skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some snake venoms will stop your heart… but at a lower dose they will simply ease the heart and lower your blood pressure. For some examples: [0]

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6832721/
SCRAM - an emergency-shutdown of a nuclear-reactor

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram>

Edit: > the operators can inject solutions containing neutron poisons directly into the reactor coolant.

Neutron poison solutions are water-based solutions that contain chemicals that absorb neutrons,

such as common household borax, sodium polyborate, boric acid, or gadolinium nitrate,

causing a decrease in neutron multiplication, and thus shutting down the reactor without use of the control rods.
Does that mean that an A100 can scrape 9.75M websites in the time it takes my python script to scrape 1 website?
That is precisely why Putin keeps saber rattling about Russia's nukes. NATO (but mostly the US) would wipe out the Russian forces in Ukraine in a matter of days. Since he's committed so much of Russia's military to the invasion, the west would effectively castrate Russian defenses and likely all manner of hell would break loose in all those oppressed satellite regimes (hello! Chechenia, Georgia, Belarus, etc.)
> There is no copyright infringement when an engineer studies a competitors product and pretends that their design is independent?

So long as no actual code was copied, no, there isn't.

An independent re-implementation of an API/interface/whatever for the purpose of interoperability is perfectly legal. This explains the clean-room approach, as it ensures that the developer re-implementing the functionality has absolutely no access to the original code, thus making it impossible for them to engage in copyright infringement (BTW, if you want to watch a fantastic dramatization of this, go watch Halt and Catch Fire. I love the show for a lot of reasons, but their dramatization of the reverse engineering of the PC BIOS was just... so good).

This is why, for example, LibreOffice can go ahead and implement their own Word doc implementation without worrying about Microsoft suing the pants off of them.

It's also why Wine is perfectly legal (though not without controversy when developers have tried to take shortcuts).

Heck, we wouldn't have AMD if this type of thing was illegal! AMD got into the microprocessor market by, yup, reverse engineering the Intel 8080 and cloning it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Am9080

> It was originally produced without license as a clone of the Intel 8080, reverse-engineered by Ashawna Hailey, Kim Hailey and Jay Kumar by photographing an early Intel chip and developing a schematic and logic diagrams from the images.
Before the war, multiple effective vaccines were invented and distributed, promising medications for those sick are distributing, and we have a better understanding of the types of events that cause mass infection (conferences of course!) and a realization that aviation was not the super spreader event that many other things were. We even have increasingly better pictures of vaccine cadence (which I hope just become annual soon!). Covid as a crisis needed to end, and Ukraine has served as an odd segue out of it.
Just checked. I too have a Google Pay account. (with zero activity). I never signed up for it. I never used it. I'm simply a google customer (email, youtube). You may argue that this is a unified payment service but none of these payments show up in google pay. So youtube does not use google pay to pay for it. It means that google pay just got the data from my account and get setup automatically. Google sucks. So if I had an Android phone would it be active now without my knowledge?
Yes, like I said you can bake additional features into the language, but that is beyond the topic of the Result type. Go, with some modification, could allow the same type of mistake even without Result's existence.
I went out of my way once to contact support for this, there is no way to report it directly and got a very strong sense that they intentionally don't care
> Who is the last person to have an impact on pre-collegiate math syllabi?

Shrodinger, maybe? He is a really large part of the reason people study matrices before college, and then go and complain because nobody can show them a use for the thing.
Carbon is absolutely amazing. They are using a very flat style in pursuit of a modern corporate brand, just like a lot of other tech companies today, but the design also incorporates a lot of traditional and familiar elements. It’s a rare instance of flat UI that does not feel mobile oriented and half assed on desktop.

Carbon components are also the most accessible component set I have seen, and they go through great lengths doing automated and manual accessibility testing.

The library though, is a bit lackluster. It’s tailored for IBM’s internal need, and is still a bit far from a complete framework. So you need to be prepared to write some CSS as well as designing your own components when you need one.
It likely is possible.
Some very basic parametric features might open this up to a large woodworking community that wants to sketch out design ideas before building. Sketchup used to be the goto but now people are hungry for a replacement (which seems to be Fusion360 at the moment) but don't want or need a full CAD solution.
Everything will be gamed. Penalties are part of the game.
General Petraeus: Invasion reveals a host of weaknesses in Russia's military
I really hope this will be upstreamed :)
That’s the nice thing about N95 masks. If you don’t feel comfortable breathing the same air as those around you, you’re more than welcome to put one on. Seems like the onus is on the prospective mask wearer here, not every single air breather they may come in contact with.
I was hoping some inevitable property of deep fakes, that could help detecting them.
> why they choose a brush to represent the project.

A brush can be a tool for design; graphic design was analog before it was digital. The brush is at a particular orientation, reminiscent of a person looking forward. The human aspect is part of their focus, so the logo fits the dual meaning.
Yeah this was my gut reaction, maybe a name conflict with a terrorist or AML watchlist or something. Or just plain bad luck but interesting coincidences.
Often, these present as multiple floppy sized chunks for exactly the reason you cite. I don't know about the Sony described, but the Gotek I have has a little front panel that let's you select a numerical floppy unit that presents as a: or whatever.
I noticed on German Amazon that book search got inexplicably bad recently. Like as if they swapped out their algorithms for some trivial matching query. Now I can only find books by typing the exact title. Before that, I used Amazon to explore current books even as a replacement for the library catalog because the results were much better.
No, it is not a ATA/IDE (nor SATA) device, it is intended as a "direct replacement" for floppy drives (on embroidering machines, music instruments, CNC and similar), so it uses the 34 floppy connection (on PC-like hardware).

There is - besides Gotek - an alternative which is open source and (if one wants to) DIY, the HxC, a few different possibilities:

http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html
Example of common sense HD decision: "Wait, why are we developing an app for our associates to locate items, when we could also just expose that to the customer themselves?"
Tibet is not majority Han chinese, not sure where you pulled this fact from.
Crypto currencies are not immune to politics of legacy finance
Then Georgia can join central time. Changing the clocks is nonsense.
I don’t exactly understand why he’s being downvoted. Perhaps he could have worded things better, but I read it in good faith.

A doctor may be able to tell them some specific coping mechanisms that could be helpful in breaking the thought loop they were otherwise unaware of, & sometimes a short duration of medication like a benzo can break the anxiety enough so that it doesn’t come back.

Obviously, it’s hard to tell over the internet, & that’s why it’s recommended to see a professional.
so this article is fairly nice - and I'm glad you touch on the "hiring" part.

Funnily, the opposite is true in India - which is basically the world's largest android (and android dev) market.

React Native devs are hard to come by. React is very very very popular. But not react native. Especially in colleges. I have done the A/B tests here.

Flutter is really viral. Just FYI - ultimately the talent is going to come flying off the boat from somewhere right !
Ask HN: Do you find apps like Binklist and Scribd useful?
I'd been recently introduced to Binkist and think it's great. For the uninitiated, Binkist (and a similar app called Scribd), take popular books off the retail shelf, and condense their 200+ pages into an 8 - 15 page summary.

The summaries are good, and are often accompanied by audio transcripts, but what do others make of these apps? Do you find it a good way to learn? Or do you think it's perhaps diluting the true benefit of reading the books themselves?
The author hasn't spent much time looking for counter-examples:

* Paul Shannon
* Paul Erdös
* Donald Knuth
* Richard Feynman
* Harper Lee
* Iain Banks
* Leonard Bernstein

And I think you can go on-and-on.
Right?

A 486 running a webserver behind CloudFlare returning a 502 Bad Gateway was the perfect "I don't know what I expected" moment.
Book reviews have become useless too since they are mostly all gushing 4 or 5 star reviews that, oddly, all seem to be composed by professional writers.
Ah gotcha yeah at the small scale(?) scaling we're talking about monolithic applications, being a bit simpler to organize and run, do still make for a compelling solution. That's a great tip regarding how to handle ballooning storage issues via managed cloud offerings (in the weird case I make something that really works) that I hadn't considered. However, it's starting to feel like these scaling questions/solutions are a lot more akin to Factorio bottleneck chasing than I would like haha.
I’ll take “people who haven’t bought a house or have kids” for 500, Alex

There’s a thread right now in r/experiencedDevs about a guy who is trying to buy a house while his employer is cratering around him. Stuff like that happens and tends to stick with you forever.
It might be strange for die-hard pedalists, but not necessarily anyone else. Motorcycles do fine w/o after all.

I actually like the idea of separating exercise from locomotion. I am worried about the loss of efficiency though.
I would like to take different point of view.

Developers also switch jobs to get more salary and market themselves as specialists in a specific stack.

I yet have to see developer taking pay cut to retrain in a different tech.

Companies already have to factor in training of people on their company specific stuff. That is why no one expects new hire to be fully productive in first 3-6 months. Even if you know JavaScript it still is quite a lot of work to understand code base ... now take someone who does not know JavaScript and as addition has to learn company specific stuff.

That is why hiring is like that because "tech" is transferrable skill between companies and developers like to invest into transferrable skills.
This is not strictly true. The US directly bombed Russian troops in Syria.
This assumes that there's a limit to efficiency. We definitely haven't hit that wall yet.
That's how sane humans work.
Other countries that have the technology, like Canada, don’t put you in a jail only because you are on a square with a blank sign or you are making a public demonstration.
A successful drug candidate must be useful in the treatment of human medical problems and not have harmful side effects that outweigh its benefits. A weaponized poison may have any number of harmful effects without diminishing its utility. A compound with really indiscriminate biochemical effects, like fluoroethyl fluoroacetate, makes a potent poison without any specific tuning for humans. It's much easier to discover compounds that genuinely harm people than those that genuinely help them.
How does this system take workers' interests into account? Some may be interested in doing the job and then go home. Them making decisions could end up looking like they vote for whatever their politically interested friend tells them to.

What happens when a majority emerges composed of workers that are very interested and workers disinterested in workplace politics that they can make disfavorable decisions about the resulting minority?

Such company could face the risk of hostile takeover by new hires if there were a need of quick hiring to fulfill for example the needs of big new customer.
Yes, Erlang is based more on the actor model.

CSP is synchronous, so sending to a channel will block if the receiver isn't ready. Erlang and actors are asynchronous in this matter. They will send regardless of whether the receiver is in a state where it can receive the message. Practically, Go (and libmill) allow buffered channels so that you only block if the channel's buffer is full.

CSP is based on anonymous processes. Actors have identity, and this would be the process IDs in Erlang. Erlang and the actor model don't use channels (though you can use processes to mimic them).
There used to be a Mac Plus on the internet ( 8Mhz 68000 ) called Camneerg, or Green mac backwards, at L0ft.

"BTW, this Mac Plus is runing the web server you are reading this page from right now." Its still up.

https://www.spacerogue.net/Camneerg/Camneerg.html
> Has money suddenly become more important to everyone?

How often people could afford a home and basic necessities for a family (including stability) without focusing on money back then? And how often can people afford those now without focusing on money?

It is very, very likely that it has.
Sounds more like a mental than economical problem.
It was not referring to Lana del Rey, that criticism would be the opposite of what we're discussing, and thus it's sort of funny you'd assumed that's whom I'd meant... The purpose of redacting the name is that I like the singer, her music is great, and I don't think there's a point to invoking her as "a bad dancer" in a discussion on HN of all places.
I'm burnt out af. But is this going to stop me from hustling? No.

Does this make me pause and think? I guess so. So well done.

I like seeing companies take a stand. So while I may not agree with it, I definitely respect anyone who does something radical to make a statement.
It is not in any sense true that becoming a professor is harder now than in 1905.
Show HN: Civic – Online Hub for Causes
Hi HN! Matias and Jessica here, we're the founders of Civic (https://civicapp.co/), an online platform that connects people to causes in their area. That could mean everything from volunteering opportunities to activism and politics.

Every year, over 180M Americans contribute to social causes, yet doing so takes a significant amount of time and energy — information on how to get involved or take action often spreads through disconnected pages, newsletters, and word of mouth. Civic plans to solve this by creating a hub for people to find and organize events, connect, and donate to causes around them.

We just launched our MVP in NYC, focusing exclusively on events. I (Matias) started working on Civic while still in college, where I also spent a lot of my time in politics, having worked with ActBlue and a presidential campaign. I also served as a hyper-local elected official in DC, where I represented about 2k constituents to the city. Jessica is a full-stack software engineer and spent 5 years working at Google before joining us. She's fully responsible for our tech and is the reason why we're able to build this at all.

During my time in DC, one of the most interesting things I observed was how the causes that were most likely to get people engaged were the local/neighborhood issues that affected them directly. Yet, because of their local nature, those causes were also the ones least likely to get publicity. That plus the general lack of a true online hub for civic engagement led us to start Civic.

The MVP is rough around the edges and we're definitely looking for ideas and feedback on how we can improve! Some of the features in our dev pipeline include an onboarding process to customize the content seen by each user (causes are very broad); easy and streamlined, no-fee donations to organizations; social "spaces" based on location and interests where users can meet and discuss issues with others; and much more!

For those curious about revenue, we plan to monetize by introducing donations. Right now, over $300B are donated by individuals to non-profits in the United States each year, much of which goes through outdated platforms that charge high fees. We'd target smaller, local organizations that aren't well served by existing platforms, and would follow the same model as GoFundMe and a few other companies, allowing users to add an optional "tip" to Civic after each donation. From our research, this tends to lead to tips of about 6-8% per transaction.

You can check out our MVP here: https://civicapp.co/

We'd really appreciate any and all feedback (especially related to features, new and existing), please let us know what you think! :)
Show HN: An Open Source Terraform HCL Checker – ValidIaC
The Real World started in 1992. It was "credited with launching the modern reality TV genre" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_World_(TV_series)
"How is the market for "standard" apps doing? One would think that by now "UI for a Database/API" should have died out already? Even if companies do need an UI for a DB or an API, that job must have had become really simple with all the frameworks and libraries."

From my casual observation the learning curve for "UI for a Database/API" is becoming steeper every year. Such software reached its high point with VB6 or MS Access but since then simple tools have been dying and replaced with ever more complex frameworks. You still can't easily develop a web app that's as powerful and simple as you could do on the desktop with VB6 or MS Access.
As a generalization, it's a good one. That there are exceptions doesn't make it a poor generalization.

If you enjoy your work more than other things, that's great. For me, even within the domain of tech, there are much more interesting things I'd like to do with tech than what I do for my job - and most of the things on my list will not be supported by the market - they're confined to hobbies.
Not precisely sure what you are saying. If you mean "flaws in the ssd hardware fixed by a firmware update", that probably exists too.

But I meant "faulty firmwares due to bad firmware code, needing updates".
I know this can sound very first world problem in the current context, but peanuts is always relative to how much things cost in your environment and how much the purchasing power of everyone else is. If every office worker earns as much as every dev then devs do earn peanuts.

Devs in the US and other regions have the unique advantage of earning far more then the median in that area, therefore not peanuts.

Like how if you're earning on 80k in SF you're basically in poverty despite being in the 5% top earners globally.
Well semantic web search is less about traditional web search and more about semantic relationships between terms using ontologies.

If you search for "pipe A500", the search engine would deconstruct that. It would see pipes have steel, and a coating for steel, and a grade of steel. It would see A500 is a grade of steel. Pipes don't have a grade A500, but tubes do, and tubes have the other classifications that pipes do. It may then conclude that while 'A500' and 'pipe' are not linked directly, a different term may be very similar and a more direct match ('tube'), and thus return 'A500 tube' results.

It seemed like the machine learning model was building relations between these different concepts and using them to improve the search, but without the intentional taxonomic mapping that semantic web uses. Semantic web is essentially more of a curated database of relationships, whereas the machine learning appears to be using another method to establish the relationships. I wonder if they're not doing basically the same thing.
The used folks definitely still exist, you just have to be judicious with your search filters, unfortunately.
I've heard it recommended before, but some have mentioned it's overly theoretical and doesn't offer much in the way of helping you build working examples of the material (although I suppose the complexity of the material does make toy examples a bit tricky to come up with). Do you know of anything that does have such offerings?
I, and looking around this thread many others, find his argument to be unconvincing to say the least.

E.g. his argument against energy becoming almost free, "But if energy became arbitrarily cheap, someone could buy all of it, and suddenly the activities that comprise the economy would grind to a halt."

One of the many problems with this is that we already live with a finite resource that is completely free but also a hard requirement for all economic activity: air.
Extended mode means - 32 or 64 bit mode, once "thunked" into that I believe you can no longer access the BIOS directly.

So even if there are exploits lurking, they wouldn't affect modern OSes which are all at least 32 bit now.

This is specifically to the x86 family, it's possible that some other chip still has original code ready to go even in 32 or 64 bit mode.
Actually, I take that back, I will shit on a side project. `lop.PartitionBy` strongly suggests they're just copy/pasting whatever implementation they can to show off generics, without making sure it makes sense at all.
not my project, but thank you nonetheless
I've developed some apps in Ionic/Cordova and Ionic/Capacitor. I agree that it's a decent system, especially for people (like me) who are just in a rush to implement something and aren't so caught up in platform wars.

I'm one of those people who couldn't care less about the language I use to code in - I just want to get stuff done. From my perspective, Javascript has some stupid stuff, but so does every other language.

My only significant objection to Ionic/Capacitor is the whole nodejs ecosystem. I hate getting dropped into dependency hell all the time. And it's significantly worse if you're stuck (as I a) supporting an end-of-lifed Cordova plugin for necessary functionality.

Now, in the real world, I'd have a team and we'd just build our own version of the plugin and get rid of the web of dependencies, but sadly I'm just one not-very-bright guy off on his own.
I like where you are going with this, but the Newton example seems really bold.

Didn't most of his discoveries come during a pandemic where he had to work alone from home without much contact with the outside world?

Viewing my 4th grade history of Newtown knowledge through your lens, I am questioning how much of his story was now marketing.

But to do have specific examples of how his accomplishments came from a collective?
We only buy HP PCs, but we don't have a relationship with them (we go through a middleman). And also, this particular model is not common for us, I chose it for the Zen 3 CPU and upgradability. The usual PCs are the basic Intel i5 du jour, so I can't compare notes with other people. I'm also pretty much the only one doing firmware upgrades with any regularity.