skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people in favour of lockdowns

> from people who wanted long (the only effective) ones.

Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but I think this kind of wording maybe sets up a straw man. Nobody _wanted_ lockdowns. I know hardly anyone who was genuinely excited and happy about quarantine and stay-at-home. Your wording sounds like there are some significant group of people who want everyone isolated in their homes (for what reason?), and when COVID came along, they could finally get their way! There is no mustache-twirling villain gleefully plotting to lock people in their homes just because.

I was in favor of sustained stay-at-home because it seemed like the only way to at least slow the pandemic from causing even more sickness and death, but that doesn't mean I liked or wanted lockdowns.
Some of the costs are hidden. The Neptune missile was cheap. The hidden, often unaccounted for part of that system however are the ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) capabilities to find the target. Anti-Ship missiles (AShMs) like the Neptune and practically any others have a limited ability to see what's around them because of the altitude they fly at and the overall small frame for radar power. This means the operator has to identify where the ship is, where it's going, and then fire their missiles to intercept. There's practically no communication afterwards (certainly not in Neptune's case) so the further away the ship it, the greater the chances it will move in that time and the missiles will fail to acquire it. (Firing closer as you can imagine brings its own risks.)

So you need a system or system of systems to find your target, relay that information down to your launchers (securely, quietly, and timely!) so you can launch your relatively cheap weapon. That's where all of the investment in communications, radars, overhead platforms (drones, aircraft, satellites) comes into play. The GlobalHawk that had been flying over the Black Sea for weeks at 40,000 feet isn't cheap, but without one, one's firing missiles blind.

The further out you get, the more eyes and links you need to find and track your target, and that's where it gets expensive. It also becomes less of a sure bet.
Often enough, France cannot even power itself, less so export electricity 24/7. And the number of operational reactors is going down, not up. France is only a strong exporter in the times where there is low demand - exporting surplus nuclear energy is of course far better than regulating the reactors down - both from an economic standpoint as well as an ecologic one.
The second half of the article explains that she had a "prescription" for it from a doctor she didn't actually know (this drug is only sort of OTC, apparently), and the technicality alerted the computer.

The insurance companies then confirmed that their flagging / rejecting of applications like hers is intentional.
I feel like you just described the Switchblade drones.

https://www.avinc.com/tms/switchblade
The safe future of nuclear energy production is in molten salt reactors. They are walk-away safe.
Not really. London is not much less expensive, and I’m not familiar with Paris but it seems roughly as expensive as London at a glance. The big difference is many costs, especially for young families, are socialized in those two places. For example, health insurance.
I think 10% happening is not that unrealistic. If oil prices return to 2008 levels ($150 a barrel) that's effectively another 36% inflation. If natural gas prices in the US converge with European prices, you have another 400% increase in the cards.

The fed will have a choice: hike rates to slow demand (10%) *OR* keep rates highish and allow financing for more supply to come online (5%). Who the hell is going to finance new gas exploration at 10%?
> these sites DO attract an outsized group of extremely antisocial people

We are treated as less than human. Why would we not be anti-social? American society is anti-social. Imagine if someone told you you could not use the bathroom in your house, where would you shit?

We have nothing and have to steal to survive, we have crippling stress so we take drugs to escape because we cannot get the psychedelics that are cool drugs?

You think we just appear out of the ether, that there is no greater social issue happening. I would love to be able to compartmentalize as you do, it might help me sleep at night. I invite you all to watch some of our stories son this YouTube channel Invisible People.

https://www.youtube.com/c/InvisiblePeople/videos
but... you had to go looking for that one, skipping over the part where you saw a bunch of waist-up pictures of a cartoon canine and got too hot and bothered to continue reading? it's not linked from the original article
Bravo on your decade-old relevant username!
I would agree with other posters that it's already like that, reddit.com, one of the biggest websites in the internet, will ask if you want to continue on chrome or the app if accessing from a mobile phone, essentially calling the mobile browser Chrome.
Or labels it as organic, and green? While actually damaging an ocean ecosystem (that may help fend off climate change)
Job != research. Many people see a PhD as an indicator of "really smart person" (good for jobs!...maybe...until you have too many of them and they get bored or act like divas), but it's more an indicator of an ability to do independent research (good for a very specific type of job). We are producing vastly more PhDs than we need for jobs that require the latter.
> In San Francisco, high rents have driven the government's "low income" threshold of $117,400 (£87,970) almost as high as the median income for a family of four in the area - $118,400 (£88,630).

You know something has gone haywire when "low income" and "median" incomes are basically the same amount.
I mostly agree, but I actually think the biggest pressure is people afraid of getting kicked out.

You pay your weight in gold, but if you become a pain to someone high enough on the totem pole, it's easy to get kicked out of a program, leaving you with not much.

You gotta play the game to have any chance of changing things. A lot like politics, actually.
Believe so.
Almost as if the STEM shortage wasn't a shortage in the first place hm..
In the cases where you need root it's often even easier to use the 'tee' command instead of spawning another shell; esp. if the command has symbols which need to be escaped.

Your example would then become something like...

cat whatever.img | sudo tee /dev/whatever > /dev/null
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/82256

Just like in household plumbing, the 'tee' command basically takes the input and sends it to more than one place. Naturally, running 'sudo tee' will let you send things all over but as another user.

All that said, I won't speak to the comment "why does the entire internet say to use dd". I've never actually found the "whole internet" to agree on much of anything (-:
"Code is law" is a dream that is not actualized. It's not actually law, it's just code. I'm pretty sure law enforcement will gladly prosecute for a lot of these "hacks".
Radioactive material in the United States largely doesn't move. It is stored in concrete casks on site that sit there even after decommissioning. You can see with binoculars or satellite photo.

Also, same impossible calculations apply to any power tech. Number of people injured installing rooftop solar or wind, poisoned by graphite mining, trucking accidents, aluminum production, and the like.
So do vast swathes of Americans.

Pop quiz: In what countries does it cost a full day's wages or more to fill a car's gas tank?

US minimum wage is $7.25/hr. As of this writing, US gas prices average $4.71/gal. For a typical car the gas tank holds about 15 gallons. Even a small car would have a 12 gallon tank.
I disagree. Gifted programs exist and students in it receive more personal and one-on-one support. Personally I didn't pay for my gifted program (or my parents, of course) throughout the entirety of elementary and middle school. Only in high school did I have to pay for the extra exams, which was approximately $400 (I shoveled snow to pay for it).
I applaud the dedication. Each fuck you should be an SPA. Theres SaaS potential since people who are royally pissed will pay to get it outthere fast
I'm not sure this would work, in general. A page will often render slightly differently based on the size of the window, so whatever size is "reported" to the webpage would end up being how big the page is rendered.
This is great lol
Interesting how it went from 'just a blogging platform' to 'turn your audience into a business'.
More complete results: https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2022/5/18/pwn2own-van...
I wonder if folks do that because its easier to picture a hole the size of two washing machines. That would be like 4-6 sq ft which can be more difficult to visualize.
> but they wouldn't necessarily know what to look for or change if its a distinct kind of transaction

which means non-trading transactions would look so different that someone playing with higher gas wouldn't know what to replace in the bytecode within the 15 seconds between blocks

and the user also has the choice of sending directly to a miner just like the MEV people do, to skip the mempool

which is looks like he did (but not sure, just noticed his contract mentions MEV)

https://etherscan.io/tx/0x1710f8c91f03d43a51b94fb5db00305cdd...
Interesting. I would argue that social competence is almost always a baseline requirement for team-based work, but maybe not?

Thanks for your perspective!
We've already reached this point. Hence Tesla $1T and shitcoin et al...

You're watching the unwind.
You'd say something like "2 cubic metres". Which is roughly the size of 2 washing machines.
People generally develop tools for their own needs. I'm not saying "hey, if you want one that uses the defaults you believe are best, create your own", but just keep some empathy for open source developers. :)
Airflow brought one of the best tools with nice UI for running pipelines back in 2014-2016. But now days engineers should be aware about easier to use options and don’t choose Airflow blindly as default choice.
IMHO for 80-90% of cases orchestration system should not use code at all - it should be DAGs as a config code. Airflow is popular and teams keep choosing it for building simple DAGs and incurring avoidable otherwise Airflow maintenance costs.

Databricks Orchestration pipeline, AWS Step Functions - good examples of DAGs as a configuration.
Yet another example of the worst of humanity destroying something that had potentially world changing and improving potential.
Are your TURN and / or STUN implementations publicly available?

There are also nice existing FOSS implementations:

(Golang) Pion TURN - https://github.com/pion/turn

(Rust) Port of Pion TURN - https://github.com/webrtc-rs/turn and https://webrtc.rs/

(Rust) TURN server and client - https://github.com/sile/rusturn

(Python) TURN Server - https://github.com/m32/sturn

(Javascript) Node.js TURN server - https://github.com/Atlantis-Software/node-turn

(C) TURN server - https://github.com/Atlantis-Software/node-turn

Additional reading if you care to refresh on WebRTC terminology like STUN, TURN, ICE, etc:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebRTC_API/...

https://www.twilio.com/docs/stun-turn/faq
She likes them. Her school has a really high quality GT ("gifted and talented") teacher. It is an honor to get into the program and allows kids the opportunity to do longer-term project type learning like you are talking about. This also gives her more time to focus on the kids that are struggling while not holding back the kids that are already exceeding expectations. In our experience though, it really depends on the teacher, I suppose that goes for all classes in all schools. You were lucky to have a good one it sounds like!
I mean with that logic, there are mountains of lint in people's pockets. And mountains of cobwebs in their basements.

Just about everything forms a mountain if you combine all instances of it in the world into a big pile.

If anything, it'd only be notable if something didn't form a mountain when piled.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_meas...
I think the PhD is overrated, and along with that I think a lot of university education is overrated; note this is someone with two BA's and a Masters. Unless you're teaching, or doing some hard core research, I don't see that the PhD is necessary or even a good investment. That time could have been spent gaining experience, which IMHO, is extremely valuable.
You'd obviously have to limit the price fluctuations for consumer contracts. But currently I'm just starting the dishwasher or washing machine when I fill them, but I don't care when they're done as long as it's within ~12 hours. In many places I can get cheaper electricity at night and save a bit by running them then. But with renewables surplus might happen at any time of day, not just at night. A smart meter combined with marginally smart devices would allow us to run time-insensitive things when it's cheap, instead of when it's convenient.
> In what countries does it cost a full day's wages or more to fill a car's gas tank?

Most countries.
> unless eating junk from a fast food, you're talking 20-25$/person/meal for a normal place.

I don't think it's that high (yet?), though you can find restaurants like that. (See [1].)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31478539
The funding situation around quantum computing is quite strange indeed. Governments want to get a foot in the door for a new high-tech industry, but it also has implications for national security. The few existing quantum computing nerds aren't enough to go around.

So everyone is falling over each other to train up some new nerds. They are opening huge pots of money any professor who can make a plausible case for quantum computing with X. Here X is generally some form of pure research that the professor made a contribution to in the past. You'll inevitably have some growing pains when you try to repurpose hundreds of physicists like this.

It seems sort of silly, but when a government decides it wants get a jump on a new industry, before it's commercially viable, I don't see a better option.
So you're saying it's everything else that's wrong. Not that we accept single motherhood as normal and OK?

That's what's wrong here. Rights without responsibility. Stop incentivizing single motherhood, for starters. Encourage men to stick around and for both parents to rely on each other. It feels like you're helping but you're not. You're encouraging futile behavior.
There are many reasons not to do it. A shortage of bodies of water above other bodies of water isnt one of them.
> But if that’s true on a scale of minutes, why longer? Instead of watching hourly updates, why not read a daily paper? Instead of reading the back and forth of a daily, why not read a weekly review? Instead of a weekly review, why not read a monthly magazine? Instead of a monthly magazine, why not read an annual book?

> With the time people waste reading a newspaper every day, they could have read an entire book about most subjects covered and thereby learned about it with far more detail and far more impact than the daily doses they get dribbled out by the paper. But people, of course, wouldn’t read a book about most subjects covered in the paper, because most of them are simply irrelevant.

This just screams to me that Aaron Swartz didn't have any experience with realtime programming.

book *send_scoop_the_week_before_the_election(scoop *s)
{
book *b = block_for_months_if_not_years(s);
return b;
}
I don't think it's possible to reconcile the battlefield with an ethics of self defense. You can pick a side that way, yes, but the doctrines of justifiable homicide simply don't hold up in battle.
Research job openings. Big tech can’t hoover them up fast enough.
A very good reason Russia won't touch satellite assets is that most of the early warning systems are based on those: if your early warning system goes down, then you're exceptionally vulnerable to a first strike.
Polkadot is actually a layer 0 and does not have smart contracts. Parachains, like Moonbeam, are your layer-1's that provide smart contracts.

Avalanche is also layer 0.
I don't think any credible person or German party ever claimed that. It's the food you're eating that's modified, not that you get genetically modified from eating it

(Of course gmo is a thousand times better than previous practices with random mutation)
I dunno. I'm not so unhinged about it as the guy above, but I do share some of his exhaustion at the ideological box-ticking of these TV shows.

I'm left wing and I believe everyone deserves equal rights and equal respect, but I find utterly fatuous the idea that 'representation in television shows' is an important political concern. I believe in fighting global starvation, climate change, social safety nets under increasing automation, etc - not how many transgender lesbians are in TV shows.

I do not give a fuck about that, I do not give a fuck if transgenders and/or lesbians give a fuck about that, it is not important, and I'm disturbed at the increasing frivolity, corporate-ness, and lack of depth in political life when people are seriously suggesting that this is a worthy expenditure of our political willpower and attention (which is extremely finite and scarce, regardless of what people on Twitter insist).
One of the reasons the Fed keeps factors like servicing the government's debt at "arm's length" is because the debt figures are a political football.

The Fed wants to maintain a balanced, non-partisan position, as much as possible.
Have things always been this... reactionary? One bad quarter and we're into layoff territory at a bunch of companies.
The problem starts when the user has not been educated about the potential drawbacks of enabling such a feature. The privacy.resistFingerprinting option is the leading cause for angry Firefox users and unwarranted negative reviews on my part, despite being an obscure feature that can only be enabled from config.

Things will break in unexpected ways, while web developers are the ones expected to spend their time offering support for a browser that has been rendered broken.

They need to be very careful about how these features are presented, and evaluate how they affect the entire web ecosystem.
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For anyone else thinking (especially later in this thread) "what is AWACS?":

> AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) is the name of the specific system installed in the E-3 and Japanese Boeing E-767 AEW&C airframes, but is often used as a general synonym for AEW&C.

> An airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) system is an airborne radar system designed to detect aircraft, ships, vehicles, missiles, and other incoming projectiles at long ranges and perform command and control

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_early_warning_and_con...
For college graduates in the US, high school is typically not something included on your resume. The only time it'd makes sense to include is if it's a flex, like if you went to Philips Academy or somewhere "special".
Sorry, that came off snarkier than I meant rereading it.

You’re 100% correct. I’ve grown more tolerant of these ceremonial uses. There really aren’t many folks that understand shell. I see it in CICD, etc all the time, too.

The one left that kills me that I see in vendor scripts all the time is ‘command; ret=$?; if [ “$ret” -ne 0 ]; then foo; fi’

If you’re handling return code cases, then cool. But folks don’t realize ‘test’ aka ‘[‘ is just another command.

But then again, so much Java, etc. I read is the same copy/paste. Those can be worse because example code isn’t prod ready, where bad shell usually does the right thing, just awkwardly or inefficiently.

But as you point out, so much isn’t thinking about what you’re doing, just mimicking.
As mentioned, this sort of board is produced to sell chips and serve as a basic reference design for customers and support engineers who have to debug issues.

As for what a typical robotics project needs, the Zynq line is far, far nicer to program and certify than the corresponding alternatives from NXP and especially TI (at least once you've automated away the pain of xilinix' toolchain), plus you get a decent FPGA on the side and ROS support. Laptops and cell phones won't do any of that and couldn't be certified, regardless.

So yes, this is very much something people will want.
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as in Google Assistant for depression/OCD/ADD/anxiety management. Specialized for 1-2 problems that were diagnosed by a real doctor.

The biggest problem is it needs to be quite well customized for each user.

I believe talking to anyone/anything helps a lot, and hearing feedback helps even more.

A "personal medical assistant" like that could help manage medication intake, serious episodes, moments when you feel very bad.

I have a prototype for myself, it's just a bunch of cobbled software running on a dedicated smartphone. The voice triggers and replies are prewritten based on my own self-analysis. But I know it all already, so the best part is medication reminders and letting me know what I live for.

However it needs to always be on me, and right now it uses too much custom software to just install on anything. I can't build such an app myself, but it should be possible.

I am single btw, so of course I have no one to talk to.

The therapists I tried were just public ones, so they're more interested in showing up and getting their cut out of the mandatory insurance system.

"We don't take on new clients" or "we only speak German" is a valid reply, and what's a depressed person calling for help gonna do?

Just hang up and give up or best case, call others. It's a shit system.

I gave up on it all and am trying to make/find a "system" that is truly personal, custom, free as in freedom, independent of the gargantuan public and for profit healthcare machines, which are too big to accommodate everyone, plus the disinterest in actual help is obvious in places where insurance is mandatory.

Not knocking on emergency services, surgeons, anyone fixing obvious physical problems, those people are worth it. Mostly mental healthcare, where it's easy for unscrupulous people to fudge numbers and make money for doing nothing.

It's like my hypothyroidism, took me years to get that diagnosis, it's stupid.

But of course, when you say "I'm depressed and I drink a lot', that's not the first thing anyone would think to check for. Or maybe my luck is terrible.

Either way, universal healthcare systems are just huge machines like the justice system, they work for most, but many slip through the cracks and get zero help, being left to self-medicate and self-help, which is hard when said machines gatekeep anything that can actually work.

That's how you get a huge popularity of homeopathy, religion, diets, illegal drugs, and anything desperate people can cling to and believe in.
It's a bit of a shame that the US doesn't really allow part time PhDs (at least not in any of the schools that I asked). If they did, conceivably a lot of these students could get a relatively well-paying job in engineering or a lab or something, and as such the schools could get away with paying less. Part of the reason that I didn't bother trying to pursue the CUNY PhD in mathematics was specifically because the stipend they were offering wouldn't be enough to cover my mortgage (~$2,000/month), and they didn't offer any kind of part-time plan.
Pumped hydro is extremely dependent on geography. Yes, the extant plants have favorable cost-per-capacity, but that number will only get worse as less favorable sites are used for it.
Similarly, global warming may become irreversible and runaway.

The article suggests the arrival of "some economically advantageous process may be invented that produces disastrous negative global externalities that are hard to regulate." That may well have already occurred.
Pretty much every other country in the world. Europe pays $8/gal or more depending.