skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right - and the thing most folks don’t realize is that when you “recycle” your plastic it gets shipped to those countries. (Used to get shipped to China until they blocked exports of low-quality recycling stock).

I’m increasingly persuaded by the thought that putting plastic in a landfill domestically would be much better for the environment than our current recycling program.
Apple has a very broad and safe license for their Designs. They would largely be unaffected by the merger and likely not change anything.

That said, the replacement ISA already exists IMO: RISC-V
Op must have an iron rod for a spine. I naturally slouch lying down. Cats are less fluid than my posture at 4pm-second-wind, two-screens-of-code-and-one-of-data full-crunch-engaged mode.
Something I learned from interaction with apple engineers at IETF is a weird big/little thing.

Big: they can't speak to some things without legal review because FAANG have IPR. This causes a lot of friction. You may simply never know really why apple dropped ZFS. You can ask over beers. Sometimes hints is as good as it gets.

Little: there might be a team of 4 people on tcp/ip and only 2 of them have something like "commit" rights. You sort of expect its 20 phd and a bank vault of gold, and it's two guys. Smart guys, good guys, but if they both come to IETF then you know the tcp/ip buglist isn't moving and there's a "fall under a bus" risk, England 1966 football squad on one airplane risk..

Apple invents stuff which surfaces later. Appletalk over twisted pair had device discovery almost perfect. Printers shouted "I'm here" and everyone heard. It's taken years to get zeroconf and auto discovery out into the world of gigabit networks.

Apple does things other people don't do. They did some stuff in parallel path fetching, using mobile and WiFi to maintain the upper layer fetch in agile ways which was beautiful. The spec was there.

I kinda still hate OS9 and like OSX because UNIX but I also have gears grinding on the apple filestore and resource/data fork mapping into Unix .dotfiles which seeds were laid in the old OS world.
I cant go back to search results from private.sh.
Some do that already in safety devices critical devices apparently. Mostly for making sure that both do not fail at the same time as opposed to examining differences. It works best when just one working is enough.
Isn’t it the actual state of play though? At more and more levels there are only one or two players — e.g., ASML, Samsung/TSMC, AMD/Intel, etc. There are lots of others around but they’ve written off cutting-edge business. That’s even though there are a number of exciting developments in hardware going on. I just think the barrier to entry has grown so large that it’s difficult to avoid.
Forget radio waves and lasers, what would happen if someone aimed a particle accelerator at a satellite. Just a tight beam of relativistic protons fired from the earth's surface into the sky?
I thought I remember reading something early on about protease inhibitors and COVID, cool to see that is coming out now.
The Cochrane Collaboration can be safely disregarded by those who’s beliefs do not align with it’s reviews.

<overly dramatic eye roll>
At Edge workers really are great at solving so many of these use cases.
I would like to see the least relevant search result Google comes up with. :)

Yes, I realize this is probably trivial with an API call, but I always found it interesting there isn't a way to see what the site with the lowest pagerank in the index is.
Over 200 comments and not a single benchmark comparison, if only there was some way to settle this argument...sigh.
Fair, but also consider that before a researcher is in the "worth their salt" category, they are learning. Hyper-V seems like a reasonable isolation methodology. Same machine may be either unpatched to evaluate malware against a specific patch level, or was deliberately kept offline. So... possible?

More fundamentally, goes to show that it is possible to have an escape like this, over a communication channel which isn't readily obviously so exoloitable. This, beyond the viln itself, seems like a valuable thing.
If you need it you can do something around -12+.

Is this needed for the clock drift in the CC hand terminal that creates these "clock sync" errors that make it so the bank can't figure out my balance / avoid an overdraft?

There is digital radio time code, there is the internet and NTP where you can pull directly from the atomic clock standard, there is GPS. You can get your own atomic clock and get by for a while even IF you need some kind of perfect sync so the credit card reader doesn't have a "clock sync" error.

The claim here is apparently that relatively insane levels of percision are needed so that normal database transactions remain atomic. That I can withdraw cash from an ATM. That I can use my credit card.

I remain skeptical. Withdrawing from an ATM depends on ONE system knowing what your balance is. Your banks. While it might be nice to be accurate to the microsecond, it's not a requirement. To the second is going to be fine. Similarly, when you swipe a credit card, the auth process does a live inquiry (balance, fraud control etc). Again, I'm extremely skeptical of the claims here that we need microsecond SYNCED time for any of this.
On Aug 2020, a US spy satellite moved close to a Chinese satellite, attempting to shadow it closely. It was caught by the Chinese and they maneuvered it to get away from the US satellite. This seems to constitute ill or malign intent. Why would you go and bother the property of another person? What is the intent behind this move?

Trust goes both ways, and it takes effort from both parties to build trust. This kind of actions will only been seen as aggressive and ill intent by the other party, and when there is lack of trust between two parties, the other will come up with defensive and offensive counter measure to protect themselves. And that doesn't help when one party has got an active military branch named space force.

Looks like the space arms race and militarization of space will only escalate in the future. I hope people will realize, like the nuclear arms race before, this kind of wild west arms race is unsustainable for everyone involved, and for humanity as a whole. I hope leaders from all countries involved to have the courage and consideration for all of humanity and our collective peaceful use of space, to put geopolitics aside, to come up rules of responsible use and engagement in space.

https://breakingdefense.com/2021/10/us-china-russia-test-new...
Have you tried starting PowerToys as admin?
> What counts as a drone? Satellites can be steered, are those drones?

Traditionally, any remote controlled aircraft is a drone, it seems fair to say any remote controlled spacecraft is also a drone.

The first drone, from which the term 'drone' came, was a radio controlled de Havilland Tiger Moth created in 1935, named "Queen Bee". It was a gunnery target drone, built for the purpose of being shot down, intended to fly only once. 'Drone' is a pun on that single-flight use and the name 'Queen bee'; male bees, which fly only once before dying, are called drones.

These days it's trendy for people to put forth their own definitions of 'drone' that have qualifiers like "it must have autonomy" or "it must be able to land". But the first drone had neither capability and the term itself is at odds with the latter.
> Is not spying considered an attack on those you are spying on?

It depends on the meaning of “attack.” Spying against a country inside their country is generally illegal in that country but is also not generally treated as an act of war. Spy satellites are not even in the target’s territory and are not doing anything to the target’s territory or their stuff. There isn’t really any rationale to call it an attack. Attacking the satellite though is attacking their stuff, of course everyone does it, but has a better rationale for the word “attack.”
This is propaganda, the US is the only military with operational space drones and space planes

Can you expand a bit? It doesn't seem like the types of attacks the general mentioned require those capabilities, so the US monopoly on space drones* comes across as a non-sequitor.

* Which I would argue doesn't exist, due to the existence of autonomous vehicles like Буран and 可重复使用试验航天器
Good to hear. Not sure what happened on the second attempt. Sometimes it doesn't like the image and returns a 404 Error. Occasionally, it is unable to decode the image. The webapp uses tensorflow to decode the image. I've seen tensorflow randomly quit without returning while decoding images. In that event, I think it would just return to the webapp page.
Another reason, at least initially, was to motivate people to get vaccinated. Still makes sense when vaccinated people transmit less, less likely will get infected and are much less likely to get infected.
> Winforms (dead, ugly)

Dead? Nonsense. WinForms is the most used technology/framework in 2021 for desktop GUI applications according to jetbrains.

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2021/csharp/

Also: https://blog.submain.com/death-winforms-greatly-exaggerated/
Who said "too loud" was the exceptional case?

What they should be doing is running their sound through a volume normalizer. A system that might be set at "7" or "4" is the problem. Set the system to the number of decibels you want, not the amount of amplification you want.
the vast majority of viral replications take place in susceptible infected bodies, i.e. predominantly those of unvaccinated individuals. variants, therefore, mostly arise among unvaccinated. sometimes, by chance, a variant then may emerge that is able to evade some of the vaccine induced immunity. unvaccinated individuals therefore represent a source of escape variants, and therefore jeopardize the success of vaccine campaigns.
> "The right says governments produce a much inferior baby"

Too many Cesarean sections over centuries will yield more narrow female hips.

You will like small butts, and you will lie. [0]

Russians expose their newborns to the cold on purpose, to build immune systems so as to not eventually need as much "Big Pharma". [1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X53ZSxkQ3Ho

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/qinla7/b...
And all of the incentives are set up for the maintainer to take the money and run. Excessive ammounts of idle money is an attractive nuisance.
These cohorts are the cash cows for pharma industry. Surprise surprise they'd rather sacrifice 99.9% of healthy population to save their major source of perpetual income. No hate against chronically ill, obese and diabetic, just pointing out the incentives here.
Still not on GitHub Actions though: https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/2187
There's nothing that prevents you from doing that as it stands.
We just had an article about this. I am loath to link to Scott Alexander, but it's the most likely thing to persuade HN users. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...
Art must be distributed to be appreciated. There will be demand for it: customers, each furiously waving their cash offer.

Someone is going to render that art for consumption in exchange for that cash. My conviction is the artist should have right of first refusal to grow rich with that cash. I confess this conviction is a moral conviction, driven by a sense of fairness, not efficiency. “The suckers compulsively produce it for free,” doesn’t find much purchase with me.
Market power, among other things are the requirement. No one cares if mom and pop store buys its neighbour. There’s a whole specialty called competition law.
Few years ago we asked a GP doc in Melbourne if we should get a flu vaccine, free and widely advertised back then. The doctor said:

- If you really want, go ahead, but it is mostly a waste

- The vaccine is unlikely to help much because it only partially protects against few variants out of hundreds in circulation

- They do not generally recommend flu vax outside of risk groups (small kids, elderly people and medical workers)

- Vaccine is generally safe, but not completely without risks.
Why do you think social media platforms should be common carriers? Generally curious.
There are only languages people hate and ones no one use
You forgot a plastic straw (lol) although I wonder if those are really as bad as the rap they've gotten or there are more detrimental plastics that we don't even think about
This is a 14 year old article (pre ACA) from an associate professor in economics who doesn’t have a degree in economics.

Sigh
That’s a cool story, but it’s not how law works, so I do not recommend testing this theory.
Neat website, unfortunate there is no sorting option or a way to port in your account's feed (I think?).
On mobile so this is gonna be a bit rambly.

I worked on space ops for a space agency and was in charge of satellite onboard computers, so although I didn't write the code I was on it constantly to understand it, evaluate it, test it, or even live patch it (as in patch the assembly in RAM and persistent memory to remove a bug).

It is really cool, because what you write is working with a myriad of complex systems that, if you're curious as an engineer, are fascinating: thermal, radio, attitude control, propulsion, all kinds of payloads (cameras, lasers, radiometers, radars...). I loved it.

The downside is that you'll barely encounter "cutting edge" hardware to develop in, and the tooling in the industry is also atrocious. This is probably changing outside the big agencies (and even in JPL they used a consumer CPU for the Mars copter).

Projects take a long time (years) and everything is controlled and documented ad nauseum. This is normal, as you don't get to just load a new version of the software if you screw up the critical software update path (comms + command handling + memory handling + alarm handling + real time constraints + ...). Also, many other parts of the software do have an effect on the hardware (e.g. you may get into an attitude that burns your payload).

If you want to learn more, start with simple embedded projects with sensors and actuators without an OS and then move to something real-time with RTEMS or similar RTOS. Maybe today you can even build your own navigation computer for a drone for cheap. You'll definitely have to use an RTOS for that and you can't go call some cloud service to control your drone, so great for learning.

C and C++ are the languages of choice. Ada is used in some projects too.

Train yourself to think about what's the worst case scenario and how to handle it, and how to be nimble with your data handling.

You do need domain knowledge as well. The book that everyone I know has read is "Spacecraft Systems Engineering"[1]. I read it cover to cover when I started in the industry.

Happy to expand if you have any questions.

[1] https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Spacecraft+Systems+Engineering%2...
Code Smell 108 – Float Assertions
Nginx itself supports lua and JavaScript
I think it's unfair that people downvoted this to gray. This person didn't claim that this was about to happen, and it seems likely to me that when/if AI surpasses human intelligence that something like this would be possible. It might require some additional way to describe expectations about the input data, and it might be many years away, but I would be disappointed if compilers couldn't do this in the far distant future. Look at the progress we've made in the last seventy years and try to extrapolate that out a thousand years forward. I obviously can't guarantee what will happen, but is it really that unreasonable to suggest progress like this as a strong possibility?
"if you don't want to get raped don't dress seductively" eh?
No. Spy satellites are legally allowed to operate based on international treaty. Kinetic attacks on them by another nation would clearly be an act of war. RF and cyber attacks are kind of a gray area.
> Most western countries are very similar in this regard.

I suspect the Venn diagram of countries with similar copyright terms, and countries with trade agreements requiring them to have similar copyright terms, would overlap almost 100%.
The issue here is really cost to public. Non vaccinated has high chance to get severe complication when infected. They will utilize hospitals and healthcare whether public or private. For private, we can choose to ignore as the price will adjust by themselves to determine who lives and who dies. Nobody will bat an eye if a high-end boutique clinic let a poor Covid patient dies because bed and ventilator is too expensive. However it is expected hospitals must admit these patients and cure/care them whether they can pay or not. For public healthcare, this will turn into ethics and politics issue because government "killed" them by refusing "universal human rights" healthcare to them.

The easier way to solve this outcome is basically mandating vaccines which will reduce the loads on healthcare and hence general public cost. The correct thing to do on the other hand is to force all non vaccinated to sign away universal healthcare for Covid. They will bear the full cost and can be turn away from hospitals to die if hospitals have little beds, prioritized over vaccinated and if they too poor to pay full unsubsidized cost. No western countries leader will dare to implement the "correct way" even if non vaccinated wants to. And to top it all, many non vaccinated understood this is the correct way but still want government to cover their just-in-case severe complication hospital bills for free or extremely heavily subsidized bills. Basically a lot of non vaccinated wants to eat the cake and still have the cake. This is the actual situation now. And no media wants to discuss about it publicly. MSM probably have no appetite to discuss intelligently these days anyway.
That feature is called "subtitle shift", some DVD/BD players have it (and VLC IIRC). Unfortunately streaming clients generally don’t.
Most software engineers know nothing about software engineering. Hop on over to any thread about hiring and you will see plenty of comments about SE candidates failing fizz buzz.
Wow, I checked and that is the funniest thing ever and totally unexpected!!

FWIW, I see it as 4th item in Google search results, but that is not important. It's just weird that that will show up at all.

Again, I'll say, that's a win for DDG results, at least IMveryHO.
I think they're actually all by height, and if you google them the OP actually matches up. e.g. googling

"duck height": 20 – 30 in (51 – 76 cm)

"goat height": 16 – 23 in (40 – 58 cm)

Maybe it would be better to do them by mass.
Okay let's assume the worst: Nvidia proves once and for all they're a giant green asshole and squeezes the life out of all existing ARM licensees to the point where they switch to a new ISA or die. What is the value of the investment you just made when nobody cares about ARM anymore?

Or, 40 billion to force the market to agree on a new ISA a little sooner than it would have naturally? Smart play. It's nice job security for the engineers that are going to need to port everything, though...
Outside of US jurisdictions common carrier defence stops in the telco. Facebook is a publisher, and has publishers risks. Inside the US things may be simpler. Google are in court in Australia right now for leaving YouTube videos up about a New South Wales state politicians defamation case, settled with the video jockey who apologised but google have money.. and remain a target. I suspect from a US perspective they think it's a no brainer case. From Australian eyes, they have a less certain path in this.

The mall operator can be held liable for publishing racist graffiti? If they choose not to paint over it, do they lose a defence they didn't spray paint it? What if they also sold the paint used to do it, inside the mall?

From a US perspective I suspect you'd say "no liability" but outside the US things are more complicated. There's specific law in Germany about hate crime. I don't think it's a given there is no legal risk for Facebook or Google here.
I’ve worked inside of these companies. It’s not just a money issue. It’s a competency issue. These companies are at least 10+ years behind in everything tech. They still believe in firewall moats. Flat networks. They have PHI spread across dev test and production environments. Upper management views tech as a cost center that never produces. They can’t keep talent around because they refuse to pay market rates. And most of their employees and manager have been around 20 plus years, which they applaud longevity, and anybody who attempts to come in and do something new and secure is derided as a hipster who isn’t into security.

I knew of 5 different ways I could have exfiltrated the entire PHI of every member without them having any knowledge of it and the SecOps manager just ignored it because they were “to busy”. Throw in archaic security requirements passed down from the BCBSA that do nothing to actually
improve security but generally make it harder to work and you have a recipe for disaster.
I'll admit I was a bit confused after the first section in which they interview Flec. I read that section again, and then everything made sense. It may have helped that I have read (numerous times) Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer, of which the initial chapters of "mathic" life in Anathem are a sort of pastiche.

Stephenson gets plenty less approachable. I have tried multiple times to read at least two of the three books in The Baroque Cycle, and every time I have failed to progress.
And what about the creator that has a husband and family and passes away a day after publication in an accident?

The same rules that apply to a survivor's pension could apply to copyright, although I don't think that is a good solution myself - I think it will get messy with copyright transfers made in life, decisions made by owners/publishers/media/regulators that might de-prioritize the printing/marketing of that copyrighted material, etc. Even during the life the copyright creator, copyright rights are no substitute for a survivor's pension. In line with another answer below:

"What does the average person have to do to provide their family this kind of security?
I don't think copyright needs to do double duty as life insurance and it is mostly not helpless widows [widowers] that are benefitting from it."
Putin has been talking up Russia's anti-satellite laser weapons since before the US created its space force. As xkcd[1] famously mentioned, just because you're learning about something today doesn't mean it's brand new

[1]: https://xkcd.com/1053/
It’s a good thing many Americans now have more willingness or emotional drive to care more about the environment, but the US really needs to rip the band-aid off on the recycling falsehoods passed down from the 1980s.

It creates a false image that “it’s ok to consume as much as you want, as long as you recycle!” - as if all those Coke and Deer Park bottles go straight from the blue bin right back to the beverage factory, meanwhile they get packed on a giant polluting ship and sent halfway around the world to a poor country then get dumped into the ocean.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Unfortunately in this case - what goes around, comes around.

We should use our collective ecological motivation to create systems that actually address the biggest polluters, which means not just letting them pass the issue on or give a shrug like there’s nothing they can do.
use to use netvibes a lot.. and pageflakes.. and my.yahoo.com

LOVED these.

then as someone mentioned above thread social started to wall the gardens..

other feeds became harder to find and some stopped working.. some over inserted crap.

I really hope rss comes back stronger than before, those were good days!
Moral: Don't fire smart people. They may eat you.