skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe the JWST effort is comparable to anything SpaceX is doing.

Falcon 9 first optimized for manufacturing cost for a well-proven category of product. Pretty much every aspect of orbital multi-stage rocket design is well explored, and they can surely hire people with experience in it. Optimizing for manufacturing cost is also an activity that many people have experience in. It's an innovative and risky business strategy, but nothing being done is physically or technologically risky - the only risk is they may not be able to optimize costs enough, which is only a risk to the business.

For the next innovation, first-stage landing, it was also very low-risk to their core business. If they screw up the landing stuff, then the first stage blows up somewhere, but they were all going to do that anyways, no risk to the primary payload. This let them iterate on it rapidly for very low cost and risk.

Building a brand-new space telescope of an original design with a dozen new and revolutionary technologies is a whole different ballgame. There's a ton of unknown unknowns that nobody can anticipate ahead of time, only one try per device, and it's either total success or failure. It shouldn't be too surprising that it overran expected costs and deadlines so far. It's more a statement on the Government contracting process that attempts to treat building revolutionary technology just like building the 10 millionth Jeep.
> Could the company and its executives could be sanctioned based on this court case

It already has been [1].

[1] https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2021/11/commerc...
The only thing I am afraid of is ideas being disregarded because they don't help you politically.

Reality is what reality is. Whether this was leaked by a lab in China or not should not depend on which side of the election we are on. Ivermectine is not effective or not based on which side of the political spectrum you are on.

And if it doesn't work, that doesn't mean we make fun of those who believe it does, it means we try something else. It took thousand of failed attempts to find the one bacteria that could effectively attack TB.

If you want to reject reality and substitute your own, I won't stop you. Don't force it upon me.
Anyone who hasn't gotten a raise in the past year should get at least 6.2%, unless their employer is signaling to them that they value their contributions 6.2% less than last year. If you improved your skills at all, or took on additional responsibilities due to Covid 25% isn't at all a stretch, especially at dollar store wages.
I have an M1 macbook pro with 16GB of RAM and that website is not stalling, but it's horrible nevertheless.
It is a free forum, we can post the most obvious insights anytime we want.
That's sort of covered by the second half, though

>and there is not a lot of solid evidence in this case to argue in good faith beyond "theoretically possible."

Also, bad faith arguments tend to be posited on the fact that they are incorrect. Otherwise they would just be arguments.
So then this can never work offline like a single page React PWA could then I guess? For me after seeing offline-first PWAs it's hard to want to go back to building stuff that's only available online, but I guess everyone's use-case is different.
Wow how come the US death rate amongst the unvaccinated is so much higher? It's peaking at 18%. Is that where we would be if there was no vaccine?

It would also help to see some data on vaccine effectiveness against long covid.

Edit: I need to learn to read more carefully. As others have pointed out it 18/100000. My panic is over.
When i think of "desktop integration", i think about drag and drop not working between `ark` (a QT program) and `thunar` (a GTK program), and i think of folk writing blog posts about window theming. (there's also notifications, icons, etc, blablabla, that keeps getting worse (freedesktop is, that is))

To be honest, i don't care much about how programs look. But i do know many people do care.
Because the stupiderati immediately jump from that to it being deliberate. It makes it very hard to talk about in an open community.
> I don't know if there's a spec-problem that favors a slower-hash table

Yes. std::unordered_map requires that pointers to stored values will always be valid (except if the value is erased). This makes open adressing effectively impossible. If you need max. performance, std::unordered_map is indeed not a good choice.

> The ret[] operator searches for the string. Since it doesn't exist, it now has to malloc the key and insert the value in there.

The optimal method would be https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/unordered_map/em...

> So eight mallocs and 6 frees?
> Yeah, C++ strings shoot yourself in the foot performance-wise.

Most implementations of std::string use short string optimization. Typically, you can save up to 12 chars (32-bit) or 24 chars (64-bit) inside the actual string container without any memory allocation.

Looking at the code example, I would say that there won't be any mallocs at all for std::string.

I think the performance difference just comes from the suboptimal design of std::unordered_map, where each node has to be allocated on the heap. In open addressing hash tables, as used by PHP (and I guess also by Rust), the nodes live in a single large array. The only memory allocation you see is when the array has to be resized due to a rehash - which happens very rarely!
This isn't a Chuck E. Cheese, paper notes are just fine. Nobody asked "what about the guy who makes the yokes" when John Deere took his first spin.
I always have the fear that something I write will be too complicated for someone else. This has become particularly irksome when integrating OIDC into a single page app. It’s gut wrenching to double check every random header for every domain it needs to serve, to set up SSL for localhost, to include the right headers on the fetch request, and maybe edit the /etc/hosts file to make it work. That process is a joy killer. The tools mentioned here can help stop that madness and bring joy back into development. So thank you! Please evangelize these ideas to browser standards committees and whoever will listen.
>Then a year after I got fired the series A investor led the next round of funding and decided to value the company at $0, so I got diluted by 99.99%

Was it made impossible for you to be an investor in that round? Could you have prevented 99.99% dilution that way?
> Are you saying I should be giving them revenue for not being terribly open about the fact that they only review products which can earn them a commission

It's right on the top of their front page:

"Wirecutter is reader-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more."
We have Dollarama
Yeah, we had minivans, station wagons, and small pickup trucks. Then we had what are now called "full-size" SUVs. Midsize SUVs today are just slightly bigger cars.
> more and more evidence mounts that it was indeed - a lab leak

Perhaps you mean "less and less evidence"?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/11/18/coronavirus...

https://www.science.org/content/article/why-many-scientists-...
Comparative advantage is still in effect. It just comes down to stuff like economics of scale, language, local laws, etc rather than simply ultra low wages.

An interesting long term effect of this is there is a second whiplash as stalled first world economies eventually benefit from the world catching up to them.
>I didn't downvote you because I'm "suffering from a lack of imagination"

The problem with suffering from a lack of imagination is you don't know you suffer from a lack of imagination.

The entirety of your comment is devoted to the current and past state of things. JSX is better because "template languages suck ass". You need to "render a h1 or div" to "draw...on a web page" or "add an element to the DOM", etc.

So, you're championing one approach because you think it's better than everything else that already exists. That's the definition of a lack of imagination.

>Putting another abstraction layer over it to obscure it does jack shit other than make your code more complicated.

I doubt you appreciate how many layers of abstraction already exist. But, per your logic we should all be writing assembly code.

You have it exactly backwards. There's no reason HTML has to be the target simply because that's what the browser currently consumes. If, tomorrow, browsers "natively" consumed something that was less document-oriented and more idiomatically app-appropriate, then will you understand? Would you be comfortable with coding to that abstraction level? Because everything you touch is essentially running in a VM. These frameworks could easily provide that layer versus the one they provide.

So try to get HTML and other "web fundamentals" unstuck from your brain. Imagine languages and platforms for building non-Web (e.g. native) applications and perhaps that will help open your mind a bit.

Imagine.

In any case, thanks for the comment versus just a silent downvote. FWIW, I upvoted you for that, even though your comment was poorly considered.
Books. We used to have a huge library were I worked, with a couple full time librarians on staff. This was before Google showed up. After Google everything changed.
If you change the age group to the youngest possible, there are times where those dying that are vaccinated actually surpasses those that are unvaccinated. The difference is so low though that I don't understand how it would make sense to vaccinate those under 12. I remember at the onset of COVID-19 that they tried so hard to make everyone scared to death (literally) that they would push videos of people dying in the streets saying it was COVID-19 causing it.
If you would look at what is going on in Europe right now, antivaxxers can't be ignored. They are causing huge issues at the moment, like parts of Germany and Austria are fucked from a hospital point of view.
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No. It's supposed to be a working relationship. There are many opportunities to negotiate in good faith for things you want in any relationship. Always threatening a strike or a divorce or a full-scale/nuclear war or a political filibuster is actually a sign of an abusive, unhealthy relationship. It's not a bad question though. It's just a sign of the times.
Ask HN: Most open / secure firmware on a laptop?
There are many security vulnerabilities in the (Intel Management Engine) [1] and I noticed the following while reading the Apple Platform Security white-paper:

> One subcomponent stored within the UEFI firmware is the Intel Management Engine
(ME) firmware. The ME—a separate processor and subsystem within Intel chips—is used
primarily for audio and video copyright protection on a Mac that has only Intel-based
graphics. To reduce this subcomponent’s attack surface, an Intel-based Mac runs a
custom ME firmware from which most components have been removed. Because the
resulting Mac ME firmware is smaller than the default minimal build that Intel makes
available, many components that have been the subject of public attacks by security
researchers in the past are no longer present. [2]

This statement sounds similar to the functionality provided by this tool: https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner.

I'm wondering what the community recommends / uses for their own personal laptop hardware. I've seen efforts from Purism [3], System76 [4], Starlabs [5] to make use of Coreboot [6], but AFAIK these efforts aren't able to neuter Intel ME at the level of an Thinkpad x200 [7] with Libreboot [8]. Is there reason to believe that the M1 firmware in the new MacBooks has less vulnerabilities?

What is your preferred laptop?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine#Security_vulnerabilities

[2] https://www.apple.com/ca/business/mac/pdf/aaw-platform-security.pdf

[3] https://puri.sm/

[4] https://system76.com/

[5] https://starlabs.systems/

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot

[7] https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-x200/

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libreboot
you haven't seen Halal slaughter then I imagine...
Hn would be worse as an app, but more notably Twitter, and reddit would be better as pure web pages if they didn't purposely cripple them to funnel people into the app.
There was a plan to have a 'spinning module' on the ISS, but NASA cancelled it. NASA has never really supported artificial gravity, likely because none of the NASA Centers is really focused on it.
I'd be genuinely interested if they would provide the death rate for recovered individuals too, as that is something that gets discussed often.
The author doesn't really understand how Java escape analysis works, and just focuses on one key aspect: "It does not replace a heap allocation with a stack allocation for objects that do not globally escape."

The author then implies that escape analysis is only used to reduce lock acquisition. Java escape analysis will replace a heap allocation with a stack allocation if the code is fully inlined. This is known as scalar replacement.
How do you think "reference voltages" work?

(Also, temperature sensors. Sheesh people.)
I read the whole article and then came here to ask if anyone knew the court and case number. Now I feel stupid.
Agreed, convincing people who think the entire thing is orchestrated by dark forces is pointless.

At this point, what I'd like to see:

a) accept natural immunity alongside vaccination status, probably need some kind of antibody count test for that to work

b) "incentives" for vaccinated population, e.g. 90% discount on COVID treatments while unvaccinated pay full price
Great. Also, don't forget to secure your operating systems, which is the root problem.
Good point. But doing two concurrenct desing would allow as backups for failures not in the telescope itself. For things like lauch, assembly, handling, etc.

If everything goes as planned, having two observatories sure would be appreciated by the scientific community.

Also, I assume, most the costs are associated with the project and setup of fabrication.
Line 5 would impact prices a few cents in Michigan- believe it or not most of the oil goes from Canada, across MI and back into Canada. I'm fine with shutting it down. Canada can run their own "landlocked" pipeline to Sarnia.
apple controls the hardware and software on apple devices. nso does not. this is public relations for apple, as much as a holiday advert as any they put on tv. if apple wanted to provide their customers secure devices, apple would provide their customers secure devices.
Honestly, it would probably be better if things sold for $4.

We have Dollorama in Canada. Things sell for $4. The jump in quality is noticeable from $1 to $4. The difference between useless junk, and something quite good, or at least good enough. Makes the shopping experience much better too.
Don't want to dox, but you should be able to find it on crunchbase. I'm not surprised about the story given who's in that round.
> Just hit pause at _any_ point and it looks like a wallpaper.

Though not an animation, I find that Oblivion is like that too.
They should update the price point annually based on some simple algorithm, like the amount they pay an entry level employee per 20 minutes of work. That serves to index the unit price to purchasing power.
Common knowledge among experienced programmers.

It's extremely non-obvious for a beginning programmer (or an intermediate programmer who hasn't used go before (like me)), and just leads to more confusion and frustration.
>i don't understand why the so-called "lab leak theory" of origin for sars-cov2 is treated as some sort of conspiracy theory. it is completely plausible, and things like this have happened in the past (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak), not due to malice but due to incompetence.

It's remarkable how quickly they settled on bats and everything but this was misinformation that would get you banned from various american tech companies.

It's also remarkable how quickly they moved to shutdown many discussions. The lab leak only months earlier from Canada where a chinese national shipped viruses to wuhan. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/chinese-researcher-e...

There's no evidence of coronavirus being involved at all with the canadian lady, but they sure did call it conspiracy theory and shutdown talks quick.

Throw this in context of a pissing match with China and Canada. https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/26/china/meng-wanzhou-china-arri... and China in return arresting and putting Canada diplomats on death row.

I think lots of answers came along from fauci's emails. All of these are not coincidences and China is probably not the source of covid. Hence why there was such a quick reaction to blame china.

Blame Canada!
Brutally (and to your point in a backwards way, because I think your point is valid), history shows humanity moved on before vaccines existed, and we're here to talk about moving on or not.
Civic gets 36 combined, Corolla is 33 combined, Rav4/CRV are both 30 combined. A Prius is 54 combined. Not sure where you are hearing about 70 mpg.
So, am I correct if I then put it as following?

Pointer instability means that it is undefined behaviour to:

1) store (both on stack and heap) the pointer address to a value element outside of its respective container

2) then modify the container's content

3) then thereafter use the stored pointer address

This implies that:

- containers without pointer stability require pass-by-value (or a pointer to a temp copy) to be used for its values after accessing them OR

- containers without pointer stability require absolute immutibility of the container to guarantee runtime safety OR

- containers without pointer stability require "relative" immutability during the existence of a pointer to a value element to guarantee runtime safety. Note that I think this last option is a bad idea, because it requires multithreaded blocking/synchronization of the container and is also easy to encapsulate wrongly, leading to UB.
Fast defrosting in Microwave or sealed, in cold water, is at least better than some of the other suggestions, like poking the seal and slow defrosting over 24 hours in the fridge. In the fridge and without a seal, the effects of exposing fish to other bacteria are really difficult to control.
It's like talking to a wall.
How to achieve flow according to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
> when a substantial part of the population remains unvaccinated

It's a vanishing minority of crazies. 99.9% of over 65-year olds have had one jab; 80% of those over 12 [1]. Close to a fifth of the population has had their booster.

This debate is over. The people who are left will either be nudged by mandates or self-isolate from areas of dense population or economic activity, which automatically reduces their risk to the public.

[1] https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-...
Nobody associates it with a conspiracy theory just because it gets mentioned. That happens because the people most aggressively pushing it online often make that association themselves. In between demands for expensive new investigations, they often veer off into talk of Dasczak is part of a vast gain-of-function underground and Fauci is helping them cover it up, and Big Pharma is pushing vaccines because they can't make a profit from ivermectin, and something something about discouraging masks at the start of the pandemic, and mask/vaccine mandates are somehow part of a plot to destroy America, and so on ad nauseam. Seen plenty of it right here. Such people might be a small minority of the people who think we should look more closely at virus research standards, but they're an incredibly visible minority and their stridency causes the whole issue to be framed in conspiracy-theory terms.
Oh sure for actual interstellar travel. I was thinking interplanetary speeds (~10km/s) not interstellar travel speeds (~30,000km/s). In the film, they’re cheating by using a wormhole so never travel at those near relativistic speeds.
WinLinux: Windows-Assisted Linux (2000)
Well, like most people, I've found streaming music is much more convenient than maintaining my own library and that's the way I listen to music most of the time. The discovery features those platforms offer are also welcome.
What are "audio enthusiasts"?? People who have ears?
Not 18%. 18 out of 100,000.
DAOs: Communities of the Future
All you have to do is have the hashmap be HashMap<K,V,CryptographicKey> and never reveal the key, or seed it from randomness? One can use an HMAC or some other method to use the key to derive hashes.
Fixed.

https://asknoam.com/question/43
This is true of the US, but pepper spray is also used by police forces in many other countries around the world where the police have a much better track record.
Ah, I understand that frustration; I suppose I had in mind more casual games, that is, no fixed size on teams (anyone can just join and play so long as you're not over the server-set limit of players), and unranked.

In ranked games (or games where the objective of winning is more important than just having fun) the lobby system does work better, because you're not really looking for community in that case. If modern games like Overwatch had both systems (join a server with regulars and make friends as 'quick play'; matchmaking for competitive), I think things would be better.

The only time I get properly annoyed in a game is when team sizes are fixed, and people are trolling or not pulling their weight. But on a server where anyone can join and you're chatting between spawns? That's fun. Sure, you care about the map objectives, it's not serious. If you lose you just stick around for the next map in the server's rotation and play more.
One could interpret this as the software is "sponsored" by the governments that finance their operations and purchase their products. This would be countries like Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Germany, and Kazakhstan, not necessarily Israel.

Though the fact the US has sanctioned an Israeli business does seem to have potential implications on Israeli policy. [1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-blacklists-four-compan...
> Because it's almost inherently conspiracy fodder, true or not.

No it's not! Reasonably minded persons consider this entirely plausible.

The way the conversation is being actively steered away from this topic is concerning.

> It could have been a lab leak. It could have been (and now looks more likely to have been [0][1]) natural spillover from increasing contact with zoonotic reservoirs. What's the difference?

There's a huge difference. Each scenario has different lessons to learn, culpability, etc.
30's.
A friend of mine is concerned about the life long impacts covid may have on his children. He really wants them to be vaccinated to prevent any of the long term effects.

I'm not sure what data there is on children and long term covid impacts?
Seven lessons learned failing my first startup
Why is the death rate in the US plummeting among the unvaccinated? Is it just less spread all around?
> This was inevitable, but rather than maintain the status quo or even introducing shrinkflation, they should have made the jump to 2 dollars.

Yeah, there's Five Below, where everything is $5 or less, and the quality of the stuff that they supply is substantially higher quality, and as a result I find it more fun to walk around there nowadays than Dollar Tree.
This might be it https://discourse.wicg.io/t/extending-html-as-a-hypermedia/5...
yesterday I was in line to get my booster and I overheard an unvaccinated person get their first dose because their job offer was about to be rescinded.

So, in addition to losing loved ones I think mandates do work. Putting it into law, like you suggest is harder, but giving companies green light for mandates is easier and does have some noticeable effect.