skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
welshleeks.com

It's available should any Welsh Tech Farmers want to do something. Leeks are an underrated and highly versatile allium.
Oh my goodness, thank you so much for this thoughtful reply.

It's late now and I'm going to bed but I will digest this properly tomorrow, after a quick read just now.
I just want to specify an order that makes reading easier, not one that would work nicely, I'm not an optimizing compiler, don't make me do that work.

There's sometimes need for control in performance-critical things, but that needs an escape hatch instead of providing everyone with an implicit tool they don't even know they have.

The same applies to struct packing in I guess most compiled languages and using the order to define ABIs.
#2 is actually false. Only ~10% of Sri Lanka's debt is Chinese. The majority is from western private market lenders. Chinese debt also have lower interest than western ones.

See this detailed report by The Atlantic: The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/02/ch...

And this study by British campaign charity Debt Justice, which found that the situation in Africa is similar:
https://debtjustice.org.uk/press-release/african-governments...

The Chinese debt trap is a lie made by mainstream media, who for some reason blindly writes negative China articles without any kind of factual investigation. Worse, these lies distract us from actual debt traps initiated by western actors — over we which we have far more control than China. If we actually care about these countries then we need to first demand from the media that they do factually correct reporting.
OP-1 Field Leather Wrap
You're right, it's a bad take. It makes sense that they would train Asian people to fight in the Asian battlefields. White spies would stick out like a sore thumb.
Another reason for the 65GB of storage is that storage is only used to buffer a day worth of transmitted data along with the previous days data till reception is confirmed.
VC funds have to invest in the bad companies to get access to the good ones
The section of the article entitled "VC value add" discusses the paper "Predictably Bad Investments: Evidence from Venture Capitalists". That was discussed on HN[1] a few days ago, but the discussion went in a completely different direction and no one said anything similar.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32042187
Planet Money podcast on same topic

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/09/19/649273647/epis...
It's much more interesting to implement AES without the table lookups-- as doing so requires constructing a boolean circuit that computes the same result as the tables, more useful too since the table lookups result in security killing side channels.

:)

The author might be surprised at how often someone's random "learn 2 crypto" ends up in use in production. Kudos for the warnings, though I doubt that actually accomplish much: People copying and pasting code usually have tremendous tunnel vision.
What if you sell the organic produce and use the money to buy beer non/organic imported food?

It might be more profitable in the long term, but a hard cutover sure isn’t.
Imaging Phattie/IX would also be pretty cool. It's been a while since we've discovered a real big-boy planet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine
Decompiler Explorer
Why Twitter Is Insane
NixOS users are socialized to not bother reading
What distro does Paul Allen run?
If society values agricultural output or having income in rural areas it's a lot better to have farmers making the choices themselves than to chose whatever non-farmer/urban/plutocrat politicians would mandate.
No, we just need deterministic processing capabilities for untrusted code. So, no caches, no speculation, guaranteed cycles and memory bandwidth.

It will be dog slow, but it can't leak the behaviour of other components on the system.
You are probably better of spending two days before election day reading up on politicians actions on wikipedia. And even then your vote will get swamped by somebody who had 4 kids that are now of voting age.

The news usually only have one thing relevant to your life: the weather.
Please check this one (I know you can edit Recycle Bin settings on Windows to directly deleted the file, instead of sending it in there) -

https://www.lacie.com/support/kb/available-disk-space-does-n....
Of astronomy?
Transaction costs to find good content within Medium is too expensive (in time invested).
Sporadic posts, with hit or miss in getting quality content
Opinion masquerading as facts most of the time
Hidden agendas not revealed upfront
Editorial standards unknown
In a world where everyone is an expert, there no real experts
Twitter long form (in limited rollout now) will kill Medium
Well said. (cough, cough, Schmidhuber, cough.)
The Interstate Commerce Clause: for regulating everything except actual interstate commerce, apparently.
They wanted to cut taxes. To cut taxes, they needed to cut costs. Not paying for fertilizer would be one way. But of course it would destroy the economy.
Indeed sorry I have almost zero knowledge of Tibetan Buddhism, I’m only aware of East Asian Buddhism and Theravada
Oh yeah of course unnecessary

not sure why I was down voted. My point is the 100mb is very quick to download. App files are also cached around the globe and take time to download.
Actions speak louder than words. Emotional != Rational. Figure out why you care and where you stand. Accept what you can't change. Reject emotional blackmail if found. \?
This wasn't particularly dangerous. It was confined to a mile of a 4 lane road, straight, well lit, the businesses were set back a ways, no traffic. The kids knew if they caused trouble they'd be shut down. Frankly it was mostly just revving engines and showing off.

In those days you could buy a working 440 roadrunner that'd press your eyeballs back in their sockets for $400. I almost bought a 68 Chevy Super Sport with some massive engine in it for $600. Sometimes I wonder if it was a good thing I didn't buy it :-/ That car today would cost a bleedin fortune.

Those people who do free climbing, they're crazy, and have a short life expectancy. Not something I'd ever consider. But I'm not going to tell them they can't do it.
I've a QR app because I need advanced options, but just tested that my stock camera app when presented a barcode or a QR read them without any action. It offers to open the link in the browser, to connect to the wifi or to search the numbers of the barcode.

My guests doesn't ask for the WiFi pass, they see the QR hanging and ask "what is this QR for?", "It connects to my WiFi", and they immediately try it (succesfully) out of curiosity, "It's cool, how is it done?". The don't understand the magic behind, but don't need a guide to use it.
AB5 should not be repealed.

I wouldn't be surprised if Uber and co were indirectly funding this effort.

In fact after writing that I decided to investigate my suspicions, and one of the first results that turns up is the trucking organization spearheading this (Caltrux) hosting Uber Freight for a seminar...

Seeing as Caltrux has pages listing access to their audience as a sponsorship benefit, how much do you want to guess Uber managed to funnel through that?
Paid time off in the US includes sick leave. It’s not useful to stick to acronyms which aren’t applicable n that specific context.
Zappos is just a call center now. I visited their HQ in Vegas a while ago, all the fulfillment and product info is now done by Amazon.
Sorry for the confusion. I meant to say that I thought it used the word SCUBA (and I thought it used it in caps).
$250 for a piece of leather that wraps around your OP-1. Am I missing something?
> Also, everything useful has been made

"All good music has been already composed..." LOL
I installed Windows 98 on Xbox Series X and played a range of classic PC games
Sri Lanka seems to be having a lot of problems lately. Is it really just policy or those that make or enforce them?
“I'm also worried X will get suicidal or go into a spell of depression.”

And I don’t want to be the one who has caused it.

To be honest, this is my only concern right now.
As part of the crapware image process, WSL (1&2) is often blocked
I'm curious about the stats for SF readers/writers/publishers. As the parent post relates, compared to the past there are a lot less publishers and it would be extremely difficult to be a professional SF short story writer as your sole occupation. Has the pool of writers grown or stayed the same? What about readers?
Amazon launches cancer vaccine clinical trial
I would love to see a picture of earth from that vantage point. It should be an easier photo to take b/c the earth is "stationary" because the JWST parted in the la grange point.
Like, I guess you could run images and tensors through a neural net and see what the weights look like. That might tell you something that the endless pool of astro-grad students missed. Like, maaaaaaaybe you might have backed out dark matter from some strangely weighted neuron, or there might be something lurking in the noise that was missed. But, I really really doubt it.
Ok, disclaimer: I am not an astronomer and this might all be rubbish. I suspect I'm neglecting relativistic effects that might be important, for example.

The NIRCAM instrument on JWST has a wavelength range of about 600 - 5000nm [1]. The human eye is sensitive to around 380nm - 700nm.

To shift blue light (380nm) down to the upper frequency range of NIRCAM (600nm) requires a redshift of:

z = Δλ / λ0 = 0.58

This is related to the velocity of the object by:

z = v / c

and the velocity is related to distance (approximately) by the Hubble constant (H0 ~ 71 km/s / Mpc):

d = v/ H0

So we can rearrange and solve for distance to get:

d = z c / H0 = 8 billion light years.

The southern ring nebula is more like 2000 light years from us, so not even vaguely far enough that NIRCAM would see "originally-visible" light. The deep field image might actually be far enough... the faintest galaxies there might be something like 12 billion light years away [2].

[1] https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/instrumentation
[2] https://www.nasa.gov/content/discoveries-hubbles-deep-fields
Can't roll back those HN comments though...
This isn't the result of existing makers not understanding that thinner/lighter would be ideal; it's the result of current technical/physical limitations. New tech like pancake lenses[1] isn't out the door yet, but advancements like these will be the next step.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/AR_MR_XR/comments/utxvkg/3m_pancake...
Commercial aircraft engines run on kerosene formulations, not diesel.
I completely disagree with the kitchen sink language approach. The benefits in many coding paradigms really kick in once they're used 100%.

For example, consider GOTOs. If 99% of your functions don't use any GOTOs but they other 1% does, you can't be sure how the flow of logic lead to any one function. Immutability works in a similar way. I have a far easier time debugging in concurrent code I'm unfamiliar with if it's written in Elixir than if it's written in JS/TS, even if the project in question uses Immutable.js heavily.
That seems very promising. If it really is that good, wasm has a lot more potential in my eyes.

But e.g. sharp/vips ended up with a much worse result:
https://www.libvips.org/2020/09/01/libvips-for-webassembly.h...

It may just be a matter of waiting for simd and threads though.
This completely resonates with me.
Around 12 years back, when I was in my final year of college, I started a blog where I interviewed people who were doing interesting things (mostly online, like influential bloggers, startup founders, etc). Surprisingly [1], most people responded positively to the interview request.

After a few months of consistently publishing interviews, I started to get a lot of nice things come my way. The most memorable one is when one of the interviews led to a short term paid project and eventually a job offer (I didn't take it but wish I had).

I have had similar experiences in the past 12 years whenever I published something or built a side project and posted a Show HN.

[1] I say surprisingly because I didn't have a following at that point or a popular blog
You can also run diesel cars and trucks on kerosene. The winter blend of diesel fuel in cold climates is a mixture of diesel and kerosene (which has a lower freezing temperature).

Straight kerosene would work, but it is less lubricating that diesel fuel, so you need to mix some engine oil in with it to avoid damaging the engine. And on a modern car you are probably going to destroy any emissions control system, as kerosene has much higher sulfur than diesel.
Let's hope so. Privacy needs to be acknowledged as a basic human right.
Is there a single western country which didn’t print massive amounts of money following COVID and prior to that with 2008?

I remember seeing tons of economics articles talking about how the consequences of monetary expansion were historically being overrated by economists in the past and that countries have far more capacity than previously thought. But that was easily said during the good times when spending is high.

Blaming it all on a war in Eastern Europe seems to be convenient excuse but there’s a reason you don’t spend wildly during good times, so you have the capacity to spend during the bad times. This has consistent been a critique of modern monetarist and Keynes policy (although you could argue it’s far more monetarist since a Keynesian approach would be via things like infrastructure investments for working class jobs, instead of just endless spending on backchannel megacorporate dealing in thousand page bills).
Your two examples have nothing to do with “kill random innocent people.” Both of them were actively doing the hill-bomb.

No bystander has ever been killed in this event.
Follow up on that DRY post from last week
If you want to substantiate the jab, just go run literally any Electron app.
<https://www.stsci.edu/files/live/sites/www/files/home/jwst/d...>

The science performance report of JWST is a fascinating read. Some of the highlights that sent me down a rabbit-hole

- On Predicted lifetime of consumables - Before launch, JWST was required to carry propellant for at least 10.5 years of mission lifetime. Now that JWST is in orbit around L2, it is clear that the remaining propellant will last for more than 20 years of mission lifetime.

- On Orbit - Orbit around L2 is maintained through regular station-keeping burns, which are scheduled every three weeks

- On observatory lifetime - At present, the largest source of uncertainty is long term effects of micrometeoroid impacts that slowly degrade the primary mirror.

- On Other spacecraft performance - JWST is now generating 1.5 kW to match the power load, with a capability of > 2 kW

- On Fault management - Of the 344 single point failures at launch, almost all of them related to deployments, only 49 remain; these are common to most science missions (for example, only one set of propellant tanks, only one high gain antenna)

The section on "Pointing and guiding" which mentions how complex sub-systems interact to achieve "line-of-sight stabilization" and how its not possible to test those systems together in an end-to-end fashion on the ground is interesting.
its a post about broad apathy, but yes I'm aware and its largely reflexive
Adobe is listed as a customer of Readytech. What a disgusting, distasteful move, Adobe -- doing business with a company run by someone accused and tried twice for murdering one of your employees. Adobe has no moral compass.
Another option is Nim. Looks and writes like Python but closer to C in performance. It also has static typing so I prefer it for scripting as well.

People have built a few games with the Nim Godot bindings:

https://github.com/pragmagic/godot-nim

There’s also an interesting project to do hot reloading using dlls:

https://github.com/geekrelief/gdnim
When you give things a "name" it somehow justifies the behavior. Even if there was a hill bomb it wouldn't justify this in my mind.
I think you’re being weirdly dismissive. Anyway that is super weird that Trader Joes doesn’t have non organic yellow onions
I won't eat raw onions (especially on sandwiches), but onion rings or cooked onions in various dishes are nice. Vidalias in particular make really good onion rings.
Have you tried posting an explanation / apology on linked in ?
It's actually one of the very rare case where sending a public message to your whole professional circle makes perfect sense.
That would be Airbnb, and it seems to be turning out about as well for the market
Show HN: Restore titles for removed or private videos in YouTube playlists
Hm. For me it is about choice. The sortiment is just limited. In Germany there is also the "Luxus-Lidl" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaufland but they are just so-so. Nothing special, in comparison to what else is available.
Just reposting my original comment which may have inspired this post a few days ago for the links:

I had really bad IBS from consuming water on a tropical island in Panama one time and suffered for a few years with even my doctor friend telling me "Damn that sucks, not much you can do except manage". Pretty horrible symptoms until I discovered L. Reuteri. [1] I read that it's been a bacteria that was more commonly found in samples until around the 1950s when people started consuming more garbage processed food and was sold. Simply stated, it changed my life. It emits a substance called Reuterin which inhibits the growth of other more harmful bacterial species. [2] I can't speak personally for suffering on the level of Crohn's disease, but there's positive research out there regarding it. [3] [4]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5917019/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuterin

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7270012/

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7468961/
This comment made me click the shady af looking link. If a person that (judging from their keybase avatar and their website's "about" page) appears to be a total caricature of a nerd accuses another nerd person of being "the biggest caricature of a nerd" it must be good.

Sadly I was disappointed. It's just another of these "digital gardens" or whatever the term for the type of sites is, that one can find across various platforms like neocities these days.

Not sure what the described homelab has to do with crypto or decentralization, though.
> Control-backslash sends SIGQUIT on the other hand. This signal cannot be trapped.

Yes, it can.
2000 used to be the biggest, most impressive number known
Presumably you don't know where you need to read. So you need to somehow search for the right signature. Why is the root password hash even in memory in the first place?

At any rate, there's probably some search pattern to try and locate the relevant address across a fairly large address space, you need to take into account the lack of accuracy as well. Once you found the location then you presumably know the right offset and just read it straight out.
(not a googler but discussed this with some) If I recall correctly, if you choose mac and you aren't in a team directly working on mac stuff, then it means you're going to do everything using SSH to Linux workstation - iirc the choice is essentially on what kind of laptop you want and you can't do development on the laptops by policy
Container-Optimized OS is based on Chromium OS and is more of a traditional Linux, in the sense that is runs on servers.

https://cloud.google.com/container-optimized-os/docs
You are right, but when results are falsified because of political expedience, that refining process will be subverted or discarded altogether.
Car Throttle had a good video about it a few years ago:

https://youtu.be/WNJH1rikujI

The most important point is you need an older car with mechanical injection (before ~2005). Modern diesels with electronic injection are much more sensitive to the fuel used, as they run at much higher pressure and components have tighter tolerances.

On an older car, yes you can just dump it in after some crude filtering (e.g. with cheesecloth). I have a neighbour with an old Land Rover and he has been running it for years on cooking oil. Some people start on diesel then switch to cooking oil later. It has a higher viscousity at room temperature than diesel, so it works better once everything is warmed up.
Yes, there's a huge exodus every year because the UK climate is so lacking in reliable sun. It's even worse this year because people want some R & R after Covid lockdowns. For an idea of how bad it is this year, just Google "UK airport chaos".
Presumably you could port SIMH to it.
> Be an engineer, not MacGyver.

This “MacGyver” mindset over an engineering mindset is a core problem with most devs I work with.

Nobody takes the time to understand fundamentals, theory, or engineering principals. They copy-paste and flail around until it works, and aren’t even curious to learn why.

But the problem is, software dev culture seems to embrace and celebrate this MacGyverism.

Look at all the memes about how software devs’ job consists of copying from Stack Overflow for a living, or how they have no idea how their app is even working, or any number of memes that reduce software development to wizardry - but not the “Hogwarts, study and master it” wizardy, but instead the “I accidentally spilled the glowing purple vial on a frog and created a lizard person” kind of wizardry.

I do think software development has room for, and even requires, both true engineering work AND “super user”-type developers, especially as low code tools help make things more accessible. I also think almost anyone can learn an engineering mindset if motivated to do so.

So I’m not trying to gatekeep, in fact I’m happy if my job becomes building the tools that help the super-user-devs fumble their way to success.

But I also am very much concerned with the industry’s joyful conflation of purposeful engineering with fumbling tinkerer as though they are one and the same, and as though being the fumbling tinkerer is all that should be expected of all developers, all the time.

At some point, we need to return to teaching and promoting the value of learning fundamental principals, and of building a solid, well-engineered, well-documented product that works because it was built to work, and not because “I don’t know but if I paste this here and that there then it seems to be fine”.
Would there be safety concerns with using vintage bikes?

(Or, I guess, vintage-style bikes, as I doubt anyone would risk an antique.)

I don't expect those safety concerns to stop anyone, of course, I'm merely curious.
Stockhausen!

I don’t remember much repetition from him either
Today's Javascript crowd has an even more insatiable appetite for cpu cycles than Microsoft Word did in the early 2000's. A 50x slowdown would do some good, I suppose, but there are also the many software escapes that keep occurring. "Trusted" execution environments have failed repeatedly in the past too. Remember SGX? I don't remember what went wrong with it but it wasn't timing related afair.