skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a huge missing piece for FreeBSD.

How do you figure that? I thought this space was covered by FreeBSD jails, except Docker is 3rd party, jails are baked in to FreeBSD, and Docker is only able to run containers, while jails run FreeBSD and Linux programs. Maybe Docker can run in a jail on FreeBSD? idk. But it just seems like you're making a declarative statement from the perspective that "Linux is everything that matters" without being aware of jails and BHyVe, but then again, I am replying without much knowledge of Docker and not any understanding why young devs think it is the Second Coming.
That is in no way a microaggression. It is big, and completely illegal nowadays. (Not that prohibition is 100% effective)
Discovery of gene involved in chronic pain creates new treatment target
> What I'm getting at is maybe we need to teach people how to grow thicker skin? To become immune to microagressions?

What do you think most people on the receiving end of it do? Do you think they get into fights everytime this happens to them?

People already do have thick skins. Most people just accept this as part of being who they are. However we have studies showing that even just being on the receiving end of this can have major issues on one’s health. So the goal here is to identify these issues and try to prevent them from happening.
The thing is that a narrow-body like this can land at a much broader ranger of airports than a wide-body like a 747, which forces you to run people from regional airports to a hub and then transfer onto the wide-body. So this gives you the ability to run far more point-to-point routes with a couple of hundred passengers, with less of the scheduling complexities of point-hub-hub-point connections.
Productivity has risen, but it isn't a tide tide that raises all boats. Look at what has boomed since the 70s, finance and tech. Finance because markets were liberalized and the economy financialized. They are at the junction where capital gets allocated in the economy, so they are able to take rents on all the capital that flows through them. The more money moving around the more they slurp up. Tech is where the lions share of productivity was created. All of the huge tech companies are able to leverage the internet to reach a market way larger than any physical store could before. A software development team is automating the workflow that would have gone to physical store employees running a Sears or whatever, a company manufactures a machine that does the work of 5 people 10 times faster, etc. That is why they get paid so much.

Meanwhile the rest of the economy de-industrialized, manufacturing jobs became more scarce because technology increased productivity, whatever was too labor cost intensive went overseas, and whatever jobs couldn't be offshored, retail and service jobs, aren't capable of having the same productivity gains as what was happening in tech. There are pretty hard limits to what restaurant staff, or retail employees, or other regular jobs can do to become more productive. That is why their wages are stagnant, the only reason those jobs exist is because they can't be exported, in some places they even import foreign workers to do those jobs to keep wages low. This is why unions fell out of favor, labor has no leverage anymore since their jobs can just be exported, or they cant but they are low skill jobs so employers can just churn people or grab import immigrants to do it because employees are nothing more than cogs in a machine that Amazon hasn't figured out how to automate yet.

Keep in mind that this is all by design, capital was liberalized, economies globalized, college loans guaranteed, nimbys limiting development in real estate and energy, these were all policies that people wanted and politicians enacted, whether or not they were fully aware of the second order consequences which are why things feel so messed up now.
> you can put in your pockets 50 swords anyway so why not double it and save your precious little time and not travel to a merchant

Wasn't there a game where you could turn over your inventory to your dog, who would run back to a merchant, sell it, and return with the proceeds?
Also, while sims also attracted a lot of female players, especially relative to games at the time, I think there's also something to it dressing up the dollhouse experience in video game trappings that made it appeal to boys too in a way that
would have been frowned at if they played with an actual dollhouse.
The thing I find strange about MSFS is that the 3D visualisation is in many cases much worse than the Google/Apple maps. It seems to replace many buildings with generic models - they have the same shape, but the textures and style is obviously just a generic sculpted to fit. Apple/Google maps use the actual textures of the buildings themselves.

For my home city for example Apple maps has full 3d for every single building and it looks amazaing, but in MSFS most of the buildings are replaced with generic copy paste American suburbia style structures.
We've had breeder reactors for decades, what are you talking about?
A380 is mostly history. Many airlines abandoned them during Covid and I have not heard of any revivals.
If the recreation of the DAMA/LIBRA experiment at that gold mine in Australia is successful that would be more evidence for WIMPs though.
Excuse me if this is a silly questions, but you got my imagination going.

>A tennis ball mass black hole would go right through the Earth without too much fuss. The black hole's radius would be too small (smaller than an electron) to cause any damage.

Is it possible that tiny black holes of this size could be travelling through the earth at a regular basis? Do we have the means to reliably detect black holes that small?
When I was a lad, my grandfather used to hound me to finish all the food on my plate, and not waste a thing. When I'd complain to my mom her explanation was Grandpa grew up during the Great Depression and he often went without enough food.
How many of these "paywalls" are reliant on Javascript and/or cookies.

From a quick glance I can attest that almost all of them show no "paywall" in a text-only browser that does not support Javascript.

I would be very curious about any "paywalls", i.e, deliberate annoyances directed at non-subscribers viewing public, non-password protected content, that are not reliant on Javascript and/or cookies.
I see the Budapest memo referenced a lot but, obviously, it's a memo ... about ways to get rid of nukes. It's not a treaty that obligates anything at all from the United States or anyone else in terms of security support or guaranteeing Ukrainian sovereignty. I will grant, however, that the Ukrainians (and the Russians, we made promises to them in it too) probably feel pretty slighted with how history turned out in the ensuing decades.

From your link:

>>Another key point was that U.S. State Department lawyers made a distinction between "guarantee" and "assurance", referring to the security guarantees that were desired by Ukraine in exchange for non-proliferation. In the end a statement was read into the negotiation record that the (according to the U.S. lawyers) lesser sense of the English word "assurance" would be the sole implied translation for all appearances of both terms in all three language versions of the statement.

>Which other conflict is waged with the goal of eliminating the country completely and destroy its culture?

There's a lot going on in Africa and the Horn. More or less all feature some degree of genocide or mass killings, objectives of replacing the current government, or redrawing the lines on the map.

>There were no major conflicts of this kind since WW2.

This is absolutely not true. Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan (the first one), Myanmar and a couple others I'm forgetting all were an order of magnitude larger than this one in terms of casualties. Maybe you mean this is the first major conflict of this kind in Europe since WWII, in which case... maybe, because you'd have to omit Yugoslavia. There's room to argue about that one. Not sure why that's relevant, unless we're going back to the insistence about the United States' role in security on the European continent.
Last year I had about $6k stolen via a compromised debit card and spent on some fly-by-night crypto exchange. The money was rolled back to me by the bank; no idea what happened on the crypto exchange side.
I wonder what the chances are that this will give a false positive, vs accurately warning you that the earth will soon be destroyed?

https://xkcd.com/1132/
Tyler Cowen asks Marc Andreessen to explain a Web3 use case [video]
And GP is wrong, because they are reading it wrong. Apparently you are as well. Please re-read:

"Only employees or independent contractors who earn more than the thresholds established by law can be held to non-competition agreements."

Read it slowly. Repeat reading it again. It literally says the opposite of what you think it says.

Anyone making > $101k/year "CAN BE HELD TO NON-COMPETITION AGREEMENTS", meaning anyone making > $101k/year does NOT get the benefit of this law. The benefit of this law is to protect people from being bound by non-competition agreements. If you can be held to a non-competition agreement then you are literally not protected by this law.

There's a reason these laws are referred to as "low-wage" protectors. Try reading this article if you need further clarification: https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/employee-benefits-compen...
Is there going to be value in projectile weapons in the future? An autonomous quad copter with a grenade attached seems like a much more dangerous weapon than an automatic rifle.

An armored truck may have equivalent ability to defend itself using active systems with much greater mobility and firepower than a tank. A converted autonomous econovan might be even more effective, bypassing the need for defense entirely.
Don't worry, they have stellar reviews.
The making of the brilliant, moving first 10 minutes of Pixar’s ‘Up’
Yeah, the API for VST3 is actually pretty good, but the SDK that Steinberg ships ... not so much.
Intel is in hiring freeze right now. So much for the gazillions of needed engineers.
hawaii.
They have a defective CPT1A enzyme so they're body can't produce ketones very well. It lead to a high infant mortality, but despite that has been selected for in Inuit populations.
Way more expendable, can overwhelm with sheer numbers and can be much more reactive than something that has to be aimed and fired from far away.
I'm a writer and I'm good enough at it to have suffered some devastating real-life consequences.

The terrifying thing isn't shouting into the void, and it isn't being visible to everyone. It's the adverse combination of the two. When you need to be heard is when your status has taken a dive or something bad has happened... at which point, people just want you to go away because you're depressing them. On the other hand, every little thing you write that could one day be attributed to you is available to any authoritarian government or employer (the euphemism we use for authoritarian private governments) on a three-second Google search... and, since these people have bad intentions, can only be used against you. HR people don't Google you because they think you're a fascinating person; they do it because protecting the company from someone with internet dirt is one more scalp to display at annual review time.

Also, when I had a successful blog, I found that a lot of my best posts were ignored, whereas the good stuff that really deserved to get exposure barely got noticed. It feels like influence but it really isn't because people stop listening as soon as you say something that makes them uncomfortable.

I enjoy writing but the percentage of people who will gain anything by doing it in public under their real name, in this time of belligerent capitalist authoritarianism, is very very low.
That’s not a micro aggression.
Yes this would probably work but that doesn’t seem to be what any major army in the world is doing right now.
wasabi will sell you 1TB of object storage for 5.99/mo
Would say, super generally and speaking loosely, yes: simply because I knew "isolate" from Dart, not V8, and didn't miss a beat with the article: in a sense, I'm surprised find the exact same concept in V8. I assume it was in V8 first, IIRC Dart/Flutter started from Chrome.
The biggest three factors that made me decide to go for it were:

- Even in my first attempt at college, I was never too concerned with the name/reputation of the school. My first go around I picked a state school that gave me a full ride, rather than going for the more prestigious options. So once I checked that the accreditation of WGU was indeed legit, that was good enough for me.

- Their admissions are based on your professional history, since they're set up to cater to working professionals, not high school graduates. (Heck, their mascot is the "night owl.") That means it didn't matter to them that my first attempt at college left me with a... bit of a "stained" transcript. That stopped me from getting into other online options, but my professional history spoke for me at WGU.

- I'm a huge fan of their competency-based education model. It isn't for everyone since the classes are self-paced and asynchronous, but it matches my personal abilities to self teach and to "binge" content. Plus, as soon as you enroll in a course you can take a pre-assessment that will unlock the final if you do well. For some of the courses I've spent over a decade in the workforce learning the content, so I was able to do the pre-assessment and then the final in a single day.

My current experience at WGU is short, but good. My term started June 1. I rocketed through a few of the classes that had test-based and code-based finals in the first week. Now I'm realizing just how out of practice I am with writing, because I'm in a pair of classes that have writing-based finals and I'm struggling more.

I don't personally know people that took their degree from WGU to another university for a Masters, but WGU maintains a list [0] of universities which have accepted WGU undergraduates into their graduate and/or doctoral programs.

[0] https://www.wgu.edu/alumni/career-support/education-and-prof...
A fun book in this direction:

The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries: The Classic Study of Leprechauns, Pixies, and Other Fairy Spirits

By W. Y. Evans-Wentz - Introduction by Terence McKenna
I wanted burritos. Facebook Search sent me to a dead restaurant 45m away
a team of ghost writers :)
A more even-handed write up at librearts:

https://librearts.org/2022/06/introducing-clap/

and from the same author, just last week, an LWN overview of CLAP:

https://lwn.net/Articles/893048/

and from the same author a few weeks before that, and overview of the state of audio plugin APIs with a particular focus on the Linux situation:

https://lwn.net/Articles/890272/
GTK+ apps usually look okay on Plasma, at least for GTK3. The only one I routinely run these days is Firefox.

Did they break the integration approach the KDE folks use for getting GTK+ apps to look good with GTK4? I know there were other changes to how theming works that caused some controversy.
Postdocs are sometimes used as a mechanism to play games with tenure rather than getting the an academic job. You get a publication “head start” without invoking the countdown, and you already often have a future job in hand early.
And very large amounts of pumped hydro too.
I was writing web applications back in 1999. If I needed to write a web page or a proper “app” (whatever that means) today, why would I use Rust and Web Assembly? Don’t mean to sound arrogant, but is starting with the highest level of complexity a good idea?

> The goal of our application is simple: It's a portal where the victim will enter their credentials (thinking that it's a legitimate form), the credentials are going to be saved in an SQLite database, and then we redirect the victims to an error page to let them think that the service is temporarily unavailable and they should try again later.

Again, why do we need Rust for this?

And the code example puts mark up directly inside Rust files… why?
Yeah, I certainly enjoy my competitive RTS (though in small doses these days, nothing is quicker to cause wrist pain than a 3 hour starcraft session), or high end mmo raiding, but can also enjoy chilling in truck sim or similar
> Very rough guesses on labor: figure the two pilots are making $100k/year

Fuel costs still outweigh labour, but a captain on a 767 makes more than double that (~$220,000-$250,000 USD or thereabouts). A first officer would be looking at $120,000ish, I think?
You may be thinking of “federation.” Ethereum is both distributed and run in a decentralized fashion. It uses something like the GHOST consensus protocol. Nodes don’t need to trust each other.
Is that a realistic scenario?

* My understanding is that universities prefer J-1 visas in almost all cases [1][2], and such visas are not portable.

* H-1B is more flexible than J-1, but still not as flexible compared to a green card. In particular, the new employer has to fill out a new application, pay the fees, etc. Also, universities are exempt from the H-1B cap, but other employers may not be.

[1] https://internationaloffice.berkeley.edu/ucb_departments/h-1...

[2] https://postdocs.stanford.edu/postdoc-admins/how-quick-links...
For technical topics I agree with everyone else that they've moved online; probably not Zoom or whatever other video things, but more text based chat rooms to facilitate technical discussion. Depends on the tech, I guess.

One thing that confounds me is that physicality-based meetups in my region have moved entirely online and show no indication of changing despite miniscule chances of disease. Look, I didn't join a yoga meet-up group to spend half my time trying to focus on my 13" laptop screen while balancing on one foot. I didn't join an escape room group so that I can play a shitty $3.99 Android game together while staring at everybody else's faces on a 13" laptop screen. I didn't join an animal husbandry experience group for us to sit inside and talk about what we did or will do.

Remote is not the future if you move beyond the bits. Disease is not a factor unless you're too feeble to be doing some of these things to begin with. This exaggerated fear shit needs to stop.
Pretty terrible model. The responses almost seem random.
What do you want to learn?

How plugins do DSP?

The basics of most plugin APIs?

How plugin APIs differ from each other?

How the host(s) see plugin APIs?

What the difference is for user between the different APIs?

How do people actually create audio plugins?
I found the LOTR movies completely missed the essence and magic of the books and I see them as little more than cliche-ridden hollywood garbage. I can't possibly imagine Tolkien being happy about such depraved debasement of his life's work.

The only adaptation of Tolkien's work that I think does justice to it and captures part of Tolkien's spark, are the albums of the Austrian black metal band "Summoning".
Maybe you have a good bank. Or maybe I've just received incorrect information about the differences between a credit and debit card.
I hate videos on the internet, so I started my blog (see profile) with an emphasis on text and photos.

Funny enough, I have about 50 Youtube videos in my browser that I've been meaning to watch "some time" but haven't. The problem is that, unlike a book where you can skim for content quality and decide whether or not to read for real, these long video essays are very hard to audit for quality without getting engaged ("hooked") enough to spend significant time. Some of them are fantastic, some are mediocre but good when you don't feel like thinking too much... and a lot of them are 17 minutes surrounding 12 seconds of information. Videos have a similar discoverability problem to novels--it takes time investment to get a sense of whether the content is worth your time at all--but, with video, you can get a sense of quality (if a flawed one, and maybe an outright misleading one) based on pictoral production values.
I would also add that stock compensation needs to be vested over a longer period. This would help discourage short term thinking.
The world uses 18 TW of primary energy, which is about 6,000 1GW(e) reactors. This is more than an order of magnitude increase over current nuclear power reactors.

Also, many of those reactors are going to have to be breeders. Accidents in fast breeders are potentially even worse than Chernobyl.
Every time there is a discussion about ways to remedy a racial issue there is someone posting a “rebuttal” where the supposed remedy went “too far” anecdotally and generalizing from there. Every. Single. Time.

Here’s a suggestion: what if that one exaggerated incident that you observed does not reflect on the reality that most people see? What if we try and see if there is a pattern among the population, using tools we have to measure these things, instead of forming our opinions based on the anecdotes that we observe?
I'm going to order a pork chop and mail it to your house.
It would also make it more difficult to play the partisan games going on now, as there would be a lot more cats to herd. And many many more viewpoints. There's much moer likelihood your rep is going to be a neighbor or someone you know rather than an interloper with deep pockets.
Before writing, don't look for any advice, tips, or recommendations. Just write. It is very hard to apply an advice to a blank page!

I have no problem vomiting words on a page, what I have difficulties with is to write what I want to say. I'd be sitting in a cafe watching a red car drive by. Now to write about that.

"When ford invented the assembly line, he may have pictured a world where every American could not only afford a car, but their livelihood would depend on it. What he didn't imagine is being painted as a prophet in every self-help seminar ever held."

Hmmm, what did I want to say about the red car again?
In America there are subcultures devoted to couponing (hunting for discount promotions) and churning (opening many credit card or bank accounts to collect "new account bonuses").
OK, the transcript from Sean's show, from 2 years ago, is here: [https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/05/11/96-l...]

And here's the relevant part. It's fair to say that Necib is not very bullish on BH's being the explanation for dark matter.

(SC = Sean Carroll of Caltech, LN = Lina Necib, then at Caltech, now on faculty at MIT)

SC: But it could be black holes, right?

LN: Yes it could be primordial black holes. There has been a lot of work, especially recently, on trying to understand what is the possibility or what is the parameter space so if the theory of primordial black holes explaining dark matter is still possible, there is some disagreement within the community of how much of it is ruled out. The theory is not completely ruled out but quite a few chunks of it are. It depends on the measurements and there are some very small windows for example. I think 15 to 30 solar masses is still possible, something like that so it is not a completely ruled out theory.

...

SC: [...] Black holes, you seem to be saying, if I can summarize it - if there is some mechanism for making black holes early on, they could be some of the dark matter but it’s hard to make them be all of it. Is that fair?

LN: That’s right, yes. It’s much more difficult to make them pure, to make them all completely the dark matter. It could be a small fraction, that has not been ruled out, yes.
It's off the shelf technology for chemical processes. It's not off the shelf technology for energy storage.

We have plenty of experience with flywheels. I bet there's millions of cars built every year that have a flywheel in them. Does that mean energy storage using giant flywheels is guaranteed to be insanely cheap and way cheaper than the existing storage systems?

Just because we have plenty of experience using a given technology in one application doesn't mean it's guaranteed to be a smash hit in a different application.