skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I was a disease, then reacting to circumstance of a trade route, I would hope my gene expression and natural selection helped me: I want to survive on trade goods, in food, in a host animal (without killing it too soon) and "flow" along a path, which in human scale for the time takes months, if not years to move.

Plague looks to have hit the spot: it does kill, and it does cause horrific sequelae, but it also survives long enough to spread.

Bubonic/Pneumonic expression probably helps, two forms means two vector-paths. Host of rats/fleas, well rats are pretty hardy, adaptable, and good at both hiding and breeding rapidly. So they can carry long distances in trade goods, and then bust out to exploit local food sources. Or, just move alongside the trade goods by chance, following the inadequate hygene of the road/river camps. (obviously, hiding on boats also works but the silk road was predominantly a land route)

Nothing those pesky humans did was going to interfere until two things happened: they learned some basic hygene, and they learned a couple of low-bar tricks to immunise, and then finally they invented antibiotics.

But I probably have a trick or two up my sleeve to fight back. Lets start with "helping" them make antibiotics less reliable, and then lets think about other strategies..
Nah, this would just be death. Paywalls arose from the decline in ad revenue and I doubt much of that is coming from ad blockers. Ads just aren't worth as much. Paywall/subscriber model is the only want to be and a huge swath of publications already can't generate enough subs to survive. Others are getting swallowed up by private equity. If you evade paywalls too, then they'll just cease publication.
No you need a star of 6-10 solar masses to make a supernova.
Abortions Increase in the U.S.
See https://isdotnetopen.com/ for a concise summary of open problems in the .NET ecosystem and a detailed account how the .NET platform is becoming closed to ensure it is only useful if you are a customer who pays for Visual Studio.
I have multiple projects licensed under GPLv3. The biggest request I have gotten has been to relicense them so closed source projects could use them - which I would be fine with, but I'm not actually free to do that because of upstream GPL dependencies.

There are other legal issues with Steinberg and the licenses, particularly the recent changes (some of which are contradictory and the language needs adjustment). But if you're not a developer of a well known project, Steinberg will ghost you. The devs are kind, but unhelpful, and legal is unreachable.

And ultimately, users don't care about libre software. They care about software that works. That's why VST2 was so popular despite the licensing situation, and why DAWs that supported it are DAWs that people wanted to use.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/wage-growth
Wages in the United States increased 11.67 percent in April of 2022 over the same month in the previous year. source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
The article you linked contains the literal quote "fear and panic quickly spread through the residents of Hawaii", so I'm not sure why you linked it in support of the statement "nobody panicked".
https://github.com/seald/nedb/
That’s true, but Netscape wasn’t his first browser. He and Eric Bina also releasedd the first version of Mosaic in 1993, which was the first graphical browser to inline images with the text.

Oh yeah, it ran on 5 operating systems (I used the OS/2 version myself)

The breadth of features that were added between Netscape 1.0 and Netscape 3.0 in 2 year span was pretty astounding at that time. People forget how many critical features were added to Netscape 3.0 that would define so much of the web today and make it commercially viable.
How would one even test a feature like that?
> Problems that have been solved by regular banking decades ago.

https://www.savings.com.au/news/scamwatch-2021

Australians lost a record $323 million to scams in 2021

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So glad they solved fraud prevention 'decades ago'.
I’m surprised gas pumps and everything else still works without power. I guess if you’re effectively tethered to an area that is prone to widespread regional disruptions it makes sense, but that’s a lot more niche than the original “I can’t imagine not having at least a couple hundred dollars in cash…”.
is Kyrgyzstan where the ugurs are being persecuted by china?
Nobody panicked? I panicked just reading the freaking article!
I believe the crime part but even your linked article describes the panic!

> Fear and panic quickly spread through the residents of Hawaii.
With both cynical and realistic view, yes.

But there may be a genuine idea here too. If you know you're going to downsize, letting people choose to leave will result in higher morale. It will also prevent some situations where the lay-offs caused those same people to quit anyway (but now the company is actually short some key employees).

But maybe Kraken managers are actually just assholes and the leadership is trying to pull off DHH.
Commiting suicide?

I think there is literally nothing we could do given our current technology level.
There's a genre of Youtube video where somebody goes to visit relatives and pops a USB stick into into the TV with a fake Emergency Broadcast System message.
No publication would survive on micropayments per article. If they built a perfect UX flow, nobody would adopt it.
I'm not sure whether this applies to sudo, but for device access, a biometric like a fingerprint is neither an identifier nor a password. It is closer to a session key. In any finger print system I have used, you must login with a username and password, then you have a session of access. The finger print can extend that session for some hours or days. Eventually the session rules require you to login again. Without having a recent session, your fingerprint does not provide access.

Yes, like any session-based access, it is a compromise between convenience and security. For frequent usage like phone access, I feel like it is a reasonable compromise.
You only need general location data. The missile can do the final approach itself.

It's hard to hide a strike group. Even civilians are tracking them these days with commercial sattelites:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hisutton/2020/05/07/the-realiti...

US itself talks about sending out hundreds of cheapish drones in a swarm (5 km spacing) to seek out all naval assets over an area.
I don't think those are incompatible comments.

One commenter is just looking at it from the perspective of the market at large and the other uses a niche DAW, looking at its value for personal use.

Even so, if it doesn't catch on more broadly there's a good chance it's not going to last. Hoping it makes it.
In the interest of defending my credibility, consider the challenge of explaining some concept to an audience using concrete examples, when any example has subtle associated details and exceptions that, while fun to explore on their own, do not further the goal of explaining the original concept.

If you'd prefer, I can explain the concept of the right-half-plane zero using only abstract systems described by transfer functions. But I suspect that will be less effective from an education standpoint.

I maintain that countersteering a bicycle is an excellent example of a RHP0, and it's no coincidence that a translating inverted pendulum also has an RHP0 in its control solution.

I also am one of those cyclists and, at least prior to the pandemic, commuted by bicycle every day.
Have you seen Oceania and Africa egress prices?
I'm interested in nuclear energy but it appears that I don't know enough. Thorium breeder, processes generating pu-239... Is there a relatively accessible book I can read to understand all of this better?
It's legal to use Russian as the primary instruction language in schools for the first 5 years. After that, they have to switch to Ukrainian, but they can still continue to teach Russian as a foreign language class (same as English etc).

On the whole, I'd say that Ukrainian language policies are more akin to Quebec. OTOH Turkey has been packing its prisons with Kurds until recently for crimes such as "insulting Turkishness", so no, it's not really a valid comparison. I don't like the laws on this subject in either Ukraine or in Quebec (or really any place that tries to force cultural cohesion), but specifics do matter.
I'm pouring one out for the researchers who have to rerun all their experiments and rewrite +republish their entire papers every time I click a link on scihub.
The problem of consciousness is outside the subject area of physics. Chemistry - maybe, but more likely cell biology and information theory. Even more likely it will remain an issue of philosophy rather than (positive) science.
Docker container.
you are asking for the employee to manage the employer.

ive worked at companies that only expected 4h of code a day. so maybe you are at the wrong company?
- Transpilers: sometimes you need to support old browser versions but want to use newer features

- Typescript: one but lesson we’ve learnt over the years is that vanilla JS sucks and when your codebase grows into the >10k loc range it becomes a nightmare without engineering and tools like the typescript compiler

- minification: minify your JS, HTML, and CSS

- state synchronisation: a big problem with the jquery days was desync, modern web frameworks make it very easy for state and ui to stay in sync

- one codebase for web, electron (desktop), mobile (react native). Whether this is a good or bad thing is left as an exercise to the reader

- lots more I’m forgetting. For better or for worse, that’s the modern JS toolchain, plain HTML with some JS sprinkled on top just doesn’t cut it for modern webapps anymore
Nah, still not evidence of anything, it’s still anecdotes.
Nothing that exists today is moving behind a closed-source model. Omnisharp will continue to be open and maintained but it won't be the default anymore.
Watching Leg-o-Lamb surf in the battle of Helm's Deep kinda ripped me back to "this is just a movie". Jackson should just snip that out and burn the footage of it.

These days, I tend to just put LotR on with the sound off, as moving wallpaper.
Fermat's last theorem has been solved back in the 90s. But it's obviously just one example to illustrate the main point, it's not about whether it specifically has been solved or not.
That was very helpful, thank you very much.
Yeah the fact that I can binge courses and take exams anytime is awesome, it can help cut down the time to graduation. Best of luck
> Given the number of employees who have access to sensitive customer information

This seems like the real news. Coinbase's CEO just admitted that their security posture is underdeveloped.

> it was unfortunately the only practical choice, to ensure not even a single person made a rash decision that harmed the business or themselves.

Not only that, they don't have a way to prevent malicious internal actors.
> Simultaneously, they don’t use a virtual machine or a container, which means you are actually running closer to the metal than any other form of cloud computing I’m aware of.

Because it's positioning a key benefit, I have a lot of issues with this sentence. First, there are many bare metal cloud options (ranging from machine types to full-blown providers). Second, a container doesn't put you any further away from the bare metal than a process.
Earth even with massive temperature swings from today (due to wacky orbit or whatever) I think Earth would still be more hospitable than Mars. It has a magnetic field and a moon and lots of water. If all the life has died, and the atmosphere has frozen or boiled off, well, you're still no worse off than Mars, and you've still got that magnetic field and aquifers and petrochemicals to get back to space eventually.
The neutrino signal from this (mostly harmless) event

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN_1987A

was clear as day. Astronomers run an email list you can subscribe to to know about the next core collapse in or near our galaxy. They are hoping to get a heads up so they can point their telescopes at it as soon as possible.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-020-0221-5
no, google is your friend :)
> playing vocabulary whackamole likely will be more of a distraction than anything else

exaggerate, as far as I can tell after looking at some dictionaries, never means "more than the norm". It is not a comparison, it is an actor distorting something. I do appreciate the attempt at charitable interpretation, but I don't think you can redefine words from their only meanings just to clear someone from making an accusation.
Yes, it is. Tax authorities don’t really care about petty versions of it (like your example of a gardener), but they do care if you’re effectively a FTE being paid under the table.

(The gardener might also be filing 1099s or the equivalent without you knowing, but that doesn’t seem likely.)
Nice! Thanks for the link. As I've been playing around building a toy OS for my Raspberry Pi and learning more about hardware virtualization, I was thinking exactly along these lines, i.e. instead of virtualizing an full OS, virtualizing a minimal image with just a network driver and a flat address space per process/app seems like it would have benefits (i.e. no virtual memory mapping or privilege ring transitions eating cycles). I wasn't aware it was already an area that had much research behind it.

From the article:

> For example, off-the-shelf applications such as nginx, SQLite, and Redis running over a unikernel have shown a 1.7x-2.7x performance improvement

That's a pretty healthy boost. Are there any significant efforts close to general use anyone is aware of in this space? (Or good reasons why it's a totally terrible idea and hasn't gone anywhere!)
Captcha ended up stuck over the message send button.

Same experience as others, answers aren't very on point or tailored to the question.
if a browser is not networked, is it a browser?
> Multiplayer battles don't really work because all pokemon in Pikachu/Eevee have weirdly inflated stats due to the candy system imported from Pokemon Go. You can't battle wild pokemon; you can only catch them. This isn't restricted to the Let's Go series, but all modern Pokemon games (starting with X/Y) are absurdly easy in comparison to the originals; don't expect that you'll ever be in any danger of losing a battle.

Oh man, that’s tragic :’( I knew there had to be a catch. I genuinely don’t understand why they wouldn’t just remake the originals! Surely I’m not the only one in my generation with nostalgia and a professional salary to spend on video games.
How do you go under a restriction to not take a users digital items? The restriction is, you have access to X which is being traded, not X+Y+Z.
Not sure where I'd rank this in the list, but I'd add Austin, TX as well. Traffic is a nightmare but there's a vibrant technology scene and supposedly a lot of investment activity and growth in that area in the last several years. Housing prices are probably pretty high but I'm sure they're lower than the bay area, and probably similar to Dallas/Ft. Worth. Only problem with TX is the legislature has made some...questionable...choices in the last few years, so consider the way things are trending if that sort of thing is of concern to you.

Edit: TX has no state income tax, but I'm told that they make up for it with higher-than-normal property taxes. How much higher, I have no idea, never been well off enough to be able to buy property. But that may be relevant to you as well. Everything's got pros and cons!
A modern classic Tinder opener too: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tinder/comments/u4u9ke/giraffe_line...
Showing off your status and wealth makes you seem like an arrogant a***.
Six months is not unwise, in my view.
Well there's two factors preventing that:

1. The smaller the black hole, the brighter and shorter lived it is. To get the black hole to live for any decent amount of time, it'd have to be travelling close to the speed of light for the effects of time dilation to extend it's life time from our perspective.

2. Detecting gravitational effects on a small scale is stupidly hard because of how weak gravity appears to be (compared to the other 3 forces: strong nuclear, weak nuclear, electromagnetic).

If you were to shine a laser and the tennis ball massed black hole travelled through the path of the laser, you wouldn't see any light missing because the wavelength of light would be larger than the black hole.

If you stopped the black hole (so it's not moving close to the speed of light), and tried to shine the laser at it for a greater effect: not only would you not see less light, you would actually see light shooting out of it so bright it'd be like putting your eye against many many atomic bombs because the Hawking Radiation would be so strong. (It'd also destroy itself in a blink of an eye)

You can increase the mass of the black hole to make it cooler and live longer. A 1,000 metric tonne black hole would live for around 46 seconds shedding radiation at an ever increasing amount before exploding into nothingness again. Assuming you could filter out the light coming from the black hole, you might see the phase of the laser light shift, but it'd all still end up at it's destination.

The greater problem would be trying to figure out how to shield the Earth from the amount of light shooting out of it.
I really need the "Why did we make this" section. Somebody needs to explain to me how your dead corpse is going to care if you wasted the last hour of your life or not.
You've done your fair share of trying!

Your assessment reflects mine entirely. Elixir has that charm in that it leads you to productivity quickly, just as Go does. Someone could argue that's only because of much larger pool of users that's paved the path before.

Picking up Haskell again for fun, and the Effective Haskell book has been a fun learning experience. Not too beginner-ish, and doesn't take too much time to explain concepts.

I'll have to try esy and dune again sometime when OCaml 5's stable. Their commands are just different enough from go/cargo/npm to be annoying.
For what it's worth, I'm not suggesting using breeder reactors as a primary source of electrical power, but as an option for reprocessing transuranic waste and spent fuel. So totally different levels of scale.

Also, the main reason we haven't invested in breeder reactors is that it turns out uranium isn't actually scarce enough to justify it.
PicnicHealth (YC S14) is hiring Product Engineers to transform healthcare data
Apple's OS is becoming more and more secure and while I understand this makes sense for the average user, it brings many annoyances. Also from a developer perspective (notarisation, having to jump through hoops to install software from 'untrusted sources', etc...). This is my biggest annoyance with macOS at this point.

I'd like to have a system that is 'less secure' in which I feel I have more control over my system.

Also it seems Apple is moving apps included in macOS to be more in line with iOS, which is not really something I like to see. It will likely dumb down app functionality.
Writing is not especially difficult but writing well is hard.

The best writing is both poetic and scientific and so very rare. Euclid is still rare, as are Euler and Einstein.

I find the most difficult art of writing is to share appreciation and that this is best done with gentle reference. To elucidate is the rarest craft as this requires insight.

Writing is fun, and we should enjoy it more
My experience is that Python has *many* more memory leaks than C code.

They're less visible since I ran C code on a computer with 32MB of RAM, and I run Python code on a computer with 32GB of RAM, but they're very common in modern Python programs.

As another comment pointed out, memory issues in Python are less dangerous too. I'm glad not to worry about buffer overflows in Python.
Solar and wind have a storage problem. Day-to-night storage is a solved problem, but summer-to-winter is very far from being solved. Batteries, pumped hydro, flywheels, compressed air are simply off by factors of 100x or more. There are just 2 plausible solutions: chemical storage, or massive overcapacity. Chemical storage means hydrogen, or ammonia, or iron powder, or some other substance that can undergo reversible oxidation. But you have capital costs associated with both the oxidation and the reverse reaction, and you also have roundtrip losses.

For example, let's say you use hydrogen (by far the most promising candidate as of now). You need to build a plant to perform the water electrolysis and a power plant to convert the hydrogen into electricity. Both these plants will work at most half of the time, but in reality, much less. So, whatever capital costs you have for an electrolysis plant, you just double, triple, or multiply by 10. The same for the hydrogen power plant. A hydrogen power plant will cost at least as much as a current natural gas power plant. That is not a lot, but if you multiply by 5, then it becomes a lot.

But what if you could run these plants 100% of the time. Now we are talking. Let's say you build lots of solar capacity in Morocco, run an electrolysis plant year long, liquefy it, ship it to Germany, where it is burned in a power plant 365/24/7. Or make the hydrogen in Australia and ship it to Japan. Or make it in Nevada and ship it to New York and Toronto.

Do you still need nuclear? I'm not 100% sure. But if lots of people who were against nuclear before changed their mind, then maybe they ran the numbers, and it turns out we need nuclear.

But it's certain we need nuclear if we ever want to explore the outer solar system. And if we climb again the knowledge ladder of commercial nuclear fission, then maybe one day we'll be able to make efficient nuclear rockets.
There are people who will write webassembly apps in Rust because it’s not JS.

Given the crates community, there are surely some special purpose apps that are easier to write in rust than JS. Heck for fun I even got pola-rs to run in the browser!
Couldn't agree more. All the billionaire worship on HN is super cringe.
''Briar is an open-source software communication technology, intended to provide secure and resilient peer-to-peer communications with no centralized servers and minimal reliance on external infrastructure.''

https://wikiless.org/wiki/Briar_(software)
Too opinionated advice on an even worse medium. Please do yourself and the rest of us a favor and open a blog. Reading an article about watercolor basics which is basically a wall of text without a single picture is a pita.

Also some of the advice is just plain wrong. Paper should be the number one thing you shouldn't skimp on and yet you recommend buying cheap/on sale.
Nice! Scala has @tailrec but I think it only checks that a function’s calls to itself are tail calls.
Such lovely, whimsical paintings. Tolkien's work is such a gift to the rest of us. I recall picking up The Two Towers in 6th grade and was totally hooked by the first sentence.

My 6th grade teacher had been reading "The Hobbit" to the class a page at a time, and was shocked to discover me reading TTT. Of course, I didn't know it was a trilogy at the time.
My favorite application is comparing vectors. Example in C++:

// Compare 32 bytes for equality, with 2 AVX2 instructions
inline bool equals( __m256i a, __m256i b )
{
// When the vectors are equal, their XOR is completely zero..
__m256i xx = _mm256_xor_si256( a, b );
// ..and there's a special instruction to test the complete vector for zero
return (bool)_mm256_testz_si256( xx, xx );
}
I’m not trying to twist this into anything, I literally only repeated your own words back to you. So now this isn’t about whether the consequences are minor, but whether the person being harmed has the power to retaliate and how such retaliation impacts society? I’m having a really hard time following your rationale, and if I can be perfectly honest the impression I get is that you first decided that genital mutilations in infants is fine and are now retroactively looking for justifications.