skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry to hook onto this, but why does everyone want to make a personal knowledge management app? I mean, I recognize the impulse, but I think I’m mostly attracted by being in full control of the code, not lack of features.
Clap 3.0, a Rust CLI argument parser
The general idea is that proper bolt installation is a solved problem…at least in so far as ordinary industrial/commercial/construction applications are concerned. There’s an informed experienced trade base, a well established supply chain, and sound engineering practices already.

To put it another way, the right tension includes a safety factor. And engineering practice specifies testing and inspection and proven materials.
100%. I'm sure GP had good intentions here, but productisation of any project is a big part of what's wrong with tech today.
> Nose swabs reveal whether you're shedding the particles and thus infectious.

On the "shedding" point, not necessarily. The virus can be present in but contained by the immune response from the mucosae of the upper respiratory tract in such a way that it is unable to spread into the lungs and cause COVID-19, yet not shed in large enough quantities to infect others. Given time, a healthy immune system will deal with the virus in the nose and throat, often without the host even noticing. Such a situation would set off a PCR or rapid test but not present a meaningful COVID-19 infection risk to the others. (In fact, one hypothesis for why positive cases rise soon after vaccination and booster campaigns start is because of the well understood phenomenon of reduced immune response for a short time after vaccination, giving such virus already present in the upper respiratory tract at time of vaccination the edge it needs to get into the lungs.)

And the cycle thresholds on PCR tests are often set nonsensically high making them sensitive to quantities of virus and viral debris far lower than the quantity required to meaningfully infect either the host or someone else via shedding. They can also trigger positive on not just virus but viral debris for months after recovery from COVID-19 infection. (A test can be too sensitive, especially when used as the only evidence to force someone and their contacts to isolate and in some cases not earn an income for weeks.)

> It doesn't matter if you're infected if you're not shedding the virus.

I agree, but I'm not sure if the Belgian authorities, who seem to use PCR positives as a COVID-19 diagnosis, and PCR negatives as a guarantee of safety from infection risk to others, would. The article does what most articles these days do, conflating presence of SARS-CoV-2 debris on a swab with COVID-19 disease diagnosis. It incorrectly claims 2/3rds of the 25 staff have COVID-19, when given that none seem to have symptoms of the disease it's likely a case of oversensitive tests. Let's not also forget that these tests are mostly (at least all the ones I've seen) called COVID-19 tests.
It's 100% about hospital capacity and mass death. When hospitals around the country are no longer turning away cancer patients needing treatments and have plenty of ICUs for heart attacks and such, when they no longer have to rent fleets of refrigerator trucks every outbreak to store the bodies, the restrictions will end. It has always been about that and nothing more.
Agreed. I appreciate the author adding the small effort to briefly describe the idiosyncratic pieces (e.g., Rune) in their unique problem space. So often, writers believe their readers all play in a similar problem space. So they elect to leave understanding such idiosyncrasies for the reader to either dig deeper on their own, or self-select out of reading altogether.
What are your thoughts on the hospitalization of infected people? Hospitals are at capacity or overflowing.
No, the lab leak theory was fringe. It still sort of is. Everything pointed to animal origin, but since we haven't found it and it's less and less likely we'll ever find it (the evidence may no longer exist), other theories are back on the table.

Though lab leak has exactly the same amount of hard evidence going for it. None.
I hardly prefer a world replete with identical spiritual or moral misery, even though it totally zeroes out this delta.
One of my favourites from the poetry we covered in high school, but I'd forgotten about it until now. Thanks for posting.
I feel like a conservative party would abolish whole classes of social programs and remove the complexity of taxation instead of a constant debate over what percentages were correct while the national debt shoots out of control on their watch. They would be isolationist instead of different flavors of world police. They would be incredibly self-limiting constitutionalists which would dramatically limit their own power, instead of the constant fascistic expansions of power.
I just spent 10 minutes Googling for a good source and surprisingly couldn’t find one. For under 65 say, the fatality rate is well under 1%. This was before vaccines and Omnicron is estimated as 70% lower. We must be well under the IFR of flu already.
I've put it off so many years because it is an enormous amount of labor to document a constantly changing house inventory... Apparently all the little stuff like clothing adds up too so it needs to be thorough.
Where can I drink HaikuOS kool-aid? I really want to understand the appeal.
Thanks for sharing. I'm glad you found something to help you through. I'm going to read it again with that in mind. Currently having a tough time and looking for some guidance.
> overcomplicated

What exactly is complicated, using hexadecimal in addresses? The IP packet format itself is as simple as ever, and management things are done in a more elegant way (ND runs over ICMP rather than ARP being sort of there on the side not-in-IP-at-all).

> not backwards compatible

Massive service providers like T-Mobile US who use NAT64 as the only way to connect to v4 hosts anymore would disagree.

> doesn't actually solve the NAT problems for home users because of how ISPs work in the real world

My ISP delegates me a /56. How else do ISPs work in the "real world"? I've heard of some giving out smaller networks but never something egregiously small.
I wrote my first End of Year letter as CEO of Wayru
Because a firewall exploit means your thermostat is now controllable over the internet and you can conveniently preheat your oven over the internet too and now your house is burning down
Floptical was RLL. LS120 may have been as well. The killer is that BIOS support was never universal beyond HD floppy media. Another upgrade was never going to work as evidenced by ED 2.88MB failure to gain traction.
Yeah I don't see why that's much different than price fixing which is illegal where i am
I cut my programming teeth on HyperCard long ago. Nowadays screens are bigger and better, but the stacks are still the same size!

I made HyperCardSimulator.com over a period of about two months of free time. The project shows off a number of wonderfully intuitive things about HyperCard, from the simple stack-of-cards architecture, to the readable english-like script visibly defined in BNF. I've implemented some basic painting, authoring, and scripting tools that should feel very familiar.

It features free accounts (absolutely no PI whatsoever) that let you share your stacks with the public...and if you have HyperCard stacks on your disk, I implemented a converter that allows you to upload them and use them on the page! A few sample stacks are included.

Ideally, everything should work the same as it once did. I'm quickly adding more elements of the original scripting language, which is certainly quite easy to do when backed by Javascript.

I'm very proud of this project's potential, and I also want to thank hypercard.org for providing some compatibility resources. Happy stacking!
Where do you see men okay the victimization card at the drop of a pin? As far as I know there are as rare as hen's teeth, I have not seen a single example of either. If you have some examples I'd be interested in learning about them.
The speaker is plenty at fault.
Not OP, but I've been tinkering with the idea of having a raspberry pi w/ an ext hdd stashed at a friends or parents place and do something like an rsync over wireguard for super important stuff.
The collapse of the wave function upon measurement is the interpretation part that is disputed by other interpretations.
Towing range is going to be a problem for things like hauling a boat, or a trailer. It’ll be effectively worthless, as you’ll have a range of 100 miles with a trailer, meaning that you can’t be more than 50 miles from a supercharger. Maybe it’ll be possible to use a generator to charge it while out in the woods. If that’s possible, it’ll be substantially more practical.

However I do think the F-150 lightning is going to be an amazing truck for your typical handyman/laborer. My neighbor, a handyman, typically doesn’t have anything more than a ladder, tools, and a hot water heater in the bed of his pickup, then drives ~100 miles a day between jobs in a pickup getting maybe 15mpg. At $4/gallon, he’s spending $25/day, and would quickly see a return on investment.

I’m waiting for someone to convert a huge 6x6 with ~400kwh of batteries in the bed. That would be my dream vehicle. At $100/kwh, it might even be reasonable.
Thoughts on Offensive Security's course/content?
If those founders hadn't changed the world, they wouldn't be rich.

Sure, Dropbox and Stripe aren't dismantling apartheid or eradicating polio, but these products do solve real problems and make life a little bit more bearable for millions of people.

We should give credit where credit's due and acknowledge this impact.
The perils of valuing backwards compatibility above all else… imagine having to use UTF16 in this day and age. Happy 2022!
The Jungle Book is the best children's book ever written. I'd like to see a study of adult life outcomes based on whether their parents read them The Jungle Book. I think it would be revealing.
Empire (which I’d put in the tribal side) brought international commerce, peace, standards, etc, I should think. You’re making many generalizations to rationalize a hopeful faith in globalization, and ignoring many profound negatives. Tribalism also has bad outcomes, but as others have said it wouldn’t be an inclination if it didn’t have evolutionary value.

I’d go further and say that because it’s an evolved inclination, we’re far less immune to it than we’d like to think - that tribalism and globalization form a false dichotomy; you can have both. I.e. tribalism within a framework of international cooperation or a global empire as the will of a tribe (or alliance of a few tribes).

The post-war global order is a very new thing, depends on a delicate power balance enforced by continual threat of war - buy in or die is hardly what you probably want to endorse when you champion globalization, but there’s a degree of that at work since the end of WWII. Growing up a Roman citizen makes you kinda partial to the global benefits of empire. If you disagree with Rome, you realize it’s not all peaches and cream.

What’s different in the modern world we live in is more the scale of the tribes than a lack of tribes. But sitting in Rome, you think all the world is Rome.
What is the missing 1 point?
> Are you implying people should feel free to create and obtain a new name on the blockchain using any random website? Also I do not see the list of popular GH names in the link you provided.

The popular names are in the names folder.

I wouldn't recommend obtaining a new name from any random website. I don't think I did so. I'm going to avoid continuing this thread as gaslighting isn't usually something one would wish to engage in, obviously on the receiving end, but on the creator's end too.

I hope you are able to find peace in the next year.

Happy new year to you.
Summer Day by Mary Oliver

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean—
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
Any decent network stack supports mDNS and you don't need to enter an ip address to access your gateway or any other hosts in your lan.

I don't even know what's my workstation's IPv4 address. I just connect to desktop.local and my NAS with nas.local
>… quackery like … chiropractory(sic) is allowed…

There are indeed some Chiropractors who are quacks, and there are elements of the practice that are not understood well or even contravene our traditional understanding of science and medicine - however, if not for Chiropractors I’d have suffered needlessly. Visiting a Chiropractor and getting adjusted after Airborne operations has brought me back to full operational form. I woke up unable to turn my head on multiple occasions, getting adjusted was the only relief I got after my PCP’s only help was painkillers or the referral to the “quack” (as you put it).
>> 2. As problems become international, supra-national organizations grow to solve them: from the UN or the EU after WWII, to the WHO, WTO, IMF, WB, and all the other global coordination bodies absorbing national sovereignty.

Many nations (e.g. UK, US, China, Russia, etc.) would not accept the UN or EU as a sovereign body that would supercede national sovereignty.

The governments of such nations would have to fail before the UN or EU could establish a government described here.

In fact, the Catholic church (as described earlier in the argument) came into power because the Roman empire (or at least some parts of it) failed.
Call me a socialist but we had scientific and engineering breakthroughs without hyper capitalism.

If NASA had the budget of the 1960s today we would be way ahead of what Space X is doing now.

And yeah, even without that I’d trade Space X for more global equality in a second.
Keep the selection bias in mind. Sure, there are amazing engineers like that and we get to know that due to the internet. Let's celebrate that and acknowledge that they're extremely rare.
If I understand this correctly, the problem is strictly contention on the cache lines containing the reference counts for the shared data. The fact that the data itself was shared is fine, it's just the reference counts that are a problem, yes?

Instead of unsharing the whole thing, I wonder if it would make more sense for Rune's Vm type to just re-wrap the Arcs in a new reference-counted type. I don't know if Rune spawns new threads internally, if not then it could store these as Rc<Arc<…>>, but if so then it could use Arc<Arc<…>>. This may look odd but it would ensure that every Vm gets its own independent reference count to use for all of its internal cloning. Or it could redesign its internals to avoid doing so much cloning of the pointers, instead using borrows, though I don't know anything about the Rune API so I don't know how viable that is.

In any case, the basic takeaway here should be that using Arc is still potentially expensive if you end up cloning it often (and it looks like Rune does; in a quick skim it's cloning the runtime context and unit quite often). Arc should be used just to deal with data lifetime issues, but cloning of Arc should be avoided as much as possible.
This remember me a system that helps me a lot:

https://plaintext-productivity.net/
The cynicism in this thread is simply astounding. The people of HN has had a negative impact on my view of the world and my own internal optimism. It’s hard to find even the smallest light of hope here. “Can do” attitude is outdated and is replaced by “Pull everyone else down”.
Sure, but you're ignoring flaws in the security to make a stronger marketing message for your site. Yes, there is nothing you can do about this, it's not under your purview. But nevertheless you can't make so strong a claim as to say that a message can't be faked without a broken verification function. It simply can't be faked in one particular way.

If Person B published a message under Person A's name, that is, to the non-crypto world, a faked post. They're not going to be impressed by your argument that actually it isn't faked, it's real, Person B just had access to Person A's computer.
not in England they aren't
I was surprised at ford in particular because it's the name one of the main characters of a book that's very popular in this community.
After abandoning the laser idea due to the aforementioned “fully automated blindness / house fire machine” issues, I’ve often idly wondered if you could use a phased array of small subwoofers to generate a precisely targeted region of extreme pressure drop. That way you could just instantaneously and explosively decompress the suckers in such a way that’s probably safe for mammals.
Cool beans but why not try some formatting:

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

Four spaces
I agree that the intentions were pure. That said, this isn't a product, but instead, a project with a specific goal of improving internet security by showcasing concepts to the HN community. The discussion within the thread, I think, is indication that it is helping to inch closer to that goal as more users on HN are made aware of the beneficial tools cryptography with Handshake provides.
I think the person you're replying to was being sarcastic
If you would share a little detail, perhaps people on HN might suggest other things for you to read which might help.
Measuring simply by how well those who have it worst is a much better metric. A world where all people have it terrible is a bad world. A world where everyone has it at least okay is a much better world.

There are downsides to inequality, but a metric that counts "everyone is miserable" as a success is an awful metric.
Chase after some physical performance goals, do it 3-4 days a week and let that be your outlet for perfectionism, betterment, etc. Meaning, give that feeling an outlet, and make it material. It's hard to not feel great satisfaction when you are making gains working out, swimming, etc. It gives you a place where it's pretty "easy" to chase performance and know what to do, and, at least for me, let's me feel "OK" about not knowing exactly what to chase after intellectually.

For better or worse, intellectual pursuits can be hard to come by, or hard to know how to start, etc. But saying "I want to get down to 12% bodyfat and put on 10lbs of muscle" is pretty easy to track, pretty easy to figure out, pretty easy to see the gains, and of course you feel fantastic after every single workout. At least I do.
Did not know that second part!
Yeah, I think this is the gist of it in traditional* practice.

* for what it's worth, Hinduism has a lot of heterodox interpretations, and at least historically there is large number of variations of it. Modernity (incl' British administration) helped homogenize it partially. I think very loosely, it can be categorized as putting a label on the various collections of folk belief structures popular with the people of south asia formed from the admixture of vedic and pre-vedic practices syncretized together.
#4 is what to aim for
> I hate Government regulation.

> But Google controls over 90% of worldwide search traffic. I don't even care that they do.

I think you need to reassess some of your positions lol. It is not an uncommon stance to appreciate both government regulation and trust-busting.
I have a job that pays the bills and where I haven’t worked overtime in many years. I start small hobby projects because it’s fun, and I rarely finish them. Because starting a project is fun and finishing usually isn’t. And I do it - remember - because it’s fun.

If I’m going to start pressuring myself to finish hobby projects then it’s not fun any more. That’s work. Not a hobby.

Hobbies might be extra curricular activities to boost your resume for a tiny period before your first job. But once you are hired a) your hobby projects take a much smaller place on your list of achievements and b) your need your hobbies to disconnect from work.

Best advice for avoiding burnout is to switch jobs quickly if you are stressed over work. If you lose sleep over work it’s not worth it. If there is crunch time or expectations that you regularly work over 40 hours per week, get out. Find a job that doesn’t do that. It might not be in some sexy industry it could be in concrete manufacturing or an airline - but that’s the price you’ll have to pay.

Also, don’t be afraid to just take a hobby that doesn’t have a goal other than relaxing and disconnecting. Especially once you land a software job you’ll find that you’ll really want a hobby that isn’t anywhere near software.
Certificates are awesome on paper (I’m a big fan of WebAuth for example) but we need some sort of custodianship for less technical users who don’t realize that formatting their laptop means they might not be able to log into their services again
> when I embarrassingly struggled to convert 1 Gbps to 125 MB/s

The interviewer should be embarrassed for asking such trivia.
It can kill anything that gets in my house and flies. All of them are foes. mm accuracy is another matter. Not blinding me is far more important.