skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few hints:

"A baby-aspirin-size amount of powdered toxin is enough to make the global supply of Botox for a year. That little bit is derived from a larger primary source, which is locked down somewhere in the continental U.S.—no one who isn’t on a carefully guarded list of government and company officials knows exactly where. Occasionally (the company won’t say how frequently), some of the toxin (the company won’t say how much) is shipped in secrecy to the lab in Irvine for research. Even less frequently, a bit of the toxin is transported by private jet, with guards aboard, to the plant in Ireland."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-10-26/inside-fo...
CRISPR will not be used to cure HIV (not in the way experimented in China) because the same mutation that confers resistance to HIV makes people more susceptible to infections by influenza and West Nile virus and it is associated with autoimmune conditions like Crohn’s disease and type 1 diabetes
Unless I missed it, I assume the article is talking about the Chrome implementation of IndexedDB. As far as I know the performance issue with their implementation vs. say, Firefox’ one is a known issue[1].

Other comments mention using batch operations to speed-up IDB but maybe Chrome could also fix their implementation in the first place. It seems, though, that the Chrome team had no intention on improving the write performance of IDB as of 2019[2].

Edit: it seems that Chrome team did improve the performance of IDB since 2019 but it is still not at Firefox level of performance.

[1] https://dev.to/skhmt/why-are-indexeddb-operations-significan...
[2] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=102545...
How exactly is the UK going through an anti-science phase? Case in point:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-to-launch-new-research...

Or more recently:
https://ukcop26.org/

No doubt some of the previous funding schemes from the EU don't exist anymore. That is however different that some sort of explicit agenda to undermine science.
To be honest, this reads like you are pushing a nihilistic agenda.
Are you sure? How exactly would this be monetized?

By publishing the exploit they lose any market advantage.
WWIII already began. Using carefully-cut video clips, intentionally misleading articles, and social media platforms increasingly encouraging unrest to pad their bottom line, decreasing their users' attention span, and spying into their users' devices, the factions only need to fight for public opinion in this day in age.

You can convince someone to surrender to you out of spite for their own country, long before you have to point a gun at them nowadays.
Scotland: Care home residents injected with salt water instead of Covid vaccine
AFAIK they're working on it
Found the designer.
> Valve only needs to maintain wine & proton for a distribution. The games themselves ? well, they are windows only. Nobody compiles for Linux. All gamers either dual boot windows...or android. Even for those who game on Linux, they do it on an abstraction layer like Wine

This isn't true at all. I'm afraid you've misunderstood the situation. Get on steam and check for yourself. There are many games compiled for Linux specifically (in addition to other platforms) that do not require proton. They use some ubuntu or debian packages for their libraries and have no linkage to anything windows.
https://www.youtube.com/c/mCodingWithJamesMurphy for advanced tips and explanations of things taken for granted at a deeper level along with some hard interview puzzles solved and explained.
> "even the top-notch engineers that work at Google are still humans."

A top result in a Google search tells me: "According to 2016 annual report as of December 31, 2016 there was 27,169 employees in research and development and 14,287 in operations."

With that many people, it is unreasonable to flat-out assume that everyone who works at Google is top-notch. This kind of stereotyping is insidious in the labor-market for people who are otherwise excellent but do not have the magic fairy dust of Google sprinkled on them.

It is important to remember that no matter how impressive the machinery looks from the outside, everything eventually traces back to a human being typing some text in some editor with an imperfect model of how some lego pieces fit together.
Land Use
apt is not misleadingly advertised as a sandboxing environment. Flatpack is:

"Flatpak: Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework " [0]

"It is advertised as offering a sandbox environment in which users can run application software in isolation from the rest of the system." [1]

The whole point of a sandboxing environment is that you can run applications that do not want to be sandboxed. The flatpack proposition is directly contradictory with this basic requirement, in that it requires the application to be flatpacked to begin with.

[0] https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatpak
> what today will sound absurd in the future?

I quite seriously suspect that answer will be "24 hour electricity and grocery stores where you can buy food from anywhere in the world"

> Our widespread and normalised alcohol abuse

Until pandemic we've lived in a fairly teetotaling era. I suspect for the next decade we'll see an increase in casual drinking, becoming more similar to the 1950s. If you watch any films from that era very strong cocktails are basically a standard for just about any social occasion, any time of the day. The pandemic has instantly changed peoples views on alcohol and other drugs, what's coming the immediate future will likely continue this trend.

The immediate future generations will likely look back on ours as a bizarre blend of incredibly wasteful prudes. A generation of people who gluttonously destroyed the planet while at the same time being too timid to let themselves enjoy it. I think the reaction will be a large one of revulsion "you destroyed the planet and you didn't even let yourself have fun doing it? you lived at work for what?"
AirTag Teardown and Security Analysis
iOS 15 is already installed on 48% of iPhone/iPad users’ phones or tablets
I imagine that in the age of streaming music it would be a hard sell to produce a new offline music player.
Precisely. Anyone who stands up for alcohol while putting down cocaine or cannabis is fooling themselves and refusing to see truth.
why would any sane person vendor-lock-in all backend code to a single provider?
I’m fine with whatever it takes to finally take down the fossil fuel economy. There’s no more room in the atmosphere for any more additional CO2.
The European Commission is the EU's executive body. The President of the European Commission (PotEC) is nominated by the European Council[0] and then elected by the directly-elected European Parliament. The Member States (other than the one from which the PotEC came) then nominate Commissioners who are assigned portfolios from the PotEC and are approved en-bloc by the European Parliament.[1] Commissioners aren't members of the European Parliament.

You're right the DMA isn't law yet, it's only party-way through second step of the process, the Ordinary Legislative Procedure.

The Ordinary legislative Procedure works something like this:

1. The Commission adopts a Proposal for a legislative act (i.e. a Directive or Regulation)

2. The European Parliament considers the proposal in committees (with a nominated lead committee), and then in plenary. This will almost certainly involve amending the text of the proposal.

3. If approved by the European Parliament, the proposal then moves to the Council of the European Union (not to be confused with the European Council, mentioned above, or the Council of Europe, which is not an EU body.[2]). This Council is made up of representatives (often ministers) from each of the member states, but not the heads of state and government.

4. If the Council has suggested amendments to the text then these can either be accepted by the European Parliament or a process known as "trialogue" happens, where there are negotiations between Parliament, Council and Commission.

5. Once the institutions have agreed on the final text, the act is published in the Official Journal of the European Union and becomes law.

[0] The body comprising the heads of state and government of the EU's member states

[1] But only after Parliament holds confirmation hearings. These can - and have - led to portfolios being re-assigned or to member states withdrawing their candidates and replacing them with somebody more acceptable to Parliament.

[2] Somebody really needs to do something about these names as it's confusing AF. Although generally the Council of the European Union is referred to as just "the Council".
This is almost great. Looks a bit abandoned though.

I wish the source was available so I could build it on Apple Silicon and perhaps make a few customizations.
My favorite one is the Friedman Unit. Unbelievably such people are employed and read. It seems all the national security commentators on mainstream media suffer from the Friedman Unit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_Unit
I've long felt that WWIII will not be fought (initially, anyway) with tanks and bombs and such, but with computers.

What could be more effective for your enemy than taking out all your power stations and plunging your country into total darkness and chaos? Everything would run out in short order and people would turn on each other.

Saves having to mess the place up with bombs and you have plausible deniability within the international community.
Are you calling bar tenders trained paid drug administrators making it sound like they have medical training? I want to go to the bars you visit. Of all the bar tenders or waitstaff that I have ever met, the closest to medical training were from the ones attending med school and working at the bar to pay for it. I don't think that qualifies.
The US supply dropped precipitously because the price was too low for fracing to be consistently profitable. Letting the price rise would help US-based producers invest in more production.
In my state prospective teachers are fingerprinted and their prints are run through the FBI database when applying for the certification. My prints are in that database.
On the one hand he’s closing pipelines which are safer than rail for oil transport.

By "he" I presume you're referring to the Biden administration. What "pipelines" have they closed? Biden pulled the permit for the Keystone XL, but that's not so much closing a pipeline as prohibiting a new one from being build (maybe you were including that under the umbrella of "closing"?). The other Keystone pipelines are still operating.

There is also news about possibility closing the Line 5 pipeline, but that hasn't happened and he recently indicated that he had no intention of closing it.

Is there another (or multiple other) pipelines that have been shutdown by the administration? A google search only comes up with the Keystone XL and Line 5 pipelines.
If we're going to undertake aggressive policies that hurt the poor, why don't we freeze all trade with China? The CCP is building a new coal fired plant a week. Their CO2 emissions have doubled while the US' has gone down. Their emissions gains vastly offset our reductions. (Yes, I understand the per capita numbers, but more CO2 is more CO2. The atmosphere doesn't care about equity or fairness.)

No, that would disrupt far too many industries and hurt the wallet of people in the laptop class, so it won't happen. Let's just force people who drive for a living or work with their hands to suffer. Meanwhile, folks reading this took a hot shower this morning. They could have taken a cold shower. They could set their thermostat to 60 in the winter and 80 in the summer. But the laptop class don't sacrifice for the planet. They just posture and support policies that hurt people who make less than them, like welders, drillers, truck drivers, etc.
This is awesome! Thank you for sharing. On the page you linked, the github link doesn't take me to the repo, just to a generic github page; you might see an increase in users if it did!
Definitely not comparing to coca leaf use. To your point though, refined THC in the form of hashish has a much longer history than refined coca leaves. As has breeding for more THC.
Yes, usually trying to get the word out, that their new interviewing process is not as onerous as their old one.
X-ray timelapse of fluid movement in plants, sensor teardown
These companies can be disruptive innovators by focusing on Niches that the big companies won’t care about because they’re tiny. For eg - managed react applications.
IIRC Firebase was acquired by google.
But the plan is to go after all of AWS slowly from a different direction. Cloud flare is doing the same thing and their stock is going gangbusters.

Cloud services are one of the most profitable businesses to ever exist. There’s so much lock in and network effects. Especially with managed solutions like these.
this always looked surprisingly well polished to me.
I'm not sure you were reading this thread. obviously anything can be written without shared memory, but they will be much, much slower, and using a GPU becomes less appealing. the entire purpose of the article and project is that it's fast, but it can't be anywhere near as fast as most cuda apps until it supports shared memory (not worth arguing about atomics).
This would be a cool way to play a virtual version of M:tG or Hearthstone. Or Netrunner or Slay the Spire. Or Warhammer (Quest). Etc etc. Especially during a pandemic. But one can also already play RPGs where you have to use your imagination instead. Then you are the VR/AR.
Java.net.http.HttpClient is considerably slower than HttpURLConnection
Can synthetic biology save us? This scientist thinks so
There's a contradiction there I grant, but by "frictionless" I mean I didn't fight with the environment at all.

I'd contrast that to the Java course where you learn the strange dialect of "single file Java" where you might write a single main() method or write only static methods. If you need to you can write as many classes in a single file, but only one can be public, unless they are inner methods. You probably don't need public methods.

It's a strange enough world and distant from ordinary Java coding, yet kinda fun and helpful for mastering whiteboard interviews.
What video? I am on chrome and don' see a video.
For classical music nothing beat YouTube. Other I am not sure but I expect you are right.
What about /bar.html and /bar.json ?
non-profits?
So far, even though we know Red Star 4 exists and has for years now, it's very elusive with (AFAIK) no disc images yet found.

I think that there was a rumor that it was FreeBSD based instead of Linux based but don't quote me on that.
> The average person does not want to hear that they need to tighten their belt so that someone else's belt now or in the future can be loosened. That's just not how people work.

People did it during WWII, not just by participating in combat but by donating their possessions to the war effort, and that was within living memory of people still alive today. Saying "that's just not how people work" assumes that it has always been so. I think something has changed since the 40s to make any kind of sacrifice for the community look like anathema to most.
The usual method is to let Cloudflare collect that data passively, I like the honesty of letting the user see the DDoS protection in action better.

At least this website doesn't require a captcha when you're visiting through TOR, that's better than most websites behind DDoS protection.
Put it in cold water in the fridge, it goes pretty fast that way. It has saved my bacon a few times (both literally and figuratively).
You have it the other way around.

Alcohol is legal because people love to be inebiated more than they like being stoned or on a paranoid coke binge, or nodding off due to heroin

Majority rules , and so the preference with regards to the feeling of being inebriated + collective risk tolerance of society + the variability of alcoholic beverages + the low cost of the substance made it so that alcohol emerged .
Giving Thanks to Technologies [audio]
Gaps in the A.I. Debug Process
> or shell wrappers that point dynamic linker to appropriate private /lib directory.

You haven't needed shell wrappers to do that for a long time, just link with -Wl,-rpath,\$ORIGIN/whatever/relative/path/you/want where $ORIGIN at the start resolves to the directory containing the binary at runtime.

Of course other things like selecting between different binaries based on architecture or operating system still requires a shell script.
Emotion Detection with Andrew McStay – The Machine Ethics Podcast
Is the JWST in a state where they can open it up and inspect? Or are they just going to run simulations to see if the shock/vibration would cause any anomalies?
I'm not sure you're aware of the future we're facing right now.

Continued unchecked growth coupled with increasing consumption is heading us towards an ecological catastrophe that quite seriously threatens the possibility of extinction, and at the very least looks like complete collapse of industrial civilization.

There is nothing worse you can do for the environment than bring another life into the world, especially if you live in the developed world.
Walking the Battlefields of Nagorno-Karabakh
I'm so Fat Help your kids lose weight. By, Evon Latrail
Pop!_Shop's UI frequently freezes when installing, searching, or even just opening an app's store page from the Gnome app menu. It also has some UI bugs, like the search bar being visible but un-interactable when on an app's page. It's definitely something that can be fixed with better UX. The actual selecting whether I want the apt version or flatpak version of a package works fine.
> Haven’t seen anyone advocating to curb marijuana here yet.

You don't think a drug that's illegal in large parts of the world and for which legalization is a highly controversial topic is curbed?

Also, the parent comment clearly took children as an example of people who's live can be drastically worsened by someone else consuming alcohol. Drivers and and passerbys endangered by drunk drivers would be another good example.
Yeah we saw 100% of requests fail for a 20 minute timeframe for our production service, nothing made it through. Definitely a lot more than “may”.
I'm looking at it through another lens - a way to improve my intermediate haskell and learn about HDL. Maybe they're pushing for commercial use but there are alternative reasons to be interested in this too!
that's not how enterprise sales work

if you want them to have your business, then you have to post your budget

it's a great way to filter out orgs that have no money to begin with

and big businesses might be paranoid about their competitors knowing their costs
I would counter that a Trump like person would lead to less chance of war. Countries tend to toe the line better if there is a measuarble chance at retaliation. A Biden like person who's demonstrated incompetance (Afghanistan pullout) and placation (weak stance on China relations) would lead to contries rolling the dice on whether we would retaliate or not. We'll see what happens with China and Taiwan or Russia and Ukraine.

I would also counter that the response to alleged climate change could also spark conflicts which could lead to more encompassing war for example some greenie gets elected to power in Russia and decimates their ability to export energy (similar to current U.S. situation). That would leave many angry people in the cold in the E.U. and lead to unrest and potentially war. That's kind of out there but still within the realm.
There are boring institutional investors and fancy equity investors who buy treasury bonds. The latter do it because they want dry powder during a recession. QE takes treasury bonds out of the system without issuing more bonds, meanwhile banks get central bank reserves that they don't want. Nobody is borrowing, no money is issued. Everyone is worse off. As yields go to 0%, those institutional investors simply hold cash in bank accounts which drags the velocity of money down.

The unfortunate news is that most macroeconomic theories (including mine), especially the neoclassical variety, are kind of useless in the real world because of inability to actually implement policies 1:1 in the real world. The modeling errors are also quite significant. Nobody is really trying to solve NRAs(non reproducible assets) or monopolies. Everyone just assumes you can harvest more bananas or colonize a second planet.
I'm meaning in terms of appearance, and especially customizing shortcuts. I already use Firefox customized mostly to my liking, but I don't like having the same generic (very tall) top bar that everyone gets. Tab management leaves some to be desired compared to Vivaldi. Yes, there are extensions for that, but they don't function as sleek.
The life of Dr Gerard O’Neill is worth a read:

http://ssi.org/the-life-of-gerard-k-oneill/
https://www.bain.com/globalassets/noindex/2021/bain_report_2...

Page 19

FTA:

It’s hardly surprising that many GPs were afraid Covid-19 would put an end to the past decade’s golden
era of private equity fund-raising. But those fears turned out to be unwarranted. Global fund-raising
of $989 billion was a decline from 2019’s all-time record of $1.09 trillion (see Figure 18). But it was
still the third-highest total in history, and if you add in the $83 billion raised for SPACs, it was the
second highest. All told, the industry has raised almost $5 trillion in capital over the past five years.
Buyout funds alone raised about $300 billion in 2020, or $340 billion if you include SPAC capital
aimed at buyout-type targets, estimated at $41 billion (see Figure 19).
I have no quarms with tiers of pricing or restrictions, if that information is presented clearly. The current UI feels like a sneaky dark pattern.
I love how resourceful you people are, every time I check out a HN thread I learn about more databases and references.

Some of us are young and untrained in how these markets work. I think the original commenter wanted to contribute a counter-example because they're learning about this market.

What would you suggest for learning more about the energy industry? Best references and anything to avoid?
I wonder if the economics will align to make this attractive to bar owners. When I go to the bar I will usually spend around $50-100 on drinks depending if I am drinking cocktails or wine.

Given that THC seems to be hard to precisely dose, I am not sure that a bar could figure out how to make cocktails or edibles that give a sufficiently small amount to encourage patrons to buy multiple items.

Also, alcohol works in a few minutes, but THC takes a lot longer. I wonder if we would see an increase of over consumption because people are impatient to get their buzz.

Fwiw, I like THC is small quantities from time to time, but I consume at home and watch a movie. Being in a loud public space which high seems like a nightmare to me.

Either way, it will be interesting to see what the future holds.
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