skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be completely honest, optimism is only showing through because I'm hitting the latter end of the grieving process. It's been a very, very tough road coming to terms with this.

Thank you, I'll do that.
this is crazy good, I love it
Ridiculous response - travel bans are not effective (the strain is definitely already here) and punish countries for transparency.
Energy of Tomorrow: The Promise, Failure, & Possible Rebirth of Nuclear Power
I should have known everything would be used against me. That site was the first that popped up in zhe Google when I was looking for the graph.

In previous comments, I linked directly to the measuring stations feeds ( if only I could search my HN comments ).

The graph is the same, what does it matter which site it is hosted on?

How come the rise in the late 1800's and early 1900's is already 'substantially larger' ( how much? ) than the millenia before ( if true? ). The car was hardly invented.

And your graphs : if I squint really hard, I might see some acceleration in the last 10-15 years. But it could as well be statistical insignificant in the time frames we are talking about.
Though Icke predates QAnon by quite a bit, and I would almost say it is derivative of his "material". And the themes of the "Protocols of the Elders..." of course are shamefully evergreen in such discourse.
https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect
The EU explicitly wants countries to join. The EU-DCC is designed to be an international system - lots of EU countries already had domestic systems, so we focused the design explicitly on being a state-verified (and managed, and policed) proof of vaccination.

Only States can sign the EU-DCC, and to do so they must meet various standards for security (proper key management, opsec, HSM, crypto strength). They must also agree to accept the EU-DCC of all other member countries, and respect privacy. And police their systems (identity and arrest frauders).

All pretty standard things, and a great complement to the systems used domestically. Having a state provide an abstraction layer of their local issuers is super effective - how can you expect an American state to do quality controle on a Russian pharmacy who are signing a Smart Health Card? They have to invade Russia to police it?
Linux was mostly a toy at first. I see no reason MINIX couldn't be as successful.
It all happens automatically after a setup process that takes less than a minute.
An NVMe in the PBP also adds new problems, like a 50% increase in cost, and power issues (hard power offs if not configured specially, always worse battery even if you do everything correctly).

Then the PBP is limited to PCIe 1.1 speeds and the power saving you have to enable makes the performance worse. So you spent $$$ on a drive and cannot get the most from it.

And to top it off, suspend breaks.

I have the NVMe adapter, but I haven't bothered to buy a drive and install it. I just use an external SSD for media storage.
Not really. You'd be surprised with what 3 letter agencies do.
Shouldn't they have a record of all the things they signed?

I would expect them to know where and when that Adolf pass was generated
Hmm I think Leonid Levin did something similar: https://www.cs.bu.edu/fac/lnd/expo/holo.htm

Not sure yet what this one is doing that that one doesn't.

(Edited to add) Having read further, it seems that this code is close to optimal in rate and distance too. The link above is actually for probabilistically checkable proofs, which are similar, and the article thinks this is likely to lead to advances there too
That’s what it seems like it has to do. It’s part of the saved payment autofill selector.
Fixed installations has been regulated since forever.
From my brief research it looks it can generate single-use cards. But they also have retail partners with a more direct option.

> As Zip Money has surged in popularity over the years, hundreds of retailers have signed up to join the fun. You can use this BNPL at a range of stores, like Amazon, Target, Harvey Norman, Just Jeans and more.

> Zip Money also has a Shop Everywhere^ feature within their app. This allows you to shop at just about any retailer through a single-use card that is created at the time of purchase. All you need to do is add items to your cart and hit 'Pay with Zip' at the checkout!

https://mozo.com.au/fintech/how-does-zipmoney-work-read-this...
It's not just taking pictures of homeless people. Look at what Cohen does in that video, and remember he's one of the most celebrated and beloved street photographers.

Street photography is for hacks. I've known a lot of them, they're never good people.
> Today's Google is a saint compared to the nineties Microsoft.

Definitely not the case.

See: rigging the advertising market in cahoots with Facebook (Jedi Blue).

See: conspiring with other large tech companies to artificially limit salaries for tech workers.

See: leveraging its search monopoly to gain additional monopoly or near-monopoly positions (YouTube, Chrome, Android), as well as using it to harm competitors (eg Yelp and many others).

See: huge, repeat fines out of Europe for various abuses.

What we already know is that they're at least as evil as 1990s Microsoft. What we don't yet know, is likely to yet put them over the top. The Feds have hardly even looked under Google's corporate hood as they did with Microsoft in the 1990s. This is merely the second or third inning of discovery of all the evil shit Google has likely done over the past two decades. Google's founders simultaneously ran away as fast as they could to get out in front of what was coming, because they know where the bodies are buried.
The bigger ones run away. Combines are enormous and noisy. They don't sneak up on you.

But I think intent makes a difference.

Mice killed by farm equipment are accidental side effects with some ethical implications which most of us choose ignore.

Livestock raised for slaughter is a different ethical question entirely.

(Meat eater here. I do find it to be the natural order of things, but I am aware that I could justify slavery and sexual exploitation by the same logic, and that makes me pretty sure I'm giving myself a pass on the meat thing.)
>All things which have no relevance to me

For the past 6 months, every single ad on Youtube (TV app) for me is about Indians singing something in Hindi... I wonder why that happens. I'm not Indian, I don't understand Hindi, and I'm not interested in Indian pop music. Yet Youtube thinks I'm a huge fan and I have no idea what to do about it.
I've also done a few successful mods with a hacksaw.

One time I used a hacksaw to remove part of a 4-lane PCIe connector on a server motherboard so I could plug in a 32-lane PCIe video card. It worked great.

Another time I wanted to plug in a full-height USB 2.0 PCI card into a (Soekris) embedded SBC low-profile slot (limited by the enclosure), so I sawed off the upper two USB jacks. I had to do some minor rework to the card (reconnecting some of the broken traces with mod wires), but it worked great afterward.
> Why so much hate for loops?

Well, for me, because, compared to other notation, they usually obscure intent.

> Loops are just a nice notation for some computational constructs.

But... they're mostly not.

> Loops are just a nice notation for some computational constructs.

Sometimes, but even then if a language has decent abstraction features that’s usually best for the low-level implementation of a generic algorithm, which you should never have to see when actually applying the algorithm to concrete types. True, if you don't have a generic implementation available, YAGNI often argues in favor of a concrete one for the immediate use case, so generic implementations separated from immediate concrete use isn't the only place to use explicit loops.
> Will people ever get over sensationalism and learn to live it?

You see, that's the crux of the matter: Not everyone can live with it. Literally. So far, it killed more than 5 million people globally. There is also the issue with possibly lasting brain damage (even occuring in cases that weren't severe enough for hospitalization) and life-wrecking long covid. Compassionate people have a problem ignoring all that.
They're both pretty clear but I'd prefer the second one (if you used collect instead of fold)
Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?
I'll go first. I think the Bialetti Brikka is exceptional: https://www.amazon.com/Bialetti-Stovetop-Producing-Crema-Ric...
I'm on it!

https://twitter.com/tom_verbeure/status/1464332190892756994
We got very, very lucky with several factors

Population stabilized faster than expected.
Gas as a bridge fuel.
Marine, solar thermal, geo-thermal, new nuclear did not hit the exponential curve. Luckily PV, wind and Li-Ion did.
The world is relatively sane and peaceful. A US/USSR world would have been more difficult.
Interest rates can easily crush renewables even today

Etc, etc
Cdecl
cdecl (see-deh-kull) is a program for composing and deciphering C (or C++) declarations or casts, aka ‘‘gibberish.’’ It can be used interactively on a terminal or accept input from either the command line or standard input.
Now web browsers are gonna become credit cards attached to your browsing history... Great job guys! :|

Ugh, who ever would have thought 2021 would have come to this.
This is why debunking doesn't work and "pre-bunking" is actively harmful.
Honest question (IT/security noob) -- why does it not provide that much more security? I like verifying that my traffic is going where I want.
In your list you say "small and portable Scheme implementation with AOT compilation and 4K footprint". However the presence of an AOT compiler is not the most interesting part. The distinguishing feature is that in 4K there is a REPL that uses a dynamic compiler to do the "eval". In other words, the code entered at the REPL runs essentially as fast as if it was compiled by the AOT compiler.
Pangolin, pangolout

https://github.com/cov-lineages/pangolin

I'm surprised it has so few stars, watches, and forks given how big a deal it is.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=492353
>In other words, gravity and dark matter have very different ontological status.

I get what you're saying, but you can make them the same again by transposing Dark Matter to Dark Matitation, by analogy to Gravitons->Gravitation.
A Gillette Pivot disposable razor.
That's a ridiculous narrative for covid where vaccinated people are marginally less contagious than unvaccinated people.

The main benefit of the covid vaccine is reducing symptoms when you get covid and reducing hospitalisations.

If you are worried about getting covid, vaccinate yourself. That's it, you don't need anyone else to be vaccinated.
Can it charge from low-current USB (e.g. 5V1A), or at least a USB battery bank? I've been trying to find a laptop that supports this so that if the power goes out I can keep coding (or reading survival manuals heh) for a few days, but no x86 laptop can do this.

How quickly does the battery discharge while sleeping?
Both my parents worked, one of which was away from home 60-70% of the time for work... They were able to parent just fine. They were not high earners either, probably not poverty levels wages but not middle class either.
There are some theses on the arXiv but it's relatively rare. See e.g. https://arxiv.org/search/?query=dissertation&searchtype=all&...

Typically these are uploaded in some other archive that may be less open (e.g. often outsourced to proquest or something), but many universities have their own open archives. My PhD thesis is available on MIT dspace. Hilariously, it's a scanned copy of my printed thesis, since I had to print it out for submission, even in 2015.

As for theses on GitHub, those happen but often people keep it private since they don't necessarily want the revision history exposed :).
Delta has been in the wild for some time and boosters for it are still being tested. I’d take such claims with a grain of salt. If this variant has significant immune evasion from prior infection or vaccination, 100 days is a lot of time to wreak havoc. There are also myriad logistical problems if we have to boost everyone again that will drag things out.
It also allows them to more deeply tie your buying habits to your browsing history and to monitor you to figure out how to manipulate you towards spending more towards their owned and affiliated interests, while also making interest on your purchases. Diabolical.
What to expect when pursuing a Masters in Embedded Systems Engineering
Why is anyone entitled to as much content as cable for a Netflix-like price?
Shell [Scripting] Style Guide
> MS is probably one of the best positioned to give very accurate digital credit score, given just about everything goes thru their OS and browser.

I don't think so, lots of people do everything on their phones.
> That's only true for languages that don't support looping over an iterable directly.

Even with loop-over-iterable semantics, explicit loops obscure intent compared to comprehensions and map/reduce/filter/etc.; they are better than C-style loops which in turn are better than conditionals + gotos, but that doesn't make them good at expressing intent in many common cases.
In many poorer areas bus services aren't reliable - and that can cost you your job.
I imagine ATM fees on casino floors are pretty lucrative.

Skimming a percentage off every transaction to make a profit is what casinos do. Of course it's possible to make money this way. It's not gambling when you're the casino. It's still gambling for everyone else.
All true, of course, which is why I strongly recommend reusable cups like those from Solofill, my favorite. One of those charged with, say, Peet's Mocha-Java, makes a fine cup of coffee.
A past related thread:

Loopless Programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21278790 - Oct 2019 (122 comments)
I think the issue is we are all mortals. No matter how much wealth we have we will all die. Sorry to crash the party. But wealth can prolong life and make it more enjoyable. People will never have enough so they will work more even when they don't have shortage of food.

Even if you are rich and think you have more than enough, you SHOULD think you want to earn more just to be able to give it away to the less fortunate.
And a certain someone named that!
Reference? (I believe it, but...)
Are people getting sicker with it?
well if you can find a way to control quality while letting anyone who owns your hardware to do as they please, I would encourage you to share that info, in detail, with the world, because no one else has figured that out, yet.

Nintendo won't even sell development kits for the Switch to just anyone. you have to have a "good enough" game pitch (with no published rules on what is good enough and what is not) and you must commit to actually producing the game before they will even let you SEE the development kit and related items in the developer account store.

of course you can buy dev kits for the Wii U and 3DS, the discontinued systems, but you can't produce software that runs on the retail hardware, even for those.
Yeah, I already got my money back from old copies of SNES games. Newer games, I'm waiting some 10 years or so to sell. They don't take much space after all.
Influenza didn't kill 5+ million people in two years.
Also known as B.1.1.529

Variant21K appears to have arisen in November 2021, possibly in South Africa. Early sequences are predominantly from South Africa, though also detected in Botswana and Hong Kong.

21K is primarily of concern due to the large number of mutations it has in the Spike gene. Many of these variants are in the receptor binding domain and N-terminal domain, and thus may play key roles in ACE2 binding and antibody recognition.

This literally reads like post apocalyptic fan fiction.
Who calls it?
I have yet to replace my 2013 Air; while the general performance is mostly still OK (it was top spec when I got it), the battery is so degraded it might as well not exist at all.
> I don't think you can extract the SRAM contents, so battery swaps need to be done live.

You can read and write the SRAM contents over GPIB. See the references section at the bottom of the article.
Lets encrypt from what I understand require time consuming updates every few months. My host provider also does not allow me to install them manually, further complicating the process, and conveniently they sell certs for $125 a year... Per site. It's been a thorn in my side because we're too big to easily move now.
Sure it does. The United States made a policy decision to push for cheap meat. That’s why we are where we are.

The tail wags the dog in the thinking here. “Scaling” fast food price hamburgers is the problem.

It’s a problem on a bunch of levels. It’s not scalable because we’ve changed the definition of food. The best farmland in the world lay fallow because we’ve committed to growing vegetables in the desert and raising ruminants in pens, because it’s more efficient to the small cartels of processors who drive the status quo.
Which funny enough, are the only parts that really go down all at once.

When the internet has troubles it's a mistake of a giant centralized service.

Most of the time only that service is affected by their own mistakes, but sometimes that service hosts a lot of others, or is so massive that they cause DDoS attacks like when Facebook went down and their clients spammed DNS servers.

Seems the internet is fine. Centralized services not so much.
back in the 90s all the Internet traffic in Italy was routed around two big hubs, hosted in two public universities (it was mainly one, in Rome).

Internet is much more reliable now.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GARR

I studied CS in Rome at "La Sapienza" and I was merely 10 steps away from INFN (national institute for nuclear physics) where GARR phisically resided.

I spent more time there than in my class.

That's how I got involved in this new "internet thing".
So what's the right available metric to look at that statistically quantifies the effectiveness of the vaccines? Or does one not exist?
Have you ever played it yourself? The game is better than the majority of mobile games.
It’s like implicit numeric conversions in C, just extended to string types.
If only someone could create a cheaper clone of Coelux instead. I'd kill for natural-feeling sunlight during the dark winters.
I don’t get how scraping info from Uber and whatnot helps with borrowing money. How are those signals about your risk to the bank?
I've said this here before, but based on having dinner with him probably ten years ago now, the arXiv replaced the system that existed in the early 90's where people at top research universities would mail preprints to each other, as publishing was slow and waiting for preprints to be published would put you behind the curve by quite a long time. Obviously this was inefficient and somewhat exclusive (if you weren't at a university in the preprint exchange club, you'd be hopelessly behind in your field).
Nelson Mandela, the prisoner’s power – and its meaning for us today (2014)
This variant hasn't reached Europe, so it's not related to the increase in cases there. I think it was always known it might be seasonal, so it's not like this was unexpected. Last I checked, most of the new cases are still in unvaccinated people by a wide margin.

Growing up on cartoons has conditioned me to trust talking animals, but I think she's probably right about the risks. The variants have shown no meaningful ability to change what the vaccines target.
A Fanta bottle ( https://i.imgur.com/TVZBewX.jpg )

The shape makes it really easy to hold compared to other soda bottles.
> “LEVEL 3 is the last IRR operator which allows the use of this method, although they have discouraged its use since at least 2012,” Korab told KrebsOnSecurity. “Other IRR operators have fully deprecated MAIL-FROM.”

I'd prefer if we kept deprecated and removed as two different terms. It sounds like level3 deprecated it, and everyone else removed it. To me (and most definitions I can find) deprecated basically means "don't start using it, if you are using it stop using it, we will remove it soon but have not done so yet for compatibility reasons"
'Poverty spec' is an old joke colloquialism usually associated with Luxury cars, specced to the minimum price.

Using the phrase now in this context can feel jarring. I think taste and sensibilities have changed - lots of old jokes don't land like they used to.
>This literally reads like post apocalyptic fan fiction.

I find it incredibly fascinating how fast this virus can mutate in order to throw curveballs around our natural and engineered defenses and become more efficient at killing us.

How is this even possible in such a short amount of time? I thought evolution takes tens of thousands of years. It's not like viruses have giant brains with massive IQs to come up with all this so fast.

Would be cool if someone could ELI5.
A corollary to this might be "a new part on the shelf is not truly 'better' than a 90% worn out one still in service."

Having ready spares is great but I'm sure the HN crowd knows how much crib-death there is on new, replacement bits of all kinds.

Until it's actually been run-in for a while how do you really know it's going to work when you unbox it to replace a truly dead piece?

The upshot of this is' RAID-6' type designs are the most reliable in the real world since when one fails at least you are leaning on other parts that have been run-in and are past the leading edge of the bathtub curve.
I replaced my 2013 MBA's battery for $129. Now, it's working perfectly fine in most days.
Introduction to Web 3.0: The road that led us here
Here are some valid URLs:

https://seirdy.one/

https://seirdy.one/favicon.ico (hint: it's not a .ico file)

https://example.com/index.php

What can you infer only from the URL, before you click? File extensions show server side file formats, which reveal information about the backend's file representation; these do not necessarily correspond to the mimetype. .php, .asp, and trailing slashes are all examples of this; a trailing .html only means that the resource is (probably) a static file on the server, but neither gemini not the Web (nor even Gopher) are necessarily against dynamic content.

Furthermore, web servers can send a mimetype header along with an "x-content-type-options: nosniff" header to make compliant user agents disregard the file extension and use whatever mimetype the "mimetype: " header supplies. I personally use this to deliver a PNG favicon when a browser requests "https://seirdy.one/favicon.ico". The file extension tells you nothing if the scheme is HTTP(S).

If you see someone link both a gemini and an https url, you know what the difference is in advance and that can inform which one you click.

The point of a scheme is to supply a guarantee about what standards a URL will conform to without reading the response. This is necessary to inform the behavior of the request itself, and as I've just explained it can also convey information to the user before they choose to make said request.
It is quite difficult to overdose vitamin D:

"...
healthy adults in a clinical setting, receiving 50,000 IU of vitamin D2 once every 2 weeks (equivalent to approximately 3,300 IU/day) for up to 6 years, maintained 25(OH)D concentrations of 40–60 ng/ml (100–150 nmol/l) without any evidence of VDT [vitamin D toxicity]. Those findings were consistent with the observation by Ekwaru et al. (17) that Canadian adults who ingested up to 20,000 IU of vitamin D3 per day had a significant increase of 25(OH)D concentrations, up to 60 ng/ml (150 nmol/l), but without any evidence of toxicity"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6158375/
From what I've heard, all stability issues with NVMe in the PBP can be solved by using one of the "known-good" NVMe models. For me the main benefit with NVMe over eMMC is that it doesn't stumble during heavy I/O. I have the adapter as well but have for other reasons not bothered installing anything. Once I do I'll settle for a $35 128GB model, as that's more than enough capacity for my needs.