skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What the author essentially is asking for are public services. They just want a term to justify not having to think about the million other problems with running such a service.

I feel this is somewhat harsh reading.

From TFA:

"Even if someone were to figure it out, the system is probably designed to be a globally scalable service, not a small clone being hosted for the benefit of a few."

I'm in the same camp as the author -- I appreciate the current public service, but don't expect someone else to do everything for me here if/when this service seizes up. I'd appreciate being able to replicate the features of the extant globally-scaleable existing system into something that would keep my needs serviced.

Cost-wise, the author does not seem to be demanding something for nothing, or on-going actions from someone else.
It was a 2 minute online chat for me. But I disliked how there wasn't just a button to do it, and it put me off using them again.
I pay for YTM, so haven’t ever tried any of these Adblocking things for YT. I think $10/mo is pretty decent for a music service and also the removal of all ads from YT (which includes their fairly decent library of free movies that would be ad-supported without YTM/YTP)
> But _nowhere_ do I see a single word on _why_ growth is desirable?

Isn't that at the top of the article?
I find it so irritating that Google essentially exists as a giant scraping system and they have the legal ability to persecute anyone taking content hosted on their platforms. Hypocrisy should be a legal defence in my opinion, i.e. if you take public content and repurpose it for your own needs you shouldn’t be allowed to sue for the same reason.
There will be no artificial hills for pumped hydro. (Usually those are called "water towers" when used for municipal water storage under pressure.)

But deep subterranean cave and sub-ocean tanks for pumped hydro will be a thing. These make pumped hydro storage practical in radically more places than usually imagined. Combined with hill reservoirs, they multiply the storage capacity per unit mass of water.

A hilltop reservoir is, incidentally, an excellent place to site a solar array, which is cooled and more efficient by the water under it, and in turn radically reduces evaporative loss and biofouling in the reservoir.
If anyone has wondered why their Firefox has become crashy/not loading videos properly recently, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1751363

Fix is media.ffmpeg.vaapi.enabled = false.

Also note that your Firefox might have been collecting gigabytes of logs since the latest release because of this bug that you can clear.
How would that (legally and technically) work exactly? And how would you defend even the hacks themselves against DMCA?
And distributing a premade APK is somehow not a Good way to get a bunch of lawyers at your door?
If diet related illnesses were unknown before COVID they'd have had an even more dramatic impact on those numbers.

We've not only decided that's an "acceptable steady state", but actively embraced it.

> Life expectancy in the US dropped by a year in 2020.

In other words: it dropped around 1/10th as much as the difference between today and 1970.

Do you think the average person in 1970 would have accepted 10x the invasiveness of the measures we've had for the last couple of years to reach parity, or were they just used to the "normal"?

You can argue that we should or shouldn't do something, but claiming that human beings aren't fine with perpetually dealing with this level of risk is rather absurd.
Does this imply that the brain might communicate with other parts of the brain “asynchronously over a network” through EMF?
Engrave it on stone in three different languages, use OCR to import it. If it must be digital media then store as plain ascii text files stored on multiple types of media. Plain text remains the only consistent digital media format over time. Digital archeologists will likely have jpeg rendering tools in their toolkit as well.
I recently spent time on Columbia's campus. If you are complaining about the facilities, you might visit some other schools, including community colleges.
What is Vanced?
I agree.

Heuristics?

They're mostly useful as training wheels, once you've solved a couple of similar problems you can probably do better using local knowledge / pattern matching against actual experience.

I remember the Bridge pattern helping me along the way, I was trying to design a GUI with multiple back ends in C++.
Synthetic fuels could be a reasonable alternative. They could be carbon neutral.
Your story remind me very much of a song in the musical chess where the Russian character tells the audience how while madness may take control of a nations leaders, the hearth of a nation is its people regardless if they stay within the borders.

And you ask me why I love her

Through wars, death and despair

She is the constant, we who don't care

And you wonder will I leave her, but how?

I cross over borders but I'm still there now
> One of the great things about IP is that it's extensible, there's still room for protocols other than UDP/TCP, you can still write something new and better, or a fixed TCP, and install it along side the existing protocols - of course getting everyone to accept it and use it will be difficult

Sadly, this isn't the case anymore since shitty middleboxes have taken over the internet. Using extensibility features in all kinds of protocols (be it TCP, TLS, UDP, or any other three letter protocol, really) causes middleboxes to drop traffic. Since we've all decided that shitty middleboxes are the protocol's problem to solve (because end users usually can't decide whether or not they're behind shitty middleboxes) all attempts at a new protocol are big puzzle pieces now.

Even existing protocols like MTCP and SCTP are dropped in favour of UDP because shitty firewalls can't deal with anything that's not TCP or UDP anymore. TLS 1.3 looks like TLS 1.2 packets because shitty middleboxes will just terminate your connection if they see TLS with an unknown version number.

It's quite depressing, really. I'm sort of hoping that at some point some weird proprietary or open source product with a fancy protocol comes out and becomes a hit, forcing shitty middlebox manufacturers to get their shit together (or tell the end user that the product won't work right because of shitty middleboxes and that they should complain to their service provider about it).

I'm all for backwards compatibility, but I'm sick and tired of MitM protocol parsers that refuse to follow spec being respected and worked around when it comes to new protocols. If you can't read the RFC, get out of the network protocol space.
> But frankly I'd rather pay up and get an experienced surgeon to do it for me.

Most ailments don't require a surgeon and most people don't have access to one.

Medical advice is one of the most frustrating things to google for. Far too often, the only advice to be found is to "see a physician". This is often good advice but not everyone can and I'm pretty sure that the lack of additional advice results in people improperly treating injuries, misdiagnosing ailments more often than necessary and sometimes dying.

I don't say this out of a dislike of medicine! My mother is a doctor and spent years working in Kenya a couple of decades ago and saw many, many instances of suffering that could have been avoided with today's wireless internet and some good online medical advice.

It's not worth nerfing free online advice for the benefit of people can afford to spend on advice tailored perfectly for their own situation.
Hi there. Interesting comment.

I have not tried this in a tram setting, but I can see how, with the right team, it could be valuable, more about fixing the issues than assigning blame.
Oil and gas are investing in fusion startups, so maybe it already does. Equinor and Eni have both invested in CFS, Chevron has invested in Zap, and Cenovus has invested in General Fusion.
wont-fix or won't-fix?
What's next in the world of software naming, an entire OS named after the author? What are the odds? :-)

Aside: bring back credit screens in software!
Fresno lost $400k to a phishing scam in 2020 and never told the public
Or literally copy the code. There was a Show HN for https://opensourcewordle.com/ (no longer works, [edit: found it] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30185004) that took the obfuscated Javascript, replaced the URL, changed the license and repackaged it. When called out in the comments the author doubled down and insisted they emailed the original author and NYT. Anyway, a week later the website stopped working, github repository deleted, and (surprisingly, very rare and must have needed moderator manual action) the HN username changed from first-namelast to something random.
>"He s not a psychologist in general"

I am not sure where did you get this idea that geopolitics could be explained by "psychologist in general". His former job however makes him at least well informed.

>"And then there defenseless defences"

I see no "defenses" at all on his side. Just the explanation on why the situation has developed this particular way.

>"which are plain racist (east==authoritarian)"

I do not see a single shred of racism in his statements. Are you a "psychologist in general" by any chance?
Have been using it for 2 years, it's great! But OpenMPTCProuter is aggregation only, no seamless failover or redundant channelling and needs an ISP that doesn't filter TCP headers. There is no quality monitoring system, it takes 1 lossy WAN to degrade total throughput. A cold boot with a master WAN down will disable aggregation.
It's difficult to setup but it's useful for specific cases.
Checkout the comparison in the README
High visibility sometimes is confused with strategic importance. Tech leadership roles in a sane org. focus more and more on the strategic than on the tactical. Help keep focus on needed projects that cannot be delivered in a short time frame, but are nevertheless needed, sometimes even essential. The ability to deliver short-term value while not derailing long-term goals takes experience to hone, and is one of the tells of a true staff+ engineer.

Mentoring is complex. It's not giving lectures (although, sometimes it may help). It's usually more subtle and is typically related to delegation: pick the correct thing to delegate, choose wisely what to do yourself. The trick is to maximize learning and accomplishment of more junior engineers while at the same time not risking team/company objectives. Besides that, providing emotional support and guidance in a way that most managers cannot. You walked the walk, so you help them think on how improve and get where they want to get (even sometimes help figure out what they want).

Leadership can also be subtle. Managers tend to equate it with project management (i.e. scrum/whatever, task assignment). On a tech ladder role, leadership is much more about influence than actually telling people what to do. You nudge them in the right direction so the goals are met and they grow (see: mentoring).

The best tech leads (staff+ or whatever), get shit done in a way that's sometimes non-obvious, until you miss them. Which makes promotion hard.
It is all fun and games until someone orders a cruise ship as yacht... Which might happen, as it is only like 1,5-2 billion...
You'll find most successful founders are acutally 30+.
My understanding is that the Breakthrough Starshot approach intends to use a small RTG thermocouple of a few milligrams plutonium or americium, not solar. The optics are minimal and low resolution (~2 megapixel). The uplink is slow (~2 baud) — it’s basically reflecting a laser off its own sail. That’s still going to be optically better than anything you’ll get on or near Earth because you’re near the subject.

As for the time to accelerate, you may overestimate. Constant acceleration for months on end brings you to very high speeds indeed. If you’re accelerating at 1G a full year I think it’s closer to 0.9c than 0.2, I’d have to do the math to check.
> I suggest the models might be crafted for the purpose of fantastical exaggeration of deaths from COVID.

Based on what? Is there evidence in the study or in what the researchers said? Any evidence? On one hand, we have a research reported in leading scientific journals; on the other, someone's comment on the Internet.

> I know of at least 3 shooting deaths reported as COVID fatalities, apparently they tested positive postmortem.

Could you cite these for us?
Yes, I’m fine with that.

For example, there are a huge number of English-language words that aren’t in every English language dictionary. Compare British English dictionaries to American English dictionaries. Is this censorship? Yes. Am I OK with it? Absolutely.
I’ll just live dangerously and out https://yandex.com/ in here. They actually have great results for many things including local businesses (when you’re in Switzerland). Of course they’re Russian and may get blocked soon
I also pay for Youtube Music/YT, but I exclusively use Vanced on my phone, as it integrates with Sponsorblock, locks in a set quality setting (unlike the actual YT app which keeps kicking me to 480p when it feels like it), removes a lot of the cruft on the home page, and as of recently shows downvotes.
Location: US (Colorado)
Remote: yes, remote only
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies: various, with affinity for backend infra
Résumé/CV: let's chat first
Email: username at pm.me

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FAANG SWE with 15 years' professional experience, the past 6 as a fully remote senior software engineer. I have worked at companies from 7 to 70000 employees and on services from 10 to 100 million RPS.

I want to free up time for some unpaid side projects which are of more importance to me than grinding out more promotions / earnings over the next few years, and so:

I am looking for PART TIME work, nominally 4 hours/day, as a direct hire W2 employee with benefits. Everything negotiable except cap on 20 hours/week and no on-call outside of work. US citizen.
I have never heard the term. What does it mean?
504'ing :(
There's a behavioural neuroscience method you might be interested in:

> Watch Nancy's brain get zapped with transcranial magnetic stimulation. Measuring neural activity (with fMRI, MEG, ERPs, etc) cannot tell you which brain regions or neural responses are necessary for a given aspect of perception or cognition. To find out if a region is necessary, you have to mess with it. One method to do this in humans is transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).

http://nancysbraintalks.mit.edu/video/watch-nancys-brain-get...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_magnetic_stimul...
A probably related observation found on the wikipedia page about sonoluminescene that oscillations driven by an external periodic force often have a more stable period than the external force. In this case a neuron is a driving force and the magnetic field is the oscillating "water" that has a period more stable, and thus preserves information better than the neuron itself.
How do these parts get recertification ie how do we know the anti skid brakes still work after using third party wheel speed sensor on just one wheel?

If the third party parts went through the same certification process, they would be more expensive than genuine parts.
Others have already covered the sharp edges elsewhere in this thread.

My specific (brief) experiences include: Instead of playing the video..

- Wait forever while it spins.

- Crashes randomly. Repeatedly.

- No way to reference previously watched or liked videos.

- Atrocious, non-functional search.

Have all these bugs have been fixed in the past 6 months?
> It depends who you ask.

That's not really true. Have you seen anywhere that says that about a suicide by someone with COVID who is asymptomatic?
Yes, he kind of does. The article was exactly like that for me: "What things needed to be implemented to mark TCP done?" And in video he mention that they split TCP and UDP and he talks about audio needs where if you don't get the packet in time for the speaker you might not send it at all. And he mention this as just only one out of several in the list they had on a board.

Watch the video, it's more complete than the article. After watching it I came to the conclusion the article is cherry-picking stuff from the video to make a click-bait-ish kind of stuff.
What does this study say about it?
Depends on the meaning of "sustained," but not all fusion startup concepts are aiming for steady-state operation; some are planned to be pulsed (Helion, Zap, probably others). The important thing is that they get more energy out than in, and enough more to justify the capex. (This is probably Q_scientific of somewhere between 10 and 30, depending on the specific concept and who you ask.)
This isn't about the pandemic. It's a social sea change.
This is a ridiculous piece of FUD.
probably the biggest thing for me is that command substitution translates output into arguments by line so that things like

rm (cat list-of-files)

just work without any quoting nightmare regardless of what kind of weird characters are in filenames (well, at least as long as they don't contain newlines). that just simplifies working on the commandline a lot.

search feels more convenient although the difference seems superficial and i can still see room for improvement (i'd like to be able to type two words and then search for commands with those two words in any position)

the syntax and other things like array handling feel a lot cleaner.

multi line commandline editing felt like a great idea too although the use was not very intuitive (i think they removed that feature?)
None of the comfort of the native app either, so not at all like Vanced.
> even rational point of winding down the war is met with rabid shriekings

I don’t think you have any idea what “rational” means.
It’s been studied.

> For most students, the salary boost from going to a super-selective school is “generally indistinguishable from zero” after adjusting for student characteristics, such as test scores. In other words, if Mike and Drew have the same SAT scores and apply to the same colleges, but Mike gets into Harvard and Drew doesn’t, they can still expect to earn the same income throughout their careers. Despite Harvard’s international fame and energetic alumni outreach, somebody like Mike would not experience an observable “Harvard effect.” Dale and Krueger even found that the average SAT scores of all the schools a student applies to is a more powerful predictor of success than the school that student actually attends.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/does-it-ma...

That’s not “education” directly, but does suggest an extremely strong applicant pool selection effect is happening.
> As far as I can tell, there is really only a mechanism for over reporting (e.g. died with covid instead of died of COVID).

What is this mechanism?
My first thought was that it's nice to see someone take such a humane and scientific approach to public spaces, and a lot of it makes sense. But to me that's the real essence of the book, not the fact that it contains patterns. It should be required reading for city planners, not software developers.
Begs the question of why you keep buying Miele.

I've had exactly one home appliance failure in the last 10 years - an old fridge that finally died.
IP

It really doesn't care what sort of wire it comes to router and what sort of wire it leaves over. And then not really even what is inside, it supports up to 252 different protocols inside.

Now gathering and transferring information where to transfer is somewhat more tricky, but really IP is pair of addresses and some data.
On the contrary, America tends to waste a lot of city space with surface parking and wide roads, so taxis don't make it appreciably worse, whereas the old cities of Europe are where we really don't have space for them.
I agree with your sentiment overall, but “a few extra days” is pretty unrealistic. Probably a few extra weeks at best.
I think it will happen mainly because it's a feature that is behind about:config.
> "social/political time (there is probably a better term for that)."

The better term is "civil time": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_time
Cascade: Open-source Node-based image editor with GPU-acceleration
Probably the work. A writer ends up doing Miley Cyrus scripts, an artist ends up doing posters to sell scarves.
Its only not possible because the system prevents it, which is exactly the point being made.
(author here) Yes, one option I've thought about adding is the optional $ on the front, so these mean the same thing:

'\n' # QSN string
$'\n' # emphasize that this is a QSN string, not something else
# note that $'' comes from shell, but isn't literally shell

It feels like the $ is too annoying to require everywhere.

- But we don't want to use "" because it can be confused for JSON.
- And '' means something different in Python, coreutils output, shell, JavaScript, etc.

So there aren't many other options. $'' can be for cases where it's possible the string will be confused with some other format.

(It's also true that QSN isn't identical to shell strings, there is a subset property)
See also "whose", because "who's" would have made too much sense I guess
Does this cover things like separating leading /// comment indicators? That’s something Vim’s :syn-include can’t cope with.

/// This is Markdown-in-Rust.
///
/// ```rust
/// // This is Rust-in-Markdown-in-Rust.
/// /// This is Markdown-in-Rust-in-Markdown-in-Rust.
/// const RUST_IN_MARKDOWN_IN_RUST: &'static str = "
/// In this multi-line string (as the most common example of such token-mixing),
/// those triple slashes are Comment, not String.";
/// // And if Trait and Type get parsed carefully below, the /// must not interrupt that.
/// impl
/// Trait
/// for
/// Type {}
/// ```
struct ThisIsRust;

The remark about injection.include-children in your link suggests it can, but I don’t know enough about it yet to be confident of that preliminary assessment.
1999 NATO Bombing of Serbia and Montenegro
Bill to authorize the issuance of letters of marque for seizing Russian assets
Thanks for digging that up Shared404 (btw, cool HN profile, though I can't figure out what is "PFY"?)

Is the biggest challenge really in providing an AppID? I must be missing something because that doesn't seem like a big privacy concern or technical hurdle, which brings us back to no traceable logical problem other than "it's hard to do and I don't get paid for this" (which would be a fair position for an OSS maintainer to take).

Maybe the should look at how VLC streams to Chromecasts, because at least in the case of VLC, it's FOSS and sort of works.
> But I would just like my 5 year old kid to be able to buy an ice-cream with the pocket money I give her.

I realize that this is a problem that needs to be solve by cryptocurrencies to reach mainstream status, but unless I'm missing something, that is not a problem that needs to be solved by established currencies.

Right now, my example of buying things from a black market in case of dictatorship is the only case I can think of from the top of my mind in which I could see myself needing untraceable money. Arguably, making donations to an unpopular political party or to help a persecuted minority may be better examples in dictatorships or near-dictatorships.

While all of these examples sound useful, I'm not convinced yet that it would be terribly difficult for a technologically-oriented dictatorship (or one with a $5 wrench) to obtain all the data through side-channels or to block transactions.

> Don't forget that digital transactions can give recourse against fraud without actually having to break client anonymity (Taler) or even vendor anonymity (underwritten/insured escrow systems).

Good to know. I should take a look at these.

> Most of take that risk everyday for smallish sums < $100 when we use cash.

Indeed, I was thinking of larger sums.
> Just accept the terms and live another day to fight the bully

Of course, when that “another day” comes you’ll again argue that they should lie down in the dirt and soil themselves.