skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even .24% isn't that rare.

From NIH.gov:

"In the United States, a rare disease is defined as a condition that affects fewer than 200,000 people in the US."
Back in the 70s, I dialed a number on my parent’s rotary phone. When the remote computer answered, I would shove the handset into the earmuffs on the acoustic coupler[1].

It usually worked. I don’t remember if the baud rate was 300 or 110.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_coupler
If you containerize batteries (which is a thing with some electric ships already), swapping the containers is a few minutes work. Most container harbors routinely process container ships with thousands of containers using automated cranes, autonomous ground transport, etc. I don't think that's a process that takes a lot of time. They probably measure that in numbers of containers per minute. So, I think that we can establish that swapping a few batteries should not be that big of a deal technically.

Recharging those containerized batteries would require some infrastructure. Conveniently, off shore wind parks are currently pretty popular, can generate lots of GW of power, and can be close to shipping routes. There are all sorts of solutions that you could imagine here. You could even shuttle batteries to and from ships that need them so those ships don't even have to make an expensive detour.
It's funny because it's a mindless application of a standard reply to someone asking one to do something difficult: ``first do it yourself, then ask others to do it.'' The intellectual, the stereotypically absent-minded ``scholastic'', hasn't considered that in this particular case he is asking to be killed. And I suppose it's a bonus that he can't possibly do anything when he's dead.
This time of new Java features under Oracle is such a great contrast compared to the days of Sun as the Java Steward with no funding for features. (I understand why people might have issues with Oracle, but they provide some funding).
>At least here in the UK, the court system does not have enough capacity.

This isnt a problem startups can, nor should they solve. It requires political will.
One could even add basic string and array types, so that the ecosystem could optionally slowly move away from pointer based types, but it will never happen.
Which is fair, as long as it's concrete, the addressee is actually available and on the clock, and the question can only be answered by that person.

I'm active on a programming language Slack space, what sometimes happens is that people are DMed directly with a generic / open question that dozens of others could also answer.
Always good to see alternative views into the web!

Was wondering how do you power your autosuggest? Looks different to Google and Bing.
_microft linked the GitHub for Details.

tldr:
generates random ids (1 per 5 min i think?) that it keeps broadcasting via Bluetooth.

It saves the ids it broadcastet (sent ids) and it recieved.

If the saved ids geht too old to be relevant ist deletes them.

If you get a positive PCR you can opt-in to notify your contacts, this works by you releasing your sent ids. The released ids are regularily published by app provider.

The app checks the published ids, if it finds published keys in its list, it checks how often they are in its list (to aproximate duration) and what signal strength was (to aproximate distance).

Based in duration and distance it warns that you had a risky contact and should get tested.

Besides that it also has a few other features now
you can Scan QR-Code of vax-certificate or neg test result and then show those from App so that eventorganizers can scan them with an App that veryfies signatures

you can check in to places/events and get anon notifications if later it turns out soneone there was positive. (Think restaurants, parties, anyone can make their own event to get a QR-Code they can print out)

you can add a testprofile so that when you go get tested they scan a qr code to get the needed data, rather than having to tell them

you can write a contact diary that autodeletes after 15 days.

Dunno if anyone uses the diary.

Also, the Long delay until health-minister comissioned the check-in feature lead to a private competitor called 'Luca' that does it differently and is infamous among IT folk.
If you want to read up on Luca and speak german (or have a translate you like)

https://www.luca.fail/
Dark patterns in software usually involve UI/UX, so knowing to code doesn't really help with those. On the other hand, being able to code an app might be enough to make someone go "why is it like that? I know it doesn't have to be!" in response to a dark pattern.
There’s plenty of value in the government not jailing people for saying something even if nobody else on the planet listens to them.

Similarly, freedom of religion and assembly (and the press!) do not require an audience. The right protects your ability to act without being harmed by the government. If nobody reads your newspaper, you still were able to exercise your right.
It's not paranoia when they're really out to get you. For example, a Tor Project contributor moved to Germany.

https://money.cnn.com/2016/05/17/technology/tor-developer-fb...

The EFF is roughly in the same bucket - i.e. some interest from federal agencies due to empowering individuals relative to the state.
Kubebuilder – SDK for Building Kubernetes APIs Using CRDs
Jira is almost always overkill IME. We used GH issues at ZEIT (now Vercel) back when I was there and were considered quite the productive team. I still stand by that decision, though I don't know if Vercel still only uses GH issues or how that's scaled for them since I left.
I'm not arguing for removing karma points - just pointing out, that the way they work,they do (somewhat) incentivize such behavior.

Obviously we DO need a signal. Hackernews probably would not work (or at least not work as well), if there was no way to separate the wheat from the chaff. But whatever system is put in place, there will always be people trying to game the system for their own gain, hurting the system in the process.

Between the barriers/mitigations needed to keep the system from breaking entirely, and the amount of signal manipulation that can not be avoided - the whole thing will of course work not as well than it could if everyone were honest.

And that's without even considering what all the effort and expenses spent on those mitigations could have been used on otherwise.
That ship has long sailed, and I don't think young people for instance value much having a phone number, except for conforming to social norms (e.g. getting called back for a job offer) and SMS confirmation codes.

Carriers are milking it as much as they can now, as they don't have leverage to otherwise stop any progress that would make phone numbers finally irrelevant.
I think the main point is accessing the foreign memory safely.
Why would I think that Apple will know what my users want?

Apple vets TestFlight, the same way they vet release apps; except not as stridently. They look for things like obvious crash bugs (indeed, they have sometimes found bugs I missed in my testing), security issues, private API access, obvious HIG deviations, etc.

They do an intensive, human, test, every time I bump the fix version, and fast, automated tests, when I do release bumps. The intensive tests usually take a couple of days, but the release tests take about 15 minutes. I generally do version bumps, once a month or so, but several release bumps, every day.

TestFlight is simply another Quality tool. Apple’s testing is yet another set of eyeballs on the product, which is always welcome, and, more importantly, it allows me to put working, near-release-quality product into the hands of people that represent the target demographics, very early in the project. The product has gone through tens of thousands of testing sessions, by a number of folks, that represent the target users, but aren’t actually unrestricted end users. These are not “kludgy, crashy, hold-your-nose” testing sessions. These are “running release-quality code” testing sessions. I often find obscure, weird, bugs, minutes after creating them, and that is awesome.

It’s impossible to overstate its importance to developing a high-quality, relevant, and robust end product.

I have made over 600 TestFlight releases, during a development cycle of 18 months. I often make several releases, every day. That’s quite a statement. I have not encountered another team that has done anything close to this.

It means that the product has been beta-quality, since one month after code start (it’s actually a technique that’s very old. I call it “constant beta”), and has been under daily end-user evaluation, the entire time, without risk of brand damage, and with the ability to do massive pivots (which have occurred multiple times). These pivots are possible, because we don’t have a large end-user base that we need to keep happy. I have just nuked the entire database, several times.

Try that, with an established customer base.
That's not the gotcha you think it is; it's not just "hey", it's an actionable question.
With this concept, you could replace the shipping containers containing batteries with ones containing hydrogen fuel cells. That way, as the technology improves the source of power can change.
> Currently they are extracting billions of gallons of water every year

So, they are a rounding error in California's overall water consumption?

And you think curtailing that is going to fix unsustainable water usage in a desert state?
That would be nice, but at the moment the algo is at the mercy of the training dataset. The dataset doesn't distinguish adjectives from the ingredient, so this module doesn't :(
Well yeah, but if it's a quick question then it's just reading & replying once, it's a "hey" and you engage with it, it's a longer context switch. For both parties involved; the sender obviously has something they need you for, the faster they can have that issue resolved, the faster their context switch has finished.
I provide prototyping services to various startups (from idea/seed to first MVP) and while I respect the content of these slides, they won't do anything for the person who's still at the beginning of that journey.

Most of my onboarding/pre-sales calls are essentially me trying to reduce the damage they will incur to themselves and their seed investors (knowing that they, like everyone else before them, will run into the same troubles). I used to "lightly" recommend slides like these (from the many, many others who crossed that bridge) to my clients, but I doubt a single person ever took up the advice. Everyone thinks they know how to attack it, they will see the problem before it arises.

It most definitely is not a problem of "being unaware". You can be 100% perfectly aware of the fact that you need to downscale your grand vision to a greatly-refined MVP first, or know how and when to reach product-market-fit, or what to look for in a co-founder, but after those highly-motivated first few days or weeks, just after you've placed that merch order for the logo hoodies and had your first two client meetings, the ship suddenly changes course and all good intention and advice is out the window.

I'd say 9/10 startups I've worked with ran into those problems mentioned here, and not a single slide in the world will change that in the future.

That's the issue. The information is out there. The ability to reflect on it, not just to hype yourself up to get going, but constantly throughout, is not.
Why deadlines and sprints are bad for you
Both: Youtube has an official set of movies, possibly a duplicate of Google Play or a different set; and people routinely upload pirate movies, although anything more recent than about 1990 is likely to get a copyright strike.
Much more interesting was Zavalny’s main point, even though it has been mostly overlooked. If other countries want to buy oil, gas, other resources or anything else from Russia, he said, “let them pay either in hard currency, and this is gold for us, or pay as it is convenient for us, this is the national currency.”

In other words, Russia is happy to accept your national currency — yuan, lira, ringgits or whatever — or rubles, or “hard currency,” and for them that no longer means U.S. dollars, it means gold.

“The dollar ceases to be a means of payment for us, it has lost all interest for us,” Zavalny added, calling the greenback no better than “candy wrappers.”

Clickbaity title about a meaningless opinion from a meaningless person (Pavel Zavalny).

TL:DR; It's for goldbugs
If "less" is used more often than "fewer", doesn't that mean these fairly arbitrary grammar rules should be updated? Language evolves, after all, and American English has diverged from UK English a long time ago.
This works until you need to recieve a large number of calls from people you don't know, say during a house purchase.
This is a stupid answer. And I don't mean it's ignorant, I mean it's stupid.

The answer to a problem cannot be, "Become a subject matter expert in that field."

You don't understand the problem with your small intestine? Become a gastroenterologist. No thanks. Society has to be built on trust to function. Yes, we've allowed for an enormous amount of trust to be eroded in the Western world, but that's over now. We either make the hard choices to rebuild these institutions or we see the long slow miserable collapse of our society.
Why would I use it over JNI? I used JNI few times and it was very easy and straightforward.

Can I use it to call any WinAPI without C glue?
Too bad they only did 1MM, that's no enough to negotiate with SEC. This is pitiful, people steal billions and yet we only hear about this.
Subsistence Agriculture
I'd like to have a go at ingredient substitution next, that takes quantity into account
(For instance 2 drops of vanilla essence, might be equivalent to 1/2 a vanilla pod)
Completely agree with all points.

I wonder if a solution similar to ips and masks would be better. A mask format for dates.
Isn't that just the 'unread' marker?

I mean if it's imperative that everyone reads it, just send an e-mail instead or keep a non-interactive #announcements channel.
Totally agree, though it seems differ quite a bit between different kinds of kitchens here in Sweden. Producing stuff sold in stores means super-stringent checks where for example you have to swap your clothes before entering and exiting the area where you prepare the foodstuff. Now school kitchens on the other hand... sure they are checked but not at all with the same strictness it seems.
You have completely missed the point of what ccache does and how it works.
I feel safer already :/
No. How would you possibly read me like that.
Some links to similar things to your idea:

https://github.com/neurobin/shc
http://ccsh.sourceforge.net/
https://github.com/marcomaggi/ccsh
>Maybe something similar — something that allows people to opt out of such calls/messages — can be implemented in USA.

Why not opt in instead?
> I fundamentally disagree with this premise.

> Electric is the future. Everything can be electric AND good.

The premise was that electric can be better than gas-powered, as it doesn't have as many compromises.
Buster Keaton's "The General" is on YouTube. (It's out of copyright, but still worth watching, in my opinion.)
Isn't there campaigning laws around that? If a political campaign did that in the UK they'd be raked over the coals by the Electoral Commission.

Not that the country's been able to do anything about the sheer volume of scam texts pretending to be the Post Office with a parcel for you or Microsoft telling people their Windows boxes are full of viruses.
Can I download it using an windows Intel system
Whilst Pet Sounds was the response to Beatles Rubber Soul. Brian was obsessed with Rubber Soul, that's why he went into this crazy project at all. He hired the very best studio musicians, the Wrecking Crew and worked on it for a year. His band was not able to play it live.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-the-beatles-rubber-soul-ins...
Everything we eat has some groundwater use. I'm just saying that for its nutrient and caloric density, beef is vastly overrated in its water use. We tend to compare pounds of food to other pounds of food, but that is a misleading comparison. The nutritional value of meat has been very undervalued in the past few decades, and meat has a lot of nutritional value that we as humans cannot get on our own from plants.

That's not to say you should eat it for every meal, but ethically, environmentally and nutritionally, I really believe it is the best choice in terms of meat. Even CAFO beef, which is ethically pretty bad, is still vastly superior in that dimension to poultry and pretty much everything else.

Methane is another issue but I believe there is also a good argument in favor of it there as well. There is actually quite a lot of methane release from crops like rice which do not get media derision, as does the methane release from cattle.
Yeah, I agree. Your initial reply to me didn't mention legacy issues, just org size, and I was interpreting it more in the context of a large org building new systems the same unmaintainable way they always have because of inertia / politics / ossified sysadmins / etc.
This is indeed true in many cases, but not always.

If your application is a client-side GUI you may not want to restart it on reconfiguration. This applies to other things as well: think about having to restart your reverse proxy/load balancer each time you add a new route, or rebooting your OS each time you reconfigure a systemd unit, or reinitializing your embedded HW because something changes. The possible incarnations of SW are very much varied, and not everything can be solved in the same way.
I am fond of an idea of making Bitcoin's energy usage less intense. IMO the article tries to distract our attention that the problem is not about enegry only but also as we know is one of the main reasons about semiconductor shortening. Appealing to the fact that Bitcoin uses less than 1% is very strange for me, it reminds me some debates about Linux will never outcome its 1% of users (which is maybe true but the fact has nothing to do in Windows vs Linux discussion).
Those social norms are changing too, ten years ago I'd have phoned people out of the blue but these days I'd only do that for urgent matters because it's rude not to text first.
Does that mean that everyone on HN should have a computer science degree, a marketing degree and an MBA?
> At least here in the UK, the court system does not have enough capacity

Yeah, that's a political decision; the government is so anti-public service that it's cut it to disastrous levels.

In many cases the cuts to legal aid are politically targeted at situations where the government was losing too many cases.
Did you mean 1 Watt or actually 1 Amp? 1 Watt would be rather modest and shouldn't drain you battery within a week, 1 Amp certainly is another story.
> remember something weird like I could “pick up” a window and swap workspaces and drop it and it was perfect.

Just tried that on Plasma, works perfectly. The ̶f̶u̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ past is now!
STIR/SHAKEN are only for VOIP calls not for text messages like shown in the article.
"Twitter" doesn't do that, that's what Twitter is. It's become a platform for elites to virtue signal and everyone else will rally around that, be it virtue signaling from the left of the political spectrum, or the right.

It stopped being about whatever it was supposed to be used for once journalists at so-called "elite" institutions swarmed to the platform.
I use a "smart" lock, even with BT/wifi/GPS based automatic unlocking which seems to freak my fiancee out. I see it as stealing my phone is not different from stealing my key. The more sinister ability is to unlock remotely via the "cloud" which I am still a bit shocked that it just seems to work, and no complaints AFAIK from insurance companies. I just happen to know that locks aren't really a deterrent if you really want to get inside a house....

On the other hand, in reality I am not going to be targeted by competent hackers (who would own me at once), but rather a crude gang of misfits roaming around for an easily burglarised home.
> That sounds like a reason for them to be given part of Germany, not Palestine

No one offered, and too late now.

> The bulk of the anti-semitic drive in modern Middle East is a result of the creation of Israel and the way the Israeli government treats Palestinians

Doesn't really make it OK, racism is racism. I can sort of get anti Israel sentiments, why hate all Jews? We can always find excuses for blind hatred but we usually have names for it (white supremacism for instance), when Muslims do it it's cool though.
Hatred to Jews goes far beyond the middle east btw.
Banning foreign calls/texts that spoof local numbers sounds like a really easy and obvious thing to do.
Don't forget the medical degree so you can "do your own research", and the mechanic qualifications so you can avoid being scammed when it comes to fixing your car.
No it was not. This guy was serious. Really obsessive. And he had the skills and talent.
Humans are a species of violent predators (that can occasionally even kill for fun or get sexual pleasure from torture) and have been so for thousands of years. There's always the possibility of encountering groups of people who "think you shouldn't exist" for multiple reasons (ethnicity, religion, sexual preferences etc.), it's just unfortunate that some otherwise inconsequential and quite benign and harmless psychological or biological features disproportionately amplify this probability for you...

Sure we need to work harder to fix discrimination etc. But in the end just as people exist people who think they shouldn't exist also exist. Fortunately reality doesn't always match what people think "should be", for both sides.

The normal pattern of behavior on social media just as in real life is to "leave the room" when the room if full of s*t / toxic people: if the room is Twitter and enough people leave it, it will cease to be a meaningful social media platform as more people move elsewhere. If you stubbornly sit in a room while ignoring other people that don't ignore you, sooner or later they'll punch you in the face regardless of who's right or wrong because people's right to not be ignored is more powerful than people's right to ignore others (eg. "let see how you ignore a punch? how about a tank? how about a missile?" it just is, people don't start wars attacking other people because they're not allowed to ignore something, but they really do so for being ignored too much).

P.S. just upvoted you ;)
I have ten years in kitchens and while I do eat out I also know how disgusting kitchens are. I have a stomach for it but if you were a regular person and knew what I knew you'd refrain from eating out.

We pay back of house staff as little as we can get away with to work every weekend and holiday in hellish conditions. They just don't give a crap and who can blame them.
easy solution: Don't click on trends, read only tweets from the people you follow.
Coal plants are emitting a lot of unhealthy stuff.

The coal plant Jänschwalde in Germany emitted 672kg mercury, 1780kg lead and 208 kg arsenic in 2017 according to the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraftwerk_J%C3%A4nschwalde#Emi...

This is the worst coal plant in Germany, but the others are not so much better.
I think you have something but I think they could also try building to cost instead of function.

There are also advantages in everyone using the same equipment (even if cheap) and some way needs to be found to buy in larger batches without demanding the union set of the features that each nation wants. Somehow it also has to keep some national capabilities alive otherwise it will be unpopular.

Think of Ukraine - it needs replacements but has to get soviet stuff because that's what it understands. It is an inconvenience really isn't it? NATO can't just send them some Patriots or F-16s.