skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For bonus points: how about properly handling UTF-8 byte order marks (BOM), too? The way this code is written if the files contain a BOM, you're going to pass the BOM right into the destination file. Fine for the first file, not so fine for any other file. Dropping a BOM mark in the middle of a file isn't going to result in valid UTF-8...
> But can an average human remember 20, 50 or 100 different passwords? Unlikely.

Don't have to. That's my pwdmanager's job. I only have to remember the master key. Which can't get leaked if some webpage gets hacked, because its stored only on my machines.

> And even if a user doesn't save passwords, they can be stolen with a keylogger.

And physical keys can be stolen by a pickpocket. Or lost and found by someone. Or worse: The entity that issues them gets compromised (eg. forced into compliance by an authoritarian regime) and duplicates are issued.

At least with my pwdmanager, I myself hold control (and responsibility) for the security of the system.
Absolutely, if we all just acknowledge this is gambling I think some progress can be made on allowing adults to gamble.

I personally think the legal age to gamble or drink should be 18, but to comply with state law it's not unreasonable to say restrict boxes to those 21 and over.
i am not sure if this is true from incentive pov. Insurance would love to tuck in as much premium as possible, and if it comes at greater cost for care, be it.

https://www.healthcare.gov/health-care-law-protections/rate-...
As I shared in my previous comment, initially I misunderstood the purpose of that tradition as well, but as it turns out, it is less about doing work or consuming a live organism but more about preserving the heritage of the biblical struggles of erstwhile judaic tribes being forced into travel without notice (fleeing Egypt iirc), and the scarcity of more palatable sustenance.
Second this, I solved my social anxiety for dates and also job interviews just by doing many many many of them.
Lets first consider all Uranium in Earth's crust, about 65 trillion tons. So given,

- 65e15 kg = Uranium in Earth's crust
- 709000 = 709,000 MJ/kg energy density of natural U²
- 500e12 MJ = 500 million TJ annual global energy usage
- 92e6 = 65e15 × 709e3 / 500e12

So 92 million years.

Australia has about 1.7e9 kg of reserves at current prices¹. That comes to 2.4 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_uranium
[2] https://www.plux.co.uk/energy-density-of-uranium/
I wonder if he could have made money working with the marketing depts of various drug companies instead of trying to sell stuff to the doctors. Especially if he added the right visuals the ad depts could use in commercials/print ads/etc.
Like others below have said, this seems like the absolute wrong conclusions to come to. Someone else mentioned he didn't have enough runway and that's what it feels like to me, too. Someone close to me has terrible migraines and has spent years trying to figure out how to treat them to no avail. If this tool could have shown me data that would have helped the person I love, I would have paid a lot of money for it.

I have no idea what kind of marketing he did and for exactly how long, but it feels like there's a lot of people, organizations, and companies that could have been interested here beyond a few doctors in SF. Like, not to put too fine a point on it, but how many disabled people did he talk to? How many industry groups (American Lung Association, etc.)?
> Ideas are nothing. Execution is everything.

I always feel discomfort when this gets parroted. It's clearly not true, unless you're willing to shift the definitions of "idea" and "execution" around after-the-fact.

Indeed the article comes to the conclusion that the idea is near-impossible to execute – due to realities within the business domain of healthcare. If the idea was "nothing", good execution could've fixed it.
I have 398 so not very fast. Still I do great in CS :)
Cool concept, but doesn't consider planets, or nebulae, or other space objects that can block light. I have no expertise to speak with authority on this, so please, weigh in on this consideration. But wouldn't this break the "homogeneity" assumption?

EDIT: Thinking about this further, could you make approximation rules about the things that block light, too? e.g. By the nature of a star's mass, you can assume that some opaque object is likely between Earth and any given star with some likelihood?

EDIT2: Thanks to everybody for the replies - this really helps clarify! Cheers!
This is actually a great idea. I've used from-cli-notifications for things that I knew would take hours, but for coding related stuff I always think "it's not that long." So, I would immediately go into "active attention multi-tasking" and then recheck if the compilation tab finished, and then decide from there where to shift my active attention, without giving it some breathing room.

Lately I've actively tried not to do that (it's a hard habit to break, and I still feel guilt sometimes), though.
I think the article author agrees with you. That's why they put 'work' in quotes.

It is useful for their argument to split 'work' and 'not work' along these lines because they are trying to reach readers that honestly do believe that any time not actively writing code for a jira ticket isn't work.
>...the CO2 produced when using those.

Isn't that still a net win? If you're burning N tons of CO2 now, you're burning N-Y during the hours when you don't have to be running the fossil plant. Bonus points if your new backup plant is cleaner (say, NG vs coal)
I remember Crazy Eddie's very well. I was a teenager in the 1980s, and I still have the portable Sony Discman I got there for $100. I mowed a lot of lawns in order to save up for that Sony Discman from Crazy Eddie's.
I will check that out, thanks for mentioning it. I've been low-key sweating about the potential loss of Picasa since it's been unmaintained, but aside from maybe the iPhone photo editor, I have never seen something as easy to use. And honestly, in my opinion, Picasa still has a slight edge over the modern iPhone editor...
Sounds like a good idea.

Just anecdotally I found it pretty fascinating that I bought a new Kindle some three months ago and it still hasn't run out of batteries (came with 76% and now at 16%).

Admittedly I haven't been using it a lot though.
The point is that Google is managing their dominance properly, only really held off from >90% dominance by Apple's WebKit rule for iOS App Store apps.
The reason I referenced Baba Is You is because that concept was so incredibly brilliant, I legitimately believe you could have dropped the game into five parallel universes and it would have gotten attention every single time. Just get the game in front of one journalist for five minutes, and they'll very quickly see how brilliant it is.

Discovering a game concept like that is hard, but it does happen.
IMVHO:

- we need energy and people start feeling risk of blackouts;

- we can't made except for limited cases a society that live on renewables, not with today tech at least;

- it's hard to know how much "underground" resources we really have but it's clear that oil and gas will came to scarcity at a certain point in time and we need oil for too many things, from tissues to joints to lubricant, electrical insulation, plastic, ... without something able to replace it on scale.

Nuclear so far seems to be able to run for many decades, so we probably can became all-electric (except for metallurgy and few other industrial domains) with nuclear and slowly integrate renewables as needed. That's not good since that's probably the need of much nuclear now (and now means in 10+ years, no less) and then we will not profit much from it but that's is. I honestly see no other realistic options.
"Californians are fleeing" = trying to get dummies to click
"What's relieving pain the most" is just not the right question. Ibuprofen for example has more severe side effects, especially when used often, than aspirin.

Also other factors apply, because a "headache" is really a rather complicated phenomenon...
Actually, I think there almost must be an earlier common origin. The chain started in 1971 in New York. The book was published in 1974, so probably written in 1973 if not earlier. Neither Niven nor Pournelle lived in New York or anywhere near New York, so it's unlikely to be inspired by the store (unless it became so instantly culturally relevant that everyone knew about it within a year or so, which seems unlikely)...

I mean, maybe it's coincidence and they both just came up with the same name, but that also doesn't seem likely.
Most Severe Cyberattack Since Russian Invasion Crashes Ukraine Internet Provider
It's probably more like 99% of players, but I think you're missing the point a little. What that commenter is getting at is that if your target audience are competitive players then it's not in your best interest to introduce "wackier" modes, as it isn't what those sorts of players want and might actually be off putting to them.

If your primary audience is casual, like in the case of Nintendo games, then it makes all the sense in the world.

Obviously you could argue that Psyonix ought to be appealing to a casual audience. That's a separate conversation, and I'd argue that RL is a fundamentally bad fit for that sort of game, but given what they have been going for thus far, not introducing crazier modes makes a lot of sense.
"better grounding in statistics" - agreed!

I used calculus in some finance (risk/trading) in an early life.

You may not be surprised that you're not the only one that considers that statistics should be taught earlier / more / as a replacement for calculus.

For instance - https://www.google.com/search?q=statistics+should+replace+ca...

Certainly with all the machine learning / data science / ai work that's going on, people will need both if they want to learn about those fields.
ML languages (like OCaml) hit such a sweat spot between complexity and productivity. I wish I could use one on the daily.
You can be 100% rational but 100% wrong. A computer is 100% rational but whether the output is right or wrong depends entirely on its input.

I make this distinction because if you want to change someone's mind or behavior, assuming that they are irrational is a non-starter. You won't make any progress. Once you get past that, you realize that they are actually being rational and that there are deeper obstacles that need attention.
If it's purely cosmetic and gives no advantage (outside them style points) then I don't care. As for whether or not you "own" what you're paying for. These things that merely represent physical objects, but are in fact just pixels. Well you've gotta let that one go. Would you complain about how every time you buy a cheeseburger after you eat it your money was wasted because you no longer own a cheeseburger? I doubt it. Perhaps there's a valuable lesson to be learned here. If you think by spending money you will enhance you're experience, then you paid for the experience not the material possession. kaboom.
Both uranium based power plants and bombs require refining the fuel. While weapons need higher refinement, the process to refine uranium is the same for both fuel and weapons grade.

Similarly, for plutonium based bombs, reactors will naturally produce plutonium. Typically reactors produce plutonium 239 (fissable) which then absorbs more neutrons to become plutonium 240. Making the mixture not weapons grade. However, if you swap out the fuel rods frequently enough you can increase the purity of Pu239 to weapons grade.

Essentially, nuclear waste from power plants is not weapons grade, but the infrastructure of the plant and supply chain is essentially the same infrastructure you would use to create weapons grade materials.

Also, even none weapons grade materials can ge used in dirty bombs.
"Chest of gems" != Loot box (which is probably what freedom2099 meant when they said "chests")
Read a Paper: Superlinear Productivity in Software Projects
This is the context of that story, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs_controversies#20...

I think one important difference is that the story in the OP is fraud directly against individual retail investors (and the government, to be fair), whereas the Goldman story is a conflict between two hedge funds and an investment bank.

That seems important for the subtext of what you're saying.
How does outsourcing your key list give ms access to my box?
Presumably you mean because they also have the private key?
Schroedinger's breadcrumb.
Different perspectives for looking at the same thing provide different benefits, and they can be held simultaneously. For example, getting married to someone involves love and commitment and all that jazz, but I also like to advise also looking at it as a business, especially if you have or are going to have children. It is no different in that the two parents (and maybe even other adults in a multi family household) need to manage tasks, inventory, money, etc.

That does not mean you should treat your family or yourself exactly as a business, but there are some aspects that are beneficial if managed in that manner.
I'm not sure where the confusion is. OP mentioned that his Linux system can already do routing. The purpose of this card is to remove that load from the computer. The manufacture suggests it can do up to 100Gbps which isn't trivial.
You get the 10 mbps capability for free because that is what the auto-negotiation protocol will use:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonegotiation#Electrical_sig...
A bit of a flag are the timelines here? 6 months? 7 LOI's?

This of course depends on your options, if you must raise funds and have no one else talking with you, take all the time in the world of course.

GREAT that the investor provider feedback. Fantastic to take it and improve product (of course, investor could have done this when they had a board seat as well).

Not clear that they couldn't have ID'd these issues a LOT earlier.

That said, going through this once will have given you HUGE insight into what it will take to go through it again. And you will almost certainly get a better price if the metrics / ARR etc all are going the right way, and your docs are in order.

But deals that someone really wants to have happen tend to move a bit quicker (Facebook buying Instagram might be an example?)

That said, until the wires hit, nothing is solid.
Has been discussed before. Can only find https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27231114 but there has been a longer discussion than that.
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Small companies have a different problem.

I figure there are about 1 in 10,000, if not 100,000 software devs that have the brains and fortitude to eat shit for 4-5 years, solving hard problems.

Not only do start-ups normally not have 4-5 years, but they don't even try to solve hard problems - they mostly just try to solve some trivial bullshit to exploit a legal loophole or insert themselves as middlemen in a corporate/legal swamp.
Interesting suggestion since

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Is impossible to read of course without learning the J language's main constructs. While the python function application is easier to guess from other languages.
Advertisers want eyeballs, and will pay for it on the spot.

People aren't the customers of Reddit/Facebook, they're the product, that's why social media has such negative effect on mental health, the users aren't a concern beyond how many minutes they dump in for advertisers to pay for.
>37% of jobs in US can be remote

That's great! And for people who read hacker news and can get a well paying job it's certainly an added benefit to an already great situation. Even for those in a not great situation working from home makes things easier. But the other 63% - a majority - are working in jobs that can't be remote. And if I had to guess, those 63% are the ones more likely to live in a mobile home or trailer park, which is what the linked article is about.

My assertion in my previous post and again now is for people who can't work remote and don't have a high paying job there's a limit to how far they can in practice move from their job.
I hope this post doesn't give Netflix ideas. I could easily see an exec reading that and thinking "hey what if we charged extra for the directors cut and other scenes that weren't in the theatrical release". Would be a genius move tbh, and I would hate it.
This is just so beautifully written it brings a tear to my eye. It explains their rationale, points to evidence, acknowledges shortcomings or gaps in knowledge, and shows empathy for those affected. Worth reading just for its pedagogical value, plus it's on an important topic near and dear to many hearts.
Not parent poster but I've seen more and more startups setting up their jiras with whatever the folks who invented "safe" (scaled agile framework) say, while obsessing over measuring and predicting delivery metrics, all in order to have hard data to backup roadmap claims.
I think I saw that some of the old arcade games were actually rigged to get harder at certain points to get more quarters/tokens put in them, then there was the countdown timer after you died where you could continue if you put more money in.

Video games are for-profit companies and these days they are in heavy competition with each other and all the other distractions around.

I can easily spend about $40-50 to go to a movie with the family and if the movie sucks it feels like a waste of 2 hours. Same amount of money on a game will get you 10x plus more time of entertainment.
I think it's a great analogy. It's a shift in mindset, don't take it literally, the point isn't that you're a temporarily embarrassed CEO.. the point is that for example when you interview for a position, don't think about it in terms of getting a job, but in terms of a business transaction (ie you also interview the company) or, when you're constantly in crunch mode, ask yourself whether or not your 'company' is being taken for a ride under an unfair contract.

You trade time, health, mental energy for money and health insurance (and/or reputation or whatever you get from your job). That's pretty much it. We (well, most of us) live in free countries, so if the business transaction does not benefit you, you're free to take your 'business' elsewhere.
What's surprising though, is that APs and similar exams are not enough. In the UK, I though they essentially looked at A Level results, which are much more representative of what you'll actually study at uni. But I guess both SAT/ACTs & APs must be a better measure that just APs. I just remember fucking hating studying for the SATs though. So boring. SAT IIs were somewhat fun to study for though. In France for instance, they mostly just look at the baccalaureat to get into prep schools / first year at uni. Then exams to get into engr/business/vet schools are actually very interesting topics and very close to what you'll actually study. Same with exams at the end of the first year of med school (which you get into right after 12th grade, unlike in the US where it's after your bachelors).

That being said, they seem to have backed up their numbers, and MIT knows how to count, so they must be right! I just always hoped SAT/ACTs weren't that conclusive so that we didn't have to go through them anymore and could focus on the funner AP/A Level stuff :)
Many of the most popular esports are free to play. Is the competitive element and matchmaking system of TF2, DOTA2 or LoL worthless?
Rockmart GA, pretty much the same story here. Wonder if consumer prices are delayed relative to futures.
> This is especially true for multiplayer games where a lot of children don't have money to buy the game but their presence on the platform adds value

Playing a competitive FPS game casually with all age groups is lot of more fun and attractive to most gamers a la Apex/Warzone/Fortnite/Valorant/CSGO.

By charging up front you remove an enormous player base and create a worse matchmaking experience for all players. Long gone are the days of buy a Call of Duty game for Christmas.
IMHO Fuchsia will be a massive (real world) improvement over Linux in security.

Also, 5 or 7 years from now, on which OS will Chrome or Chromium run better? Fuchsia or Linux?

For the past 12 months, I've been running Chrome "on Wayland" (without XWayland in between) and although it is definitely usable, there are many small bugs some of which has existed the entire 12 months.

(And will Firefox even be maintained 5 to 7 years from now?)
Unfortunately, PHP is the one scripting language that doesn't have direct exec() support! escapeshellarg() is the only tool they give you and it requires you to not shoot yourself in the foot. Even perl has multi arg system() that execs directly.
Thanks! I found out about the debug flag yesterday, but I was oh my phone after I called it quits so I haven’t tried it yet. Gonna give it a try today.
I have had bad cables degrade from 1000 to 100, and one time had to force a shoddy (and very temporary) connection to 10 for it to work at all. So there is definitely a use for it.
I think you actually can't pass any non-trivial object to WASM. The only thing you can pass to and get out of WASM (IIRC) is a chunk of linear memory, a buffer. I don't think it's possible to obtain a raw pointer to an object on a JS side - passing that would be very unsafe, but also pretty much useless, unless you knew precisely the memory layout of said object. If you need to expose operations on a more complex objects to WASM, you need to encode the object identity somehow (as a number, or a buffer) and expose an API that will decode the object reference and call the needed function/method on it.
Why are they calling these "strong OSS" licenses? None of them are open source.
He effectively made a search engine, but nobody wants to pay for search.
For speech itself, I'm indeed of the opinion that there should be no restrictions to accessing it. That is not to say that there can't or shouldn't be age restrictions on access to specific locations, or activities (or to expression which is not speech).

For instance, if a speech is given at a bar, it's fine to keep me out if I'm underage. I should be allowed to access any recordings or transcripts of the speech, however.

Again, none of this is held as gospel, and I think reasonable people can disagree here.
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> So I don't think Fuchsia would replace the Linux kernel in Android.

How hard would it be to add a posix subsystem to Fucshia?

My outsider opinion is that the Oracle lawsuit increased motivation for alternatives to Java (the language), and Google decided to put more wood behind the Dart/Fuchsia arrow.
Yes, we dont disagree.

In practice, you have to settle debts in the government dictated currency. Here Gresham takes hold, the valuable currency will disappear from circulation. Think silver dollars in the US with a higher material value then the nominal value. You still have to accept payment in any dollar so you wont spend silver dollars doing so. As long as you have the choice to sell it for material value. Think copper content in pennies for where this doesnt apply because its illegal to melt down.

Its all just a description of how the market (meaning people ) behaves once the government applies pressure in certain directions.