skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One good positive effect of this (in my opinion pretty unconstitutional) move is that the state will be considered de facto responsible for any negative effect of vaccination.

I mean: now, when you take your jab, you sign a paper where you acknowledge the risk: it is your 'free' choice, and you get the consequences.

Btw: there is still no penalty for not obeying this new rule (they are talking about 100€)

I personally suspect that all this persistence on having the whole population vaccinated hide some other reason: this is Italy, where you still have the Mafia controlling vast areas, where you can die in an airplane crash explosion and still do not know after decades the reason (just to mention a few).

Could it be that having a relevant number of non vaccinated population could make it easier in the future to study the consequences of the vax in the long run?

Plus:
* why we still do not know the reason why in many African countries the number of infection is pretty modest (Nigeria, for example)
* why we still not know much about correlation of infection with other factors which may help preventing it: for example: having a beard helps or not? and biting your fingernails does it makes it worse? wearing glasses? ... My thesis was on PPA, I am aware you can pretty easy get significant factors... you just need good data (so the will to collect it)
Depends on what page you're in and what your interests are.

I like foraging and growing mushrooms. There are a lot of interesting posts and material about them on Reddit. Somewhat similar for stocks and investing. Not much on those here.
We Got the Generics We Have (2020)
Worldstarhiphop.com
> They are so hell bent to give things away

Wow, we've really come full circle on this. If you're a business who wants to simply use the official Java JRE to run Java applications you now have to pay Oracle for a license.
I find it interesting that while logic bugs (e.g. off by one errors, switched if conditions, etc) make up less than 1/3 of bugs I encounter day to day, it seems to comprise of about 80% of all discussion around testing.

Bugs caused by misunderstood or unexpected interactions between subsystems and specification bugs seem to predominate these days IME but discussion about sophisticated ways of dealing with these things seems fairly scant.
If the computer is stolen or compromised, but the TOTP device remains secure, then access will be blocked.

Actually, occurs to me now, the brute force approach could still be used then, so that does have to be mitigated separately (which is possible).
I honestly don't know, but I've never heard it talked about as a tech hub unlike how Miami is being talked about.
French president says he wants to 'piss off' the unvaccinated
This isn't yet available to consumers. Minimum is 10 items per address to even start a conversation to get pricing. It looks nice, but how much does it cost? How do I install it? Rather pointless unless you're a property developer.
What is farming to designers and hackers in the Metaverse?
It was the battle for "the web" and the sun+netscape partnership was an actual menace to microsoft's activex and vbscript things. There is an espisode the Lex Fridman podcast with Brendan Eich where he talks a little about that specific time.[1]

The "panic" was right imo (only in that specific area) i mean, there is almost 0 microsoft on the web today.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krB0enBeSiE
Digital watches in general are a good sign that humans are amazingly primitive.
Amazon buys seven acres in Santa Clara for $51.8m
When I was kid it was said that if you went to university and researched/developed your work there that you would be able to make more money. Idea being that the technology would become capital of your own, which you could offer to business under more favourable terms than if you were to create it for the business as an employee. I suppose in reality that there will always be someone willing to take the quick cash instead.
The developer (contractor) can be at least as big and wealthy as the buying company.

I don’t mean developer as in an individual contributor, I mean an implementor, often contractor, which will normally be a company too.

Right now it’s too easy to cut out a niche of selling snake oil services like “automatic cookie banners” with dark patterns and batteries included. Meanwhile companies are fooled by these companies into thinking that if they just pay the $ for their “compliance solution” they are done. Here is where I’d like to see the sellers of the snake oil take part of the responsibility and not just the buyers.
I've built and operate search.marginalia.nu, it's designed to dig up esoteric crap like this.

Part of the work is also identifying and blacklisting spam results, which means I have to do a lot of searches for casinos, hotels, drugs, porn, locksmiths, cryptocurrencies, escorts etc. This site cropped up during such an inventory.
In reality that "poker player" would probably just get a line of credit at the casino[1]. Moving/Getting money is "hard" mostly if you are poor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_roller
I remember watching others struggle with texting on the 3310 without T9, while I could confidently tap out a message using T9 that's reasonably accurate.

I was able to type emails on a BlackBerry keyboard on the subway while looking at where I'm going.

But hey, it's a media consuming world now...
I also have a supercomputer in my pocket now

And I thought you were pleased to see me.

Slightly more seriously, and delightfully pedantically, you don't. A supercomputer isn't a supercomputer because it does a lot of computations every second. It's the utility of the machine that makes it a supercomputer. Your phone can model entire weather systems or the intricacies of millisecond-by-millisecond fluid dynamics inside a nuclear explosion, but you choose to play Angry Birds on it, so it isn't a supercomputer. It's just a very, very fast, and immensely wasteful PC. You could do everything you do on your phone with a much less well-specced device. We all could.
This is also not a new phenomena but something that has been slowly increasing over human history. Before agriculture, humans spent almost all of their time hunting and gathering. Agriculture freed up some time and every major technological revolution has in some way made society more productive and efficient allowing us for more time not working. At some point in the 19th century the concept of leisure time came around and its only been growing.

Reducing the work required by each individual to survive and support society is a natural effect of technological progression. If people are getting more work then we are regressing.
Weather satellite detects meteor explosion near Pittsburgh on first day of 2022
Browser extension maybe? Did you or your partner look at the newly created repo in a browser right after creating it?

I could see an extension watching for git like listings with json files named like wallets and fetch()ing them when they appear.

Easy enough to recreate, test with the devtools tab open.
Largely because they can't afford them.

Number of children inversely correlates to income [1], with the poorest families having the most children and the richest families having the fewest. You're right that birth rates are falling, but I don't think you're right about largely why.

1: https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...
Show HN: Sigma – Powerful Hacker News Client for iOS
Lot of talk on how it's a bad idea to use web tech for desktop apps because bloat.

Web tech is ultimately an API. APIs don't create bloat, developers do.

What is missing (or unknown) is tooling to avoid bloat.

One could have something like a compiler of sorts that analyses the HTML+CSS+JS of an app to be packaged and generates just enough code to implement what's actually in use. It only needs to implement the semantic (for example no need for a CSS parser in the app if the CSS is not generated on the fly in response to user interaction, it can compile straight to layout code).

Even packaging an existing browsing engine, it should be possible with a bit care (no aggressive use of runtime generated code and the like) to make an advanced dead code remover that recompiles the embedded browser without all the stuff the app being packaged does not use (e.g. no video => no video decoding code, no use of CSS feature XYZ => not compiled in). It could even be brute forced in the presence of an exhaustive test suite: for each function in the embedded browser, replace the body with an exception, run the test suite, remove if it passes, repeat.

This also applies to GTK or Qt which suffer the same problem as electron (must be co-packaged with the distro, or compiled on): with efficient dead code removal you could make AppImages (or similar all-in formats) that are not zillions megabytes each.
In the US a lot of people are very, very unhappy.

The lack of real political and economic agency for most of the population is one of the defining features of US capitalism.
> It is easier to bring about a revolutionary scientific discovery such as that of the
X-ray than to alter in the least degree the quality of emotion that arises between
a man and a maid.

The relationship between a man and a maid is a core characteristic of a society.

The complexity of changing such relationships is attested to by TFA, and yet, in many places, over a hundred years, we see (hard fought) change.

A hundred years ago, or even fifty years ago, the downfalls of Dominic Strauss-Kahn, Jeffrey Epstein, and Harvey Weinstein were inconceivable.

So was #MeToo.

But there’s as much tech in the hash tag as there is in the x-ray, or more if you just count the investment dollars.

Technology and social relations define and redefine each other in long epicycles.
That's very unfair. Some people may dislike Java and its ecosystem (and even the JVM platform), but it is not where it is now by accident.
Total tangent, but I too hate wires and was pleasantly surprised how easy https://cleanup.pictures/ makes it to remove them from any and all photos. I'm not affiliated in any way and sorry for the random. :)
It's not heavy, it's the syndrome where wild success gets you associated with the good and the bad.

Enterprise Java is extremely slow, over-engineered, complex, that's where the majority of hate comes from. Then they had their security debacle, coupled with a couple strange roadmap changes, and being bought out by Oracle, an unpopular company for different reasons.

Java the language then sat mired by the corporate world and went nowhere for almost a decade (java 6, 7, 8).

Oh, and don't forget Billy, wonder why C# has made such a comeback in recent years. It's a nice(r) more modern language, it's not that great, come on...and I say this currently working in it full time.

So yeah political prop and the normal stuff popularity brings with it. It has also happened to JS too...
As long as the Visa/Mastercard duopoly exists and continues to police what I can and can't spend money on, I will continue to support the ideology behind cryptocurrencies. I lament what they have become, but the initial logic behind their existence remains sound to me.
I had ASCII nudes that you had to print out to see.
This was all on dot matrix printers with "continuous"
paper feed.

So you could print out "long" pictures.

Nowhere near enough lines at the terminal.

The character set was also extremely limited.

You had to view it from a bit of a distance.
Importantly, a 32-bit signed integer.

If this was using unsigned it would work until 2042.
Isn't there a difference between using a medium of exchange versus creating it? To stretch the analogy, instead of using $100 bills, printing them a la NK superbills?

If dictators/mafiosi contribute a significant amount to the overall hash rate, are they not decreasing transaction costs for whichever blockchain they use?
It's a number that I thought should be in about the right ballpark. The point wasn't to be on the mark, it was to be explicit enough about the estimate that would be easy for somebody to correct me if it was wrong. Which, it turns out, I was: looking around some more, it's closer to 1c per impression. That said, it's still easily in the ballpark of what would be a net positive.
This is a really good point,

when an American (or other rich Westerner) shows up in remote area, they are treated like a king,

basically you are treated as people treat ridiculously good looking and popular people around them that they want to be around,

that generosity you feel is nothing more than being popular and center of attention

start living there, all of a sudden that generosity is not so obvious, families are at each other's throats for that bushel of corn one guys grandfather stole from the other fifty years ago, random shit gets stolen, the whole garden is trampled because someone is stealing a few of your tomatoes, trash is thrown over your yard because the neighbor wants to "save" on trash collection fees, people cut ahead of you around in the queues, people have untrained dangerous dogs that are a menace to the whole community ...

etc
>Java would be the same success as PHP .. it might be everywhere but due to all kinds of side forces.

People like you that complain about C,PHP,Java etc forget the history , your favorite cool language did not exist at that time or if it existed had probably a lot of downsides. Also many complainers do not work with the languages and repeat like parrots something they read. I would love to get some perfect programming language, something with more maths in it that forces thinking of solutions and less glueing shit together or rewriting X and CoolLang for my CV.
The old groklaw.net site has a lot of interesting historical context that came out of the lawsuits.

http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2005010107... among others, as a lot of the other stories had microsoft involvement.
exactly.

No doubt this is a well planned move: nowadays you get votes if you just divide the world in black and white
if anything, Gates-era Microsoft was known for being anti-competitive. What the very-wealthy want, I think, is power and control, and for the number to go up to stroke their egos.
They tried to get a foothold in mobile (even bought Nokia’s mobile phone business), they just didn’t succeed.

Given how long Windows CE was around and then whatever they called the subsequent mobile focused OSes, I’m sure they did care while they still had a shot, but Android ate their lunch. Probably deserved to IMO, in the limited mobile development I’ve done Android was an easier platform to develop for.

10-15 years later, Microsoft is adopting Android for a Surface device.
Article is pretty good and gets a lot of things right. So what will the world be like in 2122? Climate catastrophe? Will AI have taken over? Will democracy survive? Will people still travel or just interact virtually/remotely?
This seems to have been how one of my favorite composers, Arnold Schoenberg, died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schoenberg#Superstition...
The good news: you can fix your car's firmware by plugging in a random USB fob.

The bad news: you can fix your car's firmware by plugging in a random USB fob.
What does “code like prose” look like? I had a group project in college with a guy who used MS Word to write code in paragraphs..formatted like an English paper (I’m not kidding); is this what you mean?

(Looking back I often wonder how long this guy wrote code like this before someone said “knock it off”..)
A change of 12% over 24 hours is well within the fluctuation caused by the probabilistic nature of mining.

Looking at the charts I can't see any clear drop: https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/bitcoin/hashrate-chart

Extrapolating that bitcoin mining escaping from china is the cause of the protests seems a little too far-fetched.
> For example a poker player needing to get 1 million dollars to Monaco to play a tournament would have to pay 1% (10,000$) and wait god knows how long if he went through the banks

Do you have a source for this? I find it hard to believe that high stakes gambling is hindered by banking systems.
You may remember this little gem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19877916
I think that just leaves everyone with an incentive to keep it quiet. A monetary reward for the reporting dev and a fine for the person authorizing the build puts incentives in the right place, IMO.
The Oculus Quest is quite remarkable, and the remarkable features have been developed internally well after Oculus was acquired.
I guess it depends on a system you build and its maturity - in my area (automation for finance and revenue management) 80% of bugs are related to business logic and misinterpretation of user requirements.
While we’re here:

I’m a free user, and because of it my “don’t check for updates” setting is ignored. Apparently you have to pay in order to disable the https request and the popup on each minor point release.
Of course it was possible.

For all of y'all mentioning Leisure Suit Larry, that wasn't really porn (more of a raunchy sex comedy) as there wasn't even uncensored nudity, and it was mostly a cartoon. The close-up images of women were more akin to Patrick Nagel paintings (albeit in nasty EGA colors).

But some kid left video porn on one of the classroom computers when I was in high school. It was grainy and choppy, but yeah, you could see she had it way deep in her mouth. Stuff like this was advertised all the time in the way, way back of PC Magazine. The editorship was even discussing banning it in the early 90s.
I agree, but some other countries are still not using the underground as a cable management system.
You might want to look at BDD. It's a way to be able to discuss what has to happen and use code to make it happen.
I see where you are coming from with that one. However, this acting doesn't often have that strong of a negative connotation as insincere seems to have. To me, it's a more light thing, a bit of playful acting, atleast for the scenario I mentioned in the previous comment.

Going between languages is hard. :)
Ask HN: Can you suggest some good books that explains details of JVM?
I am a java developer and i am interested in learning the lower level details of the language to become better. Understanding how jvm works would help i guess. Please suggest any good books you're familiar with. Tech blogs are also welcomed!
I also worked at a company where all the machines were named after mountains! The company was named MountainGate, so this was probably unavoidable. "Dana" and "Tresidder" sat on my desk.
You always know when you see an American film because of all the powerlines, and I always wonder why they are not put underground.
>Apple adding those probably caused more upgrades to utf8mb4 than any amount of pleading from languages that actually needed them ever would have.

I think there is a lesson here - maybe I'll find it after my coffee
When you're at the top there's really only one direction left to go.
> A freelancer is hired part time for the duration of the vaccations. It cost a full dev salary for one month, taking in consideration training time, that's all.

You pay a full dev salary for one month every time someone wants to take a break?

It’s baffling that anyone can read an article about someone spending $400/month on cloud services and then start proposing things like this as an alternative.

Engineering labor is expensive. Cloud is surprisingly cheap once you factor in engineering costs.
We really stopped imagining new ways of living and it’s unfortunate. A lot of people seem to think that the various isms that have already existed represent the only conceivable modes of human organization.
How many of those people clogging up the icus are people who are unvaccinated but had a prior infection?

I'm saying that I don't think being unvaccinated is the issue, despite people like Macron repeating that. Being seronaive and careless is.
Cool project. If I pay you $900 how much of that goes into cryptocurrency?

Seems like you could achieve the same result if you just let your customers buy their own coins and provide an address for you to watch?
Not a cause. CAN messages are up to 8 bytes long, not a 64-bit signed integer. There is enough space there for packing the time as a 64-bit time_t (which will ensure it will work literally forever, as the Universe will die before it overflows) or that ugly BCD format that RTCs use (which will last for practical uses).
Nitpick: you can't break an EU directive. Directives are frameworks of laws that the states have to implement. Here it's the French implementation of the EU directive what was violated.
Buying a house or home is the biggest expense that most people will have in their lives, and people have to pay back that loan over decades. And you mention that as a “drag” and dismiss it as “something we do to ourselves and each other”… what? It’s irrelevant whose “fault” it is. Of course that kind of thing will have a huge impact of what kind of life one can afford “on a modest salary nowadays”…
> you should understand that when 51% of the population wants to ban the remanining 49% of people to live

Kinda disingenuous to frame crypto as a life essential to 49% (??) of the population.

Also when most crypto users are aiming to avoid taxes while participating in the same society as the non-crypto majority. You need public infrastructure for things like the “internet” to function.
The opposite effect has often been observed too. People with a mission will often managed to survive much longer than expected but then suddenly die as soon as they perceive to have accomplished that mission.

An example that comes to my mind is that of Marcel Proust, who was sickly and suffered declining health for years. In the last three years of his life, we worked relentlessly on La Recherche, his life work. He managed to finish the last volume and died shortly after.

I'm sure there are many others.
Atom, yes, VSCode, no. The latter is noticeably faster and uses less RAM — and the JetBrains suite is even worse.

A large part of this is cultural. The Java world has been prone to high complexity styles which are hard to optimize and there doesn’t appear to be much social expectation that you profile or improve code until you max out what you can easily fit on a single system.
Just be careful to reap the results lest you get zombies. Yes, that's the standard Unix terminology.
That feature (complication in mechanical watch parlance) is older than digital watches. Some of the fanciest mechanical watches in the world will play a chime on the hour/quarter/minute. It’s called a repeater complication. They were useful for the visually impaired or when the time was needed before artificial lighting was readily available.
Volvo confident it can get its ‘unsupervised’ highway driving mode approved
I have 3 servers, 2/3 don't have hardware timestamping on the interface, 1 does. Makes a huge difference when it comes to NTP.
Cool! Excellent predictions for the future, not just for technology, but also for social change from a broader perspective than just that of the lived experience of the author.

(W.L. = Walter Lionel, as revealled by a bit more searching)
Porn was always there--people seriously opposed the VHS tape format because of the possibility for porn. But I don't think anybody anticipated the world of porn that the instant-phone-loading Internet created.
I don't see the behavior you describe on those sites so it suggests it's something unique to your setup. For instance: if your browser is set to clear cookies then they won't be able to store the preference for you and will have to prompt every time.
I have forked original source code.
https://github.com/scalalang2/faker.js-mirror
> You can do "more work for the man", or you can do a hobby of some sort. Either way though you are up and doing something.

Way to miss the point completely. Clearly “relaxing” in this context meant “leisure” or “free time”.