skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole shtick is that nothing is really moving FTL in an Alcubierre drive in the way that breaks the censorship principle, not that any not being able to get out is what's helping the concept.

There's no underlying reference frame beneath space time itself, so warping space time like this just creates shortcuts. The time element of the vector is still positive for all possible particles, so no closed timelike curves.

For an example that can be seen naturally, it's thought that the galaxies on the edge of the observable universe are moving away from us faster than C because of the expansion of the universe and it's warping of space time. The same math works just fine with them moving faster than C towards us if the universe were shrinking.
couple that with Twitter wielding the ban-hammer for anyone who may be tweeting “vaccinated folks can STILL spread COVID-19”.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26939177
... because you need to contact a server 1000 miles away to issue badges in your building.

This cloud-for-everything-even-local-devices thing is both hilarious and sad.

I wonder if anyone had trouble doing their dishes or laundry today, because I'm sure someone thought dish washers and washing machines needed cloud.
I don't buy this. I've written some pretty complicated codebases at previous companies that no one knew how to operate except for me. After I left those companies they didn't fold or lose all their customers. They adapted and everything is fine. For whatever reason humans find simplicity through complex processes.
In general I am angry about censorship ambitions and futile and mislead attempt to get rid of hate by banning it from the internet. Even while I am aware that hate can reproduce in a simple scheme that can lead to mutual radicalization, previous attempt to contain it all made the situation worse. But correction is nowhere in sight, it is as if people try to implement insanity by committing to the same mistakes over and over.

But I am not that angry and I don't think that can be read out of my comment aside from general disapproval.

I would assume that gig workers did not care as much about hate speech as some academics do and did not flag content as expected. This discrepancy is declared as bias. Fine, be that way...

> The Google researchers suggest that ‘[the] disagreements between annotators may embed valuable nuances about the task’.

On that I agree with the researchers, but would propose that any annotation (hate speech yes/no) would have to fall back to the 'no' and solve the dispute. Otherwise only asking the target will provide any additional understanding. Perhaps asking as supreme court too, but that is not feasible and not even the highest courts are infallible.
I think the news is the fact that a non-profit, non-affiliated (w/ Moderna) organization has additional supporting evidence for mRNA therapy for cancer patients who weren't responding to treatment otherwise.

Not every piece of news needs to shake the world to the core.
That's a very dramatic interpretation. In reality, as long as Unix greybeards are around, we are safe enough on the "can we rebuild it" question.
Major companies call for open access and simple payment methods for EV charging
The pessimist in me thinks that global supply chain issues were self-imposed as a justification for raising prices.
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Agreed that the line is poorly worded, but it's aimed at the myth that if you are vaccinated, you can spread COVID just by having received the vaccine. No one is going to get punished by saying infected, vaccinated people can spread the virus. When and if Twitter actually does that, then you can start blaring the warning sirens. In the meantime, this is just clickbait.
His criticisms were valid. Society choose to eat the shit cake.

He was optimistic that the web wouldn't destroy local institutions and benefit authoritarian regimes over democratic society. That local journalism and commerce wouldn't be subsumed by a few giant, highly destructive monopolizing web-powered multinationals. That we would still read the "friendly pages of a book" instead of only the "myopic glow" of screens.
For the second part, using wireshark is really not that big a jump in skill level and an easy way to debug the protocol (provided you get past the encryption)
These are the same economists who predicted there would:

- be no inflation, then

- inflation would be mild, then

- inflation would be transitory, then

- inflation isn't really a problem

Still, I'm waiting for your response on what causes inflation, other than money printing. If we look at correlation, money printing appears to be related to inflation. What am I missing?
Plenty of them are labelled correctly and deliver as advertised. ~3400 mAh products are readily available from Samsung, Sanyo, Sony and LG. The best way to ensure you get quality product is to buy from a reputed middle-man, unless you plan to buy 100's of thousands of cells, then it will definitely be possible to go direct.
Auth0 down as well, right at the same time. There goes any sort of productivity today. Whole company in firefighting mode.
After the pandemic the mortality could be lower for some years because some timed sooner because of COVID. At the same time the "normal" deaths from operations will be added when the postponed operations are rescheduled.
Agreed.

There are only 2 kinds of languages: Those people complain about, and those nobody cares about.
Conversations you are being paid to have
> But I do care about network lag. It's a much greater source of inconvenience (to me) than an imperceptible (to me) lag in registering my key presses.

With a clever implementation, you should see your local input reflected instantly, and other people's input will arrive with some delay. However, since you don't actually know when other people started the input, as long as you have a reasonably fast network, it should be "imperceptible" to you. (There's nothing to perceive!)

> Input lag has been imperceptible for me with all text editors that I've ever seriously used for coding

Here's a very specific example: try using emacs to edit the the c++ source file for the c# thrift generator. For extra agony, try using the iedit emacs extension to change a symbol throughout the file. It's extremely laggy.

Emacs in fundamental mode without any extensions is responsive.

> I appreciate that some people are genuinely more sensitive to input lag than others. However, I have to suspect that it's a minority concern.

Different strokes for different folks! I for one am happy to see an editor with that focus. (We'll see if it lives up to it!)

I also have a theory that even people that think they aren't sensitive to input lag actually might be -- I'd love to do some sort of study where people are divided into two groups to do some editing task for 8 hours, one group with an editor that deliberately has say a 100ms delay in input processing vs one group that doesn't, and afterwords survey each group about emotional state, fatigue, etc.
The problem is that AWS can't update their status page to reflect that there's a problem. This happens during every AWS incident without fail.
It's about calculating the 9s in your uptime.
But 365 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 0.000001 == 31s (did I get that right?)
Our ~four person ops team shouldn't be able to have our status page updated 15 minutes before the upstream status page...
No significant practical difference in the slope of the curve in areas with (supposedly?) 99% vax vs areas with 50% vax does have certain unavoidable mathematical implications. Either 99% isn't enough to be effective, in which case its practically useless as 99% is ridiculous high, or 50% is "high enough" that its doing all the good it can possibly do even at that low level, so no need for social pressure to push it. But you can't sell ads without sizzle content, and nothing sizzles quite like one group trying to forcible medical experiment on an unwilling other group, so we get infinite vax coverage in the media.

There's a similar trend in masking data seen on covid19.healthdata.org. The authoritarian authorities say masks work great with no real world evidence behind that aggressively enforced statement. The actual graphs of data show no correlation between mask wearing and rate of infection in the general public when comparing state experiences. Personally I believe that's similar to the old iphone antenna problem where it provably worked great in the lab, but the general public insisted on holding it wrong such that the antenna did not work in practice for the vast majority of the general public. I find no conflict in abstract theoretical scenario lab tests showing a piece of cloth works, while at the same time the general public completely fouls up the real world implementation such that there's no discernable change in infection rates. What I can't explain is why people have been spending thousands of dollars for decades on asbestos removal gear, exotic aircraft paint respirators, virology research lab glove boxes, and all along all we've needed to prevent a fatal pandemic is a mere single strip of cloth; someone should inform OSHA.

If you follow the money, interesting things are seen that explain a lot.
There's this classic article on someone's quest to make a toaster from scratch https://gizmodo.com/one-mans-nearly-impossible-quest-to-make....
This is a good point. I should say I've given up on OCCUPATIONAL planning. I'm very big into community and skill building plans.
That's not what happened. You're wrong in the most charitable, colloquial sense too, and that should have been clear from my previous reply. You didn't just "goof" or speak casually, you mischaracterized what the voting patterns look like, or, at the very least, you need to back up your view with more than "hey! Look at these weird cases!"

"Basically random" looks nothing like what we see on HN.
There are features that go back a ways in TLS that someone could use for tracking. A while back I wrote a quick and dirty POC for using TLS 1.2 session resumption for sub-NAT user tracking[1]. While it is really effective at separating out multiple different users interacting with a server from behind a NAT, I'm not sure these features are usable for cross site tracking. I'm not familiar with 0-RTT but sessions resumption scoped tickets to a host so it wouldn't be useful there.

While someone could use it for some tracking purposes it really is a huge performance boon. There are good intentions on why these features were put in even if they can be abused.

1. https://stuartsmall.com/tlsslides.odp
https://github.com/stusmall/rustls/commit/e8a88d87a74d563022...
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Interesting points and resource. I guess we are far from getting there, but I'm not sure the current vaccination programs are the solution to pandemics.
Why do we care if staffers insider trade? They aren't the ones calling the shots and someone will be on that side of that trade regardless of what they do. If some guy on capitol hill makes a bunch shorting something then good for them. The alternative is having some random liquidity provider make the money.

I'm far more concerned with whether or not staffer's immediate family and friends are going on fishing trips and attending sports events at the expense of corporate interests and activist organizations.
Thanks. Didn’t know if it was a custom dashboard or something provided by AWS.
The problem is very clear: the status page is not working as it should.
Go is easier to read for complex code bases.
Adding an 'axis break' is a great way to focus in on the range of interest while also highlighting the fact that it's not zero-based.
> Linux won.

But does it matter, when most of it is tivoized? What did we, the users, actually gain from all these linux kernels being inside locked down devices?
Well said,... but why is the water slowing getting hotter?
I'm going to be curious to see how they are going to make their UI library accessible.
You won't find enough berries, never mind edibles berries if everyone in your area suddenly shifted to foraging. Game animals would be exhausted quickly or they would migrate further out from human settlements. Even if you had the skills hunting or foraging isn't all that useful anywhere around a city, especially if everyone else is doing it.
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> Personally, I wouldn't be surprised that when we get the real theory of quantum gravity, if we ever do, that a lot of these "oh, look at this solution for general relativity!" obscurities go away

In particular, I've thought dark matter is in this category of "bad theory rounding error" since I learned about general relativity and quantum mechanics in high school.
not having blind faith in yourself is a really good thing because it makes you humble and willing to learn. Shitty work isn’t the end of the story because you can improve it over time. Doubting your decisions helps you avoid fooling yourself.

How do you escape the funk? Realize the funk is useful and normal, and it always was!
Especially when their benchmark scenario is something that plays to the strengths of tls1.3 and would probably only mildly be improved (if at all) by http/3
Gavin hypothesized a potential bitcoin future where all bitcoin becomes locked down on the main chain and doesn't move, with all the trading of bitcoin done on other chains.

[1] http://gavinandresen.ninja/a-possible-btc-future
> For developers who are ~35 and up, almost 100% true, once you get younger than that you’ll find that there are a large and growing minority of people who are very much in it for the money alone without any particular interest or affinity for computing.

Just to add, during the dot.com boom there was a brief spike of people coming into software purely due to the hype of riches without much interest in software development. Thankfully the dot.com boom was relatively brief and it crashed hard, so from what I saw then most of those people got disenchanted right away (by the time they graduated the crash was happening) and changed careers.

This time the boom has been going on for basically a decade, so it is becoming more common and lasting.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
It is unfortunately not that simple. The likes of Bosch have had a decade or two to learn how to lock up their automotive systems and they're using every trick in the book to do the same to e-bikes.
Yeah let me know when the designer drugs that build the cognitive awareness of AR, without all the dumb gadgets, are available.

I’m sure we could simulate experience through detailed hallucinations, methods that leave behind the neural structures, reinforcing belief through social story telling. That’s how religion worked.

Everyone is obsessed with making experience happen through technology as if it’s more real to our memory down the road, when it never happened for anyone who wasn’t there.
The challenge is: "how will a group of potential users trust this feature enough to try it after seeing advertisement?" Targetted development is straightforward with a userbase..
>gives me hope that I can eventually repurpose my old iPads and iPhones

That would involve jailbraking. The nice thing about the M series Macs is that there is an offical way to run alternative OSs, AFAIK. Something that should be required by law after X number of units sold IMO, but that's another conversation altogether.
It sounds better to say "we are patched for the vulnerability" instead of "the vulnerability does not affect us." The ladder leaves a level of uncertainty. Not saying I agree with this methodology.
It would allow functions to be treated generically as returning error-able types. Since some functions even return 3 arguments where the third is the error, this isn't possible today.

It would also allow defer-like syntax to be used on the value a function returns, to return early from the calling function. Rust's ? is an excellent example of this, allowing explicit delegation of error handling that is still very lightweight syntactically.
Auth0 went down for us as well right when AWS did. At least it's not like those two systems run our entire company...
No, we are not. But customers who use AWS are having trouble.
Sure, but EU countries are now discussing limiting the duration of the covid passport to 9 months already. That would mean, at a minimum, an extra shot every 9 months.
I spent this weekend removing Elasticsearch usage in our project. Just earlier I saw that our API wasn't responding, and was wondering how the hell someone with log4j got to us. Turns our AWS West 2 was down.

If it weren't for the fear of DDOS attacks, I'd put every webservice in a physical server in a basement somewhere and be done with it. I've been fighting this whole year to simplify and reduce the number of dependencies we use, but it's such an exhausting battle as it goes against the grain of the industry right now, and everyone almost actively works against you: build now, someone else may pay this technical debt.
Humility is very important for coding (most things, really). Everyone writes "questionable" or "ugly" code, so it's important to accept that as much in yourself as you do for others. Think about what you would say to someone else in your position: would you be as critical of them as you are of yourself?

Moreover, in the early days of a new company, the priority is to get something working to create income - sometimes, quality be damned. Otherwise, there's a good chance the company won't survive to get the chance to hire people who will get the opportunity to criticize the code that made their employment possible.
WiFi is currently limited to 802.11n on all chipsets. Work to support 802.11ac (and more wireless cards) is ongoing and looks to me like it could be ready in 2022. Also, options for videoconferencing programs (Zoom, Skype) are poor, you're effectively limited to browser-based versions, which don't perform well with an iGPU at least.
You might also want to actually put HTTP 1/2/3 side-by-side in each graph, and separate graphs by use case. Rather than the current visualization, putting use cases side by side, and HTTP 1/2/3 in different graphs.

edit: like this: https://imgur.com/a/7Gvq59j
The analogy is not correct, because in the case at hand, it is _by design_ that X11 allows this -- the entire "mechanism not policy" thing.

And the problem with "it's potentially dangerous" is that you can use it as justification for removing any feature, so much that it doesn't really have any meaning left.
For the past couple of weeks, I've been a beginner-intermediate mechanic trying to breathe life into an aging car.

Sometime in the next few months, I've to troubleshoot and fix the broken 2 yr. old refrigerator. Someone came and fixed it once, now it's out of warranty and fixing it would cost about 50% of its cost. Meanwhile I'm glad I didn't throw away the 10 yr old refrigerator and just moved it to the garage. We just have to keep going to the garage.

I also have to play the accountant for my consulting business pretty soon. This is a task I had outsourced for years and have now started doing myself.

As stuff gets more specialized, I've started noticing that I'm able to do moderately complicated things better than professionals paid at the 50th - 70th percentile. If I want to get a really good job done, my rule of thumb is to be ready to shell out money in the 90th percentile range and look for references.

In case of AWS, I guess the Greasemonkey scripts are getting too complicated ;)?
NASA did animal tests too.
Residency isn't the barrier to entry to being a doctor (at least not practically), the real barrier is getting accepted into medical school. The process can also feel like a crapshoot.

Likewise passing the bar isn't the barrier to entry to a good law career (at least not practically), it's getting through the interviews at a top law firm.

Many attractive industries have problems when it comes to deciding who's eligible to reap their rewards.
usbkill is a bit backwards from BusKill.

usbkill triggers when a device is inserted. BusKill triggers when a device is removed. It's an important difference.

I actually didn't start BusKill to sell devices. It was originally a DIY project. The problem is that after I published the article describing how to make it, the one manufacturer of USB-A magnetic breakaways EOL'd their product and it sold-out (my & Hacker New's fault). It also wasn't for sale outside the US.

This campaign is a response to people who asked me how they could build their own USB-A cable with a magnetic breakaway. Before they couldn't. Now they can.

* https://buskill.in/buy

Of course, you can still build your own. We encourage it. All our designs are open-source.

* https://docs.buskill.in/buskill-app/en/stable/hardware_dev/i...
Yes, exactly. You should be able to show your own input immediately. For others input, you can't tell the difference between human lag and network lag, provided the network lag is reasonably low (which it will be unless you have a very bad or super-high-latency network).
You kind of know what he means. Ruby uses methods for things that look like syntax in other languages (eg the plus sign for addition) and lets you define them however you want. AND Ruby has the method_missing magic method, which means anywhere the language was expecting a method call you can put pretty much any tokens of your choice, and use metaprogramming to interpret it at runtime.

Those are things that people leaned into a lot ten years ago, and relatively little now. It might still make sense to, say, define the addition operator for colour spaces in your graphics library, but not to change the look of the language to the extent that rspec does.
Yes, that was exactly my point, that selling "2500" cells using "500" parts must be extremely profitable in the consumer sector, possibly in some sense funding the home energy storage sector.
At a very general level once you move past subsistence farming you become reliant on society to provide your needs. And in turn provide some value that can only come from spending your time on things other than farming. And that is I suppose how civilization advances. Its kind of funny to work backwards though, because even subsistence farmers are reliant on society for protection -- they are farmers not soldiers after all. I think about this a lot, how important trust is to going anywhere in modern life. And how little choice there is anyways. I also think about how most people don't think about it at all, or very much, and wonder if knowing how fragile we are makes me happier and more productive, or less so.
An old fashioned solution might be to simply bring back cubicles
I'm talking about Go vs Python, not about the origins of OOP.