skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See also https://github.com/jbloom/PRJNA692319_public

particularly the end of README.md:

"On Feb-8-2022, I e-mailed the Chinese authors of the paper to ask about the sample deletion and restoration. They e-mailed back almost immediately. They confirmed what they had told Istvan: they had sequenced the samples with Sangon Biotech (Shanghai) after extracting the DNA in December 2019 from their samples. The suspect that contamination of the samples happened at Sangon Biotech. They deleted the three most contaminated samples from the Sequence Read Archive. They do not know why the samples were then 'un-deleted.'"

(end quote)
If fusion is the best thing right now, that would be incredibly sad, because it barely seems to be making any progress at all.

Fortunately we've seen tons of progress in other fields: computing, quantum computing, solar energy, medical, gene therapy. Even superconductors are slowly getting better.
there is a Czech game Mashinky which have multiplayer in development:

https://mashinky.com/
> I base this prediction on my study of similar situations in the past. The track record here is clear and unambiguous. Open, shared systems always beat out closed proprietary systems.

The author goes on to list examples in credit cards, computer OS's, ATM's etc, but all those things are cherry-picked. They conveniently ignore Apple's iPhone/iPad/App Store combination being wildly successful. And the mis-use of terms like 'open' and 'proprietary' lead me to conclude the author doesn't actually understand what those terms mean.

The comparison of Windows to Mac OS X is just laughable; calling Windows an 'open' and 'shared' operating system? Mac OS is 'closed' and 'proprietary'? Well actually they're both proprietary and neither are open. Also being ignored by the author is video game consoles. For more than 2 decades, Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft have co-existed with their own proprietary hardware/software systems. According to the author, I suppose Google search must be 'open' and 'shared' just because it has 90% market share.

> There are hundreds of possible participants out there with valuable film, TV, or other intellectual properties, and they aren’t large enough to take on Netflix on their own. But if they combine their efforts, they will be formidable...
> ...Can you imagine the power of a single monthly subscription that gave you immediate access to films, TV shows, music, video games, streamed live events, etc.?

The author hypothesizes about a product that DOES NOT EXIST and comes to the conclusion Netflix is doomed? Also what is the likelihood that all the players in the media industry are just going to decide to come together and hold hands? Even if they all decided to conduct a super-merger, that would never get legal/anti-competitive clearance. How does that not seem a bit outlandish? And yet the author writes about it as if it's some inevitability.
Your old Let's Encrypt certificate may slow your Go app down
Of course the intent is to commit users to a funnel or funnels.

I still don’t think you get that when you complain about the content being trite or juvenile or commercial(?), you’re outing yourself as someone who will stop to watch that kind of stuff.
If by “the Internet intelligentsia” you mean one guy last month, sure. Not his fault a few VCs are promoting it.

His actual point is more like “ML developers are making a lot of money but don’t talk about themselves in the media; journalists don’t earn as much and you have to hear them complain about it all the time”.
The Google Play store lets apps get away with lots of user hostile activity.
I wouldn't call teens tech-savvy if all they do is click on apps all day, and I doubt any of them have been educated about computer security or vectors of attack at all. Ask them how to update their firewall to prevent attacks on newly installed App X, and you'll get blank stares. Hell, many young people have no idea what files and folders are[1].

I was reviewing a computer class curriculum for a younger cousin who is in high school. All they're doing is learning how to format documents and use spreadsheets. Being able to use an office app suite does not equal being tech-savvy or being educated about computer security.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-direc...
You should know they will be launching starship from both locations and have already secured the land in the cape
> Total hours worked in the US has DOUBLED since then.

That chart is not adjusted for population.
> we won't ever write articles

> Whitepapers.

I probably should have said "content" instead of blog because I agree 100% with this. Point still stands.

What the OP was referring to will likely become part of an engineering blog. a la : https://codeascraft.com/
Or any other non-POSIX system. I'm not sure what Windows guarantees, but it's definitely not a POSIX system.
Thought it was some guy from Wuhan who ate a bat soup. But this is really interesting
Ok, right, that really has a legacy smell to it. If you can find the pinout for a modern Intel CPU, it has dedicated pins from DRAM controller to the DDR. It's not on some external "all-purpose" bus. Whatever bus you might have is internal to the CPU. Same thing on any modern ARM SoC with DDR support.
It has been for a while. But nothing lasts forever.
It's missing Clickhouse in the database list!
We've already found another previously unknown naturally occurring bat coronavirus which is less dissimilar to SARS-COV-2 than RATG13 and better suited to binding to human ACE2 receptors.

The most logical conclusion isn't "RATG13 is very far away from SARS-COV-2 so the lab must have done a lot of work to it", it's "wherever SARS-COV-2 came from, it wasnt RATG13 in the last five years".

The reason why the "lab origin" argument gets sneered at so often even though there's nothing remotely implausible about the basic "lab leaks happen" bit isn't just the politics of it, but also the insistence of some of its most passionate proponents for chasing red herrings.
I'm really sad to read that. It's too late for you to avoid that horrible situation, but maybe in order to avoid repeating it, and for anyone else who is reading this, consider playing Minetest instead of Minecraft. It's free software, so you're structurally protected against this kind of abuse.

https://www.minetest.net/
Thanks for the creation! But sorry man, the historic description unfortunately added to the confusion. When I read the original description, I thought it’s a user mode lock and was thoroughly confused. Only after I read the implementation of futex in kernel and its usage in the implementation of pthread_mutex_lock in user mode, that I realized futex was not a lock. It’s a waiting and signaling operation.
As someone in my 40's, it's too late for me to be a cool, popular guy in my 20's.
The same issue occurred in th Boston area 2 years ago. A borked image file caused the system to go into a boot loop.

Had to get the unit replaced at the dealership.
They leased another, yet to be constructed pad, new number, 46 iirc?
I don’t know enough about Japan to say anything on this matter but at least in Italy, unlike America, it’s fairly common for adults to live with their parents until married, without social stigma (well, if they have a job).
> Why do we pretend that social engineering scams don't exist outside of installing anti-viruses?

That's was an example, but only an except. I think equally plausible is "my bank called and told me my app was broken and that I needed to redownload it. I tried logging into the new app with my bank username and password, but it didn't work. What's wrong with my phone?" Now, Apple doesn't have a perfect track record for catching and blocking these things. Their security controls are definitely better than not having them, though.

> The solution to this problem is EDUCATION

No, no, no. One of the things drilled into your head at security engineering and management conferences is not to ever trust the human factor. Education is a good thing to have in addition to all your other controls, but is a terrible first line of defense. People make terrible choices all the time. Maybe they're sick, or they've had a drink or three, or they're worried about something that happened at work, etc. etc. etc. Even smart people who've completed security training still make dumb mistakes.
Reminds me of BASIC best practices:

ON ERROR GOTO handler
[try code here]
GOTO finally

handler:
[catch code here]

finally:
[finally code here]
> ... (are monster trucks masculine? I like them anyway), but if it's safe, sane, and ...

monster trucks are not safe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihuahua_monster_truck_accide...
I think the "single dependency" was moreso about the technology stack, not the number of instances of whatever the technology is.
Interesting. Maybe it's video games. This was true for me. If that's the case, we might see a surge of female programmers since more women become gamers than before.
Low net worth includes people with $0, but also people worth negative millions because they have a lot of debt. The only way to get that much debt is if you’re rich.

It’s better to look at assets excluding debt. This also shows the problem with student loan relief, which is it mostly benefits dentists.
>No grabbing a beer after work.

>Boss G, H, or J can't see you around.

So you're saying you can grab a beer during work without issue? Sounds pretty good to me.
> I took my Macbook to pieces

How did you do that? I couldn't even remove the battery to replace it.
Yes good point! Clean restarts will preserve the data.
But then you run into things that you only discover while trying to do something practical. Like the space shuttle having to land--NASA developed grooved runways specifically for this purpose and now they're on our highways. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/factsheets/Groove....

There are technologies, materials, and methods we've developed, tested, and perfected because of some specific need. I mean, how much of the internet do we have today as a result of CERN having to store and share vast amounts of data and information?

Sure, you can say /eventually/ we would've come up with alternatives. But a lot of the internet and technology in the 90s came as a direct result of CERN doing practical things. How would we know we'd need solid state drives today if we didn't develop a need for hard drives? The same can be said of NASA, the space shuttle, the Hubble telescope, etc.

Going back to CERN, maybe it would've been better to wait for the Superconducting Super Collider because it was going to be more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider. But so far only one of these particle accelerators has detected the Higgs boson.
Well these are a couple of online definitions:
MicroController - a control device which incorporates a microprocessor.
MicroProcessor - an integrated circuit that contains all the functions of a central processing unit of a computer.

The problem with these definitions is a control device and computer are two different things, so I wonder if he is applying an engineer's perspective/definition to the 8086 even though many know the 8086 were used in the early computers. This is a bit like arguing whether a microprocessor is a microprocessor because of the inclusion or exclusion of one or more instruction sets, ie a basic intel cpu with a minimum instruction set or a xeon intel cpu with a much more extensive number of instruction sets.

Or are you picking up on an AI masquerading as a blogger and have highlighted something an AI wouldnt pick up on from online technical resources?
What social media company is in good faith? Facebook?
,,Assuming it works out the same as on Android, I very much doubt that sideloading would ever be mainstream or popular''

I don't need sideloading often, but in those cases I really need it. As an example I'm in a part of Mexico where a local app is more used than Uber, but it's not in the Swiss app store that I'm registered in. I just sideloaded the app using the Huawei app store. I'm not sure what's the Apple way to solve these kinds of problems, as I don't have an iPhone.
Wild turkeys have been a plague in Oregon for several years now. I was unaware that the problem extended so far south.

Can anyone explain why there is no project to exterminate them as an invasive species?
Dumbphone Finder: A tool to help you find your next phone
Wrong type of Bugatti - I was hoping that it would be a Type 35 or something of that ilk. Too bad.
I agree, but for everyone, including Facebook, etc. Why focus on TikTok?
That section of the transcript is incorrect, despite being from someone who worked on it. It's obviously a printf bug because it only happens with %n with valid modifiers: https://www.reddit.com/r/gimlet/comments/bdxht4/hey_its_ben_...
Seriously, I think elevators are a good model for this, as they are autonomous systems that occasionally kill people. Who's at fault? If the manufacturer messed up the design, they're liable. If the owner ignores maintenance, they're liable. If someone intentionally sabotages the elevator to kill someone, that would be murder. If someone is elevator surfing and dies, then it's their own fault. It's the same with other autonomous systems; the blame could lie anywhere, depending on the circumstances. (I've simplified the legal issues somewhat, of course.)
To me it just looks like it's too early to tell. Did quits go up very quickly in 2021? Sure! But that comes on the heels of a massive spike in layoffs that occurred in 2020. It is at least a possibility that the current situation is a response to that.

One point I didn't go into is the fact that the labor force participation rate also dropped steeply in 2020 and hasn't recovered to pre-pandemic levels yet. So that could create labor shortages that are not necessarily represented in the quits rate.
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The tech monopolies make the insecure practice of sideloading almost a necessity because no stupid corporation will be fully controlling what to run and what not to run on my own phone. This is so much worse than the Microsoft outrage in the 90's. That's why I'm not doing Iphone, I will keep my options to customize the shit out of a very expensive piece of equipment as I see fit, and not the appstore censorship rules in whatever country I happened to be in at the time.

Come to think of it, how did another massive everyday consumer OS - Windows - survive all these decades with _most_ apps installed via sideloading (of sorts)? But iOS is somehow totally different?
With PCI cards like from Id Quantique [1] which generates true random numbers using quantum optics, isn't true random number generation a solved problem?

Guessing the quantum mechanics predicts true random numbers, but the messiness of real-world implementation makes it likely to be not so "true" after all.

[1]: https://www.idquantique.com/random-number-generation/product...
At least from an in-universe perspective, this is discussed in some length in the sequel, "2010". (Moreso in the novel than in the (underrated) movie adaptation.)

The explanation given is that HAL was given, in secret, orders not to reveal the true purpose of the mission to Poole and Bowman, the two crewmembers not in hibernation. Because even the designer[1] of HAL was not made aware of this secret instruction, they were not aware that HAL's fundamental design was incompatible with the concealment of information, and in attempting to obey the instruction, created what in humans would be called a mental health crisis.

[1]: "Dr. Langley" in 2001 the movie, but in the book and in all adaptations of the sequel, he has the wonderful name of "Dr. Sivasubramanian Chandrasegarampillai".
This one made me laugh out loud and I had to come to HN to post this. You beat me to it.
Vodafone Portugal struggles to restore service following cyberattack
Windows NT 3.x were pretty crappy performance-wise BUT...

- They were still very logically (and somewhat elegantly) designed, well architected and portable.

- They were amazingly stable (compared to the rest of the Windows family, that is).
Schools and the media have been focusing exclusively on motivating girls, so it's really no wonder that more girls than boys act that way.
Not the same thing, but Russian scientist tested a proton beam with his head and lived to tell the tale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski
Unfortunately a lot of the dumb phones are running Android under the hood.
A ring oscillator circuit is small and fast too. I'd be curious to hear how this new idea compares to the contemporary approach.
I know it's not easy, but what's preventing PodtgreSQL from having compressed pages?
We're still at the same problem though, which is that Apple ultimately ends up having the final say on what apps get to run on consumer's devices.
Interesting question! Most of the fat content comes from the 1) cocoa butter in the no-sugar-added chocolate chips and 2) butter in the recipe.

In a given cookie, you could expect to get ~340mg of Omega 6 fats from the almonds, so in my view, nothing to be concerned about when supplementing with Omega 3 (which I always think is the way to go since it's very difficult to get the optimal range of Omega 6-Omega 3 fats from diet alone, unless you're snacking on wild-caught fish all day).

But in general, I think cutting the carbs by going from regular flour to almond flour is the big win, and then optimizing Omega 6-Omega 3 intake ratio is further down the line of steps to take in your nutrition plan (I think about it too, but just saying for the average person I'd just be focusing more on encouraging less consumption of refined carbs)
This argument is essentially equivalent to saying that giant tech companies will ultimately displace all media companies. At the point where you're predicting Amazon toppling Warner, you've basically decided there is no point in investing in anything but a tech company.

The other possibility, I think more plausible, is that companies like Netflix will change what it means to be a media company, and media companies will grow to look more like Netflix and less like Viacom.
He left people on stranded on a cruise ship because he didn't want the "numbers" in February 2020.
Sorry for being this direct, I know it can be viewed as impolite but please bear with me for a second.

If you want curious conversations to occur, then please consider forcing downvotes to prompt a conversation by having to respond instead of perpetuating a situation where jingoism runs rampant and simple innocuous expressions of actual genuine curiosity get taken down for no real reason other than said jingoism then.

What you get otherwise is merely the appearance of a conversation, based around the 4 or so responses the invisible minority that as far as anyone knows astroturfed itself into your good graces can tolerate. This, coincidentally, is pretty much what you see on most topics here that are not strictly about some tech or another.
> that would have been much harder to pull off on iOS.

That's not a given, given the multimillion dollar scams on the iOS App Store[1].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/8/22272849/apple-app-store-s...
64-bit doubles are not good enough for a production cad system. Many operations, including CSG, may require much more precise numbers to resolve the question of if and how things intersect, if surfaces remain manifold or fail to be orientable, and on and on.

Those things needing (to be careful) arbitrary precision can sometimes be truncated back to 64 bit doubles, as long as necessary invariants are maintained.

A simple example: suppose you have a shape at the origin, that is designed for careful CNC, so maybe 1/10,000th of an inch or maybe even 1/100,000th of an inch accuracy. Suppose 1/10,000th accuracy is, say, ~14 bits of mantissa, then making the part 16 inches long is another 4 bits. We're up to 28 bits. Now suppose you do an operation, like intersection with another such part, or a fillet or rounding, whose computation merely needs to square numbers. Now you need 28*28 bits, anf you overflow the mantissa. Or move the part out to coordinate 64, uses another 6 bits. And god forbid you hit an algorithm that needs to cube numbers, which triples the number of bits you need in order to retain accuracy needed for the final part to meet tolerances.

It gets troublesome quite quickly.
My mom gave birth to me and raised me, and I was a pain in the ass plenty of times. If she wants me to fix her iPad, I'm gonna fix the lady's iPad. It's not my favorite thing in the world to be doing, but she took care of me as a baby. I'm not going to begrudge her that.

I do favors for my friends and family, and vice versa: they help me, and I help them. That doesn't mean I can't dread them going to great lengths to make it harder for me to do so.
I worked at Sik and was a rotorcraft engineer for 8 years, master's concentration in fluid mechanics. A stopped rotor with active flow control is a world and era apart from slowed rotor configurations. Almost none of the engineering overlaps, they're completely different approaches except for an end goal of wanting faster forward flight. Similar vs different is semantic at this point. It's like saying the bicycle gave rise to the hovercraft, which is true in a sense.
TLDR: Your Let's Encrypt certificate may have an RSA private key. Go's TLS implementation is far better optimized for ECDSA keys. Switching from RSA to ECDSA saves about 95% of CPU cycles due to the better implementation.
I feel like this is cheating a bit. Like peplum.... I had no mental construct of peplum as a thing. So it's not like I just don't know the word. I didn't know that there was even a thing that a word could exist for. The underlying mental conception is the thing that's actually missing.
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/bbc-pull...

The broadcaster confirmed the piece would no longer air tonight, Wednesday, February 9, but "could not disclose the reason why".

https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/bbc-pulls-we-are-england-epis...

The BBC has not confirmed the reason for pulling the show or the news story but Hassan’s Orfano X currency is understood to have ceased trading.
Of course – Apple's App Store policies go beyond security, which is why it is critical for different stores with different policies to be able to compete. Its role in the threat model, though, is limited to automatic scanning and revocation.

That is also to say that if Apple does open up the platform to alternate stores, I imagine they will still control the security portion.
I think this is great, I wonder how 8-11 would look on Xbox.
Sadly, the astronauts were no different to HAL than the opposing chess pieces when he plays chess against Frank Poole.

When they became a threat to the mission they were discarded.

Cold logic. Murder is like "sin", something we ascribe to malice, against God. What HAL did is just as horrible, but perhaps not "murder"?

The article introduced me to the idea of mens rea. I take it there may come a time when a machine moves beyond cold logic and we might have to call a similar act murder.

Interesting Clarke suggesting it was perhaps a conflict within HAL to both conceal the mission from the two conscious astronauts and trying to be truthful.