skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gates’ shock teams already exist - they’re called pharmaceutical and biotech companies. VC’s already fund them aggressively, so all folks like Gates is doing is pushing the news and funding openly. Teams scouring dirt across the world looking for the next bacteria and antibiotic. Screening livestock that’s in regular contact with humans for possible trans species viruses. Building hospitals and schools to help train medical people properly.

All of this is pretty bland and generally accepted. It’s gets messy when human genetic sampling gets involved: why did this person not get $disease when everybody he lived with keeled over? Why does this antibody drug work so well in population x but fails totally in population y? Universal vaccines and meds need targets will low or no mutation rates and these have to be found.

Med research can be a black hole. They’ve thrown billions into Alzheimer’s research to no avail. Candidates do what the biological model suggests but it doesn’t help…. Oops, wrong biological model.
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The encoding also seems to be HN-safe, using no emojis or other things HN filters. The font used here is lacking some of the characters, but that shouldn't matter if you just copy-paste.
The syntax is common to most JCL ("job control language") commands. I'd say "all", though there are probably exceptions.

For some reason, this seems to be vanishingly scarce knowledge in Linux / Unix circles.

There was a time in my life I knew how to spell JCL....
The "aux" vs "ef" thing is a Berkeley vs. System V unix thing. SunOS wanted "aux", while Solaris wanted "-ef", iirc. Linux ps will do either. From the man page:

This version of ps accepts several kinds of options:

1 UNIX options, which may be grouped and must be preceded by a dash.

2 BSD options, which may be grouped and must not be used with a dash.

3 GNU long options, which are preceded by two dashes.

And:

Note that "ps -aux" is distinct from "ps aux". The POSIX and UNIX standards require that "ps -aux" print all processes owned by a user named "x", as well as printing all processes that would be selected by the -a option. If the user named "x" does not exist, this ps may interpret the command as "ps aux" instead and print a warning.

Edit: On my system, "ps -aux" does the same thing as "ps aux" and no warning is printed, despite the what the man page says. I'm not going to try to create a user named 'x' though.
TIL that in certain browsers you can play a video in an <img> element ... and that disappoints me because I always thought <img> was supposed to be used for static images, while <video>, <svg> and <canvas> elements were more appropriate for animated images.

The CSS Painting API[1] looks like it will "allows web content authors to use videos as a CSS background-image", so developers will be able to add videos (via the API's restricted 2D canvas implementation) as background images to any (block-like?) HTML display element. The API isn't - yet - supported across browsers[2]. Of course, the Painting API is not as simple as Safari's solution.

None of this addresses the accessibility issues, as others have pointed out.

[1] - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSS_Paintin...

[2] - https://caniuse.com/css-paint-api
> At least make it a different code every time.

Why?
Why would you need a biosphere? You need processes that turn energy into nutrients. Those processes can be entirely chemical or cell-culture based.
There is no disagreement on what "subset of C++" is best: anywhere you have a choice, use the newest method supported on your compiler, because nothing is added to the language without compelling reasons.

It is true that some people resist using anything introduced since they first learned, with a few mired in C. But there is never any need to "agree" on that.

"Bigger binary" is scurrilous propaganda. Compilers nowadays use the same code generator for C and C++: say the same thing, get the same code. Furthermore, optimizers have to guess less at you are trying to do, in C++, so can do a better job. C++ code for the same task is often smaller.

"C programmers often care more about building the best possible software": this is just crude slander.

Finally: "Rust has much better safety guarantees": C++ offers much the same guarantees, where you choose to exercise them.
This comment from the linked Reddit thread explains how:

> Each sentence is extra data given to the other person.

> When Peter says "I don't know the numbers", means that he doesn't have enough information. For example, if the product of the numbers is 10, it could be (1,10) or (2,5). But if the product is 9801, then Peter would know the answer (99,99). Therefore, his first sentence reveals to Sandy that (99,99) isn't a possible answer. But even this extra data isn't enough for Sandy to know the answer, and she says so. Again, this is extra data for Peter, but , again, is not enough. This go back and forth until suddenly Peter gains enough information to find the answer.
My private laptop is fine, but my corporate laptop with a lot of bloatware sometimes takes a few seconds to wake up. From hibernation sometimes it takes 10+ seconds from hitting the space button to see the something is happening.
Oh that's interesting. But how do the server and clients manage to find one another then? Indeed an outbound-only server is a discerning feature and a huge security advantage.

I should really read up on it. I know... I will soon!
No, the reason it was poorly managed is due to people using the chaos of covid for personal and political gain. To use the us, the White House and Fox News had a far greater role than gates.
I want to follow your website's feed (at https://kevincox.ca/feed.atom). Good article!
The hyped and distorted claims of psychedelic marketing
Biometrics also seems excessive for a SIM, but it could also be that these countries don't have reliable methods of identifying people. Denmark also require your identity to be tied to your SIM, but is using your national ID, rather than biometrics.

As for the countries in your list, yes, reducing fraud is most likely just an excuse.
Yes, anyone writing on behalf of their employers would present opinions that may not be their own.
TodoMVC App Written in Vanilla JavaScript
RSS Feed Best Practice #1: make sure your service/site/resource has a feed.

Am I missing something or is this site missing one?
Lack of uproar does not mean lack of problem.
"This uninteresting and logically inconsistent thing I'm gonna say is gonna get downvoted by all the biased sheeple. Proves I'm right."
Creating an adversarial relationship between the user and vendor is a
debasement of security principles. Now, Windows is the threat model
and that's why "mandating" this was the wrong choice altogether.
Microsoft could even have sold this as a feature. The fact that they
chose instead to push it on users tells you everything you need to
know about the future of users' relationship with their products. The
perimeter of my security ends where Microsoft begins.
A bright future for the young maintainer and also project lead: https://twitter.com/rudrasaraswat1

Congrats!
There’s something between having random ideas (easy) and implementing ideas (hard, but learnable) that I find very difficult: the ability to pick a promising idea — which includes having the confidence to stick to it. I don’t think that’s entirely captured by the word “executing”, and I think it’s also vital.
Apparently it uses a combination of radar, lidar and cameras https://www.cavforth.com/automated-vehicle-systems/ and presumably a lot of hand-crafted code for the route
Consider that your experience may not be representative. You might be part of the very low percent of people whom Google Search does not target and does not want to spend money on acquiring/retaining.
> Quasiquoting means creating a list where some elements are evaluated at runtime

Take a look at the awesome 'Make A Lisp' (MAL), in particular the section on quoting:

https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/process/guide.md#s...

This has a fairly good description of what happens during quasi-quoting.
Instead of 'cutting out' a part of your screen to export via VNC/RTP, you could use EVDI to create a virtual DisplayOutput, that can be bound to one of the available rendering heads of your graphics card (so with HW-Accel), and then exported either through VNC or RTP. That way you can extend your desktop onto nearly any external display surface.
For me, I sometimes pull up codium just for its excellent git diff and editing.
The Registered in the US bit seems like it would place it on an even footing with other forms of transportation which is definitely a good thing economically. U.S.-built and U.S.-citizen owned are presumably good to get rid of economically, though it has some national defense implications.
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Didn't want to use your main account for this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=oefnak
I'm not sure what your point is. My comment is a statement that corporations do have a responsibility to act in the interests of society, not an analysis of the particular ethics of selling knives or avoiding liability.
Ah, so it's a special btrfs feature, as root you can kill your filesystem by simply writing a file to it. I wonder what function that serves.

But hey how about a quota behind the scenes?....you know like ZFS? AFS? ReFS?...you know so the filesystem tells the user "sorry cant take anymore" before it really cant take anymore? That would be some crazy enterprise level stuff....

You know, a Filesystem that immediately stops writing and instead cares more about the data that's already on the platter?

BTW: It was a DC-Harddisk
>This is so backwards, wrong, dangerous.

We have differing standards of backwards, wrong , and dangerous. Are either of us right? I think we are right in our own heads because we are individually seeing different perspectives. But the important part is to not silence one’s ability to discuss such ideas.
Thanks for the advice! Had forgotten to remove it from here.
Moving House
I also don't really understand the reason for the relicensing. There doesn't seem to be a commercial version available.
If they abolish the character limit, do they also rebrand the platform from twitter to blogger? /s

I think there are some interesting observations in how both twitter and tiktok set out with short maximum lengths, establishing a culture of short, easy to digest messages, before relaxing the limit a bit. I'm not sure how much you can relax the limit before you turn the platform into something else entirely. But on the other hand there is a pattern of users circumventing the limit anyways. It will be interesting to watch how it develops over the years.
Sometimes it has to do with people not having much more to offer other than a professional appearance :)

This is not always the case of course
I love these deep-dive hardware projects ... best when they are on a small thing like this one (so I'm not too overwhelmed).

Electronics + audio has always been my gateway like programming + graphics (and lighting up an LED is "Hello World").

I don't imagine you could change the pitch of the cowbell on the TR-808, but it sounds a little high pitched to my ear. I guess though that in the era of the TR-808 people were pretty jazzed by electronic percussive instruments that were even close.
Traceability, simplicity, all sorts of reasons.

If you commit all your codegen’d stuff you don’t need to worry about how to run codegen in most places. You can enforce a lot of security properties, you can run large scale analysis on the code in production because it’s all “statically” available, etc.

That said, I think Google’s source control ecosystem is really quite different to what’s publicly available with systems like Git/Hub/Lab etc, even to Phabricator. These approaches work well at Google but don’t necessarily translate to other tools in the same way.

Don’t take these sorts of things as gospel, or even as google advice about good engineering. Understand what they achieve, and then figure out a way to achieve that same result with the tools available to you.
This reminds me of a decades-ago conversation with a casual friend, who called something a "battleship" - which to her meant "biggish navy ship with prominent gun turrets, that isn't an aircraft carrier". So something like the HMS Galatia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Galatea_(71) - would likely qualify. (Hint - the Galatia's main gun shells massed 50kg. Real battleships fired shells in the 500kg to 1500kg range.)

In retrospect, my correction to her should have taken the angle "That's kinda like calling a Chevy Cavalier a 'limo', or a 'Rolls-Royce'. Yes, it has 4 wheels, a hood, a trunk, a motor, it drives on roads... And the Chevy fans and salesmen are talking about how great it is...but NO, it NOT a limo, and NOT a Rolls-Royce."
>I understand that your argument will be "so close down those websites". But how about you do not visit them instead?

Ah yes, "the leave my money printer alone" defense. Nevermind the exploitive underpinnings and utility through which surveillance capitalism is made possible! Just go over in your corner, and let me exploit the rest of the ignorant rubes.

No. Sorry. Absolutely not. Sometimes a foot has to be put down in the name of common decency, and clearing out a behavior that creates even greater problems. This is one of those times.
Twitter’s limit used to be 140 characters. Then it became 280. By simple arithmetic progression the next limit will be…
Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason
I understood very quickly that it was meant to polarize. Which it did. I can't take that seriously and I chose for peace of mind. While the whole world went crazy.
>This list of countries should tell you everything you need to know

Not sure that part is all that meaningful. e.g. Pretty sure the UK and EU can already link my biometrics and SIM
Heroku alternatives have gone in a few different directions:
- next-gen PasS that are more opinionated and offer wider range of services. Also can be cheaper. examples are Digital ocean, Railway or render
- Performance-focused PaaS like fly.io
- "Heroku in your own cloud" like porter.dev, architect.io or quovery
- k8s tooling like garden.io, ReleaseHub, even gitlab
- these are often geared more towards internal DevOps teams at larger orgs when compared to the very low-lift PasS providers
- serverless providers - like cloudflare functions, AWS lambda, GCP Cloud Run
- Vercel/Netlify - SPA + serverless with a great developer experience
- Replit - kind of in a category of their own but they have integrated hosting/datastores/user auth

Lots of awesome products here, I'd argue that only replit is a true 10x change from the Heroku innovations in terms of providing a next-gen developer experience.

I'm the cofounder of a new company called Coherence, that we think creates a new direction and offers a better platform for the next leap forward. By integrating from dev to prod and capturing the whole SDLC, as well as by operating in your own cloud, we're focused on delivering the best developer experience possible, without compromising anywhere else. For example, by not building 100% on k8s we’re able to offer Cloud Run on GCP or App Runner on AWS, which are “free-tier” friendly without the fixed costs of the k8s baseline infra that other “in your own cloud” providers have. Check us out at https://www.withcoherence.com. We're in an early closed beta so not yet a fit for all teams, but feedback is welcome!
Twitter started as “an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group”, and SMS messages are 140 bytes (that may store 160 characters when using a 7-bit encoding such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_03.38, but they didn’t go there)

I guess bumping the limit up while keeping the ability to interact with all kinds of SMS systems and ancient phones was a challenge, or just required waiting a few years for some of the weirder systems to die out.
Regular planets don't have the incredible concentration of gravitational pull that an event horizon does, so no, planet mass black holes are not only as dangerous as planets are.
It's not so much about more socialism, it's more that the US is wrestling with problems we've completely forgotten about (e.g. decent food).

There are plenty of big homes, and big paychecks in Europe - but, as they say, 'so poor that all they have is money!'
Affiliate marketing with Warriorplus Affiliate program-The untapped strategy to make $200 and above daily with free traffic.
MS teams is proof slack could get a lot worse yet :-)
Following this.

We're in this bucket as well with our product
https://github.com/avo-hq/avo
I think that ChromeOS is an existence proof about the minimum set of features for a "main OS" these days.
Pure speculation on my part, but I've noticed Go has generate and build as separate steps and it's standard to check in generated code. This split no doubt makes compilation a lot simpler/faster, but perhaps it's a reflection of standard practices the language authors were used to.
I'm interested to know how a full time job of sitting doing nothing at all except be ready to drive a bus full of people at a moment's notice works out.
Voting is even cheaper than having ideas or opinions, so don't worry. ;)
And then you have ImageMagick where the order of flags and options is a science by itself.
Reading the sibling comments, I realized that GitHub and SG have built tooling to index text, while Google have built tooling to index C++.

cs.chromium et al experiences instantaneous dropoff from "wow this is kind of amazing" the moment you start wading through JavaScript or Mojo glue code. Here's the JS source of the dino game; notice how you can't click anything: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:com...

A quick Google for "most popular languages on github" just found https://madnight.github.io/githut/, which (if it's correct) reveals that GitHub's most popular language (by commit activity) is Python (17%), very closely followed by JavaScript (14%). Then you have Java (12%), TypeScript (8%), Go (8%), C++/Ruby (both 6%), and PHP (5%). So on GitHub C++ apparently represents 6% of PR activity, while the top two languages (Python/JS) which represent 31% of PR activity are not only interpreted but also dynamically typed.

Which tells a very interesting story about the benefits of being able to generate an AST with type information: you can scale insight that much more broadly and deeply. :(
2022 Predictions from 2012
Haha no. The international market is not a competitive market. It’s a syndicate, funded by zero percent loans of countries that accept US Aid. Also that syndicate does not follow US laws, such as the definition of fraud and bribery. It’s no different from the chip industry, if we let foreign competitors it will lower the cost of domestic work. they’d price the US out of business. Then they’d have the ability to control the rate of US port expansion or even function (Natl Sec. issue). Any study of the Panama Canal work will show this. We cannot chase this illusive low cost solution, we need a holistic approach that pays a living local wage to run a functioning society.
Why, wouldn't you want to spend your entire life in a virtual world completely controlled by a single mega corporation? /s
It’s interesting that the comment cited links this proposal with communism, UBI, and a global government. I wonder if that comment is representative of most of the objections.
Could be. Without proper comments on my comment it's hard to tell.
Yes, and I mostly agree. Most companies just randomize an ID or do some group-bys and consider it "anonymized", which are susceptible to a variety of correlation techniques (such as setting up this MILP problem). And the more data sets you have with the same underlying masked primary key (e.g. person), the easier it can get. I have seen these weak attempts at hiding information in multiple industries. Just for the record, in my use case there was never an intent to map data to individuals, just to get the most granular information possible about key metrics.
There’s always rolling your own BOSH+CloudFoundry, but that be a bit heavy for your idea case. How about playing with microk8s and seeing if it works for you?
This comes to mind...

“A restlessness has seized hold of many of us,” wrote the American author Rebecca Solnit, “a sense that we should be doing something else, no matter what we are doing”. It’s the same restlessness that reminded Franzen of “what Marx famously identified as the ‘restless’ nature of capitalism.”

https://benwajdi.com/2021/12/18/is-internet-addiction-eradic...
It's a Windows Directwrite bug - https://twitter.com/googlefonts/status/1522775267852181504?s...
Tesla has built their own ERP system
Then people will converge on implementation patterns that couple the tracking cookie to a necessary cookie. You cannot keep one without opening the door to the other.
a bus ‘Captain’ who will move around the saloon, talking to passengers about the service and answering any questions they may have, demonstrating what a future service night feel like...

They use to call these "bus conductors" before they sacked them all to save money.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_conductor
Rail transport has those kind of jobs already, don't they?
Why would you do that when it's easy to disable the install-time check?

All you have to do is hit Shift-F10 when the installer tells you the machine isn't compatible, launch regedit, create the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup\LabConfig. And then add a DWORD value called BypassTPMCheck and set it to 1 (BypassSecureBootCheck is also an available option)
A smaller variant if that puzzle is in the article.
Why Elon Musk got bullied in high school
This is more common than you would expect. If you login there is a spot on the website to update your application.

Good luck!
With the addition of knowing you are helping to train the permanent replacement as well.
This is absolutely true, which is why people at the tip of the spear are always well-rewarded, but also incredibly stressed.

Not everyone can deal with stress, and even those that "successfully" deal with it, often break down, earlier in life than others (Look for old pro football players, or old pro wrestlers, for instance).

Congratulations! You're rich!

Which is good, because you'll need good nursing care, in your sixties.

It's not something that can be applied in generalities. Individual variance is key, until we get to a "Gattaga-style" society, where everyone is "tuned" for maximum performance.

This was something that I was thinking about, the other day, in a different context (long story).

I can't in good conscience, tell anyone that they "shouldn't go for the brass ring," but the chances are pretty high that they may not make it, and punish themselves for the rest of their lives, as a "failure," or, maybe even worse, get it, and end up regretting it.

In my case, I was forced into a situation where I had to eat humble pie, and accept a lower-echelon lifestyle, yet I'm deliriously happy. When I finally accepted the terrain, instead of gazing longingly at the map, things suddenly "clicked."

The key is acceptance, discipline, and moderation, for me.
There are a lot of such studies but if you really just one one example I will pick one at random: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00248-007-9356-5

Let me guess you’re going to move the goalpost.
Why not just use a $10/month bare bones virtual machine?

I just use plain Debian, copy my stuff over via rsync and everything works fine.

The machine gets something like 10k users on a normal day. In the past, it occasionally handled 30x that.
I used to take a dialy bus ride in Spain where the driver would have an animated conversation with some of the regular passengers for the entire journey. I would have felt a lot safer if the bus was taking care of the actual driving.