skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The role of materials in technological innovation, and the technological prerequisites of those materials, is hugely underappreciated IMO.

Until roughly 8,000 years ago, the only materials available were those found in (near) finished form in nature: stone, wood, bone, grass and fibres, ceramics (requiring firing), concrete (typically also), and metals with low melting points.

There'd have been some glues / resins (bone, tree-sap, and a few other compounds).

A huge part of what creates impressions of times and periods over the past 400 or so years is the gradual introduction of new materials: glass, finished bricks, wrought iron, steel, and in the case of textiles, the emergence of synthetics beginning in the late 19th century (celluloid, viscose, and eventually Nylon and polyester).

The development of cheap high-quality steel, and later aluminium, titanium, and other difficult-to-produce metals, has had a huge impact.
Maybe we should have security-interested folks develop their own versions of popular open-source software which can then be “critical”, with formal methods. It’s hard to audit or verify an existing codebase, it would likely be a lot easier to just start from scratch.

It would give security and formal-methods people something to do
Success stories would have been mostly accurate in prehistoric times. In a tribe of a few dozen people, it's quite imaginable that one person might be able to "disrupt" the status quo through singlehanded grit, determination, or heroism.

But these kind of narratives are a poor fit for the complexity of our modern world. Even without considering the issue of deliberate propaganda, it simply isn't possible in practice for a modern citizen to wrap their mind around all relevant factors that led to success or failure.
There are some applications that need to be chemically powered for the foreseeable future, even with expected battery improvement. Those applications are also rounding error in the overall consumption of energy. I am happy with a world that is able to move away from coal, natural gas, and fuel oil burning to produce bulk electricity, even if that world still has 747s in it! One piece at a time.
"I'm not racist, I have black friends!"
If you've ever seen Windows 11's default light theme you might understand it's really a ransom system ;).

I jest but really I think most home users just care about setting a theme and a wallpaper, nothing more, and Microsoft knows that. As technically superior as the legacy UI customization was where you could set the font, color, padding, size, etc of UI element xyz specifically most people were really only interested in clicking the theme button to turn XP from blue to silver and changing their wallpaper. The ones actually interested in putting in the work to truly customize the UI are likely a vanishingly small overlap with those that don't have a Windows license and won't pirate on top of already being a tiny minority to start with.
Refuting common arguments against IQ and talent
I mean, it kind of makes sense. These kids aren't stupid. They see that most of the upward mobility ladders have been pulled up by the last generation to climb them, and there's not much left besides gambling on meme stocks, OnlyFans, and trying to become a popular streamer.

They look at their Millennial parents generation and say "Why would I want to study hard, go to college, and work my ass off? That's what you did and you have six figures of debt and work at Starbucks!" We were suckers and believed in class mobility. I think the next generation of kids are more observant and cynical and have figured out the deck is stacked against them.
The review of startups begins at 8:50. I included that timestamp in the OP link, but HN stripped it. Here it is again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp6W7g9no0w&t=8m50s.

The first ~8m provides general background info on fusion and the big public projects like JET and ITER, nothing new for the HN crowd.
That must be fun data intelligence for markets, I wonder how insurance and futures work w/ GIS data.

I just remember chatting way back with an insurance agent that insures crop growth and yields and how much is in a silo and I thought it was all interesting.

Farmers and orgs, probably more the later buy policies that are payable in fiat cash for underproduction or loss. The loss makes sense, but I didn't think it was that big of a market.
The data is encrypted per small chunks. Corruption in a chunk renders that chunk useless, but usually won’t impact other chunks. There is small sensitive data, for example the header of a LUKS volume containing the password and encryption details, that if corrupted, the whole disk can be lost. You can back up this header.

So, no, a small corruption in an encrypted disk or FS won’t necessarily impact the entire system.

In ZFS, a bit flip corrupts files in which it occurs, not the whole pool (with or without encryption).

On the other hand, you are right to be worried that encryption is another layer that can go wrong. As mentioned, password and encryption details must not be corrupted.
So anything inspirational is propaganda? Where do you draw the line? This is clearly an incomplete definition of propaganda...
Why does it need the sun shield, then?
Removing affiliate codes is arguably a privacy feature. People don’t especially like having so many sites know where they just came from. I know some people who rely on those affiliate codes for some of their income though

Did they really replace the codes with their own for a while??
„War against Russia” is a rather strange way to describe defense against Russian invasion.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22937759 (April 2020, 25 points, 45 comments)
The Emmy Nominations Prove No One Knows How to Watch TV Anymore
Russian gdp forecasted to fall 8-10%.
The cost of projects like Webb is so high because there's zero incentive for the contractors not to make them high. When the Webb program was approved the estimated cost was 500 million dollars. The final cost was ten billion dollars. What's a reasonable punishment for a cost overrun equal to sinking a Nimitz-class supercarrier?
No, that Pence, who was in a better position to know than anybody else, did not trust that SS would necessarily do what you imagine.
Russian ultranationalist believe that Ukraine is fighting the war as a puppet of US that wishes to prop up its crumbling world domination.

Not answering your question, just a terrifying current example.
What I find disheartening is this:

I've entered a support chat with an actual, live, paid support agent - an employee of the company - and opened with something like "Hello! I'm having <issue>, I've tried <x>, <y>, and <z>, and looked at <URL>, but that did not help."

Multiple times, that diligence and precision was repaid by the agent very obviously searching the issue and copy/pasting an accepted response from the forums, sometimes the one linked in the URL. FAANG support is genuinely, truly abysmal, with the exception of the upper tiers of Apple support. I've seen more thought, care, and understanding from first-tier support agents at a recently-bankrupt, bottom-feeding, rural DSL oligopoly whose executives tied themselves to rotting copper serviced with the utmost lack of interest. Seeing worse from the alleged top of the industry is really, truly, just the absolute pits.
Can you go a little more into success being taboo? This is quite interesting but I am not sure if we are thinking the same thing.
I've never actually thought about getting anyone to review my personal blog posts. I write technical blogs for work as well and those are definitely reviewed, but anything I write on my own blog is just my ramblings or notes-to-self and I've never considered asking anyone to review it.

If you are looking for basic grammar or styling review, though, you can check out tools like ProWritingAid or Grammarly. I tried both, but preferred PWA. I currently only use it to do an edit pass on my fiction drafts before they go off to an editor, but it'd likely be decent for non-fiction blogging content as well.
I believe the logic of VC investing is misplaced here.

That their subsequent investments did worse than FB is not evidence of anything at all really.

In particular, almost all VC fund returns are weighted towards a few big winners, some ok winners, a bunch of zombies and a lot of failures.

There is a 'FB' in every successful VC fund.

Most VC just didn't just magically appear as VCs and then magically/luckily invest in FB. It was a long path for most of those funds and individuals.

There is luck involved, surely, which is why funds have a lot of companies in their portfolio.
Why is it a requirement for the experiment information to get back to the originating point right away?

We do all the time experiments where the information is re-converged much later, even months later like at the LHC.

We tested many times the speed of light on earth, and we know that so far no directional speed difference was detected over earthly distances, which you say it's an impossible statement to make.
My experience: The first two years of my CS PhD program, which overlapped significantly with the MSc program, were extremely engaging and pushed my intellectual boundaries much harder than OCW or any other online content.
Worst case if you short out all the safeties and just run it anyways is a meltdown, but Germany's reactors have containment structures. So a meltdown just means that the decommissioning process for your reactor has become a LOT more expensive, but it's not going to cause another Chernobyl.

Similarly, if they were willing to say "fuckit, this may end up being extremely expensive in 10 years but we need it now or we freeze to death", they could start building (potentially) unsafe reactors in unapproved locations with inadequate documentation of their material supply chains and have that ready by February. Yes, there are long lead times for things like approved reactor pressure vessels. But if you're willing to go back to Hanford, Washington [0] safety standards that all goes out the window, and the math on deaths almost certainly still works out.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site
Of course it is - but it’s a defensive proxy war. The aggressor is Russia, not NATO.
Hello HN!

I wrote a framework which makes building native linux applications more ergonomic. Similar to many web frameworks, it automatically updates the GUI when the state of the application changes.

Let me know what you think!
This. I always get annoyed when entrepreneurs eg. on Shark Tank say things like “I quit my job, took out two mortgages on my home, maxed out my credit cards and spent my kids’ college fund on the business. And look at us now, we’re making millions of dollars a year! Don’t give up when failure looks inevitable!”

Probably most of the people who follow this advice to the letter end up financially ruined, they just don’t get a public platform to talk about it…
I found a site that lists them but they’re too expensive/in too large of quantity for something I’m only interested in sampling: https://www.marxfoods.com/Sechuan-Buttons-Buzz-Button

If anybody has a source I’d be curious.
Wow, I would not have suspected `tee` is able to handle multiple processes writing to the same file. Doesn't seem to be mentioned on the man-page, either.
Whether they are 'inspiring' or not is one thing, whether they are legit or not is another.
What are the odds of two objects at L2 colliding? The telescope does have maneuvering capability, as L2 isn't stable.
i’m a vulnerable narcissist. still don’t know what to do about this information.
I haven't tested this, but the "Cisco Umbrella 1 Million" is generated daily from DNS request made to the Cisco Umbrella DNS service. That seems to be a very good and recent dataset.

It does count more than just visiting websites though. If all Windows computers query the IP of microsoft.com once a day that'll move them up quite a bit. And things in their top 10 like googleapis.com and doubleclick.net are obviously not visited directly.

So while it is quite a reliable and recent dataset, it is not a good test of popularity.
This is a different namespace though. Nothing to do with data structures. Also, ends with an 's'.
That's true, but is not really relevant to sn0w_crash's observations.
When hotwheels created 8chan it was already dogshit and a meetup place for racists who thought that /pol/ was not racist enough. Watkins' takeover has made it pretty much only QAnon conspiracy KKK type shit.

sage
So it’s USA’s fault that Russia became a fascist country and decided to invade?
CS degrees give you an academic understanding of CS: theory and how the things you use actually work. This can be useful knowledge but isn’t necessary. So CS masters degrees are good but also shouldn’t be necessary for getting a job.

However you should still require at least a basic “academic” understanding of CS, since that is discrete structures and recursion and other stuff you pretty much need to know to write good software
I responded to a comment about YTD, not 5 years ago.
It would be good to see the same analysis for other crops that might be needed to substitute for wheat this year.
Surely you can see that the P&W approach is only going to discover a subset of problems that will affect the engine in the wild. For example, engines don't run at 100% power during the full flight, and they go through heating and cooling cycles. It also doesn't address failure modes due to manufacturing problems specific to a single engine- for example, turbine blades are manufactured with serial numbers and you can go back and get detailed process and QA for that specific item to understand what went wrong and why it failed and how to not do that during manufacture again.

Then there's all sorts of complex failures that aren't addressed by single engines: " Prior to this crash, the probability of a simultaneous failure of all three hydraulic systems was considered as low as one in a billion. However, statistical models did not account for the position of the number-two engine, mounted at the tail close to hydraulic lines, nor the results of fragments released in many directions. Since then, aircraft engine designs have focused on keeping shrapnel from puncturing the cowling or ductwork, increasingly utilizing high-strength composite materials to achieve penetration resistance while keeping the weight low"

(I'm not disrespecting P&W- I'm sure they have more tests than just "100% power until it breaks, fix and repeat")
Very cool! I miss bbs days!
correction: "are not orthogonal concepts" should be "are orthogonal concepts" above, whoops.
Is Twitter Going to Kick Out Elon Musk from the Platform?
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Joy of Reading in Age of Technology
And zipped/unzipped msgpack for that matter.
> it looks like 2-AG more specifically may be responsible for increased appetite?

That would be my thinking.

These n3 derived eCBs are pretty new so no one knows. But I can tell you, I have found I get "dry mouth" on occasion when I over do the Omega 3. It used to happen more when I took fish oil capsules which I no longer take.

I am also unable to smoke pot becasue it triggers intense anxiety and panic and I think this is becasue I am more sensitive to the THC. And I think this might be a clue how CBD and THC have different psychological effects. THC = Omega 6 and inflammatory and CBD = Omega 3 and anti-inflammatory in a sense.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170718142909.h...
NASA releases Webb images of Jupiter
- heat death of the universe eventually occurs because all mass in the universe has been turned into inert paper clips.

:D
I invariably find better answers on StackOverflow and have for a very long time.

Also, has anyone else noticed that every MS tech support site has this weird thing where the "Accepted Answer" ALWAYS gets posted twice in the thread?

I used to think it was just the answerer being aggressive in trying to attract Reputation points -- but the occurrences of this are just too common, IMHO.
Yes and no, with factors pushing both ways:

There was a tremendous amount of r&d expense for James Webb. However I think that sibling comments are underestimating how much can be reduced by just expecting that the first few attempts would fail. Take the sunshield, where Smarter Every Day did a video showing the extent to which everyone worked to ensure the exact shape was perfect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu97IiO_yDI

A lot of this difficulty was because you couldn't just put it up there and see if it works. If an extensive test costs $100 million, but a launch costs $177 million, you choose the extensive test every time. I think overall a program which made dozens of James Webbs, launching a couple times a year would likely have been cheaper with better results.

On the other hand, there's a big problem: Failure, even within the expected threshold of failure, looks really bad in the realm of public opinion. There's just the practical problem of a NASA director having to stand in front of congress and justify why the telescope program that has launched 6 failed satellites over the last 3 years should still get funding.

but this is still just an interested observer's speculation.
Okay, maybe we're just speaking past each other. My point is pretty simple, and you're right that I should not have brought up victimless crimes, etc.

I'm just trying to say: here's some rich guy that did bad stuff, went to jail, and received the equivalent of a slap on the wrist, essentially rebranded his image, and is now back at the adults' table as a philanthropist, even though his wealth is funded by his past illegal/unethical endeavors. And to make things more bizarre, everyone is totally playing along. Isn't that kind of funny?
there's a basic linux utility or hack that allows you to type on the keyboard, but instead of what you type, each keystroke simply prints the next character from a predetermined string.

the idea is you can mash up keys like in films and have text appear af if you were typing properly.

can anyone remember what this is? I've been racking my brain with no success
perhaps the reason most people behave differently is that they perform a more proper cost benefit equation, which doesn't minimize the upside, and doesn't have bias towards the "cost" end of the spectrum before any costs or benefits are actually added in
Your neighbour's son is likely going to be quite successful at least on some level, and he may even get to his $1M.

"It doesn't mean anything" - the opposite, it means a lot, it's 'a (personal) goal' - which is how people focus and motivate themselves.

"the rest is basically taking concrete steps and trying stuff out until it sticks." - well kind of. Yes, you have to 'take steps' at some point, but 'what steps?' to 'what end?' etc. etc..

I think it's probably slightly more beneficial to have people focused on growing the pie, and having a nice way to captures surpluses, as opposed to just "I want to make money" but just having the later is a formidable goal.
First, there is no proof of the original claim, other than words of Ukrainian mayor.

Second, this explanation is much more logical than the version with russians firing superexpensive anti air weapons to random ground targets.

Third, there were photos of these missiles, and they belong to older series of rockets. Russia dismissed these old s-300 long ago, but Ukraine have plenty of them.
Sure, lets compare $25k solution vs trillions of dollars...
> Take a line between the two sides from the theoretical border

There is no "border" to our universe. The fact that you have trouble visualizing such models does not mean they don't exist.
Thanks, edited. I guess they didn't like all the traffic. Luckily archive.org has a copy too.
My pleasure :) and it’s interesting to notice your mention of discouragement in your original post and now again from reading the other comments. How often is discouragement present in your day to day? And what feeling/vibe do you desire to live in and how can you cultivate that more? Our state of being is our point of attraction and it’s ok to feel discouraged but we want to get back into alignment with our vision as soon as possible which is full of love, gratitude and joy :)
I love to take women through a fun process called the Wheel of Union to get clarity, clear out what’s no longer serving and celebrate all that’s already amazing. I’d be happy to take you through it and if after you want deeper support I’m available as well. And if not, I pray your most aligned partner manifests in the most delightful way for you!! Take care <3
The Myth of the Wronged Heroine
> It should stop pretending to remain human-readable, go binary, and become a variant of protocol buffers, thrift, etc.

There are lots of ways standard ways to do serialization to binary formats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_data-serializati...

> BTW being schemaless is a boon during initial hacking things together, and an impediment when operating and developing the system further down the line. It's the data equivalent of dynamic typing vs static typing, interpreted vs compiled in code.

Sounds like XML, which is a whole other discussion :-)
I’ll add that it propagates the other way too: only those who’ve positioned themselves to take advantage of changes in the environment can get lucky. Taking the iPhone example: have you built a team of engineers, designers, and manufacturing experts able to create and launch an iPhone when it becomes possible? One company did. This is what VC types call “creating your own luck”. Being prepared to seize new opportunities doesn’t make them happen, but they happen often enough that being prepared for them has a positive expected value.

How do you, personally, prep for luck? By cultivating valuable skills, minimizing overhead and commitments, earning the respect of a lot people, having a well-calibrated risk tolerance, and so on. You are trying to turn luck from a necessary but insufficient condition to a necessary and sufficient one.
That's not what a "money pit" is. It's not a "money pit" when you decide to gut-renovate the place, nor when you flip it for $500k more than you bought it for.
In my experience it should not make much or any difference.

I had devs try to "optimise" the JSON our services were returning by doing things like abbreviating field names that were repeated very often or replacing long string constants with short integers or removing formatting, and so on. When I asked them to do actual test when the service returns gzipped output and they found out that even reducing the JSON size this way by half does not make any measurable difference on the compressed stream in most cases.
Worth pointing out that both the author and the lead quote are selling alternatives, and neither have actually done a masters in CS.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/about/

Nowhere is the word "journalist" to be found, though his background is more in journalism than tech.
That’s a pet peeve of mine: large companies have the worst recruiting systems.

Between bad application software and convoluted interview routines, the large corporations never move fast on hiring.

Amazon makes you memorize their cult literature and relate your entire body of work to it just to get past a simple technical screen.

I consistently get the most human and responsive answers from startups and other small companies.