skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A small number of the assembled protesters have displayed Nazi insignia, including the swastika and yellow stars of David, while others have flown the Confederate flag during these anti-government demonstrations.

So, it sounds like there was a small number of such people. Of course, if that's not true, I'm happy to be convinced otherwise. I will not accept an argument based on guilt by association however (or in this case guilt by proximity which is even more absurd).

Finally, the truckers were protesting the federal trucker mandates (with their trucks no less) so it was not a particularly abstract demonstration. I guess these people were in the right location by your calculus but non-truckers should have disbursed to protest at their own provincial capitals. That is a reasonable argument but I think many of the protesters were also there in support of the truckers.
This is the first piece of news I have read in weeks that makes me feel good
Simple is not better. It’s better to spend less money from the company’s perspective and also keep information asymmetry about relative pay levels.
A lot of questions are being asked already, many of them similar, so I'll try my best to answer most of them, starting with the basics.

- 4 year Bachelor's degree in Fine arts (digital media concentration)*

- Male, age 39

- from 2008-14 my jobs came from Craigslist. Call it a habit from applying to PT jobs in college. I moved onto LinkedIn and other more "real" career boards in 2015 and the job search got much tougher

- I would count at least 2000 applications from 2015 onward. No offers came from applying on LinkedIn etc. Instead they were all from word of mouth from a local tech group that I am a part of. All of them part time, and temp contract jobs

- At least 1000 applications from 2020-present, interviewed at around 20 companies. Most with LinkedIn Easy Apply. A few interviews from direct emails from some manager/sourcer that came across my resume.

- I took an application break to cut back on burnout. The last 6 months are almost application-free

- Nearly all jobs applied are for software engineering. 95% are mid-level or lower rest are senior-level (just to feel things out). I might get as far as 3 rounds with a few interviews.

* Actual time it took to finish the degree was 6 years because I changed majors prior. At year 5 I was in my final year in Art, and I also had a growing interest in comp. sci, but I had to make a tough choice. Graduate at >5 years with the BA degree, or double major BS in CS with Art graduating in >8 years. I thought it would look awful to stay in college that long (plus my debt really started growing at that time) so I cut my losses short and graduated with just the BA.
That's a choice Prometheus has made, not an invariant. Many scalable systems support arbitrarily large queries as they themselves scale. Prometheus pretty much prevents creating arbitrarily large datasets to begin with, so the point is kind of moot.

Requiring query authors to understand the arrangement of their aggregation layer seems like a reasonable idea but is in fact quite ridiculous.
The set point theory, in general, is trash.

You can think of your body as wanting to maintain homeostasis, which is one thing. That just means that if you binge once, you won't feel the need to continue binging at that level. It does not mean that anyone is genetically predetermined to be say 600 lbs.

To use that terminology though, your body could be said to have a "set point" that it aims for, but that "set point" can change. Nobody is destined to be fat, and if you lose weight, your "set point" will adjust.
ChaCha20 vs AES matters a lot, because the latter is hardware accelerated on all important platforms. I did some benchmarking on this in the last year, and e.g. QUIC transfers on the same machine peaked at 520MB/s throughput per core using AES128, vs 350MB/s using ChaCha20 (see also https://github.com/rustls/rustls/issues/509).
The surface area of a mountain and the surface area of that mountain ground into fine gravel are very different. The same thing happens to the surface area in both cases, yes.
>"Earning a ton of money" is not exactly a well defined company goal.

Well, okay, but you'll have to agree that at-least it is easy to quantify, "Good design" OTOH isn't, but again I'm not a designer so I see things differently. "Good design" "good code" in the abstract does nothing for me personally. The older I get the more I care much more about results, and the less I care about purity/aesthetics of design/code, etc. I'm around purpose-built biotech software all the time and to any UX person its going to look like ass. Janky, confusing menus, clusterfuck of various icon styles, seemingly random buttons littered everywhere etc, etc. No cohesive UX flow. But then this is expert software and is used in many aspects of vaccine r&d/production, and supports the production of high quality life saving products. I respect that, and therefore I respect the software as well.
I don't see what's wrong about trying to grab new customers. Mattel is a business, after all.

Countless iterations of the same thing is what Barbie was already doing. There's a parody of that in The Simpsons' Stacy Malibu ("it has a new hat!"). This seems a bit riskier and slightly more profound than giving Barbie a new dress. I looked at the photo of the new dolls and they don't look like iterations of the same thing: each looks strikingly different to the rest.

Then again, do people look at Playmobil or Legos and complain that they are "countless iterations of the same thing"? Because they certainly are!

As for the differences: my 2 year old sees them already. And even if not, aren't toys also about teaching something?

> Maybe a few parents will appreciate those but that should be about it

How can you speak for parents and know how many will or will not appreciate this?
If a child was raised in complete isolation, they would have an abysmally low IQ. Studies with such disregard for human life have shown us the consequences of having one of the worst environments when growing up -- from the one I remember the children when introduced back into a normal environment never were able to learn how to communicate with another human. I would be willing to wager those children in a proper environment would be at least capable of speaking.

Perhaps my thinking is wrong or on the extreme end of the scale, but I would argue that we can extrapolate that environmental factors are a much more important factor than genetics considering various environment factors can affect genetics to certain degrees and your genes mean little to nothing in the worst environments -- only beneficial in the right environments.
I think if you really gave more thought to your latest statement you would immediately retract it.

More importantly, this is not the core issue of your comment to which I replied. By which principle can an outsider call for violence and in support of any faction/separatists? How general is such principle and by which method to apply it in practice? And, what if the separatists movement you decided to support as an outsider are being crushed by the said government's army? (What then?) Just leave it be or intervene? I hope you see where this is going.... and I doubt you would support the end result of this very logic. [for a principle applies to both sides, not just one, otherwise it is not a principle but a rule-by-mob].

(And it is not that the very issue you are addressing is invalid, I just point out that it is not a trivial one and no one-liner phrase will do here. Especially a blind call for violence as a principle method of solving disagreement).
Don't forget the huge swath of "science" that is almost wholly unreproducible.
Yes, sometimes when I've tried to get to sleep on a strong body-high indica cannabis, analysis starts to make much more sense. Branches of mathematics are likely organized by which senses we appropriate.
I have it on my Android phone, and I've seen one other person remotely close to my age (54). Mostly less than half my age. It is interesting to use the "Discovery" feature, where you just see random people from around the world doing whatever they're doing at that time. You'll never see them again, but it is still interesting.
> turned off due to the first two questions being full name and birthday

Lie.
Silly question: if her dog digs it up does it means she owns those coins? The article gives the vague impression that she didn’t
Needs a (2017) although it definitely still seems relevant.
They can refuse to give what is called a "relieving letter". That's a letter to future employers telling that this person left on good terms and his/her experience is genuine. It's a bloody effective weapon unfortunately :(
The commenter you're responding to isn't saying that it's literally impossible to retrieve a single point without doing a full scan of the data, but rather that it's not the top priority of these data structures to support queries for individual points.

The GP comment even says:

> Time series queries consists mainly of "get me all the data points of a time series reported between timestamps A and B"

which seems exactly like what you mentioned with "$now-$period".

These kinds of data structures, often found in OLAP databases, assume that point queries will be less common, and they accept a bit higher latencies for those queries. But those latencies are still fairly small.
Didn't expect a JS heavyweight like you replying. Thanks flybayer :) Any reasons you do not suggest Blitz for this?
The last part is really the hardest - it’s easier to move to a higher paying area when you’re young than it is to move back after you’ve grown connections to a community.
Roughly $40B/yr is stolen from retirement accounts in the USA. Some of that is due to data leaks, and it's not unreasonable to assume other thefts are due to data leaks. The issue is tying any specific instance back to the Equifax clusterfuck.
This is fun. Also makes me think about all the calls I get where no one is on the other side.

How many other bots are collecting this type of information about a wider set of numbers?
More cool console services like this one: https://github.com/chubin/awesome-console-services

curl wttr.in/Moon

Shows moon phases

curl rate.sx

Shows cryptocurrency exchange rates, from the same author as wttr.in

I sourced the above commands from a previous HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23646953
Crowdsource by Google
Thomas wrote:

"But what's really happening there is that there are in fact very well-defined Latino neighborhoods in Chicago, and the earmuffs capture a bunch of them neatly: Pilsen, Little Village, Cicero, Belmont-Cragin. If you know Chicago, you know these places, and you also know what the boundary between, say, Belmont-Cragin and North Austin is like; however artificial it looks on a map, it is a real border. That these communities are where they are is also not purely happenstance: a lot of very unfortunate social engineering took place in the early-mid-20th century to put those neighborhoods (and all the other neighborhoods) where they are now."

Assuming his goal is to protect the unique culture of that neighborhood, two options are:

1. the neighborhood already has its unique culture protected because the people in that neighborhood help elect the city government

2. the unique culture of the neighborhood is not sufficiently protected by the city government, therefore the neighborhood should incorporate and so become its own independent city

Again, whatever Thomas's goal is, I'd suggest that he achieve his goal directly, rather than trying to achieve the result as the accidental side effect of other architectural decisions. Gerrymandering is a very weak way of trying to defend the culture of a neighborhood. If his goal is to protect the culture of the neighborhood, then he should think of an architecture that would do so directly.
> Every single project, from digital art to social organization, is ultimately asked to do one job: enrich its participants.

Every. Single. Project? is an absolutist claim and a very generalizing stretch. It’s more like blockchain tokens and NFTs minted on layer 1s such as Ethereum that are clearly enabling the scams, DAOs and all the chaos you see shoved in 24/7 by the news, amplifying the message of many crypto-skeptics.

Meanwhile, I don’t see such things happening with Nano [0], so it actually can be done. Additionally, what most of the extreme skeptics always miss is when regulations come in, the compliant cryptocurrencies and stablecoins will actually survive and stay clear from the carnage of DeFi scams, DAO hacks and chaotic smart contract hacks that chains like Ethereum are enabling where that blockchain will be the hardest hit by those regulations.

Perhaps if these projects just stuck to only payments rather than trying to slap ‘blockchain’, ‘worlds computer’, DAOs etc on everything, then maybe there would be a better chance of achieving their goals and there would be no need for the 10,000s of other useless projects sitting on a a single layer 1 blockchain.

The main reality is after regulations come in, only a few of these coin projects will survive and the rest especially the majority of ‘token’ projects will be abandoned.

[0] https://nano.org
It might have maxed out the CPU core on the peer/client? There's no mention of what it's CPU usage is.
Arcade Legend Eugene Jarvis (Robotron Jurassic Park Defender Halo Fire Team)
We're all just pond scum on a ball of molten iron.
What issue originally did the pull model solved? Historically the push model existed before so what was the reason to move to a pull based solution?
The calmness comes from really knowing and understanding what you are working with. I used to frequently work around hundreds of thousands of pounds of class 1 explosives. Once you understand that the primary risks of dry explosives are impact, shock, and impingement. You can protect yourself against those risks and get comfortable working around the material.
"For now, however, they do not want to reveal the precise location of the discovery, to discourage amateur metal detectors from arriving, reports Gazeta Wyborcza."

Detectorists. It's Detectorists.
When people find stuff like this do they get a cash reward or anything. Something like this could be kept and sold and end up in a private collection. But when people notify and they end up in a museum for everyone to see, does the finder miss out?
Is there really a need to repost everything Elon Musk says on Twitter here?
> carbon capture that was low tech, easy to do, simple to understand, didn't pose any long term side effects and pretty cheap to do.

Plant a tree.
People are responding pointing out that there are lots of places where it's too hot for this -- but actually, I do live somewhere this would work, except that the condo I live in has tiny slivers of barely-openable windows (I think it's because of the environmental certification the building got?) that don't let a meaningful amount of air in or out. All the heat from lower floors traveling up also then means there are times we have to run the AC in winter... thanks, architects.
Calming down now. I think we peaked at around ~95 concurrent a few hours ago. Very nice to see!
I also learned that I very much overprovisioned thst Hetzner system I’m running the thing on. The server is basically idle, and the server software too only uses a few dozen megs of memory.
That debacle is when I stopped any involvement with their products. I continue to be surprised when I hear positive things about any of them. Presumably the higher end was treated better. We definitely got low-end products for high-end prices.
Ethylene in the Food Supply Chain
I amuse myself by thinking that Sidney Alford (the expert in the video, who by the way appears to have passed away last year) looked like, and was, the modern Grand Maester, conjuring up magical (but yes, destructive and terrible) explosives for the use by kingdoms against each other. He should've been given a cameo part in Game of Thrones...

I got onto the topic years ago when watching the Dambusters. Related to this, he also has a video showing how putting a simple tube/bag of water behind an explosive charge magnifies its force incredibly. I believe he started a company that built and sold explosives with such a water-fillable jacket that could be used to knock down doors by police forces.

edit: here's the water filled explosive knocking down a door: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_80gWlDQdHg
The problem with RAII is that it is semantically coupled to destruction in most (all?) of the languages it is implemented in, which is tied to lexical scope.

In GC'd languages where lifetime is not meaningfully coupled to scope, RAII cannot work the way you expect it to. The most trivial way to handle it is to couple to finalizers, which is tricky for two reasons: firstly it is not deterministic when (or if, in case of an exception/fatal error) the finalizer runs, and secondly it means the GC must keep track of user defined finalizers to execute on collection (what if they trigger an error? What if they take a long time? What if they block?).

The solution is to find some way to tie RAII to lifetimes, which may require exit analysis and can be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to implement in the language. The "least bad" way to deal with the problem is defer-like semantics.

I'm not a huge fan of defer, but it's important to understand why it exists. It's hardly "wrong by default" and more "understandably different."
The rock that's in the soil may not be the correct type, or it may have already reacted, or it may be in chunks that are too large to dissolve on human-relevant timescales. The idea is that you want ultramafic rocks, which are low in non-reactive Silica but rich in Magnesium and Iron oxides. These oxides absorb CO2 from the atmosphere to form carbonates and bicarbonates, sequestering it for geologic time. However, since reactions can only occur on the surface and when the minerals are dissolved, a big pile of mine spoil or river-sized rocks buried in the ground aren't doing much to absorb CO2. But if we grind it up into rock powder and spread it over fields, or crush it up into sand and dump it on beaches to let the ocean do much of the work of grinding and distributing it, the vastly increased surface area means a significant amount of CO2 can be absorbed in a human lifetime.

There can also be pros or cons associated with the minerals in the rocks. For example, you don't want to spread rock containing heavy metals on fields where you grow food. On the other hand, rocks rich in Potassium are a beneficial fertilizer, and Iron-bearing rock spread in the ocean can encourage the growth of phytoplankton that further absorb CO2.
GP's comment was referencing nitrocellulose, which is what I was attempting to address but fatfingered to 'nitroglycerin'. Forgive the typo.
I assume he was focused on doing the experiment he (and dozens of other people) lost
sight of the consequences.

As we say in America: “Hold my beer.”

Edit: Or more charitably, they underestimated the consequences.
Thanks, that's my monthly dose of sonder.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sonder#English
Dura Mater
Oh come on. That's such a weak argument.

No one is claiming that accessing media that is in the public domain is piracy. We are specifically talking about media that is not in the public domain.
From personal experience, in periods of high stress and other things going wrong, nothing but benzos could reliably allow me to choose to fall asleep. Short term (for me it was just a few times a month) I’m sure the side effects were harmless. A handful of other things simply did not work.

Having a strong lever to push my sleep schedule back towards healthy even when I had, say, taken a five hour afternoon nap, was extremely useful.

Being given other things that not only didn’t make me fall asleep but let me lethargic most of the rest of the next day… and having to wait months while doctors experimented with “safer” things was extremely frustrated and led to worse effects than were feared from avoiding benzos.
The Man Who Controls Computers with His Mind
If the rock dust captures so much CO2, what will the plants breathe?
Apparently they used to do that. Here are people demonstrating the safety of seatbelts by crashing their car https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWy0hHHECdM
Archived: https://archive.ph/XwwOS
Pshaw. Plant lots of trees.

Even poorly educated, dirt poor people in underdeveloped countries can do it. (And are. See for example Pakistan, where they are planting 10 billion of them.)
> This seems to be a sticking point among high achievers, but you really need to dial back any societal expectations you may have. You’re here for a short time, and you’re given the option of watching the spectacle at your leisure. Enjoy it while it lasts.

You're right, but understand, it takes many intelligent people years to figure this out. It's such a brutal state of reality that many parents are loathe to explain it so clearly to their children.

In my opinion it is a shame that society is mostly driven by the dumber elements of our species. I know this is pie in the sky, but perhaps in the future when humans are multiplanetary, a group of above average intelligence could choose to colonize a planet and only admit those who are similarly above average intelligence. Would be an interesting experiment to see which planet has faster technological and societal progress over time.
Sashay into the playroom! Fisher-Price unveils fabulous RuPaul toy set:

https://www.today.com/popculture/popculture/sashay-playroom-...
hehe, this reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_cheese
It's a discussion forum.
I'm curious if anyone has seriously explored the GR math of space with "bubbles" that may turn pretty big in case of black holes. The spacetime wraps around those bubbles, so the only way to detect such bubbles is observing the GR effects. My impression so far has been that GR theorists assume that the spacetime is continuous - it may be distorted here and there, but overall it's a smooth "pile of space" homeomorphic to a sphere.
I feel the concentration of production issue seems a big issue with 3 variables that have huge negative potential; 1) Weaponising as the article 2) General "things go bad" and the need for redundancy, especially as we say with COVID how selfsish people and countries can be with resources, and 3) general quality of life as business increasingly becomes megacorp and how that effects things like income distribution, enrepreurship and centralising population type effects.

It's hard to deal with in a capitalist society but I feel the first and best step is we've probably gone too far with globalisation and need to encourage certain minimums of domestic production for key areas. This should improve both global and national redundancy from any natural or human made crisis.
The original company rebranded when it pivoted to enterprise. I traded the Adioso brand/IP for my equity when I left, but have been working on other things, particularly since the pandemic arrived. A bit of LinkedIn sleuthing will lead you to the rebranded/active company, or you can email me if you want to know more.
Cryptocurrency is not hard currency. Outside of failed states like El Salvador, it isn't backed by any military force or taxing authority. It's just like Monopoly money or something.
Previous discussions:

"Linux Inside – How the Linux Kernel Works" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14422605 (564 points | May 27, 2017 | 31 comments)

"Inline assembly in Linux" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11606518 (158 points | May 1, 2016 | 33 comments
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Full list here: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=0xax+linux+insides