skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hilarious that the "eyeball hash" is stored in a normal database, not the blockchain. And Worldcoin is already at a billion dollar valuation.

I don't mean to turn this into a personal attack or flame-war, but I used to respect Sam Altman a lot. It was very hard to watch him transition OpenAI from a non-profit to a for-profit company, and now it's even harder to watch him jump into the crypto-scam game. I can understand why a young founder would pitch this- "Imagine, everyone on the planet will eventually become a user! Unlimited growth!" But someone like Sam Altman surely has made enough money at this point, so why get in on this? Genuinely asking, because I don't understand the point of this.
Settlement is an active effort, but Tibet is an incredibly hostile region and the Han suffer from various health and fertility problems there.

The real solution to settlement would have to be Han intermarrying with Tibetans and raising their children as Han.
> fair and open market

Again the same strawman. There is nothing "fair and open" in price gauging replacement parts in a market where buyers cannot compare quality, reliability, durability and TCO across products, replacement parts, repair services and guarantees.
One might consider the fate of Salvator Lombardo at Cornell University...
No "aristocratic tutoring", just a self-driven genius, who was denied a stipend because he has the wrong skin color and genitals.
> but work pales in comparison to:

I just want to note that this is a poor generalization. Much like how people wonder how I have the discipline to get up early and workout, it's because I enjoy it. I also enjoy my job the vast majority of the time, and I suspect many others do also. My dad always comments "I'm amazed you get paid to play on the computer all day...", "Me too dad, me too".
I really miss that era of Opera. So many QOL features were lost in the migration to Chromium and I have never forgiven them. A friend's teen son showed me OperaGX a few weeks ago and while it looked cool, I can't even bring myself to try it.
So it's a "woke" thing after all?
Like in this CBS news report that caught a coin landing on its edge in a soccer game? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz3VwRLsfX0

There very well be refs who can take advantage of coin flips over time.
PostgreSQL Public Certificates Beta
What it would be like to live with the resources of a single planet
There are examples to test with [1] Seems like if someone runs this server they are making those people admins unless they edit that file.

[1] - https://github.com/quackduck/devzat/blob/main/admins.json
It's certainly self-aware pastiche, not the 90s original, for sure. But I guess what I'm saying is that the idea that "the majority of users" want XYZ or are even looking for design styles actively isn't actually something substantiated by data in any of these claims, and there's enough interesting counterpoints that none of us should be confident our preferences are shared by the masses. Design sampling bias and mindless imitation certainly brought us a lot of the cookie cutter whitespace affairs we see also.
At my employer, some users register with a pm.me email address. When users contact us via email, they use a different protonmail address and never the pm.me address. I know you can never rely on the sender address, but from a support perspective this is still strange and extremely troublesome (for example it is tedious to assign the user to an account). I assume that Protonmail users can only receive emails with pm.me, but not send them. For me actually a reason to block pm.me or to handle it like a throwaway address.
Ask HN: Are there any startups looking to solve the problem of war?
That is, not how to _win_ a war, but how to _prevent_ war, or how to prevent it from ending us all, or similar.

I figure it sounds ridiculous, but... any more ridiculous than war?

I could imagine that, if we asked The Great AI in the Sky, that it could have told us a solution that would have prevented this most recent war (the one taking all the headlines currently because of all the white victims) -- Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The Great AI in the Sky would probably say something like:

US objectives met:

- maintains ability to act with near-total impunity around the world
- further burnishes its reputation as benevolent leader of the world
- places some constraints on Russia

Russia objective met:

- security concerns addressed adequately enough

Ukraine objective met:

- civilians not needlessless slaughtered
- country/cities/industries not flattened

Europe objective met:

- uninterrupted time to continue navel-gazing

And then maybe some solutions:

- Solution 1 (Amazon's choice)
- Ukraine neutrality
- whatever else
- Solution 2
- Ukraine neutrality
- some other whatever else
- Solution 3
- WarGames (get popcorn)
Collaboration is a good fit for wearable sensor startup
That idea is countered right in the quoted passage by Tanner Greer.

In the past, it was obvious who was genius, even a few years after people died. Now, it's less clear.
Famous 'Valley of the Shadow of Death' Photo Was Almost Certainly Staged
Yep, it's a two seater. For a lot of us a two-seater is all we need for like 99.9% of all of our trips. Also, you can get a surprising amount of groceries into that thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWukO5TLssM&t=14s
Interesting article, but it should be noted that there is no "official name in English" in any meaningful sense of the word. Yes, you can cite what a particular government entity uses, but unlike French, English is not an officially regulated language, and as such, we are all free to call things and places what we please.

Every language has names for foreign places that are not the same as the name that is in local use in that place. It is Munich and Rome, not München and Roma. That is because place names, like all words, are chosen organically by speakers of the language for convenience, ease, and clarity. To an English speaker, "München" or "Kyiv" are hard to pronounce in their native forms, and so we have alternatives. No disrespect is intended, and none should be taken. Foreigners do the same thing for American place names, as well they should.

There is also value in continuity. Changing place names in a language due to external pressure of non-resident non-speakers of the language, places an undue burden on the speakers, for little or no benefit to the speakers of the language. The language is for its speakers, not for non-speakers.

I grew up with "Kiev" and "the Ukraine" (as well as Peking, Bombay, Canton, and many others). It is relatively harmless to change these, which is why most people just go with the flow. But it is not a moral issue, and people who wish to stick with older forms should not be ostracized. No one can stop a scold from being a scold, but most people don't like scolds, even if they sometime acquiesce to their demands out of politeness or a sense of conflict-avoidance.
Microsoft's Work Trend Index Report
Emitter Detector Redux (2021)
If you put it this way, yes.
Ukraine and Russia draw up neutrality plan to end war
Law of War
To explain more: weight devoted to armoring the bottom is weight that's not devoted to armoring the front, which is much more important for high-intensity combat. And since the bottom has more area than the front, a given weight of armor will be thinner on the bottom than on the front.
Some excellent advice here about "tracing in":

> I start with a feature or use case, and start from the outside in to trace the codepath that the feature follows. During this process, I take notes about the files, lines, and functions I’m going through, but I do not yet attempt to understand how anything works. This is the “trace down” phase.

In my opinion this is what makes it easy to discover how programs written in Go, Rust and C work, while it typically is not easy to discover how programs written in Java or C# [1] work typically - abstracted wireup via IOC containers often makes it difficult to to determine which code is likely to run.

[1]: Yes, yes, not all Java etc etc...
Pasta by Design: A mathematical look at pasta
For those not familiar of RVA22 documentation of it is here: https://github.com/riscv/riscv-profiles/blob/main/profiles.a...

Essentially it is shortform for standardising a set of optional instruction sets into a bundle. RV for RISC-V, A for "applcation supporting" (as opposed to being used in embedded or microcontroller) and 22 for 2022 (in 2100 it'll be 100)
Only 5 years too late to prevent us leaving them for AWS RDS and Elastic Beanstalk, where we paid half as much and got a DB with basic security features: no public IP and an SSL cert.
Thanks! I was just unsure because the translation above seemed to stress the past, "resistance has ended".
Fun delivery on a dense topic
MirrorForge-Rapid Prototyping of Complex Mirrors for Camera and Projectors
Ironically, “application modernization” seems to be the worse paying cloud specialty in the industry. At most consulting companies, “implementations” pays the least and is outsourced to cheaper labor and junior consultants.

I work at the one company that pays decently well for AWS + enterprise dev + consulting. It’s not hard to guess which one it is..
Natural gas flares from oil wells likely source of respiratory illness spike
Hiring is certainly very important. But I disagree that JavaScript developer availability is the most important criteria in this decision. After all, we're talking about "quality developers" not script kiddies. Experienced developers will hit the beach running with Dart. It's just another C-style language like many others that experienced developers will have used extensively.
Although it's interesting how the author breaks this down, I didn't think it was necessarily unknown that phone key tones could be used to make basic melodies.

When i get stuck in a freezer, I know that I can hack my phone (or a pocket calculator) to play certain songs with the key tones to alert my robot friend to save me. Thanks Johnny!
No bench chemist should attempt to cleanup this stuff. Go to your university or company EHS, and if you don;'t have that, your city does. The history of chemistry is filled with responsible and intelligent organic chemists who nonetheless died terrible deaths. EHS has strategies to avoid this.
The Climate Warehouse Public Observer Node
psa? unfortunately it looks like Google pay service is tied to Google domains. they state your Google domains service will be canceled if you close Google pay. don't accidently lose your domains!
The Russians supposedly had a tank chassis with soft weapons ( machine guns, small cannon, grenade launchers) on top, to accompany tanks in urban environments, specifically due to lessons from Checnhya about the vulnerability of tanks against infantry defenses, especially in urban environments - BMPT. Supposedly the idea was to have them accompany tanks and support them. In reality, they are nowhere to be seen
Jurassic Cloud
Great Expectations: Making Hybrid Work Work
Perhaps
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embeddable_Linux_Kernel_Subs...
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It's a borked landing page, I suspect. Go up a product level:
https://www.homedepot.com/b/Doors-Windows-Garage-Door-Opener...

Click on "Belt Drive" among the Opener Types. Same result. Not terribly related to the topic at hand, but its definitely a gripe I have the the HD website sometimes works great and sometimes is terribly unhelpful.
I guess you can imagine similar evolution that a century ago drove invention of aircraft carriers. When it became clear that battleships would become too large, too heavy and too expensive to meet their primary goal of dominating the sea around them.

Ie mobile platforms that are essentially defenceless on their own but carry large armament of drones and other electronic devices inside enemy territory that is meant to quickly take over surrounding space (surface and overhead) and do quick job of neutralising various threats like enemy personnel, drones, etc.

But I am not sure about that. Planes require a landing strip to start from and large hangars to store them and that drove the basic form of aircraft carrier.

There is no such limitation for electronic equipment and small drone carriers travelling on land. And I think, rather than presenting a single high value target to the enemy, it makes sense to have a lot of specialised units functioning as one through information systems that cannot be disabled with a single successful strike.
it has the same signature mechanics but it's really the plot that ultimately gets people to watch it, I mean if Clockwork Orange's main plot descended into some weird orgy ring for the rich (I admit Korova Milk Bar was a prelude to a certain degree), without any identifiable struggles of the common human experience, it might have been written off.

The problem in my view is that EWS's failure was in that most people just didn't identify enough with the characters or their struggles other than a superficial 'affluent married couple with divorce lawyer on speed dial with illuminati'.

In fact, it's just become a favorite topic of conspiracy theorists that have largely decoupled from the story line, and in my view, simply did not do Kubrick justice since an artisan or creator's final work is always scrutinized. I remember large parts of the movie being edited out which allegedly enraged Kubrick and put him at odds with producers.
Show HN: LeechBlock-like productivity tool for the desktop
Piano’s Darkest Secret
From what I can see, that's pretty much it. It might affect future funding, but I'm betting lawyers would successfully argue that some occurrence doesn't count.
Intentionally slow? That's the policy of our current administration in the US and look at the UTTER disaster it is continuing to unfold into.

The problem with any pessimistic prediction - including the recent hysteria over "global warming" - is it completely discounts the human ability to innovate and overcome problems. So HELL NO I don't want any egg-head interference such as deliberately slowing anything. The US is already the global leader in reducing carbon emissions and that sure as hell didn't happen by slowing our economic growth. Our economic growth FUNDED and FUELED that capability.

You NEVER improve by deliberately tying all your hands behind your back. How freaking stupid do you have to be to think that's even reasonable or "intelligent" line of reason?

It's the same reason central planning fails MISERABLY compared to open, independent systems such as capitalism. Innovation. Economic natural selection. Wisdom of the crowd.

People these days love to slam open markets - the problem is we haven't had anything resembling an open market for some time. I don't think we should have unfettered open markets, I do think there is a role for some regulation - but we have swung so far into the regulation side (mostly drive by lobbying/market leaders to further consolidation - COVID restrictions were the catalyst from the greatest consolidation of wealth to the largest entities we have seen in recent human history) that the term open market is used but it references very little of what we have today.

So yeah, F off with this intentional meddling. NO thanks.
you can be forgiven, as the present inception of the country has only had a constitution for 26 patriotic years (the Simpsons have been around longer.)

Much like the media pivot to "Kyiv" it all smacks of hastily constructed, ham-fisted virtue signaling by a west that is sadly not in a position to provide much direct assistance.
That's slightly different, though. The first is "when this is true, earlier in the function, queue up running something at the end of the function." This is "at the end of the function, if this is true, do something."

They _should_ be identical, unless shouldDoSideEffect changes.

Yes, mutability is bad. One shouldn't change that. But avoiding "you're holding it wrong" footguns was the original goal, right?

Don't get me wrong, having both would be nice. Maybe something like `after` for function scope and `defer` for block scope. But that starts to erode the "simplicity" of Go, I guess.
The rubber nub function keys were replaced with plastic keys in the most recent version, much more pleasant to use. I'm sad about their departure on the 360. It's a huge keyboard, I want more keys!
No, I don't think that plant will ever be active again. There might be a danger if a tsunami came through again and washed more radioactive debris out from where it settled.
Using the federal gov. as an example of the lack of vacation was pretty funny when they tend to have very generous standard days off, and move up accrual rates pretty quickly.
I think this might be ambiguous, since "Pacific/$city" refers to a part of the world that the west of the US ("PT") is not part of.

I've decided to add "Pacific Time" to my "dateparse"[1] script, though.

$ TZ=America/Chicago dateparse '6:30 PM Pacific time'
6:30 PM Pacific time: assuming PDT
1647480600 Wed Mar 16 20:30:00 CDT 2022

[1] https://github.com/pflanze/chj-bin/blob/master/dateparse
> Modern military aircraft fly too high for MANPADs (shoulder fired ones like Stinger)

Not if they're doing combat air support they don't, unless they only use precision guided munitions or cruise missiles, which are expensive.
Well dang, that's what I get for taking too long to implement my idea :-D

Seriously this is great. I started building a "scriptable DNS" to make it easy to have a DNS record that always points at the valid K8s nodes in my cluster (and randomizes the order of the IPs each time). Since nodes can come and go very quickly (especially during an upgrade), and their IP changes every time, it's useful to be able to act dynamically.

This is most assuredly better than what I was building though. Mine is rust-based but the "script language" is a very simple DSL. I considered allowing docker containers that receive some command arguments and must write the answer to standard out, but that felt like a brittle interface and I worried about performance (even with offering a cache). I also considered writing it in Elixir and allowing elixir code snippets, but I got scared of how hard it would be to secure that.

Anyway really neat idea! I hope to see more innovations and implementations!
All geniuses were a manufactured product, bar none. Einstein and Newton are products, not individuals, of an ancient marketing campaign. No different from Gaga or Beyonce in the present. Beyonce exists as an idea more so than a person.

What is nominally a group of individuals working collectively to solve a problem became attributed to a single person purely for marketing purposes. It is easier for most people to remember one name, or attribute an effect to a singular cause (by extension causer).

What we remember through the mists of time is not the best, but what garnered the most attention in that era. Those two are not the same, never have been. What you call genius mow was back then an influencer.

Now modern technology has made it possible for anyone to become an influencer. And so, geniuses are everywhere and nowhere, all at once. The influencers that survive into the next era (I’m looking at Elon) will be the geniuses of our time.
It's too early to write them off. They're not Kodak, they're well funded and willing to change direction as their moat disappears.
It's not the same at all, because that question insinuates that Google is already doing everything close to as best as possible.

Whereas users who use Google may have reasons to use an alternative engine even if it isn't strictly better than Google in every regard.

Probing into who those users might be and what their needs are envisioned to be is more constructive than "can you do better than Google"?
US Senate passes bill to make daylight savings time permanent
Russia put her on the sanctions list too.
It's healthier. On the surface I prefer sleeping less and not working out, but it effects my health poorly.
From Lem's Cyberiad:

"I didn't build a machine to solve ridiculous crossword puzzles! That's hack work, not Great Art! Just give it a topic, any topic, as difficult as you like..."

Klapaucius thought, and thought some more. Finally he nodded and said:

"Very well. Let's have a love poem, lyrical, pastoral, and expressed in the language of pure mathematics. Tensor algebra mainly, with a little topology and higher calculus, if need be. But with feeling, you understand, and in the cybernetic spirit."

"'Love and tensor algebra?' Have you taken leave of your senses?"

Trurl began, but stopped, for his electronic bard was already declaiming:

Come, let us hasten to a higher plane,
Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn,
Their indices bedecked from one to n,
Commingled in an endless Markov chain!

Come, every frustum longs to be a cone,
And ever vector dreams of matrices.
Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze:
It whispers of a more ergodic zone.

In Riemann, Hilbert or in Banach space
Let superscripts and subscripts go their ways.
Our asymptotes no longer out of phase,
We shall encounter, counting, face to face.

I'll grant thee random access to my heart,
Thou'lt tell me all the constants of thy love:
And so we two shall all love's lemmas prove,
And in our bound partition never part.

For what did Cauchy know, or Christoffel,
Or Fourier, or any Boole or Euler,
Wielding their compasses, their pens and rulers,
Of thy supernal sinusoidal spell?

Cancel me not - for what then shall remain?
Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes,
A root or two, a torus and a node:
The inverse of my verse, a null domain.

Ellipse of bliss, converge, O lips divine!
The producs of our scalars is defined!
Cyberiad draws nigh, and the skew mind
Cuts capers like a happy haversine.

I see the eigenvalue in thine eye,
I hear the tender tensor in thy sigh.
Bernoulli would have been content to die,
Had he but known such a^2 cos 2 phi!
There is no single thing that makes a song interesting or memorable, but technical proficiency is one of factors. Of course, I don't think that being "at the top" in technical proficiency makes a song any better than being just among a broader set of "best performers", but autotune makes people sound flat, generic, robotic, which is on the opposite end of the spectrum. That it doesn't contribute positively to a song is an understatement.
I would argue that is actually the norm. The more I dig deeper into the history of any field the more I realize how many publicly unknown geniuses there are. Mostly only recognized and praised as such by the connoisseurs of the respective field.

And it makes sense, especially in our times, sophisticated PR (and Einstein enjoyed that, too, in addition in being a genius) just trumps any recognition one might get in a life time, in the short term that is.

If you are not seeking some grandiose recognition (like Newton or Edison, famously) you are potentially a better explorer of the yet Unknown not bothering wasting any energy and being less corruptable by discoveries, you are happy to share with others and helping to bring about.

Off the top of my head: Three examples of rather unknown "geniuses" in physics in no particular order:

Chien-Shiung Wu, Oliver Heaviside, John Michell

One could also argue, as I sometimes do, too, that a genius is just a convenient narrative device in order to highlight and illustrate some important turning point with the historical person serving as some responsible "actor" in bridging over an otherwise complex and often self-contradictory development into a tangible coherent state.
Not a normal route. I took a masters degree in public policy at a quant heavy school. I'd coded a lot as a kid, but hadn't done anything beyond VBA since then. Picked up python, and an understanding of stats, network analysis and NLP, loved it. Next job was a small think tank, I did a study or two with the skills I picked up. Applied for a data engineer job on the back of that a few years later and here I am.

My in was ticking enough of the tech skills whilst having a load of domain knowledge.