skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US is an extremely violent place. On most violent crime categories, it ranks highest among developed nations.
Wow, that's a pretty compelling N=1 study. this guy goes from totally healthy to acute liver injury, each expression of illness and injury tied very closely to vaccine dose!
> can't afford to upkeep it

Address the cause, not the symptom. Make it so these individuals are more capable of upkeeping their projects. Otherwise, over the long term, you'll end up with projects disincentivized to do the maintenance, leading to a weaker open-source community.
I was surprised how low this theory was in both the article and in this comment section! The article even opens with talking about the trend continuing fall 2020 (the first school year that began since the shutdowns hit the US), and yet it takes almost halfway down the article to mention "remote learning" and then another big chunk before the word "pandemic" is used (I didn't see "virus" or "COVID" either before then). I'm not saying all the other issues discussed in the article and elsewhere in this comment section aren't there, but given the timeline I feel like any convincing theory has to first address why that isn't the dominant factor.
Can the veterans of the 90s SSL Wars explain the issues with ASN1/DER/BER? Looking it up today, it seems like a pretty smart and extensive serialization system, and I have to wonder why new systems like Google Protobufs chose to reinvent the wheel.

Conversely, how have modern systems avoided the pitfalls (if any) of ASN1/DER/BER?
I doubt that satellites will be survivable in any future high-end conflict. They can't really be hidden or protected and have very limited maneuverability. Anti-satellite weapons are improving rapidly.

Militaries will probably have to shift to large numbers of smaller, cheaper satellites along with a prompt launch system that can quickly replace attrition losses.
For me scrolling works fine on mobile but is broken on Chrome desktop (page snaps around in ways I don't expect).
Just disable javascript on blog.sigplan.org, the page works fine without it.
If that is what they really want, then do a 1099 paying task that takes 40 hours over a months time with a weekly check-in meeting to ask questions not solvable via email. I don't love that idea but it is respectful of everyone's time at least.
> If downplaying side effects had an overall greater outcome, would it be unethical and "obviously wrong"?

Well, lets say that I will have the side effects for the rest of my life, or my kid (9y) will. So lying or hiding about the side effects is better for the big picture, and then fuck me/my kid? This is how you breed anti-vaxx and other people against goverment. 'We lied, but it was from your own good, sure, some suffered the consequenses of our lies, but hey, bars are open now, yay'
> Coming soon to kill your open source project: a current chain of custody and audit certificate that all corporations will require in your repo (along with that MIT license!).

For anyone that thinks this is hyperbole, this is already close to the current standard for shipping any executable to Windows or macOS machines today. If you want your app to run on either operating system, you first must buy certificates every year and sign your apps with them, and then you must remain in good standing with Microsoft or Apple if you don't want those certificates revoked or if you want them to be renewed.
> It is dangerous to be caught caring about men or boys.

Not at all in my experience. Comedy skits aren't evidence, or we could have some very interesting discussions!
That certainly might have been it too, but if they're going that direction I would have expected everything to just feel more weightless/frictionless.
Global AI Weather Forecaster Makes Predictions in Seconds
I think it's a bit more nuanced - while I would say SELECT is declarative, UPDATE or INSERT or DELETE feel pretty imperative to me. Not only are they literally orders, but only DELETE is idempotent.

But for analytics systems, you can get close to having declarative, idempotent DDL by doing CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW ... SELECT for derived data. Some systems even allow transactional and this idempotent DROP TABLE IF EXISTS; CREATE TABLE ... AS SELECT.

This doesn't in any way help with indexes, with tables that are primary storage and you can't just drop and recreate them and so on, so there definitely is something missing.
I can see this being a problem for colleges & universities.

Is this a problem for society?
Dark-energy-spectroscopic-instrument-creates-largest-3D-map-of-the-cosmos
Yes. To this day. You pay extra tax on cdc-r.
(Interesting not on DVD -r)
That's really neat! I do wonder why, though - I understand any threat from e.g. China is fabricated, as any real war would be mutually assured destruction as both/all sides have nukes.

So, am I wrong to assume this will, if at all, only be used against defenseless targets, such as political/civilian targets, as show-of-strength to justify the massive budget and "whoa thats cool"-factor (which, to be fair, it has)?
They knew of the emergent coronavirus threat from the same gain of function chimeras research they accuse started all this. Just google coronavirus and filter from before 2017.
I ran across this video from a distinguished engineer at AWS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=4J8REvs7zaY

Recent and worth a watch.
It is already like that for closed OSs: Mac and iOS have required "signed" binaries for years now, which force the developer to register with Apple, use Apple hardware, and pay an annual fee. Similarly for Android. And Windows is on the same track.
Yes, we could have and we could have deployed vaccines in short months. But we did not because we found it not to be ethical. Letting millions of people die was found much more ethical. Also keeping strict control over vaccine production was found ethical instead of scaling the production into as many countries as possible.
A half point lost per revolution would spice it up.
IBM botched RedHat/CentOS, i won't trust a for profit corporation on open source software
Yes. It's another type of FizzBuzz, in a way.
Wow, NIPP testing is very cool - didn't know about that.
Pretty much the same as buying high end DSLR.

The camera does not "make" pictures. The photographer does.

If you have no idea how to compose your shot or control lighting, it is going to look bad regardless of how much investment in the camera and lenses.
Most programmers Google nearly every command they type in, so they can Google how to ssh
They license may permit it but the author may not have envisioned this kind of nefarious use that the license permitted.

If you're outside sweeping your steps and I walk by and ask to see your broom for a second and then I beat you to death with your broom you aren't to blame because you handed me your broom.
> The point of DS&A interview is as fast as possible system to vet engineers that aren't time wasting on both sides

I have to disagree. Doing LeetCode problems is a huge waste of time for me; I'm not interested in a career as a "professional interviewee". Yes, I'm totally leaving money on the table because of it but I refuse to participate in their 5 monkey experiment.
But can they capture that lost value? I suspect not.
Coming soon to GitHub and npm: KYC and background check.
Can we trust a for profit company on open source software after IBM/RedHat botched CentOS?
I think it is up to the prosecutor and expert witnesses to deal with that. The presumption is that the defendant is innocent. If the prosecution can not make a convincing case to an impartial jury (not an expert jury), then the defendant goes free. It's not perfect, but it seems better than the alternatives.
Manipulating the Climate: The Geopolitical Risks
Perhaps everyone in the room knew that. Perhaps it was even said. Were you there?
It's not so different in the ways that matter here. The point is that hard mental work isn't a "young man's game". It's about time and energy still. You need to work very very hard for years to win a nobel prize. In another universe (different only in choice of career path) that nobel prize winner would be an entrepreneur doing 80 hours a week, or a star employee somewhere. You'd be lucky to hire them.

If the nobel prize winner went into basketball, however, there's no way they'll be a top athelete when they're 44. Unless they happen to also be seven feet tall, and even then they have biology heavily stacked against their performance.

Statistics aren't what I'm talking about. Statistically, some perentage of young women will get pregnant. If the stat is not a guarantee which applies to everyone in the group, it's wrong to use it to stereotype people.
Request:
add info about how many loops game had.
less loops should add bonus points or more loops should have penalty points.

Otherwise fun game :)
Anyone serious on this should work with https://www.softwareheritage.org/, Nix, and Guix.

The status quo is negligance for yours, and they are not interested in proposing meaningful standards that would require redoing their stuff in a Nix/Guix style way.
Corporations don't have to maintain open source software under open source licenses if, for example, that software was released under MIT or BSD licenses. They could very well take an project with an MIT license and make it proprietary, and there won't be any free versions to fork from.
If you're welding without regard for the objects or their orientation you're probably going to have a bad time.
EBioCO2n – Electricity-driven CO2 conversion through synthetic enzyme cascades
I think Signal provides deniable authentication, i.e. you can forge messages which cannot be distinguished from a real conversations. I wonder if it has any impact legally speaking, but I guess it would not matter unless there's evidence of tampering.
If X will destroy the recording industry, please give me lots more of X!
I think this view is indicative of a massive failure of cultural expectations.

At what point in the past 50 years did we start expecting academic liberal arts institutions to start churning out people with vocational skills? These are entirely different things.

The fact that an average 1970's college graduate was highly employable has nothing to do with those colleges having good vocational training programs, and everything to do with selection bias of those who attended and the economics of the time.

If you need vocational skills, you should enroll in a vocational program.
What is a 'Hollywood' movie? If you mean something released by one of the major Los Angeles-based studios, then sure. Otherwise there are a ton of feature length movies made with a shoestring budget and none of the effort you mention which get a wide release and get immensely popular and profitable.
> Normalization is a performance optimization

that is a stupid statement.
because it's way too generic and it depends on the use case. read heavy data that needs a lot of joins are most often denormalized IF updating a lot is not a problem. sometimes you need to create views that pull in different stuff with different queries which would make them not really performant especially not on postgres which is just super slow when it comes to listing/filtering data.
Not to disagree with your take, but where this "40% raise elsewhere" comes from? Are the other company pays new engineer in advance for all those specific knowledge and skills they will learn in a next three years?
> Hypersonic missiles, submarines, and satellites (sensors, C&C, directed energy weapons, EMP, rods from god, etc) I think will be the critical force components of this century. If any war breaks out, those components working in concert will take out surface ships and stationary bases first.

I argue the opposite.

All those satellites will be obliterated the minute war starts. Satellites are on obvious, stable paths with almost no means of propulsion. We know where all of China's satellites are, and China knows where all of our satellites are.

Once Satellites are down, the question comes down to whose navy has more Radar than the other. Big ships with bigger radar units is a big advantage. Eyes in the sky (aka: F35 or E2 Hawkeye) is another advantage, especially if those eyes have a degree of stealth (aka: F35).
this site is the last place i thought i'd find a gbs.fm reference
> Trek gives people lifetime frame guarantees, but after 2-3 years they can't actually provide a replacement frame that works with the bike components.

I threw away a perfectly repairable Trek bike recently because the parts were extremely expensive and hard to find. Now I know one more brand to stay away from buying.
>At what point in the past 50 years did we start expecting academic liberal arts institutions to start churning out people with vocational skills? These are entirely different things.

The point where they started taking in about half of each rising generation as freshman instead of 5%.
So the PLAN, which is deploying roughly 16 major combat vessels per year is following this terrible plan? They seem to value surface vessels.

Hypersonic missiles (as do ASBMs) require targeting. Breaking the "kill chain" is something both sides will be attempting to do in a conflict, but for now the USN has far more experience as a modern Navy than any other nation (sorry Brits...). But hypersonic missiles aren't anything special and really just hyped a lot. Fast is often good, but not always necessary, or even desired if the corresponding tradeoffs make them either more expensive, or limit how many you can carry.

Subs? Subs will always be one of the most lethal combatants. But they have limits.
Satellites? They can be jammed, blinded, or destroyed.
Sensors? Jammed, blinded or destroyed.
EMP? That would be the initiation of nuclear war. Don't want to go there. But making your ships etc survivable to some degree is smart. Better to just outright deter it.
Directed Energy weapons? This ship will have that. Modern navies have been experimenting with DE for decades. Whether it's a microwave system or laser, they'll be on this ship and retrofitted where possible to others. They actually help by increasing the volume and depth of your "magazine."

Rods from god will be the game changer once launch costs drop. The guidance tech is already good enough, just need to make it cheap to send up a lot of tungsten into space.
The standard response to "hypersonic missiles are making surface ships like this obsolete" is that kill chains [0] are long and difficult. Of course, submarines, distribute sensors (like radars on man-made islands), and satellites help a lot, but they're also all vulnerable: subs are slow and might not be in the right position, and islands and satellites are relatively easy to target.

Regardless of whether or not the kill chain is vulnerable, you still have to actually launch the missile or plane carrying the bomb. Ships are still the best way to do this, so it's going to take extremely effective antiship systems to make it not worth it.

[0] A kill chain is the processes and systems a weapon needs to actually hit a target. It includes detecting a target in the first place, making sure you actually have a launcher within range, tracking the target while the missile is on the way, and actually impacting the target at the end.
When I first saw protobufs, I wondered exactly the same thing.

There’s an “XER” if you want a human-readable XML encoding, too.
Because he may be victim of a fraud? ie, the baby is someone elses?

Because the actual biological father may want a role in his childs life?

Because the state has a bit of interest in accuracy in its medical / birth certificate and other records?

Because many births are to single mothers and the absent father may have certain financial and other responsibilities for the child?
An interesting category of HOWTO have been companies teaching you how to do it yourself, for real. Before you get started, they pitch you at the end offering a paid-for option that has 0 learning curve. That's a good pitch.
Cool, I will check it out. Thanks!
Ask HN: Anyone use Jetbrains Jetpack Compose to make desktop macOS applications?
I'm curious to know if anyone has used this to make a Mac application and what your experience was. Good/bad?
That's a voluntary survey that gets sent to the government. You're in no way required to answer those questions.

https://attorneyatlawmagazine.com/what-are-eeo-questions-why...
Hydroxychloroquine for Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis
> most companies would rather have an OSS library from some other corporation than github.com/fortnitedude anyways.

I think any project that's not a hobby project and is responsible for providing a quality, reasonably secure product to paying customers would prefer this. Be it a mega-evil-corp or a scrappy startup or anything in between.

But if you're a founder of such an open-source project that is getting interest from big companies, that sounds like an opportunity to get funding and turn your hobby project into a startup. Pretty sure most of those mega-evil-corps and scrappy startups would rather pay the project founder and originator than some fork.
Is the concept that UTC would become "detached" from a particular location on Earth and the offset of time zones relative to UTC would change over time (very infrequently since it would take on the order of a millenium for a time zone to shift by half an hour).
Great to see!

Selfishly, as a MacOS refugee and someone who has an on/off relationship with using desktop Linux as my main (and a desire to use it daily); I would love it if there was a shameless clone of the MacOS DE for Linux.

I don't care for customisation, I just want a sensible default that I can get up and running with immediately.
I can't help but imagine how amazing things would be if we didn't have such an insane copyright system. With the internet and today's tech there's no reason why the full contents of every book ever written shouldn't be available instantly. Same with media. Instead, art, culture, and knowledge are being lost all because a small number of people want to control access and play gatekeeper.
thank you and I agree with your basic sentiment; that said, there has already been strong evolution by practitioners but that evolution is unpredictable, and perhaps more importantly not trusted. It could be said the penultimate executive function is to decide on change in trust, and then make it so. This is that sort. In my opinion as a US citizen, there is no realistic way out of this in the short term, but instead go to your teams and colleagues and emphasize your own executive privelages, understand what is being asked for "better security" and .. evolve.
> What does the IN field tell us? For an embarrassingly long time, I thought IN functioned as a preposition, so that every DNS record was saying something like “google.com is in A and has IP address 216.58.192.206.” It turns out that IN actually stands for “internet.” The IN part of a DNS record tells us the record’s class.
Aqua - the "lickable" theme. I miss it, I prefer it to the current washed out MacOS where I cant tell what is what.
Litmus test for determining common sense. Or if you get cynical, "cultural fit".
What is an n=1 study?
> at an early age women are given the impression that sex is their single lever in a relationship or socially

I can't speak for all eras and populations, but I suspect that that anecdote is an outlier.

> I wonder if I'm an oddball

If I may be so bold, you seem emotionally detached from the incident. That itself might be a response to the trauma.
If you plain to signup, we both get $5 if you use my referral code :)
https://r.honeygain.me/SHYNI43656
Is there a place in France, probably a technical museum, where one can still try functional Minitel terminal? Or maybe an online "demo"?
While I appreciate the original sarcasm, I don't appreciate this: sarcasm is almost by definition hard to tell apart from real opinion because you are taking the position of someone who'd have such an opinion.

Since I consider the opinion of open source developers being idiots unlikely and silly, I am reading your message in a "consider best possible interpretation" way, which is that it's an ironic joke.

I would imagine that's what most people who've upvoted you thought as well.

Basically, if you resort to sarcasm, your "amusing" dilemmas should have obvious answers or you are misapplying it or using it in the wrong context (unless you are really aiming for just being an odd man out in a particular group, also known as a "troll" :).
Modern Chromebook with their "Linux containers" are really, really close to being a wonderful developer experience with the same level of user accessibility, support, and refinement of any of the other "major" operating systems out there. I'm surprised Google hasn't capitalized on it further.
Owning a house doesn't necessarily make you reluctant to move to pursue other opportunities somewhere else. Renting or just re-selling the house is always an option.

Also, anything good in your life would make you reluctant to move somewhere else. But you wouldn't say, for example, that having a significant other is bad because it makes you reluctant to move.
Aka Google wants government contracts too! If it's anything like their DMCA system or customer service this is going to ultimately be bad for citizens.
Nice. Its the equivalent of domain name verification using TXT records, but for HN profiles!
> Applying it to millions of individual servers with different OSes? I'll make the popcorn.

The FreeBSD folks test for this:

* https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2020-Nove...

The kernel and ntpd are fine with it. Applications: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Agreed. Most of the "security" I see coming out of these companies serves to secure their own revenue streams, and then it's pitched to users as existing for their own benefit.
It sounds like he's basically saying that jury should be pro forma, rather than actually mattering.
Are there any security concerns for logging into random servers via SSH? Can they learn names of keys or anything like that?
Yes, it's a voluntary survey. Employers with 100 or more employers are required to include it in the job application.
Hans Reiser would almost certainly be free today if he hadn't overruled his lawyer and taken the stand in his own defence.
Maybe Putin wants that "We are sending the immigrants card" by having a big border with EU; one way (ukraine as russia) or another (ukraine as a swiftly welcomed eu member)
Google does certainly use log4j. They didn't write every single line of code themselves that they're using.
It depends on the queries you run. In postgres we use stuff like materialized views, partial indexes, hyperloglog and it you are using citusdb (postgres for adults), you can even have columnar tables to accelerate olap stuff
NFTs, an overblown speculative bubble inflated by pop culture and crypto mania
Right. And so Pop!_OS gives you a decent tiling window manager, with sane defaults, without having to spend hours on customising your configuration. What's more, the tiling they provide is an optional feature. You can enable and disable it at any time without messing with you config for hours.
And being unable to properly google is pretty good screening. I feel like a programmer who knows when to turn to stackoverflow is a lot more valuable than one that can eventually work it out by brain-power alone but takes three months to do it.

Yes you need to know how to actually program without just using snippets but also yes if you're trying to diff two files in a commandline environment just google the answer - some people will know it by rote but I've got nothing against people that can pickup new tools and learn to use them without much guidance.
this is a nightmare of big govrt plus big tech.

this will turn into yet another government granted monopoly like Telecom. few players control the entire industry and in return, govrt can tap into their network.