don't know the answer, but my impression was pretty darn early - far before politicians were taking the virus seriously as a policy issue. Sometime like early February or even late January.
Ranking messages on social media platforms
They are not affordable. That's why they are being replaced by gas plants and renewables all over the place.
It also completely ignores the fact that ivermectin, whatever its merits for covid are, is an actual human medication. It is not a veterinary drug, although it has utility in animals too.
In case anyone else is wondering how the heck the kid got access to the district's network, the key sentence is hidden in the middle of the post:

Since freshman year, I had complete access to the IPTV system. I only messed around with it a few times and had plans for a senior prank, but it moved to the back of my mind and eventually went forgotten.

Not sure why they don't go into more detail about how exactly "complete access" was obtained, since that is obviously the hardest part of hacking any system. Not trying to downplay the achievement here, just think that this would have deserved a bit more detail.
Well this seems interesting... So from my knowledge of high school honors bio, blood vessels have these long slow muscles that also help pump blood. If a heart pumps continuously, wouldn't that create back pressure on the vein/artery muscles, which would in turn increase your blood pressure whenever the vessel muscles contract to pump? And if you got an artificial heart, I'd think higher blood pressure is a bad thing?

From my quick research just now, it seems continuous flow hearts are not better because they pump differently. That's just a side effect with no benefit that's noted in studies. A continuous pump is much smaller, and for long-term total heart replacement, is the only thing that can be small enough to fit in the body. In fact, it's noted in a case study that they're not sure about the long term effects of not having pulses, and that's something that will need to be studied.

Now as far as the lungs - I think that would be a bad idea too. We'd need separate flow-through pathways to inhale and exhale. So two necks, or an exit hole in the chest. That takes up space and is another vector for infection. In addition, exhaling moisturizes the tissue, so you'd need much harsher intake tubes, and your exhale tubes would be constantly dripping water. All that extra space has to come from somewhere - meaning you now have less space for actual oxygenating tissue, resulting in worse oxygen capture. Now the diaphragm has to pump harder, because you're not extracting as much oxygen from your air intake.

Anywise, you had a funny comment, which I hopefully made funnier by responding to it seriously. We're a good team. Team Heart & Lungs they call us.
I believe that the Japanese also intended the Battle of the Philippine Sea to be Kantai Kessen.
There have been REPLs like PowerShell for ages, it's nothing really new. The only nuance in this is that it is new in the Windows ecosystem to have something like that supported by Microsoft. Ironically, it hasn't managed to displace the command prompt or batch files, so instead of having to deal with one thing, you now have to deal with two things.

As for the passing of strings: it might seem like a pain, but as soon as you start working with non-program I/O it's not like you'll have much of a choice. Keep in mind that it is the lowest form of communication and you can build on top of that. Same with I/O in general: nothing prevents you from using shared memory or a device instead.
A few people have already disagreed, but I want to add that in some areas the more you specialize, the more unique your work. "Memorizing new framework" is fully within my comfort zone, it's just API surface.

Finding useful information to actually build those frameworks is much tougher, and only gets tougher the deeper you go. StackOverflow is very much suited for newcomers and engineers working at the top of the stack. My work became harder and thus less googleable (which bums me out, honestly).
These perceptions can be very unreliable so it would be good to ask us to look at specific links. If voting rings are getting around HN's anti-abuse systems, that would be a huge problem and would instantly become our top priority.
I would think it's not that simple because `git push --force` doesn't do anything if it thinks the histories are the same, and in this case we've created a history that appears to be the same. You'd likely need a custom git client (which isn't a problem) but I don't know enough about the internals of a git push to know if the server would even accept objects if they match hashes of objects it already has (it may just go "I don't need that" and ignore it, because what's the point in doing anything with it?). Presumably it would depend on the exact server implementation whether you could get it to replace an existing object with a "new" one which is actually the same hash, but frankly I think that's unlikely because it would be pointless work from the view of the server. If it does happen I'm not sure what auditing you would actually be able to see, webhooks and such might not be triggered because the history didn't actually "change".

What you could do however is just host it yourself somewhere else, say put it on a fork. Or if you have access to the actual repository hosting the original version, you could just manually replace it yourself. git clients aren't going to just automatically pull the "new" version though so you'll have some combo of people with the old and people with the new, and it gets a little messier from there.
Maybe they meant “delighted” and autocorrect mistyped
I think we do have models to understand battery degradation. Like...

https://www.dal.ca/diff/dahn/research/adv_diagnostics.html
In fact, the primary determinant of how X sounds to person A is the nature of X; otherwise we would be unable to use data to make inferences about the nature of our world.
I'm still sometimes amazed that I'm in a video conference with people from 4 continents. Just today I was interviewed for a couple hours by an outfit in Uzbekistan. When I grew up people were cut off from each other if more than an hour's drive away.
It seems like he just was on the school network and the IPTV devices were also on the same network with no authentication.
We've changed the URL to that from https://michaelgummelt.medium.com/ now. Thanks!

As for what's happening on HN - it seems to be just the usual stochastic churn. Who knows why people post old things? if they're interesting they're welcome, and a lot of people decided that one was interesting.