skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't need to reach the exact Lagrange point and reduce your velocity relative to it to 0. James Webb will be orbiting the Sun-Earth L2 with an apogee of nearly a million miles. There is a ridiculous amount of room for craft to orbit L2, just like there is to orbit Earth (beyond LEO).
The complaints from Roku:

> "There are two primary concerns we are working to address: First, Google continues to interfere with Roku’s independent search results, requiring that we preference YouTube over other content providers.

> "This is a concern shared by many companies who believe that customers deserve neutral and relevant results to their search queries. Second, Google discriminates against Roku by demanding search, voice, and data features that they do not insist on from other streaming platforms."
It can’t really send powerpoint data to any other program, can it? It is a highly complex data format, and the logical conclusion would be n*m tools for interconverting between different formats — that would be bloated as hell. The fact is, sometimes we do need a program that fulfills a whole domain, not just a specific problem. For this conversion problem domain, there is pandoc for example.

I will be hated for this, but systemd would be another good example — you really can’t and should not subdivide such a complex problem into more specific ones. It should be tackled in one place (although systemd is quite modular besides that)
To be entirely honest the answer is probably 0. It is cheap to build housing but there is absolutely no political interest in it. No amount of money fixes this issue because NIMBYs will do everything in their power to block any efforts to meaningfully improve housing.
There's a reason people avoid the testing. It's because the remediation companies are a racket and the fact of learning you have lead in the house is value destructive way beyond the value gained from the knowledge.

My house was built in 1926. I'm sure it had lead paint. The windows have all been replaced with (crappy) vinyl windows. If that wasn't the case, we'd have done it, but otherwise, I had no intention to perform any testing for lead paint.
Money is a completely abstract thing and at this point says nothing about the material economics. It’s used to manage agency.

Essentially we allowed people $11 billion in human agency to occur for scientific reasons.

Sorry we didn’t put more of it into cars and video games, but your economy surely benefited from people doing the real economic exchange this required.

Personally I’d love to put it into designer drugs we can use to let me hallucinate a reality where miserly bean countering control freaks don’t exist, since we’re all going to die anyway and entropy will erode the universe.

Excepting rules against violence and careless end of the species, why all the rules?
That would be me. If it is annoying to care about the suffering of those less fortunate so be it.

https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homeless...

In January 2020, there were 580,466 people experiencing homelessness in America. Most were individuals (70 percent), and the rest were people living in families with children. They lived in every state and territory, and they reflected the diversity of our country.

That $11B would give about $18000 to all of those people. At $1000 a monthly rent that would house them for nearly two years and would most likely help them to stabilize their lives. Plus it would pump more money into the economy.

You will never find the end of the universe, or know why it began. And if you do find out, what is the purpose? Will it help you love another human being more? No, you will invent something else you need to discover.
That's real neat. It sort of reminds me of the high level goals of TempleOS. Pining for the days of earlyish microcomputers where you truly owned and could understand the software stack sitting in front of you on your desk.
OP, besides other good recommendations in the thread, you can give Moon [https://www.diploid.com/moon] a shot. In my WGS, it found an SNP with allele frequency of 0.00089 that is designated as "probably_damaging" and "deleterious" in gnomAD.
Worth linking to Dan's latest announcement comment where he describes the status [0] and the PR that added the support [1].

Key point:

> The behavior has landed in the @experimental builds, but we haven't yet reached a final decision on the behavior for the 18 release. You can start using it right away in the @experimental channel, but whether it lands in @18 or gets deferred to another major release depends on the amount of real-world testing the @experimental build will receive from the community. If we can get apps using WCs widely try it in practice in the new few weeks and provide feedback on the new behavior in the @experimental build, we might be able to include it in 18. If we don't get enough feedback by that point, we might have to keep it @experimental-only until we have more confidence that the new behavior doesn't have big flaws.

[0] https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/11347#issuecomment-...

[1] https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/22184
As dang would say,

> "Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."
Mixminion: A Type III anonymous remailer (2013)
Only reasonable way at the moment would be some kind of satellite capture system that nobody has publicly demonstrated.
You got banned for not being far-left. Twitter has been banning conservative accounts with huge followings for years, sometimes without any stated reason.

The solution is not to use Twitter for political news or discourse, they are trying to shape it in quite obvious ways. Independent alternatives is what we need.
Looking forward to amdgpu modules in Rust.
Logically it would be the ones living in rural areas with old homes that haven't actually had all their lead removed, yet.

The fact that most rural areas are also conservative is neither here nor there.
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> The majority of people cannot be trusted to save for hard times,

The majority of people do not make enough money to save for hard times.

People, no matter how poor they are, both need and deserve luxuries in their life, however small.

Pay people enough, and—surprise!—suddenly they can totally save for hard times.
Please don't post this kind of thing to HN. Like most high-indignation/low-information comments, it's well below the quality line for interesting discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've done a mild version of this with some success, putting the apps in a separate homescreen, or deleting them from the homescreen altogether so I'm forced to go into the app drawer. Unfortunately my mind still finds itself swiping down the iOS search bar to hunt for them. It really is a compulsive addiction of sorts.
Related New Jersey had an odd requirement of repainting between tenants of apartments to try to remediate it. (Cynically kickbacks seem more likely given a proper stripping would fix it more permanently.)
>... so I think the unhappiness should be addressed at Apple.

I think the unhappiness should be directed at Apple and the offending apps. There's no reason why it can't be both.
I don't know why this was downvoted, but I agree fully regarding Typescript, and was going to post the same thing. I've read good arguments against it by some people, and I agree, it does slow things down a lot.

But if you're not able to write things bug-free on the first try already, Typescript can bring a lot of value as well.
> This is just inane. There's nothing in this piece, or in anything from the previous decade, that suggests Microsoft is intentionally putting people at risk.

Are saying the article suggests that but does not support it? If so, where does it suggest that? I don't see that, scanning the article -- but I do see:

> it was not the company’s intention to become a leading contributor to security risk.

It seems like they're not suggesting some evil plan, but something more like just the operation of the market?
> Even once Rust has first-class support for GCC as a backend, I suspect that supporting the long tail of more obscure platforms will be an ongoing process.

Linux's own support for the long tail of more obscure platforms is also an ongoing process. People aren't asking for Rust to do better than the Linux kernel in that regard, they're just asking for it to not immediately disqualify a range of platforms.

One could reasonably argue about the value of supporting those platforms, but the Linux kernel, reasonably, doesn't want to make that decision on the sole basis of the availability of Rust support.

> And for exceptionally weird platforms (e.g. where a byte isn't 8 bits) Rust may never bother to contort itself enough to support those, although perhaps Linux also doesn't support such platforms?

Linux doesn't support such platforms, and I don't think Rust ever will either.
Modern C++ is nice to use, but there's no way I would use it for a greenfield project. Rust simply gets so many things right and saves you the CPU years you have to spend on ASan/MSan/TSan/UBSan/valgrind and fuzzing just to shake out all the bugs.
> Also it's frustrating because I asked my pediatrician for blood lead test and they wouldn't do it as they said it's unnecessary. I am going to switch doctors and try to push harder at the next checkup. I've heard there is a finger prick test that's not very good and then a blood draw that's actually fairly good but of course more invasive.

Huh, yeah, sounds like you need a better pediatrician. That's not cool.

Several states in the Northeast also have mandatory testing for lead levels for young children.
Ublock origin. It's an adblocker. It's best used on Firefox because iirc Chrome has been nerfing the APIs adblockers need to function.
I lived in Scandinavia and saw the social situation frequently and personally. Sweden’s refugee acceptance rate was much higher than Norway’s for example.

You have groups of people from different war zones bringing their own intra group conflicts to a new country, compounded with those groups interacting and having to deal with each other, with both coexistence and conflict.

Regarding why they’re segregated, I don’t know for sure. But I suspect it’s a combination of people wanting to fulfill their social ideals with minimal upset to their existing standard of living. I’m also pretty certain there is some political division, as refugees are likely to vote for one party over another.
Rust doesn't want to impose its own one-size-fits-all runtime on all users of the language, because Rust wants to work in places where Go isn't a good fit, e.g. microcontrollers, kernels, or seamlessly on top of other languages' runtimes.

Architecture of an efficient async runtime is going to be different for 128-core server vs single-threaded chip with barely any RAM. In Rust you can write your own runtime to your needs, rather than fight overhead of a big runtime on a small device, or struggle to scale a dumb runtime to complex workloads.
you're a fucking nutter
Okay. I admit that my characterization was sloppy/incorrect. Thank you for pointing that out. The paper is still not strong evidence though. To whit:

"the higher hospitalization rate in the 32,000-person analysis was based on just eight hospitalizations in a vaccinated group and one in a previously infected group. And the 13-fold increased risk of infection in the same analysis was based on just 238 infections in the vaccinated population, less than 1.5% of the more than 16,000 people, versus 19 reinfections among a similar number of people who once had SARS-CoV-2."

These numbers are very small for distinguishing between the effectiveness of two different and effective immunization methods (natural and vaccine). By now, we should have more data to support if the effect size is that strong. Do we?
> Drones could give the Houthis Yemeni faction the ability to sink a US carrier, and this isn't a good thing for the US Navy.

Read up on the "USS America", a former Aircraft carrier built on 1960s technology and armor. As part of a retirement exercise, the USS America was subject to a number of bombs and explosions to test the armor of the old ship.

So these drones you're talking about... how much explosives can they carry? Do remember: F18 regularly crash-and-burn on a carrier deck, with no real long-term damage to the carrier.

I have my doubts that a small drone carries enough firepower to damage a carrier. There's a reason why these cruise missiles carry 1000lbs of high-explosives (*per missile*), and no one seriously expects just one missile to sink a carrier.

EDIT: A more recent test was the Iranian 2015 public test: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/world/middleeast/in-mock-...

Iran had to hit a fake aircraft carrier (a big boat they bought and dressed up to look like a carrier), and Iran was basically unable to sink it with just missiles. You need a lot of explosives to kill a boat of that size, let alone an armored / compartmentalized, well-studied, computer-simulated $13 Billion war-version.

> It's really easy to make them have a completely unpredictable trajectory.

Quadcopter motors aren't known for thrust. You know what is known for thrust? Rockets.

Without thrust, you won't have an unpredictable trajectory. Rockets can push 2Gs laterally while traveling at 500mph and still end up on the target that they're aiming at.

You ain't gonna get that kind of behavior from quadcopter drones. You just won't.

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> I don't know why you keep bringing China in this conversation, really.

Because I do think that China's strategy is a good one on face value. I hope that the US strategy is better, but I think the Chinese are making enough moves here that proves that they know what they're doing.

EDIT: When you have a rocket that achieves 2G of thrust and hypersonic speeds, its not too difficult to use that thrust to start erratically dodging CIWS. In fact, that's the expectation: you need that amount of thrust to break the sound barrier anyway, so might as well put that rocket to good use dodging bullets.
Yeh, I'm well aware of what Cloudinary does and I've used it with clients.

I've also used CDNs and CMSs to achieve the same thing including invalidating images in CDN caches when they change

Given the choice I'd always go for a solution that uses one of the good three CDNs combined with a CMS that can invalidated edge content
We, and everything else, are stuff floating in the sea of spacetime. Just as a ship would bob up and down as an ocean wave passed along but is not itself part of the wave, so too are we affected by gravitational waves as the pass through spacetime. The difference is instead of up and down motion, the distance between two points in space and time expands and contracts.
Curious if this is something completely bespoke or simply a beefy ElasticSearch cluster which uses the (relatively) new "wildcard" field for enabling regex search on select fields. The search syntax certainly maps 1:1 to the ElasticSearch Query String syntax, including phrase search, boolean operations, grouping, regex search, etc.
its arcane syntax and tendency to behave in unexpected ways is a massive barrier to entry. you spend way too much time trying to figure out the edge cases to command outputs / errors / what-happens-if-the-output-isn't-as-expected (usually due to error conditions.) scripts need to be reliable and predictable (without fuss!) - especially if you're controlling things with them.
[1] What's their plan for moving data from the old CMS (which will be unavailable) to the replacement CMS?

If they're not moving data, then throw out the zip file and put up a "we don't have any content" page (because that's what they'll have when the new system comes up).

If they are moving data, where is that data coming from when the new CMS arrives? (The answer better not be said zip file because that's an ETL problem from hell. It might be easy to get to 80-90% but the last 5% will never happen and they won't understand why. Start looking for a new job, because you'll be fired.)

[2] Are they happy with NO changes to the site while they get and bring up the new CMS? If the answer is no, run away. If the answer is yes, they're either lying or wrong. Regardless, run away.

"run away" is because you're being asked to do an ad hoc CMS because they're cheap bastards who can't plan ahead.

If you don't want to run away, migrate to an open-source CMS which will be the real CMS until they get around to buying/installing said replacement CMS.

Hint - they won't.
Your analogy ends short because noone wants thin retaining walls, or - better said - the only one that decides how thick they should be is the calculating civil engineer (that normally does try to optimize thickness of the wall, in order to optimize costs).

An owner/road department might decide to put some limits to the amount of land needed to build the wall and of course there may be particular cases of "narrow" areas, but we are talking of meters (and in my experience there is not that much difference in space needed for excavation between a "basic" and an "exceptionally heavy/thick" retaining wall, the difference may be at the most 1 or 1.5 meter in the base slab), and in these cases one could use gravity walls (that use much more concrete, though with less rebar and usually need less space "behind" for the excavation) or as the original article explaines anchored walls or walls on piles, or even temporary structures (micropiles and anchors usually) only to allow the building of the retaining wall.

The retaining walls (under road) in the first minute of the video are not conventional cantilever retaining walls, BTW, they are one of the common ways "reinforced earth" is made (the typical rebar concrete wall is sketched, as an example, at 10:26) compare these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanically_stabilized_earth

https://reinforcedearth.com/products/retaining-walls/mechani...

with a "normal" retaining wall like the gravity and cantilever sketched here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retaining_wall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Retaining_Wall_Type_Funct...

they work in a completely different manner, the MSE is more similar to an anchored wall, the "anchors" are in this case pieces of steel strips that resist the pull because of the weight and friction of the earth/soil, if the soil is not suitable or not properly compacted or you introduce a lubricant (water)there is the possibility of these strips to lose adherence, the thickness of the reinforced concrete outer slabs is irrelevant and usually fixed, independent from height of the wall or other local conditions, if I recall correctly some 14 cm.

Anecdotally, I have built both kinds of walls, and actually also once "saved" a piece (some 40 or 50 mt long) of MSE-like wall that was failing (though due to other reasons, the foundation was underdimensioned), the huge difference is that traditional retaining walls are "independent" from the soil you put behind it (as long as it is within a normal weight of 1,600-2,100 kg/m3) while the MSE stability depends greatly on the quality of the soil and the way it is compacted (besides a valid calculation of the length of the strips).

As a side note, MSE-like walls are usually perfectly vertical (and actually do seem like falling inward optically when they are high).
TikTok Tics: A Pandemic Within a Pandemic
I agree. Retro 2D games are amazing. The SNK games are works of art. Modern 2D games don't quite feel the same. I don't even understand why.
Would it not require lots of unsafe code and whatnot?
Rust seems to be the first decent alternative to C that works for Linux and has momentum to invest in it.

I think Linus also commented that it has to be exciting and interesting for developers besides being useful obviously.
Can we please at least skirt around the political claims, here? It's not like disprovably-false things haven't ever been claimed en masse by leftwingers
> who never quite understood the state/federal divide

This is key. The states in the US hold a huge amount of the actual power. As a practical matter the EPA will never be involved with something like this. It will be the state DEQ (or equivalent agency) that really has the teeth.
> this account was not particularly useful for tracking the trial.

And hundreds of thousands of people thought it was useful.
I've gotten emails from people asking for help hosting image albums. I'd be shocked if their end goal wasn't hosting CP. (I rejected it of course.)
A Gift for the Holidays: Farewell, EC2-Other
>So as water wave is hitting rock or any other object(mass/energy) on its way gravitational waves should hit also everything and anything on their way until they lose energy and collapse.

Gravitational waves are vibrations in spacetime. They interact very weakly with matter. They travel at more or less the speed of light without 'hitting' any rocks. The question is what are the 'rocks' - since gravitational waves don't really interact with matter significantly, and we don't really understand the makeup or source of spacetime.

That was my original question to you, and the answer isn't obvious, because we don't actually know.
It's a good idea to encrypt devices you could potentially lose anyway. Besides private keys, they probably contain session tokens, API keys, and other things--especially those saved by the web browser (cookies, cache, local storage)
> WTF, bash is unusable unless grep, sed, awk and friends are present.

No one is calling bash self documenting, so that comparison doesn't mean anything.
No need to build cheap or new housing, plenty of places to rent for $600 - $1000 a month. That $11B could house all the homeless in the US for two years.
”You may not use Twitter’s services in a manner intended to artificially amplify […] information”

I thought that was what Twitter was made for, honestly.
(I worked on this and the prior version of code search that uses Elasticsearch.)

It is a custom search engine, built from the ground up for code. We'll be sharing more details about it on the GitHub blog soon.
Even if you drink distilled water, you get plenty of those "dissolved solids" from actual food (or if you're extra paranoid, a supplement).
I think there is a lot of testing done after each step. It also may have to do with the cooling.
I’m waiting for someone to acquire Twitter and shut down service at the end of the week.
1996 cutting edge
Mac drivers (which run on kernel space) are written on a C++ subset.

Windows has been slowly migrating to C++ since Vista, when VC++ got kernel support for C++ code, naturally one just doesn't move something like Windows to C++ just like that.

https://community.osr.com/discussion/291326/the-new-wil-libr...

> First off, let me point out that this library is used to implement large parts of the OS. There are hundreds of developers here who use it. So unlike, uh, some other things that get tossed onto github, this project is not likely to wither and die tomorrow.
Chinese people mean something different when they send you a smiley emoji (2017)
Sloppy remediation can make the problem worse. Can you talk more about the work they did on your house?
Many languages are easy and fast to extend. Namely toy languages that are not really going anywhere. A dead-simple, easy-to-extend compiler is a few thousand LOC - and produces completely crap code for all platforms.

If you want your language to actually have some real-world usage, you need real-world performance numbers. Which tends to lead to compiler codebases an few orders of magnitude larger, and much gnarlier to extend.
eg: the cover art of Nirvana's album Nevermind, or the title of their egregious but iconic title "Smells like Teen Spirit".

/shrug
The Apple M1 Max isn't as fast as Apple claims
This is super common in my experience: contractors pretending to be ignorant of safety regulations to speed up work.
Cloudflare acquires Zaraz to speed up websites and solve third-party bloat
https://hackernoon.com/how-to-implement-google-authenticator...

I haven't read through this in complete detail but it generally looks like the correct algorithm.