skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I would like to have more redundant systems.

We run CNC machines. The PC attached has to be the right vintage. We have stand by computers and hard drive backups. I ended up rolling back to an old image. Each CNC machine is a step in a production process. One goes down the entire system goes down. Redundancy would be great but it has too many zeros attached at this point.

Debugging was mostly looking at windows event viewer. While it could be an application it was freezing on file access. Even deleting a file in explorer would hang for half an hour.

I've tried clean boots and shutting everything down. No luck and don't have the time to take everything down to debug the problem properly.

Recovering from a backup throws a few things out, such as machine usage logs. So that's a last resort.

I'm terrible at system admin on Windows and have a lot to learn
> Suppose it was a 1km asteroid?

Then it's a lot easier to see, and we would see it a lot further away. The seeing difficulty issues people are talking about in this thread don't apply to asteroids that large.
Indeed. It's the old quip about monopoly money. Personally, I would not be willing to accept tokens as a large part of my compensation full stop. I haven't dug into crypto offers though so I'm not sure how true that is. That said, unlike options, tokens almost always have liquidity immediately, so an engineer could (probably) trade their tokens for fiat value if needed where an individual with options would be tied down through the exercise process.
Oh, on my experience person to person interaction got much easier more common, because you don't have to get up and go to a different floor, or to the other end of your floor, or to another city.

We have some processes with high interaction on our development, and when people were considering going back to the office (in the end, we didn't) we met and decided how we would do then now. The remote option worked so much better than in person that there wasn't any discussion.
Just trying to reason here:

I think it makes more sense to have DD/MM as the day is the thing that changes more often and thus DDMM starts with the most important information first.

Also if I think I never encountered someone looking at their digital watch to know what Month is. But always people check phones/watches to know what day is. So why would these systems start with the less important information for the user?
> My take is that consumers understand and are willing to put up with dynamic pricing for airplane seats because the algorithm is presumably understood.

I think consumers put up with dynamic pricing for airline seats because they don't have another option available, and because it's a long-standing practice that didn't change in an era where that change would have generated blowback.

> But what happens when airlines quietly change algos...to raise prices because of my browsing habits, IP, or CC used?

This has already happened: https://business.time.com/2012/06/26/orbitz-shows-higher-pri...

Orbitz showed higher prices to Mac users because they figured (probably correctly) that Mac use was correlated with willingness to pay more. They stopped that practice when it became widely known, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if others do the same and don't get caught.
Microsoft used to be know for their "bacon-and-eggs" partnerships where they bring the eggs and the other company is the pig.
Partially through trial and error, partially from other people, partially from books, etc.

It's not so much that "these young kids won't listen" that's annoying, but this mantra of "we're all here to learn from each other - that's how we grow!". Except... if it's me. Then you choose not to learn from me. Or older people in general. Just drop the "feel good we're all a team" facade, because it doesn't represent what you're actually doing. The disconnect is the problem, not the actual behaviour.
> that doesn't mean that the only last-minute discoveries will be small asteroids always and forever.

Larger asteroids are much easier to see, and the issues being discussed with difficulties in seeing in this thread don't apply to larger asteroids.
When I was in neuroscience I came to the same conclusion. People just keep trying new ways to do information processing which is really easy and fun. Solving the biology and material science problems are fucking hard and high risk, as in, if you try you’ll probably fail. It’s going to be a very long time before these things are solved. Not to criticize because I’m also too cowardly to try tackling those problems for the aforementioned reasons.
pg_auto_failover_health_monitor: Simple service to track Postgres service health
The activity on Ethereum is economically meaningful, whether you believe it is or not. And let's be honest, Netflix or Facebook could disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow and productivity would arguably increase, so is that a negative sum game?
Miners are paid some $40m/day, through 1) creating more BTC (called "coinbase" here, "Seigniorage" more generally, leading to inflation) and 2) fees.

For now, the $100 miners siphon off per transaction are predominantly from 1), so those costs are not very visible.

And then of course the exchanges charging 20 to 120 bp (or more) for a roundtrip against money you can actually use. Coinbase (the exchange) alone takes around 0.4% of the entire crypto market cap per annum into its pockets.
I also wonder if targeting bash which has things like pipefail and arrays could make things easier in the implementation side?
It just means "the employer" has to keep the office space for a lot of people who will only use it occasionally and all the costs associated with that. I doubt most employers would consider that an upside.
Yes, but 12 midnight on Tuesday, what end of Tuesday is it at?

There is a reason insurance policies in the US tend to start at 12:01 am.
Pretty sure Keybase is abandonware since Zoom bought them.
I love projects like this because the web is currently so complex that only hypercorps can/will pay the cost of maintaining and evolving the engines.

That said, while reading the project description I became distracted by the idea of going in the exact opposite direction of simplification: drop every declarative (HTML, CSS) and make only the lower level JS and WASM APIs available. So, everything is rendered on canvas or WebXR sessions, all media playback is with WebAudio and WebRTC, and all input is via input events (KB/M/Touch), gamepad API, and WebXR Inputs.

I'm pretty sure this is a bad idea and yet it also feels like a lot of fun.
If you’re willing to take extended data table 1 at face value [0], then perhaps 1/2 to 1/3 of the exposed cohort is in this category. This is at least moderately consistent with other data suggesting that at least around 2/3 of the naive population will contract COVID and test positive on PCR is exposed.

In other words, the authors found a population that apparently did clear the infection this quickly, and they didn’t scour a particular large cohort to find these people.

[0] which you shouldn’t.
Here are some recent things I read

https://www.mollywhite.net/annotations/latecomers-guide-to-c...

https://www.kotaku.com.au/2022/01/nft-bros-metaverse-rave-lo...

https://nypost.com/2022/03/24/two-20-year-olds-charged-in-al...
We have to abolish corporations. Nationalize them. The concept of an entity which spares directors from liability is ridiculous... It's a financial instrument designed for scams and nothing else.
Aaah I used it a long time ago, it was then called Gaim I believe.

I also used the similarly named but jabber only Gajim.

Good times :)
> There’s a bunch of work going on already in Matrix to run clientside bridges, so that your laptop or phone effectively maintains a connection over to iMessage or WhatsApp or whatever as if it were logged in… but then relays the messages into Matrix once re-encrypted.

At that point, why even re-encrypt? Passing messages from one process to another, or maybe even within the same process probably doesn't require re-encryption. You could even cut out the whole protocol translation and just write a multi-protocol client like pidgin, trilian et al back in the day. Or am I missing something obvious here?
total anecdotal: a couple years ago, I went to a gender reveal party. The wife had IUD, but it was not properly put, iirc. Then talking to another couple there, they were expecting a baby. Guess what was the birth control of choice?

In the end, all methods can fail. Combining male + female controls is the best, since both would have to fail for a pregnancy to happen.
Is office space really that cheap?

That actually sounds like a LOT of space compared to a 2-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn that would cost quite a bit more....
Then who cares?
Adam Carolla famously did with but with the fuel pump, the thieves would get a few feet up the road before the fuel in the line would run out.
The algorithm hid the typo from me until a second pass.
> We aim to help non-design tech startup companies ...

Marketing spam.
LOL. The amount of shit I've bought off eBay and Craigslist that hasn't been wiped is significant. And that's without being totally bogus and actually putting any effort into data recovery which would surely work on most devices.

Phones were crazy. So. Much. Homemade. Porn.
Not 100% sure. But I think the proximity means that its easy for the cancer cell to spread to the lymph nodes, then they’ll get fast tracked around the body, spreading cancer everywhere. Once that happens you’re basically dead, all targeted forms of cancer treatment don’t work anymore, because the target area is basically your entire body.
That's fair, and I think it's great to find all of these titles that are just unnoticed in the west. However for me I think your UI is still falling behind these other sites (which do admittedly look like clones of each other) - the images scaling down when you mouse over the menu is honestly quite annoying, the front page is extremely sterile and basic, and it just doesn't follow the standard for the industry (both in the west and in japan) of typically 3 most recent and first 3 chapters are free. Another issue is at the moment you really don't have a lot of titles - 108 sure sounds like a lot but compared to what's out there it's absolutely nothing and there is no way that everyone who signs up will be interested in most of these. And maybe this is also a problem of it being very small in scale, but there is no option to search for more than one tag at a time which is the worst trend in the world and something that was solved on mangadex years ago. I hope you can address these things in future.
How to Reframe Imposter Syndrome
Everyone should be responsible for their own bodies. The fact that men now have access to the pill does not mean that women will have to stop taking theirs and suddenly leave the risks of pregnancy to others.

Now both will be able to take it. Each individual will be able to choose the level of risk that is right for them.

If you are a woman who is comfortable with the risk, you can stop the pill and trust your partner. If you are not, you can take the pill yourself.

If you are a man who is comfortable with the risk, you can stop the pill and trust your partner. If you are not, you can take the pill yourself.

This is also a great option for stable relationships where the woman cannot take hormone-based pills. The man can simply take this non-hormonal pill and the couple will be protected from unplanned pregnancy.
I feel like they've been trying to do this with wifi. Right now (in macOS) I see "Personal hotspot" "Preferred Networks" and "Other Networks" (which requires clicking to show).

One AirPlay solution I've seen is a pop up when you physically put your phone next to HomePod.

I really, really like connectivity between non-linked account. It's been really useful when going to those corporate "business centers" and you want to send over a doc to print or visiting friends.
What? No background?
It's like everything else in the JS world. A new solution to a solved problem. It takes more than an incremental improvement to outweigh the learning curve and development costs. New things should be an order of magnitude better. If a new technology isn't obviously better then it should be ignored. Developers have shiny object syndrome.
American football does have ties. If the score remains tied after one period of extra time the game ends in a tie.

In fact the final game of this past season famously ended up in a situation where there was a strong incentive to tie - both teams would make the playoffs is they tied, whereas the loser would be eliminated from championship contention.

The game ended up tied near the end of extra time, and a big part of the drama was the resulting prisoners’ dilemma. Would the teams call a “truce” and let the game end in a tie - at the expense of a third team - or would one of them defect and try to win the game?
I, too, missed that in the README. I was curious enough try it out in a vm. Here's the output for fib.li: https://termbin.com/pagk
Or for something more complex, raytracing.sh: https://termbin.com/4rpd

I was mostly wondering how/if it does any type checks for function input; it does not. Also raytracing.sh unfortunately fails to run on my system as it is.
If you were to prefer working in an office, you can find a local office space that meets your tastes.

Or if you like open office, you could go that direction too.
Yes, Germany did do this for a few years.

And the Microsoft came calling again - guess what they use now?

It is the example I used to tell clients about how if your organization is big enough, publicly visible enough and open to being in the news/or a case study) and has great lawyers, you can probably get Microsoft licensing for essentially "free".

And those "nearly free" licenses will increase over the next 2-5 years.

The cynic in me says that Germany did this to get better bargaining leverage with Microsoft...

(Apparently they are cycling around back again, over the last couple years trying to transition away from Microsoft for some states/groups/municipalities within Germany)
That's what the DoJ is alleging; it's not clear what "theory Google was operating under". The DoJ may be right or wrong, and separately, they may be on a wild goose chase.
Come for the car vulnerabilities and stay for the Chevy Citation jokes.
The rule of law.

Subtlety matters. Calling lobbying bribery is apathy, which is uninteresting. Even worse, it’s ineffective.

> If a politician receives donations in any form, in order to push for legislation that may benefit the donors, how is it any different from bribery?

So, should I donate to a mayoral campaign that aligns with my beliefs? Is all money in politics evil, or is it just a matter of degrees? What if that mayoral candidate is a “political outsider” who relies on “grassroots support” to enable them to quit their job and focus on the campaign?

I’m an expert in my field. Should I inform my elected leaders on the nuances of that field when they write legislation that relates to it? Or should laws only be written by the ignorant? How ignorant should they be?

Trade is a quid pro quo scheme. Pretending all exchanges of value are the same is, again, uninteresting. How can such a position be engaged? And to what end?

Where’s the line between bribery and democracy?

It’s not easy to draw. Calling lobbying bribery is an apathetic oversimplification. It’s uninteresting and isn’t a position that can be engaged constructively.
Apologies if I wasn't clear, I didn't say or mean be friends with them. But being coworkers with someone is indeed a type of relationship. I wasn't meaning to conflate those two, but acknowledge the commonality between the two.
My dad just took a new .net dev contract, he’s 75 , he’d retired then decided to take another short term contract, he’s been taking six month contracts then a few months off for a few years now. He’s been a long term dev but much of the tech he uses now he’s learned since the age of 61. We’re in Australia for context
I'm working when I'm working. Still don't get where you are going with this.
You’re spot on in your understanding of the idea.

I think it could go further than the state of the art tree shaking, by adding deduplication of unchanged code between different versions of the same package. This would mostly be a benefit for shrinking installed dependencies, but that helps make the idea of actually vetting/auditing them a lot more plausible too. And it could help make dealing with semver-incompatible versions more flexible (i.e. if the remaining code is identical, tada now it's semver-compatible because it’s the same code!), somewhat mitigating a common audit resolution blocker.

All of this of course would need some sort of a manifest detailing which code comes from which location(s) in which package(s), and (at least optionally) a human-friendly file system structure that users can actually audit/vet.

If I didn’t already have a backlog of side projects a mile long, I’d probably be working on this already, because there’s a clear need for improvement in this area. But none of it feels outlandishly hard to pull off if anyone wanted to run with the idea.
The Big JS Lie

We Fixed it in this release

Worse Worse Is Better
Bitcoin liquidity is about the same as the typical FAANG stock - which is pretty good. This a commentary by skeptics for skeptics - It is as factual as a reddit post on r/bitcoin.

If people actually want facts, then that's the wrong place to look.
> are Caster Semenya or Christine Mboma not women?

My apologies for posting under a shitty throwaway, but fyi, the two athletes you mentioned are XY and thus not women by the simplest and most straightforward of definitions.

It is a very common position that they should be excluded from women's sports. In fact, the fact that all three medalists in the women's 800m at the 2016 Olympics have XY chromosomes is a very strong argument for doing so!
Exactly. Of course, depending on country/state, the regulations vary. But at least here in Canada, if birth control fails, the woman can get an abortion. What happens is that often they don't, but you can't say the option is not there. (again: depending on local regulations, but assuming you are somewhere with this option)
Can confirm, did think of this as a kid. Also wanted the box to have a hole that could be opened to release all those stored up photons in the form of a deathray.
Still not 100% proof. Things such as internal fissures and external trickles can still cause pregnancies. Granted, the risks are very low.
I still use it. But all it is good for anymore is a google chat/hangouts desktop app. It was nice gluing all of them together like pidgin.
ACDSee and XnView were also big players at the time. I also faintly remember one with a panda in its logo, but can't tell what it was...
The hosting of an unlimited number of videos of (almost) unlimited length at up to 8k resolution for an indefinite length of time is worth nothing to you? I'm incredibly grateful that there is such a vast video archive on the internet with such liberal terms for video uploading and playback.

And Google does revenue share with creaters. Heard of the YouTube partner program? Partners receive money per view from people who watch ads or have premium, and premium views are worth more.
These counterexamples are popular precisely because they show instances of unambiguous race-based prejudice, as opposed to lazy generalization from easily observable signals. If this really was a major part of profiling as a whole, we wouldn't even need to point to these anecdata because it would be obvious. Black people who might actively identify as middle- or upper-class and be informed by these social norms are regrettably uncommon, but surely not that uncommon!
Step 0.5, break in and disable all the CO detectors.
Startup Idea/Question: Custom web search (only blogs/media/users you trust)?
Is there something like Algolia (e.g. https://hn.algolia.com ) for custom web search? Some solution where I can create a custom search engine that will only search whitelisted blogs/twitter users/Youtubers etc.?

Ideally a solution would let me enter my favorite blogs and let me connect my social media accounts and then automatically search only content of users I follow. I haven't found anything like this.

Maybe someone here wants to build this if this does not already exist :) This would solve the problem of Google results getting less valuable due to SEO. Custom whitelisted search could be used to only search within a network of trust. And maybe you could extend this, e.g. by also trusting users that are trusted by users you trust directly.
Wondering if it's possible to use VoWIFI from a third party provider that's not my phone service provider?
OMEMO is an XMPP extension: https://omemo.top/
Morse code, where dot is ‘think about tennis’ and dash is ‘think about home’?

https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2010/feb/03/vegetative-s...
Not as long as it takes to understand microservices, distributed computing, AWS cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, sql, no-sql, etc, etc.
It was the city of Munich [0], not the entirety of Germany.

I think there is also Vicenza in Italy where the municipality is using Zorin Os. [1]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

[1] https://itsfoss.com/vicenza-windows-zorin/
First of all, if you are going to try it out, I recommend using this macro:

(defmacro itr (&rest rest)
`(iterate:iterate ,@rest))

because it keeps all the clauses on the same indentation level.

Now, to the translation: iterate has previous clause.
https://iterate.common-lisp.dev/doc/Previous-Values-of-Drive...
which may help translate the loop form you provided into this:

(itr (repeat 8)
(for a previous b initially 0)
(for b previous c initially 1)
(for c = (+ a b))
(collect a))

However, if you wanted that exact syntax, you could try:

(defmacro-clause (FOR var = init-value THEN form)
`(progn (with ,var = ,init-value)
(after-each (setf ,var ,form))))

to get a direct translation:

(itr (repeat 8)
(for a = 0 then b)
(for b = 1 then c)
(for c = 1 then (+ a b))
(collect a))

> Moving all things to s exprs doesn't seem like it would be that big of a deal.

One of the biggest things you will "miss" from LOOP is the do keyword. The control structures is just regular lisp code. Also, I found generators to be pretty handy (not often, but I am glad I had them when it was called for).

I mean, it's not exactly groundbreaking, but it does make a difference especially that a looping construct is probably the heaviest-used macro. You can certainly get away with LOOP, but I see iterate as more or less how LOOP should've been done.

I also recommend reading this short discussion in the manual https://iterate.common-lisp.dev/doc/Don_0027t-Loop-Iterate.h...
Yep. I actually interviewed for a job like that and that was the title.
For those of us in the VoIP industry, VoWiFi offers no surprises. The phone establishes an IPSEC tunnel back to the provider for secure calling using the SIP/IMS stack. Much of the time when I am at home and not planning to go out, I turn on airplane mode then enable WiFi. Calling, SMS, MMS, etc. all work fine. It's a battery saver.
In this post, there seemingly a lot of focus on process, infrastructure (for the committee) and ideological issues. Instead, I would love to see a focus on technical competency, speed, and addressing customer requirements (for developers and companies).
I'll never be able to make games while listening to Metallica with my bros in the 90s :(
If he cared about institutional integrity, he would have asked his wife not to try to illegally overturn the most recent presidential election.

Or he would vote against partisan gerrymandering, or he would have spoken out about the Jan 6 insurrection in general.

Whatever motivation he has, it's not about maintaining traditional institutions. He is the most partisan and unprincipled judge on the Supreme Court. There is no philosophical consistency to his decisions other than "whatever my party wants".