skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of interesting that whatever attacker was on the computer had code execution access but limited themselves to adware. You'd expect malware with this amount of privileges to do something more profitable (like install ransomware or a botnet for mining coins while the machine is idle). Ads pay millicents per view, it's gotta be tough to make any money from them unless you've managed to get a huge amount of installs!
It is highly plausible they were out because they tested positive. If the test didn’t exist they’d go into work and be fine.

…it’s a self created problem. All this testing caused people to loose their rational thinking.
You might not need a web component for a button, but every component library includes them. You're probably not using default css, so it helps to limit your customization options to a few semantic props.

In react you will be calling <Button> components, whether those are web components or react components doesn't take away from what react is great at: giving you a framework for declaring a reactive ui. Having the base components as web components makes them framework agnostic. maybe you don't need react.
Relational databases can be very strict, for example if you use foreign key references then the data base enforces that a row exists in the referenced table for every foreign key in the referring table. This strict enforcement makes it difficult to change schema.

The way you handle things with API level enforcement is actually a good architecture and it would probably make schema changes easier to deal with even on a relational database backend.
Because their main lever to do so is the federal reserve target rate and they are moving in the opposite direction.
Ok, well my sister is a doctor and she got to watch bodies get shoveled out of her hospital for 2 years.

Who wins? Did I do it right? Do I win?
> if you were older (say 80), what would yo regret not having even tried ?

I would imagine it would be the same answer as today: nothing comes to mind. I honestly cannot think of anything that I regret never trying. I mean, it seems almost tautological. If I had that much of a drive and/or passion for something, I would have tried it or be doing it.
You are denying lived experience of a person that was injured by the disease? Do you also lecture people in wheelchairs to stop feigning their unproven "illness", until they a 4 volume rebuttal, starting from the Krebs cycle, and finally convinced you their legs actually do not work?

the original covid is conclusively known to impair your sense of smell, sometimes total anosmia. Sometimes total anosmia for life, but luckily that seems rare.

Blood brain barrier? The olfactory bulb in your nose does NOT have the blood brain barrier. But you didn't know that, did you? Remember this next time when you are going swimming.

Never been infected? That would require lymphocyte testing, and none of those tests have been clinically validated, and never will be. no money in that, and original strains no longer circulate.

Do you have any biology training aside from mandatory high school curriculum?
South Australia. It was actually only for a few days but they had planned to do it for much longer before they worked out the whole lockdown was based on a lie from one of the cases.
Before you blame circumstances, remember that even people with seemingly perfect lives (money, fame) still suffer. I can think of a wealthy public figure who's full time job was to travel and enjoy great food, yet still abused drugs and committed suicide.

Suffering is part of life. Until recently, poverty, starvation & disease were universal. We certainly have it better than that, even with "social media", "bullying", "college acceptance" threatening teens.

The bigger problem is that we haven't given young people a solid sense of purpose. If their only purpose is money and fame, they will certainly fall apart, even if it goes well. You can never have enough.

No amount of money, anti depressants or therapy will make up for a lack of meaning.

Sure we should work to improve circumstances, but unless we give people a reason to live, it won't matter.
Keep in mind that train schedules control what trains are on what tracks when, so while their are literally fail-safes in the system, this is not exactly far removed from being "safety critical".
Uh? Shipping a phone with Safari built in and being high performance and supporting things like WebAssembly and WebGPU all the way down to the metal is certainly first class
Were the elections illegitimate ? I'm a complete outsider to hungarian politics so I'm not sure if this is hyperbole... but talking about how a dictatorship has been reelected again doesn't make sense to me. Unless elections in Hungary are just theather, and results are just faked like in Syria for example.
Learn Assembly Language by Making Games for Atari 2600
I can only recommend buying a vps and slapping yunohost on it. Installation is dead easy, and then applications are just a few clicks away. It takes 30 min to have an equivalent to twitter, Instagram, Facebook events and YouTube right under your total control.
Did you seriously compare Armenian air defence and jamming capabilities to American?
Ask HN: Do you have a guide on how to use feature flags?
I've seen lots of posts on HN saying that feature flags are a must use. How do you use them?
Who doesn't like taking a road trip to Boulder Colorado? :) The 5071a even has internal batteries.
It could also be less directly about money and more about something far more nefarious.
Right. For many non-western people, ‘cisgender’ is a made up western term. There has always been non binary and transgender in different cultures around the world. In my culture, there are two genders(not ‘cis’..what does it even mean?) and then there is the third gender.

In Hindu puranas, there are many gods we worship who are of two genders, transgender and then there is the father of Ganga(the holiest River of Hinduism) who was born to two women.

Here is ..provided with much reservations…a generic search result link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_themes_in_Hindu_mytholo... ..I reject all western interpretations and ‘scholarly work’ and have a dim view of western style psychoanalysis of my gods and culture. But it works..as a list.
I wonder if this is connected to a similar incident in Italy. https://news.yahoo.com/italys-state-railway-may-target-16341...
Most countries (even non EU ones) allow its citizens residing in foreign countries to vote in national elections at its embassies.

So Hungarians residing in Netherlands could have been able to vote at Hungarian embassies/consulates in Netherlands (if they made it to the embassy).
Certainly true, but I think there's a niche audience that these kind of games cater to, and for those people a few hours is excellent. Not unlike video games such as Civilization I suppose.
I'd have to agree with GP here. It was my impression that reverse in the bottom right is the 'classic' spot for a 5-gear manual transmission, unless a reverse lockout is used (then it is usually the top left spot).
Respectfully, I was not addressing you, and I think you are reading very different things into my comment than I intended. The connection in my mind was that the Lake Woebegon monologue always ended with "That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." I did not agree with this characterization, and I gently took someone to task for making what I considered a bigoted statement.

I have no opinion on your subjective assessment of your current or prior teams. I'm not sure what about my response merits being called bizarre. If I inadvertently touched a nerve, please understand that it was not my intention.
> Such a view didn't exist 30 years ago

I thought this was in Englebart’s demo 54 years ago?
>However, hiding your assets is functionally illegal in the circumstances that are interesting during civil asset forfeiture: civil cases have discovery available to them [...] Hiding your assets during discovery means perjuring yourself.

1. IANAL, but can't you plead the fifth on that?

2. I agree that cryptocurrency isn't a silver bullet against government action, but it still seems like an improvement to the status quo, where they can seize your stuff whenever they want and you have to sue them to get it back. With crypto, the most they can do is figure out how much money you have, but they can't seize anything without going through the courts. That in itself basically solves the civil forfeiture problem.
Macos 12 runs on Ivy Bridge 2013 mac pro's and haswell mac minis, so on their side it wouldn't appear to be a technical limitation of the older CPU's. Apple does their trusted stuff on the T2 rather than the Windows generic TPM 2.0 requirement, but interestingly the 2013 mac pro lacks a T2 as well. I think TPM 2.0 was a 6th gen skylake onwards thing?
I can teach plenty of things to a first year student, it will just take a few years.
Debootstrapping Without Archeology: Stacked Implementations in Camlboot
I had a similar experience with my significant other. Instead of typing "selectmedical.com" she didn't type the "c" and got "selectmedial.com". It prompted her to install a browser extension "necessary for the site to work". I imagine that the authors partner did something similar.
So he's friends with Peter Thiel?
More assistive writing suggestions in Google Docs
The average ICU occupancy is actually ~ 70 %, to have some slack in it during the annual flu season. If patients have to be turned away because everywhere is full, then there's a problem. Also, under normal circumstances, people tend to spend only a few days in ICU, then they are either better or dead, but serious Covid cases require weeks of artificial respiration, even a few cases tie up a lot of hospital resources.

And what's with the focus on Covid deaths - Covid sequelae are a thing and can significantly affect quality of life. My colleague is in his mid-20's, in good health - he had a mild case last Fall and still hasn't got his sense of smell back. When you can't smell methacrylic ester you know there's a problem.
Everyone has.
My experience as well. Also the main recommendation from the most excellent “Working with legacy code” book.
It is both.

Social isolation does cause depression and anxiety, as social interaction is a very well proven anti-depressant.

Covid is also known to destroy your sense of smell. The olfactory bulb. which is neural tissue in your nose, goes right into your brain, and has no protection from blood brain barrier...because it doesn't have it.

Covid is neurotoxic. Isolation does cause depression. Both are true.
> Feynman was no average person and that his advice on anything related to learning or problem-solving must be viewed through an optics that adequately adjusts for his intellect as well.

I wasn't planning to work on models of fundamental physics.
This is everything I need except analytics. I need basic analytics like page views and visitor locations. Does anyone know of a naked blog that also includes some analytics? I this there is space between simple analytics and privacy invading tracking analytics.
Are remote worldwide positions available?
The HP-5061 Cesium Beam clock (I've repaired a few) frequency modulates the sample frequency just a little bit, using a 137 hertz sine wave.

It then compares the phase of the output with the frequency shift.

If the output goes up in phase with the rise in frequency, the frequency is too low.
If the output goes down in phase with the rise in frequency, the frequency is too high.

This signal is used to very slowly pull the 5 Mhz local oscillator into lock with the bandpass of the Cesium beam.

At that point, the output dips on both excursions from zero, a 274 hz "second harmonic" is detected, and this turns on the "Lock" light, letting the user know the standard is now on frequency.

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Here's a link to the Operating and Repair Manual.[1] (PDF)

There is a simplified block diagram on page 35 of the PDF. (Figure 4-1)

1 - http://www.leapsecond.com/museum/hp5061a/5061a.pdf
Oh, thats different from what I've heard. Do you have a source? I'm wondering what the context and details were.

My understanding was that downvotes without comments are appropriate/encouraged for specific types of comments, like bots, spam, comments without any substance, or violations of the guidelines. Essentially, comments in reply to those do not supply any additonal content or contribute to the discussion (hence the additional clarification in the guideline about boring reading in relation to comments on voting), and responding to them can just turn into a thread of comments that lack any substance. However, a comment that seeks to discuss various points related to the article and are downvoted simply because people disagree seem to violate the principle of curiosity and discussion.

Basically, I thought questions out of curiosity, even around downvotes were ok. Also that downvoting is more or less targeted at guideline violations and not just disagreement. But Maybe I'm taking dang out of context. Like I'm not trying to argue my downvotes and change their minds. I just want to know why I was downvoted so I can learn.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30346954
It might sometimes be hard but I have never seen a case where it was impossible (25+ years of experience dealing with undocumented legacy code more often than not).
Look, it's a communicable disease. There's no need for healthcare staff to spread Covid to each and any patient that comes to see them. The phenomenon of asymptomatic/presymptomatic spread is well known with Covid.

"My Tinder date told me she has chlamydia, but she's asymptomatic. All good!"
I don't think you'll find a sober explanation of cryptocurrency with all its promises and pitfalls here.
Shanghai lockdown triggers complaints as Covid cases rise
Weak Oil the Looming Collapse of Putin’s Petro Dictatorship
The world is zero sum.

We only have one Earth for now.
There is no place in the universe with Zero g. Free fall (orbit) around the earth is still subject to most of the gravity you feel on the ground.
What are you using to benchmark sleep quality?
My concern too mirrored it. I had completely missed the news till now. I hope they dont screw us over. Luckily, I just upgraded a little while back.
Voting by mail is insecure? This is very troubling.
That hasn’t been true in Europe for over a hundred years, and exceedingly rare in the US these days.
Communities fell apart starting in the 60-80s, well before the internet and social media.

People forget the concrete institutions that were dissolved that led to communities collapsing.

First it was families falling apart due to high rates of divorce and low birth rates. Also people moving away from home for job opportunities split the family apart. Entire towns were hollowed out.

Also the dissolution of institutions like church, political groups, fraternal orders (e.g. Elks, Kiwanis), Charity Groups. See the book "Bowling Alone".

Social media and entertainment spiked afterward to fill the void – but it was the collapse of the families, community groups & towns that were a precursor to the death of communities.
> The Intel Arc discrete GPUs are set for a "limited" release this summer, with the Arc 3 currently available in laptops starting at $899. In the summer, the Arc 5 will be released and the Arc 7 is set for later this year.
These GPUs will offer Intel's Xe-HPG architecture, supporting ray tracing and can up-convert images for better quality. Stein noted that early reviews have shown Intel's (INTC) Arc GPU have a greater than 50% performance than an integrated graphics card, the Arc 3 is really only competitive with the lower end of the market.

I don't know anyone willing to pay $899 for a "weak" GPU having only 50% greater performance than an integrated graphics card.

At that ratio, it sounds like it will be beaten by the newest AMD APU, when the next replacement for the AMD Ryzen 5700G comes around, as the already dated AMD 5700G is already solidy beating Intel CPUs with integrated graphics by > 75% in many performance tests [1]

[1] https://www.thefpsreview.com/2022/03/07/intel-12900k-uhd-770...
> they likely achieve their goals though

Ah yes, massive equipment and personnel losses, reminding the world that Putin is a flagrant liar, spurring movement off national gas, and making clear exactly how formidable the Russian military isn't. All while not actually taking strategic points in the east one month in.

Really nailed it.
When I see stuff like that, I instantly take the company less seriously or ignore them unless the person in charge is someone eccentric like Elon. At least he is capable of running his company in a ruthlessly effective way even with wonky titles and shenanigans.
Modularity applies at different levels and the purpose of modularity varies according to the level. Code can be modular at one level and not modular at another. Functional, domain knowledge, deployability, organisational alignment (e.g. operational support and maintainability), etc

I see lots of people getting confused these days about modularity and people missing the point altogether. What is it you're after? What's most important to you? That's where you need to focus your modularity efforts.
Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia...

Hardware research isn't everything though - consider IBM.
Has there ever been a incident of civil asset forfeiture for a white collar crime?

Also from reason.com (2/18/22): "The FBI Seized Almost $1 Million From This Family—and Never Charged Them With a Crime" [0]

In April 2020, agents showed up at the Nelsons' home and informed them that Carl—a former real estate transaction manager for Amazon—was under investigation for allegedly depriving the tech behemoth of his "honest services." In plainer terms, they accused him of showing favor to certain developers and securing them deals in exchange for illegal kickbacks. "That never happened and is exactly why I've fought as long and hard as I have," he says. "It's that simple."

[0] https://reason.com/2022/02/18/fbi-seized-almost-1-million-fr...
One useful regulation might be to prevent neutering the functionality of a product if the user does not elect to share their data. Unless those data are part and parcel of the core functionality, choosing not to share should not prevent receiving software updates, etc.
The world runs on software like that. Hard to maintain “crappy” code that makes $ beats clean pure “perfect” code that makes zero $ every time.
Might be this: https://github.com/shawwn/arc/blob/arc3.1/news.arc (posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30898803 today).
People hold up banking as the pinnacle of serious and responsible high-quality high-reliability software engineering and operations, but my bank is the only web property or mobile app I use that's routinely unavailable for hours at a time.
This can pass for a startup but not for a proper business with customers.

Do you get audited?
Circa 2006, I was in college, and I got hired to write a webapp for a college department. I didn't know JavaScript could have classes and capture variables, so I made the app with entirely global variables and plain functions combined with `eval`. It's over 2000 lines, and nobody after me could understand it.
Amazon, Alphabet and Others Are Rolling Out Drone Delivery Across America
I worked on ad systems at Facebook, and yes it's (approximately) true for those as well.

The thing to realize that "in production" almost never means "rolled out to 100% of users from 0%". Instead you'd do very slow rollouts to, say, 1% of people in Hungary (or whatever) and use a ton of automatic measurements over time as well as lots and lots of tests to validate that things were working as expected before rolling out a little more, then a little more after that. By the time the code is actually being hit by the majority of users, it's often been run billions of times already.
Religion seems as or maybe more frequently to have been a driver of massacres. Ask the Albigensians.
If you eliminated qualified immunity, only fools would become government officials.
The guidelines couldn't be much clearer about this: Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

This thread is fulfilling the Guideline Prophecy now, so here's where I bow out.
I had this happen a lot on my dual boot system. After the fourth time I snapped and deleted the windows partition, it's too risky to have a computer that may or may not boot at the whims of forced updates.

MS ignores the problem too despite numerous complaints spanning years, when dozens of people are saying it's due to a Windows update and they insist it's something else it's probably fair to say this is Won't Fix for them.
If it's unclear what a good strategy would even look like then you're down to playing by intuition and improvisation.

It sounds fun in the way board games were fun as children, before anyone knew about an optimal strategy for this or that game.
The ruling class is elected by working class boomers
The biggest problem is too many people in one spot. Endless growth is not a guaranteed right, nor is it a law of nature.
Apple may have started the latest round of this. But Microsoft was aggressively pushing their browser clear back in the 90s, and I don't think Apple was.
That's a little fatuous, and it does disappoint me a bit how we devolve to this immediately. I guess we're all a bit on high-alert when it comes to politics?

It's not really an either/or. I don't advocate for zero measures. More like, there's a range of different measures we could have taken, with varying of positive vs negative side-effects.

We should of course take measures that have lots of positive side effects, and relatively few negative side effects. Things like contact tracing, and the vaccines of course. Masking early on was a good idea when we didn't know much.

However it's a little silly to deny that there's some measures taken that didn't have so many clear positive benefits, but definitely had negative ones. For example, in my state they closed all the playgrounds & skate parks, even though there was no evidence of transmission there. For some kids, blowing off a little bit of steam by riding their bike at the local skate park is a huge deal, and not at all trivial.

Similarly, my sister-in-law had to conduct all her appointments remotely. She's dealing with traumatised kids that struggle to maintain eye contact, let alone human connection. That face-to-face time is really crucial for establishing rapport with these kids. Not to mention the fact that many just didn't bother dialling in.

These aren't kids presenting with anxiety btw. These are kids with some of the worst trauma imaginable.
Maybe they outsourced running the rail system to the people that run the Texas power grid?
"With its discount subsidiary Penny, Rewe"

I thought Aldi was a budget chain? Is this even cheaper than that? (They don't have Penny in the US).
You can get places for under $920k in parts of the bay that aren't the Peninsula, Mill Valley, and SF.
It transfers the dependency from something they know (password) to something they have access to (phone or email). That thing they have access to could be compromised which then means their account is compromised. That is a risk acceptance question you need to consider.

Also to consider: What happens if a user loses their phone? How do they get access to their account?
WinesapOS – Game with Linux anywhere, no installation required
Milk Fiber
Steward Brand Saw and Sparked the Future (again and again and again)
You have automated tools that yell at you to clean up feature flags and you force people to include sensible expiration dates at part of your PR process. Flags past the date result in increased yelling. If your team has too much crap in the codebase eventually someone politely tells you to clean it up.

You also have tooling that measures how many times a flag was encountered vs. how many times it actually triggered etc. Once it looks like it's at 100% of traffic, again you have automations that tell people to clean up their crap.