skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Iran circled Israel with around 100K + missiles and rockets, some are precision guided. They are in Lebanon (Hezbollah) and Shiite armies in Syria, Yemen, Iraq etc and Gaza.
It's true that things are good with Egypt and Jordan, it doesn't mean things are good in general.
I'd say Israel is more threatened than Jamaica but lets not get too personal.. anyway the nature of the threats are different than conventional armies invading like it used to be. Its now about guerillas firing massive amounts of precise missiles and drones to destroy Israeli infrastructure and civilians. I am not sure its better now; it used to be Israeli soldiers who died at wars. For the foreseeable future its gonna be mostly Israeli civilians who are hurt.
It's funny that we call them "baby names" when it's more that this name will be with this human for much longer than their baby years. Maybe calling it a baby name pre conditions us to think of the name as applying to a baby rather than to an adult human.
Does KDE not do the same for you? It was pretty strange back in the Plasma 4 days, but since Plasma 5 it's felt extremely "normal" and unsurprising, like Windows 7. I'm not a regular user so it's just my surface impression.
Does anyone know what the efficiency is, and what the consumables are?
I welcome comments in my inbox but, having long-ago had them on my blog, do not consider the lack of them a bug.
Oh it matters. A drug that is not expensive, patented or is readily available surely will either never really be tried or will be tried in such a way it’ll never succeed.

Expensive drugs will enjoy trials designed and sponsored by their manufacturers.
And one that tries to prevent right-clicks?

Also, put {overflow:hidden} on div#window-body-1 to get rid of the ugly scrollbars on that login window
https://memod.com/KarinRichey/you-procrastinate-hint-it-has-...
Assume (1) A -> B, (2) A is sometimes true, and (3) B is sometimes false. Then isn't it provably true that P(A | B) > P(B)? In other words, if highly composite numbers essentially "cause" twin primes, then given a twin prime, they must be more likely to contain a highly composite number between them.

Major edit:

Clearly, P(twin prime | highly composite) > P(twin prime) -- this is GP's statement. You're (and the article's) question is: ok, what about P(highly composite | twin prime)? Well, Bayes rule says:

P(highly composite | twin prime) * P(twin prime) = P(twin prime | highly composite) * P(highly composite).

We're comparing P(highly composite | twin prime) vs. P(highly composite). But we know P(twin prime | highly composite) > P(twin prime) based on GP's reasoning. So

P(highly composite | twin prime) * P(twin prime) = P(twin prime) * C * P(highly composite)

for some C > 1. Then

P(highly composite | twin prime) = C * P(highly composite)

for some C > 1, and we know

P(highly composite | twin prime) > P(highly composite)

Doesn't this more or less prove the question posed in the article?
I was referring to security issues regarding dependency management.

The git.php.net server was also not compromised, as far as I know, from a PHP vulnerability that was active at the time.
evidence for that last claim? because it is interesting
I think this would be a great idea if the intent was a checklist that would never be automated. If the idea is to create a scaffold for future incremental automation where tasks start falling off the checklist (until ideally none are left), then I'd rather start with that framework instead.
I believe the left turn issue is still happening after the newest update:

https://twitter.com/bagguley/status/1456628357131644928

A 100/100 safety score isn't enough for the reflexes you need for this thing, at any second it can slam into a head-on with someone going the opposite way. It hasn't happened yet, but they shouldn't have released it IMO.
You can lobby for the law to be changed. Don't be surprised you can't get a critical mass for "Yes, I'd like businesses to be able to track me".

You could just as equally declare copyright law or property law to be a religion and insist you don't want to subscribe to it, but society as a whole does, and so if you want to participate you just have to lump it.
Maybe.

Pain seems apt. Just wanted to share perspective.
I did the same for my girlfriend and I and preloaded it with all approved Danish names (42,000 in total) that we could then swipe through. I made it as a private web app, so that I didn't need to consider authentication.
Maybe, but I wouldn't be so dismissive. A lot of very mainstream things today started out as a 'joke', but they did start somewhere. Given all the sci-fi on metaverses, it is not that surprising that someone is trying to make that happen, unfortunately its one of the worst people one could think of for the job.
Well the problem that we're trying to address here is inequality of outcomes. Grading people against how intelligent we would expect them to be tends to be too obvious, and going out of our way to cognitively impair some of the them would be too controversial, so our only option for the time being is to redefine what attainment is.
There are three types of inexperienced software engineers. There are the ones who want to learn and grow, and that is split into the ones who are also willing and able to put the time into it (let's call them A s), and the ones who aren't (let's call them A' s). Then there are the ones who do not want to learn and grow (let's call them Bs).

An A or A' can be coached and mentored. Even some Bs can be motivated into becoming As or A's. The Bs that can't should be cut loose.

Realize that these individuals are like a tiny seed. They require lots of water and attention to grow. When they do grow though, they can grow into a tall oak that provides shelter for others to grow (ok, forestry majors please don't rain on my metaphor, I know about crowding). In my experience having mentored more than a handful of people (maybe more than two), the experience is very worth it. There will be some bad apples that sour the experience for a bit, but most people are either As or A's that want to be As).

A common mistake is to tell them what to do and how to do it. This is sometimes needed, but stunts their growth. As you do things, show them how you did it, explain your decisions. Then give them tasks (smaller at first). The growth from entry level code, to developer and sr dev, to software engineer and sr sw eng, to system engineer and beyond is in many ways and expansion of the complexity that the individual can handle thinking and reasoning about. So start with a function or set of functions, graduate to a class, a module, a package/namespace, a service, and then an app. Or whatever similar ladder makes sense for your domain, language, and product.

Do design and code reviews. Be gentle - these reviews may be looked on as the storm a tiny sapling has to weather. Don't say this is wrong on designs. Instead ask them why they decided to do it this way. Ask them 'what would happen if X', etc., and lead them to come to their own conclusions. Do enforce a coding style and good habits (such as PRs, code reviews, unit testing).

Realize that experience or inexperience is relative. To the 52 year old that's been coding since he was 11, in the domains he's coded in many people are inexperienced.

Also realize that experience is not just relative but scoped. The same 52 year old walking into a FPGA shop is a rank noob, and should know it (if they think they aren't then that's another problem, and often worse than inexperience).
I like the fast presentation style. If you're gonna have to do a video, for the love of god, speak fast.

Using that cat is cheating though. :)
> That's unacceptable to start with.

On what grounds exactly? When interacting with people they are able to observe you and record their observations. From where do you derive a "right" to control their behavior in this regard?

How could you classify an observation about yourself made by someone else as "yours"? How would you enforce this "right to be forgotten" when people carry around storage mediums made from meat? Or are you simply suggesting that you should be forced to go through all your letters, diaries, notebooks and ledgers on the whim of someone's demands?
Hacker? News?
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I'm not giving a legal opinion, but some say that

"Consent must be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous."

So a question remains, if you give someone the option to decline to be tracked, is that enough? Or do you need actual consent?

The EU website is doing the tracking with option not to be. Other experts say you really should have consent first before doing any tracking.

Anyways, not giving my opinion on which is right, just that there are different views, and even EU does it in ways I think that folks here do not understand.

The one thing, the EU sites are extremely CLEAR about things, I do like that.
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The opt-in of adtech is visiting the website and the reward is the content on the website. You're the one that starts the chain of events in both cases.
I had even money on "capitulate to the obvious" and "double down on dumb" but after yesterday where the president was lectured by a prominent expert, it was pretty obvious they knew they had failed.
I'm sure Lawrence "Groper" Krauss has a bug up his ass about DEI, but I don't see how that should mean a whole heck of a lot to me.
Why not...
`head -c8 /dev/random | base64`
I'm not anti-vax, the logical train of thought you are incapable of yourself is based on the very factual reality that COVID presents highly variable risk to people based on their age. This, in combination with the known risks of the vaccine, in combination with the extremely early stage of wide-scale deployment of the vaccine in children, in combination with Hippocratic principles, in combination with risk-adjusted thinking, leads to the conclusions that no, it is not completely obvious if a parent should make an appointment for their 5 year old to get a medicine EUA authorized a week ago.

Besides, if you're so smart, and it's so obvious, why do you think you're smart enough to state that Sweden, a modern country, is objectively wrong for banning mRNA vaccines for children?

In any case, my primary point was that it should be up to parents if they give their kids this vaccine, and when. Not the government mandating it.
Made this simple tool to save me some time on Illustrator as a PhD'er. Use cases include sneak peeks to academic publications on project websites or presentation slides.

Try it out: http://pdf2preview.chuanenlin.com

Play with the code: https://github.com/chuanenlin/pdf2preview
Ask HN: How have tech jobs changed in the past decade?
The same big employers, interview processes, code review, performance reviews might give the impression that very little has changed. Is this the case?
And if that shopkeeper starts following you around everywhere you go, noting what you do, what you buy, what you read, with whom, and then shares this with whomever they want, for profit, isn't that stalking, isn't that person basically a creep? And if they did it with all of their customers? And since it's physically impossible for a single person to do that then they will build an army of robots that will do that for them, is that still OK? Because that's already a reality we live in.
This is really nice. For comparison, this is what using ASP.NET directly in F# is like:

https://github.com/darklang/dark/blob/main/fsharp-backend/sr...
Positive View - "In 2021, the firm announced that its 7th prototype, Trenta had reached 100 million degrees C after a 16-month test cycle with more than 10,000 pulses. Magnetic compression fields exceeded 10 Tesla, ion temperatures surpassed 8 keV, and electron temperatures exceeded 1 keV.[16][17] Helion's seventh-generation prototype, "Polaris" is under development and is expected to be completed in 2023.[18] It will increase the pulse rate from one pulse every 10 minutes to one pulse per second for short periods.[19] The Polaris facility will economically produce helium-3 on a commercial scale."

Criticism - "Retired Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory researcher Dr. Daniel Jassby mentioned Helion Energy in a letter included in the American Physical Society newsletter Physics & Society (April, 2019) as being among fusion start-ups allegedly practicing "voodoo fusion" rather than legitimate science. He noted that the company is one of several that has continually claimed "power in 5 to 10 years, but almost all have apparently never produced a single D-D fusion reaction".[24] However, the Helion team published peer-reviewed research into its colliding FRC system demonstrating D-D neutron production as early as 2011,[11] and further detailed D-D fusion experiments producing neutrons in an October 2018 report at the United States Department of Energy's ARPA-E's annual ALPHA program meeting.[25] According to the independent JASON review team,[26] VENTI, a sub-scale prototype Helion had developed partially for the ALPHA program, achieved initial results of 8·1022 ions/m3, 4·10-5 seconds confinement time and a temperature of 2 keV for a triple product of 6.4·1018keV·s/m3 in 2018."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helion_Energy
I think Chocolatey has manual screens when there are more than 5 detections, but not entirely sure
Yeah, graphviz is like 30 years old I think and it's pretty solid.

I think I finally settled on mermaid cause it fits flawlessly into markdown based writing or documenting software. I don't think it's anywhere close to dot in it's comprehensiveness though.
I was also thinking that the "blast radius" for PHP was lower, as there wasn't the same culture around creating packages.

Until composer, there wasn't much of a culture around creating packages full stop, apart from PEAR, which beginners didn't create packages for.
> first step

Aesthetically there is probably more work to be done; technically, they are very, very, very, very well done. As I commented in another post here, I only may wish for a slightly taller display (and maybe more battery - they last 5 hours). And as I commented in another post here, I found them to be lifechangers: reading while moving around is very pleasing and efficient.
Maybe! That resonates with me.

I am inclined to give that a try myself. Maybe simulate it with a quick hack, or just enter the mode on some new links as I encounter them to see how it feels.

Here's a similar discussion:

The move to standardize one space after period at end of sentence.

I hate it. Many others love it, and I sometimes wonder at just how differently we appear to value things.

Input on mobile is a mess because there is no longer any way to differentiate between a period marking an abbreviation and one at end of sentence.

The autocorrect function, intended to help with touch input is a mess now too.

And when I use Voice input, I get a lot of randomly capitalized Words because of how this has played out. When I reset my mobile dictionary, that goes away, but so does all the benefit of the "learned words" function.

To me, that seems more like real damage.

Yet when I go to discuss this with people, I get a similar response to what we saw here. Your Overton Window point resonates!

And I'm only making this one to just kind of illustrate the minor struggle in these kinds of things, and that there are a lot of these little Struggles kind of just dragging us down on many fronts, and I don't think we notice all of them.
And if you’re serving those pop-ups from US-controlled servers (even if they’re in the EU), you’re violating the Schrems II ruling.
Never tried it - but does complaining through Yelp gets problem solved? (I used BBB a couple times and each time I was able to get business to do the right thing, where they would ignore me otherwise)
Peloton Posts Its Biggest-Ever Stock Wipeout After Forecast Cut
They just keep extending credit until they're right. It cost them nothing to extend you credit and pretty much one interest payment makes up for it. The perks that offset the annual fees on their fee cards are just an accounting gimmick on their end. "Oh cool Audible gets to print awesome revenue numbers while we just pay back the customer that paid who feels like it makes their annual fee worth it" and who knows what arrangement behind the scenes is, shares? More targeted customer data?

And if you actually are spending, as you suggest, they make enough from the merchants who are eating the 3% transaction fee.

You're the data product, like every other cool free thing over the last decade, and they have a sustainable business model.

And if you ever do have a disruption in your earnings while you are floating a balance on the credit card, you've just become their whale customer that is paying for the whole operation with interest. By the time you default they really don't care about collections because they've already made so much, they're very ready to sell off the debt to some collections agency for pennies. You can be the most meticulous and responsible user of debt, and still have this happen to you eventually. They're just the house in their credit casino and all they have to do is wait.
I think you'll find that if you want to prove a program correct (which vanishingly few people really do in practice, but anyway) you will find it infinitely easier to do so if the language it's written in is type- and memory-safe.

Even if you're talking about the looser notion of "does my program behave correctly", we have a lot of evidence that using simpler unsafe languages doesn't produce more correct programs than more complex safe languages. See: basically every piece of C code in the wild.
Based on reading this article, do you think that cognitive ability has no impact on life outcomes?

Although the study is not an RCT (how would we design one?), I find it convincing that cognitive ability is partially responsible for, e.g., educational attainment, even if this effect is often adulterated by other factors like parental income.

The paper focused on being "too smart." On the other side of the spectrum are folks with dementia. Those who experienced dementia in their lives can attest to how devastating of a condition it is.
I see that their article[1] about the size of their blockchain uses "kb" and "kB" almost interchangeably, but, for the record, they mean "kilobytes" (i.e. 22000 bytes).

That's still an impressively small number, of course, and it is below what I'll call the Watson-Gates Limit of 3200 kB, which is the amount of data apocryphally needed by all the computers in the world.

[1] https://minaprotocol.com/blog/22kb-sized-blockchain-a-techni...
I mean that is kinda how cars were developed. Look at how unsafe they were then they first rolled out. If we had waited to deploy cars on roads until we could make cars as safe as they would be 2010 we would still be waiting.

The question for me is not, are there risks that could be addressed, but do the risks outweigh the relative benefits.
Is GDPR coming to restaurants somehow? Oh god! This really is getting worse and worse. Is this for things like remembering your favorite orders etc? I could see some GDPR arguments there. What if a waitress just remembers your orders in their head - will they need a consent form? If they put it in their CRM / sales system?

The issue folks have is many users if given a choice, will take the free service (instagram / tiktok / free gmail) in return for being tracked if they are given a choice.

Feel free to start up the business that doesn't do this (protonmail etc). But MAJOR services are built the other direction (ie, billions of users worldwide).
But GDPR bars websites from doing what the stores are doing. The website can't refuse to serve you the website if you don't agree to the tracking, but membership cards work exactly like that. You only get the membership discount if you agree to the tracking. Websites aren't allowed to do that.
> Can anyone name anyone who is naturally gifted at anything that didn't get taught and learn a million different things.

Dude it's high school math not spring boot.

Some kids have some types of intelligence better than others.

If some part of intelligence was not intrinsic, we could be teaching calculus to rabbits.
> You will not get a side effect from the vaccines in a year from now

There are possible severe negative effects due to vaccination, even if there are zero medical side effects. Herd vulnerability could cause widespread harm - there is a monoculture of immune responses and monocultures have vulnerabilities. I agree it's unlikely to have severe long term downsides, and the short-term gains are very significant. Note that I'm mostly pro vaccination.
It's not tyrannical in the dictionary sense of the word. You simply don't like it, that's what your arguments boil down to in this subthread so far.
Lost my mom to cancer back in 2009. She was sick from ~2000 until then.

Some things that help:

If work is demanding, find whatever time you can to communicate with her. Send fun texts. Play a game together online. Whatever. It will help distract both of you. If you can't be with her, call as often as possible and check in to see how she's doing.

Spend time alone to process. Get an AirBnb somewhere remote or take a road trip by yourself. Tell your employer that you need time off and take a zero-f*cks-given attitude about doing it. If they let you go, that's on their soul. Prioritize your sanity and the well-being of your family above everyone and everything else with no remorse. You won't regret it.

Find old photos and if she can, spend time laughing with her and remembering you growing up. I'll always cherish the last Christmas I got to spend with my mom cooking and laughing at how bad I was when I was little.

Don't expect anyone else to "get it" or to care and don't be offended if they misunderstand the situation. Unless they've been through it they have no frame of reference. This helps avoiding the inevitable snap when the psychological pressure becomes too much.

Never hesitate to email if you need to vent/talk: me@ryanglover.net.
Ooh that's a good one. It includes a detour into some really weird forex stuff. If you're used to it it's not that weird but as a American, with US credit card, and a US bank account who then banks exclusively in USD, I found it complicated and fascinating.

Basically, other countries can bank in USD sometimes, so there's a weird corner case that you can send USD to a merchant but can land in their account as $converted_currency or USD that isn't so corner. I'll let patio11 cover this (if/when he gets to it) as there are details I no longer have access to and thus can't do the subject justice.
I was fresh out of school as a developer when my mom's (terminal) cancer came back from remission. It was really difficult to focus 100%. I spent all of my vacation time from when I found out till her passing visiting her.

For myself, I tried to bury myself in interesting work as much as possible; but that will only get you so far. I made a point to make as many memories with her as I could. Those activities and trips I didn't think were important became the utmost priority. It also made me realize how much I didn't like my job and where I was living, it was a period of reflection - not just on my relationship with my mother, but if the career path I was on was something I actually enjoyed.

I'd recommend just being as available as possible and trying to have as much quality time as possible. Hopefully she beats it, but I think you should remember that any time you have with her going forward is borrowed time. Make some great memories with her, take lots of pictures and videos! Learn about her childhood and her parents and grandparents!
Hi greensoap, you are correct that Amazon patent application is not GRANTED as of yet. If there is a B at the end of the document number, it is GRANTED.