skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would take some intense pre-planning. So since you obviously can't capture a black hole to launch into a trebuchet, you'd have to do it to the original star before it collapses. Then time the launch so there's enough time for the collapse to occur during travel. You'd want to back up that launch time well before "just before collapsing" as the star's surface will have expanded to just be a tad bit unruly to handle. Better to grab it before that last bit of expansion just to keep things a bit easier to handle
I know an MS GIS who uses Arc about once a year now, mostly Q, R, and Python.
“Go with What’s Alive” and Other Writing Advice from Philip Roth
Looks awesome.

How does the memory cache work? The architecture looks great, but so much of PG efficiency is cache hit rate. Do the pageservers have a distribution plan? Plans to add something like DynamoDB Accelerator?
The code has fun things like this:

__SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED=z

And more importantly, this:

m=JSON.parse('{"dixie":
{"bot_name":"Dixie","first_message":"Hey you
*winks*","icon":"dixie.png" ...

... and so on. It introduces other characters, such as her step mother and riley-reid.

It's definitely not GPT anything. Fun to look at, but I don't think it's a good direction for HN to go into. The headline is misleading about a subject that otherwise would be interesting here.
I think what you mean to say is that "NATO is the United States, the rest of the countries are just members". That's not to knock, necessarily, the rest of the members - they've all made choices and assumptions about their own security. I agree, this is a problem, for many more reasons than the fact that only a small percentage of Americans know which country Vilnius is in, let alone where it is on a map.

>It is much cheaper and safer to fight this war in Ukraine rather then trying to liberate Lithuania

This is what I do not understand, the "safer" part. How exactly is it "safer" to intentionally antagonize the old Cold War adversary over a country that even President Obama admitted is not a strategic interest to the United States? To attempt to steelman this, we should support/arm/fund the Ukrainians as a means to degrade and destroy (by proxy) Russian combat power just in case they invade Lithuania next - or maybe to try and prevent them from being of use to the Chinese in a new Pacific War - knowing full well that they know invading a NATO country means WWIII in Europe (and probably the Pacific, who knows). This sounds awfully similar to the "we have to fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here" refrain that I heard all the time in the lead up to GWII and thereafter as we extended our stays in Iraq and Afghanistan, but it's the most compelling argument in favor of support I can come up with. I still think it's wrong, though.
That is so odd. You're telling us the people who make these tools don't use their own tools, moreover they have disdain for the users of the tools they make?
Earth has active plate tectonics, volcanism, hurricanes/tornadoes (with enough mass in them to destroy things), land slides, floods, lightning, and maybe worst of all other humans.

If we're living in a closed-ish habitat anyways, I think Mars might even manage to be easier (provided there was a critical mass of humans living on it). It seems like the only unpredictable natural disasters there are dust storms. Especially if you consider that any post apocalyptic habitat scenario is going to leave a lot of people out, and they aren't going to be peaceful about that during the transition.
Well described in 'Diaspora' by Greg Egan
Totally agreed and Local-First software is the way to go inspite of the clouds.

[1]https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/
These different radiation types are NOT equivalent.
I had no idea who Tom7 is, and now that I do, you're right: I LOVE this stuff. Thank you!

What an excellent example of using non-standard formats to explore interesting concepts and be exposed to different ways of thinking. This is what high school should be like. Actually, what am I saying: this is what it feels like to tinker with your pals in high school.

And now I'm looking at SIGBOVIK, Annals of Improbable Research, CMU's "ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL HERESY," the Ig Nobel prize … what a wonderful rabbit trail you've sent me down.
> over time, containers are all going to end up VM-scheduled, as VMs get cheaper and cheaper

That kind of started with Github actions.
> unpredictable gas fees

The fact that gas fees even exist just boggles the mind.

Bank fees at least on paper pay for overhead of running the wire transfer system. Gas fees (to my uninitiated understanding) literally just pay for the excess waste that is Ethereum, by design.
sure, but if you sell out of every investment every time it goes down in value you won't be very successful
In Stellvia, the GRB hits near the South Pole, which is kind of a best case scenario (sorry global south). But then they have several years to prepare for the matter ejected from the supernova, which is only traveling at a large fraction of c.
I use my package manager to help me. In my case, Ubuntu and Debian and such use dpkg and apt. So if I'm compiling something that needs libmnl.h, I will run `apt-file search libmnl.h` and see it's from the libmnl-dev package. With that I can see the shared libraries included in the development package using apt-file. The development package also depends on libmnl0 which has the shared libraries you're probably interested in
Diffusion Models for Video Prediction and Infilling
Is there anyone alive practicing “Roman Stoicism”? People today take valuable and useful ideas from the philosophy of Stoicism such as those that underpin CBT. Why disregard these because some people did or wrote things you disagree with hundreds of years ago? The author doesn’t say anything meaningful here.
Apple Pay doesn't run as a browser extension with a nasty habit of granting bad actors full access to drain your funds in a totally irreversible way.

Does any of that fall under "user experience" for you?
So by that logic we should mix metric and imperial whenever it rounds to a nice number. Pretty awful argument.
Very cool to see things like this. It reminds me of the early web when people were experimenting more. Wasm seems to have the potential to open it back up to more possibilities than the moribund JS situation we have now.
While what you said is true, I don’t think anyone has done any research on neutrino’s spectrum impact on human tissue? Partly due to this being nearly impossible to experiment on.
Anything bad for Ubuntu Server? I find some bad points for Ubuntu Desktop, but Ubuntu Server is fine.
I've got mixed thoughts/feelings (theelings? foughts??) about stoicism but my brother gave me a pretty damn cool coin that he got from the creator of a stoicism podcast or something like that. The heads side (there's a profile of a guy with the classic bearded ancient guy look) says Carpe Diem and the tails side says "Some things are in our power / other are not" along the rim with "Persist and Resist" in the center between two columns. It's a bit bigger than a US half dollar and I always keep it in my wallet.
> Containers _are_ a mechanism to increase to compute granularity. Some of our workloads were having trouble scaling to 128 cores, and by using containers, we can have more of them running with fewer cpu's.

As opposed to having VMs? Otherwise, I don't see how containers can increase granularity.
This is a weird article since it doesn't actually describe stoicism accurately.

"Don't be sad"? Huh?
Notion has built in web clippers for iOS/Android and a chrome extension for desktop.

1 click to save any article from any device.
It seems as though the author has completely missed a core tenet of the philosophy, and one which is reiterated by many stoic philosophers.

You accept what you can’t control, and that which you can, you enact your virtues to ensure the best outcomes possible.

You don’t simply let things be and accept it. You need to be constantly engaged in observation and reflection to ensure who you are and what you do is virtuous, and regularly assess if you are succeeding or not.

If anything stoicism strikes me as a philosophy which encourages practitioners not to accept the world as it is, but to live in harmony with it. Harmony doesn’t mean complacency, but living according to the environment you are a part of. You can live as you please (set goals, challenge yourself, explore, etc) non complacently, but it will necessarily need to coincide and function with the reality you exist in as well.
I don't think that's what CloudFlare workers are for.
> If and only if your job is to write tedious corporate pablum

I disagree.

Some background: I am a cloud security engineer (been in a senior security role for approximately six years). In my experience in the security field I have found that the best security engineers specialize in one or a few specific topics (e.g. systems administration, networking, reverse engineering, etc.) and are really valuable at those few things and then have a broad enough understanding of other security concepts that they can be generally useful in other topics they do not specialize in. Some of the most interesting presentations, documentation and conversations I have encountered has been when someone covers a topic I think I know well and breaks it down to such a fundamental level that "an idiot" could understand it. Typically, the intended audience for security content like this are highly technical individuals. Those who can "dumb down" a highly technical concept to any technical skill level are usually experts about that topic in my experience.

But perhaps for genius-level individuals (a group to which I do not belong), maybe it is not useful to break things down. But for me, I know I find it useful when people don't make any assumptions about my knowledge.
Used it on my past adtech startup handling billions of http requests per day (backend having multiple more calls).

Solid product, it's since reached parity with Cassandra and added even more features. Great team, very helpful. It's far easier to run than Cassandra because of its performance so you need less nodes overall (which is the single biggest issue in C* ops). The enterprise edition also has better compaction strategies and an automated system to schedule it all.

What scale are you looking at?
I think stronger oversight and less trust is sort of implicit in a pseudo-anonymous model. An attack like I described doesn’t require something as obvious as “code that steals money” either, it could be something much more innocuous that even afterwards appears to have been a mistake. Almost any type of bug combined with a well timed leveraged short position could result in big profits.
This headline is a comic example of the genetic fallacy.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/genetic

The article continues in this vein, and then presents a straw man version of stoicism in which rape, murder and so forth is greeted with indifference. I am not an unqualified fan of stoicism, but this is a ridiculous caricature of the philosophy, and the alternative presented by the article appears to be an appeal to allow emotion to drive our behavior.

I do not notice a dearth of emotional reasoning or a surfeit of stoic reasoning in today's world.
/new convention: think of it as “dotfiles” but “for computers”
What are you talking about?

High-availability is a core part of the Cassandra data model and node architecture. Scylla is designed to be highly available, and the enterprise version only adds features to make it easier to operate.
A phrase you'll all learn to dread as you, or a loved one ages, is "New Normal". I've had a few of them, the most recent involves a virtual fishbowl that used to be my good (right) eye. In a month or two, I hope to get back to my old "new normal" of just dealing with Long Covid and/or?? just being stuck inside too long.

There is a perceptual shift, much like those of new parents, who suddenly notice things that were previously invisible, that comes from these changes. I try to be attentive to those changes in others near and dear to me.
Another thing not specifically mentioned in the post is this project will be a good workout for the brand new language (Hare) as well. I remember a post on it not too long back on HN that garnered a lot of scathing remarks. Good luck to the authors.

However I just want to add a personal comment. In my view, programs will come and go. They can be written and rewritten. But what is really important if we want to ensure free computing for all is not gradually eroded is to work on as many open standards for interoperability as possible to serve as alternatives for proprietary protocols. Also open, community developed languages. However the hardware situation is out of the hands of software developers, yet critically important. Open software and protocols on closed hardware is unsustainable. Lets hope someone like Musk takes the initiative in this area.
That was never the intention for WASM—frontend WASM, at least—since all of those languages have heavy runtimes that would need to be shipped, quite apart from the difficulty of arranging their garbage collection techniques. It’s all stuff that can be done (and has been done), but it’s very inefficient by comparison. The situations may improve somewhat in the future with lighter, more WASM-attuned runtimes for the languages in question (especially as WASM gets some degree of GC integration), but they’ll never be as suitable as straight JavaScript or the likes of Rust via WASM.
Since you are still claiming that it was 95% effective. Can you give a time estimate for how long that efficiency lasted?

This study concludes " Primary immunization with two doses of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 or BNT162b2 vaccine provided limited protection against symptomatic disease caused by the omicron variant. "

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2119451#:~:text=....

Why are they wrong?

I read the article you cited. Here's the problem as I see with it.

"Among 3210 total cases of suspected but unconfirmed COVID-19 in the overall study population, 1594 occurred in the vaccine group vs 1816 in the placebo group"

The pfizer results are dependent on the accuracy of the PCR test.

"The false-negative rate for SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR testing is highly variable: highest within the first 5 days after exposure (up to 67%), and lowest on day 8 after exposure (21%)."

https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/journal-scans/2020/...

1. Even if the PCR test FNR was just 2% then some covid positive people were missed that need to be accounted for.

1594 * 0.02 = 31 were false negative in the vaccinated group

1816 * 0.02 = 36 were false negative in the unvaccinated group.

8 + 31 = 41

162 + 36 = 198

41 / 198 = 20% => Then the pfizer vaccine efficiency falls to 80

If the PCR test FNR was 10%
Then we need to add 159 and 181 respectively

8 + 159 = 167

162 + 181 = 343

167/343 = 48%. Efficiency falls to 52%

Real world FNR for a PCR test is estimated to be between 2-30%, but can be much higher depending on which day you get tested.

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/false-negative-how-long-do...

https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/journal-scans/2020/...

2. PCR tests do not show previous infection. Meaning that Pfizer PCR testing would miss all those people that had "flu-like symptoms" had covid, and recovered prior to getting tested. Did the pfizer study accounts for such likely scenarios?

Finally, why were there so many people with "Flu-like symptoms" in the pfizer study yet they did not have covid or the flu? Since we know that flu infections were at record lows during the last two years. Any explanation for this?
Interesting that you can understand this concept when its applied to development of grid-scale storage.

But you think its easier and risk free to develop from where we are to R&D plus supply chain, operating procedures, and workforce for safe and cost effective nuclear power?

Grid storage has no cost history. Nuclear power has a known cost history of being too expensive, and its had trillions of dollars of investment so theres no low hanging fruit.

Grid storage has existing components used in other industries and applications, nuclear power doesn't.
Why would they want to support a third standard? More support headaches for little gain is not generally what software developers desire.
Tell this to Paul Erdos.
South and the Rust Belt
https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/Nietzsche-The-B...

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Are those gross or net amounts?
I’ve been an investor in Twitter since shortly after the IPO. It’s done shit.
How is regulatory capture a problem of democracy? Surely you only need a regulator and a party to capture them?

For example, what's stopping a company in China lobbying a minister for regulations that harm their competitors? The Minister may not have been elected through democratic means, but regulatory capture can still occur.
I truly would not suggest abusing this, but doxycycline is currently used as an antimalarial.

If you actually need it quickly, call a travel clinic and say you are going to somewhere with malaria soon, forgot to get one, and you would prefer doxycycline.
(Iquitos, Peru fits this bill)
Say you’re going for at least a month.

Alternatively, if you have a primary care, they will also usually write for this without too many questions. (Usually just calling you back after they verify the dosage as an antimalerial )

Edit: if you don’t have insurance, use something like GoodRx or just call around several pharmacies first to get a cash price before you have your doctor call it in.

When I needed it for travel, it would have been $100+ at CVS out of pocket, but was $13 (I think at Wegmans )
The first Harvest Moon, which a lot of these mellow games like Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley follow on from, came out in 1996; Shenmue came out in 1999. I'm sure there's even earlier examples than Harvest Moon even.
I just quoted: https://www.finanzen100.de/devisen/waehrungsrechner/?kurs=de...

According to them it is almost exactly half.
"Oh say, can you see
...
Land of the free"
This is like a 17 year olds idea of what stoicism is.
The article author substantiated their argument with actual historical examples. Your rebuttal supported their argument with, basically, platitudes.
Ive done this quite a bit and I agree. There is something really amazing about getting intimate with a person you don’t know all that well. Expressing intentions, getting the logistics right, all require a certain level of skill.
I'm guessing the confusion is the "hex ETH" part. I know what a digital signature is and I can guess that ETH = ethereum, but have no idea what "hex" means so I can't "keep up" with your comment either.
Coming up right after the break, those details on that new black hole. Stay with us.
I thought they never explained why the moon broke up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load-following_power_plant#Nuc...
The essay hits this and it’s a good point, regardless of domain: don’t let the tooling define the work.

This is where systems like LaTeX, markdown, plain text, a typewriter (if you’re so inclined), or pen excel. Remove the ability to distract yourself and focus on content. Presentation exists to bolster the prose. Don’t attempt to fill an arbitrary structure until you know what to say.
Depends on how you define “bullshit” I guess but from my perspective there’s at least profits being made and money being exchanged. That’s less bullshit then a company that just takes VC money, hires people, and ultimately implodes without actually delivering any value.

And even if you look purely at social utility, if all this shit does is provide a test bed for ideas that end up utilized in future central bank digital currencies then they’ll probably have been worth it.
His drawing skill is surely impressive
> So you see a doubled cost for nuclear.

I don’t know what you mean. I proposed spending the same total amount.

> And also, your renewable energy source won’t work 100% of time and not at 100% of the capacity. Which also implies that you need to build multiple time what you planned to really get that planned capacity.

This was already factored in to the calculation I was agreeing with. They said that to get sufficient capacity in renewables considering reduced availability, it still costs 1/2 what nuclear costs.

I will copy and paste the relevant section from that comment for clarity:

>> "To illustrate this point, the 2,430 MW Vogtle nuclear plant could be expected to generate 21 million MWh per year. That is enough to power about 1.75 million residential households. Meanwhile, a hypothetical 3,500 MW solar power plant would be able to produce just under 6 million MWh of electricity per year. This number is enough to power only 500,000 homes, which is considerably less than nuclear power. For solar to produce as much electricity as is generated by a nuclear power plant, it would require about 13,000 MW of utility-scale solar capacity, which about four times as much as built in the existing plants. However, the cost to build this 13,000 MW facility would be $12.1 billion, which is still just 50% of the cost of the $25 billion Vogtle nuclear plant."

> https://www.solarfeeds.com/mag/solar-power-vs-nuclear-power/...
Ask HN: Are men systemically ecluding women in tech?
There was an article on Reddit in the Sysadmin area where a female claimed essentially, men are systemically excluding women from tech. As a Software Engineer, that's not close to what I've observed. Is it more common in the Sysadmin field?
at least in this clip that was a big time struggle to communicate the value prop of web3
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments? You've been doing that repeatedly, unfortunately, and we ban that sort of account.

You may not feel you owe VC billionaires (or whoever) better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>Not all mohels use the pipette

Yes, this seems to be acknowledged by all comments here. The initial comment you responded to said, "it is legal for them to suck the blood from the mutilated area with their mouth", which, in my interpretation, seems to cover both the direct contact version (no pipette), and the version which just adds a pipette in between. Both involve suction applied by the mouth. The latter version, as an aside, is hardly "fringe" in its prevalence. But I think the important part is the "it is legal", i.e. presumably anybody could add in a sucking part if they wanted to without breaking the law, which has nothing to to with how many actually do go through with it. Anyway, this discussion seems to be going in circles, but I will say, if you are serious in your stated desire for "nuance", there is a wealth of literature discussing the harms and morality (or lack thereof) of circumcision in general (although not necessarily specifically the religious versions), if you cared to look for it.
The distinction between “browser extension” and “baked into Safari” didn’t seem like an important distinction for this discussion.

The similarities are that in both use cases the user is presented with a request to approve or deny.
My understanding is that you are worried about code other customers are running (since both of you are running in the same process); but I might be wrong/not getting the angle of all of this?
Ok, fair enough.

Love Syncthing, didn't know it was written in Go. Though I wonder why they wrote MacOS client in Objective-C instead?
Fuck em, that will never hold up in court and they won’t even waste their time suing over it anyways.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments? You've been doing that a lot, unfortunately, and we ban that sort of account.

You may not feel you owe VC billionaires (or whoever) better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They are completely unrelated and yes in general they would be much smaller than baseload. Why wouldn't it? What the GP described is essentially what gas peakers do.