skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zero-copy access is supported for primitive and array types (int & float arrays, string types) provided the array was sent as a single chunk (multi-chunk is an exceptional case). "structs" cannot be zero-copy in an ad-hoc format (if you need that, something like protobufs is a better choice).

IDL would be a level higher than the encoding layer, so yes you could use this as the encoding layer for an IDL construct.
Congress can delegate authority to any existing or new agency.

The real court case to upend this country would be one that limits or nullifies the delegation capability.

But at least we’ll have small government again lol.
Envious no trains seems more than 1 minute late. For some reason covid understaffing issues has messed with live reporting of fleet location for my transit agency. Which I thought wouldn't be affected since I assume it would be automated. With general unreliability, makes planning transit trips huge PIA during winter.
The comment thread that is soon to follow is predictable.

Someone will reply: Medical costs are responsible for X% of personal bankruptcies in America.

Someone will reply: Most Americans don't have to worry about medical bills because they have coverage through their employer.

Someone will concur: Yeah, I have fantastic benefits with my company.

Someone will provide a counter anecdote: I also have great benefits with my employer. But I still have to pay a $5000 deductible before coverage kicks in.

Someone will reply to the parent with: The US has the best health care in the world. Why do you think people fly from overseas to receive treatment in the US?

Then someone will reply: The US has the best health care ... if you can afford it. The last time I saw my doctor, he looked at me for five minutes and prescribed me a bottle of aspirin.

Someone will reply: You need a new doctor. I once had an experience like yours. I found a new doctor, who truly cares about my health and well being.

Someone else will reply to the comment two spots above:

> The US has the best health care ... if you can afford it.

"No, the US has the best health care in the world, including for middle class people and poor people. I once injured myself in [insert first world country] and their health care system was practically third world."

_______
It was UCSF
I saw that a few HN members mentioned that their LastPass accounts may have been compromised (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29735132), so here is another possibility:

"Diachenko found that numerous LastPass credentials were stolen and stored in the exposed RedLine logs and checked various emails for LastPass users who received the emails to see if they were listed."
I just wanted to thank you for the great explanation. It made a few things clear about which I wasn’t sure before.
Before Helium-3 has any value you first need reactors to fuse it. We're not investing a lot into building those, and right now it looks a lot like renewables+storage will be cheaper.
This is just a stop gap solution. Data collection so that the opposition party has less legs to stand on, until there is no further support for it.

The people behind many representatives don’t know or care enough.

This helps more of them know and care.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/fortune/datfile... FreeBSD fortune file
The Pandemic Might Have Redesigned Cities Forever
Did any of your translation work involve anime or video game?

How did you fare after the bubble economy burst in the 90s?
I'd like to follow this advice, but it falls apart when you have a service that interacts with or worse relies on state in external services. Best case, you can create new test data on each run in those services as part of your tests if they expose an API. However, far more often you need to prearrange test data in those external services to cover the various possible states.
Holy shit he's the author of NS-SHAFT? I played that game countless hours in my childhood.
You have a finite pool of resources. Market forces means that people will try to optimize for the best ROI (not really the full story, but generally true for a vast majority of the funds). Since natural gas is cheaper, you’re subsidizing a comparatively dirty source of energy which penalizes something like nuclear which is truly zero carbon.

So sure, net you might achieve a reduction. However, that could mean that after 30 years you aren’t as decarbonized if the investments in natural gas prevented nuclear and renewable build out.

I don’t know if that’s the actual case, but my prior based on how the FF industry operates leads me to believe that to be a reason natural gas is being framed in this way. Sure, it only covers construction before 2030. However these plants easily last 50+ years and inflation means that a nuclear plant starting in 2031 will have a much harder time competing with a natural gas plant making its economics worse. I’m always open to having my mind changed with data and a compelling counterargument, but I’m more sympathetic to the position that’s extremely concerned with natural gas being included.

The emissions limit should probably be 10x lower than what was set to allow natural gas.

If this is a jobs thing to provide an off ramp for the industry, I’m more sympathetic to that as long as we’re honest and transparent that that’s why we’re doing it (the political and economic ramifications are just as important as the goal of decarbonization). Just don’t spit in my face and tell me it’s raining.
Can French pharmacists advise on edible/poisonous mushrooms?
If testing using the db is slowing you down that means the test has discovered slow code, and worked, not that you should get rid of the test.
This logic makes no sense. First of all, the citizenship of Emirates pilots would not mirror the citizenship of the UAE itself. Most Pakistan citizens coming to the UAE are not coming to work for Emirates. Secondly, Emirates is able to do their own due diligance on pilot licenses, and since the problems with Pakistan licenses are well known throughout the industry, they would receive extra scrutiny.

The problems that occurred here are neither unique to Emirates nor likely to have anything to do with fake pilot licenses. Over-reliance on automation and complacency are global issues.
Electric heating elements - hot wires - are 100% efficient; All the incoming electrical energy is converted to heat.

Wether they're more expensive than burning hydrocarbons depends on where you live - and hydrocarbons negative externalities remaining zero cost/outside the market.

I'm not sure what the costs are in Ontario (where the electricity is mostly nuclear+hydro), but Canada does have a carbon tax, although it's still very low.
What happens if the launch fails? If the rocket blows up on the pad? If it doesn't have enough delta-v for even a stable orbit and re-enters weeks later, at a random point on Earth?
I use C++ to write backend servers. Firmware for less powerful microcontrollers - I use C.
Source on them making a "strategic move"?

I see that they completed a landing a couple years ago, but India made the same attempt.
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth is a pretty accessible introduction to one of the most notorious public housing disasters in the US. It was available on Netflix at some point.

The name for welfare discouraging marriage is "the marriage penalty", but it's a general policy thing that people still argue about, so I couldn't find anything good about the old AFDC marriage penalties on short notice. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/wedding-bell-blues-marria... does a quick outline in passing.
I'm not an expert in this area, but wow, that's quite impressive. Thanks for sharing and good luck with your project!
Once we build the necessary infrastructure to detect a rocks-from-space attack, we might finally have the means to prevent natural asteroid impacts. We have far too few eyes looking for small, dark objects on a collision course with us.
Well that's with all vaccines. I meant it's not specific to the covid one
I distinctly remember my first program as a five-year-old child:

10 PRINT "CHAZ WOZ ERE "

20 GOTO 10

In the UK one of the main retailers of 8bit computers was Boots the Chemist. This store is functionally equivalent to America's CVS or Walgreens (who know owns a big chunk of Boots). They would have all the computers on shelves hooked up to TVs. And of course, almost all computers of the day would boot into BASIC.

My Mum would leave me in Boots in front of the computers while she went around town for hours doing the shopping each week and I would happily learn programming, picking up new ideas from older teenagers who would be happy to show off their superior coding skills.

It would be three years until my parents could buy me a Spectrum of my own. In that time before I had my own, my Dad would pick up the occasional computer book from a second-hand store and I would read technical manuals and programming books cover-to-cover in my bedroom, having to imagine the output in my head.

Those were the days!
In France, pharmacists are trained to identify foraged mushrooms [0], some pharmacists are better than others at this.

[0] https://www.connexionfrance.com/Practical/Health/Can-French-...
Please don't sell yourself short. Yes, your window of opportunity is closing at 31. But don't miss the forest for the trees: you still have a huge window.

I always had an interest in traveling and was able to do some travel in my 20s and 30s, but nowhere near the amount that I had dreamed of. A trip at age 38 made me realize just how important seeing the world was to me and I left the US the same year. I have been living abroad ever since.

I've met expats who have been living abroad since their 20s and 30s, and others who didn't leave until their 40s, 50s and 60s. And I know plenty of people who have spent even 1-3 years abroad and are now back home and they are different people (in a good way I think) because of those years.

31 is a perfect age to do many things, including live abroad. If you're "making tons", you have more options to do this than many people. The only thing stopping you is yourself. If you want to do something, "just do it". There will never be a perfect moment, and you'll never be 100% comfortable before you take the plunge.
Not sure if that’s a good idea. Would love to chat and understand better. Happy to disagree but curious to understand!
Submitted with no disrespect to Betteridge's Law of Headlines [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
It sounds like doing that might encourage the snakes to reproduce and you’ll just end up with more snakes. Even if you’re fine building a few new habitats every year, at a certain point would you encounter some sort of snake breeding law/regulation?
Not so. We don't want people hating entire countries here. It's deeply against the intended spirit of this site, which is curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
At the time, that comment could easily be read as angry and irrational, posted by someone who hates on success or simply enjoys trolling. In retrospect, it’s quite possible medman77 had inside knowledge of the company.

It’s interesting to compare that against a different comment [1] made the following summer from someone with inside knowledge of the field but not of the company.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7951861
There's also plenty of non-web mobile development going on.
There’s definitely an aspect of suburbia - eg a lot of Hachioji, although the zoning is a bit different and that’s shaped the way they’ve emerged. It reminds be a bit of the way London has expanded - suburban areas centred on stations of train lines that were laid out in the 60s, with low-rise houses that are larger with modest outdoor areas. Tokyo proper is also smaller than the Tokyo conurbation that includes parts of Kanagawa, Chiba and Saitama prefectures, where the density really starts to fall off and give way to agriculture.
and considering it's google, there is no way anyone will be able to reach a real human there. /s
> Case in point; Germany's gas dependence, which is commonly framed as "Germany now uses more gas because it shut down nuclear reactors", when in reality only 14% of Germany's gas consumption is for electricity production [0].

If Germany used more nuclear, then more houses would probably start heating with electricity (or at least newly built houses), like in France.
> For those who are vaccinated and willing to take the minor risk of Omicron and a quarantine, CES may be worth it. I’m sorry, did this man just refer to COVID-19 (you know, the one that’s killed more than 2 million people) as a “minor risk”?

The vast majority of those 2 million people were unvaccinated, and they weren't infected with omicron. Not sure if going to CES would be at the top of my list right now but statistically speaking, the guy is not wrong.
Ok, since there is clearly a trend my comment was too focused on responding to the grandparent and lacked enough context for all readers. Let some amend it to:

> Wikipedia, OpenStreetMaps, [WebSearch] would all be great examples of [potentially operating as] self-financing unstoppable web resources with no central authority distributed across a peer-peer mesh network.

> Unclear if the value prop is large enough to overcome the activation energy of such an endeavor [to convert these currently centralized services into an entity like what the grandparent describes].
Every time I see a link to source forge, it makes me wonder about what will kill github.

Is it technical? Will a better code management tool show up? Technically superior, or just less user hostile?

Or is it a business issue? Will Microsoft bollocks it up?

I cannot believe that git and github are the pinnacle. I really hope I see at least what comes next, and hopefully the thing after, in my professional lifetime.
> the plane was flying funny because one of the aileron was replaced with electrical tape from dollar store by international airline technician

This is wild speculation, based on second-hand information from your friend, who, given that they referred to it as electrical tape when anyone in the industry would know it's called speed tape and has no similarities with electrical tape, probably doesn't actually know which part of the aircraft is the aileron.

Speed tape on the wing is quite common anywhere in the world on any carrier, and is safe if done properly.

Lion Air and Indonesian aviation has a lot of problems in general, but I doubt this issue was genuinely a safety issue. Your friend probably felt some turbulence on landing.
> a few poor upper caste families does not diminish the wealth and privilege of the vast majority of that caste

Majority of upper castes don't have the wealth to sit on plane. Few of them do.

Funny thing is often Brahmins (preistly caste) and warrior castes have less wealth and influence than merchant castes.
1. Port them all to Unreal Engine 5 [0]

2. Something something Hacker News

3. Profit?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU0gvPcc3jQ
We’ve been running nukes in submarines and aircraft carriers for literally decades without major incident.
It's great idea to store atomic waste in place where we have major tectonic faults... and 3 tectonic plates edges... in a country with history of earthquakes... and most earthquakes on earth. So smart!

Every good hacker and every good programmer would realize that, but maybe not all scientists.

What happens with next strong earthquake and tsunami in that area? Will it flow together with that shit deeper inland? Scary to think - i need to visit Japan before it becomes ground 0/radioactive wasteland.
Python 2 was not 2 decades old, and anyway the writing was on the wall many years before Python 3 was released (these things don’t happen over night after all).
I don't see how it's "just as valid" to mention those extraneous things. Daszak's conflict of interest is directly relevant to the issue being discussed, and the Lancet piece which was distorted by it was a critical moment in the history of the issue.
Portland like mentioned about European cities and towns is also incredibly homogenous culturally and racially by most American standards . Lived there for 6 years as a brown person and glad to have gotten out.
https://archive.fo/weSgM
Really cool but I'm not sure what's to be gained by it being 3d? If I were to use this as a daily utility it'd happen on my phone while out and about, so I imagine all the rendering could be a critical loss of performance for such a use case. Also seems like an overly complicated way to organize such a dense amount of information? At least a toggle between 2d/3d would be good
If you read Bad Blood, there are some segments that cover the role her gender played.

For a couple of the key initial investors, they were clearly willing to look the other way and give her a pass on certain behaviors because they wanted her to be successful. George Shultz also saw her as a certain sort of daughter figure and went out of his way to protect her against accusations of fraud.

She also emulated the mannerisms and speech patterns of male peers when presenting herself.

Personally, I don't much care for bringing it up too much. No one discusses the role gender played in Madoff's ponzi scheme because it wasn't really relevant to the case. It seems an unfair double standard to bring it up when a woman is accused of it.
That wait is for most or all vaccines, including pre COVID times. Any parent will be familiar with that instruction to wait after the shot.

And you're being deliberately obtuse. Like most medicines, vaccine injections have other ingredients like preservatives, the carrier fluid, etc. People can be allergic to the other ingredients but not the mRNA/TDAP/Influenza/whatever vaccine.
In NL you do have some somewhat-external oversight in the form of the European Aviation Safety Agency. This does _sort of_ apply to UAE as well, in the sense that EASA and FAA do some oversight of Emirates because they use their airspace and airports. But obviously that doesn't rise to the level of oversight that a proper arms-length local regulator would be able to provide.
Its like you wanna quit smoking but the Tabacco Company puts a new pack of cigarettes on your table. Its right next to you all the time, you don't have to open it, but if you want, you can.
In the US the game comes from the fact that different people pay difference pricing depending on what combination of cash and insurance they have.

Basically "list" vs "actual" pricing depending on what "discounts" you are eligible for.
There is nothing wrong with my eyes, and everything wrong with my monitor.
These fuel claddings already exist in the form of TRISO fuel for pebble bed reactors which are the next reactor generation. They should be able to contain reactor meltdown products on their own preventing the nuclear lava of Chernobyl and simplifying fuel handling.
Can you point to specific instances of self-delusion and poor scientific thinking?

The goalpost for these accusations, as far as I'm concerned, is that you would need to show a pattern of ignoring contradicting evidence, which -- it should be noted -- is distinct from arguing that there are fundamental flaws in studies that prima facie invalidate his theory. In the latter case, it's just scholarly disagreement.

It's late at night, and I'm not sure how to write this comment without it sounding like a loaded question, so please accept my assurances that it is not. It's been a while since I've read Taubes, and while the sugar/obesity debate is hardly settled, my impression was not one of delusion, nor of poor scientific reasoning. Certainly, it was a cut above the average quality of nutritional science research (though this is admittedly a very low bar).
Isn't this the recipe for making science political?
The idea of diminishing returns and that compounding growth can't continue is a "cultural product"? Funny, I thought it fell out of the math.

Our developed world is stagnant because once you go from an agrarian undeveloped state into a state with vast quantities of built infrastructure, it becomes increasingly hard to economically justify ripping it all up to rebuild it better.

Let's say you build a tremendously good enough sewage and public water delivery system. Water quality is practically perfect. Then a technological breakthrough happens and you could build an even more efficient, environmentally responsible system, but the cost is you have to dig up every municipal water system around the country -- that's already working -- and build this new system. It is far far harder for a country to justify that if it already has a working system vs a developing coutry which might not even have municipal water.

And I'll point out that much of the architecture in European cities has preserved buildings that go back 1000 years. People aren't exactly tearing down 500 year old buildings to build modern glass and steel office buildings. The internals of these buildings have changed, like the Google office in Munich hid inside of an old city wall structure.

The reality is, China's growth is going to slow, for many reasons. 1) They have passed the low hanging fruit, and each new improvement becomes more expensive and requires more investment. 2) there is tons of inherent corruption and malinvestment in the system, they seem on the verge of a 2008-style or Japan-90s style crisis in real estate. 3) The one child policy harmed their demographics, and the median age of Chinese citizens will be much higher than it is in the US, couple that with a political system that can't attract or encourage significant overseas immigration to replace that low birthrate, and you have a recipe for stagnation.

This letter reminds me of lots of articles written during the 80s about Japan. Oh no, Japan is now spending on the Fifth Generation Computer Project, oh no, Japan just built this super impressive new manmade island airport, etc. Every month, a new article came out extolling the incredibly futuristically advanced Japan and how the US was falling far behind. We stopped making VCRs and TVs, Americans were bulldozing piles of CDs in anger. But the reality was that Japan's super impressive development run was going to hit diminishing returns, and Japan would become a nation like the US, or the countries of the EU, in terms of growth rate.

This will happen to China too, as surely as it happened to all of the other "Asian tigers". The CCP doesn't have a magic wand here, and if anything, it may hasten the stagnation.
They should be brought up together because coal is in common use today, nuclear is well equipped to replace it, and nuclear uses about one million times less fuel than coal does to fulfill the same demand.
https://archive.is/eGO5P
What is aquamation? The process behind Desmond Tutu's 'green cremation'
I've got power of attorney for an elderly relative who is in a nursing facility and just got one of these -- a bill from "PDQ Medical, Inc." (not the actual name) with no other information on it. Their web site lets you log in with the patient name and date of birth, but there's also no information there. Just the amount that is supposedly due.

I'll be calling them Monday and telling them that unless they send me an itemized bill detailing what doctor (or other medical professional) she saw, what the treatment date was, and what service was provided, I'm not paying squat.

Frankly, she's got more important things to worry about than an account getting sent to collections, and I'm legally responsible for how I spend her money. I'm not going to pay bills from any rando who feels like sending one. Not gonna happen.
This is a reference to the NIMBY/YIMBY fight, where the YIMBY position is that most non-single-family-home developments, other than the super high end, have been effectively been made illegal through a combination of zoning laws, neighborhood review processes that add extraordinary costs, unreasonable requirements and delays, and other arbitrary veto points.

The best intro points to the argument are probably still https://www.amazon.com/Rent-Too-Damn-High-Matters-ebook/dp/B... or https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Gates-Fighting-Housing-America... although neither is free.