skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fraud by false representation is a thing in the UK so I suspect that it might depend on the circumstances and the seriousness of the case but IANAL.
Second hand PC dealers in my country (Turkey) used to put together affordable gaming rigs using old Xeon processors a couple of years back. That's why my first guess was that if it was a Xeon.

I think Xeon processors also have special motherboards, so you can put TWO processors on some of them. That was a huge selling point for computer nerds like me.

Wikipedia says "Because of a hardware limitation not fixed until Ivy Bridge-E in 2013, most older Intel CPUs only support up to 4 gibibit chips for 8 GiB DIMMs". The E5-2609 is at the generation of sandy bridge. So you probably bought the Xeon to support 32GB :).
> Every second, 20,000 stars become newly unobservable from Earth.

Inquiring minds want to know.

1) If we had an instrument that measures the gravitational field due
to one of these stars, would it drop discontinuously from a small
positive value to zero, implying something like a gravitational wave
shaped like a step function, or is there some reason for it to smear
out?

2) If there are observable stars far enough away from us that these
disappeared stars are still observable at their positions, should we
detect the observable stars being affected by gravitational forces
appearing to come from nowhere?

3) If the remaining observable universe is always ascending from a
gravitational well, does relativistic time dilation imply that
the rate of expansion we perceive is always faster than the actual
rate but gradually slowing down to it?

edit: time dilation was the wrong way around
I suppose all I could offer in defense is that the Iran sanctions were over nuclear technology, ISIS, etc; not speech or "loss of face". Ugh, still, the Middle East makes the US lose its damn mind.

I hadn't really followed anti-BDS laws (not a thing in my state). Looks like they get slapped down pretty easily by the courts for violating free speech.
Millennials in the US are driving less than previous generations
I really like this tweet[1], which is bit cheeky, but gets also at the issue that everyone "basic" needs are actually different.

[1]: https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/1367854800193413126
Yes, and it makes sense for Go to have a stdlib like this, but does it make sense for Rust? You wouldn’t use Rust unless you were aiming for low level optimizations all the time, making one size fits all standard libraries less appropriate.

There is no need to make Rust like Go, Go is already a great Go.
What law? And why isn't it just as much about the validity of such law?
A server in Sweden cannot easily be raided by the Swedish, is the first reason.

The second reason is "Swedish laws apply to people in Sweden" seem to make assumptions about what the government can force people to do, or specifically, punish people for not doing. In many cases, authorities just threaten/raid the data-centers so never have to bother take that route.

Lastly, I'm not sure this is true: "Swedish laws apply to people in Sweden" - I'm not sure this applies to Swedes working for foreign corps, there are a whole load of laws that apply to local corps only. In fact, that are laws that apply to Swedish corps even when their staff reside abroad - unless "government can come knock on their doors" is a reference to physical coercion.
If you were in the authors shoes and you disliked C++ templates would you also have written off Go without trying it, though?

No argument on going from D to something else but to not know either and not even try Go is what surprises me.
> only after an extended period of time of independent vetting

Let's face it, what will your average dev do in the absence of something being in stdlib ?

They will (semi)randomly pick some third-party crate which in all likelihood is totally unvetted.

The crate that they selected could equally turn stale and outdated quickly if its a small one-man-band Github party (a not unfamiliar story these days).

Hence, having a standardised baseline available in stdlib is no bad thing IMHO. It brings "sane defaults" and forces anyone wanting to do different to make a thought-out decision, not just grab whatever Crate "looks good" so they can get on with coding.
So does TypeScript if you have strict settings. Your input data will be untyped and you will be forced to determine its type before you use it.
> If I want to use those libraries, I need to fork the project and rewrite them to vanilla JS

Why? If you want to just use, npm packages give you “compiled” vanilla JS and type definition files that you can ignore. Alternatively you can compile them yourself, if you vendor them in.
You say I'm required to "put out there where [I] think that human creativity materially diverges from the output of an ANN" but you state your opinion with as little support as I did. Both are just opinions.

My views on the matter have nothing to do with being "anti-AI" or "signalling" to anyone, and the latter suggestion is mildly offensive. Like many here, while being no sort of expert I've thought quite a lot about these questions and have fairly detailed views about them. I suspect strong AI is possible and will not require new fundamental physics or anything like that. However, I suspect that if it is achieved it will be of a very different nature to GPT-3 etc and to ML in general. I don't think the behaviour demonstrated by these systems so far resembles human creativity, understanding or reasoning at all, although they are capable of impressive and fascinating things. I'd go so far as to say the differences seem, to me at least, rather obvious, if difficult to define. However, I'm open to alternative views and to the possibility I may be wrong.

I greatly enjoy discussing these sorts of things, but adversarial exchanges on hn filled with ad-hominems aren't the way I like to do it.
The parent on duty learning to recognize the baby is stirring before she cries is a part of it.
Can you get work permit for other European countries? There are more cultures that have different approach to ex-con than evangelicals, I'd try with some of that if you can
Elmer Fud is a character from the Warmer Brothers Bugs Bunny animated series of children's cartoons and used as a mnemonic device. I assume the ELMER acronym is some set of metrics used to judge the validity of a claim to determine if it is FUD or not.
>They did give like a 10k grant for people to remove master/slave terminology from docs, so who knows what other PC work they were funding.

As a black person in tech, I can't tell you how much that whole debacle drives me insane. I never once in my life ever made the association between "master branch" and "slave master". But now every single time I pull a repo with a "main" branch instead of "master", I have to think about it and play along to assuage someone's white guilt. I absolutely refuse to ever make the switch.
I want a FOSS PL with bloated higher level primitives and APIs, like Wolfram. Think about how having a data frame class (+meta-programming) makes such a big impact in R. I want the same for images, sound, etc.
DHH: The thrill of changing your mind
TL;DR FROM How to easily read 50 books a year? "Finishing a book is optional".
Setup a Linkedin profile, be open about your conviction it will reduce your long term stress once you land a job. Get involved answering tech questions on either Linkedin or Stack Exchange.... this will give your technical prowess authenticity. If you still can't get a job consider volunteering as a way to get a reference, again be open about your conviction.
> Even the Go standard library is quickly aging

If anything, I found go stdlib to age like fine wine. It doesn't do everything under the sun, but what it does it does very well and can easily be extended if needed.
Here, you're supposed to see convicts solely as victims. I noticed, too, that he's specific about courses he's taking, but vague about the crimes -- and detect no remorse whatsoever.

What he does describe sounds like he does indeed want to work, and I hope he finds an employer, somewhere.
Ripped apart? Really? Imagine the damage if BLM had been there. And don't pretend like there isn't a long history of their extensive damages.

The U.S.A. has survived literally splitting itself in half, and having a war against itself. Despite a presidential assassination. I'm pretty sure people who were videoed saying "we gotta keep it peaceful guys, we have the right to peacefully assemble" after Capitol cops told them to stay civil, are not nearly has bad of a threat.
There is no paradox, if one is familiar with the modus operandi of human species: "given the opportunity to consume the humans will consume to the point when there is anything left to consume"
I did many interviews in my previous workplace, and we never cared about age when recruiting. My colleagues were between 20-something and up to retirement age (I'm now in my late twenties).
The most exciting and valuable people I've worked with were the latter. The more senior people always brought a ton of knowledge to the table and were often able to draw parallels between the stuff we were solving now with things they had already solved 20 or 30 years ago. I would not worry about your age, and your troublesome past adds some spice and a different perspective to life, and I'm sure most companies will embrace your talent.

Feel free to send me a note on chris *at** dataespresso *dot** com, and I can share with you some info about my previous employer and possibly make an introduction. They have offices all over the UK, and I think you'd enjoy working there.
Windows 11 on Web, using Preact
I think that’s only true for very simple programs. As soon as you need to use a dependency C and especially C++ front load a bunch of complexity around build systems, header files, etc. C doesn’t even come with a HashMap built in, so you end up hitting this very early on.
You don't even need to mention this stuff, and if you're not an employee I think the chances of being compelled to divulge it are low.
Especially if you're freelancing.

Secondly, if you are an employee, I think you can develop a good narrative to explain where you came from, where you are today, and how you've changed (etc), and how serious you are about putting it behind you.

You could even suggest some initial 'concessions' like a longer probation period for you, to prove your commitment and ally their potential concerns.
Is this really your recommendation for a UX designer who wants to learn programming for the first time and work on web?
Dog – DNS Lookup
I found stdx to be a useful set of sign-posts. But it's not been updated in three years. E.g. it suggests `error-chain` instead of `anyhow` and `thiserror`.
i found short story collection of these 'miserable authors' good. tolstoys 'how much land does a man need' was epic.
Yet nobody has ever written & published a production grade persistent key-value store in rust.
It's puzzling.
And adventure game studio
Well, almost, but the difference is significant.

Only one Telegram feature is mentioned in the source documents I've read, namely public searchable groups. I've heard that people in the ministries and agencies worry that nazis can recruit e.g. by searching for groups where people worry about this or that threat to nature, then joining and gradually trying to turn conversation towards threats to the Homeland. That kind of thing.

A communication platform doesn't have to have that. Signal has groups, but you can't search for and join a group except by knowing a person in the group. Facebok has groups too, and some of those are (rumour has it) used/mentioned like the Telegram ones.

I don't understand why the general media talk about "encrypted messenger service" when the source documents focus on a single feature that is essentially unencrypted, because public and searchable.
I would do anything for my dogs, doesn't matter what it costs, I love both of them so much and can't imagine not having them in our family. They are family.
It takes a lot of effort and money to enforce copyleft open source licenses, a lot of companies just violate them regardless. Some companies even violate permissive licenses, for eg my router violates the microhttpd BSD license.

The latest GPL lawsuit I saw was only possible due to a large grant from amateur radio hobbyists.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
https://sfconservancy.org/press/qanda.html
Astonishing. At that time I travelled into central London on Saturday to do a bit of food shopping (mainly to enjoy the strange emptiness of the never-empty city). When done, I'd sit on a bench in Soho square to drink a can of pop. There was always a group of police rotating the park asking (ever so politely) people to move on, as sitting on benches was not permitted. If you chose your bench wisely, it would take them about 20 minutes to get around to you.

Clearly I would have been better off with 8 cans of Special Brew in the No 10 garden.
It's not unethical, it's more like being a "fellow traveler" or in clearer terms, a useful idiot.

People with money (corporations) were always the ones to benefit most from permissive open source, they're best placed for it.

Permissive open source only really makes sense as charity[1], or for libraries you as a developer want to be able to use at future companies[2] or as a component for a corporation's grand strategy.

[1] "Here, have this, I built it and I want to share it so that it doesn't go to waste sitting on my storage."

[2] Only the case if you accept outside contributions with no copyright assignment, since otherwise you have the power to relicense your own code.
The built in help docs reader in windows had green underlined links. I want to say as far back as windows3.1 but certainly by windows95
> It may even be that picking contracts in the EU would be useful.

After Brexit he'd need a work permit for that, and I assume convictions are a factor with those.
I mean, that's kinda sorta how the Lenovo T25 got to be - a one-of, 5000 copies run of basically T470, but with old-school Thinkpad keyboard. It's what I'm typing on right now (Glee!:)

https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-25/Th...

Interesting thing to ponder though; I have no idea what manufacturing is like so I assumed that would be much too small of a run to be viable... but I'm completely ignorant.
This is a silly conspiracy theory if you think about it even a little bit. The grant you're referring to was $15K grant to Buildbot, which Mozilla has used heavily for years, and that was both to update terminology and “also to make improvements so Buildbot works better in the Amazon EC2 cloud” — guess which one is more work? — and $15K is a big amount to an open source maintainer but tiny when you're talking about budgets measured in hundreds of millions of dollars. You don't solve major budgetary issues by going after tiny fractions of one percent when there are individual people making orders of magnitude more money.

Mozilla is also one of the most open companies in our field — given how often we read about far less significant events there, it seems incredibly unlikely that there's some sort of substantial but well-concealed dark funding of “PC work” which has remained secret even after, say, lots of people being laid off or leaving especially when such work would by necessity have visible impacts.
Good catch, I totally missed that. Was too focused on Chrome and Safari. Yes then the current defaults are good.
Politicians here in California and the US are no different. The rules they advocate, mandate and prescribe to the masses do not apply to them.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/S-...

https://abc7news.com/london-breed-french-laundry-san-francis...

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-03/skelton-...

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/18/opinions/california-gover...

https://www.brproud.com/news/former-president-obama-celebrat...
You're confused. Where did I mention "pandemic playbook"? It's a _very_ simple question:

Dear Uncle Sam - Where were the stockpiles of appropriate supplies?

That's it. We can move on to other discussions but let's start with the basics first.
I know something about probabilities. What is more likely, a virus occurs naturally blocks away from a Virology Institute that researches the very type of virus we're dealing with, or the virus was released from that Institute, either intentionally or unintentionally?

I think people are divided. There are those that are vaccinated, like me, and those that are not. I, for one, am done getting the vaccine. I've been jabbed 3 times, and if they can't make a vaccine that works, like they promised, then I would rather develop natural immunity, no matter what the science tells me. Science also tells me that the pesticides they spray on produce in the store are safe. I also avoid that produce as well.
802.11bf Wi-Fi 7 Sensing works with all frequencies, 2.4 and up.

Even if Neighbor 2 turns off their router, Neighbor 1 could passively use the radio waves from Neighbor 3's router to surveil reflections from Neighbor 2, including keyboard typing, heartrate/breathing, location and physical activity.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27123493
I know you're just being sarcastic but some people actually think that :/
> They will (semi)randomly pick some third-party crate which in all likelihood is totally unvetted.

That's okay though. It's better for some devs to (temporarily) pick some bad crates than to permanently include some broken legacy APIs in the standard library that need to stay there due to compatibility issues. Even Python 3 couldn't get rid of a lot of code that just should not be in the standard library.
For the last couple years, I’ve set my reading goal on Goodreads to 1 book per year.

Trying to read a certain number of books is meaningless. Reading Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past is nothing like reading the latest 250-page blogpost-turned-popsci-selfhelp book.

Don’t worry about how many books you read. Just read good books you like.
I think they already had that covered.

https://citizenfreepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/feds...
Scientists must do a better job of explaining how natural origin is the likely explanation, then. Otherwise, a lot of smart and educated people are going to put the wrong dots together.
> They will (semi)randomly pick some third-party crate which in all likelihood is totally unvetted.

That this is the norm for a language that focuses on security is mind-boggling.

Didn't we learn anything from the NPM mess?
Algorithms that use data that's easy to capture in a database scale. Softer analytical things that are more often associated humanities often don't, at least at this stage of technological development.

Probably the greatest exception to this is when a concept that comes from the humanities can be widely applied thanks to machine learning.
"Good" doesn't necessarily mean classic. I think what GP said was that a book that resonates with you, for any reason, requires focus to be really understood; not just mindlessly trying to read as much text as you can, just so you can check a box in your todo list.
With each trip taking an average of 15 minutes, that’s about 200k concurrent, live sessions. Each session has at least two participants, so 400k live users any given second. I imagine their spikes are significantly higher than their slow periods, too.
You mean "Parse, don't validate" right?
Step 1: no kids

Crap! Failed at step one! (I say this with all the love in the world for my kid.) Since having a kid, my personal time has reached near zero (kid + pandemic + chronically I'll wife with unknown systemic problems + startup life). When my kid is older and more self sustaining, I hope I can set aside time to read more.
Interesting point.. but it also brings to mind that story about the pottery class with two student groups - one tasked with making multiple pots, and the other with a single most perfect pot.

(https://aliabdaal.com/pottery/

https://joshdance.medium.com/pottery-class-parable-or-real-e...)

It could be argued that finishing (and enjoying and extracting value from) books is a skill that can be honed by doing the quantity approach, at least initially.
The problem is not unique to California and exists in Europe as well. The problem is that you use the infrastructure but essentially don't pay to invest and maintain it, to fix this you need to see solar that feeds back to the grid as a producer (because that's the case) and pay some sort of producer fee when you feed back.
MEV bot earns 34.9 ETH in single transaction
Light on details so far. Newsletter and some name dropping
You're answering why furin cleavage sites in general are not unusual. Not why this particular furin cleavage site is unusual from a natural evolutionary view.

It's if you line up the related bat coronaviruses sequences they are all much the same in that region apart from Sars-Cov-2 which seems to have a clean insert of a PRRA sequence.

Hence the "bothered by the furin site and has a hard time (to) explain that as an event outside the lab, though there are possible ways in nature but highly unlikely." in the article. If it had got there through evolution you'd expect the adjacent sequences to vary more.

This kind of thing https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image...
Those in power will always conflate the two.
Just wait until German police discovers a thing called SMS. Right now, we are lucky that Fax is still a thing in Germany, and the whole internet thing is just a "Neuland" (new land), as ex-chancellor Merkel admitted.
Actually, the "batteries included" school of library design was a 20th century idea; the trend in the 21st century in all other ecosystems very much goes in the opposite direction: fewer features in the stdlib to allow faster iteration, and strong package managers that make it seemless to mix and match packages.

Go just dodges that trend and does the 20th century thing, as it does for many other design decisions. Just as it has common data structures as hardcoded language features, instead of the ability to build them as abstractions.

To be clear: One can take the position that the trends go in the wrong direction and Go is right to reverse them -- that's a matter of opinion. I just don't think it's fair to argue Go is the language that does the more modern thing.
:-) Thank you for reminding me to be less judgemental
Years lived alone strongly linked to inflammation in men
Beware this adds complexity for you, and all added complexity slows forward momentum. If you’re getting ENOUGH traction/feedback without this change I’d consider punting it for later when you’re closer to scaling mode not learning mode.
Economists don't know how to divide?

It appears to be increased consumption, if you don't do it 'per capita'.
Thanks, but...

1. Keyboards that have non-standard Home/End/PgUp/PgDwn, also tend to have crippled/unusable up & down arrows.

2. I don't believe that shortcut works in any editor I tend to use; it is when typing text that Home/Ctrl-Home, End/Ctrl-End come in super-handy.

(yes, we can now start discussing Vim-style editors etc; but my point is at higher level - we had a standard keyboard layout for literally decades, and now its again a no-man's land of bespoke crippled layouts, presumably in service of thin laptop and vast trackpad)
Almost fired for working "strictly" 9-5. Oh well..