skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think I read it at the time, but Joel’s explanation of what was going to happen to Sun was prophetic, and also explained some of the craziness of Java that I’ve never been able to work out.

I also agree with you about Apples’s position re upgrades, which - until now - I found quite baffling. I guess that the subscription model is intended by Apple to create both a lower barrier to entry (cheaper in the short term) which reduces the entry cost for complements, and long term recurring revenue which potentially creates a lock-in effect - quitting the ecosystem means losing access to the investment in apps on the platform. It’s win-win from Apple’s perspective.

On the other hand I have always argued that when you write an app for iOS, you’re creating an accessory for their devices, and so you do so on Apple’s terms. (That’s fine IMO, as long as you understand that this is what you’re doing).
Cryptocurrencies as a whole are an amazing innovation. It’s sad though to see people rushing to adopt things they don’t fully understand, and getting hurt as a result.

Bitcoin and Ethereum are pretty terrible currencies. Proof-of-work is a foundational idea in cryptography, but it’s much better suited for preventing mass email spam than it is as a consensus mechanism.

Not to mention how the cryptocurrency space is crowded with useless AltCoins. Unless you’re an expert in the space, its so hard to distinguish from true innovation and dummies just trying to get a piece of the pie. As a result, you have millions of people pushing things like Dogecoin and Shiba, and it ends up hurting real people.

The way I see it is this: a useful cryptocurrency needs 3 things:

(1) Security
(2) Scalability
(3) Decentralization

Almost all mainstream crypto fails at (2) miserably, and as a result end up failing at (3). High transaction fees, volatility, low throughput, and energy-intensive participation costs are all barriers to achieving actual utility.
If you raise $100k from an angel then you were a bootstrapped company and now you aren't.

No spectrum. No complications. No twisting of words. Very simple.
It's so insane that this is the state of things. For some documents I have to sign they have to be printed out and signed with ink, and then scanned and not taken a picture of.

Why?

This is obviously way less safe than using digital signatures, which are bound to me by SSO. Anyone could sign any document with a fake signature that looks just like mine, it would be very hard for them to do a digital signature associated with my account.

I get so much paper mail it's insane. Paper mail that I'm supposed to respond to with more paper mail.

Fuck that.
Like it or not YAML configuration files are everywhere. I've had a lot of luck using JSON Schema with YAML config files. Luckily VSCdoe and possibly many other editors can be configured to provide type hints for completion. Using any available JSONSchema checker you can validate your config files in CI and elsewhere.

Most of the time, what's missing an accurate JSON Schema for a configuration. I usually encourage owners of those configurations to sit down and write it for everyone to benefit from
i did for a while selling utilities for MMORPGs

it was making some decent amount, i was a student at that time, so it was very satisfying experience; better than working for macdonald ;)
Handling taxes (VAT, sales tax) when you are selling worldwide is a nightmare. That is why many vendors pay the extra to use 'full fat' payment processors, rather than Stripe.
I tried reproducing the issue in a macOS 12 Monterey Intel-based VM by deleting ~/Documents (it was automatically recreated on reboot) and deleting ~/Documents then creating a new symlink with the same name in the same directory (as the author did) to a directory outside of ~ (the symlink worked fine, even after rebooting).
Or pourover coffee which, at least anecdotally, I've seen become much more popular over the years.
Woit's take on this: https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=12641
If any object can potentially be reached by forging pointers or enumerating all memory locations, you can't even keep local variables in registers around potential stores to unknown pointers (or ever, in a multithreaded program).
Of course they do. All marketplaces like Tinder are ways of selling access to the 18-29 year old women who are attracted to men sector of the userbase (the scarce element in the equation) to the rest of the userbase.

To dating apps that aren't specifically gay/bi focused, everything else is a rounding error.

The OKCupid founder's data book was really eye-opening.
That case wasn't one of the cases where null pointers are valid memory, judging from the commit message. (There was a case where gcc had a bug where it didn't disable that check properly, but this doesn't appear to be that case.)
I had a great experience with https://www.printexperience.com for my custom USB sticks.
This makes me suspicious that what's really going on is they are offering a lower price to those most in demand. It's in their interest to have more desirable prospects show up.
> Why do you try to code JS without reading about the language?

Because it's painful drivel.

> Your code is potentially bad. `||` uses "falsey" values

We know that this dictionary will only contain things to which we will be adding 1, which we expect to be numerically done.

(I have already made the point that there shouldn't be multiple falsey values.)

I mean, there could be other problems in this direction: if a string is in there like "foo", then the + operation will make it "foo1".

It's unlikely we would ever want to code a "add 1 to dictionary element, treating non-existence as zero" which will work for absolutely any dictionary regardless of knowing/assuming anything about its content.

> This could happen in any language with a methodNotFound handler.

Only if you define that handler, and have it silently return.

Handlers for method not found are a very poor idea to include in an object system. Ruby and its ilk uses it for ugly, monkey patched solutions for this and that.
Yes, 'simple' really undersells what's being offered here. Simple as in ease of use, perhaps, but it looks like it does quite a bit. Thanks!
Maybe they only did that briefly and people have forgotten, and I was just unlucky? Maybe folks think it's fine? Maybe framing farming upvotes and stars on GH and SO as giving free labor to corporations is rubbing people the wrong way (though that seems like a pretty neutral and fair characterization of that dynamic, to me)? Dunno.
If the vaccine works, and you are vaccinated, then why should you care what someone else does with their body? The vast majority of every western population is vaccinated, the number with COVID antibodies at this point is even higher still.

Do you really want to round up and kill anyone that doesn't comply with what you deem to be what they should do?
The wealth of the world is controlled by Baby Boomers, and all of them are too old to die young at this point. You can't take it with you.
I bring back about 10 kilos of enset powder (kocho) every time I go to Ethiopia. It’s an incredibly healthy food.
Often a search returns an SO answer as first or even featured in side bar result.

That generates traffic and reinforces the dominant position.

But +1 on "stupid library". Most of the time the poster must use it, company standard or big legacy system. Once in a while it's useful advice.
Idk about bleach, but if you look at some of the studies, 600deg treatment for over a day and similar protocols were being evaluated, and even those scales of energy weren't clearly enough.
Prions survive autoclave, meat has to be charred inside out for prions to die. It's nightmare fuel.
Root insurance has been a recent one

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rootinsurance

CoverMyMeds another

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/covermymeds-com

At least for a Midwest city, investment does seem to be picking up

https://news.yahoo.com/columbus-startup-funding-skyrocketing...
I think this was answered: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-twitter-hack-election-pla...
Sure, and now I can not select shipping destination "Germany" anymore, as somehow it's an impossibility to match the existing language contents and shipping destinations...

This is such a frustrating trend. Google has already been mentioned as an offender - it is an annoying procedure to keep resetting the language for every fresh session - but at least their texts are mostly properly translated... Going to the Amazon site of my country (a smaller one where I am a native speaker of the language and most but not all products listing are machine-translated), I have to constantly change my language preferences to get the non-machine-translated version of various texts, as "prefer original language" doesn't seem to be a thing. Some things are just so hilariously wrong that doing this is the only way to make sense of everything.

Oh, and they (framework) also force the currency tied to the nation. My credit card is not necessarily in the native currency of either my shipping destination or my preferred language. Just let us set all three independently, please :/

aliexpress and iherb are two sites that do this right.
It's MAAAM!
Complaining, but not doing anything about it?
See

https://www.healthpolldatabase.org/hpd/study/31119145/questi...

from the same site
I'll eat a sock if they bother with solar in Ohio. I guess it's better than nothing but large parts of Ohio just don't get that much sun. Wind is much more likely.
I've worked for the past ~2 years (in my spare time) on a macOS / iPadOS presentation app:
https://hyperdeck.io

It isn't released yet, but I do have some loyal beta users, so I'm hopeful that some of them will buy the app once the last couple of issues are fixed.
This guy put together a great analysis of over two dozen ivermectin studies [0] and he found that the studies done in countries where intestinal worms are common giving ivermectin showed a benefit against covid, and that in countries where intestinal worms are not common ivermectin did not help with covid.

This makes sense because it is known that intestinal worms can compromise the immune system.

[0] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...
Paybacks from UK renewables could cut bills by end of winter
I know how it happened but I don't remember if it's public knowledge or not. I'm pretty sure at least some details made it out.
Something to note -- Indiana U doesn't have engineering stream unlike Purdue. Only thing close to engineering is computer science and Intelligent systems engineering.
Isn't TBAA exactly the assumption that the program won't alter the stack/head/instruction memory in an illegal way?
The white and orange/brown are hard to read for me. Both have less than 1.5 contrast in the chrome dev tools. To continue on the nitpicks, I think there's a typo, the procedural macros have "drive" instead of "derive". And the boxes of code taking all the page compared to the "terminal" text make it a bit hard to "get" the flow of the page.

Other than that it was a nice read, and the grey background is nice and easy on the eyes. I really like the breadcrumbs too, they act as a minimalist menu and easily clickable URL.
Thanks! It's always nice to hear that some information was taken to Heart.

As with many scientific topics, the early data was all over the board. There were dozens of studies ranging form fraudulent garbage to honest and very promising. This provided lots of fuel for people and the media to polarize on the topic.
Meant to write “that evidence was not provided…”
It depends on whether taking more than twice as long to heat the water is "just fine" for your use case.

Me, I use the high output burner on the gas range and a traditional kettle.

Note that other European and Asian kitchen gadgets have had no trouble making inroads in the United States. While some people obviously do have electric kettles here, they're far, far from being the ubiquitous thing they are in British kitchens.
If Twitter knows about it they're legally obligated to report it.
When Ben and Jerry's boycotts the West Bank due to Israel's illegal settlements, the Israeli president calls it terrorism, and claims it is a boycott against Israel [0].

When people ask why Palestinians living in the West Bank are treated abhorrently, where they cannot use the same roads as Israelis, they cannot use the same legal system as Israelis, etc. Israelis claim that the West Bank is not a part of Israel.

As a Jew that grew up believing Israel is righteous and can do no wrong, I have had quite the rude awakening. I am not alone -- 25% of American Jews now believe Israel is an apartheid state [1]. Even young evangelicals are no longer blindly embracing Israel [2].

[0] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-s-presid...

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-finds-a-quarter-of-us-jew...

[2] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/05/26/a...
I haven't had any hardware issues tbh. The only thing I would say is that the fans kick in pretty loud when doing anything remotely intensive. Even battery life has been fine, compared to my old Macbook Air. I've had to put in some work configuring drivers, since they're so new that they haven't landed in the distros yet. But NixOS makes that easy, so that's about it.
> The reason apple have made it really easy to know if one's about is precisely to avoid the stalking issue.

I agree. My point is that the only reason people are reading 'stalking' and 'AirTag' in the same sentence is a failure of Apple's marketing. If they just had those features and didn't try to paint a world where your neighbors are out to get you they wouldn't be having this problem.
If ever I saw a solution in search of a problem...
If it were in lieu of an hourly payment it would vary from agent to agent (depending on expertise) rather than house to house (depending on price). This is how lawyers work. Some are $200 an hour and some are $500 an hour.
It seems fine as a basic hex editor, but I haven't used it that much. Not sure what would happen if you gave it a large file. I've been happy with HxD as a dedicated hex editor that works well with large files.
>Pretty sure they were implying we never got the how they were hacked.

>The Twitter incident began when the hackers connected last year in an online forum focused on buying and selling rare user names, some of the individuals involved told The New York Times at that time. They then broke into Twitter’s systems by tricking employees into providing login information, according to legal filings. The hackers used an administrative tool to take over accounts belonging to political figures and celebrities, including former President Barack Obama, Kanye West and Elon Musk, using the accounts to conduct a Bitcoin scam, the filings said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/21/technology/twitter-tiktok...
> Viruses period, Covid or not, apparently do a lot more damage and require a lot longer to recover from thane we expected.

No, this is not supported by the evidence. So far, even the worst of the long Covid papers suggests that a minority of people suffer from lingering illness. And most of those papers are bad, defining "long Covid" arbitrarily, and mixing together "cough after three weeks" with far more serious symptoms experienced by a tiny set of people.

When people say "we need more research on long Covid", this is what is meant. We literally have no idea what "it" is, other than an arbitrary container into which people are dumping their worst fears and speculations.

Going from this to "viruses are much worse than we ever knew!" is both wrong (post-viral syndrome is a known thing, affecting a small fraction of people) and overgeneralization.
Thank you, I am personally fine, living the life I want within my circumstances, I am not sad. I think it's a little interesting that feeling pessimistic about the course of civilization necessarily means I am in despair. Humans are just one creature on the earth, our fate as a species need not be the determination of an individual's happiness.

Also, I might need to check to see if I have the required income to be eligible for being this site, I might not make the cut...
Golang, which is most used system language in the last few years, also bundles stdlib.

Additionally, quite a lot of software seems to be distributed in self-contained format; for example many Java apps (even those intended to be installed on a server) come bundled with JRE, and Linux GUI apps and games are usually distributed in Flatpak/Snap/AppImage.

Of course let's not forget about distributing software as Docker images, which is probably the most common way software is installed in many server environments.
Funny enough, I've implemented a config language that fits exactly this bill https://github.com/gilbert/zaml

An example (also see it in the online editor[0]):

users {
andy
beth {
admin true
}
carl
}

The author is right that you gain syntax benefits when you define a schema. For those who say this adds cognitive overhead, it actually doesn't; the schema and compiler are able to reduce that overhead, because if you make a mistake, you get a nice, accurate error message.

[0] https://gilbert.github.io/zaml/editor.html#s=N4IgzgxgFgpgtgQ...
Lol, growing up in Ohio I've heard this same thing but for various different reasons over the years. Would be interesting to see an authoritative source if one exists
South pole would be my bet.
Wait... we're not all bots?
It's about 78% of the size of California. Per a quick search:

| Area | Population
Vietnam | 128,066 sq mi | 96.2 million
California | 163,696 sq mi | 39.2 million
USA | 3,797,000 sq mi | 329.5 million
Hacked Twitter accounts[0] are incredibly common. Twitter has been asleep at the wheel.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=hacked+site:https://www.redd...
It's not like semiconductor plants are using the cheapest possible labor they can get their hands on. I imagine there are very few people working in semiconductor plants that don't have post secondary education.
High functioning, or high functioning?
Does it take any fuel? Isn't fuel used to desaturate reaction wheels?
I don't even bother with making it look like scanned. Just adding a png signature with Xournal and that's it. Mostly government requests it so they never cared enough to complain.
You're not the only one here who has suggested I might be trying to make some kind of clandestine point about COVID. I've been on this difference in how the CDC treats these two topics since long before COVID existed and COVID couldn't be further from my mind.
Open Sourcing Our Firmware
Open Sourcing our Firmware
Low Tail Latency Online Transactions Atop Jittery Servers [pdf]
Pretty cool, I'm thinking about config file formats at the moment so this was timely.

A minor note since the author seems to be around (and noboby has mentioned it that I could see). There's a typo in the example:

allowed-countires

should of course spell "countries" more like I just did. The same error occurs twice.
Let this be a lesson that the business comes first. Security is important - but the business is more important.
On the other hand, downloading software to your desktop is a risk (cf the Solar Winds supply chain attack). I recently got asked to fill in 30 question risk assessment questionaire before someone could upgrade to the latest version of my software (I declined).
5G Service Launches Amid Flight-Safety Uncertainty
Stripe can handle sales taxes.

Also, it's worth checking with the accountants first before taking on a role of a tax collector. When yet another random country demands a sales tax on purchases made by its citizens, it's just a spherical pony in a vacuum. Best to first check if their demands have merit.
Cancer does that.
Mac download is not a .dmg, cannot open w/o adjustment.
Before the site was just fake-broken. Now it basically doesn't work at all; entirely unusable. I use Nitter now but that has some issues, unfortunately.
Youth extension therapies will be cheaper for insurance companies than current hospice care. As such it will not cost more than the price of your current insurance premiums. However, while the intellectual property is still protected, there may be some hiccups but they seem unlikely.

Specifically manufacturing of medicine is cheap. The R&D is expensive. As such even if the company owning the IP kept prices artificially high. Facilities in Africa, China, India, etc would reverse engineer them and medical tourism would become even more common. This is a constant threat for COVID vaccine manufacturers today. It’s very likely the prices of youth extension are not much greater than the COVID vaccine (I.e. about $20 per dose)

Meanwhile, the population of countries with single payer health care (e.g. Canada, New Zealand, etc), will also reject intellectual property protections for a company halfway around the world. Life extension for the population is more valuable than a few potential tariffs.
Years ago I user a good blue Ball pen and signed in a blank paper. I scanned this in high resolution, cropped, fattened the lines, removed background and saved it as a transparent PNG.
I added this PNG as a stamp to my favourite PDF software and have signed many many documents.
The thing to remember is to flatten comments after I stamped my signature onto the document.
Bob Bishop's AppleVision (1977)
The World Wide Dots, rather than web.
Culdesac Raises a $30M Series A
I can't help thinking that people dying of old age is our last defense against consolidation of power. No matter how much power someone accrues they're eventually going to die. That power always dissipates, dynasties never last forever.

This might be an extremely cynical take, but it feels like if we did discover a scientific fountain of youth we would end up with immortal billionaires rather than the likes of you and I becoming immortal. There's literally thousands of people dying prematurely in the US from lack of access to healthcare technology that we already have right now.
Strange about the Pixel: they're readily available here in France, I know I bought one Monday.

For Linux, I was speaking about your home setup: I use Windows at work too.
Except there really isn't that much money in Coal - and Ohio doesn't has little of it anyway.

Ohio produces 1/20th the coal of WV - which is a much more economically poor state - and coal isn't even really that important to WV's economy. Ohio's economy is much more similar to PA - and PA produces 10x more coal: https://www.eia.gov/coal/production/weekly/

Coal is all politics.

I mean, it is still used for a lot of energy production - almost everywhere in the US - Ohio definitely: https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=OH.

I'm sure power plants don't want to shut down overnight because someone bans coal completely - and they shouldn't. But it's just not economical in most places - the plants are phasing out naturally almost everywhere.

The less scale there is with coal - the less viable it becomes. It's a vicious cycle.

Power plants naturally phasing out because coal isn't economical will have almost 0 impact on Ohio.

Places like WV - that's a different story. WV sells coal! Ohio doesn't.

Coal also doesn't employ people like it used to. It employs 3,000 people in Ohio: https://www.ohiocoal.com/information-library/history-coal-mi.... That's out of a ~5.4M labor force: https://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.oh.htm. That's ~0.05% of the workforce... Even WV is only ~0.15%...

It's really only important to a few barons who want coal to stick around long after it's economically viable (the governor of WV).