skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>that's how we have gold as a value store.

Except for one, not anymore, and two, the value of gold doesn't only come from speculation like in BTC, but from supply and demand from real world applications of gold, like semiconductors, electronics, aerospace, automotive, medical, etc. since it's one of the best electrical conductors and heat reflecting materials we have.

Without gold, we'd be screwed royally, making the current supply chain disruptions seem like a walk in the park. Without BTC, we could fork 1000 other crypto-coins onto which people can speculate on and nothing would be lost.
That's the kind of thing that if you are going to do you have to set in motion well before you actually need to do it, because it would take quite a while to debate and resolve the ethical issues raised.

So no, even if those ethical questions would be resolved in favor of it, it is at best a solution during a future pandemic. It is not one for this pandemic.
RPG Paper Maker
https://archive.is/wJisn
You had better "salvage" options in 96 than I did. The Pentium 166 was newly released in 1996. 486SX33 was easy to come by in 96 for me, though, and it was easy to get slackware running on, too. Though I did let the smoke out of one monitor with a bad X modeline.

I miss Dirt Cheap Drives.
Sorry to burst your bubble but this will never happen. It's a vaporware pipedream being sold to get more tax payer money.
I’ve often used this phenomenon to illustrate that activity is not the same as accomplishment. Movement doesn’t necessarily mean achievement.
Ask HN: State of Linux Mobile?
Hanging with my 6 year old at the playground today I was please to learn that I could still shimmy up a pole. Apparently my phone was excited too... and took a leap from about 15 feet up.

Now I'm on the market for a new phone and wondering if there are good alternatives to flagship iOS / Android devices.

Is PinePhone reliable enough to use as a daily driver? Is Ubuntu Touch as dead as it seems? What hardware / projects offer a reasonable mobile Linux experience these days?
Aren't lung cancer patient chances of having it on the order of 1000x to 1 as far a smoker vs who has never smoked?
no planned obsolescence took place for a number of consumer products.

multiple and costly military invasions were to offer democracy as goodwill and for world safety.

a certain vaccine I can't dare to name is a vaccine as it does provide immunity.

the institutions of most democracies surely can't be so corrupted.

worldwide cocoa isn't mostly harvested by enslaved workers.

HIV is so far more prevalent in Africa because they can't afford treatment and understand prevention measures there.

JFK.

I could go on and on but not sure how many examples you would need to accept that the chances for enormous secrets known by even a significantly large group to not take a freaking long time before blowing up is rather close to zero. thus reconsidering your opinion on the existence of conspiracies.

and, about shortcuts to making a lot of money being kept rather well secrets: dark budgets, secret and hidden inflation, supply fudging
Isn’t the operator of a flight what shows up in e.g. Flightradar and also what you’d typically be most interested in, rather than the owner of the aircraft?
People do this quite literally in low visibility conditions. Common way to die when lost in the snow, unfortunately.
The comment you replied to explicitly was not talking about the video content being removed but how even the knowledge of the video having been on their list of videos having been removed.
sanctions to Belaruskali in action lol
In this context (the nurse case), the firemen are at will employees and don't have a contract with the city. They don't even have to provide notice.

In addition to that, employees aren't property (as of 2022). They have certain rights and liberties that can't be taken away.

So my original question still remains unanswered.
https://www.attrs.org/en/stable/ would be the main alternative
If you ever find yourself thinking like this, get the f out of science asap, you have no idea what you are doing.
Years ago the alarm code at my office was set to 1066 and for some reason I needed to tell my then 10 yo the code.

He immediately said “arrow to the eye”! So for his sake at least I hope the story is true.
I don't think that article supports your argument. Looking at the elections highlighted there it seems more like donations don't matter.

Sacramento - Noah Phillips - Lost

San Diego - Geneviéve Jones-Wright - Lost

Alameda - Pamela Price - Lost

Contra Costa - Diana Becton - Won

Three of the four candidates highlighted by the article for getting support from Soro's PAC lost. The one who won was the incumbent in that race.
Oh sure every few years when you upgrade to a new OS, but not a normal security upgrade.
I actually love flat earthers BECAUSE it forces me to actually think about how "I Know" the world is round.

I bet a majority of people who are anti-flat earthers could not actually "prove" the earth is round without immediately appealing to authority.

I've talked to flat earthers, (both probably real and some probably trolling), and it can be a fun intellectual exercise to debate.
Related: https://laughingsquid.com/the-restoration-of-the-internet-un...

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4040598, but no comments there)
> Does the proliferation of medical specialties indicate a problem?

Ivan Illich certainly thought so: http://akkartik.name/illich.pdf. And he said a lot of useful stuff in my opinion.

But I don't know enough to have an opinion of medicine. I find it useful in my experience. I wasn't saying the connection between my observation and conclusion is ironclad in all situations. But I do hold the heuristic opinion in the one case I mentioned.

> The set of engineers who could do what SQL allows without it is quite small. If SQL disappeared tomorrow, a thousand equivalent implementations would appear tomorrow because it delivers real value.

How much of this argument is about idealized SQL and how much about MySQL or its equivalents? I was careful to draw a distinction. SQL the language/mindset is incredibly valuable. EF Codd thoroughly deserves his Turing Award.

You don't need to persuade me that MySQL lets us do things faster. What would really persuade me is an argument that it helps us do the right things. I think it makes it easy to scale past our level of competence.
As you wish, Java-Cocoa bridge could have never replaced Objective-C, when writing Objective-C was still part of the game to actually use it.

Do you actually believe that Jobs liked Java, when Apple was created on top of Object Pascal and C++, and then he was responsible for bringing Brad Cox to NeXT?
All you need to do is warch one ant for a minute or few and extrapolate.
Hiking electricity prices have put a spotlight on crypto mining. Kosovo banned mining recently and Russia is discussing the same. These latest real world developments can also be affecting expectations.
I think proof of work crypto will inevitably be killed by legislation, when it grows enough to become sufficiently painful for society.
Where do you get your food? What are you reading HN on? You’re making “working hard for a promotion” seem like a futile endeavor, and yet you likely sustain yourself and entertain yourself with the fruits of those working the jobs you deride.

This article is about an ant mill, which occurs when a group of ant’s start following a circular track of pheromones The ants think they’re heading towards the colony, but they’re not. What you describe as a “mill” is really just society, i.e. the ant colony. To me, it seems like you’re on the mill, following an idea that ultimately leads nowhere.
I vividly remember repeatedly playing (what I think was) a demo version of this that came on some magazine cd-rom when I was a kid. It’s surprising to see it got such horrible reviews. I think I liked it…
well relative to the past 10 years not what happened many many decades ago
I was very surprised by that line, too.

I make namespaces and modules in my own projects just so that I can use simple names like "update" or "load" un-ambiguously. Projects that nobody else has ever touched and maybe nobody ever will.

It's been a popular C++ style since before I did C++, and now it's also idiomatic Rust style.

Is OP really advocating for a C style where everything must be fully-qualified? It's horrifying to read GTK+ C code because of that. Everything is `gtk_do_a_thing` and all code operates on a `GtkTypeOfGtkObject`. One of these days I'll get RSI, I only have so many keystrokes left in me! Have mercy!

And you can't rename things, so good luck mixing incompatible major versions of Qt or GTK+ in a C or C++ project. (Actually, Qt has a compile-time flag to put it in a namespace. Maybe GTK+ has some similar ugly macro. But this requires you to compile your own dependencies, a task which is especially annoying, inconvenient, and error-prone in the C family)
Fun, but hard to play on command line versus Web app. Also, gradlew complained of the enie on line 76 for some reason.
That Gotek looks like gold. I hadn't heard of it before. The CF-IDE and SCSI-SD are super useful on their own, but the Gotek looks like it works in some places that really lack for options.
I feel attacked here.
Court orders YouTuber to stay off Roblox
Correcting you because you're wrong. They're talking specifically about emissions caused by the capture plant being greater than emissions it captures. The carbon footprint would be lower if the plant didn't exist.

The plant was not penalised for emissions it failed to capture.
Heh, if you think this is argumentative, you probably wouldn't fit on any healthy software team that actually tries to work together.
Back in the day, I specifically chose an external serial (RS232, not USB) modem precisely to avoid Winmodems. I still have my V.92 Zoom somewhere, though I no longer even have a landline to use it. Somehow, I don't think anything fancier than 1200 bps would work over a VoIP connection, and even that would probably be unusable without error correction.
> That's not "devil's advocate", that's just an example of the meaning of "difficult to balance".

You expressed skepticism that this many people could be fired for legitimate reasons while promoting unions.

That makes sense if you assume that misconduct and union organizing are independent variables. But since individuals engaged in misconduct have the incentive to become union organizers to make it more expensive for the company to punish them, that isn't true, and the observed result would be expected either way.

Your original argument was that the uncertainty was resolved.

> But the entire purpose of a system of laws and the courts is to match the ambiguity of the rules to the complexity of life.

The entire purpose of a system of laws and the courts is to let what the law actually says happen unless the balance of political power strongly favors something else happening, in which case the other thing happens and a justification gets retconned by the judge.

We all know how big corporations work. They have a big book of rules that nobody reads and therefore everybody violates continuously. Then if anybody screws up or becomes disfavored, management opens up the book to see which rule(s) they violated so they can be punished or fired for cause. It's the same thing that happens with laws and prosecutors.

It works the same way whether the reason they're getting fired was the same as the rule they violated or not. It's that way on purpose because it makes it easy for management to fire someone for things they're not allowed to prohibit, by finding something the target did which they are allowed to prohibit.

But that still doesn't tell you which thing it was in a particular case, and a judge doesn't have any good way of knowing that either. Probably the best you could do is look at whether there were a lot of other people breaking the rules, but everybody else has the incentive to conceal that because anybody who admits to breaking the rules would be subject to firing as well, which the company would have the incentive to do both to show that they're being consistent and to punish anyone who admits that breaking the rules is common.

The ambiguity was created on purpose, but that doesn't make it easy to resolve.
Whoa straight from the source!
Windows NT was. That has about the same relationship to Windows 10 that the Linux kernels designed for 486 do to modern Linux.
If you're really that sensitive to size, may want to try 7z. I can usually get a few % smaller archive sizes than xz with faster decompression to boot. Of course then you might need to install a 7z lib which could be an issue.
Besides geopolitics, simple answer could be that FSB protector who covered this guy finally realized that crypto goes down for long time, so it is better to take all collected funds now.
Recent and related:

Arm releases experimental CHERI-enabled Morello board - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30007474 - Jan 2022 (81 comments)
It's a hell lot of them. Is this typical?
That’s nonsense though. A single trauma center can’t hoard the entire labor supply of nurses.

Raising healthcare prices due to market power for any reason is a problem regardless, and one that should be solved with regulation and market forces on the hospitals, not restricting nurses’ freedoms.
Public keys are published that's the basis of any asymmetric encryption algorithm, on ethereum, bitcoin you are publishing a signed message that means you are also emitting your public otherwise how one can verify that you signed the tx. Regarding Quantum computing i wouldn't be so sure knowing that we can see a quantum computer with 1500 QBIT starting from 2028, this will be sufficient to crack any bitcoin wallet in less than 10minutes. As you mentioned the current hurdles are the huge error rate but dont be fooled that its going to be that way, even modern computing used to have this kind of errors (not the same nature but still errors) in the beginning...
> an individual ant, like an individual cell, cannot reproduce. Only the colony or the human can do that. Human societies aren't like that
> Give it enough time and you’ll see “Redis expert” show up as a specialty.

No opinion on what happens to Redis after Antirez left it (http://antirez.com/news/133). But I have high hopes that the versions he created will be fairly timeless and usable even a decade from now.
One thread from long ago:

A Pair Of Dice Which Never Roll 7 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=292070 - Sept 2008 (9 comments)
respect for arriving at a local maxima and calling it a day
Marshmallow is another if you’re talking schemas, validation, and json serialization.
I don't even think micro-packages are that bad. The problems with NPM seem to have been that the "Always upgrade immediately! Upgrades are good for security and have no downsides!" people are winning the PR fight against us "Upgrade cautiously and never allow autonomous upgrades. Upgrades are important for security but they have many caveats" people.

One is a more Windows attitude of "I know you've never gotten a virus, but if you don't upgrade, you _will_ get a virus and you _will_ die" whereas my attitude is more of a Linux "The only time my Linux system breaks is when I upgrade it."
Sure https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2116597 shows barely any reduction in transmissibility for alpha and delta. But but just looking at the numbers in high vaccinated countries already can tell you it. If transmissibility was significantly reduced you would expect this wave to be smaller than the last but it’s bigger.

More studies available on https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/search?q=Transmission&restr... if you want to deep dive
Tl;dr: author dislikes using Linux on the desktop.
The dream for any kind of tool like this is to only have to define your data structures once, and use the tool to "generate" related code rather than try to keep two different artifacts in sync (e.g. a GraphQL schema and this DDL).

How far along that path has this project progressed? I can't really tell from the main page.
Many self-proclaimed psychics have made a good amount of money in the practice as well.
> Which mid-level engineer in SV makes $9M ? IIRC ~L6/L7 salaries at Google are around ~$1M, and I think they are ~40% lower in Tokyo. I remember seeing a similar news piece for NEC a few years ago - about how the salaries can go as high as $1M.

Basically no one offers that out of the gate. Even L6 at Google is not going to be anywhere near $1m. L7 isn't either. If you notice - all the L7 samples at Google on levels are people who have significant tenure at the company and thus lots of appreciation.

Only way you're getting $1m+ as a software eng IC at any tech company is by being a celebrity, extremely rare specialist, or - the most common way - through stock appreciation. There are plenty of L5/L6 eng out there making $1m+/yr (I was one) but that's entirely due to stock appreciation and that's it. $9M/yr is definitely an outlier and would only be experienced by early eng at $10B+ valuation company.
There's a trade-off.

The closer you get to an IPO the less options you get (in terms of equity percentages). On the other hand, there is far more certainty that those options are worth something.

At an early stage startup you can get very substantial equity, but in exchange for higher risk.
This is just a bunch of talking points. When you look at the facts, we can see:

Union Pacific has its own police force, and just cut the number of their own police officers from 60 to 8 along that route:

https://www.lataco.com/union-pacific-theft-police-laid-off/

The LAPD has a $3b a year budget, and crime is down:

https://twitter.com/pplscitycouncil/status/14744980717110108...

Coincidentally the LAPD is trying to get a 12% budget increase:

https://twitter.com/equalityalec/status/1484966544681619461?...

So we have a private company who fires 80% of their police force (not security! They have arrest powers!), then there is a shocking, SHOCKING rise in theft, which the LAPD turns into a cry for more funding despite crime being down. Remember that the reason railroads got the right to have their own police force was because it was their RESPONSIBILITY to protect the goods they carried - this is just shifting responsibility from them to the public.
About 5 years ago I started trying to build this exact thing. I wrote some code, printed some gears and attached them to servos, assembled some hall effect sensors onto the whole thing, and then stopped.
I had a camera that I could command to an azimuth and an elevation. I think it was a PlayStation3 pseye camera.
It certainly would not have been able to zoom in to the point that this one seems to be able to.
I was going to use my RTL SDR to listen to the ADSB and mount the whole thing on my roof under a clear plastic dome.
Peoples concerns and hesitancy surrounding the efficacy and safety of pharmaceuticals is not born in a vacuum, it comes from years of profiteering at the expense of patients. If there is a stigma and lack of faith surrounding these companies, it is typically due to historical precedent. There is a reason that drug manufacturers are some of the least trusted companies in the world, time and time again they abused their position and this has to be acknowledged. The more transparency that can be achieved with their products, the better.
Sales-like roles are usually a good fit. Leadership if they are aware of their limitations. Also useful in planning / strategy because they usually have a good sense of what is hot / what will sell. Main thing is that you them want to have them with someone who is competent, and they have to trust and be willing to defer.
Take your next vacation at the sea, watch ships approaching the Harbour not just growing in size but also appearing to rise up from the water. Voilà
Company wide demo day / all hands. Time off. Mailed treats. Bonuses.
Yes, much the same with me - just bypassed the alcohol via soft drinks/juices and ran with the herd, people got to know I was a non alcohol type and good as designated driver. Usually drank free as coke is cheap compared with alcohol based stuff. Beer was a nuisance as even non alcoholic beer tastes like shit to me.
Same with smoking grass - hated any smoke, it mattered not what was burning - I was not breathing it.
It's also a temporary injunction that could be ended as soon as their Monday 10am next meeting. Still not really sure why they should be able to get an injunction at all though.
It's a rather enlightening exercise to work out how and why the earth is curved purely from the perspective of a human able to see maybe a small patch.

This is directly analogous to how general relativity models spacetime as being intrinsically curved, and you need to be able to do the same sort of thinking without being able to immerse the manifold in a higher dimensional space.

So it's not exactly stupid to pretend to be naive.

Also, why and by how much is the sun bigger than the moon? How far are they away from earth? We've known for thousands of years. It's not exactly obvious to derive this purely from geometry.
Don't tell people your goals.

I heard this in a TED talk years ago[0].

Telling people what you plan to do can evoke the same emotions as actually doing that thing, lowering the drive to do the work to accomplish the goal because you got your emotional reward already.

Being a serial starter, I retroactively noticed this pattern in myself when I heard this. Now, when I want to do something new, I shut up about it until I either complete it or have enough momentum in the project to have reached critical mass.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHopJHSlVo4
The Misunderstood Single Responsibility Principle
This solution has been in D for 20 years. It works very well. It is fully assed.

It is very, very rare to see a buffer overflow in D because the use of these arrays is so easy, convenient, and robust.

Not only does it virtually eliminate buffer overflows (when used), it is more efficient than 0 terminated strings. It does not need to scan the strings, nor does it need to load the string into memory to determine its length.

I understand your concerns about mixing it up with 0 terminated strings. They are real, but have not been a particular problem in practice. What happens is one simply moves away from using 0 terminated strings. A zero terminated string can be converted to a length one with:

a = s[0 .. strlen(s)];

Going the other way requires a memory allocation similar to what strdup() does.
Gelman's suggestion is how to handle articles with unlikely conclusions: don't publish the submitted article, though that presumably would be circulated as a preprint, but just the data. Then the journal is bringing attention to interesting data without endorsing the dubious analysis or conclusions.
Making them all fat doesn't fix code that uses strlen().
You can start here,

"USENIX Security '20 - Everything Old is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glL__xjviro

Then there are the issues that since WebAssembly doesn't prevent memory corruption, while RCE attacks or sandboxing breaks are not possible, by producing memory corruption, it is possible to eventually trigger alternative code paths that wouldn't be possible in normal circumstances.

A contrived use case would be to validate a user with higher credentials that they are supposed to have, in a WASM based security module.

Then since the external calls from the module are configured from the runtime, one can do man on the middle attacks on the functions being called from the module, thus access data that it wasn't supposed to be made available in normal cases.

And I bet that when the hacker community starts having fun with WebAssembly, as much as they have had with other bytecode formats, more issues will be found.
So why do we ask them? AFAIK, it is engineers asking these questions and also criticizing the same metric.

I think it is a case of this being the least worst option.