skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Have you cut your consumption by 50% this year? Have you installed solar (if you own a house)? Have you started growing your own vegetables? Have you bought a house that is 50% smaller to reduce heating/cooling needs? Do you want someone telling you that you have to do all these things and more?

My consumption isn't very high to begin with, there wasn't much to cut. My house is shaded by large trees and solar wouldn't provide much benefit, so instead I've cut electrical use. I do have a garden, yes. I have a modestly sized house and 2 roomates.

Could I do more? Sure, not that it'd make much difference with the apparent sentiment being "fuck the future if it makes things inconvenient for me now". Especially for the incredibly well off portions of our society that consume ludicrously more resources than the median and then tell us all there's nothing we can do.

Sadly, I'm convinced that only an authoritarian dictatorship could actually pull this off, and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like that either. I'd much prefer if people would just not throw up their hands because they're asked to be a little less comfortable for the sake our descendants' future.
https://youtu.be/8LGDM9exlZw - Florian Grunow and Niklaus Schiess, Lifting the Fog on Red Star OS - A deep dive into the surveillance features of North Korea's operating system

The bit more detailed view, I'd say
What Is the Mom Test
Graph vs. Relational: The Fundamental Difference
I have no clue where you get a copy provided by North Korea, but it's easy to find online. On the Internet Archive for example

https://archive.org/details/RedStarOS
These people just love them some social engineering. At the heart of it is a firm belief that if THEY had been the dictator instead of Stalin, they could have created paradise. They just need control. And when they get it, and things start to fall apart, the reason is always that they don't have ENOUGH control. It's not their policies failing, it's the lack of faith by your neighbors. "Blame them, they are the enemy. I can create utopia, but only if your neighbors stop complaining and demonstrate faith."

It's just narcissism from laptop bubble boys.
I can’t put my finger on why though.
If you're asking about the oversubscription, many fundraising rounds these days are highly competitive and oversubscribed due to an abundance of capital. So it's common for hot companies to have many suitors.
How much of a networking does one have to do to achieve such a number?
And is your product past MVP?
> The non-lethal flashbang grenade temporarily blinds anybody within its concussive blast, making it perfect for flushing out closed-in areas.

cf. https://counterstrike.fandom.com/wiki/Flashbang
> add a signature belonging to your install of the machine to pictures and video files

But why?
Meta Delays Plans to Rollout End-to-End Encryption
Florian Grunow and Niklaus Schiess, Lifting the Fog on Red Star OS - A deep dive into the surveillance features of North Korea's operating system [1]

[1] - https://youtu.be/8LGDM9exlZw

The bit more detailed view, I'd say
The drop in Jan 2017 was due to Hurricane Harvey which disrupted foreign crude deliveries. https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/31/us-taps-strategic-oil...

You are right that it wasn't 77M barrels in 2020 - my bad. I didn't realise that Democrats had blocked funding for that proposed initiative of SPR increase. The Trump administration worked around this by reducing this to ~30 million barrels and awarding storage contracts. This appears to match your figures.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-25/trump-s-t...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-25/funding-t...
Why is it surprising that the top 1% programmers of an entire country (many of them probably with western education) can produce quality software when put under deadly threat?
That's my take. What matters is how much control you cede when you take $200+M.

If you can hold onto control of your company and take a few million off the table, why not?
Too "on the nose" indeed ;)
I’m curious what you’ve been seeing that’s given you the view that drug and alcohol use has increased a lot post-pandemic. I assume you mean in the US context?

I truly hope the answer isn’t 24 hour electricity, given how cheap it is to produce. That would represent a major backslide in human capability. I’m not fully against other drawdown strategies, but surely we can leave the lights on.

And yes, we are simultaneously so destructive and so unhappy. What a terrible waste.
They seem overwhelmingly more appealing than squatting on Mars. But so vulnerable to attack. Or neglect.

It would be way easier and cheaper to build one unrolled out onto an actual desert. And safer. Maybe try that first?
> I also don’t know who they get acquired by. I don’t see AWS making acquisitions like this. From what I’ve seen, it seems like they try to buy companies at lower valuations (than multiple billions).

No reason why this won't change. A market leader needs to consolidate their position year-after-year. GitHub was a great acquisition AWS missed. They shouldn't want to miss the next GitHub.
Single points of failure are inevitable. engineers could always make a copy of the entire design but that would double the costs and you would still be left with unknown points of failure that the telescope double would have.

The solar shield is like rolling out five layers of tightly packed tinfoil from several points without tearing. Claiming that you would do away with single points of failure if you were the one designing it is too easy to say on HN
I read earlier today on their website that they were offering free plans to open source projects, aybe they also do it for non profit
Tech investors can’t get enough of Europe’s fizzing startup scene
Losing a war. Leaving hundreds of Americans stranded, people who helped us being slaughtered.

You don’t come back from that.
Florian Grunow and Niklaus Schiess, Lifting the Fog on Red Star OS - A deep dive into the surveillance features of North Korea's operating system [1]

[1] - https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7174-lifting_the_fog_on_red_star... (it's also available on YT which for some reason I couldn't link in this comment - perhaps some anti-spam measurment?)

The bit more detailed view, I'd say
Oh great, another note taking app I can buy for $9 a month.
Flatpaks (and Snaps) do require more space.

However; when compared to other operating systems - like Windows - these space requirements are negligible: a full installation of Window 11 takes north of 30GB, so even with five years of accumulated flatpak runtimes, this is still less than a third of a Windows installation.

Even budget computers can satisfy this. And once the runtimes are installed, your mostly good - there are only so many runtimes[0].

With regards to raspberry pi; yes, that's not what Flatpaks are aimed at, at least not now.

[0] https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/available-runtimes.html
> An ideal VM should be indistinguishable from a real machine.

Ideal for what purpose?

virtio is a good example of where that breaks down. For a lot of use cases, directly exposing an explicitly virtual device rather than emulating real hardware can be much more efficient and avoid bugs.

For example, it may help a virtualised system avoid some layers of caching or optimisation if they are redundant because they are nested inside a system already doing that.

Making your VM indistinguishable from real hardware is nice for some use cases, absolutely, but in many it isn't what you want.
I love these pictures, and also the description of something similar in Neuromancer.

Someone should do an open world game that took place in one of these.
How coincidental, I was reading this two hours ago after finding it in my documents while sorting trough them.

I can really recommend this, if only as a cautionary tale against password reuse.
All reserve banks print to maintain a stable exchange rate so they will naturally all hyperinflate together. EU governments are dumping a lot of euros on grants for useless speculative tech projects which have no chance of delivering anything of value. It's infuriating to be part of this system. Then people wonder why many don't trust the media or vaccines...

That said, I don't understand why the fiat exchange rates are stable (USD even coming out ahead as you say) but inflation is not even. In Europe, I'm not seeing any noticeable inflation in consumer goods but apparently consumer goods inflation is very noticeable in the US... But you'd think this uneven inflation should affect exchange rates. Why can't Americans get the same price for the same product as Europeans can? That should be a major arbitrage opportunity.

IMO, there is some serious manipulation going on here to prop up the USD and this may be what is causing the inflation and shortages in spite of stable exchange rates.
I write commercial applications in Qt/C++ for Windows and Mac. People do ask me about Linux versions. It would be relatively straightforward to port the code to Linux. But the mess of different distributions and libraries really puts me off.

Is anyone here distributing a commercial Qt/C++ app on Linux? Are you using Flatpak or something else?
No exaggeration, this is one of the laggiest and most horrible sites that I have ever opened on my phone. It killed my Galaxy S20 dead
This is legacy now. The latest .Net stuff (whatever they're calling it this week) bundles its dependencies, so it's no better than flatpak in that regard.
> and now apps can't target any functionality newer than 3 years old

You can optionally support newer functionality with a single binary by dynamically loading libraries resolving functions at runtime using dlsym or API-specific mechanisms (e.g glxGetProcAddress).
21 is highly dubious and therefore 30 is too.
They gave CDN a new name to milk venture capitalists.
Yes, the towing racket is a net negative for society, but the kickbacks make it positively pay off for the players involved.
You can definitely produce different highs with alcohol, getting drunk from vodka is different to wine is different to beer. In the end one is drunk, yes, but feeling is still quite distinct.
So pretty much the same as with pot, where you can have vastly different highs but in the end are just that: high
It _is_ a research target, and progress is going well!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt

I'm interested as to where you got the idea of "stupid political reasons" blocking research, he literally released a good substitute this year.
Avogadro Corp!

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/13184491-avogadro-cor...
It's ok without sources because you are now talking about something different entirely. (And it doesn't support your assertion). Your claim was that: It was politically hijacked despite having been previously supported by the same opposition who was currently leading the agitation.

That is an absolutely misleading (and ignorant) statement because the opposition were against the farm laws because of:

1. The shoddy laws (with glaring loopholes) that the govt. claimed was "reforms".
2. The manner in which the laws was passed.
3. The unconstitutional parts of the laws.

What you have highlighted are all the preliminary preparations that go before the process of law making even starts. This is the respective governments - NDA or UPA - considering how to make policies based on their political ideology and ground realities (as they see it). Just because the NDA or UPA agreed that reforms are needed doesn't mean they were in agreement on how these reforms need to be.

If the government had bothered to consult the opposition, and other parties that would be impacted by these laws, a good law could have been created. Instead, the law was created in secret, was made a law immediately by introducing it as an ordinance bypassing the Parliament initially, and then rushed through Parliament with the brute majority of the government without even allowing a debate.
You really have no ability to differentiate between those things?

Preventing new pipelines from being built == long term effects

Nord Stream == long term effects

Asking OPEC to supply more gas for our current needs == short term effects

Building pipelines is a commitment to consume more fossil fuels in the future. Whereas, increasing production to lower prices in a time of global shortages of every kind, is not that.

Stop trying to equate two completely different things. They're not even in the same ballpark.
While I agree in general, I think as long as the rest of us persist in our mindset that we don't need to change we will resist all efforts to do so on a societal level as well.
I strongly feel like this is an insult to life itself. I do not wish to incorporate such technology into my daily life.
> but you don't have to go back many years before things get very hairy

For the NV TSEC-equivalent Falcon successor on Ampere, it’s indeed not vulnerable to this attack because that security subsystem was made much more secure.

But that’s an arch released in… 2020.
Android and iOS config-driven experiments that don’t require releases
Have they been speaking with Bryan Cantrill? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28460504
This is an instance of "X would never do Y" with Y a quite specific thing.

Which I usually take for sarcasm.

Here I'm quite sure it is a reference to a quite recent event.
"Remember WinAmp? Ever wondered what it would be like to kill it and reanimate its still-warm corpse as a monstrous Revenant, a mistake of nature? Well, wonder no more!"
This isn’t illegal though? You can do clean room reimplementations
mandatory related XKCD : https://xkcd.com/927/
JWST delayed due to clamping incident
> > add a signature belonging to your install of the machine to pictures and video files

> But why?

Any media negative about the regime can be traced back to its source so they can be suicided.

edit, more specific info from https://www.reuters.com/article/northkorea-computers-idUSKBN...:

>Red Star also addresses a more pressing concern: cracking down on the growing underground exchange of foreign movies, music and writing.

>Illegal media is usually passed from person-to-person in North Korea using USB sticks and microSD cards, making it hard for the government to track where they come from.

>Red Star tackles this by tagging, or watermarking, every document or media file on a computer or on any USB stick connected to it. That means that any file could be traced back to anyone who had previously opened or created the file.
Trust of the packager is still involved, no?
European chocolate tastes dull.

Snark aside, it's about what you grew up with. Fascinating video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J44svaQc5WY
I don't think that any programmers in the DPRK will have access to western education.

People who do are many, many tiers up.
According to Wikipedia, a South Korean magazine got a copy, but they never uploaded the disc images.

However, they did takes a few screenshots. Red Star OS 4 is still MacOS-inspired but with a little more modern of a Mac look - think Mavericks (Red Star OS 3 inspiration) -> Yosemite (Red Star OS 4.0 inspiration). With a touch of Chrome OS and GNOME in there for good measure.

https://www.nkeconomy.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=3191

https://www.nkeconomy.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=3213

https://www.nkeconomy.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=3292
Oooh, my fans are a-spinnin'!
> auto-convert the results to/from regular objects.

Sadly this functionality, which I think is not much more complex than a JSON parser, is absent from many toolkits / libraries, and an immediate option people see is an ORM. Libraries that just do serialization / deserialization from SQL are much less popular than something like Hibernate, which could be a reason.
My views on Codes of Conduct are pretty nuanced, and frankly, I learned a long time ago that the Internet cannot handle nuance. I was and still am an enthusiastic supporter of Rust's CoC, but you'll also notice that none of my personal projects have a CoC in them. So from that alone, you might at least surmise that I don't necessarily think CoCs are a universally good idea (or more precisely, "worth it") in literally every situation. Equivalently, I think they are a good idea in some situations. But I'm not going to say much more than that.

> I very much dislike COCs and overbearing moderation teams in open source communities.

Same. And I have avoided some such communities in the past.

But, I am not necessarily against overbearing moderation. For example, r/askhistorians is one of my favorite subreddits, and I would attribute that state to their intense moderation.
I’m not aware of any steps security researches take to obscure the fact they are running in a VM from malware.
If you were reading this thread, you know I responded to your assertion that shared memory is "absolutely essentialy to have" (sic). It was your words, literally. I wasn't arguing that shared memory has no advantages.
I quite seriously suspect that answer will be "24 hour electricity and grocery stores were you can buy food from anywhere in the world"

Uh, I think that's going to be the norm in the future if anything...
Can't get greedy now, I don't want to be responsible for the next wave of hyper-inflation.
> The resolution is a modest 1280 by 720p

> It has a 110-degree field of view

With that big of a field of view, and that low of a resolution, I don't think you'd be happy with reading text. But I'm just guessing.
Facebook Grants Afghanistan Government Limited Posting Rights
Newton was an alchemist, but thats irrelevant to his claims regarding physics. If you have criticism of the article, this is a great place to put it, but an ad hominem doesn't help anyone.
"Blog spam" = plagiarism of other articles with advertisements inserted?

If so, not a good look.

On the other hand, the author of this is also the author of "graphql-zeus", to which I owe a great debt of gratitude due to the massive productivity improvements over manually-written query/operation types generation

https://github.com/graphql-editor/graphql-zeus
I’ll take any amount of bankruptcies in an industry whose operation is presently facilitating a mass extinction. If economies must crash in order to stop that, then so be it.
Cycloidal Rotor Drone: The Cyclocopter
I still use Winamp on Windows PCs.
I wonder how much of this is nostalgia. Winamp was awesome, but given that skinning was part of its popularity, form was definitely a big deal.
Depends how complex your needs get, IMO. localStorage is a key/value store, IndexedDB is a (basic) database. (localStorage also ties up the main thread whenever its in use, which also becomes relevant if you're using it a ton)
CDN (edge network as they call it) + host your serverless functions. All that automatically after you push your code to a remote git repos.
Thousands of years of evolution and we're still swinging clubs
The Java module system doesn't allow this trick to work anymore.

java.lang.reflect.InaccessibleObjectException: Unable to make field private final int java.lang.Integer.value accessible: module java.base does not "opens java.lang" to unnamed module
If flatpaks weren't in competition with packages repos they would serve no purpose. They are explicitly in competition with package repos. They exist so that app developers can get their work out to users without cooperating with downstream packagers.
Sure - there’s no need to reply to 90% of recruiter emails (I don’t), but that doesn’t mean people need to talk so dismissively and condescendingly of them “recruiter spam” and such.

Just don’t reply and be happy we don’t need to.
Bitrise hooks $60M as mobile app development skyrockets
I was mainly asking how does one know that there is an abundance of capital? Is there some specific report or datasheet to look at?
exactly (though it does provide general COA) it would be nice for it to be more agnostic
My guess based on the very limited press release and some aerospace experience:

Because it's only a 4 day slip, they'll start with simulations to look for any systems that may have been damaged. If they don't see any issues assembly and launch will continue.

If simulations show that this may have damaged a component, we'll see a longer delay as they begin replacing systems.
Alcohol is naturally occurring and ridiculously easy to make. Squeeze some fruit juice and let it sit, and it will ferment just from the wild yeasts on the fruit skins. All kinds of animals like alcohol, and will get drunk from fermenting fruit fallen from trees. There's no mystery here.
This isnt hacker news worthy imo. This can go on reddit or something.
2016 was a very long time ago.
Priceless Roman mosaic spent 50 years as a coffee table in New York apartment
Regarding 1): There already are such projects, notably used by Nazi-Germany during WWII: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_liquefaction
Coal prices are currently at insane levels compared to crude oil, however.

Regarding 2): US has been a net importer of distillates since 2012.
Race conditions aren't random, but chaotic. It's very probable that the reason the race condition wasn't caught in the first place is that it was probably "impossible" to trigger until some butterfly-patch flapped its wings halfway across the server farm to cause cascading millisecond changes in timing to ripple out.
Not my experience at all. Give weed to 10 different people, and they'll experience 12 different reactions to it. With alcohol, it's more or less roughly the same for everyone.
I interpreted "The existential crisis of null" as funny catchy title for conference talk or some such.

I am Java programmer, actually like java and took no offense on it.
Something about a rocket having a user's manual makes me smile. Seems like a proper space agency name for this document would be much more space program sounding than just "user's manual". Even software programmers use terms like User Acceptance Training instead of just training. That one always makes me laugh too though, "You're going to learn to accept this software whether you like it or not."
The assumes that’s how they are motivated.
We also know quality suffers with a gun to your head.

They are far more likely to produce quality work by patriotism or material rewards.
What I see here is basically a rover with seats. Which is fine, really.
The toroid colony image seems to make an appearance in the movie Interstellar as well.

Given the risk of random super high speed/energy collisions with space objects, I would wonder if a more resilliant craft shape might be based on something nested and self-simlar, literally, "bigger on the inside," or like a disconnected formation that isn't physically connected. An orbital craft in a relatively stable solar system that used a planet as a lower energy "mooring ball" might allow for simpler geometric craft forms, but there's probably a maximally optimal shape for deep space starfaring vehicles. (oumuamua was very oblong and cylindrical, which might be a hint).
This feels a little hyperbolic - did we read the same article? I'm looking at a GIF of a robot pushing a chair a few inches, and fail to see how it could come across as "an insult to life itself." What provokes such a strong reaction for you?

As someone who knows very little about this space, the concept of using a virtual world to rapidly train on various tasks seems fascinating. I had a similar reaction upon hearing how GTA V was used to help train a neural network for self-driving cars a few years back.
I have a mental problem with sites like this. I want to see what this is all about without endless and needless scrolling.

Greeting users with delay and some lava lamp blobs is probably not the best way. But what do I know. I am down to business guy so others might have different idea.
Named pipes have been in Windows for many years https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winbase/n...
How can you not think this is great? Freeing humans from menial tasks is the way forward. Remember when people (mostly women) would spend hours washing? Machines and automation freed them.