skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be quite a blow if the 5% of Israeli government who use IPhones (IPhones aren't really popular outside the U.S) suddenly have to switch to Android. As an extreme measure I suggest blocking their itunes accounts. And no more Macbooks! Settle for some cheaper superior hardware elsewhere!
"PhD's with sales skills..."

Sounds expensive.
I don’t understand your comment. Neither the Tropfenwagen nor the Schlörwagen look anything like the Tatra you linked to.
I’d suggest looking at the block explorer for any chain to first understand how many validators they have (there are some hot new chains with fewer than 200 validators which may be run by far fewer than 200 people). I’d also take a look at what’s actually being processed - some blockchains have their validators submit regular transactions to vote for the next block, and they can account for 90+% of the TPS the chain claims to have.

I’d then look at how their consensus model behaves - if it’s Delegated Proof of Stake, how are they handling voter apathy where users have very little incentive to change who they delegate to even if the validator they delegate to is misbehaving? What happens to misbehaving validator? Is there some mechanism in the protocol that punishes a validator for doing the wrong thing (aka slashing)?

I’d then dig into how they are any different from the thousands of existing blockchains. Did they centralize by having a few powerful machines run the chain, did they fork the Ethereum Geth code and simply increase the max gas per block to reduce fees and get a higher TPS? Making short-term decisions like that look great in the short term, but will fail over the long run due to state bloat and centralizing forces (large storage, compute, and/or networking requirements).

I’d also recommend reading articles on https://vitalik.ca/ and https://ethresear.ch/. Before you say “won’t those be bias towards Ethereum?” The answer is, sort of… Vitalik writes a lot about technical challenges in the blockchain space and how Ethereum is planning to handle them, but he seems to remain somewhat levelheaded and focuses on how the solutions help retain censorship resistance and security. EthResearch is actually used by people in the Ethereum and non-Ethereum blockchain space since many chains need to solve the same problems and are building on the work of Ethereum researchers. They are pretty open for non-Ethereum discussions there.

I would almost certainly say to avoid the cryptocurrency subreddit (that’s where people go to con others into buying their coins and farm Moons) as well as Twitter - with the exception of epolynya. I recommend reading epolynya‘s tweets because they engage with people who are championing non-Ethereum chains and start technical discussions with them which tend to be very educational. That can get you exposed to how developers on other chains view solutions to technical and economic problems.

It’s a ton of work to keep up to date on the inner workings of all these chains. Reading about the blockchain trilemma and understanding it is a good way to start get a lense to view these blockchain projects through so you can at least tell when a claim smells funny.
The furin cleavage site looks suspiciously like a hallmark cut-and-paste operation that is exactly what I would do as a genetic engineer.
I get the sinking feeling that large earth orbit space stations will never happen because they are too fragile to space debris. It's like imagine any single person could destroy the entire freeway system of a 10 million person metropolis in a way that would take decades to recover from anytime they wanted. Maybe that's not how fragile it is but it's how it seems. I suppose if we ever perfect force fields we can "raise the shields"?
Modern engineering and modern materials. Shouldn't be hard to do better in a crash than something designed before seat belts and crumple zones were implemented in cars.
Hurhur ya got me, after editing wasn't possible to boot. Airpod.
Yet even that becomes an social engineering attack vector, if you can talk to a human: “I just put random gibberish in there” is too likely to work.
Yeah, but a "viscous cycle" has... a certain charm. Maybe it describes bureaucracy or something...
Nothing about using Linux implies the rest of the system is open-source, or even particularly customizable. Look at all the pseudo-embedded systems (routers, NAS appliances, TVs) that run Linux beneath a completely closed-source userland.

There's a small population of hobbyists who build open-source platforms that use Linux as a component, but those have their own names (Debian, Gentoo) and there's no reason to go around intentionally confusing the layers.
Your article says absolutely nothing about the geographical naming causing the prejudice against minorities and it doesn't make sense that the place of origin, which is of public notoriety, would either be forgotten or is the cause of the prejudice anyway.
I think its both, opl music and sample based effects.

https://github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP/blob/8a07f11bd5952b5e1b9558c...
Physical activity and the evolution of extended human healthspans and lifespans
I still remember watching his TV program where he lives on lottery. He writes hundreds of applications. Until he got chopsticks, he had been eating with pens.
Tracking where it's created seems like a difficult process, many different sources of emission. I do agree that a penalty across the board would be a net incentive towards cheaper polluting power plants.

I'd propose instead a tax at the point of extraction. Our issue lies In the fact that we are adding to the carbon cycle faster than geologic processes can sequester it back into the Earth. Disincentivizing mining and drilling operations, and creating incentives for sequestration, are the only solutions that stick on the scale of a lifetime.
Well, inserting elements while iterating is never a good idea :-) This will cause problems even with std::vector.

BTW, inserting elements can invalidate iterators with any hashtable if it might cause a rehash.
A "diff" in Phabricator is roughly equivalent to a PR, yes. A single point-in-time collection of, well, diffs against head/master that get code-reviewed and committed as a unit. If you were at Google, you'd call it a "CL"
If people need a middleman, there will be a few winners and the monopoly or duopoly will continue.
The way I see it is the idea of "ownership" creates a way to produce scarcity from story telling. If you have a good story to tell about why people should "own" your "goods" you can make a fortune. I think it's very interesting in economy / sociology / psychology sense, and an amazing opportunity for cash grab. But I won't call it a progress on web to call it "web3" because it does nothing on connecting people together like web 1.0 and web 2.0
Particularly career ladders. Without career ladders, people wouldn't feel like they're losing something if they didn't come up with the idea.

My personal feeling is they are overused, but I'm not entirely ready to say they shouldn't exist entirely.

The one thing socialism gives you that capitalism doesn't in this case is that you're guaranteed a job if you are made redundant whereas in a capitalist system, you're out of a job unless you made your own arrangements.
The thing that elevates Phoenix in this regard is since it’s built on Elixir (and consequently the BEAM), adding a new “process” to hold the web socket in memory is trivial and basically comes for free out of the box.

The Phoenix core team has demonstrated over a million (maybe it was even 5?) simultaneous connections running on one server all being updated at once. Granted, it was a proof of concept, but in the real world, you would load balance well before that in all likelihood. The point is the same though. BEAM languages can easily manage a hundred thousand nodes of state simultaneously without breaking a sweat. For most apps, this is plenty as demonstrated by discord, WhatsApp, and other BEAM focused tech companies.
Processing might not be directly relevant in industry, but that's about the only thing it doesn't have going for it as a computing playground / way to get started with programming.

* Terrific official documentation (not just API docs but plenty of high quality examples and tutorials that are beginner-friendly without being stupid or patronizing)

* A couple great books (Nature of Code)

* Some great third party tutorials as well: https://funprogramming.org/

* Dead simple to get running; dead simple to start getting nice animations on screen; small and focused API; hot reloading

* Inspiring community filled with intelligent, creative people at the intersection of the arts and academia
Author here. Thank you for catching that (and taking time to read)! Fixing it up tonight.
> [16] Design as a team; implement as individuals.

This is pithy. I'm curious - does anyone here follow this philosophy? How do you actually design as a team? A meeting for every single design decision?

I'm used to the team finding general alignment on the problem in meetings, but then a single person coming up with the design, writing a doc, and circulating it for comments.
EVM seems to be the hottest, because of early entrance with its own langauges. But WebAssembly in Cosmos, and Solana favors Rust as a programming language but afaik you can use any LLVM compatible. After that it is just a matter of connecting a client to a node, usually done in the browser.
This is a pattern of behavior as old as time in politics and commerce and academics and relationships.

This type of person isn’t the majority, at least in my experience, but their minority is large enough that you reliably encounter them when you start working with large organizations.
Drag force is proportional to the drag coefficient. Power is proportional to force. That tiny fractional difference doesn't seem like it could account for a 50km range difference all else equal.
Is “mesh” in this context a term I’m not aware of? The author never defines it.

My guess is that “mesh” here is supposed to mean “directed cyclic graph” but it’s not very clear.
I don’t have a problem with the font, but it’s hard to read a pdf on a phone.
You have two #1's, and 2 #2's, so it's a bit hard to respond to any of those clearly.

I will first address the second #1, and note that your point is very hard to understand here. COVID-19 has been found in multiple places "in the wild." It's been found in racoon dogs, which were known to be sold at the Wuhan wet market. It even seems to be endemic in certain geographic areas of the U.S. deer population now, which makes me think this thing is never going away.

Regarding your point #3, I think 100s of miles for an animal reservoir of a closely related virus, where the animal is capable of flight, is not so far?

Regarding your point #4, I just don't get it. Yes, we don't know who patient zero is. Are you trying to imply that patient zero is being obfuscated by the government for some nefarious reason?

Regarding your first point #1, as a (former) protein engineer, I can assure you that viral engineering is just not a thing. It is not currently possible according to the brightest minds to just engineer a virus to have any particular infectious biological behavior in a host. Generally, we can engineer viruses to knockout core functions and thereby weaken them or render them non-replicative or non-infective. Sometimes we can engineer viruses to change their tropism (the cells they infect). But taking say a bat virus and combining with a different virus (SARS?), adding a few key mutations, and ending up with a weapon or something is just science fiction.

Could we use directed evolution? Maybe, but you can't just apply some sort of selective pressure in a cell culture that is applicable to actual human infectivity/morbidity/etc.

IMO The only "lab leak" hypothesis that makes any sense at all, was that someone just **ked up, the dice rolled horribly badly (like the worst outcome out of 10^64 possible outcomes), and it all went pear shaped. But it's a lot more likely an infected racoon dog at the wet market scratched or breathed on someone.
I guess the intent is to say, decide on the API interfaces and endpoints beforehand and implement to that spec.

Which is understandable, as you have to integrate anyway and doing it later is more painful than doing it earlier.
It's easy in the US, just get an AR-15 and cause mayhem in a mall with little to no training.
Build Your Own PDF Converter with Csharp WPF and Syncfusion for PC from Scratch
Sometimes it's customer enforced. Just based on various places I've worked.

One place for example sold location-based software, so users could have access to say 10k out of 100k locations, but those locations might not always be next to each other. Data would be stored with a location id, and to do things like "show the average star rating for the locations this user has access to", we'd do "aggregate star rating where location id IN [....]"
The world's all about greed now, and the higher up and abstracted out the people are from the passion of the company's founder, the more the more they're going to fuck everyone over for a shark bite. We're just brilliant animals at this point.
Alright, so what is the message then? How do you get a selfish entitled status-obsessed overconsumption-promoting culture to do anything that will actually help?

I'm pretty convinced there is no such message. I think it is telling that you refer to such a concept without even suggesting what it's co tent might be. It is fairy dust.
Even if you're logging in with the 'blockchain' they can still ban your account, all of the good usages of 'Web3' I've seen look like WebAuthn but with most possibilities for scams
You have to understand, this is no trap.

It goes as planned, the masses will rap.

Mad to the max, under the thunderdome.

Their new home, erected by truly democratic means.

Who are you to insist that someone intervenes?

Bow to your new transqueer queens!
What's genuinely odd is that universities offer something of value that towns and (small) cities should be able to: providing anyone (not just students) a human experience.

I do agree with you that there are societal norms to dump large sums of money into college, but will also point out that many of the things people enjoy from their college experience are things that are - in my judgment - becoming increasingly difficult to find in American society: namely, being able to form social connections that are deeper than the measly platitudes and shallow experience of water-cooler conversations at work.

The fact that colleges are able to command tens of thousands of dollars per year should tell us something about what their campuses are offering that general society and its structure is unable to provide.
Really? I'd like to hear more about this. What exactly looks so "suspicious" that it can't be explained by typical recombination events that are known to occur naturally in RNA viral genomes?
If you call the tow company directly they'll charge you. At least in some places the police will just respond that if it's on private property its your problem not theirs.
The Quest for ReactiveScript
> My favorite pet math problem so far is: how many times of day are all three hands on a clock equal parts apart?

Depends on the clock.

(Three hand clocks can be d/h/m or h/m/s.)
Nowhere near 90% efficient. Door handles, side mirrors, vents, grilles, exposed wheels, several inches of ground clearance.
If it’s the coelacanth, they were known to local fishermen. They nicknamed them “king of the sea.”
Open source cloud native visibility tool for APIs
> Is this you approach most things you don't understand?

I would be delighted if you could do two things for me. One, can you explain what it is I seem to be misunderstanding?

Two, could you answer the question - already posed - which would backup your claims that <noscript> is a benefit HTMX for free:

> Consider this example linked in the thread somewhere, and argue convincingly it would be useful for someone with JS disabled. Otherwise, argue for me why the examples aren't canonical, and that the machinery to wire this meaningfully wrt progressive degradation would be trivial. https://htmx.org/examples/active-search/
Who defines this stuff?
I agree. His character in the comics had a different design and was more noting imo. For example, in the movie when he’s complaining about his new school, he says “I’m only going here because I won that stupid lottery”, and his dad replies “you passed that entrance exam just like everybody else”. The comics also have the lottery but IIRC make no mention of an entrance exam. Lots of subtle changes like that added up to make him a much more sympathetic hero IMO
Percentages Aren’t People (2016)
Ideally you would pool anything you might need to dynamically allocate during a level. You want to avoid allocations during game play entirely, if possible.

Unity itself will pool most media assets. Any given texture asset is shared between all object instances that use that texture. The programmer will end up pooling instances of their objects or just use structs and such. It can be tedious but I wouldn't call it more clunky than explicit memory management.

Large collections are actually not a problem at all in games as long as you only run the collection during a load screen.
Ask HN: How do I learn how to tell a good story?
Seems like when I try, it falls flat. How do I get people to want to hear more? Any advice would help. Books or articles to read, maybe?
Worst acronym ever. Hate-Oa’s. Sounds like a white supremacist breakfast cereal.
That's fine, but then you shouldn't make blanket statements about the whole of the EU, simply state the countries you know this about rather than to extrapolate falsely.
Hi Peter - This is Nate, the founder of CocoTerra. I just stumbled onto this thread and wanted to answer your questions. The first big difference has to do with efficiency of the grinding and refining process using a ball mill. The stone systems are not very efficient (they only process ingredients at the intersection of the stone cylinder and the bottom platform - a line). It can take many, many hours or even a few days to make chocolate that way. Also, it can take 45 mins to pour the ingredients into a melangeur while you can pour the ingredients into the CocoTerra maker in about 30 seconds. The 250g is the equivalent of about 3-4 bars of bean-to-bar chocolate which we thought was a good amount for a dinner party or for someone's weekly consumption. These ~1/2 lb batches also allow users to get creative and make custom batches with all sorts of different flavorings, inclusions and designs. 2kg of chocolate is a pretty significant commitment. The goal/hope is to simplify the chocolate making process so more people can experience it and create chocolate that is unique and fun.
There was only one time I sincerely considered calling a tips line.

It was this stupid barrel in ‘Carnival Night Zone’ in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - if you ever played the game; you know what I’m talking about - and I later wondered if it was literally placed in the game as bait to make you call the SEGA help line.

Either way; this article was a fascinating look into that small world.
Again: "I don't find this funny" =/= "this is not funny"

Personally, the decorative gourds one always gets me. Different tastes.
Interface directly with customer ICs
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what's IC?
The ability to find genuine reviews by relevant experts in general would be nice.
Coke is one of the drugs I'd be fine with staying illegal.
Usually this spectrum of decentralization is downplayed by all blockchains. When you look at their frontpage it's either not mentioned or hidden how it works, or how many nodes there are, how to become a node etc. Very dishonest and annoying. But the marketing and hype around the L1s overwhelms facts.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29324416
First off, Taylor probably is happy with having machines that need service and who knows why McDonald's wants broken machines.

I see nothing wrong with Taylor wanting to improve their own remote monitoring UX. That's just how competition works. Kytch make a good app, and what is Taylor supposed to do, not improve theirs? That part of Kytch's argument is bull. Kytch can MITM and reverse engineer Taylor's machines, but then they don't like it when Taylor does it back to them? Seems like a pretty weak argument. Both companies just need to focus on engineering a better product.
Just a quick, non-exhaustive web search:

http://ascensionfairview.org/contribute/parish-membership/ (Orthodox) $450/year

https://www.templeshalom.org/dues (Jewish) $3,950/year (based on 2 adult household)

https://www.buddhistchurch.org/membership (Buddhist) $44/month

https://beulahbaptist.org/flc/membership/ (Baptist) $30/month

As I said, few churches (or others houses of worship) will charge you a fee for attending services (other than the plate coming around), but if you want a say in church governance you usually have to pony up, either with formal dues or a less-formal expectation that you will provide significant financial support.

I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, mind you.

Have you actually been involved in church governance in the churches you've attended?
Yeah I know what you mean, I'm in awe of the author's ability to create the perfect environment for his team to succeed. Part of the key, I think, is that he was dedicated to caring about every factor that might affect success (customers, project management, design, and the other categories from the list), which left his team free to execute on the technical aspects.

I also think we might be underestimating how much one could do with one year, a relatively well-specified problem, and a team of three super motivated and intelligent coders.
It's a pretty weird movie, somehow my stepdad rented it from the local video rental in the 80's and I watched it (at night) before my parents realized what it was about, otherwise it for sure wouldn't have passed the censor.
Demotic looks like the Arabic script, sure. However, it doesn't work like Arabic. It's a cursive form of the more well-known hieroglyphic script using a later form of the Egyptian language. That means bi-/tri-literals, determinatives, and all that stuff.

The modern Arabic script is only related to Demotic in the sense that it's probably derived from the Phoenician script, which in turn is probably derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs.
I think I'm missing something. Are you reframing your original constraint, that you can't use groups that your customer knows about, as you can't use tags/roles? You can certainly use tags/roles that your customer doesn't know about. This is a common issue in something like healthcare data security.
Per the CCDC 33 of 585 environmental samples taken early Jan. were positive, and 31 of those were concentrated near the live-animal region of the Huanan market. Environmental PCRs aren't magic, they have a finite level-of-detection, RNA viruses don't survive very long in the wild...

There's no handwaving and I'm not positing a particular evolutionary history - the sarbecoronaviruses are clearly understudied and we don't have a good survey of what's out there, we just know about a few close relatives. These are known to be highly mosaic viruses!

"few relatively simple additions to a known virus"
Which additions and which known virus? There are a huge number of random mutations between the above mentioned strains and SARS-COV-2, there's no plausible story for lab manipulation here from those strains. ...have you ever worked with viruses before?

There are billions of animals in the chinese markets, each a test tube... this is the cauldron of evolution, not a few dinky petri dishes in one lab, man.

I'm in love with parsimony, and the history of human disease is the history of zoonosis. If extraordinary claims are going to be made, the burden is on those with the radical new theory to offer up a shred of molecular or epidemiological evidence, not just stories about conspiracies.

Recent work re-evaluating timelines has only -strengthened- the case for Huanan market and a possible link to a racoon-dog intermediate.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm4454